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The Lulu Essey Podcast
Lulu Essey
56 episodes
1 week ago
Most gift guides tell you what to buy. This one invites you to rethink what it truly means to give. As the holiday season ramps up, many of us feel the pressure to spend more, do more, and prove our love through price tags. But the gifts that create the deepest connection - the ones we remember years later - rarely cost anything financially. They cost something far more meaningful: our presence, our attention, our time, and our willingness to show up for the people we love. In this episode, I...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health
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Most gift guides tell you what to buy. This one invites you to rethink what it truly means to give. As the holiday season ramps up, many of us feel the pressure to spend more, do more, and prove our love through price tags. But the gifts that create the deepest connection - the ones we remember years later - rarely cost anything financially. They cost something far more meaningful: our presence, our attention, our time, and our willingness to show up for the people we love. In this episode, I...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Health & Fitness,
Mental Health
Episodes (20/56)
The Lulu Essey Podcast
The Gift Guide That Changes Everything (And Costs Nothing)
Most gift guides tell you what to buy. This one invites you to rethink what it truly means to give. As the holiday season ramps up, many of us feel the pressure to spend more, do more, and prove our love through price tags. But the gifts that create the deepest connection - the ones we remember years later - rarely cost anything financially. They cost something far more meaningful: our presence, our attention, our time, and our willingness to show up for the people we love. In this episode, I...
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1 week ago
21 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Mental Fitness 101: What to Do Every Single Day
WHY DOESN'T ANYONE TEACH US MENTAL FITNESS BASICS? You know how to exercise your body. You know consistency builds strength. So why doesn't anyone teach us the same fundamentals for your mind? Most of us were never taught Mental Fitness 101. We overcomplicate it. We wait for the perfect method. But Mental Fitness works exactly like physical fitness - you just need to know what to do. Every. Single. Day. This back-to-basics episode gives you 3 micro tools you can use right now, plus the daily ...
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2 weeks ago
18 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Why You Don't Need to Heal Faster: The Difference Between Coping and Healing
FEELING GUILTY FOR JUST SURVIVING? This episode reveals why coping mode isn't failing, the critical difference between coping and healing, and why accepting where you are is what actually creates change. If you're beating yourself up for not healing fast enough or wondering why you can't just get over this already, I need you to hear this: Coping mode is not a failure. It's not something you need to rush out of. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is accept exactly where we are ri...
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3 weeks ago
17 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
How to Love People You Disagree With (Without Losing Yourself)
IS POLITICS DESTROYING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS? Navigating ideological differences, setting boundaries with love, and staying connected without betraying your values. The table went silent. The air got thick. One comment about a politician, and suddenly, connection fractured. If you're losing relationships over beliefs right now, you're not alone. And this episode is for you. Inspired by Brené Brown's work on belonging, this conversation explores how to stay in relationship with people you...
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4 weeks ago
16 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Self-Love as Foundation for Success: Building Your Career on Self-Worth, Not Burnout
Self-Love isn't soft-it's the missing infrastructure for sustainable success in every area of your life, including your career. This essential blueprint explores how to build self-worth & career resilience while navigating professional exhaustion, preventing burnout and self-depletion. This raw conversation with Deb Boulanger when I was interviewed on her Life After Corporate Podcast explores the WHOLE and LOVE Frameworks, navigating mental health while building a business, and why treati...
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1 month ago
38 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
When Your Tools Stop Working: Permission to Just Stop
When your Mental Fitness tools stop working. Permission to rest without guilt. What happens when every practice you've built - journaling, breathing exercises, morning routines, tiny promises - suddenly feels impossible? This raw episode was recorded during my own Mental Fitness struggle. Sometimes the most radical act of Mental Fitness isn't pushing through. It's stopping. Not quitting. Not giving up. Just pausing. If you are experiencing exhaustion, burnout, or struggling during a hard seas...
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1 month ago
12 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Self-Love, Comparison, and Showing Up Imperfectly | 50 Episodes of What is Actually Working
Self-Love, Imperfect Action, and Comparison vs Modeling — what 50 episodes taught me about consistency, external validation, and showing up anyway. Fifty episodes. Still no music. Still showing up anyway. This milestone episode isn’t about what I’ve “figured out.” It’s about what’s become clearer through the practice of just keeping going. If you’ve ever felt “not ready,” compared yourself to others, or wondered what Self-Love really means beyond a shallow definition, this honest refle...
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1 month ago
22 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Knowing Your Thoughts Create Your Reality Isn't Enough—Here's What Is
You know your thoughts create your reality. You've heard it everywhere: Instagram, TikTok, every podcast, every book and workshop promising transformation "in minutes." You get it. You understand it. You KNOW it's true. So why hasn't your life changed? Here's the truth most content skips: awareness isn't the finish line. It's the starting line. And the hard part: the unsexy, unglamorous, repetitive work that gets edited out because it doesn't go viral and it requires effort. That's why you fe...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Your Creative Block Isn’t What You Think | Creativity, Play & Mental Fitness
You’re probably not blocked, you’ve just forgotten how to play. Forgotten that creativity is part of who you are, whether you know it or not. This week, Lulu throws open the windows and lets fresh air flood in. Together, we reimagine creativity as mental fitness in motion: a daily act of presence that keeps your brain flexible, your heart lighter, and your hope alive. From AI anxiety to childhood laughter and play, this episode reconnects you to the kind of creativity that heals, awakens, and...
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2 months ago
31 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Everything Feels Heavy? Build Your Foundation Before You Break
Everything feels heavy right now. The world, your life, maybe both. And here's what nobody's saying: you're close to breaking. Not dramatically, quietly. One more thing might crack your foundation. This conversation is 43 minutes which is longer than my usual episodes. That's intentional. When everything feels too heavy, you don't need another quick pep talk or surface-level fix. You need Foundational Practices that actually hold you. This isn't something I can rush without shortchanging you....
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2 months ago
43 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
The Productivity Police: Breaking Free from To-Do List Tyranny
If your to-do list is running your life instead of serving it, this is your purposeful rebellion. Lulu shows how productivity culture becomes identity, why the “productivity guilt spiral” isn’t laziness but being human, and how to shift from productive to purposeful. You’ll get Permission to Pause, the 60-Second Mental Fitness Check, and the Good Enough Revolution (80% > “perfect”) so you can untie your worth from your output and finally work with your energy instead of against it. ...
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2 months ago
22 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
When Mental Fitness Is in the Red: 3 Gentle Tools for Nervous System Regulation and Emotional Resilience
When your Mental Fitness hits empty and the usual routines stop helping, this episode reframes it as information, not a personal failure, and gives you simple ways to feel steadier without forcing yourself. This is not about doing more, which adds to your overwhelm but about doing different. This episode was born from my own experience of hitting the red zone, and I’d like to offer what works when overwhelm takes over so you can find your way back to yourself and your calm,...
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2 months ago
24 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
When Self-Care Becomes Self-Criticism: Breaking the Wellness Perfectionism Cycle
When self-care turns into self-criticism. From sleep score stress to fitness tracker guilt and the quiet weight of wellness burnout, this episode explores how health tracking and optimization can quietly become another form of self-attack—and how to reclaim self-care as compassion instead of a report card. In this episode, I share why I returned my unopened Whoop band and how wellness perfectionism is creating health-tracking anxiety for millions. From sleep score stress to fitness tracker ...
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3 months ago
23 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Self-Doubt, Numbers, and Worth: The Real Struggle Behind the Mic
2.7 billion people on YouTube. 37 watched my last video. This is what happens when the person teaching self-love gets dunked in self-doubt. In this unscripted, unedited episode, I take you behind the mic with no script, no polish, just the messy truth about finding and holding onto your worth, dropping numbers, and why showing up matters most when it feels like things are falling apart. This isn't about seeking sympathy. It's about showing you how I use my own tools in real-time when self-do...
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3 months ago
27 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Rewriting Your Story Without Erasing Your Truth (Part 3)
What if your most profound healing begins when you stop allowing trauma to write your story? You are so much more than the worst things that have happened to you. In the final part of this Trauma and Healing Series with Hawa Who from KEEPCALM.ORG we explore the most transformative shift of all: moving from “this trauma is who I am” to “this trauma is part of what shaped me.” Recorded during my own mental health crisis in April, this conversation is raw, unpolished, and deeply human. Healing i...
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3 months ago
17 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Trauma and Healing: Building Emotional Resilience (Part 2)
What does it take to keep building emotional resilience and healing when life keeps getting harder? In Part 2 of this raw series with Hawa Who from KeepCalm.org, we explore the practical side of living with trauma : how to build emotional resilience, find safe spaces for healing, and navigate setbacks without losing hope. This conversation was recorded during my own mental health relapse in April. My words weren’t polished, my voice wasn’t always steady and if you are watching on YouTube...
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3 months ago
26 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
What Trauma Really Is — And How Healing Begins (Part 1)
What happens when the most important conversation of your life happens in the middle of a mental health relapse? In Part 1 of this powerful three-part series, I share an unfiltered conversation on trauma, healing, and resilience that might change the way you see your own story. During my mental health relapse back in April, I sat down with Hawa Who from KeepCalm.org for a conversation that became the start of a powerful series on trauma, healing, and emotional resilience. My words weren’t as ...
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4 months ago
21 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Is That Feeling Even Yours? The Art of Emotional Boundaries and How to Protect Your Energy
Ever left a conversation feeling completely drained, like you’re carrying someone else’s sadness, stress, or anxiety, and you don’t know how it happened? If you're the one people lean on but your nervous system feels like it's always on high alert, this episode is your reset. In this final part of our powerful Mental Fitness series, Lulu explores the art of emotional boundaries. You’ll learn why some of us absorb others’ feelings without realizing it, and how to stay deeply empathetic without...
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4 months ago
21 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
What If You Didn’t Have to Choose Between Confidence and Joy? | The Neuroscience of Real Self-Worth
Ever felt like Confidence and Joy were things you had to earn—by achieving more, pleasing everyone, or performing perfectly? In this episode, I share the science that flips that myth on its head. You’ll learn why real Confidence and genuine Joy aren’t achievements—they’re natural states you access when you stop pretending and start being authentically yourself. Backed by the neuroscience of Dr. Amy Cuddy (embodied Confidence), Dr. Brené Brown (shame resilience), and Dr. Barbara Fredrickson (p...
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4 months ago
19 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Why Saying No Feels So Hard—And How To Stop People-Pleasing
People-pleasing isn’t just a bad habit—it’s a nervous system response rooted in ancient survival instincts. In this episode, we unpack the hidden neuroscience behind your fear of disappointing others, explore the emotional cost of Approval Addiction, and show you two powerful tools to help you build boundaries, reclaim your energy, and stop saying yes when you mean NO. Ever said YES when every fiber of your being was screaming NO? That sick feeling in your stomach when you're abo...
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4 months ago
21 minutes

The Lulu Essey Podcast
Most gift guides tell you what to buy. This one invites you to rethink what it truly means to give. As the holiday season ramps up, many of us feel the pressure to spend more, do more, and prove our love through price tags. But the gifts that create the deepest connection - the ones we remember years later - rarely cost anything financially. They cost something far more meaningful: our presence, our attention, our time, and our willingness to show up for the people we love. In this episode, I...