Loren Ridinger: Living Your Best Life After Losing Your Greatest Love
Angie Martinez IRL
iHeartPodcasts
5 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode of the Angie Martinez IRL Podcast, Angie kicks off a new season by delving into an intimate and inspiring conversation with Loren Ridinger. Loren, a long-time friend and the CEO of Market America Worldwide and Shop.com, discusses her new book 'Scrambled or Sunny Side Up,' which chronicles her experiences navigating life after the loss of her husband and business partner. The episode explores themes of love, resilience, and the necessity to pivot in the face of adversity. Lauren shares her journey from building a billion-dollar empire with her husband to facing the immense grief of his loss, while also touching on the lessons of self-belief and the importance of contributing positively to the world. The conversation also delves into the complexities of parenting, highlighting the lifelong commitment and the challenging realization that it's a one-way relationship in terms of emotional investment. This episode is a heartfelt exploration of personal and professional growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Andrew Martinez in real life podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to a new season of IRL. |
| 0:08.0 | I am thrilled to be back. I have absolutely missed our interaction, our conversations. |
| 0:13.0 | It's not just my conversation with the guest. |
| 0:15.0 | I enjoy the conversation that happens after, so I've definitely been missing that. |
| 0:18.0 | There's been a lot happening in the world. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm sure there's been everybody's in real life has been going through ups and downs and the world |
| 0:25.1 | has changed. The country's changed. People have gone through trauma, grief, joy, new experiences, |
| 0:32.3 | new jobs. I think just life keeps ticking and it requires us to pivot at every turn. And I think that's going to be a really |
| 0:38.2 | big theme this season is talking to people who've had to pivot, whether it was by choice or by |
| 0:43.8 | circumstance. And so my first guest, I've known for many years, Lauren Ridinger, let me tell you, |
| 0:48.7 | first of all, this is her new book, Scramble or Sunnyside Up. And it's about her journey after losing her husband for many years, |
| 0:58.2 | but also her partner. Lauren is the CEO of Market America worldwide and shop.com. |
| 1:03.9 | Her and her husband together built a billion dollar commerce business. She's had a lot of |
| 1:08.8 | success in her life. There is a lot to learn from Lauren. |
| 1:12.7 | Click the link in the description to get Lauren's book today. The amazing Lauren. |
| 1:17.5 | Writing girl. Yeah. Woohoo. Here we are, baby. What a year. What a big year for both of us. |
| 1:26.0 | It's been a long year. Up and down year. A of us. It's been a long year. |
| 1:28.3 | Up and down year. |
| 1:30.3 | A long, up and down. Rollercoaster of a ride. You know, we both go through changes and life changes and the world changes. |
| 1:37.3 | But it's funny because I was saying this before that, pivoting, I think, the pivot is the actual theme of this first season back of this podcast because I've had to so many |
| 1:45.6 | times. First of all, Lauren is the story of you is like you have this amazing love story. |
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