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The Bet
ThinkLaura
19 episodes
5 days ago
The Bet isn’t another personal development podcast. It’s a live experiment. For one year, I’m betting everything on energy over effort, documenting in real time what happens when you replace traditional self-help with cognitive engineering. Follow along each week and get one deep-dive “reality show” episode and one Mini Memo Drop (a quick hit to rewire your basic human OS). No scripts. No promotion. Just me, the mic, and whatever happens when you bet it all and let the world watch. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when someone dares the universe to show up — welcome to The Bet.
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Entrepreneurship
Education,
Business,
Self-Improvement
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The Bet isn’t another personal development podcast. It’s a live experiment. For one year, I’m betting everything on energy over effort, documenting in real time what happens when you replace traditional self-help with cognitive engineering. Follow along each week and get one deep-dive “reality show” episode and one Mini Memo Drop (a quick hit to rewire your basic human OS). No scripts. No promotion. Just me, the mic, and whatever happens when you bet it all and let the world watch. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when someone dares the universe to show up — welcome to The Bet.
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Entrepreneurship
Education,
Business,
Self-Improvement
Episodes (19/19)
The Bet
Week 10: When Your Body Forces a Pause

Week 10 arrives with Laura's body enforcing a pause she didn't know she needed. After speaking illness into existence with uncanny precision, she embraces the spiritual truth about purging old identities. Meanwhile, Instagram throws her in jail for creating actual value vs rewarding noise, the November reels challenge brings massive reach but questionable alignment, and unexpected breathing room reveals what's been missing from the relentless pace of building.

What You'll Learn:

  • How speaking your fears out loud can literally program them into reality
  • Why Instagram punishes depth while rewarding brain-rot (and what happened when reach increased by triple digits)
  • The difference between maintaining a streak and maintaining standards

The Pattern Shift: From: "I need to maintain momentum at all costs to prove I'm serious" To: "Space isn't empty - it's where everything gestates"


Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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5 days ago
20 minutes

The Bet
Week 9: Second Monthly Check-in

Month two is complete and Laura's discovering the numbers tell a radically different story than her brain's daily broadcast. While daily Instagram views looked pathetic, monthly stats reveal something unexpected. Revenue jumps 15x through one simple shift. The Bet maintains its steady six downloads per episode. And as she flips from screenshots to reels after training the algorithm for two months, the universe demonstrates its sense of humor through perfectly-timed technical glitches that become her best-performing content.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why daily observation lies while monthly truth tells a different story
  • The one pricing shift that changed everything (and why undercharging is just fear in disguise)
  • How technical glitches during content creation signal you're onto something powerful

The Pattern Shift: From: "Daily metrics determine whether I'm succeeding or failing" To: "The real story lives in the patterns only monthly data can reveal"

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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1 week ago
19 minutes

The Bet
Week 8: You Can't Say the Wrong Thing To the Right People

Laura discovers that Sunday evening recording has become her perfect weekly closure ritual. This week brought an extraordinary convergence - from an impossible sky on Monday to two mysterious visitors on Thursday, all pointing to the same truth about authentic communication.

When a major test shakes everything and demands complete surrender, the resolution arrives in exactly fifteen minutes. This episode reveals what happens when you drop all filters and discover your truth needs no translation.

Key Moments:

  • The dome sky download that changes everything about messaging
  • Why the world might be ready for what you think is too "crazy" to share
  • The liberation that comes from letting something be complete
  • Two visitors, two warnings, and one profound realization
  • The fifteen-minute miracle that proves energy over strategy

Resources Mentioned:

  • Vanessa Henry's Omen Library - scroll down to find the right category for the sign you're receiving

Connect with Laura:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Website: thinklaura.com
  • MEMO (The Personal Trainer for your mind): Available at thinklaura.com/getmemo

Laura continues The Bet - her year-long experiment in building a business on pure energy instead of strategy. No scripts, no second takes, just the raw documentation of what happens when you trust that you literally cannot say the wrong thing to the right people.

Listen to discover why the universe might be sending you messages through the exact channels you're already tuned to receive.

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2 weeks ago
31 minutes

The Bet
Week 7: Quack Like a Duck

When Everything You've Been Resisting Converges at Once
Seven weeks of teaching to blank faces suddenly yields undeniable evidence that working with energy 'works'. A conversation about legitimacy turns into permission to be exactly who and what you are. And when three different identities collide in one week, the only way forward is to embrace your inner quack.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why there's always an energetic gap between planting and harvest (and how to trust it)
  • The difference between being seen as legitimate vs. embodying legitimacy
  • How Human Design became a programming language for reality (and why that makes perfect sense)
  • What happens when you take an esoteric system and apply neuroscience to it
  • The concept of a 'run rate' business and how it affects identity
  • Why pausing production can be more powerful than constant creation
  • What the 2027 mutation means for anyone building something now

The Pattern Shift:
From: "I need to fit into respected containers to be legitimate"
To: "Legitimacy comes from being exactly what you are - even if that's a quack"

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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3 weeks ago
20 minutes

The Bet
Week 6: When Synchronicity Speaks Three Times

When Three People Tell You the Same Thing, Listen


Three different people deliver the same message in one week: slow down and receive. Laura unplugs for 24 hours and discovers an uncomfortable truth - she doesn't know how to relax. When she finally creates space to just be, something unexpected shows up. The universe has its own algorithm, and it responds to energy, not effort. Plus, a breakfast conversation with Mike cracks open MEMO's identity crisis, revealing why confusion creates stagnation and what happens when you finally make the damn decision.


What You'll Learn:

  • Why the universe uses synchronicity as your most powerful navigation system
  • The hermetic law of gender: masculine doing energy vs. feminine receiving energy and why we leak so much power staying stuck in one
  • How constantly producing without space to receive creates energetic stagnation
  • Why not knowing how to relax is a massive red flag about your relationship with worthiness
  • The real reason MEMO hasn't been growing (and it's not what you think)
  • Why someone who lives with you is actually the best mirror for your product
  • Why asking "who can I serve?" led to a new perspective

The Pattern Shift: From: "My worth is tied to constant productivity and visible output" To: "Creating space to receive is as valuable as the work itself"

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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1 month ago
18 minutes

The Bet
Bonus Episode: Curveball of Fear


When the Curveball Hits

Wednesday morning brought the kind of news that rocks your entire world. The test that arrives right after you think you've mastered abundance. This is real-time documentation of what happens when fear shows up - and how an unexpected tool helped shift everything.

The track Laura referenced: [Spotify Link Here]

The Stakes: "I still don't know what the solution is. But I know this is my ultimate opportunity to face fear in the fucking eyes and walk right through it."

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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1 month ago
8 minutes

The Bet
Week 5: First Monthly Check-in

Month one is complete and Laura's pulling back the curtain on what's actually happening. Through tracking metrics across multiple platforms, wrestling with MEMO's unclear identity, catching the Mini Memo safety blanket pattern, and noticing Instagram drift back into overthinking - one truth emerges: confused energy creates stagnation. Plus, a surprising shift at the university signals something bigger wanting to emerge, and the real cost of measuring worth by who stays instead of who transforms becomes impossible to ignore.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why sharing your "starting weight" in business matters (even when your brain is screaming to justify it)
  • How the energy you build with becomes the energy you maintain with forever
  • Why building from your own needs creates natural demand without selling
  • The pattern of proving expertise as a safety blanket that suffocates authenticity
  • Why simple consistency beats complex systems every single time

The Pattern Shift: From: "I need to prove I'm legitimate through volume and expertise" To: "Legitimacy is embodied through aligned choices, not manufactured content"


Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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1 month ago
28 minutes

The Bet
Mini Memo: Why I'm Killing the Mini Memos

This is the last mini memo drop.

After catching myself using Friday episodes as an insurance policy against Tuesday's messiness, I'm choosing the experiment over the performance. The mini memos were never about you - they were my safety blanket, my way of proving I'm legitimate while supposedly trusting energy over strategy.

In this episode:

  • Why my survival brain keeps trying to add when the solution is to subtract
  • The real reason I was doing bi-weekly episodes (spoiler: proving energy)
  • How stripping away filters, designs, and production made everything work better
  • Why "the energy behind them isn't compatible with where I'm leading myself"

The Bet continues Tuesday. Just Tuesday. Because building by subtracting beats performing by adding every single time.

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1 month ago
8 minutes

The Bet
Week 4: When Clients Leaving Means You're Doing It Right

Week four brings a breakthrough about success metrics: Laura discovers she's been measuring worth by who stays instead of who transforms. Through patterns caught in MEMO cancellations, Mini Memo questioning, and Instagram overthinking, she uncovers a childhood wound about feeling unwanted that's been driving her to prove value instead of simply being valuable. The revelation? Being a step on someone's journey - not their destination - is the actual win.


What You'll Learn:

  • Why the brain's attempt to resolve past events creates present suffering
  • The energetic architecture principle: how you build = how you maintain
  • Why being someone's full staircase is actually failing them
  • The hermetic principles showing up in unexpected places (masculine/feminine energy balance)
  • How proving expertise can become a safety blanket that suffocates growth

The Pattern Shift: From: "People staying means I'm valuable" To: "People leaving means I succeeded"


Key Questions Laura's Asking:

  • Who am I here to serve and how does the universe want me to serve them?
  • Is over-giving in some spaces preventing me from showing up in others?
  • What energy am I building with - and is that the house I want to live in?

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com
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1 month ago
29 minutes

The Bet
Mini Memo: The Cost of Maintenance Energy

The Hidden Energy Drain Killing Your Momentum

Laura reveals the invisible energy leak that's exhausting you: maintenance energy. Every incomplete commitment - from unused gym memberships to half-started projects to friendships you've outgrown - runs a background process in your brain, draining power all day long. Like having 30 apps running on your phone, these energetic parasites feed on your attention whether you're conscious of them or not.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why your brain tracks EVERY incomplete commitment (even the ones you're ignoring)
  • The phone battery analogy that explains your mental exhaustion
  • How "keeping options open" actually keeps you trapped
  • The Maintenance Energy Audit that revealed 23 hidden energy leaks
  • Why releasing incomplete commitments multiplies your available energy

The Pattern Shift: From: "I'm being strategic by keeping multiple options open" To: "Every incomplete thing is a no to something else"

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

What's your heaviest energy parasite? The one thing that would feel amazing to finally release? Drop me a message and tell me what you're letting go of today.

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1 month ago
8 minutes

The Bet
Week 3: Taking My Own Medicine

When Your Own Medicine Is the Cure

Week three hits Laura with a cascade of technical disasters, a MEMO cancellation that triggers old patterns, and the busiest week of her life. Deep in "the goo" of transformation (that disorienting state where your brain can't predict what's coming next), she makes a pivotal decision: use her own product. The revelation? The medicine she needed was already in her cabinet. 


What You'll Learn:

  • What "the goo state" is and why your brain glitching means transformation is happening
  • The shadow side of being a shit-together person (and why perfection blocks shifting)
  • How technical disasters and cancellations might be data points, not verdicts
  • The medicine cabinet moment: when you forget you already have what you need
  • Why showing up at 100% presence beats showing up at 100% effort

The Pattern Shift: From: "If it's not working perfectly, I must be on the wrong path" To: "Every grain of sand counts, even when I can't see the scale tipping"

Connect with The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Found The Bet? I'm three weeks in and still don't know if anyone's listening. If you're out there, let me know how you found this experiment. Drop me a DM, send an email, leave a review - any signal that you exist would make my day. Because right now I'm just talking into the void and trusting someone needs to hear this.

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1 month ago
25 minutes

The Bet
Mini Memo: The Mental Equation for Action

That thing you can't make yourself do? Your brain did the math and said absolutely not.

You're not lazy. You're not lacking discipline. Your brain is running a calculation that's coming up with the wrong answer.

In this Mini Memo Drop, discover the formula that's secretly controlling every action you take (or don't take) and why willpower is a losing game against biology.

The download: E+S+P = A. Energy plus Safety plus Pleasure equals Action. Your brain runs this equation on everything. If one variable is off, you're not moving. 

Why it matters: You've been trying to override your operating system instead of working with it. Once you know the math, you can hack the variables. Stop buying productivity apps. You need better math.

Let me know you found my experiment!  

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com


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1 month ago
7 minutes

The Bet
Week 2: The Sacred Reciprocity Revelation

When Giving More Gets You Less

Laura uncovers the pattern that's been bleeding her business dry: drastically undercharging while over-delivering, thinking the universe will somehow balance it out. Through a powerful concept called Ayni (sacred reciprocity from Andean philosophy), she realizes that blocking fair exchange actually creates energetic debt for everyone involved. Watch as she catches herself trying to prove her worth by giving it away.


What You'll Learn:

  • Why "just put value out there and it will come back" is incomplete (and the teachers vs. sock sellers comparison that proves it)
  • The Ayni principle: How under-pricing creates energetic debt for BOTH parties
  • Why $7/day transformation work sends the wrong signal to the universe
  • The surprising truth about who actually shows up in group programs
  • How transaction size affects transformation (skin in the game matters)

Ready to examine your own energy leaks? Let's connect:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Tell me: Where are YOU over-delivering and under-receiving?

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2 months ago
23 minutes

The Bet
Mini Memo: Your Brain Forgot to Update Its Resume

You've already survived the unsurvivable. Your brain just forgot to add it to your resume.

That thing that destroyed you? The divorce, diagnosis, betrayal, or loss that split your life into before and after? You survived it. You're here. 

In this Mini Memo Drop, discover why your brain is treating everyday challenges like death threats when you've already got a PhD in survival.


The download: Your brain misfiled your survival story. Instead of filing it under "Proof of What I Can Handle," it filed it under "Never Risk Anything Again." Wrong folder. Wrong lesson. Wrong conclusion.


Why it matters: Your nervous system can't tell the difference between "this might be awkward" and "this might kill me." But you've already handled the unhandleable. Everything else is just paperwork.


The worst already happened. You're still here. Time to update your security clearance.


Already updating your resume? The algorithm is recognizing you as titanium. Send proof of life:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Tell me what you survived that your brain "forgot" to count - I'm collecting evidence that we're all walking around with outdated threat assessments.

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2 months ago
4 minutes

The Bet
Week 1: The Universe Tests My Bet

When Perfectionism Becomes Self-Sabotage

What starts as a spiral of self-doubt becomes a powerful lesson about the difference between building a business and performing success. Watch cognitive engineering happen in real-time as Laura debugs her perfectionist programming.

What You'll Learn:

  • The pattern: How insecurity triggers hyper-critical perfectionism
  • Why filters for your voice are like masks for your appearance
  • The podcast vs. business distinction (and why this changes everything)
  • How stripping away ALL the filters made the problems disappear
  • The exact thought programming that breaks the perfectionist loop

Catching yourself in perfectionist loops? Let's connect:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Drop me a DM about what patterns YOU'RE catching this week.


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2 months ago
15 minutes

The Bet
Mini Memo: The Three Second Rule

The voice that's killing your dreams isn't the mean one. It's the reasonable one.

Your biggest dreams don't die in months of deliberation. They die in three seconds flat – murdered by the "smart" voice that sounds exactly like wisdom.


In this first Mini Memo Drop, discover why your survival brain is running on code written by your seven-year-old self, and why the most intelligent thing you can do is move before you think.


The download: A simple software update that breaks the pattern keeping you stuck. When inspiration hits, you have exactly three seconds to move. Not to complete. Not to perfect. Just to move.


Why it matters: That reasonable voice telling you to "think it through" isn't wisdom – it's obsolete programming designed to keep you exactly where you are.


Movement is the antidote. Any movement. Even typing one word.


Your next download is coming. This time, you'll be ready.

Stumbled into this experiment? The universe's algorithm is working. Drop me a signal:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Tell me what breadcrumb led you here - I'm documenting how reality reorganizes when you stop chasing it.

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2 months ago
6 minutes

The Bet
The One-Year Bet Framework

The Framework That Changed Everything

Laura shares how she's used this exact framework to navigate five major life transformations - from her son's diagnosis to rebuilding after divorce to losing 50 pounds. Learn the 5 components that make a one-year bet actually work, plus discover the psychology behind the Hawthorne Effect (why we perform better when being watched).

What You'll Learn:

  • The 5-Component One-Year Bet Framework
  • Why a year (not 6 months or 30 days) creates real transformation
  • The Hawthorne Effect and how to hack your brain with it
  • Process vs. Outcome (and why this distinction changes everything)
  • Preview of the I-U-A Framework (Interrupt, Upgrade, Activate)

The Bottom Line: You don't need to be ready. You just need to commit to a process for one year.

Found this in the wild? Come tell me how you discovered The Bet:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

I want to know how the universe delivered you here.

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2 months ago
16 minutes

The Bet
The Bet Begins

The Secret Experiment Starts Now

After months of building in secret, Laura finally reveals what she's been creating: a year-long experiment betting her entire business on pure energetic alignment instead of traditional marketing. No promotion, no Instagram strategy, no email campaigns - just raw, authentic creation and the belief that the right people will find it.


Topics Include:

  • Why hiding your best work behind a paywall might be killing your business
  • The difference between cognitive engineering and personal development
  • What it means to build from pure energy vs. forced strategy
  • Why this is literally the worst possible time to launch (and why that's perfect)
  • How this podcast works: Tuesday deep-dives + Friday Mini Memo Drops

The Bottom Line: What if the universe has a bigger algorithm than Instagram?

You're not just a listener - you're a witness. Share how you found this experiment:

  • Instagram: @think.laura
  • Hub: thinklaura.com

Because finding this wasn't an accident.

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2 months ago
20 minutes

The Bet
Season 1 Trailer: A New Experiment

I'm done negotiating with reality. This is what happens when you start commanding it instead.

For the next year, I'm documenting what happens when you:

  • Stop chasing success and start generating it
  • Replace strategy with pure energetic alignment
  • Become a signal so strong that the right people can't help but tune in

No promotion. No marketing. No asking for permission.

Just raw documentation of building a media empire through cognitive engineering and energetic mastery.


Episodes drop:

  • Tuesdays: Deep-dive experiment documentation
  • Fridays: Mini Memo Drops (5-minute brain upgrades)

This isn't content. This is energy work disguised as a podcast.


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2 months ago
1 minute

The Bet
The Bet isn’t another personal development podcast. It’s a live experiment. For one year, I’m betting everything on energy over effort, documenting in real time what happens when you replace traditional self-help with cognitive engineering. Follow along each week and get one deep-dive “reality show” episode and one Mini Memo Drop (a quick hit to rewire your basic human OS). No scripts. No promotion. Just me, the mic, and whatever happens when you bet it all and let the world watch. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when someone dares the universe to show up — welcome to The Bet.