Heavenly Human
Welcome to the Heavenly Human podcast where we help you pause and pivot toward true fulfillment.
Have you ever felt that stirring deep inside — that quiet voice telling you there's something more for your life? That feeling that despite all your success, something still feels missing?
We’ve been there. We are you. Three years ago, co-host Laura King was at the peak of her career as an Executive Recruiter. On paper, she had it all. Awards, accolades, and a healthy bank account. But each night, she’d come home feeling slightly off, a bit disconnected, and wondering, "Is this it?"
In 2023, it all came crashing down with a triple diagnosis - severe anxiety, ADHD, and sleep issues. Her body was screaming what her heart had been whispering for years. There was another path. There was another way of being.
Co-host Mondo experienced a similar calling. Three years ago, he was living what many would consider the dream — a successful startup founder with a six-figure lifestyle. Then, his heart called him to something radical: surrendering 99% of his material possessions to pursue a completely different path.
What Laura and Mondo both discovered through deep conversations, healing, tears, breakthroughs, and countless moments of growth was that we were being called to our unique sliver of Heaven on Earth — what we now call, Heavenly Human.
We've now joined forces to create this podcast, sharing what we've learned with other believers who feel that same nudge toward something more meaningful. We're here to guide you toward fulfillment through the embodiment of heaven on earth.
Peace, Love, Joy, Freedom, Abundance.
It’s all waiting for you.
"Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Heavenly Human
Why I Wrote Shine Brighter
What happens when everything you've achieved feels empty inside?
"Shine Brighter" emerged from this breaking point. What began as personal therapy journaling slowly transformed into something greater as Laura recognized a quiet epidemic of high-functioning burnout among successful people. Through nearly two decades in executive recruiting and over 30,000 interviews, she'd seen this pattern repeatedly - accomplished individuals masterful at doing but who had forgotten how to simply be.
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Hey, it's Laura, and welcome to this week's Peak of the Week. Guess what I have news Shine brighter. It's coming out end of July. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited and this is what today's Peak of the Week is on so excited to share this with you here. It is why I wrote Shine Brighter and why it almost didn't happen.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm sitting here with an advanced copy, literally looking at this. Honestly, part of me cannot believe this exists in the world, not because I doubted I could write it, but because two years ago I was in no condition to write anything at all. I was broken, completely, utterly broken. All right, I'm going to go off script a little bit because I gotta give you, like paint you a picture of Laura of two years ago. Laura of two years ago only lived in her mind. She wasn't actually in the present moment. She was missing out on all of her kids, everything, because she was so wrapped up in a story in her mind that was. I now see just something I completely made up. I created a reality of my own, basically of my own prison, basically of my own prison, and I was swirling and I was not nice to my husband and my kids on many occasions I didn't really like the person I was, and I'm sure you're thinking like that does not sound like the Laura I know. Well, that's exactly why I had to write the book.
Speaker 1:So the day that everything fell apart. So the day that everything fell apart, I had taken my son for neurofeedback therapy to help with his anxiety and his ADHD. The practitioner, also a trained therapist, and I were talking more about the tests and I was like I felt this wave come over me. I'm compelled to take these tests. And I got the results. Oh, laura, I am so sorry to share this news with you. I knew it. I knew it. I'm like I am the person who wants to get straight A's on all of the things and I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm going to have a great brain, I'm going to have a great brain. Did I have a great brain? Nope, in fact. I think his first question was what trauma did I go through? Like there was some severe signs of trauma, and he went on to say that not only do I have anxiety off the charts, but my brain waves show that I'm not finding rest at night or during the day, and that I basically have ADHD, and that I basically have ADHD. I figuratively dropped to my knees, but I think I just. He offered me a hug and I just let it, I just sobbed, I just let go and I was just letting all the waterworks just come to the surface.
Speaker 1:It's confirmed what my body and soul have been whispering for years, but I've been too busy trying to keep it all together, trying to perform success. I had been swimming upstream against everything I was achieving, but I never felt connected to myself or connected to purpose, or connected to joy. It looked like I was successful, but inside I was dying, and so I didn't set out to write Shine Brighter. I was setting out to get unstuck and what started as sort of my personal therapy journaling my way through this wreckage of my performance-based identity it slowly became something bigger and as I began sharing pieces of my story, I realized I was not alone in this quiet epidemic of high functioning burnout. Emails started coming in, or even just in conversation, and I'd share things and people would say I feel like you're describing my life exactly, or how did you know what I was going through? Or I thought I was the only one who felt this successful and empty at the same time. So through my almost two decades in executive recruiting and over 30,000 interviews, I've seen the pattern everywhere Sometimes, the most accomplished people are often the most disconnected from themselves.
Speaker 1:They've mastered the art of doing, but have forgotten how to simply be. So shine brighter is not for people who want to do more. It's for people who are exhausted from doing everything quote, unquote right and still feeling wrong inside, still feeling off, still feeling misaligned. It's for the executive who looks super impressive on LinkedIn but feels disconnected at home. It's for the high achiever who's built a beautiful life but doesn't feel present in it. Beautiful life, but doesn't feel present in it. It's for the leader who's tired of performing strength and ready to find real power. It's for anyone who's ever asked themselves is this, it, is this what success is supposed to feel like? You know who you are. You've checked all the boxes. Society handed you Career milestone, family responsibilities, community roles. Again, from the outside, everything adds up, but inside there's a quiet ache that whispers. Something essential is missing. You're not broken, you're just misaligned. And that misalignment, it's not a character flaw. It's not a character flaw, it's an invitation.
Speaker 1:So my journey from that neurofeedback clinic to writing this book it was not linear and it was not pretty. It involved therapy. It was not pretty. It involved therapy, deep spiritual work, countless conversations with God and slowly, ever so slowly, learning to trust my own inner wisdom again. I had to face some hard truths that I built my entire identity around external achievement, that I've been carrying generations maybe of this achievement addiction, unconscious patterns, unconscious patterns passed down that somehow equate worth with productivity, worth with productivity, and that I'd been so focused on being everything to everyone that I forgot who I actually was.
Speaker 1:The real transformation began when I started asking some different questions. Instead of how can I achieve more, I asked who am I when I'm not achieving? Instead of what do I need to do, I asked what does my soul need? Instead of how can I be successful, I asked how can I be present? These questions led me to a profound realization I am not what I do. I am not my achievements, not what I do. I am not my achievements, I am not my revenue numbers. I am love, I am joy, I am essence, I am the story that's unfolding.
Speaker 1:There's a scene in the book where I describe finding an old eulogy that I'd written for myself years, years earlier, during a workshop and in the middle of my darkest burnout I stumble across these pages that describe the woman I want wanted to be remembered as as alive, as joyful, as present, as loving, and reading that eulogy I realized the woman I described felt like a complete stranger. I was like who's that person? And that's when I knew something had to fundamentally shift, and the practices that emerged from that, reckoning what I now call the four A's framework I now call the four A's framework Sure, awareness, attitude, action and alignment Literally saved my life. I was going down a dark path and they helped me remember who I was beneath all the doing and the achieving. They cracked open my performance prison and led me home to myself.
Speaker 1:Why now matters. We are living in a time when the old models of success are crumbling. The pandemic showed us what happens when we stop long enough to actually feel what's going on inside. You could say the pandemic kicked off the beginning of a collective healing and many of us realize we've been running on empty for years, calling it ambition. And the next generation? They're watching. They're looking at our version of success and saying no, thank you. They can see the quiet desperation, even when we think we're hiding it.
Speaker 1:But what if there is another way. What if success could feel? Feel as good on the inside as it looks on the outside? And that's the possibility that Shine Brighter explores Not by rejecting achievement, but by redefining it. Writer explores Not by rejecting achievement, but by redefining it. Not by doing more, but by becoming more of who you truly are. So I want to be honest about something this book is not going to tell you to quit your job or blow up your life. Okay, some people need radical external changes, but most of us need something quieter and deeper. We need to come home to ourselves, right where we are.
Speaker 1:Shine Brother emerged from the messiest, most vulnerable season of my life. It contains the frameworks that helped me stop performing and start living, the gentle disruptions that taught me the difference between achievement and alignment. But here's what makes the difference. I'm just I. I don't have it all figured out. I am not writing a place of having it all figured out. I'm writing from the journey, from the ongoing journey, from the messy journey, from the help me understand what's going on.
Speaker 1:This book is my way of saying you're not alone. You're not alone, but there is another way of being and living in the world, and we can figure it out together. So your future self, your future self is like yay. These words really resonate with me. It's calling you. It's calling the version of you that feels aligned and energized and authentically powerful.
Speaker 1:So don't wait for perfect circumstances. They're waiting for you right now to decide and declare and express who you truly are. If you were given a year left to live, what would you just let go of? Why not just do that now? Why not just become that person now? It needs you. The world needs you fully, authentically, brilliantly you, brilliantly you. So I'd love for you to join the waitlist. There will be a link in the podcast description to be in the know towards the end of July, but between now and July there's a lot of fun stuff that's going to be happening.
Speaker 1:I'd love for you to join the wait list, not because I have all the answers remember, but because I've learned we don't have to figure it out alone. Sometimes. The most radical thing we can do is simply stop pretending everything is fine and start telling the truth, even if that truth is just to ourselves. Your light is already there. This book is just here to help you remember how to let it shine.
Speaker 1:I believe in you, I believe in your magnificence and I am. I believe in your magnificence and I am gosh so excited for you to tap into this version of you, the one that remembers. Oh my gosh, I did not come here to strive and struggle and spend my time in lack and limitation and fear. That's no fun. That is a prison of the mind. There is light. Okay, I will not begin singing, I will spare you that but I will say I am just so thankful to be in your ears today. Thank you for the honor, thank you for the opportunity. I am beyond jazzed for what God is going to do with this book and I stand in awe of it all.