Reflections

Hundreds of people stare at you from the sea of angry red audience chairs …  Your throat goes dry. Your voice shakes. Your back sweats. Your legs tremble. Your words fall on deaf ears.  And then you wake up.  Whew! If that’s your...

My body screamed and my throat closed as they held me down on my front lawn - rubbing grass all over my body and shoving it down my throat.  I was intensely allergic to nearly everything at that age - especially that freshly cut grass! My middle school “friends”...

Are you a style rebel at heart? Years ago, someone I met in the “bro-speaking” world gave me this speaking style advice: “You need to look like money.” I didn’t follow it.  I’m a style rebel at heart.  (Most sensitive visionaries, ambitious empaths, and loving...

It was the messiest birth. In the very first Core class of our very first quarter of our very first year in grad school, I got pregnant with the idea for my thesis performance: A silent one-woman show where I battled an over-sized scale and ended up completely naked...

Authenticity is a doorway to soulful speaking. It's not the end of the road.  I love authenticity. It's been a value of mine since I first learned what a value was. When I look at all of the sensitive visionaries, ambitious empaths, and loving rebels out there...

At 17 years old, I went toe-to-toe with my chain-smoking teacher. In the final term of my senior year in high school, our grumpy old government teacher decided to help “prepare us for college” by assigning our class an extra 15 page paper. Our government class was...

Have you been burned by all those “bro-speaking” programs? You know the ones.  Those one-size-fits-all, traditional approaches.  The kind of programs that are delivered in large groups.  Where they're churning out a bunch of cookie-cutter, all fitting...

“Lauri, I’m feeling called to share my story, but something feels off and I hate the sound of my voice.” As Rose hurtled toward the 10th anniversary of a life changing event, she tried to write her story, but something was out of alignment. “When I watch your videos,...

Everything I need to know about storytelling I learned from teaching Hamlet. Watch this video for a fun take based in centuries of storytelling secrets from theatre. https://youtu.be/Hf0blitaByI?si=J40WpdlkYO8QzJfw