S2E324 How to Become Shatterproof with Lauren Sisler
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode, Brian Buffini sits down with Lauren Sisler, Emmy award–winning sports broadcaster, author, and keynote speaker, to discuss her inspiring new book, Shatterproof. At just 18 years old, Lauren, who was attending Rutgers College on a gymnastics scholarship, was dealt a devastating double blow — her parents died within five hours of each other, both to opioid overdoses. In this broadcast, Lauren shares how her faith in God, her background as an elite athlete and guidance from her aunt, helped her through grief, shame and denial and ultimately, to forgiveness, freedom and purpose. Now, as an in-demand keynote speaker, she shares her story, helping others facing their own challenges so that they too might find peace. You’ll be inspired to “jump scared,” push past discomfort, and create your own personal legacy.
YOU WILL LEARN:
- How leaning into adversity and discomfort can help strengthen you and give you permission to heal.
- Why owning your story is key to breaking free from shame.
- How to find purpose and identity no matter the circumstances beyond your control.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Shatterproof by Lauren Sisler
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“The greatest stories that I've witnessed aren't the championship moments, the game winning drives, the buzzer beaters, the walk off home runs. It's the stories that happen in the calm and the quiet when the stadium lights are off and nobody is watching. — Lauren Sisler
“You’ve got to be willing to have the tough conversations with people, even though they can be extremely difficult, they can be sticky, they can be hard.” — Lauren Sisler
“Adversity can be the very thing that strengthens you and gives you permission to heal.” — Lauren Sisler
“God does not promise to deliver us from hardships, He promises to deliver us through hardships.” — Lauren Sisler
“You can run so hard and so fast towards that next thing that you forget to be where your feet are,” — Lauren Sisler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing yourself and your business. |
| 0:09.6 | Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bafini. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm your host, Brian Bafini, and today we have a special guest. |
| 0:23.5 | Her name is Lauren Sistler, and Lauren is an Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster, |
| 0:29.1 | an ESPN sideline reporter. |
| 0:31.2 | She's an author, a keynote speaker, and she's known for her sideline shimmy. |
| 0:35.9 | My kids have shown me these shimmy many times, |
| 0:38.7 | whether she's on the sidelines or on stages. Her goal is to help people love their own |
| 0:43.8 | stories, tell her own stories, and live more courageous, resilient lives. And we could all use |
| 0:48.0 | a bit of that. She wrote a fantastic book. We're going to talk about it today called Shatterproof. |
| 0:53.4 | Rarely do you have a book |
| 0:54.5 | that right off the bat is kind of being this open and this candid where the subtitle said, How I Overcame the Shame of Losing My Parents to Obiode Addiction and found my sideline shimmy. I've never quite seen a subtitle like that. Lauren, I can't wait for this conversation. I've been looking forward to having you on the show. Thanks for making the time for us. Hey, great to be here. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey, you had me dancing at the beginning there to the music. I like it. There's my sideline shimmy for you. I love it. There you go. That's perfect. Yeah, it's a little Irish jig. So that's close to your West Virginia roots there. I know you're a Virginian, but a lot of that Irish |
| 1:28.2 | music made its way to those Appalachian mountains. |
| 1:31.4 | Uh-huh. Yep. Yep. I hear that. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah. Well, listen, my daughter, Anna, who's been featured on this show, and she has a big |
| 1:37.5 | following of her own as a horse rider, before she was a horse rider pursuing the Olympics, |
| 1:43.6 | she was a gymnast. And her first love, |
| 1:45.5 | when she's asked all the time, she does all these shows on TV and media stuff about horses. And |
| 1:50.2 | she always says her first love was gymnastics. And she was a state champion on the beam and on the |
| 1:55.5 | floor, which is always like, when you see nine girls fall right before you go and you're ready to throw up as a |
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