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Lauren DeGolia

Lauren DeGolia

Executive Success Coach, host of Corporate F*ckery podcast (Top 5% Careers), and former corporate professional at Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Bayer Healthcare.

Aug 8, 2026

3:20
And what would you, you know, what's a tip or any encouragement you'd give to someone who's in the same situation, whether it is needing to recognize their business as a human, or whether it is going from juggling another full time role into building their empire full time?
3:41
Yeah.
3:42
So often as business owners, we want to follow in other people's footsteps that we know, like, or trust, which is fantastic.
3:50
I have bought into a lot of those programs, a lot of that coaching, a lot of that perspective, and it is not always helpful.
3:59
You as a business owner, in my opinion, know best that is current you, past you, and future you.
4:06
And because I work kind of with the future you sense of life, I always encourage the people, entrepreneurs and executives that I work with to use their future self or their idea of future self as their best guide and guru, because that version of them has already lived through this season of life and has evidence that they can survive whatever they're going through or create whatever they desire and leveraging your point of view from that perspective is much more helpful than trying to hire someone to give you an answer that may or may not be the right fit for you.
6:09
And I think that's so powerful.
6:11
Yeah.

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