Episode 99 · April 11, 2023
Lauren Lowrey: Amping Up Purposeful Conversations
with Lauren Lowrey, Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter; founder, host, and executive producer of the Amstigator podcast
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Lauren Lowrey: Amping Up Purposeful Conversations
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In this episode I sit down with Lauren Lowrey — an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter in Nashville, and the founder, host, and executive producer of one of my favorite podcasts, Amstigator. Her tagline is "real talk about the path to purpose," and since this season I've wanted to go deeper on purpose, she is exactly the right person to be talking with. She's also a mother of three, so she knows a thing or two about a full plate.
Lauren shares why she felt called to start Amstigator even though she was already busy, and why these deep, one-on-one conversations matter so much to her. We get raw and vulnerable about a life-threatening bout of postpartum preeclampsia — how listening to her heart, both physically and spiritually, quite literally saved her life — and how that experience led the American Heart Association to name her a 2023 Woman of Impact.
We also talk about the purpose of our pain, why suffering can be meant to wake us up, and a practical path for anyone who doesn't yet know their purpose: press pause, put your life on autopilot, and make room for the hard questions. I love that she reminds us to take a break the way nature does — to let our "tree" go dormant so we have the energy to burst forth again. Keep going, friend. This one will spark conversations you'll want to have with your girlfriends.
Key takeaways
- Conversations can heal. Lauren records every episode with the intention of healing someone, trusting the right person will hear it exactly when they need to.
- Your pain often has a purpose. When you stop living as a victim and ask 'what's meant here?', suffering can become the very thing that prepares you to help others.
- Once you've learned a lesson, you're qualified to teach it — your lived experience is credentials enough.
- Be your own advocate. Lauren's deep connection to her body — and her insistence that doctors 'check again' — caught the postpartum preeclampsia that would have taken her life within 24 hours.
- Preeclampsia is a heart disease, not just a pregnancy condition. Catching it early can add ten, fifteen, twenty healthy years to a woman's life.
- If you don't know your purpose, press pause and put every possible part of your life on autopilot — that space is where inspiration and honest questions can finally reach you.
- Take real breaks. Like a tree in winter, rest stores the energy you need to burst forth again — and you're the boss of your own pace.
Chapters
- 00:00The prayer before hitting publish
- 01:30Meet Lauren Lowrey and the Amstigator podcast
- 04:00Why she felt called to start it (even while busy)
- 07:00Asking the hard questions: what am I here to do?
- 10:00The purpose of pain and the lessons we keep relearning
- 14:00The stress of launching season one
- 16:00Listening to her heart: the postpartum preeclampsia story
- 22:00American Heart Association Woman of Impact 2023
- 25:00Tips for people who don't know their purpose
- 28:00Autopilot, creativity, and taking a winter break
“I know conversations heal, and I know the people who listen to these things will be healed by these conversations. So every time I record something, my intention is always to heal someone.”
“When you have learned a lesson, you are now effectively qualified to teach that lesson.”
“There is something inside me that I believe all of us have, but we just choose not to listen to it... our body is the compass, and we just don't allow it to be a compass.”
“If I'm a tree, if I let my tree go into winter, if I would just allow it to go dormant — the only way I'd be able to maintain this high output is if I allowed my creativity to take a break.”
About Lauren
Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter; founder, host, and executive producer of the Amstigator podcast
Lauren Lowrey is an Emmy award-winning news anchor and reporter in Nashville with nearly two decades in television, and the founder, host, and executive producer of the Amstigator podcast — 'real talk about the path to purpose.' A survivor of life-threatening postpartum preeclampsia, she was named a 2023 Woman of Impact by the American Heart Association. She is also a mother of three.
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