Lay Low Pod

About Lay Low Pod

Welcome to the Lay Low Pod — the podcast about becoming who you were always meant to be. Hosted by entrepreneur, mother, and modern-day reinventor Erin Madsen, Lay Low is where deep conversations meet real life. We talk about growth, relationships, healing, ambition, energy, identity shifts, business, motherhood, heartbreak, confidence, and building a life that actually feels good to live. Some episodes feel like a late-night conversation with your smartest friend. Some feel like therapy. Some feel like the push you needed to finally change your environment, trust yourself, and evolve. This is for the people in-between versions of themselves. The ones outgrowing old lives. The ones quietly becoming. So pour the wine, go for the drive, take the walk, or lay low for a minute. You’re right on time.

Publisher

Erin Madsen

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 May 2026

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Episode 24: The Best Worst Option

   Episode 24: The Best Worst Option — with Colt Madsen Erin sits down with her youngest son, Colt Madsen, less than 24 hours after he returns home from five and a half months away in Texas. What starts as a catch-up about summer sales, rejection, consistency, and growing up quickly turns into one of the most honest and vulnerable conversations they’ve ever had. For the first time, Erin gets to hear parts of their family story completely through Colt’s eyes. Sometimes life doesn’t give you a good option and a bad option. Sometimes it gives you a best worst option—and you figure out how to grow from it. In this episode, Erin and Colt talk about: • What Colt thinks Erin got right—and wrong—as a mom • Divorce through the eyes of a child and the memories that stayed with him • Losing the feeling of having a true “home base” • A difficult period in high school that Colt never fully shared with his parents • Why living with his best friend’s family became the best option during an uncertain time • The effort it took for Erin and Colt to stay connected while living apart • First love, first heartbreak, and losing a family he had also grown attached to • How those experiences affected Colt’s thoughts about love, marriage, and relationships • Faith, choosing not to serve a mission, and what Colt wishes Erin understood about his beliefs • People pleasing, rejection, and what five and a half months of door-to-door sales taught him • The power of consistency and how one difficult summer changed his confidence and perspective • The difference between feeling abandoned and recognizing that sometimes life simply doesn’t go according to plan • How their relationship has changed as Colt has grown from Erin’s little boy into one of her closest friends There are things Erin knew about her son’s childhood, things she thought she understood, and things she hears for the first time while sitting across from him in this conversation. It’s a candid look at what happens when a parent and an adult child revisit the same years from two completely different perspectives—with humor, honesty, forgiveness, and a lot more understanding than they had while living through it. And maybe the biggest lesson of the entire conversation comes in one simple moment. As Erin acknowledges the things she didn’t always get right as a mom, Colt reminds her: “We’re all trying.” Because sometimes there isn’t a perfect decision. Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way anyone planned. You make the best choice you can, keep moving forward, and eventually realize that even the best worst option can become an important part of who you are. Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at (https://www.laylowpod.com/)www.laylowpod.com (http://www.laylowpod.com) Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Episode 23: When Starting Over Isn’t Your Choice

   What happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly falls apart—and you weren't the one who chose it? In Episode 23 of Lay Low Pod, Erin sits down with Julie Jeppson, formally Julie Boyé, a single mom of eight who spent years sharing her family publicly before finding herself navigating a painful and very public divorce. Julie gets real about: • Raising eight kids while rebuilding her own life • Going through a four-year legal battle • Having your marriage end publicly when thousands of people are watching • Mormon culture, marriage and the expectations placed on women • Holding onto faith while questioning the people and systems around you • Financial survival and learning how to provide for a family on your own • Anger, grief and why healing doesn't happen on anyone else's timeline • Finding your voice after feeling silenced • The pressure to “give yourself grace” when you're still in survival mode • Letting go of the life you thought you were supposed to have • Reinventing yourself when you don't even know what comes next • Figuring out who you are outside of being a wife and mom This isn't just a conversation about divorce. It's about what happens when change chooses YOU—and how you begin putting yourself back together when the life you planned is no longer the life you're living. Julie is still in the messy middle of it, and that's exactly what makes this conversation so real. Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at (https://www.laylowpod.com/)www.laylowpod.com (http://www.laylowpod.com) Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Episode 22: Benny Blanco’s Fuck Failure: The Messy Middle & Redefining Success

   What if you’re not failing—you’re just in the messy middle? This week, Erin is talking about the space between where you started and where you’re going. The part where things don’t always look like you thought they would, the wins aren’t obvious, and you have to keep showing up without knowing exactly how the story ends. Inspired by Benny Blanco’s book Fck Failure*, Erin shares some of her favorite lessons from his career and connects them to her own season of change—especially the way she’s redefining success after years of tying it to money, achievement, and security. Maybe success isn’t just what’s in the bank account. Maybe it’s being happy, healthy, and excited for the future. In this episode: Why the messy middle can feel like failure—even when you’re growing Redefining success beyond money and achievement Why failure, rejection, and bad seasons are part of winning What Benny Blanco’s career teaches us about staying in the game The surprising story behind Rihanna’s “Diamonds” The heartbreak behind Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” Why a detour can take you somewhere better than the original plan Learning when to pause, pivot, and keep going Why relationships and the people you build with matter How to stop moving the goalpost and recognize the life you’ve already built The simple “one inch forward” exercise for going after what you really want You don’t have to have the whole thing figured out. You don’t even have to know exactly where you’re going. Sometimes you just have to keep moving one inch forward. Because the messy middle isn’t where the story falls apart. It might be where everything starts coming together. Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at (https://www.laylowpod.com/)www.laylowpod.com (http://www.laylowpod.com) Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

12 ratings

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