The Low & Slow Podcast
Welcome to The Low & Slow Podcast, we're your girls Crystal and Laken! We invite you to pull up a seat to the conversation as we help women shift their mindset. Here everything is on the table for real, raw, and honest conversations about women's work. We created That Girl Magic because we’ve been where you are. By sharing our stories and experiences we want to help women see they can redefine their story and take aligned action in their life. That their stories of guilt and shame or being stuck does not have to stay their current reality. Get ready to breathe low and slow xo!
Episodes
37 episodes
Ep. 37: Unlocking Self-Trust with Drea Tapia
What happens when the life you built no longer feels like the life you're meant to live?In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal and Laken sit down with their mindset coach and former CrossFit Coach Drea Tapia
Ep. 36: Self-Trust Isn’t a Mindset, It’s a Nervous System Skill
You’ve been waiting to feel sure. Waiting to feel ready. Waiting for the fear to stop so you can finally trust yourself. But self-trust isn’t a mindset. It’s a nervous system skill. And the fear you’ve been waiting to disappear? It’s not the pr...
Ep. 35: It’s Not a Capability Problem, It’s a Capacity Problem
You’re not incapable. You never were. The question was never whether you could do it — you’ve already proven that. The question is whether your nervous system can safely hold it. Today’s episode is about the difference between capability and ca...
Ep. 34: Hungry For Something That Keeps Leaving You Empty
Every time you leave the interaction you feel confused. Anxious. Emotionally underfed. And somehow you keep calling it patience. This episode is about the hunger you’ve been calling love — and what it actually costs you to stay.This epis...
Ep. 33: Easygoing or Erasing Yourself
You didn’t lose yourself all at once. It was the opinion you didn’t share. The feeling you swallowed. The limit you moved. The need you convinced yourself wasn’t that important. One trade at a time, until you looked up and couldn’t find yoursel...
Ep. 32: When You Stop Living Inside the Wound
This episode explores the shift that happens when your healing is no longer something you silently survive… but something you can speak about without collapsing inside of it.Not because the story didn’t hurt.Not because it didn’t sha...
Ep. 31: Why You Go Silent When It Matters Most
This episode names one of the most misunderstood and most shamed experiences in the boundaries conversation: the freeze response.The moment you know exactly what you need to say, you’ve rehearsed it, you believe ...
Ep. 30: Their Emotional Immaturity Became Your Blueprint
Your parents didn’t just raise you. They handed you a blueprint. For what love looks like. What safety feels like. What you have to be to belong. And most of us have been building from that blueprint for decades without ever looking at the arch...
Ep. 29: Finding The Girl You Learned To Hide
You didn’t lose yourself. You learned to hide yourself. And there’s a version of you that went underground so early, so quietly, that you’ve almost forgotten she was ever there. Today’s episode is about finding her.This episode does some...
Ep. 28: Learning to Feel Safe Without Overfunctioning
You don’t overfunction because you want to.You overfunction because it feels safe.Being the one who:Handles everything Figures it out Holds it together…became your normal.And now that you’re ...
Ep. 27: When You Become the Mother While Healing the Wound
In this follow-up to Shake Off What Your Mama Gave You, Crystal and Laken explore the complex emotional terrain of becoming the nurturer while still healing maternal wounds.Because sometimes the mother wound doesn’t fully reveal...
Ep. 26: What 'The In-Between’ Actually Looks Like
Here’s a moment no one really prepares you for—When you stop doing what you’ve always done…and suddenly, nothing feels normal anymore.You don’t jump in.You don’t fix it.You don’t over-explain.You don’t take over.And instead of f...
Ep. 25: Trying to Solve Feeling Problems with Thinking Solutions
In this episode of Low and Slow, we explore a pattern so many of us fall into without even realizing it: trying to think our way out of what we actually need to feel our way through. When emotions rise, the mind rushes in with solution...
Ep. 24: The Pit Has A Pattern
Why do so many women feel like they’re either all in… or completely out?One week you’re energized, committed, productive, consistent.The next? You’re exhausted, disconnected, avoiding the very things you said mattered most.And...
Ep. 23: Shake Off What Your Mama Gave You
There are wounds many women carry that never get named out loud.Not because they aren’t real.But because they are tangled in love, loyalty, grief, and silence.In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal and...
Ep. 22: The Radical Practice of Doing Nothing
Can You Sit Still With Yourself?Slowing down sounds simple… until you try to do it.In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal and Laken explore a question that makes many high-capacity women uncomfort...
Ep. 21: The Trust You Built in Survival Mode
Why survival mode isn’t working anymore.The “trust” you built in survival mode isn't the same as safety,Bc the safety you built in survival mode isn't the safety you're requiring now.Hear us out…you were praised fo...
Ep. 20: Messy Action Beats Perfect Plans
Perfectionism doesn’t always look like fear.Sometimes it shows up disguised as “high standards.”In this episode, Crystal and Laken unpack how perfectionism quietly keeps women stuck in cycles of overthinking, delay, and g...
Ep. 19: Bold or Soft — Why Women Don't Have to Choose
For years women have been told they must choose who they are.Be bold and driven… or be soft and surrendered.In this episode, Crystal and Laken explore the tension many women feel between ambition and softness, un...
Ep. 18: The Real Talk About Retreats
What actually happens on a women’s retreat?In this episode, Crystal, Laken, and Laura share the real girl talk behind retreats — the hesitation women often feel before saying yes, the vulnerability that unfolds once they arrive,...
Ep. 17: Why Asking for Help Feels So Hard (and How to Make It Feel Safe)
Rewiring the Default Pattern of Doing It AloneIf asking for help makes your chest tighten… If you’d rather figure it out yourself… If receiving support feels more uncomfortable than over-functioning…...
Ep. 16: It’s Not About You…(Until It Is) Spotting & Stopping Projections
Sometimes it’s not about you.And sometimes… it is.In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal & Laken unpack the nuanced, often uncomfortable topic of projections — what they are, how to rec...
Ep. 15: How You Take Action & Handle Confrontation
What Your Mars Placement RevealsUsing Astrology as a Language for Real-Life PatternsHow you take action.How you handle confrontation.How you respond when things get uncomfortable.These patterns affec...
Ep. 14: The Job Title You Didn’t Apply For: The First Born Daughter
Responsibility, Conditioning, and the Quiet Cost of Being “The Capable One”Being the firstborn daughter isn’t just a birth order, it’s a role.In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal &...
Ep. 13: Boundaries Without Emotional Avoidance
How to set boundaries when it doesn't feel safe yetSetting boundaries is often framed as empowering — but for many women, it feels anything but safe.In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal and Laken unpack why boundar...