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Erik: How did teenage jobs working in the music shape your work ethic?
Lauren: I think that it was – as much teenage jobs, as it was my parents. I saw my parents
always working really hard but always treating each other and treating us well, and so I
realized early on that there could be a balance. And my dad was in medicine, and so he worked
a lot sometimes but he always made time. And so I think that that taught me that, you know,
if you work really hard, it ends up paying off, but you still need to have this balance.
And I think that having those – these really kind of public-facing jobs when I was a teenager,
made me realize how important it was, how important relationships were, and how important
it was to always come into a situation naively. You know, even if you, you know something
about it, you need to be – hold your stance or be, you know, authoritative, realize that
you’re meeting a new person who has a different outlook, and understand about them, and just
to be a little bit more open because everybody is coming from a different place, has a different
prerogative, has different beliefs, and so I learned that early on. It has always been
really productive, I think. And I think that that’s the most influential thing on how
I work that came out of that, besides that kind of seeing my parents do a really good
job at managing it.