Lauren McBride

Co-Founder

Building community and bringing women together has been Lauren’s goal since the earliest days of her online career, long before CLASS ever existed. “I wanted women to have a space where they felt celebrated and safe, where everyone was welcome, where they felt empowered in body and soul,” she says. “I want to give them a complete wellness experience, not just a Pilates class.”

For Lauren, CLASS is that same community made physical: a room where the women she’s connected with for years can finally show up, sweat together, and feel like they belong. It’s the same reason she keeps building, whether that’s online, at a Lit Chicks Read trip, or on the mat at CLASS: when women come together, everyone walks away stronger.

Lauren is certified in Power Pilates Mat and Balanced Body Reformer, backed by over 150 hours of training, and she teaches the same way she built CLASS: empowering, energizing, intentional. “That they matter and they can do it. That the energy is contagious,” she says of what she wants every student to walk away with, and her signature line says the rest: “Babe, the vibes are immaculate.” One student told her exactly that: her energy was contagious, and it made them feel safe.

Being a mom to her three kids means everything to Lauren, and it’s at the center of everything else she builds. She’s spent 15 years growing her digital content career as @iamlaurenmcbride, and that platform has become the engine behind The Lauren McBride Foundation and Gala’s Night Out, her charity event heading into its fourth year, which benefits the Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence while bringing that same sense of community to life in person and raising nearly $40,000.

She’s also curated her own home decor line with a national shopping network, and leads women-only group trips around the world alongside her Lit Chicks Read co-founder.

And if you want to know what she’s never seen, ask her about any major movie or TV show everyone else has watched. She’s always the one person who hasn’t seen it yet.