#570 Lauren LoGrasso on Motherhood, Creativity and Your Greatest Success

Motherhood and creativity are at the heart of this one, and I loved every minute. Lauren LoGrasso is back on the show, and she’s lived a whole lifetime since we last spoke. She got married, walked away from her corporate podcast job, built a business that out-earned her salary within a month, and welcomed her son Leonardo. We talk about matrescence, the identity shift nobody prepares you for, and how burning out on weekly consistency taught her to stop doing things just because she “should.”  This one’s for you if you’re a mum, you want to be one, or you’re a creative woman who’s been told her career dries up once the baby arrives. Lauren has noticed a pattern across hundreds of her guests that flips that story on its head. We get into creativity and AI and the creative debt you might be carrying. Then I pull up Lauren and Leonardo’s Human Design connection chart and share what I’d look for in any child’s chart.  What You’ll Learn:  Why so many women hit their greatest creative and career success after having kids How matrescence reshapes your identity, and why that can fuel your work What “creative debt” is and how to start paying it down, even in the newborn fog How to work with AI in a way that keeps your own creativity alive What to look for in your child’s Human Design chart, from authority and profile to their unique timing Chapters: 00:00 — Motherhood and Creativity: Breaking the Stereotype 00:39 — Intro 00:48 — Welcome back, Lauren 01:40 — Lauren’s last 18 months: marriage, Leonardo and leaving corporate 03:52 — Lauren’s design and the baby boom happening right now 06:28 — Matrescence and the identity shift of becoming a mum 07:49 — The postpartum reality nobody warns you about 14:21 — What creativity really is 15:31 — Creativity and AI: where it helps and where it hurts 22:28 — How busy mums and entrepreneurs can access their creativity 27:48 — Lauren’s podcast burnout and permission to stop publishing weekly 32:13 — Feminine success and why women don’t need to grow like men 40:10 — Why women have their greatest creative success after kids 43:32 — Lauren and Leonardo’s connection chart 47:11 — Parenting a child with emotional authority 51:06 — What to look for in your child’s chart: authority and profile 56:05 — Gate 15 and honouring your child’s timing 59:37 — Strategy, direction and a quick recap 1:01:08 — Where to find Lauren   Work with Lauren LoGrasso: Website: LaurenLoGrasso.com (book a free discovery call via the contact page) Creativity coaching and podcast consulting, from start to finish Substack: Lauren LoGrasso (writing about matrescence) Instagram: @laurenlograsso Podcast: Unleash Your Inner Creative, on all podcast platforms Lauren’s music, available on music platforms Get Started with more Human Design: Get your free Human Design chart and Visionary Archetype: https://www.emmadunwoody.com/get-your-chart Work with me inside Maggie AI: https://meetmaggie.co/ Subscribe to Substack for the full Money + Human Design Series: https://thehumandesigncoach.substack.com/   Resources Mentioned:  Maggie AI Unleash Your Inner Creative podcast We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle and Unlocking Us with Brené Brown (shows Lauren has produced) The goop podcast FLFE and the scale of consciousness Abraham Hicks meditations and rampages Matrescence Connection charts Gate 15, the Gate of Extremes Incarnation Crosses: Cross of the Sphinx and Cross of Revolution Line 1 and Line 5 profiles, and the 5/1 profile Support the show