“Don’t Let Them Trick You Out Your Spot” | Loren Lorosa on Faith, Failure & Finding Your Purpose
The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This episode hits different. Loren Lorosa takes us inside a conversation from the Women of Wisdom 2026 Conference in Paterson, where she opens up about burnout, hustle culture, mental health, and learning how to rest without guilt.
Hosted by Dr. Yvonne Harvey Williams and comedian Griff, the conference also featured appearances from singer and actor Rotimi and First Lady Dr. Karri Bryant, all centered around conversations about mind, body, soul, and reset.
Loren gets real about the origin of Brown Girl Grinding, being told she “wasn’t marketable” in Hollywood, surviving rejection, juggling side jobs, and building her career from the ground up. She also shares honest reflections on protecting your energy, handling insecurity, staying grounded, and why mastering your emotions can save your future.
The episode also touches on Mental Health Awareness Month, purpose, self-worth, community, and why success isn’t always about money. Plus, Loren shares gems about resilience, accountability, and refusing to let people “trick you out your spot.”
If you’ve ever felt burned out, overlooked, or stuck between chasing your dreams and protecting your peace, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Let's get, best get to do it. I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. Give me that excuse me. You know if you're going to lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. this is your daily dig on all things |
| 0:22.4 | pop culture, entertainment |
| 0:24.0 | news and this is another episode of the latest with Lauren LaRosa. |
| 0:25.8 | This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. |
| 0:28.5 | Now, I want to check in behind the scenes of the crime. |
| 0:34.8 | You guys know that that is something that we do first and foremost here at the latest with Lauren the Rosa. |
| 0:41.3 | And it is a time where we actually sit and we look and we ask ourselves, how are you really doing? |
| 0:47.6 | Like, seriously, how are you really doing? |
| 0:50.1 | We literally ask ourselves just like that. |
| 0:52.3 | Because a lot of times when you're moving, when you're hustling, when you're grinding, when you're achieving, when you're accomplishing, you're not always checking in on yourself. And my pastor, Pastor Jerome Lewis, as he's the Greatness Church in Delaware, he always says the thing that makes me think about how I speak about Brown guard grinding in the world. |
| 1:13.6 | Like, people begin to identify with the brand. |
| 1:15.6 | And I love that because I know for myself, |
| 1:17.6 | like when I feel like I belong to something, |
| 1:20.6 | or belong, like, you know, a part of something, |
| 1:23.6 | like a community or a world, |
| 1:25.6 | I just maneuver differently. Like, you know, I feel |
| 1:28.7 | like I have a tribe. I feel like I have a community. So I love the fact that people identify |
| 1:33.2 | brown guard grinding as that if even just hashtag and when they're out and about doing their |
| 1:38.1 | things, doing what they're good at. I see all of the reporter girls and reporter guys and media mavens, you know, media icons, both on to come up and already up that I'm looking at like, whoa, that, you know, also identify with the brand. |
| 1:55.6 | And I think it's just fire to see. But I'm careful about how I talk about it because my pastor always says that when |
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