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Ready Set Exec: The PodcastReady Set Exec THE PODCAST - Conversation with Lauren LefkowitzOverview: Welcome to Ready Set Exec, the podcast where executive search meets real leadership stories. Enjoy weekly conversations with Executives sharing insights, best practices and knowledge as well as a biweekly founders meeting where you will join hosts John and Patrick—founders of Ready Set Exec Inc.—as they share insider perspectives from their work recruiting top executives in Sales, Marketing, HR, and Operations. In this conversation, Lauren Lefkowitz discusses the common HR challenges faced by small businesses, particularly those with fewer than 100 employees. She emphasizes the importance of strategic HR leadership, compliance, and enhancing both candidate and...
2026-02-1346 min
Founders FutureStop Surviving, Start Thriving: Beating Burnout with Lauren LefkowitzIn this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we sit down with Lauren Lefkowitz, founder of the mindset and coaching brand Fine is a Trap Coaching. Lauren takes us on her journey from a two-decade-long corporate HR career, where she found herself burned out from 80-hour workweeks and chronic people-pleasing, to building a business dedicated to helping others escape the "fine trap" of mediocrity. The pivotal moment came from a freak accident that left her with two broken shoulders, forcing a period of reflection that ultimately led her to pursue her passion for coaching full-time.
2025-10-0619 min
MY SELF CARE SH*T with Kathy LoveFine Is a Trap: Boundaries, Breath, and Becoming Your Own Permission Slip with Lauren LefkowitzSend us a textExecutive coach and fractional CHRO Lauren Lefkowitz gets real about how “fine” keeps high-achievers stuck—and what it actually takes to build a sustainable career and life. Lauren shares the jaw-dropping moment that forced her to stop people-pleasing (yes, it involved a Roomba and two broken shoulders), and how she rebuilt with boundaries, therapy, guided meditation, accountability, and celebration. We unpack codependency at work, the fear of being labeled “lazy,” and why saying no isn’t mean—it’s mature. You’ll learn Lauren’s simple Notice → Decide → Do framework, how to...
2025-10-0541 min
Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah AshongHow to Move From Lone Wolf To Pack Leader | Chris Lee, Lauren Lefkowitz | Ep 763 | Throwback"If you try to do everything, then you're not doing anything well." Chris LeeJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) in this throwback conversation with Chris Lee and Lauren Lefkowitz as they share leadership coaching insights from corporate burnout to authentic success. Discover the entrepreneurial mindset shift from "fine" to extraordinary living.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging what makes them different to make a...
2025-06-2147 min
Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for LawyersPlanning Your Exit From the Law Many lawyers find themselves questioning whether the traditional practice of law is the right long-term fit. In this episode, host Stephen Seckler speaks with Kim Fine and Neil Handwerker, co-founders of ex judicata, a platform designed to help lawyers explore and transition to non-legal careers. Kim Fine brings a wealth of experience as a legal industry executive, including her time as Managing Director at ALM (American Lawyer Media). Neil Handwerker is a former practicing attorney and seasoned legal recruiter who has advised lawyers on career transitions for decades. Together, they launched ex judicata to address...
2025-06-0733 min
We Are Women UnapologeticallyS1 E14: From Burnout to Bold Boundaries: How Lauren Lefkowitz Took Back Her LifeExecutive coach and former HR powerhouse Lauren Leftkowitz shares how chasing a Roomba (yes, really) became the metaphor—and the moment—that changed her life. After breaking both shoulders in a freak accident, Lauren was forced to stop doing what she’d always done: over-function, over-give, and overachieve.What followed was a journey of rehab, recovery, and radical honesty. In this candid conversation, Lauren opens up about what it really takes to shift from high-performing burnout to a life that doesn’t require recovery. If you've ever been the “fixer,” the “go-to,” or the woman holding it all together—thi...
2025-06-0458 min
The Business Ownership PodcastHow to Escape the “Fine” Trap - Lauren LefkowitzAre you stuck in a cycle of overworking and just feeling… “fine”?In this episode of The Business Ownership Podcast I interviewed Lauren Lefkowitz. Lauren is an Executive Coach, partnering with executives and emerging leaders who have gotten to the middle of their careers and think, this is IT? It’s fine…I guess.She works with humans who are ready to find joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers...and have a personal life to love.Lauren was an 80-hour-a-week executive, is a recovering people pleaser, and has lived with chronic illness fo...
2025-03-1033 min
Whispers & BricksLauren Lefkowitz Overcoming Chronic PainLauren had a very successful career in HR that she liked but she was hiding a secret. She was suffering from chronic pain that was undiagnosed. In order to hide it she worked harder. She basically just worked and slept. After finally getting some help with a diagnosis from the Mayo Clinic and suffering another medical brick of breaking both her shoulders. She started to hear the whispers that it was time for a change in her career. After going through extensive rehabilitation to be able to use her shoulder she returned to work and then covid hit. She knew...
2025-01-2928 minOutlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah AshongWhy Great Leaders Don't Go It Alone | Chris Lee, Lauren Lefkowitz | Ep 612"There's a huge difference between 'I don't know how' and 'I can't.'" Lauren LefkowitzJoin Niiamah (@niiamahashong) with Chris Lee and Lauren Lefkowitz @lauren.coach.fineisatrap as they explore the power of letting go and embracing vulnerability in leadership. Discover how nature's wisdom and human connection can transform your approach to personal and professional growth.Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast, hosted by Niiamah Ashong, Founder of Outlier's Edge and Sherpa of the World of Difference. On this podcast, you'll join other high-performing unconventional leaders and entrepreneurs (aka Outliers) as they talk about leveraging...
2025-01-0747 min
Offline & UnfilteredE07 - The Curse of the Achiever with Lauren Lefkowitz"The reward for good work is more work." On this week's episode, Lakisha and Megan welcome Lauren Lefkowitz to the show to have a deep conversation on how achievers and people pleasers can set better boundaries and begin to take their lives back.Lauren is an Executive Coach, partnering with executives and emerging leaders who have gotten to the middle of their careers and think, this is IT? It’s fine…I guess. She works with humans who are ready to find joy, excitement, challenge, and balance in their careers...and have a personal life to l...
2024-05-211h 04
Podknows Business NetworkSigns it's time to call BS on your five year plan!Ever feel like your brain is lying to you about your future possibilities and capabilities? Well, maybe it's time to call BS on that five-year plan and consider taking your side hustle full time! And I'm actually sharing the five key signs that it's time to transform your side hustle into a thriving full-time business.Hey, I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach, and this is my podcast "The Weeniecast!" Pssssst! Throughout May I'm running a one-month challenge to ramp up your social media client-attraction results. Don't miss out! Book in here...
2024-05-1727 minThe Weeniecast: make more money, create an impactSigns it's time to call BS on your five year plan!Ever feel like your brain is lying to you about your future possibilities and capabilities? Well, maybe it's time to call BS on that five-year plan and consider taking your side hustle full time! And I'm actually sharing the five key signs that it's time to transform your side hustle into a thriving full-time business.Hey, I'm Katie McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach, and this is my podcast "The Weeniecast!" Pssssst! Throughout May I'm running a one-month challenge to ramp up your social media client-attraction results. Don't miss out! Book in here...
2024-05-1727 min
Just Between CoachesBeyond “I’m Fine” (Lauren Lefkowitz)Special "Business Revenue Leak Checklist" offer free at http://www.mrse.co/leak.We’re digging into the truth behind the word “fine” with our guest, Lauren Lefkowitz. Ever catch yourself just saying you’re fine but feeling something totally different? Lauren shares her insightful tips on breaking free from the “fine” trap and empowering your clients (and yourself) to live more authentically. Lauren will share her poignant journey from a workaholic corporate HR professional to a transformative life coach, following a life-altering accident. She and Melinda will discuss why we often default to saying we’re...
2024-05-0832 min
The Nightingale of IranEpisode 6 - Where I am FromWhen people asked “Where are you from?” Danielle was never sure if they wanted to know the places she’d lived or whether they just thought she looked foreign. She didn’t know many families like hers in mainstream Jewish America. These days, there’s growing awareness about the diversity of the Jewish experience.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Dardashti and Galeet Dardashti
The Nightingale of Iran - nightingaleofiran.com
Presented by The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a publication of 70 Faces Media
Host - Danielle Dardashti
Writer / Director / Senior Producer - Danielle...
2024-03-1242 min
The Nightingale of IranEpisode 5 - Savta’s DreamHouri Dardashti, Danielle and Galeet’s grandmother, had long dreamed of moving to Israel from Iran. But life was improving for Jews in Iran, and her husband Younes had become a famous radio star there. So it seemed to her that the dream of moving to Israel wasn’t going to happen. But after Farid left Iran for college in America, one by one his siblings started leaving Iran for Israel. And eventually, Houri and Younes moved to Israel, too. But Younes, the Iranian star, felt like an outsider in Israel.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Dardashti and...
2024-03-0536 min
The Nightingale of IranEpisode 4 - AshkenormalizationOn his way from Iran to America, where he planned to study architecture in college, Danielle and Galeet’s father Farid spent the summer in Israel. While walking down a Tel Aviv street one day, a man recognized him from Iranian TV and invited him to sing at an event that week. The night Farid sang, a family of visiting Americans heard him, and it changed the course of his entire life. Once he arrived in the United States, a new pursuit pulled Farid further and further away from his Iranian identity.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Da...
2024-02-2733 min
The Nightingale of IranEpisode 3 - The Tehran Teen IdolDanielle and Galeet’s father, Farid Dardashti, was born in Tehran in 1942, the oldest of Houri and Younes Dardashti’s five children, all of whom had natural musical talent. Farid’s gorgeous voice kept earning him invitations to perform, but his parents didn’t want him to pursue music. To make them proud, he applied to study architecture in America. While waiting for his visa and acceptance to college, he got offered his own weekly show singing on Iranian TV. He quickly became a teen idol. But when his visa came through, he left the country as planned – and never once...
2024-02-2036 min
The Nightingale of IranEpisode 1 - The Time MachineSisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up in a Jewish American family band: The Dardashti Family. They sang international folk music in 12 languages – English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese and more – but never any songs in Persian. This seems odd to them since both their father and grandfather were famous Iranian singers during the “Golden Age” for Jews in Iran, before the Islamic Revolution. Danielle and Galeet make a discovery that takes them back in time, and helps them find answers to their questions about why their family left Iran and abandoned their Iranian identity.
Co-creat...
2024-02-0633 min
WeCruitr PodcastLet's Go Live with Jack Kelly: Lauren LefkowitzIn this LinkedIn Live, Lauren Lefkowitz talks about why people shouldn’t settle into “fine” in their careers. Workers fall into complacency when they lose confidence, neglect setting boundaries or are unsure of what they want to do next.
2023-09-081h 07
The Nightingale of IranTrailer - The Nightingale of IranTheir grandfather was a famous singer known as The Nightingale of Iran. Their father was a Tehran teen idol. It’s always been a mystery to our host Danielle Dardashti (storyteller / documentarian) and her sister Galeet Dardashti (anthropologist / musician) : What drove their Persian Jewish family to leave Iran during a golden age for Jews, so long before the Islamic revolution? The Nightingale of Iran – a new audio documentary about identity, belonging, and music – reveals painful secrets unspoken for generations. The series will resonate with outsiders everywhere. Now available wherever you get your podcasts.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Daniel...
2023-09-0501 min
Franklin Taggart's Virtual Coffee BreakEscaping the "Fine" Trap - Lauren LefkowitzAs an executive, is it often easiest just to take on more responsibility and then work the extra hours that others don't see just to get things done? And is "fine" your stock answer when people ask you how you're doing? Lauren Lefkowitz knows the feeling, and she is here to offer another set of options.
When an encounter with a rogue Roomba led to a freak accident, Lauren was forced to stop working long enough to take a good look at her compulsion to take on more responsibility than she had the energy...
2023-07-2652 min
The Aspiring Solopreneur64. Escaping the Trap of Being Fine When Fine isn't Really Fine with Lauren LefkowitzSettling for being "fine" can hinder personal and professional growth and limit your potential as a solopreneur. When you settle for being fine, you may become complacent and stagnant, missing out on opportunities for improvement and innovation. So, we wanted to talk to Lauren Lefkowitz, an Executive Leadership Coach who partners with clients to escape the trap of being 'fine' and break the work, sleep, and repeat cycle. She works with both individual executives and corporate leadership teams to elevate their careers, leadership skills, work habits, and take their success from 'fine' to amazing.
2023-07-0536 min
The Empowering Process Podcast With Gail KraftLife is An Improv with guest Lauren LefkowitzEpisode 135
In today’s episode of The Empowering Process Podcast, I am speaking with Lauren Lefkowitz about the game of life. We discuss how our biggest lesson is that we are all just making it up as we go.
Lauren was an ultimate people pleaser, a type “A” perfectionist, and was stuck in a cycle of unworthiness.
Her biggest struggle has been in understanding just how many choices she did have at all times. She fell into the trap of being "fine" for many years, assuming she was really good at wo...
2023-06-2847 min
Whispers & BricksLauren Lefkowitz Overcoming Chronic PainLauren had a very successful career in HR that she liked but she was hiding a secret. She was suffering from chronic pain that was undiagnosed. In order to hide it she worked harder. She basically just worked and slept. After finally getting some help with a diagnosis from the Mayo Clinic and suffering another medical brick of breaking both her shoulders. She started to hear the whispers that it was time for a change in her career. After going through extensive rehabilitation to be able to use her shoulder she returned to work and then covid hit. She...
2022-07-0628 min
Stacy Connects…with Stacy HellerHoly Sh!t Lucy Van Pelt is The Voice of My Inner Critic?!?Stacy shares that almost immediately after recording last week’s show, she tested positive for COVID and has been stuck in PA making lemon twists out of lemons to put in her mother’s nightly scotch and water. Her guest, Lauren Lefkowitz is an executive leadership coach, recovering people pleaser/overachiever, co-host of “I Could Talk to You All Day” and lover of Thin Mints and The Smiths. Her message and motivation are clear and personal; FINE is a trap. If you’re interested in learning more about Lauren and all she has to offer, connect with her on LinkedIn @Lauren Lef...
2022-06-0155 min
Life Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulBreak The "Work, Sleep, Repeat" Schedule, Because Being "Fine" is a Trap with Lauren LefkowitzIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Lauren Lefkowitz, Executive Leadership Coach and CEO of Lauren Lefkowitz Coaching about how to break the "Work, Sleep, and Repeat" schedule. She explains to them how saying you're "fine" is actually a trap. That just being "fine" is not good enough, and we all deserve to be "great", and truly happy and fulfilled. She shares with us her life experience that brought her to become a leadership coach and how she realized she thought she was happy because she was "fine" but not truly happy. She talks about how being...
2022-04-1545 min
Dave's Gone ByDave's Gone By #762 (9/5/20): TWISTED SISTERS Here is the 762nd episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, Sept. 5, 2020. Info: davesgoneby.com.Guests: Dave’s cousins Jeffrey Kirsch, Cynthia Shub Kirsch, Stacey Shub, and actress Lauren Shub, actor Shyaporn Theerakulstit, critic Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Dave’s wife JoyceFeaturing: Today/Yesterday trivia quiz (Sept. 5 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake vs. the Shub Dynasty; Inside Broadway, Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Mack), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Dave’s Big Dictionary (geology).00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce...
2020-09-054h 02
Nonprofit Jenni Show51. Artober p2: Make the Arts Relevant to Everyone EverywhereWelcome to our podcast mini series about Artober Nashville! Even if you don't live in Tennessee or have arts programs at your nonprofit organization, we hope this mini series will provide new insight about how the arts can strengthen the nonprofit sector, and even your specific mission! In Part 2, we explore four arts programs in Middle Tennessee demonstrating how the arts are relevant to everyone everywhere. Whether we're talking about STEAM education, inclusive activities for people with disabilities, promoting fearlessness and ingenuity, or even improving your professional conduct at work, the arts are present and n...
2019-10-1046 min
Dinger For 39/19 Vontae Davis quitting on his teamLauren Lefkowitz joins the DF3 crew to share her take on Vontae Davis on retiring during halftime of the Bills game, and more
2018-10-031h 01