Podcast & Media Conversations

Lara loves conversations around spiritual development and appreciates opportunities to guest on podcasts and other media. Lara's book, Diary of a Dark Night: My Quest to Live True to My Soul touches on many subjects related to spiritual development, including:

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• How to survive a Dark Night of the Soul

• What it means to live true to one's soul

• Self-reflection through journaling

• Tapping into intuition through oracle and tarot cards

• Energy Leadership

• Perspective and mindset shifts

• Conscious relationships

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SUGGESTED CONVERSATION TOPICS

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• How do you know when the life you're living isn't really yours? How conditioning, people-pleasing, relationships, social expectations, and the desire for approval can slowly separate us from ourselves - and how we begin to find our way back.​​

• I became my first coaching client. How learning to coach others exposed the misalignment in Lara's own life, and how she applied her newly acquired coaching tools to change her life.

• Is that intuition or is it fear? The messy reality of trying to distinguish inner knowing from fear, conditioning, wishful thinking, ego, and the soul voice.

• What does it actually mean to live true to your soul? How to ground an esoteric concept such as 'soul' and apply it to everyday life.

• Journaling as a personal healing tool. How journaling can move beyond recording events and become a powerful method of self-inquiry, pattern recognition, inner dialogue, and personal transformation.

• What I know now that I couldn't know then. Nearly a decade after the intense spiritual awakening in Diary of a Dark Night, Lara examines what her younger self got right; what she misunderstood; and how her understanding of spirituality, authenticity, intuition, and courage has evolved.

• Radical authenticity in the age of Artificial Intelligence. What happens when writing and expression are reduced to a couple of commands of an AI program? Lara discusses the value of authentic, imperfect vulnerability, keeping it real, and why our unmistakable humanity may become more valuable, not less, in an AI-saturated world.

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POTENTIAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

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• What happened during your coaching training that made you realize you weren't living authentically?

• When did you start journaling as a practice and why?

• Who is Ariel in the journals?

• How did you try to distinguish between fear, ego, intuition, and soul?

• Why publish your actual journals instead of rewriting them as a traditional memoir?

• What is it like reading the words of your younger self nearly a decade later?

• What would you tell that earlier version of yourself?

• Has publishing something so intimate changed your relationship with vulnerability?

• Why do you think these handwritten, authentic journals have a different significance now that AI-generated writing is everywhere?

• What do you think readers are craving when they say they want something "real"?

• What does living true to soul mean to you today? Does that differ from what you felt it meant in the book?

• How can someone begin recognizing where they may have abandoned their authentic self?