EP 06: Wild and Free with Lauren Palmer
Instagram: @karadawnz
SUMMARY
Lauren, along with her sisters, owns a floral studio and event venue in Oklahoma City. She talks about starting and running these companies - the hard parts and the beautiful parts. Lauren also talks about delving into her genealogy and its importance in fully accepting and embracing who she is. I LOVE the respect she pays to the ones who went before her - so inspiring!
She's also an insane musician, plays a million instruments and sings like a dream (which you mayyyyy get to hear on the show).
Lauren also talks about a new initiative she helped create called The Conversation Workshops, which provides tools and safe spaces for healthy conversations around racial reconciliation and systemic injustice.
PHOTOS FROM LAUREN'S STORY
LAUREN'S EXTRAS
Music she's listening to and loving:
"It’s so hard to choose just a few as music plays in my spaces at all times! This season, I’m loving Margaret Glaspy’s Emotion and Math record." - Lauren
- Laura Marling
- Los Panchos
- Amanda Bergman
- Feist
- David Ramirez
- Johnny Cash
- Nina Simone
- Lucius
- Alabama Shakes
- Danish String Quartet
- Brandon Hampton
- United Pursuit
- Rhiannon Giddens
- Amos Lee
- Ruth Moody
- Moses Sumney
- Toulouse
- Anais Mitchell
- Laura Veirs
- Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles
- Andrew Bird
- Camille Saint Saens
Most influential books she's ever read:
- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester
Generous Justice by Timothy Keller
What Do You Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada
Old Man And the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey by Homer
200 Women by Geoff Blackwell & Ruth Hobday (currently)
Nate the Great by Marjorie W. Sharmot
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass