Why "must be nice" says more about the person saying it than it does about you — and what it actually takes to build the life other people call lucky. Someone found out Laurie is going to France and said, "Must be nice." A week later, a different woman heard the exact same news and said, "Oh my God, that sounds amazing." Same information. Two totally different responses. In this episode, Laurie digs into that gap — why some women respond to another woman's choices with inspiration, and why ot...
One-to-one coaching, BEST LIFE Retreats, and the BEST LIFE Mastermind — what each one actually is, who it's for, and the honest story of why one of them just got rescheduled. It's episode five in the Back to School of Midlife series, and Laurie is calling this one registration day. You've sat through a month of lectures — the coaching philosophy, the BEST LIFE framework, Learn/Earn/Yearn, the Four C's — and now it's time to actually look at the course catalog and figure out what you're signin...
Curiosity, Clarity, Courage, Confidence — the four phases every high-achieving woman moves through on her way back to herself, and why they only work in that order. This is episode four in the Back to School of Midlife series, and it's one that Laurie purposely saved. Not because it's the least important — because it's one of the most important, and if she'd led with it, you would have tuned out. Here's the setup: most of Laurie's clients arrive having already done the physical work of midlif...
25 years to learn. 40 years to earn. And if you're lucky — 13 years to yearn. Once you see that math, you can't unsee it. Session three of the Back to School (of Midlife) series. This week, Laurie lays out the three seasons of life — Learn, Earn, Yearn — on a simple timeline from zero to 80, using the average U.S. female life expectancy of 78.8 years as the anchor. The math is blunt: 25 years learning, 40 years earning, and only about 13 years left to yearn — and that's if you're lucky, since...
Most of us would fire our contractor building our dream home if she tried to make the plans conform to "specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound." So why do we do that to our own lives? Session two of the Back to School (of Midlife) series. If last week was orientation, this is the core curriculum — the actual framework behind everything Laurie coaches: BEST LIFE™. She starts by naming the pushback she hears constantly — "I'm not a high achiever" — and dismantles it directly...