116 | Nothing Can Be Your Everything

Season 5 of Cosmic Coin Drop is here – and it's starting with something personal.

This episode is part story, part soft launch of the new season of the show, and part money mindset reset. 

I'm sharing how a pattern I used to repeat in my love life turned out to mirror the way a lot of us relate to money, AI, and anything we hope will swoop in and do the heavy lifting for us.

In this episode...

🌊 Why making something (or someone) your "everything" always backfires – and the more sustainable way to relate

💫 The real reason I used an AI-generated voice for all of Season 4 – and why I'm back now

❤️‍🔥 What my marriage taught me about finding the right fit instead of forcing a perfect overlap

💸 The money truth I learned the hard way: a big paycheck doesn't fill the gaps that purpose does

🪄 What a "mature partnership" with money actually looks like – and why it changes everything about how you earn and spend

If you've ever outsourced your happiness – to a relationship, a revenue number, or a shiny new tool – this one is going to hit. 

🎙️ Brought to you by Lauren Poppins Raye – your abundance astrologer and systems witch

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Transcript

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Nothing can be our everything. I'm gonna tell you a story about what motivated relating or what patterns I played out as a younger version of myself that now I have entered into a more mature era with. And then I wanna bridge that story to a share about what's shifting with my relationship to AI, which I think is mirroring a bigger cultural shift that we're seeing right now too. And of course, ground it into talking about our money flow for this episode of The Cosmic Coin Drop. This episode marks the transition into a new season of the podcast. Because the last season, for the last four months, I created using a workflow that I think yielded incredible results, but that was completely AI leveraged, and transparently so from the script to the AI voice avatar that was generating it. If you didn't realize that, go back and listen to one from season four. And for all the work that I put into exactly how I wanted it created, the fact is, it wasn't me showing up on camera like this. AI cannot be our everything. Because nothing can be our everything. Just because someone or something can be or do something for us does not mean that they should. Now for the rewind of story time for the past version of me that kept repeating a certain pattern in relating in my love life over and over again until I didn't. And that was thinking that a partner could be my everything. And, you know, maybe not saying it as explicitly, but falling head over heels and being so infatuated that that was what I wanted. And of course, inevitably, it never worked, and so over and over, the relationship would fail, bringing me catapulted back into myself only to do it over again. Now fast-forward back to the present. I am happily married and securely attached in a beautiful relationship with my husband, where we get to experience the best of both worlds. I get to be myself in it, Which tell the past version of me that she would be stoked to know that's possible. And a big part of it is because I don't expect my husband to be my everything. We know where we overlap well and love to come together and where we don't. And for us now, it's more about finding how we best fit into each other's lives Not trying to force each other into absolutely every part of it. Now with AI, and I'll start from the top down, I'm hearing stories about companies. Obviously, you've heard the ones where people are firing huge parts of their workforce to embrace AI replacement. But have you heard the part where a lot of companies are now trying to hire back the humans because they tried to have AI do everything it could, and there's some things it doesn't do very well. Like for example, customer service. People still just wanna talk to a human. Now, in my world, in my business, in my backend, it doesn't feel like a backpedal when I decide that I want to bring my human self back in more in an area that I have devised a workflow for AI to support me with. It truly feels like this dance, similar to when my husband and I first got together, of just experimenting with the dance. Now that said, I wasn't using AI so heavily in the last season of the podcast because I thought that that was, you know, overall like a great idea. Honestly, it was circumstantial, and I knew that it was serving a finite purpose, which was freeing my time. It's a whole nother story why season three of the podcast was taking way more of my time than it should have. But I needed to liberate that time because I needed to put most of my attention toward building out the infrastructure, the offer ecosystem that now I'm happy to say last week I checked the final box, launched the final thing of the core offers that I spent the last two years building so that I could return to some spaciousness, much more that I'm feeling now, to be able to be more present, to be able to focus more on my expression and the relationships that I'm building inside this business. So that workflow absolutely served its purpose, and honestly, I love those episodes. But I'm also so stoked to be able to be back here now with you sharing in a much more human way about the coin drop gems that come through. And when it comes to money, money also cannot be your everything. Part of my story knows firsthand about that one too. There was a time when I made boucoup bucks being a tax preparer, but I was not fulfilled in all of the ways that I could be, that I'm now realizing now that I've stepped into my passion work and doing what really lights me up. And it's not to say that it was that black and white, that the only reason I did it was for money. That's not true. But things have definitely flipped around now. I do what I do because I feel called to it, because I love it, because people need it from me, and the money follows. Now, money has its place, and not so surprisingly, I am on track to make a lot more of it and for it to feel a lot more chill, for it to feel easier. Not like I'm pushing a boulder uphill. And so this episode is to kind of soft launch the season five of the podcast, which is not gonna be all that different for you from the last one. It's still gonna be short episodes. Monday coin drops that get you in the zone for your work week. It's going to support you to feel seen, to feel supported, to feel inspired and capable of creating the success that you envision in your life. It's gonna have some astrology and some storytelling. But it's gonna come directly from me to you, and we'll see what comes through. As for my relationship with AI and I'm so excited to be in this more spacious space inside the business that I've built. And as for the money, whether it's how you make it, what you do, how you tend it, and what you do with it after it's yours, my prayer for you now and always is that all of that is aligned with you, your unique design, your desires, and that everything surrounding your relationship with money feels alive and like something you actually want to show up for. And the kind of mature partnership with it where you know you both have each other's best interests in mind.