Shippen won an Audio Verse award for her portrayal of Sam in The Bright Sessions (the character also appeared in The AM Archives).

Around this time she began developing ideas for a podcast, drawing on her experience of music and sound editing and partly inspired by Welcome to Nightvale.

[4] This became The Bright Sessions which ran for four seasons released between 2015 and 2018, with Shippen writing the show and voicing one of the main characters, Sam Barnes.

Shippen wrote the adaption, which was directed by Paul Bae, and with sound design by Mischa Stanton.

[18][19] In 2020, Lauren served as Executive Producer and voiced the role of "Gerda" in the iHeart Radio Podcast Award-nominated musical series, In Strange Woods.

[25] In 2022, Atypical Artists released Maxine Miles, a podcast created and written by Shippen.

[26] In July 2023, Shippen began releasing Breaker Whiskey, a fiction podcast following a woman after an apocalyptic event in the 1960s.