Ep. 162 You Are Lovable Right Now with Laura Behnke
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On the podcast today is Laura Behnke, a writer, speaker, coach, creator of The Life Actually Company™, and host of The Life Actually Podcast.
A 16-year TV sports anchor and reporter veteran, Laura left the business in 2017 to pursue her passion for supporting and empowering women in all phases of their lives. Her work helps women put aside the idea of what you should be doing and instead to embrace your unique path. There’s the way you thought your life would go and then there’s your life, actually. It’s the actually that holds all of the possibilities, once you choose to accept it.
Laura lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Marc and their labradoodle, Oxford.
In today’s episode Laura and I chat about:
Laura shares how to stop worrying about where you “should” be in life and instead drop the expectations and start owning your unique timeline by embracing the life you have right now.
Why there isn’t just one way to live a happy and successful life, the importance of peer mentoring and surrounding ourselves with modern day examples of love and relationship timelines.
Laura debunks the myth of “if you don’t love yourself, no one else can love you” and why you’re lovable right now.
Plus, Laura shares her journey navigating expectations and perfectionism, joy in this season of her life, her biggest dream, and so much more!
I’m so excited to share this week’s new episode with Laura, and I can’t wait to hear what you think! Make sure to join the conversation on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter!
“It’s the actually that makes up our lives. It’s the actually that makes up our stories. It’s the actually where all the good stuff is, and the hard stuff too. The good stuff comes in ways that we never expected, but we fight it because we think it’s supposed to be another way.”
“It is totally normal to feel this way, everyone feels this way to some extent about something in their lives. Also, it’s hard! It’s really, really hard to want something so badly or to have this idea of how your life should be, where you should be, or what you should be doing and have that not be the reality. That is hard, that is hard work. It’s a lifelong process that we go through of really accepting our own journey.”
To connect with Laura and learn more visit her website https://www.laurabehnke.com on Instagram @laurabbehnke and you can tune into The Life Actually Podcast here
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