The Connection
Hey there! Welcome to The Connection.
My name is Lauren and I have been training dogs for years. Through my training sessions I often form connections from my clients/dog to things in the world of faith and family.
If you are not a person of faith, no worries! I wasn't at one point either so I promise you'll feel welcomed here! You might actually find this faith filled podcast refreshing since a conversation about God isn't being preached from a pulpit or conversed about in a pues. Just a dog trainer with mic and a whole lot of stories and experiences of "Connecting" to God and why the heck it even matters.
Are you a person who has a thriving faith, buckle up as we have hard conversations with the goal of digging our faith roots even deeper so we will be able to withstand the hardest of storms in life.
Are you a parent of little ones? If so, get ready to be poured into with encouragement and practical advice. (Advice that I have picked up from people who are much smarter than I. Honestly, half of my brain cells are fried from the sleepless nights and toddler tantrums, but I have always been able to regurgitate great content to others when I hear it.)
Not a parent? Don't you worry! Although often time I will be giving examples from my perspective from a mom of small children, the overall principles apply to anyone in any area of leadership. This is a place where we talk about discipline, why it matters, and how to get it right.
Dog lover? Yes! Let's go!
As owner of Rock Kennel Training, and serving pet owners for almost 15 years, I am continuously humbled with the fact that I don't know it all, however... I have accumulated years and years of experiences, data, trends, and stories that I hope help set you free.
I will also be talking extensively about my passion for balanced dog training (and if you're a "force-free warrior", please know you are loved despite our vastly different views of how to help a dog become the best version of themselves. I hope you'll stick around to hear a logical conversation seasoned with grace and empathy opposed to the conversations that left you with battle wounds from heated and hurtful arguments.)
All in all, thank you for joining me! I look forward to chatting with you every other Friday for heart felt stories, compelling and motivating content, and hopefully a chuckle or two as my dramatic, theatrical, and inner cheerleader self starts to sneak out.
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The Connection
Plain & Simple
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We bend over backwards, we twist our brains trying to figure "it" out (either in parenting or dog training) and oftentimes the solution is plain and simple.
For those of us who love to learn, grow, discover, and unpack new information... we can often feel overwhelmed and not know how to move forward. Today I want to encourage you to not let your information overload cloud your view to the obvious. Sometimes, the answer to our solution is plain and simple.
Perhaps in dog training you're trying every training tip out there but you're still spinning in circles- maybe for you the "plain and simple" next step is to contact a trainer and get some professional help.
Have you ever felt paralyzed with so many decisions? I know I do in regards to figuring our what to say "yes" to and what to say "no" to when it comes to my children's schedule vs my business schedule. But just as my grandma said after dinner this past week, "You gotta do what's best for your family!" Such a powerful statement. Such a liberating statement. But also, such a plain and simple statement to a solution for my problem.
For me when it comes to parenting, I literally felt God tell me one evening as I was sitting at my dinning room table late at night, "Lauren, it's more simple than your making it out to be." I didn't need to read another book or listen to another interview with parenting experts, I just needed to prioritize my relationship with God. Plain and simple. If I dedicate time to strengthening my relationship with God, I will naturally spill out love, patience and forgiveness to my children since I am already receiving these from Him.
I don't know what a plain and simple solution looks like for you in your life but I hope you can lift your head up from the grind of researching, learning, striving, discerning, etc and see just how exhausting, depressing, and sometimes confusing this can feel. I know you want to be a good person and do all the things right, but if you pick your head up, take a view of things from a zoomed out perspective, sometimes the solution to our problems and the answers to our questions are (despite our beliefs most of the time) plain and simple.