Some friendships stay with us forever.

In this deeply personal episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story of her best friend, Amberly, who passed away from pancreatic cancer at just 34 years old. As young mothers raising their families, building businesses, and navigating life together, their friendship became one of the most influential relationships Erin has ever experienced.

Through Amberly's courageous journey, Erin reflects on the lessons of grief, resilience, intuition, unconditional friendship, and the ways love continues long after someone is gone.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• The friendship that changed Erin's life
• Amberly's courageous battle with pancreatic cancer
• Trusting your intuition when something doesn't feel right
• Raising young children through life's hardest moments
• What grief really feels like—and why it never truly ends
• Finding healing through spirituality and signs from loved ones
• Supporting someone through terminal illness
• The life lessons Amberly continues to teach, 14 years later
• Why tomorrow is never guaranteed—and how to live a life you're proud of
  

This is more than a story about loss. It's a conversation about friendship, healing, hope, and carrying the people we love with us long after they're gone.

If you've ever loved someone deeply, experienced grief, or searched for meaning after heartbreak, this episode is a reminder that love never truly leaves us—it simply changes the way we carry it.

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This week on Lay Low, Erin welcomes her very first guest, longtime friend Monica Ross.

Over the course of just two years, Monica experienced the loss of her father, ended her marriage, became a single mom, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Through every chapter, she learned what it means to advocate for herself, choose happiness, and keep moving forward—even when life looked nothing like she imagined.

Together, Erin and Monica talk about grief, divorce, parenting through change, navigating cancer treatment, finding unexpected love, and the lessons that come from rebuilding your life one step at a time. If you're walking through a difficult season or wondering if life can still be beautiful after everything changes, this conversation is for you.

In this episode:

• Losing a parent and navigating grief

• Choosing divorce after years of unhappiness

• Parenting through major life transitions

• Monica's breast cancer journey

• Learning to advocate for yourself

• Finding love after heartbreak
• Five lessons from two years of chaos

Because sometimes the hardest chapters become the ones that shape us the most.

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One of the best parts about getting older is realizing how many things simply don't deserve your energy.

In this solo episode, Erin reflects on the expectations, pressure, perfectionism, and people-pleasing that shaped so much of her early adult life—and the freedom she's found in letting those things go.

From trying to be the perfect mom and wife, to worrying about what everyone else was doing, to feeling like she needed all the answers before taking the next step, Erin shares five things she no longer spends time worrying about and why releasing them has brought more peace, confidence, and alignment into her life.

In this episode:

• Why perfectionism stole joy from some of Erin's early motherhood years

• The surprising freedom that comes from not worrying about what other people are doing

• Letting go of timelines and creating a life that works for you

• Learning to trust yourself even when you don't have all the answers

• Why being understood by everyone is an impossible goal

• How releasing judgment creates more room for love and connection

• The difference between proving yourself and being yourself

If you've ever felt pressure to have it all figured out, keep everyone happy, or live life according to someone else's expectations, this episode is your reminder that peace often comes from letting go—not holding on tighter.

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In Episode 8 of the Lay Low Pod, Erin shares her honest journey through dating in three completely different chapters of life: a young college student searching for certainty, a newly divorced woman looking for security, and a 44-year-old who has learned to seek alignment instead.

From awkward first dates and dating apps to heartbreak, healing, and learning to trust herself, Erin reflects on the lessons that changed how she approaches relationships today.

This episode isn't about finding the perfect person. It's about becoming the person who knows what she wants, trusts her instincts, and recognizes the difference between chemistry, compatibility, and true connection.

• Dating at BYU and searching for the "perfect" husband
• The chaos of dating after divorce
• Why chemistry isn't the same as compatibility
• Learning to trust your intuition
• The danger of dating potential instead of reality
• Why actions matter more than words
• What love can—and can't—fix
• The gift of dating later in life

If you're dating, healing, starting over, or wondering if love is still out there for you, this episode is for you.

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

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In Episode 7 of Lay Low, Erin takes listeners through the career journey that shaped who she is today. From bagging groceries as a teenager in Texas to building and leading Simple Modern Energy, this episode is a reflection on hard work, entrepreneurship, reinvention, and trusting opportunities as they appear.

Along the way, Erin shares stories of the mentors who believed in her, the grandparents who inspired her entrepreneurial spirit, and the jobs that taught lessons she would carry into every chapter that followed. What began as a marketing degree, a young marriage, and a baby on the way evolved into a career filled with unexpected turns—from working for a successful businesswoman she admired, to opening a soda shop, building a business in direct sales, and eventually finding her place in the solar industry.

In this episode:
• Growing up around entrepreneurs and learning the value of hard work
• The first jobs that sparked a lifelong love of business
• How one customer at a bank changed the direction of her career
• Working in marketing during the early days of YouTube, Facebook, and digital media
• Launching a soda business in small-town Utah
• Taking a leap into direct sales and network marketing
• Building systems, solving problems, and finding a place in the solar industry
• How a solar training course unexpectedly became the foundation for Simple Modern Energy
• Why confidence comes from taking action—not from having all the answers
• The importance of staying open to opportunities that don't fit the original plan

This episode is for anyone who has ever questioned their next career move, wondered if it's too late to start over, or felt called toward something bigger. Erin's story is proof that careers are rarely linear, success often comes from unexpected places, and sometimes the best opportunities are the ones you never saw coming.

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What happens when the beliefs you've trusted your entire life no longer fit the person you're becoming?

In this episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story of the quiet voice that first appeared during a trip to Italy and slowly changed the course of her life. Raised in the Mormon church, she opens up about questioning long-held beliefs, redefining her relationship with God, and learning to trust her own intuition for the first time.

From Vatican City and European adventures to books, yoga, moon rituals, therapy, nature, and unexpected friendships, Erin explores the practices that helped her reconnect with herself during a season of profound change.

This episode is about:

• spirituality vs. religion
• trusting your inner voice
• questioning old beliefs
• finding connection outside of rules
• navigating identity shifts
• and giving yourself permission to not have all the answers
  

Because sometimes growth begins with curiosity. Sometimes the quiet voice inside you knows long before your life catches up. And maybe becoming yourself isn't about finding someone new—it's about remembering who you were all along.

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In this deeply personal episode of Lay Low, Erin opens up about forgiveness, messy growth seasons, heartbreak, self-awareness, and learning how to let go — not just of other people, but of old versions of herself too.

Inspired by the memoir Strangers by Belle Burden, this conversation explores what happens when people evolve in different directions, relationships unravel, and life forces us to confront both the ways we’ve been hurt… and the ways we’ve hurt others.

Erin shares:

• emotional chaos during the end of her marriage
• the gray areas and guilt that came with massive personal change
• looking for love during her “Gypsy Life” era
• forgiving her ex-fiancé after betrayal and a double life
• over-giving, ignoring red flags, and trying to love someone into stability
• the difference between forgiveness, reconciliation, and access
• why some people are meant for a season, not forever

This episode also answers a listener question:

“How do you let go of resentment toward someone when you know they’ve deeply hurt you or someone you love?”

Through stories, reflections, and lessons learned the hard way, Erin talks honestly about accountability, boundaries, self-forgiveness, and why growth rarely looks graceful while you’re inside it.

Because sometimes the hardest person to forgive… is yourself.

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In this episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story behind what she calls her “Gypsy Life” years — the season after divorce where life became a constant back-and-forth between motherhood, reinvention, city weekends, Airbnbs, healing, friendships, and learning how to trust herself again.

From Mormon mom life and Bunko nights to discovering a skincare company that completely changed her world, Erin talks about the friendships, hobbies, experiences, and quiet inner voice that slowly pushed her toward a completely different version of herself.

This episode explores:

• Why adults (especially moms) lose hobbies and identity
• How small passions can reconnect us to ourselves
• The reality of separation, bird nesting, and rebuilding life in-between
• Friendship, support systems, and finding “your people”
• The guilt that comes with choosing yourself
• Learning that growth rarely looks polished while you’re inside it

This conversation is about becoming. About the moments when your gut whispers, “Something has to change.” About realizing you’ve been making everyone else’s life easier by making your own harder. And about finding the courage to finally listen to yourself.

If you’ve ever felt torn between the life you built and the life calling you forward… this episode is for you.

Maybe you’re not lost.
Maybe you’re just becoming.

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

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