Laura Marsala, a Marine Corps veteran and a powerhouse with a track record of transforming businesses and lives, joins us to spill the tea on her journey through the wild world of homeschooling and entrepreneurship! Buckle up, because this episode is a rollercoaster of insights and heartwarming stories! From the get-go, we dive into Laura's background, where she’s not just racking up awards and accolades in her professional life but also raising three amazing kiddos while teaching them the ropes of life. Her eldest daughter has already made waves academically – inducted into the Excelsior Society for her genius by age 12 and snagging the President's Award for Educational Achievement. Talk about setting the bar high!

Now, let’s talk homeschooling – you know, the magical realm where learning happens in pajamas and field trips are just a car ride away! Laura shares the nitty-gritty of how she transitioned her children from traditional schooling to a more customized learning experience that allowed them to explore the world alongside her as she traveled for work. We tackle the myths surrounding homeschooling, like the classic “I don’t have enough time” excuse, and Laura breaks it down with her Marine Corps time management skills. Seriously, if there’s anyone who knows how to juggle a schedule, it’s Laura!

As we continue, we get into the juicy bits about balancing work and family life. Laura emphasizes the importance of establishing strong family values and how they can shape a child’s identity, even amidst chaos. The conversation wraps up with Laura’s insights into creating an intentional and conscious environment for her kids that fosters both academic success and emotional well-being. So, grab your favorite drink, settle in, and get ready to be inspired by Laura’s infectious energy and wisdom!

Guest Bio: Laura Marsala is a Marine Corps veteran, two-time Sales Hall of Fame Award recipient, award-winning coach, and high-performance strategist who blends success with deeply conscious, intentional parenting.

For over a decade, Laura has been transforming organizations, driving 300% profit increases and has been instrumental in helping financial professionals reach the global top 1% standard of Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT). She was also recently inducted into the Marquis Who's Who in America 2026 for Top Women. Her high-impact approach and magnetic presence as an award-winning speaker have featured her across television and newspapers.

At home, Laura channels that same passion and guidance into raising three conscious, empowered children grounded in strong values. Her approach to legacy speaks for itself: her oldest daughter was inducted into the Excelsior Society for Academic Excellence by age 12 and has most recently earned the prestigious President’s Award for Educational Achievement.

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I now have the pleasure of introducing Laura Marsala.

Laura is a Marine Corps veteran, two time sales hall of fame award recipient, award winning coach and high performance strategist who blends success with deeply conscious intentional parenting.

For over a decade Laura has been transforming organizations driving 300% profit increases and has been instrumental in helping financial professionals reach the global top 1% standard of of million dollar roundtable MDRT.

Her high impact approach and magnetic presence as an award winning speaker have featured her across television and newspapers and our podcast at home.

Laura challenged that same passion and guidance into raising three conscious, empowered children.

Grounded in strong values.

Her approach to legacy speaks for itself.

Her eldest daughter was inducted into the Excelsior Society for Academic excellence by age 12 and and has most recently earned the prestigious President's Award for Educational Achievement.

Welcome Laura.

It is a pleasure to have you here today.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Ciao.

It's such an honor to be here.

I am so glad you are here.

And you know, during our pre chat we talked about a lot of what you're doing with all the professionals and things like that and we also got into that really deep parenting that you were also talking about.

And so even though we'll talk about all the cool stuff you do professionally, we also want to chat about that family life and what's been going on.

So let's start there.

What was happening in your business and with your family way back at the beginning when you decide, you know what, I think homeschooling is what I need to do with my kiddos for a little while.

Let's start there and then just kind of move forward through the growth business and the family changes and those kinds of things.

Yeah.

Because most, most parents don't come on and just like oh yeah, I just want to homeschool my kid because it sounds there's a reason.

And if you're building a business that's sometimes not necessarily when you think is a good time, but for us we think it's a great time.

So.

Yeah.

How, how did you get started?

Yeah, great question.

Absolutely.

So especially with entrepreneurs, we're always thinking outside of the box.

We want to do things our way and if something doesn't fit that way of thinking that we have or fit the path we want or the goals that we have, we usually go, huh, I'm going to do something else instead.

And that's how it came about was my kids were in school and there was just some things going on that didn't really, didn't really suit the way I wanted to do things in this, in the school system, and I just.

I saw a better way, and I made a better way for it.

And what was going on in my business at the time was I was speaking a lot, I was traveling, and I wanted my kids to see more of the world.

You know, they go to the same school every day, the same four walls, same people, same experiences.

And I really wanted them to, you know, be a part of different things.

So I brought them along with me already enough anyway, and they got to go to the Global Leadership Summit with me, and they've gone to business conferences, and they went to me with other schools.

Like, when I would go and speak at other schools, they were coming with me.

And I saw the impact that those experiences had on the kids.

And so when that stuff with the school system was h. This doesn't really work for me.

I don't really want to do things this way.

Yeah, I just decided to homeschool.

It wasn't something I thought too long about.

I was homeschooled myself when I was younger, so I already kind of knew the ins and outs of what.

What that would take.

So I really just thought, I'm going to do this.

And the very next fall when school started, I was homeschooling them.

So.

I love that song so much.

Yes, yes, yes.

So help us right now break one of the biggest myths.

Because you.

You were as a kid a little bit, and then as a parent, it's like so many people think, I don't have time to homeschool.

It's going to take too much time.

And here you were in a business, traveling a lot, and you're like, I don't have time to keep them in school.

Let's.

So how.

This is such a great question.

I love this question.

And this question about the time is like, across every industry, for every person not having enough time to do xyz, and it's.

It's time management.

And that's something I learned really, really well in the Marine Corps.

There was so many times where we had to get things done and from the outside looking, and you'd be like, that's impossible.

Like, that's literally impossible.

And you'd have to figure it out and do it anyway.

So I just had that mindset of, well, how do I.

How do I make it happen?

And I think it was.

I was definitely early 20s, and I heard a saying, you know, every.

The.

Everyone has 24 hours in a day.

And you've got people that are doing a lot in that 24 hours and people that still don't ever get their, their things done for that day.

So then I started, you know, sitting down and going, you know, with a piece of paper and pen and going, okay, well how many hours am I going to sleep?

And that write off is going to come off of my 24 hours and you know, just reverse engineer my whole day.

And well, how much time do I need to spend on this for it to actually be effective?

Do I need to spend an hour or can I actually get effective results in 20 minutes?

And I really just combed through my whole schedule, the kids, whole schedules.

And one of the biggest things is my children speak so many different languages and I don't.

And one of the biggest questions I always was asked was, how do you have that time?

Like, my oldest daughter speaks French and Italian.

My son does French and Italian and American Sign Language.

And then my youngest, French, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese Sign Language.

So they're like.

And my, my youngest, I mean, she will walk around fluently speaking Mandarin and Japanese.

Like, wow.

And people go, how do you have,.

How do you know time?

How do you know she's, how do you know she's not just walking around making sound at you, thinking she's being.

So, so I can tell you.

So I've always started off with my kids with their languages and got them started making sure they understood like pronunciations and things like that.

And the systems that I use are really well.

And I do check in on what they're doing and, and, and their progress and how, and how they're doing and stuff.

But yeah, people would always ask me, like, how do you have the time to sit down and teach your kids all day?

And I don't, I don't have the time.

And that's why I effectively.

And that's our responsibility to do as parents anyway, especially when we're homeschooling.

It's not just like, you know, go sit in your room and read this book or get on the laptop and do your schoolwork.

It's really like being intentional and conscious and being involved in their education and it also not taking up your time.

Yeah, that's the balance.

No, and that's amazing.

I love that because a lot of people, like we were saying, they think I don't have time to homeschool, especially if I'm running my own business, especially if I've got three or four kids, etc.

Etc.

And it's like, no, you, if you Manage.

If you look at things you can.

And then weaving in their learning throughout the day, throughout your normal life and practice.

Right.

I'm pretty sure they don't just learn on the computer or through your special language programs.

You weave their learning throughout your day throughout what you're doing.

Correct.

Most of the time.

And everything comes down to systems, because the systems that you have are going to make and break the results that you get with whatever you're doing.

So if I'm thinking, okay, I want my kid to start speaking French, well, I have to make sure that she's in a program that works for her that's actually going to get her to speaking French.

Speaking French fluently.

Same with anything that you want to do.

Like my.

I pick my kids books out, you know, what do they.

And I actually read through.

Like, what is this book about?

Is it in alignment with my values, my belief system, the identity of us as a family?

Like, I comb through things before I give them to my children.

And then the execution phase of that is the children having discipline in following through with doing what they're expected to be doing.

And what I have found really to work very well.

When my kids were really little, anytime it came.

Because I, I did teach them Italian.

That, that didn't come from, you know, an app or a book or anything like that.

I was the.

Or tutor.

I was the one that taught them Italian.

And they were so young, they weren't in school yet anyway.

But it was.

Learning was fun.

Like, when it came time to do these things, I would always laugh and make them joke, you know, make them laugh and be silly and goofy.

And so they always connected sitting down and reading a book or learning or doing something like that with it being fun.

Like, we're going to have so much fun.

And there's also like, if you laugh, your brain can retain information better and just.

Just little things when they were babies and when they were really little, that would inc. Increase.

Increase their iq.

Like being exposed to different languages as babies.

Being exposed to even different accents has proven to increase a child's iq.

So just doing what I could and just those micro moments throughout the day of, of doing that and then identity with the kids.

This is huge.

This is how you can say, hey, I expect you to get this done and then it gets done.

You know, most of the time, kid.

No, there's no.

No perfect kid.

Right.

Guarantee with kiddos.

Right.

But it's like operating as a family unit and them understanding what that means.

Like, I would say statements to my kids like, if we saw somebody smoking cigarettes, I would say, oh, we don't do that.

It was always we there.

There's things that we stand against, and there's things that we stand for and really like ingraining that in them.

Because if you don't indoctrinate your kids, then society will, and you don't know what they're getting indoctrinated with.

All kinds of crazy stuff.

So it was just really important from the time that I, you know, had them growing up the whole time of who we are, what we do.

And my son is so funny.

He's 13 now, but he'll say, mom, we're built different.

Like, you know, it's.

It's just this mindset and this identity as a family of how.

Who we are and how we do things, and just having a set of expectations for them to follow through with, giving them standards to rise up to.

Okay, so now our second biggest myth.

You've just kind of completely just blown that out of the water, which is the I'm not smart enough to be the one teaching my kids.

So you totally don't have that problem at the moment.

However, now there's obviously subjects that you weren't necessarily great at either.

So one of the things that you were talking about is having your children have fun.

And one of the things that we talk about is that at a certain point, your kids are going to want to pull in their learning themselves, because, oh, I want to learn about this.

And so instead of you having to push, they're going to, oh, I want to learn about this.

I want to learn about this.

And they start pulling stuff, and then they start teaching you.

Did you experience that, or were you actually more structured?

Can you give us a little bit there how that worked for you?

Did you see that at all?

Yes.

So last year, actually, my youngest daughter, I had her speaking Mandarin since she was 2, and she was 8.

8 Or 9 when she started asking me if she could start learning Japanese.

She became obsessed with the culture and just wanted to speak it, wanted to travel there, all these things.

And probably about eight months to a year of her asking me consistently and showing me that she was serious about it.

I let her, you know, add that to her plate and start learning Japanese.

And she's stuck with it really well since then, and she's still pretty obsessed with it.

She wants to go there for her birthday.

I'm like, oh, my gosh.

But.

And then the other thing that you were saying about not being smart enough, so there were a lot of things that I struggled with because when I was homeschooled, I wasn't actually given a very strong foundation with my education.

And so that's why it was always really important for me when it came to my kids was I'm like, my kids are actually going to have all the resources and all the support and the education they actually need to thrive and have whatever opportunities that they want in life.

And my oldest daughter, I, like, my kids will make little jokes with me about, like, oh, do you need a calculator, mom?

Like, when it comes to math and stuff like that.

And I'm like, hey, that's what they were made for.

Right.

But she.

She won the.

It was the highest achievement in mathematics when she was 12 or 13.

And I was always blown away by how that's just her lane.

Like, she's incredible in that lane.

And I would break in a sweat sitting down in front of math paperwork of any kind at all.

So, yes, smarts don't really have anything to do with it when it comes to the subject specifically.

If my kids have ever needed help with anything, I've gotten them tutors, and there's lots of programs.

There's so many resources that we have accessible that they can get the help that they need without more of your time, more of your involvement, things like that.

Yes.

Thank you for explaining that, because we try to say that.

That in different ways.

For parents to understand that you didn't necessarily have to have a college degree, you don't necessarily have to understand you didn't have to be good at school yourself because there are so many resources, Just like.

Just like you said.

Exactly.

I didn't even go to college.

I went in the military.

So I, I. Yeah, I tell my kids all the time, like, you know, you can learn anything you want to learn.

Everything's at our fingertips.

Yeah.

Thank you for your service, by the way, as well.

I meant to tell you that at the beginning of the show because we really have a.

Have a soft space in our hearts for our veterans.

We really appreciate everything they do.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So let's kind of go down myth number three.

If you're homeschooled or if I homeschool my kids, they're going to be weird.

Now, you have two different ways of talking about this.

You said that you were homeschooled for at least a while while you were younger, and now you've homeschooled.

Are you or your children, quote, unquote, weird?

Were you the weird kid?

Because you also said you didn't necessarily have a strong educational foundation.

So in the early days of homeschool, you led the way.

Thank you.

Seriously, thank you.

But did, was that leading the way?

Did that leave you the weird kid because your parents just kind of left it alone?

Or what happened?

What happened and how did you take that?

And, and again, you said you didn't want, you wanted better for your kids.

I was definitely the weird kid.

Absolutely.

Without a doubt.

Yeah, I was definitely the weird kid.

And, you know, I was different too.

Like, nobody really, like, you know, nobody wanted to go in the military, especially the Marine Corps, you know, and I was told I was a girl, shouldn't do that, I should think of other things.

And so, yeah, I, I didn't fit in very well, you know, with other kids and stuff like that, and I didn't want to.

I, I had a diff.

I, I really looked at things differently in the world.

I had a different mindset, I had a different work ethic and a lot of the people that I was around I didn't like.

But, yeah, I was definitely considered weird, I think, by, by society standards.

My kids, though, that's an interesting question because my kids do stand out.

They've, you know, I've told my kids how proud I am because since they were little, like, anywhere I would bring them, people will go out of their way to point out something about them, their mannerism, you know, they're well mannered, they're respectful, they're conscientious, like, they're helpful, they're well rounded, they're grounded, all these things.

And I would always point that out to my kids, like, wow, you know, thanks for however you're being when you're not in the house.

Thanks for being the weird kid.

Thanks for being so weird and so different, standing out and other adults are appreciating that.

So again, being the weird one now.

But they're not weird.

They've got a lot of friends.

They get, they get along really well with adults, too.

And.

Yeah, I mean, they've got, they've all got strong social lives and, you know, connection.

I tell my kids, you know, you know, connection and relationships is really important.

Whether you're in, in the school with them or not.

You can still maintain relationships with people.

You know, effort, communication, things like that.

Exactly.

And that's one of the things that, you know, we really try to make sure that we talk about with the parents as well.

Like, you have so many more opportunities to, quote, unquote, socialize them with different age ranges through community service.

Through religious organizations, you went to different conferences and stuff, and they got to experience that with, you know, as younger people.

And so that helps build that confidence that they have.

Yeah.

So you go to a conference and your kids get to see you on stage, and then they get to walk around the audience.

And it.

It's amazing how you see kids nowadays in school.

They get out and they.

And they stand around adults and they just kind of like fade into the background.

But I'm sure your kids, you get to.

They're going to want to be involved in the conversation and they're not going to be afraid of standing out and they're just going to be human.

Right in with everybody.

Yeah.

My son, so cute when he was younger and I had an office and Rochester, he would come or he would come into the office and he would go around and he would introduce himself to everybody and he would shake their hands and he would say, I'm Aiden.

What do you do?

And he would just do that to everybody that was there.

So cute.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

And not shy, not hiding behind you.

All the things that unfortunately we have kind of a pandemic of people.

The people say, oh, my kids are anxious, they're afraid, they don't want to be around other people.

And it's like, no, let's.

Let's fix that by exposing them and having them have these beautiful, beautiful.

Yeah.

And to.

To that a lot of people are saying that about their kids who are in school, who are in the public school system.

I think that there's probably less social anxiety for the children that are homeschooled than there would be with, because there's so many different beliefs and ideas and directions getting pushed in their faces at school.

It's very confusing.

There's no clean, clear direction for them.

And I think that creates a lot of anxiety for the children.

Whereas in the home, if there's structure and identity and expectations and standards, they have a clear direction.

They know who they are, and it makes it a lot easier for them.

So this is a lesser myth, but one is if I take my kids out of school, I'm committed.

I have to keep doing it.

And circumstances change and your kids are actually back in public school.

And one of the things that we say is just having them home for even a year or two can resolve issues, calm down trauma, and then when they go back into school, they enter re.

They re enter with such a different way of going about it.

So how your kids are now back in school or ended up back in school how did they re.

Enter after being homeschooled?

And did you notice a difference?

So they didn't like it, especially my, especially my youngest because when they went back into school, so we just, I have a, I have a principal in the house and it's a drama.

Free gossip, free principal in the house.

If it doesn't affect you, we don't talk about it.

We don't sit around talking about other people.

We talk about ideas.

That's what we do.

And when they went back to school, they struggled with that.

A lot.

A lot of gossiping, a lot of drama.

A lot of this person, this person, especially my youngest, my youngest had the hardest time because she would come home and say, mommy, people aren't following the rules.

Like people are name calling and pushing each other and being mean and, and you know, she would try to correct people.

I said, you gotta just, you know, you gotta take care of yourself, look out for yourself, put your head down, focus on your work and don't worry about what anybody else is doing because that's out of your control.

So it was definitely an adjustment for them because they were just around a lot of people that didn't.

Don't live the way they do.

So educationally though, they did really well.

They did incredible.

Like, like I said, my oldest, she just got the president's award for academic achievement.

So they've all done really well.

And my younger two kids, they look up to their big sister and they want to, you know, they want that too.

So it's just, it's overall, educationally been really well.

That is so cool that I just love it.

And, you know, these success stories are such an inspiration to the families who are listening and things like that.

So thank you for sharing all that about the kids.

Now let's take a step back though, and go back into your business a little bit.

Right?

How did you balance or how do you help other people now balance this work, family relationship?

How does this help?

Yeah, just talk to us about that.

Because how does that, how does that influence your business coaching and your work relationships?

The family balance?

Yeah, I'm, I mean like everybody always wants to know about work life balance.

And it's always, it's, it's like the ocean, there's waves and you gotta ride, you gotta ride the waves.

And so I had an exercise that I created a few years ago and it was, I dubbed it what's your pill?

And it's purpose, impact, legacy, long term sustainability.

And that last one, the long term sustainability, we have to get that Nailed in, otherwise we're going to burn out.

And you know, sometimes you try to prevent burnout from happening, but it happens anyway.

You got to know how to recover from that burnout so that way you can get back on the wheel.

So what I did was I sat down and I looked at my priorities.

Like what are my priorities?

That because I say life be life and life is gonna life no matter what.

And we need to know how to dance with life.

We gotta learn how to do that.

And so regardless of what's going on in my life, in my business, in my family, whatever it is, what are my absolute non negotiable top priorities?

Because those, because a lot of times people will take a priority that they, they have, that's one of their biggest values.

But maybe they haven't identified it and put it on the back burner.

When life be life.

And so we need to be able to identify what are those things that they're going to stay right where they're at, maybe in a different capacity, but they're still going to get some time and attention no matter what's going on.

And you know, that really keeps things intact.

Even when things get a little crazy with life, you know, you get busier, Something happens in your family, something's calling more attention or time to you, maybe your kids need more attention, something's going on in their lives and it's calling more of you to show up.

Like whatever it is, the ebb and FL flow and the dance of life is just really being able to be fluid with that while still maintaining.

There are a certain amount of things that I still need to pay attention to.

Maybe it's not every single day through the week when something is going on, maybe it's three days a week, but I'm still keeping that intact.

I'm not losing myself and I'm not losing sight of, of these things.

Because then what happens is we drift really far off.

Next thing you know, maybe it's been three months since you've been to the gym, or maybe it's been three months since you've meditated or whatever it is that you've lost track of.

Yeah, me, it's like if I don't do it every day, if I like let a day slip in, then it's easier to let two days slip in and then it's easier to like lose a week.

So doing it, like doing something like three days a week, it's hard for me to like keep track of the three days.

So for me, I get stuck in this like it's all or nothing kind of a mode.

But I have brain damage.

Protect your head.

But I'm sure other people who don't have brain damage go through the same kind of a thing where it's like if, if I'm on it, I have to be consistent like every day.

How do, how do those of us like that get, be able to kick into like this three day a week thing without just giving up on it?

Well, maybe you don't even have to like if you go Back to there's 24 hours in a day and if you're like, man, you know, it just really turns me on if I can do this thing every single day because it feels good and I get to stay in my zone.

Maybe instead of two hours or one hour, maybe you're doing it for 20 minutes, maybe you're doing it for 15 minutes, 10 minutes.

So you're still dedicating that time every single day.

So you can go, oh, did it every single day still.

But maybe it wasn't the full time that you usually do.

Because if you look at 24 hours in a day, you know, if my, if my kids are like, roll their eyes like, oh my gosh, you want me to read the whole chapter of this book or something?

Like it's like there's 24 hours in a day.

And so if I'm asking you to spend 25 minutes doing one activity, it just puts it into perspective like, wow, that's actually, it's actually not too bad.

And I'm also moving the needle.

That 25 minutes significantly moves the needle and it compounds.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

And a lot of people forget that.

Right.

Sometimes it's not the length of something, it's the quality or the intensity of something that you do.

Ye.

That really does move the needle in the compounding effect.

Right?

In the compounding.

Yeah, yeah.

One of the things you've mentioned quite a bit and I absolutely love this because it's something we do with our families all the time.

You've talked about values and like non negotiables.

How do you talk about those with either your clients or even your kids so that they can like pick them out and really know what are the ones that are those non negotiables?

And these are the things that we're really going to stick to because there's.

So many people that come in and talk about, oh yeah, these are my priorities and these are my family values.

But they're coming to us because they have problems.

But then they, and then if you.

Look at all the problems, the problems are because they're not actually living their values and priorities.

Priorities, Yeah.

I think values have to be identified with behavior.

Like it has to be translated for children, too, to really understand.

So this is what we do, and this is why we do it.

This is what we don't do, and this is why we don't do it.

And I've just always explained that.

I've always given them that context their whole lives, growing up, understanding the why underneath it.

Because if you don't.

If they don't have that, they don't have any roots, they don't really know there's no meaning for them.

And that's what gets humans to move and do things.

Different meaning.

When we give meaning to something, then we can identify with that.

And, you know, everybody knows that if whatever you identify with, that's how you're going to behave, that's how you're going to go through life.

That's how things are going to maybe be like, whoa, that doesn't feel right because I don't.

That's not who I am.

And that's built on understanding why we do and don't do certain things.

Yeah.

What about with your clients?

So, yeah, you have these conversations with your clients as well.

So I don't do the coaching as much anymore.

Right now my focus is on my women's community.

And our values are steeped in everything that we do, and it's really centered around making meaningful connections.

There's a lot of, you know, the boring and transaction of networking and things like that.

And here's my business card.

What can you do for me?

What do you do?

And.

And I was like, let me.

Let me create something that's going to help people just come together with the soul.

Like the.

Just the pure joy of meaningful connection and enjoying each other's company and sharing values.

Because one of the biggest things was there were a lot of communities that I checked out that I didn't want to be a part of because it lacked that, those values.

And that's when I created the community.

And so everything that we do is steeped on that.

It's like the intention that we pour into everything from creating the events to the retreats to every time that we get together, all the communication that we have with each other, it's just steeped in that intention and in that purpose.

And again, just like with the kids, it's been made known what our values are, why they're there, and the effect that it has on the Whole.

Thank you.

And that's the.

And that's another reason why you are a perfect fit for this show, right?

Whenever we bring on our guests, it's these people who aren't.

It's not just transactional, it's how do we help each other, how do we really make this relationship happen, how do we go deeper?

We, whether it be in family life, in your business life as an entrepreneur, et cetera.

So thank you for that very, very much.

Would you like to tell us a little bit more about the community?

Yeah, I love it.

You know, I was going down to Orlando, Florida, and right before I was down there, I started seeing these ads for a women's only dinner in Orlando.

And it had happened to be while I was going to be down there.

So I said, wow, this is great.

I'm going to sign up, I'm going to go, I'm going to meet a table of amazing women.

And it had me fill out this algorithm and it was going to seat me at a, you know, seat me in a restaurant that I would like and with women that I had things in common with.

So it asked me all these questions and I get there and I quickly realize that maybe the algorithm doesn't work.

And I was like, wow, I'm.

I'm not in an environment and atmosphere that I would choose for myself, and I really have anything in common with these women.

And I just want to say something too.

When you identify values for yourself, it's so easy to know if the people you're talking to are aligned with those values.

It becomes so quickly to see if.

If that makes sense or not.

And so then I came back to New York and I started looking around and checking out different communities and different options and stuff.

I said, man, there's just not a single one that I really would feel proud to be a part of.

And again, that pride, that feeling of like, yes, I want to be a part of this, comes from me really knowing what my values are and wanting to be part of something bigger than myself.

So I said, I'm just going to create it.

And I launched it in October and tickets started selling right away, and women were actually going out of their way to thank me for creating the community.

And when I realized that it had that big of an impact because I was like, I was like, this is going to be great.

Women are going to get together and go to events just for fun.

No networking, like really, like meaningful connections, high level conversations.

You know, we're talking about our lives and our growth and our families.

And being the best version of ourselves and giving back to our community.

That's going to be great.

Women are going to have a lot of fun.

But then I saw the impact and went a lot deeper than that in these women's lives, and I was like, wow, I was really touched and moved by that.

And so then I launched an online community so that way women can stay connected in between the events and they get access to the membership directory.

And we're in three states now.

We're in New York, Massachusetts and California.

And.

And we just launched our last branch of movement, which is going to be our worldwide retreats.

And so we're growing and it's become a movement, and I feel very honored.

That is awesome.

I love it.

And, yeah, it's.

The networking really does get tough.

Right.

And we do it with our families, too.

It's like, oh, let's go try out this group for a while.

Let's try out this group for a while.

When you find your group right, it really, really matters.

And same thing with business and networking and women's groups and things like that.

So, yeah, thank you for having that inspiration and for doing that for people.

Would you tell us how people can contact you or maybe join that group?

And of course, everything will be down in the show notes as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

Our website is www.radiantandrare.com, and that's got everything you need to find events and retreats and the online community to connect with women and definitely get in touch.

Good way to do that.

Excellent.

All right, so I want.

I want one more inspirational homeschooling story about your kids on the road at an event with you and a learning opportunity you had in a city far, far away and apparently long, long ago, because your kids are now back in school.

Yeah.

Do you have anything specific that you want?

No, just.

Just like it.

I was really glad I was homeschooling.

It really was awesome to have my kids here.

And had they been in public education, this so would not have happened.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

So.

Because I, you know, I really loved the mornings when they were homeschooled because we would all get up together and I would set up the living room to be like an obstacle course.

Like, we would all have our own little areas and we would all work out together, together as a family.

And after that, we would all make smoothies together.

And then the kids would start getting ready for their day.

I would shower, I'd get ready for my day.

And there was no, like, okay, this one's got to be on the bus at this time, and then this one's got to be on the bus at this time.

We were all just working on one schedule, and that's.

I mean, that's so much easier.

It's funny because people think homeschooling is going to be so hard.

Right.

But when you've got multiple kids and multiple grades, you know, they're all different schedules.

But when it.

When we were homeschooling, every.

We're just on one family schedule, like, it was really easy.

And it's so.

Especially like, when you want to structure the kids day around your day, that's really easy because when they're in school, you're really structuring your timing around, you know, when they're leaving, when they're coming back and.

And their day.

So that I would say that that was probably the best part of it for me, just having that experience every day in the morning with them and just being able to.

I mean, so it was so great for bonding, but also really great for them, you know, putting their fitness first thing in the morning and then, you know, healthy eating and things like that.

Because I'm sure everyone's aware that the food in the schools are not awful.

Oh, it's awful.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We had a nutritionist on our show, and she was telling us some stats and facts about those school lunches and things like that.

Like, a chocolate milk has three times the sugar that a pregnant woman needs for a day, according to the.

To the national.

So it's like, yeah.

Crazy.

And then they expect little kids to drink that much sugar and then sit still.

And then sit still.

It's like, right.

Wind them up, sit them down, then put them on drugs.

Yeah.

But I love that good example that you gave because, you know, that's one of the other things that we talk about when we're working with families, is that you get to build your rhythm and routine and you get to know your kids.

Right.

And they don't necessarily have to wake up to an alarm unless there's something.

Something that you have to do instead.

It's a.

It's a flow, and it really helps you bond, connect.

Like you said, stay on structure, but still have the flexibility that you need and want for your kiddos.

Yes.

And that rhythm that you're talking about, you know, when life.

Be life thing.

Yes, you can.

You can change that rhythm as you need to.

Like when things are, you know, calling for more of your time in a different direction, you can change that rhythm.

You know, you can't really when they're in school, you can't really be like, well, you know, now you're going to start going to school at 9:30, because this thing's coming up in the morning that I need to do.

Like, it doesn't work.

Work that way.

So, yeah, when you.

When you're in.

When you're homeschooling, you have, like, the ultimate freedom and the ultimate authority over your time and your day and.

And all of that, and you can adjust it very, very easily.

Beautiful.

Is there anything that we haven't talked about today that you had kind of written over to the side?

Oh, I hope we get to talk about this today.

Or we said something earlier and I didn't get to explain.

Yeah, what was that thing we talked about?

And I said, oh, yeah, we bring that back.

I can't remember.

I. I remember when we were talking about it, but I can't remember the topic.

Something about your homeschooling experiences.

Yeah, I don't know.

Okay, but anything about the kiddos.

All right.

Anything else that you have.

I remember I made a face, and he was like, oh, wait, wait, wait.

That's gonna be a good story.

Let's save it till then.

And then.

And then we just.

It just didn't come back.

Darn it.

I knew I shouldn't have stopped.

Oh, but that's okay.

Awesome.

So, Laura, are you good?

Have anything else that you wanted to throw in there, either about the women's community or homeschooling or family in general?

I would just encourage people listening to this.

You know, if they're thinking about homeschooling.

You know, it really just comes down to making sure that you know how to create a schedule.

And.

And really, that's the skill that you need.

You don't really need to know how to teach them or tutor them.

There's so many resources for that.

You know, professionals that can do that for you.

That.

Are you guys.

There you go.

Very, very affordable.

Very affordable.

You know, like I said, I always had help for my kids when they needed it, because, one, I didn't go to college.

I went in the Marine Corps, so I'm not.

I'm not smart like them.

And then also I don't have the time.

So, yeah, I would just encourage people that are thinking about doing it.

I've never known of a negative experience from someone, you know, getting pulled out of public school, especially in today's.

Today's world.

And I think it's really good for the kids.

And one thing I would like to say is don't don't put yourself down about not going to college, being smart.

I went to college.

I am smart.

There's a lot of people in college who are not smart and should not be there.

There's a lot of really, really smart people out here who've never been to college, and they're some of my greatest mentors.

So I, yeah, I, so I, what you do, I so appreciate what you're doing for your family.

You have, you're coaching multi million dollar businesses and having 300 increases in profits.

That, that is not something that not intelligent people don't do.

So don't say that about yourself.

Well, I tell, I tell my kids, like, I might not be smart with the subjects, you know, with the school stuff.

I'm just smart in different ways.

So that's what I, that's what I meant.

Like, if there's parents that are listening to this and they're thinking, oh, I can't teach them how to do today's math, it's not the same thing as it was when I was growing up, or I don't know this about science or whatever.

Like, I just meant I'm not smart when it comes to that either.

But you can be smart in a lot of different ways.

And the only thing you really need to homeschool your kids is just know how to make a schedule.

That's it.

You know, know how to know how to make it work for your family.

You know, you're the, you're the breath of this whole thing and, and just, you know, when you're homeschooling, you're really taking that authority on and so.

But I appreciate what you said.

Yeah, thank you.

Awesome.

Beautiful.

Well, Laura, thank you very much for being here as our guest today, for sharing such great inspiration and insight and for all the other things that you're doing in your life and for your family.

We really appreciate you being here today.

And that was a beautiful final message.

Thank you so much.

So many people, you know, they, they take their message and they just keep it to themselves and they try and do the best they can.

And then some people are out there sharing it with the world, trying to make the world a better place.

And that's a, that's not an easy thing to do and you're out there tackling it head on, and that makes you a hero, in my opinion.

So thank you for being on our show today.

Thank you for doing what you're doing and thank you for sharing how you handled your kids in and out of school with us.

Thank you so much.

It's an honor.

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