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Lauren LaRosa
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Brandon
You know, if you don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot.
Lauren LaRosa
Hey guys, it's Lauren the Rosa. And this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture and the conversations that are going to shake the room. Baby, today I got Brandon in here with me.
Brandon
Yep, I'm back.
Lauren LaRosa
And we are going to get into some topics, get into some things. But as you guys know, we always check in. So let's get behind the scenes of the grind and check on in real quick.
Brandon
Back on the grind.
Lauren LaRosa
Brandon, how you feeling?
Brandon
I'm feeling good.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm tired. I want to go to sleep.
Brandon
I am too, yo. But I've been, I've been, you know, I've been trying to change my sleep schedule because my sleep schedule is trash. Like I'll take a nap maybe an hour or two during the day and then maybe my nighttime is like three to four hours. And like, it's just my whole sleep schedule's been off for years, ever since working these hours.
Lauren LaRosa
I was about to say one of the things I realized with this show is like, you gotta knock out everything you need to do while you. Once you take that nap, once you.
Brandon
Hit the bed and say you gonna relax for a second, nothing is happening after that.
Lauren LaRosa
If you work an early morning job, once you take your nap, it's over. You need to take your nap once you're ready to just be in the house because you could take a nap, wake up, maybe make some dinner, do things that's going to put you back to sleep and then you go back to sleep and it's time to go.
Brandon
To sleep and then some naps where it's like, you dumb tired. Sometimes I wake up, I don't even know where I'm at. I'll be waking up confused. Like those naps is like, I am.
Lauren LaRosa
So tired right now. I was in the airport until 3. No, that's not true. I was in the airport until. I think I went to the airport at like what, like 5, 5:30 was my flight. Or maybe my flight was at 6:30. So I arrived there like 5, 5:30. I did not leave the airport, never flew to my destination and decided, and not even decided, but the airport decided for me that our flight was not going to take off. When we finally got on the flight, my flight, I was supposed to be flying to Texas for something that I'm working on. A brand campaign for the radio station did not happen.
Brandon
Yeah, that's rough. All the. All the airports in the Tri State area that have been been wild and Newark Airport has been wilding out. JFK has been having some issues. We're just lucky we didn't fall out. This guy. Honestly, I've flown recently, too, and had some major delays, but, you know, I'm just glad, I guess, less planes are falling out. This guy, from what I'm seeing in the news.
Lauren LaRosa
So why. When I said tweaking, I thought a tweaker.
Brandon
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, well, let's get on into the latest, y' all, so we can get on out of here, because I am tired today. All right, so in the latest, up first, we have Dochi. Now, y' all know we've been doing the Met Gala talk. We've been talking about the fine fabrics and the dandyism and the stylist and the designers and the celebrities who wore it. The Met Museum, all of the above. But still going viral from the Met Gala evening is Dochi. Dochi is currently going viral because there is a video clip circulating of Dochi. This is rapper, singer, new fire artist Dochi of her instructing her team around. They were trying to basically hide her outfit until she got to the museum, which a lot of celebrities do. I know Cardi. I know Cardi does that every time. She did that this year, too. Cardi B. Had Burberry umbrellas up all around her. You can kind of still see it from the side, but I believe they do that because they don't want photos of themselves and their outfits surfacing before they hit the red carpets. Media finds out where these celebrities are staying before they can hit the Met Gala red carpet. So it's like. It's like a game of cat and mouse of you trying to get out, make it to your car, and make it to the Met Gala carpet, and no one see your dress whatsoever. So let's take a listen to this.
Brandon
Another one.
Lauren LaRosa
The people are really pissed off for Doi's team. They're like, yo, why is she talking to her team like this if that is her. If. If confirmed that that is her voice? Just, you know, to be safe, you hear the voice say, I need two effing more umbrellas. Do not let that effing umbrella go. Because they're going to try to sneak in pictures, you know, just barking out some commands very aggressively. I'm not gonna lie. The way that people are. Are positioning this as if she's just a horrible person on her staff. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I ain't going.
Brandon
It seemed like more like she was in panic mode, like, and just making sure, like you said, I didn't know the aspect of it. Whereas, like, they definitely don't want pictures taken before they hit the carpet.
Lauren LaRosa
Hell, no.
Brandon
So it seemed like she was in panic mode. Like, people. They're gonna try and catch her. And what she was saying was right. I could definitely see people trying to put the camera over the protective shield so they could get pictures of her. So, I mean, I kind of see where she was coming from. It didn't seem like it was direct at them, like, they're incompetent or.
Lauren LaRosa
Right.
Brandon
She's like, get it now. Like, she. She feels like she sees the flashes. She doesn't know if there's, like, little creases in the protective shield to get pictures from. So I didn't see nothing too crazy.
Lauren LaRosa
I also think nights like this are really, really, really competitive. Very much. Like, it's just a lot going on. Like, it's a ton going on. And I think you're feeling the pressure of that. And I'm not excusing it, because I've worked at some pretty crazy, insane places where people would do things and talk to you certain ways, and you'd have to be back and forth with, you know, your. Your leadership. And everything was always blamed on, like, the pressure of the newsroom that we worked in. All of those things mesh together on one of the biggest nights in fashion, entertainment, pop culture history. And you are. You know what I mean? Like, there's a lot of pressure now. I don't fear that these people are being treated like this every single day. However, it doesn't look good. Like, and we're in a day and age where even if there's radical common sense behind what you're doing, like putting the umbrellas up so that no one can see your outfit. So there's a big reveal on the carpet. That is the point of the Met gala. Literally. It doesn't matter. People will still find a way to be upset. And that's exactly what's happening right now with Dochi.
Brandon
I personally didn't think it was that crazy people were coming at her crazy. Like, I saw some comments. Was like, when they finally saw her outfit, they were like, oh, that fit to cover this. Like, they were in. Like, they were saying her outfit was really, like, lackluster for her to be acting like that. But I. I didn't. I think it was crazy. You know, I feel like Once you start putting hands on people or start yelling in their face or something like that. But she's literally just trying to get through and, and you know, to the, to the carpet and, and the added context adds more to it that like.
Lauren LaRosa
And I think tone is everything.
Brandon
I think tone. Yep.
Lauren LaRosa
You got to take a lot of things into account now. I do think it's good that this went viral and I only think that because I feel like even in a pressure filled moment, in an intense moment when one thing she is not going to do, Dochi will not do again is yell at that team like this. Not, not in the public arena. Yeah, she's, she is learning a lot right now, today, probably as we speak. That is not where it goes down.
Brandon
Like we see the divas do it like, well, okay, I wouldn't say I've seen Mariah Carey or whatever, but like, I don't, I don't think this is such a big deal in the, the realm of who she is. Like, I could see Nikki doing something like this. I could see the Mariahs. Any, anybody who's considered like a diva. Like, I, I don't think it's wild behavior or am I dripping?
Lauren LaRosa
No, I mean, I don't think it's common. I, I think I live by not common.
Brandon
I, I, I felt like it was.
Lauren LaRosa
Common for us, I think. And if it is, I think people are doing a better job at hiding it in 2025 because now laws are made to protect, you know, people and their work environments and stuff like that. For me, I've never been a person that wants to have to deal with and talk to somebody like that at all, especially not another grown person. So if I have to talk to you too many times or if I'm not satisfied with something too many times, I just have to learn to like step back and let you go. Because that's not one of the things I want to do in my life. I worked really, I worked real hard to get to where I'm at and to not even just career wise, but just like me as a person. Like Lauren in middle school and my freshman year of high school and summer high school versus who I am today. You would be like, Lauren, yo bro, I'm glad you made it out. Like things were so different. But I think I've had to learn, I've just had to learn how to deal with people and dealing with people in a way that like, I can set boundaries. Boundaries are important here. Boundaries are very important. I can set boundaries, but also too just not Completely like destroying a person or putting a person on defense. Because I've been in that position where, okay, now you feel like you're being put on defense and what you gonna do? Defend yourself? Yeah, you gonna defend yourself? If I'm putting you on the fence, you're gonna defend yourself. So I. I think that this is something that, you know, with this going viral now, I'm sure DOI has learned her lesson about publicly, even if her intention was well. And again, you got to always just remember intention. Even if her intention was well, it. She gonna tighten up at this point. Cuz I know I would like, I would have been like. Even though I didn't mean it like that or like low key, these my homegirls or whatever. It just looks so crazy bad. But again, the Met gala is all about your premiere on that carpet. You cannot premiere on that carpet if the people didn't got you before you walked out to hotel room. So Logan Paul sat down with Tom Brady, one of the goats of this NFL thing. I don't know much about sports, but I do always know, like, the bigger names and what people are saying about them and stuff like that.
Brandon
Yeah, he's known as definitely the best football player of all time. Some people say he's even the greatest athlete of any sport of all time.
Lauren LaRosa
So, like, that is insane. Can you imagine just being like a regular kid outside playing curveball and then boom, you the greatest athlete to ever walk the earth, what you say?
Brandon
Of any sport of all time. Yeah, yeah. And if you know his upbringing, like, he wasn't supposed to be that great. He talked about in the interview, like, he wasn't athletic, he wasn't fast, he wasn't strong.
Lauren LaRosa
He also talked about getting picked like super late in the draft as well too.
Brandon
Yeah, yeah. 194, which I thought was crazy. I believe it was.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Brandon
And he named other names or 199, I think. Sorry.
Lauren LaRosa
He talked a bit about on this podcast, his decision to do the Tom Brady roast. Let's take a listen.
Podcast Announcer
I love laughing at myself. It felt like I in the locker room. But I do understand, like, for my kids, that was really hard. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
It was a massive show.
Brandon
It was a massive hit.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
And you said that right after the show too, that you felt.
Podcast Announcer
Yeah, and I didn't realize, you know, like, there's some things a parent you up and you don't realize until after, like, were they.
Lauren LaRosa
Were they mad, sad?
Podcast Announcer
They're protective of their mom, of their dad, you know, of. Of everybody. You know, they just. Why do you. What? What was the point of that? Why did you do that? So it's just you live and you learn.
Lauren LaRosa
So the greatest roast of all time, Tom Brady, aired live on May 2024. You had Kevin Hart. That was a part of it. Nikki Glaser, Kim Kardashian. And you know, the way that, in true roast fashion, the way that it went down was everybody took a chance, like going at Tom Brady. So when he appeared on this podcast and he revealed that he just regretted it because of how it affected his kids.
Brandon
Well, I mean, it seemed more of like she was embarrassed of the things they were saying, because it wasn't necessarily like they was lying on his.
Lauren LaRosa
She is Gisele Bunchkin, his ex wife.
Brandon
Yeah, Gisele Bunchkin. So I think the main part of the jokes was that she left him for their personal jiu jitsu trainer. So that was. And there's always been some type of disdain between, like, Tom Brady fans and his wife. Cause it always seems like she was trying to get him to leave the game too early because he's so focused on trying to be great. Yeah. So there's always been that disdain. So. And I can see from the kid's point of view. I don't know if I'm rushing. Do you want to talk more before we talk about the kid? So I can see from the kid's point of view that, like, them seeing their mom be embarrassed.
Lauren LaRosa
Right.
Brandon
On one of the big. Because that. That it was like the biggest thing that night. That was the biggest thing, like, airing that night. The lie.
Lauren LaRosa
But their mom is Giselle Bunchkin. You know who Giselle Bunchkin is?
Brandon
Yeah, she's like a super famous supermodel.
Lauren LaRosa
Right. Like, this is not the first time. My only. My only pushback on this is. And I know the kids are young and were young at that time anyway, or young enough to where you like. I mean, any parent at any age gonna feel like they're gonna have to protect you, but they were kids.
Brandon
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
My only pushback is like, your dad is Tom Brady. Your dad is. I mean, your mom is Gisele Bunchkin. Like, there's no. It's not like you're new to this platforming of conversation around your parents and their relationship and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff. Right. I don't want to sound like a mean person, because these are kids, but it's like your parents have been famous your whole life, so y' all have to have gotten used to that whole. No, it's my Parent. They're still regular people, but, like. No, they're like some of the most famous people in the world. But at the same time, as far as them and how they felt when they talk to him, like he had said, when his kids said, yo, what was the point of that? And that it really hurt their feelings. I can understand that, because it was like, he didn't have to do that.
Brandon
I think one of the jokes that might have hurt them was when Kim Hart said, oh, you. You win seven rings and all you have to lose is your wife and your family, and then the whole crowd laughing at your broken home. You know what I mean? So that's. I can. I can see how that.
Lauren LaRosa
Exactly. And the divorce was so public because leading up into the Tom Brady divorce, I remember this. Oh, my God. Leading up into the Tom Brady divorce, the way that people and NFL fans would come for. Because there will be stories that came out where she talked about or not sourced stories where there were, you know, reported things and rumors that she wanted him to spend more time with the family. She hated the fact that he, you know, wasn't able to be home on a lot of the holidays and that football basically was his life and that she was essentially asking him to choose between football and the family. Now, things and reports changed, you know, after she began to be able to speak for herself, but that was a sentiment. And on top of that, there was this whole very public, very major. The day she filed for divorce, I was in the newsroom, and every story that you had to work on or think about had to relate to them because it was one of the biggest stories in the world for probably the first two to three months. And then their divorce story kind of calmed down a little bit. And then she started being spotted with the jiu jitsu trainer in whatever country she was in. And one of the times it was with the kids.
Brandon
That's rough, yo. That's rough. That's a common story. Even with, like, not to bring up his name, but Diddy and Cassie House didn't. Cassie's with the trainer now, right?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Brandon
Dang. You invite somebody into your home to, like, help you with something, and then they leave with your.
Lauren LaRosa
Don't slip. Don't let your girl need a shoulder to cry on, because she gonna cry on the shoulder and it ain't gonna be yours. But it was a public, very, very public divorce. So I think his kids are looking at it like we finally got over this wound, sort of kind of. Cuz even at the time of the roast it was still very prevalent because she began being spotted with the trainer and all those things at a certain point, and. But they're like, yo, we just got past this and you bring it up again.
Brandon
Yeah, like, everybody laughing at us at that.
Lauren LaRosa
Kevin Hart, you know what I mean? Like, these are huge names coming for them. So it's like, why? I mean, after that, she went on to have a baby with the jiu jitsu trainer. And, you know, they're together. It's a whole thing. But I can understand them being like, did you have to do that, though?
Brandon
Yeah. I don't know. Maybe growing up, it did feel like he had to choose, like, to be that great at what he does. He had to choose between his family and his marriage, you know, and he chose football. I could understand why they would feel like that. Like, dang, my dad probably chose football over me. But I don't know. He was retiring soon anyway. I feel like she should have stuck it out a little bit.
Lauren LaRosa
That's what a lot of people say. But it's like, for her, it's like, okay, she's retiring soon, but at the same time, it's like she wants her husband in her house now.
Brandon
And once your girl's, like, turned off by something or turned off by you, it's like, it's hard to get them back. Sometimes when they go, I'm glad.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, like, we don't just. I mean, I don't know about. I was gonna say we. Yeah, I'm gonna say, wait. We don't just get there for no reason. But once we there, it's, like, hard.
Brandon
To get them back.
Lauren LaRosa
It's. It's. It's that Jay Z song. Once a good girl's going back, she's gone forever more. Forever. You gotta deal with the fact I did you wrong. Forever. Yes. Even if you didn't do it wrong, if she's just to a point where she's outgrown it or whatever, it's hard to do because I think, you know, as women, we pour everything we have into relationships because we have to. We're nurturers. We. You know what I mean? Like, our role in a relationship is to be very emotionally tied and connected. That is a lot of soul ties. That's a lot of energy. So when we take it away, I'm not revisiting it if it's not worth it, especially if I don't trust it. Once you lose the trust, too, that's a whole other thing as well. But, I mean, shout out to Tom Brady for taking accountability in that moment. I know he's talked about this before, but, you know, him sitting and talking about it again definitely begin to cause conversations around, like, you know, people in the public eye making right decisions. In Tom Brady's last year of his career, I know that everything he's done is legendary, you know, legendary comebacks or, like, you know, he made it over a hill, his career. People didn't think he was gonna do, like, crazy amounts of things, and he still did that. At that point, though, what did he have to prove? He could have walked away and been with his family.
Brandon
There was something to prove. I guess it's minuscule in the grand scheme of things, but he just. He needed to prove that it was him and not the Patriots. Like everybody says, it's Coach Belichick, and it's, you know, the organization is what made him great. But he left, and he did the same thing with a team that wasn't, you know, supposed to do it necessary. I mean, they had good players on the team, but they weren't the Patriots. You know what I mean? So I think that that ring with that second team kind of, like, took him over the edge of, like, the greatest ever. And I'm. That would. That's a. As a man, that's a great feat to have.
Lauren LaRosa
It's ego.
Brandon
I know it is.
Lauren LaRosa
It is ego, and there's nothing wrong with having ego. But I feel like when you're an athlete, that ego of, like, that the competitive and the competitiveness and the ego combined are insane. And it gets in the way of a lot of, you know, good things.
Brandon
But that's why it's sad, yo, you choosing between those two things is like. I don't know. I feel like either one would eat him up forever. Like, him knowing, like, he didn't put his on to football, probably eat him up. And then, yo, this is something all these people know. Like, since there was kids their whole life, all they know is sports. So it's like, for them to say, like, just give that up. It's like, yo, since I was three years old, I've had this football on my hands is all I know.
Lauren LaRosa
Tom Brady would have been fine, and.
Brandon
It'S about to be over.
Lauren LaRosa
He would have been fine. He would have found a little club to join so he could drive a golf cart to Florida or something like that. He would have been fine. All right.
Brandon
I'm sure he was. He's. They. They're both rich, as. They would have been good.
Lauren LaRosa
Exactly. And attached to them kids and I'm baby. He learning now, though. You could tell that the parental instinct is. Is kicking in over time as he talks about this, because he. You. You can just tell he really regrets this. Like, really, really regrets. And the full interview is available on YouTube. I've watched up until, like, the middle point of it, and I will say watching this interview made me like Tom Brady. I've. I've always known who he was and talked about him just in reporting, but watching this made me feel so inspired and motivated to go do something. That's the latest. We gonna wrap it up here because we take it anywhere else. We'll be talking for three hours about how it's men's egos.
Brandon
Yes. And how Giselle should go back to Tom. He didn't deserve all that.
Lauren LaRosa
Giselle got her. Me and her. Me and her man and her new baby. She ain't worried about nothing.
Brandon
And her man could probably beat Tom Brady ass.
Lauren LaRosa
She ain't worried about nothing. Ain't worried about nothing. Giselle ain't worried about nothing. You be sad.
Brandon
Don't leave me for the jiu jitsu fighter.
Lauren LaRosa
That's upper person and what they do. And, you know, I'm saying he could be my feeling. Oh, yeah. Duh. The girl always. Yes. Make me feel protected. All right, y' all, we are gonna wrap here. I'm gonna take it really quick to the streets, because y' all know it's not really the streets. It's the tweets. Let's take it outside. You for the treats. Every other page. I tweeted earlier this morning that I was running off of two hours of sleep. And I told you guys in the beginning of this about my flight being canceled and me having to be in the airport or whatever. And then I was listening to Praise and Worship this morning on my way into work, just trying to wake myself up, and one of my songs came on. It's. It's Happening for Me Live by Kierra Sheard. And the song talks about. Go listen to the song, guys. The song talks about for all the lowriders who might need this, how things are, you know, happening in your life and they're blessed, and you just got to kind of, like, sit still and sit in it and allow it to happen to you or for you, not to you. And just how you begin to manifest things and put things out there. And in that moment, I. I was. You know, I was listening to the song, and I was like, you know what? I'm tired. I got in late last night from the airport and all these things. But, God, I'm just grateful that every single day I'm waking up to do something that I love to do that doesn't feel like work, because it wasn't always like this. And I wanted to put that out there because that was such a quick. Because I was like, oh, my God, I wish I could call out of work. I can't call out a breakfast club. I feel like I can't, because. Who's going to the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Mind Shift. Energy shift. Mind shift. Energy shift. So that's what I want to put out there, and that's what I hope you guys get from that tweet @laurentherosa on Twitter. Is that when things are, you know, going left or when things are not going right and you want them to go right. Wherever it may be, wherever it may lie. A lot of times, it's not even just about changing your surroundings or your people. Sometimes it's just as simple as changing your thoughts. Literally changing your thoughts to, you know, just think better. Like, instead of thinking what I had to do today, I was thanking God for what I am blessed to be able to do. I came here, was a little tired, got myself together, finished a day. Now we're here finishing the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Brandon, thank you for joining me today.
Brandon
Thank you. Thank you. I like the words of wisdom you gave us. Your thoughts become things. So.
Lauren LaRosa
So stop careful about what.
Brandon
Yeah. Don't dwell on the. The bad things. But, yes, thank you for having me again.
Lauren LaRosa
Don't ignore me.
Brandon
What?
Lauren LaRosa
Stop thinking about. Don't m. Women.
Brandon
Y. I don't. I never thought about my day in my life.
Lauren LaRosa
Little things running around your house.
Brandon
That's crazy, y' all.
Lauren LaRosa
Anyway. All right, y' all. This is the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I'm the home girl that knows a bit about everybody and everything. I'll see you guys in my next episode.
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Podcast Summary: The Latest with Loren LaRosa
Episode: Your Thoughts Become Things: Dochi at the Met Gala and Tom Brady Roast Regret
Release Date: May 8, 2025
Host/Authors: The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts
In the May 8, 2025 episode of "The Latest with Loren LaRosa," hosts Lauren LaRosa and Brandon delve into some of the most buzzworthy events in pop culture, including Dochi's viral moment at the Met Gala and reflections from Tom Brady on his infamous roast. Additionally, Lauren shares personal insights on maintaining a positive mindset amidst a hectic schedule. This episode offers listeners a blend of celebrity news, behind-the-scenes perspectives, and motivational content.
The episode opens with a heated discussion about Dochi, a rising rapper and singer, whose actions at the Met Gala have sparked widespread conversation. Lauren provides context on the Met Gala's significance, emphasizing its role as a pinnacle event for fashion and pop culture.
Dochi's recent viral status stems from a leaked video showing her instructing her team to protect her outfit with multiple umbrellas to prevent paparazzi from capturing her look before the official reveal. Lauren explains, "Dochi is currently going viral because there is a video clip circulating of Dochi instructing her team around. They were trying to basically hide her outfit until she got to the museum" (03:00).
The hosts address the backlash Dochi received, particularly concerning her seemingly aggressive commands to her staff. Brandon suggests, "It seemed like more like she was in panic mode" (04:35), highlighting that the pressure of such a high-profile event might have influenced her behavior. Lauren adds, "Nights like this are really, really, really competitive... and you are feeling the pressure of that" (05:10), underscoring the intense environment of the Met Gala.
Despite the criticism, Brandon and Lauren defend Dochi by emphasizing the challenges celebrities face in maintaining privacy during major events. Brandon remarks, "It's a game of cat and mouse of you trying to get out, make it to your car, and make it to the Met Gala carpet, and no one see your dress whatsoever" (04:00). Lauren concurs, noting the competitive nature of the event and the heightened stress it brings.
The conversation transitions to Tom Brady, focusing on his reflections following a high-profile roast event. Lauren highlights the significant impact of the roast on Brady's personal life, particularly his relationship with his ex-wife, Gisele Bundchen.
Brandon and Lauren discuss the infamous roast event where celebrities like Kevin Hart, Nikki Glaser, and Kim Kardashian took playful jabs at Brady. Lauren explains, "The greatest roast of all time, Tom Brady, aired live on May 2024... Tom Brady roast regret" (10:33). Brady later expressed regret over how the roast affected his family, especially his children.
The hosts delve into Brady's divorce from Gisele Bundchen, discussing how the public nature of their split became fodder for media and public scrutiny. Brandon shares, "They bring people at that" (14:02), referring to the public and celebrity attention that exacerbated the situation. Lauren adds emotional depth, stating, "The kids seeing their mom be embarrassed... it really hurt their feelings" (12:40).
Brandon notes Brady's acknowledgment of his mistakes, saying, "Shout out to Tom Brady for taking accountability in that moment" (16:43). Lauren emphasizes the importance of Brady's public apology and the lessons learned from his experience, highlighting his shift towards prioritizing family over career achievements.
The discussion briefly touches on parallels with other public figures, such as Diddy and his relationship with Cassie Sousa. Brandon comments, "That's rough, yo. That's rough. That's a common story" (13:54), drawing connections between high-profile relationships and their challenges.
Towards the end of the episode, Lauren shifts focus to a more personal narrative, sharing her struggles with sleep and how a specific song inspired her to maintain a positive outlook.
Lauren recounts a hectic day involving a canceled flight and minimal sleep: "I was running off of two hours of sleep... I was just grateful that every single day I'm waking up to do something that I love to do that doesn't feel like work" (20:00). She underscores the power of positive thinking with her mantra, "Mind shift. Energy shift. Mind shift. Energy shift."
Lauren encourages listeners to change their thoughts to influence their reality: "Wherever it may lie... sometimes it's just as simple as changing your thoughts. Literally changing your thoughts to, you know, just think better" (20:50). This reflection ties into the episode's overarching theme, emphasizing that one's mindset can significantly impact their experiences and outcomes.
The episode wraps up with Lauren and Brandon reiterating key takeaways about accountability, the pressures of fame, and the importance of maintaining a positive mindset. Lauren leaves listeners with an empowering message: "Your thoughts become things. So stop careful about what" (21:23), encouraging everyone to harness the power of positive thinking to navigate life's challenges.
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This episode of "The Latest with Loren LaRosa" provides a comprehensive look into high-profile events and their personal impacts, blending celebrity news with candid personal insights. Lauren and Brandon successfully navigate complex topics, offering both critique and empathy, while also inspiring listeners to cultivate a positive mindset amidst their own challenges.