Today we’d like to introduce you to Lauren Salaun.
Hi Lauren, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
I grew up in Northern California, with my mom, dad, older sister, older brother, and younger brother. Growing up, I was always very active – playing sports, doing music, doing art, being involved with animals – lots of activities all the time. I also excelled in almost everything I did.
In college, that trend of doing all the things – and being a bit of a perfectionist and overachiever – continued. I double-majored in Communication Studies and Graphic Design. I was also recruited to play soccer at the college that I decided to go to, but instead chose to focus on music and my studies.
But as you can see, there was this theme pretty much most of my life of being an overachiever, perfectionist, and doing-doing-doing.
After college, I started working at a public relations agency. I was at this agency for about four years, and while I learned a lot was doing important work, ultimately at the end of the day, it was not what I wanted to do long-term.
Additionally, that job was incredibly stressful and very, very demanding. Our agency was very good at what we did, and we grew very fast. When I started, I was the 7th employee hired, and when I left, we had nearly 40 employees and two offices. So, during my time there, not only was the content of our work very intense, but we also had way more work than we could manage. And after being there for several years, being promoted many times, and making good money, I remember this moment where I looked around and there was no one whose job or life I wanted. To me, that was a huge wake-up call. I had also been pretty miserable there for the better part of a year. In my last year there, I was probably having an anxiety attack a week related to work. Oftentimes, I would leave my desk and go into the bathroom to cry or have a panic attack, and then freshen up and go right back to my desk and keep working. I was working about 60-80 hours a week, I was incredibly burnt out, and it was not the kind of work that I wanted to do long-term. I felt like my soul was dying, in a sense. So, I came to the decision to leave. At the time, that was really scary because I did not know what I wanted to do next, what my passions were. I had been such a workaholic that I’d had no room for my own interests.
So, I spent a couple months saving up, and I’d also had several people asking me for help with marketing projects, social media, graphic design projects, etc., so I decided to take on a few consulting and freelance clients and then left. The main reasons why I left were so that I could do work that I felt more passionate about and more aligned with and so that I could do work that I had more control over. I really felt so powerless in that job. I felt like I had no control over when I worked, where I worked, how I worked, what I worked on – anything like that. I desperately wanted to have more freedom, flexibility, and control over what my work-life looked like. And that’s really how my PR agency, which is one of my businesses, came to be because, at that time when I didn’t exactly know what the next thing was going to be, I knew I could do that. That business has evolved so much over the last several years, and it’s still one of my businesses. Today, my agency is devoted to helping heart-centered entrepreneurs get their message and their story out into the world in a bigger way. We help a lot of entrepreneurs in the personal development, health and wellness, mindfulness, coaching, and entrepreneurship spheres get more visibility through podcasts, media placements, and strategic visibility. And while I still own and run my PR agency, and have a full team working for me there, that is not really my main passion or my main focus anymore.
In 2020, I was in a place where I had taken a year to step back a little from my PR agency, and I had focused more on the fitness business that I had at that time. I was also married, and when COVID hit – so many things changed for so many people – and it was during this time that, in a very short span, that so much happened in my own life. In the span of two months, Covid had shut down the world, my PR agency blew up in a way that I had been hoping for and working for years, and… my husband and I decided to end our marriage.
My ex and I had bought a house a few months before, my business was growing in a way that felt really exciting, and things were just going the way they were “supposed to”. But we’d also been working on some problems in our marriage for a few years, problems that really stemmed from our lack of polarity and from the lack of balance with our masculine and feminine energies within our relationship and ourselves. So, when Covid happened, and all these other things were going well, we were forced to look at everything in our lives more closely, and we also didn’t have all the other distractions going on in life. It made it clear that our relationship was not working and hadn’t been for a while.
A few years before that big decision, I dove into a lot of work around myself worth and harmonizing my own masculine and feminine energies – because, as you can imagine from hearing my story so far, I lived most of my life stuck in my wounded masculine energy, stuck in that energy of needing to prove myself through my achievements, needing to find my validation and my worth through what I was doing. So, it was only natural that I attracted a partner who was very much in his feminine energy. And when I started doing a lot of that work on myself, it became clear that there was a lack of that really grounded masculine energy in our relationship. Ultimately, we decided to end our marriage.
Ending my marriage was not only one of the most challenging things I’ve done but also one of the biggest things that I’ve done to bring myself into alignment, and it really catapulted my own growth and healing. From there, I continued my trajectory of healing and embodiment – healing trauma, reprogramming myself, looking at my patterns, and also went on a deep journey of Divine Feminine embodiment.
As a result of that work with myself, I began to support other women in doing that as well. So today, the business, and really the purpose and mission that I’m so lit up by and so excited about is my women’s coaching and mentorship business where I get to support women in connecting to their Divine Feminine essence, in really owning their desires, getting in tune with their intuition, trusting themselves, establishing boundaries, healing and amplifying their sexual energy, and building a life that feels so delicious.
So today, my mission is to support women with somatic healing, emotional Intelligence, Divine Feminine embodiment, harmonizing their Masculine and Feminine Energies, and really activating, healing, and amplifying their sexual energy.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My divorce, which I talked about prior, was definitely one of the most challenging decisions I’ve made and things that I’ve gone through and grown through.
I also struggled with anxiety and even depression for several years. For much of my life, I lived with low-grade anxiety while also experiencing panic attacks occasionally. Then, I also experienced some chapters of depression, though far less depression. The anxiety was honestly something I thought I would live with for the rest of my life.
It wasn’t until I started to really dive into my healing journey in 2020 that I was able to naturally heal my anxiety and depression. So now, when I experience those kinds of symptoms popping up, I am generally able to find the cause and support myself in moving through it effectively.
I also saw so many of my trauma patterns showing up in how I was running my business, like being attracted to operating in chaos or overload, which took a lot of work to reprogram.
There were also many years early in my business where I was still stuck in overachieving, over-doing, needing external validation, not trusting myself, perfectionism, etc. All of that would cause me to be operating from this place of lack, of stress, and of getting my power from sources outside myself. I spent so much time second-guessing myself, doubting my vision, questioning my ideas, being afraid to show up and be seen (even though I so desperately wanted to be seen and understood).
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I specialize in supporting women in healing, activating, and amplifying their Divine Feminine Energy. This looks like so many different things! It’s about getting in tune with your sexual energy, which is your life force energy and your creative energy. It’s about releasing control and learning to trust and surrender. It’s about stepping back from so much doing and pushing and force and focusing on being and on being present. It’s about getting in tune with the body and learning how to trust the body more and be more connected to your intuition.
My work combines somatic healing, emotional intelligence, and Divine Feminine embodiment. One of my signature programs, QUEENDOM, focused on all of this.
I am a women’s mentor, creatrix, somatic healer, and transformational facilitator for embodied feminine leaders.
My mission is to awaken the unapologetic Divine Feminine and support women in remembering their true essence, connecting deeply with their body and intuition, and activating their sexuality, voice, pleasure, and purpose to new levels.
Passionate about supporting women in amplifying their magnetism, attracting (and holding) abundance, and living as their most aligned and fully expressed, I am is committed to elevating feminine power and leadership.
I want women to know that they can be so powerful, fulfilled, and successful by owning who they are as women.
I encourage women to find more play, pleasure, and surrender in their lives, to tune back into their bodies’ natural wisdom, and to truly move through their lives as the embodied Queen that they are.
I’m truly proud of the women that I’ve helped to do this. I work with a lot of high-achievers and women with lots of responsibilities and accomplishments who deeply want to find more ease, flow, and surrender in their lives. I’m able to help them do this without sacrificing their success and accomplishments, but rather reframing what that means and looks like and showing them that they can have more by releasing control and focusing more on themselves and their powerful feminine energy.
What sets me apart is that I really lived that life, the go-go-go, do-do-do, busy-busy-busy, for so long. I’ve built (and still own and run) several successful businesses, and today, I work less and earn more than when I had one job working for someone else. Many factors contribute to that, but one of the greatest is that I began to embody my feminine energy and show up more authentically.
I’ve also experienced a lot of trauma in my life, and I know how to support women in healing, clearing shame, and transmuting their pain into purpose and light.
I’m also the host of the AMPLIFY with Lauren podcast, where I discuss many of these topics via solo episode and with special guests.
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
Many women who come into my world now are shocked that I ever struggled with myself worth and are often surprised that I used to be really stuck in my masculine energy. I take this as such a powerful compliment because it’s a reflection that the healing work and embodiment work I’ve been doing has worked. It’s a sign that I’m living proof of my work. And while I don’t need this validation because what matters to me most is how I feel and how I’m able to live my life, it is really beautiful feedback to receive.
Pricing:
- Queen Frequency Workshop (free): https://www.laurensalaun.com/queen-frequency
- Reflected: 4-Day Mirror Work Experience ($111): https://www.laurensalaun.com/mirrorwork
- Magnetic ($333): https://www.laurensalaun.com/magnetic-be-do-have
- More Time, Less Grind Masterclass ($22): https://www.laurensalaun.com/more-time-less-grind
- Queendom ($5555): https://www.laurensalaun.com/queendom
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.laurensalaun.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurensalaun/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaurenMSalaun/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurensalaun/
- Other: https://tiktok.com/@laurensalaun
Image Credits
Monica Linda
