Lauren Elias is a CEO and former Division I athlete who has spent more than 20 years building global beauty brands, including L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, LVMH, and KORA Organics. Her life looked impressive from the outside but never felt like the happily ever after she had worked so hard to earn.
Privately, Lauren navigated anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic pain, and turned the same drive that fueled her career inward to “fix” herself, believing she was broken. For three decades, she tried more than 50 healing modalities but still felt stuck. Then, in 2026, a medically supervised ibogaine program broke the cycle and changed how she understood healing.
Today, Lauren writes and speaks about what becomes possible when high performers stop using their drive to fix the pain of the past and start using it to build a future that feels as good as it looks.
