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How a weekly habit helped undo shame around money
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

How a weekly habit helped undo shame around money

In their book Emergent Strategy, adrienne marie brown writes about small-scale practices that grow and reflect larger-scale systems. They talk about fractals and patterns of how we are at a small scale is how we are at the large scale. I think about this all the time.

In the early days of my coaching business, I worked with a money coach…

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Podcast Episode - From Misunderstanding to Pride: One ADHD Coach's Career and Identity Journey
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

Podcast Episode - From Misunderstanding to Pride: One ADHD Coach's Career and Identity Journey

I recently joined ADHD coach Megs Crawford on her podcast, Organizing an ADHD Brain, to talk about internalized ableism, disability pride, career transitions.

I opened up about my experience being partially deaf and the messy middle navigating between the hearing world and the Deaf community.

By the end of the episode, you'll have a new lens for understanding the shame many of us carry around disability and neurodivergence, and what it looks like to slowly, imperfectly trade that shame in for pride.

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Podcast Episode: Working With Your ADHD Instead of Against It, Leading Neurodivergent Teams, and When Overconfidence Is Insecurity in Disguise
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

Podcast Episode: Working With Your ADHD Instead of Against It, Leading Neurodivergent Teams, and When Overconfidence Is Insecurity in Disguise

Lauren Goldberg, a career self-discovery and leadership coach for changemakers working with their ADHD instead of against it, joins host Dan Freehling on his podcast, Forward-Looking Leadership.

In the episode:

  • Lauren explains why the ADHD label is just bad branding and what leaders can actually do to support neurodivergent team members (00:39).

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Emotional Survival Kit for Employees
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

Emotional Survival Kit for Employees

In an ideal world, you work where you feel valued and get to make the impact that lights you up.

But for some employed people, they can feel stuck when they’ve outgrown their job, lost trust in their bosses or co-workers, or just want to do something different with their time. Perhaps their job is only a paycheck that allows them to find joy in other ways. 

​If you find yourself dreading the workday, we're here to help. In this workshop, we provide you with tools to transition from struggle to cool, calm, and collected - helping you bring more ease to your workday.

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From judging harshly to creating a judgment-free zone for others
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

From judging harshly to creating a judgment-free zone for others

One thing I’m proud to see over and over again in my testimonials is that clients feel they can be themselves and speak freely in a judgment-free zone with me in our sessions.

I'm proud because that wasn’t always how I made people feel. That was something I learned the hard way.

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Slowing down is often the secret sauce
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

Slowing down is often the secret sauce

This year, I've tried a new sport. I'm learning fencing right now.

As an athlete for most of my life, playing sports where speed was often the goal and something I got rewarded for, I thought I could apply this to fencing right away.

But my instructors keep urging me to slow down.

This is also an important leadership skill: being able to slow down and be present in a culture that is constantly creating urgency and chaos.

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When life is LIFE-ing
Lauren Goldberg Lauren Goldberg

When life is LIFE-ing

Sometimes you have Emergency Room vending machine snacks for dinner…

A week ago, I launched my ​new website​. It's amazing and I'm obsessed with it! And I had plans to promote some of the exciting goodies on my website.

And then life happened.

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