Your host, Laura Janela, has an extensive travel resume, she’s lived abroad, and brings intentional living everywhere she goes. She is a fiery millennial who is forever sharing her journey back to self-love, reflections from travels, and her inner workings around wellness rituals. Late Checkout is where she shares all of this along with her undying passion for self-discovery.
This podcast community is a welcoming space where we can explore the world and our everyday lives with humor, share knowledge, feel seen and supported, and inspire each other to grow into our best selves.
Ep. 38 - Are You Actually Choosing Your Life? 3 Mindset Shifts to Take Your Power Back
Have you ever looked up and realized you’ve been going through the motions of your own life?
Same routines. Same reactions. Same schedule. Days moving fast — but you’re not sure how consciously you’re actually choosing any of it.
In this episode of Late Checkout, I’m sharing three of the biggest mindset shifts that have helped me move out of autopilot and back into awareness, self-trust and the driver’s seat of my own life.
We’re talking about why slowing down can actually move you forward, what changes when you start seeing life as happening for you instead of to you, and one simple daily practice I use to ground myself back into the absolute gift of this human experience.
Conscious living doesn’t mean every day is perfect. It means you’re HERE for it. You’re paying attention. You’re listening to yourself. And you’re remembering that you have the power to make a new choice.
In this episode:
→ Why busyness doesn’t always equal productivity or purpose
→ How to recognize when you’re living on autopilot
→ Why I stopped ignoring my body when it asks me to slow down
→ The “life is happening for you” reframe I use in everyday life
→ How small annoyances can become opportunities for awareness
→ My daily “thank you for this human experience” practice
→ How awareness brings you back to your power of choice
If you’ve been feeling disconnected, stuck in the hamster wheel or like life has been moving a little too fast around you, this one is for you. 🤍
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21 Aug 2026
Ep. 37 - I Wrote Down My Dream Partner… 9 Months Later, I Met My Husband | How to Call in Your Soulmate
Episode 37 — Description
In October 2014, exhausted by dating and situationships that were going nowhere, I opened my journal and wrote down exactly what I wanted in my future husband.
Not just what he looked like or what he did — but the essence of him.
How I wanted to feel around him. Safe. Seen. Comfortable. Accepted. I wanted someone who could embrace my shadows, make me laugh, travel the world with me, work hard, stay open-minded, and build a life that could expand and change with us.
Then I closed the journal, planted the seed…and forgot about it.
Nine months later, I met Brian.
But what happened in between is just as important.
In this episode of Late Checkout, I'm sharing the full story of how I called in my husband — from the toxic relationship patterns and dating experiences that came before him to the manifestation list I wrote in 2014, the dates that followed, the person who seemed perfect but intuitively wasn't my person, and finally, the first date with Brian that lasted nearly seven hours.
More importantly, we're talking about what I think we get wrong about "manifesting" a dream partner.
This isn't about creating the perfect checklist, obsessing over when your person will arrive, or becoming some perfectly healed version of yourself before you're worthy of real love.
It's about knowing yourself.
Knowing your patterns. Knowing your shadows. Recognizing where you self-sabotage. Understanding how you show up in love. Getting clear on the essence of the relationship you want — and then surrendering enough to let life show you the way there.
Because when you plant a seed, it still needs to be watered.
And sometimes that watering looks like a bad date. A relationship that doesn't work. A trigger that shows you something about yourself. Or meeting someone who isn't your soulmate but teaches you something you'll carry into the relationship that is meant for you.
Make yourself the main character in that process.
Find the lesson. Find the pattern. Ask the why.
And remember: you don't have to be perfectly healed before you meet your person. Your soulmate will be a mirror, too. There will be parts of yourself you can only meet, understand, and grow through once you're actually in that relationship.
Plant the seed. Get clear on the love you desire. Bring your full, authentic self with you.
And then trust what unfolds. 🤍
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→ Let me Build your Intentional Travel Blueprint (https://stan.store/laurajanela/p/the-intentional-travel-blueprint-)
6 Aug 2026
Ep. 36 - How Small Daily Rituals Can Change Your Life | Breaking Free From Autopilot + Reconnecting With Yourself
What if the life you’re craving isn’t waiting for you in a bigger milestone… but in the small moments you’re living every single day?
In this episode of Late Check-Out, I’m reflecting on the incredible experience of leading my first Pour Back Into You 7-Day Challenge and the transformation that unfolded when women simply began paying attention to their lives again.
We talk about what it really means to live intentionally, how small daily rituals create lasting change, why so many of us end up on autopilot, and how to reconnect with your intuition, your joy, and the version of yourself that’s been there all along.
This conversation is an invitation to slow down, become more conscious of the choices you’re making, and remember that the quality of your life is shaped less by the big moments—and more by how you show up to the ordinary ones.
I also share what’s next: The Becoming, my new 3-week container designed to help you move beyond awareness and begin embodying the life you truly want to create, along with my one-on-one Pour Back Into You coaching sessions.
If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself, caught in the routine of everyday life, or simply craving a deeper relationship with the person you’re becoming, this episode is for you.
Because the goal isn’t just to build a beautiful life.
It’s to be fully present enough to experience it.
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You can always DM me on IG @laurajanela_ (https://www.instagram.com/laurajanela_) with any questions!
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