Hi everyone. I'm Lauren Curtis and you're listening to the Mental Makeover podcast. I've been on social

media since 2011 and since then I've am a master following of over 7 million people across my

platform. So it's been an emotional roller coaster but it's taught me so many invaluable lessons about

life, relationships, business and spirituality. The Mental Makeover podcast aims to share the lessons

I've learned throughout my own evolution in the hopes that maybe it can help to transform

somebody else's life. I feel like I've always been a very optimistic and happy person. Of course,

we all have our bad days or bad months or bad years, but overall, I generally have a very positive

outlook, and I feel like that's becoming more true the older I get. So maybe around the age of

25, maybe even 24, I feel as if my life is just very effortless, and it's not effortless, because there's so much effort

being put into everything that I do and every decision that I make and every thought that I,

you know, think, but it's almost as though I have surrendered a lot of what I used to hold

onto, and it's been extremely liberating for me, and it means that my life now is very, I just feel

very content and I spoke about this in the first episode of the podcast and how I don't feel

like content is a negative word, although sometimes it may be made out to be that way.

I think contentment to me is the goal.

It's just about accepting your situation, taking what you can out of it

and being happy and grateful that you're even there in the first place. It's just enjoying the simple

things, not needing or not thinking that you need more than you actually do, just being grateful

and satisfied with what is around you, who is

around you, where you're at, and always being inspired to be better and to do better and to grow,

but regardless of anything else, in the present moment, you are exactly where you need to be.

When I was younger, say around 21, when my channel was taking off my

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