Meet L. Renee Lowe

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful L. Renee Lowe. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with L. Renee below.

Hi L. Renee, thank you so much for agreeing to open up about a sensitive and personal topic like being fired or laid-off. Unfortunately, there has been a rise in layoffs recently and so your insight and experience with overcoming being let go is relevant to so many in the community.

I remember the day clearly. It was an ordinary workday, the kind where I was already bracing myself for more work than one person should reasonably be carrying. The meeting invite popped up, and I remember thinking, “Here we go again.” I was tired and had been for a long time. The workload had grown to a point where I was carrying responsibilities that were never meant to fall on one person alone. I had been doing it because that is who I am. I show up, I deliver, I carry. I was performing success while quietly losing pieces of myself. But I was tired. Not just physically, but mentally exhausted and drained.

I had already started searching for outlets—interior design, fitness, crafting—anything that allowed my mind to breathe. I even planned my exit: build my interior design business, match my salary, and then leave the practice of law. But if I’m honest, I didn’t know how to step away on my own.

So, when the words came, “Your role has been eliminated,” my first reaction was disappointment and anger. Not dramatic anger, but the kind that sits behind the eyes. I had worked hard. I knew the value I brought. And still, I was being dismissed.

But that feeling didn’t linger for long.

After the initial surprise, I felt calm.

My shoulders dropped.
My mind felt clear.
I could breathe.

The stress I had been carrying had become so normal that I didn’t recognize its weight until it was gone.

The peace I felt let me know it wasn’t a disruption. It was a release. And it was God.

I had been praying for direction and clarity, though I didn’t know what the next chapter would look like. I just knew something needed to shift. I also knew that if the decision had been left entirely up to me, I probably would have stayed out of obligation, loyalty, and routine. Comfort will talk you into shrinking yourself if you let it. So, the layoff was the push I wasn’t giving myself.

I took some time to rest, to remember who I was outside of constant responsibility. It was long overdue. I took the next few months just to breathe and find myself again. I thought about how I wanted to live, not just how I wanted to work. I thought about what I was no longer willing to compromise. I thought about what brought me peace and what felt like breathing room.

And in that stillness, things began to unfold without force. Conversations aligned. Ideas resurfaced. Parts of myself I had tucked away came back to life.

That same day I reached out to someone I had met only a couple of weeks earlier, someone who had successfully transitioned from firm life to entrepreneurship. That conversation encouraged me to consider starting my own practice, though I still wasn’t sure it was what I wanted. That same connection also grew into a relationship that has been a blessing in my life. None of it was planned. It was timing. God’s timing.

I didn’t have a full plan. I didn’t know exactly what came next. But I had myself, my faith, my knowledge, my experience, my discipline, my creativity. And that was enough to start.

A couple of months later, my personal trainer asked me if I had ever considered becoming a trainer myself. We had never talked about that before, but it landed at a moment when I had already been considering it quietly. Again, alignment. That’s how God works with me. He confirms what I haven’t said out loud.

At one point, I thought I was done with the practice of law altogether. I was exhausted, burned out, and ready to walk away. Then during an interior design webinar, I was listening to an attorney talk about legal needs in the design industry. And I had another moment of clarity. The issue wasn’t the law. It was the way I had been required to practice it.

I used to think I had to choose between strategist or creative, attorney or wellness advocate, businesswoman or a woman who honors her body and spirit. But now I see that those pieces were never meant to be separated. They simply needed a space to coexist. So, I built a firm that made room for all of me. Not just the legal mind, but the creative visionary, the athlete, the builder, the woman who leads and lives boldly. That is how L. Renée Lowe, PLLC was born. Not as a backup plan, but as a return to myself.

Less than a year later, I launched my own boutique law firm practicing law my way, serving entrepreneurs and emerging and growing businesses with corporate-level legal strategy in business transactions, privacy, and cybersecurity. That same alignment led me to become a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer and to create my fitness and wellness brand, Lowe Wellness, LLC d/b/a LoweLife, a holistic lifestyle journey rooted in strength, alignment, and becoming the person you are meant to be, inside and out—something I am also rebuilding in myself. I built my law practice around who I am, not just what I can do. And I’m building my wellness and creative work from that same foundation.

I didn’t instantly realize how to merge everything. I’m still learning and building as I go. I am still evolving. Still listening. Still building a life that reflects the fullness of who I am—attorney, businesswoman, creative, wellness advocate, and a woman who invests in herself and her peace.

But what I do know is this: The closer I drew to God, the more He began to reveal to me who I’ve always been.

New chapters are unfolding. Some I am preparing quietly. Some still being revealed.

Sometimes the “loss” is the door to the life you were always meant to live.
And I’m walking in that…fully, intentionally, and on my own terms.

I didn’t “bounce back.” I realigned.

I didn’t “overcome” the layoff. I grew through it.

What looked like an ending became the most important beginning of my life.

If there’s anything I hope my story reflects, it’s that your path doesn’t have to be linear, and your identity doesn’t have to be singular. Sometimes the most defining seasons of our lives begin at the moment we thought something was ending.

For me, being laid off wasn’t a setback. It was alignment.

It was God saying, “You’re done here. I have more for you.”

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

Professionally, I sit at the intersection of law, business, wellness, and creative direction. I am the founder of L. Renée Lowe, PLLC, a boutique law firm where I provide business transactions, privacy, and cybersecurity counsel to emerging and growing businesses. My clients are visionaries—entrepreneurs, founders, designers, creatives, and others who are building something they believe in. What I love most about my work is that I don’t just review contracts or advise on risk; I help design the legal and strategic foundation that supports someone’s vision. It’s structure with intention.

Outside of the law, I am building LoweLife, my wellness and lifestyle brand. It began as my personal fitness journey, but it has evolved into a philosophy on how to live: strong, aligned, disciplined, and whole. Wellness to me is not just physical. It is mental, spiritual, emotional, and reflected in the way you move through your everyday life. I am passionate about helping others rebuild strength from the inside out and live in a way that matches the life they say they want.

From that foundation, I am developing LoweForty, a lifestyle and leadership framework built on three anchors:
(1) The Four Dimensions: Mind, Body, Spirit, and Business/Lifestyle, because alignment is holistic.
(2) The 40% Rule: the belief that when you feel done, you still have untapped capacity and potential.
(3) Milestone Living: thriving at 40 and beyond, not simply aging, but evolving with intention, elegance, and strength.

LoweForty is not about age. It is about arrival. It’s about whole-life alignment and the belief that we are capable of far more than we often give ourselves permission to access. It’s the season where you know who you are, what matters, and how you want to live. It will unfold through speaking, storytelling, community, and experiences that support those who are stepping into their next chapter with intention and strength.

I also express myself through my interior design business, ElleRenee Interiors, LLC, which serves as my creative outlet. I believe everyone needs a space where their imagination can breathe. Engaging the creative side of the mind brings balance, clarity, and restoration. It allows me to approach my legal and business work with more openness, flexibility, and vision. Creativity strengthens strategy, and strategy strengthens creativity. Both sides support one another when you allow yourself to be whole.

What ties everything I do together is this simple belief: your work, wellness, growth, faith, relationships and lifestyle should not compete. They should support one another.

I am building businesses that help people live lives that feel like their own, not lives they are simply surviving or performing for others.

This is still unfolding. I’m building slowly, intentionally, and with God at the center of it. And I am excited about what’s taking shape.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Looking back, the three qualities that have shaped my journey the most are self-awareness, faith, and courage, with creativity acting as the thread that allowed me to rebuild in a way that felt true to who I am.

Self-awareness was the first turning point. I had to tell myself the truth about what I felt: I was exhausted, unfulfilled, and no longer aligned with the life I was maintaining. Many of us learn to push through discomfort, but there is a difference between growing and carrying what is draining you. Self-awareness allowed me to say, “This is no longer working,” without shame.

Then came faith. Not the kind that’s loud or performative, but the quiet trust that God was guiding me even before I understood where the path was leading. I didn’t have a five-year plan when I transitioned. I didn’t know how everything would come together. But I believed that if I moved with intention, God would meet me where I was.

From there, I needed courage. Courage to let go of what was familiar. Courage to build again. Courage to choose myself. Courage to do something that made sense in my soul before it made sense on paper. Starting over is never easy but staying where your spirit is shrinking costs far more.

And creativity is what allowed me to rebuild my identity, my work, and my wellness in a way that was uniquely my own. Creativity showed me that I didn’t have to choose between law or wellness, business or artistry, structure or alignment. I could design a life that held all of me.

For those early in their journey, my advice is this:
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to honor what you know in this moment. If something feels heavy, pay attention. If something feels like peace, move toward it. Let your next step be guided by intention, not urgency.

Build discipline, not as punishment, but as devotion to who you are becoming. Make space for stillness so you can hear God’s voice. And trust that the version of you, you haven’t met yet is already waiting on the other side of the choice you’re afraid to make.

You don’t have to leap all at once.
Just honor the next right step.

How would you describe your ideal client?

My ideal clients are people who are building with intention. They are founders, creatives, professionals, and leaders who care about the quality of what they are creating/building and how they are creating/building it. They are committed to doing things the right way, not just the fast way. They take ownership of their decisions, they welcome guidance, and they are willing to think both strategically and creatively.

What makes someone an ideal fit is not the size of their business, but their mindset. They value clarity. They are open to being supported. They are willing to invest in structure that allows their vision to grow. They understand that business, processes, wellness, and personal alignment are not separate conversations. They are connected.

The people I work best with are not trying to prove anything. They are building something meaningful, something they want to last. If that is where you are or where you are headed, we will work well together.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.lreneelowelaw.com
• Instagram: @LReneeLoweLaw
• Facebook: @LReneeLoweLaw
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lrlowe08/
• Other: Email: [email protected]
  Phone: (346)LOWELAW