What is Project Recharge?
Welcome. I’m glad you found your way here.
Project Recharge is space — space to pause, reflect, and listen to what’s already stirring inside. It’s for anyone who has ever felt the subtle pain of misalignment. Anyone standing at a threshold, sensing that the life they’ve built no longer quite fits who they’re becoming.
This doesn’t always look like a crisis. More often, it’s subtle. Persistent. Easy to dismiss as stress or busyness or something you’ll deal with later. But it deserves attention and language. It deserves space to be seen.
Here, I draw on my own experience as a woman, immigrant, founder, mother, and builder to write essays on identity, ambition, and reclaiming energy. I’m trying to put words to the experiences many of us feel but rarely see named.
What I write about
How identity shifts in adulthood, and the actual stages of adult development most people don’t realize exist
Life transitions that deserve space: career pivots, leadership changes, parenthood, aging, seasons of restlessness
The liminal spaces when old answers stop working, and new ones haven’t yet arrived
What it means to lead yourself well, and why that might be the most important work any of us do
My goal is not optimization or quick fixes. It’s orientation. Language, perspective, and the relief of realizing you’re not broken. You’re developing.
Who this is for
People who feel deeply capable, yet something right now feels off
Those who have built lives that work, but no longer feel fully alive
Anyone who wants permission to question without pressure to immediately change everything
People who believe that leadership starts from within, and that those who lead themselves well have the power to change the world around them
You don’t need to know where you’re going to be here. You just need to be willing to listen more closely to yourself.
Who am I?
I’m Lauren.
I’ve spent my career building things. It started early, with childhood lemonade stands and small ventures driven less by profit than by a need to create something of my own. That instinct never left.
Over the years, that impulse turned into real businesses, brands, communities, and experiences, including work in tourism, hospitality, and media. Building gives me freedom. Not just financial freedom, but creative freedom. The ability to shape my work and my life without fitting neatly into someone else’s box.
I founded Devour Tours, growing it over fourteen years from a single city food tour into an international culinary travel company. I’ve also spent years coaching and consulting with founders and operators on brand, growth, and leadership.
Along the way, I began noticing a pattern: capable people—especially women—outgrowing their lives and identities. Not in dramatic or catastrophic ways, but persistently.
Motherhood accelerated that reckoning for me. Selling my business did too. What I once labeled as burnout or restlessness revealed itself as something more structural. A developmental shift. A reordering of identity and desire that often arrives before any visible change.
Project Recharge is where my experience building and leading intersects with a deeper curiosity about how identity evolves and what becomes possible when we lead ourselves with more honesty and intention.
If you’re here, you’re likely already standing at a threshold.
This isn’t the destination. But it is a place to pause, orient, and listen before you decide what comes next.
Welcome.
