Episode 17: Letting Go of Survival Mode

<p>This week on Lay Low, it's just Erin — sitting down to say some things she's needed to get off her chest for a long time. She's spent almost two decades in survival mode — financially, personally, in her work — and she's finally ready to leave that version of herself in the past.<br /></p><p>Before diving in, Erin catches listeners up on the week it's been: eclipse season energy, football season, and a documentary she cannot stop thinking about. But the episode goes deeper, too. She opens up about where survival mode actually started — an investment that cost her family everything back when her kids were little, the divorce that followed, and the relationship after that where she finally saw a red flag she'd been missing for years. She talks about what she actually needs from a partner going forward, why hustle isn't the same thing as healing, and the small, intentional changes she's been making lately that are quietly adding up to something bigger.<br /></p><p>This episode includes:</p><ul><li>Riding out eclipse-season energy instead of fighting it</li><li>Forty-eight hours with her son Colt, a Zach Bryan concert, and the moment she wanted more of</li><li>Where her survival mode really started — and the two decades it took her to notice</li><li>The investment that set her first marriage back in a way she never fully recovered from</li><li>The red flag she didn't see until it became the biggest lesson of her last relationship</li><li>What she actually needs from a partner going forward</li><li>Small, intentional changes: pink shoes, cutting a ten-hour-a-week habit, and leaving an office she's outgrown</li><li>Why "more moments like this" might be the most powerful thing you say to yourself all year</li><li>A challenge to shake up one thing in your routine this week<br /></li></ul><p>Maybe the version of herself that's been surviving for so long doesn't have to be the version she brings into what's next.<br /></p><p>Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.laylowpod.com" target="_blank">www.laylowpod.com</a><br /></p><p>Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️</p>