What if life could be richer than you imagined?
A weekly practice for developing the wisdom, skills, and habits that transform how you work, love, and live.
Join Stanford GSB lecturer & TED speaker Lauren Weinstein and world leading happiness researcher, Sonja Lyubomirsky, for a weekly practice in human potential.
Two weeks free, then starting at $47/month. Cancel anytime. Use code Elevate 14.
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Most of what shapes the quality of a life is learnable.
How you think. How you communicate. How you love, connect, and flow through your days. These are capacities that can be learned and strengthened.
Elevate is where we explore the science and practices together.
The Elevate Experience
A weekly Life Lab for creating a richer, more expansive life.
Each week, Sonja and Lauren are your hosts to explore one idea, practice, or way of seeing the world that either limits or expands what’s possible.
Lauren brings these moments to life and reveals the opportunities we often miss.
Sonja shares the science behind why they matter so much—and how we can access more elevated states: joy, love, connection, peace, meaning, and purpose.
Explore the Hidden Science of Everyday Life
Your Inner Life
How a five-minute exercise affirming your values can give you the courage and clarity to move forward when you feel stuck
Why we overthink—and the "short-circuit" phrases that can stop our runaway thought trains and restore peace and calm
Why optimism isn't a personality trait—it's a practiced behavior that literally makes good things more likely to happen
Your Relationships
Why one specific type of questions create genuine closeness in minutes—and has even made strangers fall in love in a lab
Why appearing perfect actually makes people like you less—and how authenticity can invite deeper love and connection
Why the Michelangelo effect—seeing and treating people as their highest version—can bring out the best in the people we love
How You Communicate
Why most small talk feels awkward — and the simple shift that can make conversations genuinely interesting
Why charisma isn’t something you’re bornwith but a set of behaviors anyone can learn and practice
Why how you handle conflictpredicts the outcome more than how often it happens, how heated it gets, or how long it's gone on— whether it's a marriage or a team
Your Experience of Life Itself
Why learning how to feel awe is one of the best things you can do for your happiness, health, and sense of what's possible
Why allowing yourself to be bored and your mind to wander are powerful paths to creative genius and your best solutions
Why people with harder lives are sometimes happier than people with easier ones—and what that tells us about what actually matters for a meaningful and fulfilling life
Inside a Life Lab
30 minutes of insight. 30 minutes of conversation. Hosted live on Zoom.
Each week begins with a new way of seeing something familiar— a thought, a conversation, or a moment in your everyday life— paired with one simple practice that helps you invite more depth, aliveness, and possibility.
Want to go deeper? Stay for small-group conversations, live coaching, and the behind-the-scenes conversations about being human we rarely get to have.
The Weekly Insight
Lauren brings the storytelling and coaching that turns the week’s insight into lived experience. Sonja brings the research—revealing the discoveries that change how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and what makes life meaningful.
Bringing it into your life
In thoughtful one-on-one conversations, you bring the practices into your real life with genuinely interesting, accomplished people from around the world. Our regulars include a tech executive, an Emmy-winning producer, a radiologist calling in from a Greek island, a scientist who was in the room when the human genome was sequenced. Together, we reflect, share, and discover how these ideas show up across different lives, careers, and experiences.
Community discussion and live coaching
The full group comes back together. People share what came up. You hear your own experience put into words by someone else. You ask the questions and have the conversations we rarely make space for—Lauren brings the coaching insights and practical unlocks, while Sonja shares what decades of research tell us and why it matters.
Carry it into your week
After each Life Lab, Lauren sends a follow-up with the recording, her reflections, curated TED Talks, podcast episodes, articles, and books to explore the topic more deeply, and one specific invitation to bring the practice into your everyday life.
What Starts to Shift
How you feel day to day
More clarity, courage, flow, and the feeling that your life is moving in the right direction.
How you relate and connect
More honesty, warmth, depth, ease, and feeling truly loved, known, and understood.
How life feels to live
More gratitude, awe, meaning, and moments where you genuinely love your life.
The Experience
Part class, part salon, part weekly reset for your life.
The Elevate Ecosystem
Live sessions, plus past Life Lab recordings. Whatever you’re navigating—a difficult conversation, disconnection in your relationship, a meaningful goal you’re trying to achieve—there’s likely a Life Lab for it.
Curated resource folders. A deep-dive library of recommended TED talks, articles, books, and podcast episodes for every practice covered.
Bimonthly somatic sessions. Special member rate for online breath work and movement classes grounded in Kundalini yoga for stress relief, physical vitality, and mental clarity.
Private coaching. Special member rate for private sessions with Lauren and vetted coaches when you're ready to go deeper.
Unexpected connections. The kind of personal and professional connections you wouldn't make anywhere else.
Exclusive masterclasses. Recordings of Lauren’s most popular workshops on communication, charisma, accessing flow states, and boundary setting.
Meet Your Hosts
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja became fascinated by one question: why are some people able to build happier lives, more loving relationships, and a greater sense of meaning—even after setbacks, hardship, or difficult beginnings?
Thirty-six years later, that curiosity has produced some of the most cited research in positive psychology, three bestselling books—The How of Happiness, The Myths of Happiness, and How to Feel Loved—and a body of work that has reached millions of people worldwide.
She doesn’t just share the research. She IS the research. And she’ll tell it to you straight.
Lauren Weinstein
Lauren has spent her career helping people close the gap between how they’re living and what they’re actually capable of.
She coaches leaders at many of the world’s top companies, including Google, Apple, and Netflix, teaches at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and her TED Talk, Don't Believe Everything You Think, has been viewed nearly 4 million times.
In Elevate, she helps you see yourself, your relationships, and what’s actually possible in a whole new way—and make the shifts that actually change how you live.
Where science meets the human experience—a place to discover who you really are and what’s truly possible.
Together
Hear from our regulars
“Mornings are incredibly important to me. I rarely give them up. I join every week because I know I will learn from Lauren and Sonja in a way that I cannot anywhere else.”
Maria, Emmy-Winning Producer, Los Angeles
“I've had moments of insight that usually take years of therapy to reach.”
Kathy, CTO @ Meditation Community, New York City
“When Friday comes around I feel relief.”
Haris, Radiologist, Corfu, Greece
“Things like the Michelangelo effect have been genuinely helping my marriage. I’m always learning about topics I’ve never heard of before.”
Ingrid, Physician, San Francisco
“This group feels a little bit like family—like you’re seeing behind the scenes and the real lives of people.”
Jake, COO @ AI company, San Francisco
“The combination of Lauren and Sonja is incredible. I've gotten as much out of this as courses I paid $9,000 for.”
Joan, Cognitive Health Scientist, San Diego
Two weeks free. Cancel anytime.
Join us live and be part of a room full of curious people exploring what it means to see more clearly, love more deeply, and live more fully.
Weekly Life Labs, small-group conversations, live coaching, and Full Ecosystem access.
We gather on Zoom every Friday at 9:30am PT.
The Full Experience
$47/month
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$25/month
The same Life Labs, on your schedule. Every new session recorded, plus a growing library of past Labs, Lauren's masterclasses, curated resources, and vetted coaches ready when you are.
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