This episode is an interview with Laura Behnke, a TV sports reporter turned founder of the Life Actually Company. Laura has never followed a traditional path. Although she enjoyed over 16 years of success as an award-winning television journalist, she still couldn’t help but feel like she was somehow “behind”. The traditional timeline for women told her that she should have been married with children by now, and she felt miles away from where she thought she’d be making her question whether there was something wrong with her.

It wasn’t until Laura began to celebrate who she was, honour her accomplishments and welcome a future all her own that she was able to step into the life she always dreamed of. She had her first boyfriend at 35, married at 38, started her own company at 39 and is now welcoming her first child at age 41.

Together we discuss how to stop wishing and start living, in addition to how we can each own our individual timelines rather than chasing arbitrary milestones. Laura also provides insight into some of the pressures she experienced while working in a male dominated industry, as well as her IVF journey, and shares her wisdom on how to ignore the negative narratives surrounding being single and the expectation for women to couple up by a certain age or subscribe to cringe-worthy dating rules.

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