get to know Laura ...

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Laura helps people learn how to access and trust their intuition. She especially loves to talk to people about using their own inner compass to make decisions. (You can grab her Free Activate Your Inner Oracle Kit here.)

 

She also loves cardology - the astrology and numerology of the playing cards. You have a card for your birthday. Yes, the hand you were dealt - it's real. Cardology can help you understand yourself at a deeper level and this is key to having that faith in your spidey sense. Look up your card here.

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Laura began her professional life as a consultant for Arthur Andersen in Chicago after she earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Purdue University.

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If you have never heard of Arthur Andersen it’s because it no longer exists thanks to it being the accounting firm for Enron when that company decided to shred a bunch of documents it wasn’t supposed to.

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Just prior to the Enron scandal, the U.S. was brought to its knees with the 9/11 tragedy. As Laura watched all of this go down, she realized she needed to make a change. So she left the corporate world to go into a job that would allow her to have more impact on the world… teaching high school Spanish.

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Luckily, she already knew how to speak Spanish & after earning her Master’s in Education, she worked as a teacher for eight years.

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Teaching both locally and abroad, allowed Laura to blend her passions for teaching & traveling into a successful career.

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Early on in her journey (circa 1996), Laura heard Madonna credit her fit body to yoga, so she decided to give it a try. The results were more than physical for Laura. Yoga became a way for Laura to reconnect to what was most important to her, the feeling of living a balanced life.

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Rather than just be a yogi, though, Laura decided to merge her passion for yoga with her passion for teaching & dedicated the summer of 2007 to earning her 200 hour RYT certification so she could teach yoga.

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While she was teaching high school Spanish, she spent three summers teaching a language & cultural immersion program in Oviedo, Spain. This allowed her to become fluent in Spanish & experience a culture that embraced a more relaxed, sustainable & enjoyable work pace.

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While teaching & mentoring high school students had its rewards, the schedule back home ultimately got the best of her. She fell ill with a bizarre immune system disorder that resulted in a blood issue that could only be controlled by severely altering her diet. She knew immediately that there had to be a better way than living such a restricted life, so she went on a quest to find it.

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​This quest led Laura deeper into the study of the human body, including the physical, mental & energy bodies. She began to understand that our health is a result of how we interact with the world which has been proven over & over again in various studies: stress is detrimental to our longevity.

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Laura’s search took her to the field of energy work, specifically to Reiki. Much like her previous passions, Laura decided to go all in & she earned a Reiki Master certification which she used to train others to become Reiki practitioners.

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Laura leveraged her certifications & life experiences to again switch careers to something she was more passionate about & to have more flexibility in her schedule (thanks, Spain!)  

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She co-founded a small healing & coaching business with Candy. When Candy purchased a local yoga studio called Tree House, the business partners, friends & soul sisters decided to merge their healing & coaching business with the yoga studio, moving it literally beneath the studio in a space they affectionately called The Sanctuary. (because who wants to say they work in a basement?)​

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Having acquired a fondness for the entrepreneurial spirit, the dynamic duo decided to start another business, along with cardologist Paula Krueger, called Kismet (itiskismet.com).

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​Kismet is a website that helps people understand their life purpose through the lens of cardology (the science behind the playing cards). Laura is a Six of Clubs (aka The Tuned In Realist).

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Laura is not only a supporter of the gig economy, she thrives in it having worked as a tutor, interpreter, legal assistant, yoga studio manager, reiki master, intuitive coach, cardologist & BQH practitioner.

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​Over the years, Laura has turned her passions into careers. She also loves the freedom of being her own boss & helping others to discover that they too can live a passionate & balanced life.

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​​​During her free time, Laura works out, practices yoga & drinks coffee, some days lots and lots of coffee and chocolate. She loves hiking, exploring new places, salsa dancing, floating, boxing & bingeing science fiction TV shows.

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​Laura believes each individual chooses their unique life path & purpose. The challenge lies in discovering what it is.

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