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PB 572 : Your Body Knows What Your Brain Isn’t Ready to Admit

May 22, 2026

Your body has been trying to tell you something.Maybe it’s the tightness in your chest every Sunday night.The heaviness around a relationship, job, or commitment.The inexplicable excitement toward something your brain keeps dismissing.Your body is always communicating.The problem? Your brain is louder.In this Powerback® episode, LauraAura breaks down the internal tug-of-war between your brain and your body—why your brain resists change, how your body signals truth before your mind catches up,...

571: From Trauma to Federal Prison to Purpose with Ranae Van Roekel

May 19, 2026

What happens when unresolved trauma quietly shapes your life for decades?In this deeply honest episode, LauraAura sits down with Ranae Van Roekel to talk about childhood trauma, dissociation, people-pleasing, shame, healing, and the series of choices that eventually led Ranae to federal prison.Ranae shares how growing up in a generation that didn’t talk about trauma left her carrying pain she didn’t know how to process, and how those unresolved experiences slowly showed up through unhealthy c...

PB 570: How Did You Get Into This Work, Laura?

May 14, 2026

“How did you get into this work?”It’s one of the questions LauraAura gets asked the most—and in this Powerback® episode, she’s finally sharing the full story.From being a graphic designer at the phonebook… to building a branding agency for 16 years… to navigating bankruptcy, burnout, people-pleasing, selling her business, selling a commercial building, and rebuilding her life around speaking, coaching, and The Gutsy Podcast—this episode is a raw, honest look at what it really took to get here...