Lauren LeMunyan, PCC
Owner, Lauren LeMunyan Coaching, LLC & The SpitFire Coach
At the age of six, Lauren tasted her first drop of entrepreneurship and was hooked (literally). What started as way to cure boredom while hanging out with some octogenarians, Lauren learned the art of crochet and quickly mastered the beginnings of hat-making. Fast-forward three decades filled with a successful career in association management and multiple business launches, this SpitFire Coach now teaches creative entrepreneurs and passionate professionals how to streamline their focus, reduce stress and make magic happen.
Lauren incorporates a fun, direct and intuitive-based coaching process to build clear, concise and creative strategies in marketing, branding, operations, hiring and business development.

When she’s not combating gremlins and energy blocks, Lauren spends her time in Washington, DC
With her personality-packed English Bulldog, Rico Suave where she also produces and hosts a weekly business-focused podcast – The SpitFire Podcast. And if that isn’t enough fire spitting, she can be found up and down the East Coast performing on stage as the Bluegrass-Americana Rapper, JRZ FRSH. www.laurenlemunyan.com
 
 
5 Tips for Adding a Dash of Spitfire to Your Life and Business
My podcast guest is iPEC-certified coach Lauren LeMunyan, who came from the nonprofit space and then opened a CrossFit gym in Las Vegas. As she began to see how people hold themselves back, she realized she was holding herself back. So she hired a coach and ended up becoming one. In meditation, she discovered her coaching gift was “spitfire:” understanding the passion each of us have in our bellies and how to fire it up and express it. Today she helps small business owners and executives, whom she sees as change agents bogged down by details and self-expectations. She becomes the catalyst to help them find their passion and feel confident creating the positive change they envision.
Lauren firmly believes that what we do best for others, “we suck at doing for ourselves.” In struggling with her own distractions, expectations and fears, she has created many tools to help her clients stay focused. I know we entrepreneurs all experience—yet few want to talk about—our bouts with doubt. Our recent conversation uncovered many wise tips you can use to create success.
1. Fire Up Your Passion—and Have Fun
Given the alluring security of a corporate job, the risks of starting a business by yourself today are huge. Lauren begins by helping her clients rediscover their values and passion. Once they touch their original why, she says, the creative floodgates open. The next step is brainstorming where they want to be in one, three or five years and reverse-engineering a plan.
Everything is on the table for Lauren when working with her clients. She always finds some kind of “no-fly zone,” something “protecting” the client from making change, which she helps them understand and address.
Lauren’s favorite success quote is, “If it’s not fun, why do it?” She feels that in having fun she can be most powerful and helpful for others. Sometimes we start businesses with a short-term goal in mind—perhaps making a quick buck or out of fear. If you find yourself unhappy and uninspired, it may be time to transition out. And that’s ok, too. I agree that if you are not waking up smiling about your work, about serving others, what do you need to look at?
2. Develop Personal Refocusing Tools
Like many of us, Lauren personally struggles with patience and trusting the process, often pushing and making things more intense than they need to be. She has to remind herself to let go, or to pick herself up when others aren’t sharing her excitement. Her daily meditation practice helps her sit in stillness and move through any anxie...