Feminine Energy, Dating Patterns & Why Success Can Complicate Attraction (The Velvet)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Salaun — transformational facilitator, somatic coach, and feminine embodiment expert — joins Kelly to break down a pattern many successful women quietly experience: feeling accomplished in life but frustrated in love. Together, they explore why dating can feel unexpectedly difficult for high-achieving women and what may actually be happening beneath the surface.
From nervous system regulation to emotional energy, Kelly and Lauren discuss the subtle ways survival mode, over-functioning, and identity shape romantic dynamics. They also tackle the often-misunderstood topic of feminine and masculine energy, offering a refreshing take that avoids clichés and rigid gender rules.
If you’ve ever questioned your standards, your attraction patterns, or why dating feels energetically exhausting, this conversation reframes the narrative.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.5 | Lauren Salon is a transformational facilitator, somatic coach, and feminine embodiment expert dedicated to empowering |
| 0:22.8 | high achieving women to break free from boss babe hustle culture and embody their wildly magnetic |
| 0:28.7 | feminine energy. Lauren specializes in helping successful women heal their nervous systems, |
| 0:34.3 | reprogram their subconscious minds, and attract their dream relationships by |
| 0:38.4 | embracing their authentic feminine essence. Hi, Lauren. Hi, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm super excited to talk about all of this stuff. We already, we're starting to chitch out a little bit |
| 0:48.9 | before we hit record, so I'm even more excited. Yes, I was saying to you before the podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | I feel like this is something that I have talked about with my friend group for a decade now |
| 1:00.2 | because we've all been in these positions. |
| 1:02.6 | And now that I'm in what I feel like is my healthiest relationship so far, I'm realizing |
| 1:06.8 | some of the stuff that I let go of pattern-wise in the exact stuff we're going to talk about. |
| 1:12.1 | And it's probably why this relationship is working a little bit better for me in past relationships. |
| 1:17.4 | So I think it's a really important topic and we'll just go ahead and get right in. |
| 1:20.9 | But I figured when we mentioned that you specialize in working with high achieving women in their dating experiences, I'm assuming |
| 1:28.7 | you are seeing a need around the world for this topic to be covered in address. So can you tell |
| 1:34.4 | us more about what you were seeing and why you decided to dive into working with high achieving |
| 1:39.5 | women? Yeah, absolutely. So I've been doing coaching for high achieving women just generally, like life |
| 1:46.4 | coaching, coaching around confidence, self-expression, people pleasing, like overcoming, |
| 1:52.9 | overachieving and worthiness struggles, all of that in a more like generalized capacity to support |
| 1:57.5 | women in achieving their goals, in designing their lives around the things that they really love, and started to see something that was a recurring theme for these women, that they were also struggling with dating and relationships. |
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