Hindsight

About Hindsight

Hindsight is a home for a later-in-life perspective. I’m your host, Lauren Dudley, a storyteller, social media mentor and published author with a passion for putting seasoned life advice back into the heart of society. Expect names you recognise mixed alongside the kind of everyday mentors you wish you already had. These are the kind of deep conversations you wish you had at the dinner table, but rarely find.

Publisher

Lauren Dudley

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

8 Jan 2026

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   We Went to Japan Because I Won the Bet: Patrick’s Podcast Debut and Our Honest Trip Review

   If you've been here for a while, you know the bet. I started 2026 with 206 followers, and my boyfriend Patrick bet against me that I'd never hit 50,000K followers on Instagram by the end of the year. The stakes were a fully funded trip to Japan. I crushed that goal in less than six months and as of October, I have over 78K followers!! Patrick and I spent three weeks in Japan after an insane launch for my Synced Masterclass and opening the (now closed) doors for the second Seen cohort, where 100+ women will learn how to build a personal brand in their feminine energy and from a place of joy. Today, Patrick and I are sitting on the sofa for a chill Japan debrief. For anyone who's new here, Patrick is my partner of a few years. He’s Austrian, chronically efficient, and cracked jokes for the entire recording. Patrick has been a recurring character in this podcast long before he was ever a guest on it, but this is his first appearance. (But not the last? You let me know in the comments or my DMs if he gets to come back!) This episode is our honest, slightly chaotic, and occasionally argued-over breakdown of all the places we visited across Japan. We cover the food, culture, trip highlights, things that surprised us, a few disappointments and our overall reflections from three weeks offline. Key Takeaways Patrick's first ever podcast appearance, and a long overdue introduction for anyone who is new here Where We Visited in Japan: Osaka, Koya-san, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Takayama and Tokyo across three weeks What we each expected before we went and how it actually landed The fashion delivered, the food delivered, and the fibre absolutely did not deliver My Uji highlight: a 14th generation matcha maker, a proper tea ceremony and six types of matcha in my luggage Patrick's Osaka highlight: a dark alleys and red light district tour that turned out to be genuinely one of the best things we did No bins anywhere, the cleanest streets I have ever seen, and a newfound appreciation for personal responsibility Why Harajuku was a massive disappointment and why I am blaming Gwen Stefani entirely Patrick's genuinely good theory about geishas, loneliness and what those bars in Shinjuku are actually about Where the socialising actually happens when meal times are not a social occasion What we love about traveling together, and lessons we brought home Whether Patrick is coming back on the podcast, which is entirely up to you! New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too. Connect with Lauren Dudley 📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley 📱 TikTok - @bylaurendudley 🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠ 📖 Poetry Collection - ⁠Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley 🎧 Get the Replays for £44 - Synced Masterclass

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   15 Years of Estrangement, Mothers & the Freedom That Comes From Healing Your Own Way

   I'm recording this from my bed in Tokyo, which is not where I planned to record an episode about 15 years of being estranged from 90% of my family but this is a topic I was going to share on the podcast eventually and a reel started trending on Instagram a month after I posted it. Lots of you can unfortunately relate, so here we are. I want to be upfront: this episode includes discussions of an abusive childhood, family estrangement, not being believed, and everything else that is genuinely hard. If that's not where you're at right now, I love you and please sit this one out. But if you're somewhere in the middle of this pain and you need to hear that doing the healing work is worth it, I recorded this episode for you. I’ve been getting lots of questions in my DMs so I’ll be answering some of those by sharing my thoughts on grief, guilt, dealing with difficult questions from other people and the surprising number of beautiful things that came out of all of this pain. I also talk about growing up with an emotionally volatile mum, leaving home at 16, and what it feels like to be estranged so suddenly. Key Takeaways Growing up with an emotionally volatile mum in what I didn’t realize was an abusive environment and then losing an entire side of my family overnight Leaving home at 16 and the chaotic, painful few years that followed The generational trauma patterns that I know I will not be repeating How I was running from my feelings in my early twenties and eventually got serious about my healing How compassion for my mum developed slowly over fifteen years Handling the "but that's your mum" comments The unexpected positives of estrangement: freedom, self-trust, a bigger life, and a wedding guest list full of only people I actually want there How losing one side of my family opened up space for my dad's side to come in and how grateful I am for that Why I talk about this alongside content strategy What I most want you to take away if you're somewhere near the beginning of this journey New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too. Connect with Lauren Dudley 📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley 📱 TikTok - @bylaurendudley 🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠ 📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley 📝 Notion Workbook - New Creators: The Starting Plan for $15

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Everything Is Energy: How Developing Intuition Transforms Your Life with Brooke Barnard

   Lauren sits down with Brooke Barnard, an intuitive and energetic healer who booked a 1:1 strategy session and ended up booked on the podcast in the first ten minutes! Brooke has spent the last decade training her intuition across thousands of hours of study in neuroscience, universal laws, and energetic healing. In this episode, she explains how intuition reframes everything from physical ailments to conflict in your relationships to money blocks and the spinning, never-satisfied feeling that you are likely familiar with. Lauren and Brooke get into what intuition actually is, why almost everyone misunderstands it, and why developing your intuition as a precision skill, not a vague feeling, changes absolutely everything. Key Takeaways How everyone is born intuitive but we tend to shut that off in childhood Brooke's first premonition at 14 [Trigger Warning from 3:31-4:02: sudden death of a family member at a young age, car accidents, premonition of someone’s death] The difference between a gut feeling and a fully trained intuition Energy fields, the higher self, the subconscious, and how Brooke reads them differently What are guides? How many do we have? How do we know where to find them? Law of Reflection: how everything around you is communicating something about what's going on inside Law of Balance: why every situation is neutral, and it's your perception that creates the limitation Why "clearing" trauma doesn't mean erasing it. The science behind intuition: how energy, light, and information relate to all the information that Brooke can read through her precise and measurable intuition What it feels like to always sense there's something more How developed intuition strips away decision fatigue and stops you doing things for the wrong reasons New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too. Brooke Barnard is an intuitive and energetic healer with over a decade of training  in neuroscience, universal laws, and the science of energy. She works with clients to identify the emotional root causes behind their biggest blocks  and helps them develop their own intuitive gifts as a trained, precise skill. Listen to this episode to learn more about her work and discover what Brooke has learned in Hindsight. Connect with Brooke Barnard 📱 Instagram - coming soon! 🖥️ Website - brookebarnard.com 🎙️ Podcast - Make Sense of It on Spotify and Apple Podcasts 🎧 Free Audio Series - Your Intro to Intuition Connect with Lauren Dudley 📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley 📱 TikTok - @bylaurendudley 🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠ 📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley 📝 Notion Workbook - New Creators: The Starting Plan for $15

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