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Life has been moving FAST for Erin—and apparently she wasn't getting the hint to slow down. First she flushed her car keys down the toilet…and when that didn't work, she got sick and ended up in bed for three days. 😂 Turns out, sometimes life will slow you down when you refuse to do it yourself.

In this solo episode, Erin talks about:

• Flushing her keys down the toilet and the $600 lesson that followed
• Why changing her environment completely shifted her energy
• Getting sick and finally being forced to lay low
• What watching East of Eden made her think about family, good vs. evil and the things we inherit
• Processing her conversation with her son Colt and hearing his side of some really hard years
• Giving kids space to have their own version of the story
• Her Grandpa John, his business failures and the success that eventually came because he kept going
• Why failure can look completely different when you see the whole story
• Taking a minute to ask: Am I actually where I want to be?
• The power of a “pause and pivot”—and realizing sometimes you don't need to pivot at all
• Trusting yourself when things are moving really, really fast
• Getting ready for the next level without rushing through the life you're living right now

Sometimes slowing down isn't about changing direction. Sometimes it's the pause you need to realize you're already exactly where you need to be.

Submit listener questions or share your story as a possible pod guest at www.laylowpod.com

Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️

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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 www.laylowpod.com

Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️

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 www.laylowpod.com

Thanks for laying low with me. ❤️