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Lauren Kappel: When the Life You Built Is No Longer the Life You Want

In this episode of A Life That's Yours, Chelsea Simpson sits down with Lauren Kappel to unpack something ambitious women know all too well: the exhausting pursuit of a life that looks successful on paper but doesn't necessarily feel like yours.

Lauren had the career, the accomplishments, and the external validation. But underneath it all, something wasn't adding up. And like so many high-achieving women, she'd become incredibly good at meeting everyone else's expectations while quietly ignoring her own.

Sound familiar?

Lauren shares the pivotal experiences that challenged everything she thought she wanted, including a transformative trip to Peru that helped her reconnect with her intuition and begin questioning the rules she'd been living by.

In this episode, we get into:

• The expectation trap: How chasing the life you're supposed to want can disconnect you from the one you actually want.
• When success stops feeling successful: Why achieving more isn't always the answer to feeling fulfilled.
• The power of listening to yourself: What happens when you stop ignoring that little voice telling you something needs to change.
• The messy middle: How Lauren navigated her corporate career while exploring a new identity and building a coaching business.
• Reclaiming your agency: Why changing your life doesn't require blowing it up overnight. Sometimes it starts with giving yourself permission to want something different.

Here's the thing: You can be grateful for the life you've built and still want something different.

You don't have to quit your job, move to Bali, or have a five-year plan for your next chapter. But you do have to get curious about whether the expectations you're working so hard to meet are actually yours.

Because the goal isn't to build a life that impresses everyone else.

It's to build a life that feels like yours.

🎧 Listen now, and if this conversation hits a little too close to home, share it with the woman who's doing everything right but wondering why it doesn't feel right.

Welcome to A Life That's Yours. Where we question the expectations, rewrite the rules, and redefine what it means to live well.

Connect with Lauren Kappel at YourBossVibe. Learn more about Lauren at: yourbossvibe.com

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