Excellence Over Perfection + 5 Lessons from 2026 (so far)
Corporate F*ckery
Lauren DeGoglia returns after a four-month hiatus to share her transformative journey through intense personal and professional growth. She re
Key takeaways
- Perfection is a low-frequency state that stifles growth; excellence allows for imperfection and resilience.
- Audacity—boldness in action—is what the universe responds to, not just visibility or planning.
Main topics
- Excellence over perfection
- Personal transformation after loss and achievement
Notable quotes
"You truly cannot make this shit up."
"Why the universe meets you at the level of your audacity, not your visibility."
Conclusion
Lauren closes with a call to action: focus on excellence, embrace failure as feedback,
Transcript preview
Speaker 1 (0:00) Welcome back to Corporate Fuckery, stories of survival, psychological warfare, and choosing what's best for you. I'm your host, Lauren DeGoglia. It has been one hot second, aka four months, since I've hopped on here. I honestly, in a lot of ways, don't know where the time has gone. I have quite a few updates for you today, including where I've been, what I've been up to. what the streets of corporate fuckery have looked and felt like for a lot of the people who follow me, a lot of the people that I work with. I'm going to give you an update like a little bit on life because it's been insane. Some of it, it feels like you can't make this shit up. Others, it's like some of the best, juiciest parts of my life. We're also going to talk about my 12s project that I mentioned a few episodes ago. It's almost like we manifested this, you guys. Like even though I fell off, the whole trying to achieve a 12s purchase portion of the project, it couldn't have been written any better, truly. And then I'm going to give you my top five things that I've learned this year so far. And we're going to talk about what things look like for the rest of the year, because we only have four more months until 2027 is here. And I don't know about you, but something magical happens in September where it's like one more little opportunity. to achieve something wonderful in the calendar year, like the school year to me, and I'm sure it feels like to you, the school year feels a little bit like a micro fresh start. So I'm going to help you tap into that. I have some exciting things coming in the pipeline, but that's where I'm taking this episode. It's really just an update. It's really like a, hey, I'm here. Hey, I've been here. There's just been a ton of stuff going on and you'll understand a little bit more by the end. So I'm calling this episode. excellence over perfection because I just feel like the perfectionist part of me, which still exists in some doorways of my life, has felt a lot of shame that four months has gone by and that I should have been more responsible. I should have fill in the blank. It doesn't really matter, but it does. Do you know what I mean? And every Friday or Thursday, I'm like, oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. you blink and four months has gone by. So let's do a little bit of kind of where I've been for the last four months. So my last episode aired on April 24th. It was called The Ambition Penalty with my friend Stephanie O'Connell. But following that, I had been actively enrolled in my master practitioner training for my neuro performance work and my emotional intelligence work. As you might have recalled, last year when I graduated, my dad died two days later. Then I got laid off three weeks later. And so it's kind of just been a whirlwind of now 14 months. The first week of May, I headed out to Massachusetts for an eight-day integration on-site session to really apply and learn and integrate all of these amazing tools that I have studied over the last five years with regards to the subconscious mind. And it's one of those trips that last year when I knew I was taking kind of a similar flavor of trip, I knew that I'd be coming home a different person. And this year, like I really, really knew I'd be coming home a different person. And so I spent eight days out there. It was amazing. I learned all kinds of techniques. We practiced techniques. I had to host like my own breathwork session. Like there's a lot of practical work that had to be delivered. It's all hands-on. It's all like nine to 10 hours a day of like pretty crazy work. So I spent the first part of May doing that. There was a whole bunch of family stuff in May that went down. Then it was the end of school. And then kind of out of the blue, my husband and I got to take a trip to London for 10 days. We haven't been to Europe since 2000. I want to say seven, which just is insane. But I think that that was accurate after we figured it out. No, it can't be that. Speaker 2 (3:57) It Speaker 1 (3:57) was before we had our kid and our kid just turned 15. And he's been working on kind of this side project through a friend that I introduced him to last summer. They've written an app. It has to do with domestic violence. And he goes, hey, like we just got our first round of funding. Like it's super exciting. And they want me to come out to go do some stuff. And I was like, awesome. Like I'm going with you. Like I created the introduction. And when I tell you that it was the most magical 10 days. Like I could be a Londoner like tomorrow. There's a couple of things that I'm like, this isn't great. Like I don't love this. But I mean, I was going on my hot girl walks because Andy was in conferences. I was finishing up all of my master practitioner work because I had to submit like so many things for grading and my tests and my quizzes and all the things because I didn't actually graduate from my program until June 25th. We came home around the 20th of June and a friend of mine who kind of had gotten unexpectedly ill. ended up dying two days after my master practitioner graduation. So it was like kind of coming back to like a crazy reality. And I'm sharing all of this and kind of like the details of my summer because I feel like a lot of the corporate fuckery just makes us want to feel like real life isn't supposed to happen. Like... We don't have the good things, the not so great things, the neutral things. Like life is still lifing on the outsides of corporate life. It was like coming home and just almost being hit by a wall. Like we had had such a good time. It was 10 days of like really great conversations. And we saw some shows and we ate some great food. And like the weather was perfect. I was like, Andy, like truly. The weather in London is not like this. It rains kind of like it does in Seattle. And I think it was sunny in 70 like every single day. And so coming home and literally experiencing kind of the same graduation experience where it was like I graduated and two days later, someone close to me passed away. I was like, universe, what the actual fuck is going on here? Like, why am I experiencing this again? I was so proud of myself and so filled with like, oh my God, I did it. Like this was really hard. It was another 160 hours of training and a five month period. Speaker 2 (6:16) It was all Speaker 1 (6:17) of the practical exams and application work. And here I am trying to enjoy my day in this big celebration. Because last year, like, yes, I enjoyed my day, but also my dad was actively dying. And then two days later, just