Send us a text Lori celebrates the sixth anniversary of "Improviding Life", reflecting on six years of business and personal growth. Transcript https://otter.ai/u/yHUySFzUuLcurkkMIWoUV2yCJXE?view=summary Cheers to 6 Years Sale: use code CHEERS6YEARS through June 30th, 2025 Wake Up Willingly $6 Synclarities Starter Kit $6 Yes, And Yesterday $66 Yes, And Yesterday + 1 Week EmbodiLIfe 1:1 Voxer Coaching $166 EmbodiBiz 1:1 Voxer coaching day $166 Surprise Bundle: 1:1 Voxer Coaching Week PLUS All of ...
Jun 11, 2025•28 min•Season 6Ep. 57
Send us a text ILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 3 Lori discusses a framework for achieving a fulfilling adult life, emphasizing that vision = goals + body cues + community. She explains how setting clear, achievable goals, such as reducing overwhelmed days or minimizing food waste, can help manage expectations and improve daily life. Body cues, like emotional responses serve as real-time metrics. Community involvement is crucial for collective care and sharing responsibilities, such as grocery...
Nov 19, 2024•16 min•Season 5Ep. 56
Send us a text In this episode of the Improviding Life Podcast, Lori explores the concept of redefining "adulting" to align with personal values and desires. She encourages listeners to envision their ideal day, using a tool called "A to C" to delve deeper into their thoughts. Lori emphasizes the shift from a rigid vision board to a mood board, focusing on desired emotions and feelings rather than specific, curated images. She also announces her upcoming initiative, "Nurture November," aimed at ...
Oct 29, 2024•10 min•Season 5Ep. 55
Send us a text ILP: Adulting on Your Own Terms Pt 1 Lori Crawford explores the concept of "adulting" on the Improviding Life Podcast, emphasizing the need to redefine and personalize it. She critiques traditional views of adulting as miserable, isolating, and unsupportive, rooted in outdated and harmful structures like capitalism and patriarchy. Crawford shares her own experiences, highlighting the generational impact on her view of adulthood and the challenges of student loan debt. She encourag...
Oct 10, 2024•19 min•Season 5Ep. 54
Send us a text We are diving deeper into our How Human Design Helps Me Human series with a very special to me episode where I finally proclaim that Fuck Around & Find Out is the 3/5 profile anthem If you have a 3/5 profile, have a 3 or a 5 in your profile, or are a human who knows other humans, this episode offers permission, possibilities, and playful ways to approach self reflection, knowledge sharing, and recoding your own story and energy with words that resonate with you Want to work wi...
Jun 21, 2024•19 min•Season 4Ep. 53
Send us a text Our How Human Design Helps Me Human series continues with a solo episode exploring how I approach self-regulating through my undefined and open Human Design energy centers. As a Mental Projector I have 2 of the 9 centers defined, which means a LOT of openness in my chart. This episode clarifies the difference between having an undefined and an open center, and speaks to my experience with my 4 undefined and 3 open centers including how I look to those centers to clues to how I can...
May 31, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 52
Send us a text Rachel Star is an Astrologer, Human Design practitioner, Cosmic Queen, and an overall ICON in the world of self-embodiment And she’s this weeks guest! We explore aspects of Astrology and Human Design natal charts that help us identify and life through our values And how living life as ourselves not only makes life more livable, but makes us ICONIC! You can join Rachel’s upcoming course on Human Design authority (decision making) types here! Connect with Rachel on Instagram and Tik...
May 14, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 51
Send us a text Grab your HD charts and note what centers you have defined (hint: they’ll be colored in!) These are your super powers you’re meant to share with the world And they also may be where you’ve been told your energy is big or too much by those around you I’m sorry if that was your experience, it certainly was mine And now that I know better, that my defined Head and Ajna are what make me me, I am absolutely re-sentimenting these energies for my own wellbeing and so you get the best of ...
May 09, 2024•17 min•Season 4Ep. 50
Send us a text The Improviding Life Podcast welcomes Karyn Paige as our first guest for our How Human Design Helps Me Human series! We discuss our own entry ways into Human Design, how HD can support our anti-oppression and liberation practices, and how to be critical lovers by holding ourselves and one another accountable as we pursue being in right relationship despite the presence and heaviness of systemic oppression. More About Karyn: Karyn Paige is a certified Informed Practitioner of Human...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 49
Send us a text It’s Human Design season on The Improviding Life Podcast! Join me for the upcoming How Human Design Helps Me Human Series where I will be sharing my personal experience with the Human Design energy system and inviting other HD practitioners and change makers onto the pod to share their own experiences, ways of serving, and change making magic through the lens of Human Design To get your own Human Design chart, you can enter your birth time, date, and location here Next week we hav...
Apr 14, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Send us a text Ep 47 - Resting to Receive and Being a Gate Tender with Isabel Bagsik In today’s episode we are joined by Isabel Bagsik, Creativity Wellness Guide and very nourishing human to share space with! The TLDR: Your Creative Calling is Medicine -Why so many visionaries and change makers who identify as women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or as the child of immigrants feel like there aren't enough hours in the day for rest and self care, let alone creativity and play -How toxic capitalist ideals need...
Mar 28, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 47
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Jan 09, 2024•51 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Send us a text Before you entertain thoughts about how you can do and be more next year or fart fart finish the year strong - what if you could identify who and how you are right now? Does this feel reflective of who you know you really are? Is this sustainable and is this way of being in line with the values you’re committed to living through? Identifying where the end of the year not enoughness has and continues to come from let’s you know where to be returning the urgency that does not need t...
Dec 15, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Send us a text Gust episodes are back as we begin season 4 of the Improviding Life Podcast with a bake, I mean bang! Decision Coach Kirsten Parker joins us as we play with the word "friendly" through the lens of Tool of Improviding #4 - ID the Ship Take a listen if you want to explore what makes a one of a kind friendship so meaningful, how the daily decisions we underthink may actually fill our cup the best, and how life can be more livable when you know what values are a priority in your curre...
Oct 25, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 44
Send us a text Y’all it’s time to Fake Less and Live More Sometimes you have to wash your hands of the shit everyone else puts on your plate Faking it til you make it has an expiration date, and that is whenever you wake up, sit at the edge of your bed, and wonder whether anything beyond the ho hum will ever exist again Yes, this current season of life may be extra defeating AND all seasons shift, and there are so many incrementally possible near futures Where you’re faking being fine less And y...
Sep 29, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Send us a text The real problem with morning routines is that they all seem to force your into “overfunction” mode faster than your eyelids get a chance to open. From your feet hitting the floor before you even turn your alarm off, to thinking a blaring siren phone chime is the only option This episode is explores so much of what made me Not a Wake Up Person Until I realized that I, yes me, could in fact Wake Up Willingly Tune in to hear a few of my insider tips AND be the first to join Wake Up ...
Sep 18, 2023•15 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Send us a text Welcome to the Improviding Life Podcast with Lori Love - this week we’re exploring how life can be more livable when we reflect on how our habits are helping or hurting our day to day life. The brief brief: Ask yourself these questions to know if a habit is helping or hurting: Do you even realize it’s a habit What feelings surface when you realize it’s a habit Did this habit begin with you If you were living your best life, would this habit be part of your day to day life Do you f...
Aug 10, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Send us a text This episode is a love letter to a dear friend who dazzles the world with her beautiful heart and hilarious way of human’ing. Once you listen, send to the ‘Diana’ in your life and share the love 💝
Jul 27, 2023•13 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Send us a text Feeling let down absolutely happens, AND sometimes I get swept up in the doom cloud for longer than feels good or kind to myself I had a recent food travesty day (learn more about my ridiculously necessary concept of food based let downs in this episode) and much to my delight the following day was one of soaring sky high with unexpected food majesties In this episode I’m sharing the 3 shifts that surprisingly made life more livable when I expected to be a miserable bish for at le...
Jul 03, 2023•15 min•Season 3Ep. 39
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Jun 01, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Send us a text In the spirit of being humble and selfless, we’ve actually just gotten really good at not being ourselves, and maybe even “eww, bye b!tch”ing ourselves 😅 In this episode we explore what being full of ourselves could actually mean and look like and how doing so makes human’ing a more happening experience Questions like “How much of “you” feels like you?” and “Are there seasons and cycles in life that feel more you?” guide this wondering. If you’re asking yourself “where do I even ...
Apr 15, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Send us a text We’ve all been conditioned and expected to perform patience, and that can leave us feeling depleted. Practicing patience is rooted in context and a skill we can build through connection. What’s your current relationship with patience?
Apr 11, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Send us a text This week 6 whole human beings decided to prioritize themselves and attend the Postpartum Playcation event I hosted - and that feels like a huge fucking win for me!! It’s so easy to be like “only 6, oh no!” But that’s not how I feel, and I bet there are some wins that feel mighty to you despite what other unsolicited opinions are/were tossed your way. So this week, I invite you to decide how big of a win something in your life is, and celebrate the shit out of it!...
Mar 26, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Send us a text We’ve all been there - staring into the abyss that is our refrigerator and pantry - knowing we need to refuel but having no f*cks left to give by the mushy noodle in our noggin Cue the Calorie Gallery - an already decided upon collection of edible nom noms and sipable liquids to help us nourish our body and our lovely neurodiverse brains with less woeverload
Mar 13, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Send us a text This week we’re exploring how life is more livable when we approach adult friendships from a space of curiosity, asking questions like “what would you rather be doing today” and “what fun can we have together” instead of the meh “what do you do for a living” type ish we’re expected to meet and greet adults with For the Funnin’ with Friends Bingo Board, visit And if you or someone you love are a Pittsburgh area parent, check out the upcoming Postpartum Playcation Project events on ...
Mar 08, 2023•6 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Send us a text Lori is on a quest to share playcations with the cosmos! Or at least see what’s possible when communal space is held to name, normalize, and navigate common adulting experiences - like the postpartum parent experience! If you’re in Pittsburgh or love someone who is, you’re invited to the inaugural Postpartum Playcation Project sessions on 3.24.23 hosted at the jazzy Brew House Association Learn more and sign up below - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/postpartum-playcation-project-tic...
Mar 01, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 32
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Feb 25, 2023•6 min•Season 3Ep. 31
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Jan 31, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Send us a text Hello from the other side of an unexpected break! And welcome to season 3 I have an announcement- I’m an inner parent pal! Resources mentioned: Grab your Clusterfuck Cheatsheet! https://www.subscribepage.com/p1g3y9 Get more YAY in your day https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1124327 Ways to work with me https://improviding.vipmembervault.com/...
Nov 19, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Send us a text Have you ever been labeled a something based on someone else's unsolicited expectations or judgements about your body, personality, or even existence? Yes, it sucks, This episode shares my recent realization that grace is a practice not a trait, stemming from a childhood label of 'ungraceful' that was placed on me for having a larger and less coordinated body than was expected of me. For more improviding musings, lets connect http://www.instagram.com/improvide.with.lori Ways to wo...
Aug 11, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 28
