Fit to Travel

Just because you’re out of town- be it for work or pleasure, doesn’t mean that you have to leave your healthy routine at home. In fact, traveling is an opportunity to explore new ways to workout, eat healthy foods and live fit. Take it from someone who travels for work both as a travel writer and a business woman… as well as a fitness expert. Here are the tricks of the trade.

Turn Your Life Experience Into A Career

Whether you’ve lived a lot of lives, or simply focused in on one, if you are passionate about it, you can turn it into a profitable business. Whatever your life experience and passion is, there is a business in there if you want to harness it. From being a stay-at-home mom who lost baby weight while working out with your child in his carriage, you’re passionate about baking… as a side project, you have traveled to almost every single country, or you are awesome at picking up men, there is a niche that your insight fits. Here’s how…

How to Flirt, Date, and Find your Mr. Right

It’s time to hold the reigns of your love life and make the most of your time and energy by figuring out what you really want in a relationship, then how to go out and get it.

Bites with Benefits- How and What to Eat for Energy, Confidence, Calm, and Anything Else YOU Want to Focus on

Food isn’t just for the purpose of filling and fattening you up. They can also be Bites with Benefits- meals that multitask, like upping energy, sex drive, mental focus, calm, or just help burn more fat. These are your Bites with Benefits shopping lists and recipes.

Transform Your Kitchen for Weight Loss and Getting Healthy

You work out every day, but you are STILL gaining weight! Maybe it’s time to take a look at your diet. From funny little tricks (like Post-Its in the Pantry and Skinny Jeans in the Kitchen) to Understanding portion control through the use of smaller plates and serving size scoopers, plus how to stock a healthy fridge, pantry, and freezer, and spice rack filled with bites with benefits and safe snacks, Laurel will help you transform your kitchen for healthy living and weight loss.

How to Green Every Room in Your House

Form your office to your kitchen, you skincare to your dog, Laurel has tips on how to go green, minimize the amount of unhealthy toxins in your home, and even save money.

Anti-Aging: The Reality Check-List

Anti-Aging skincare, habits and lifestyle really should start before the signs of gaining start to appear- when you’re 18. But if you’re already past that, it’s time to start running against the clock. From refrigerator facials to exercises (yeah certain workouts), skincare products to foods, you can defy Mother Nature.

Injured or Disabled? How to Get Healthy and Get Fit

One of the key concerns when it comes to working out is avoiding injury. Because no matter how much get-fit success you’re having, how many skinny jeans sizes you’re dropping, or how strong you feel, as soon as you hear that snap, feel that tear, or simply wake up with the inability to engage that muscle… that’s it. You’re out for a little while. Or are you? Sure, you may not be able to run (you can hardly walk!), jump, dance, kick, skate, or ride, but as long as the injury is only lower body, there are still a lot of calorie-burning, muscle-toning, metabolism-tuning, and beyond all of that- endorphins-pumping upper body cardio exercises that you can do.

No Time? Weight Loss and Get-Fit Tips for Super Busy ChicksOR

No-Time-To-Workout Way to Get Healthy Anyway

Regardless of how much (or little) time you have to dedicate to your fitness and healthy food regimen, you can still lose weight and get healthy. Take away those excuses and use these tips and tricks to get fit.

How to Boost Your Energy

Specific exercises, foods, and lifestyle choices can help to infuse your day with more energy. Here’s what to do, eat, and live get out of your "I’m tired" slump and start being more effective, efficient, and full of life.

How to Reduce Your Stress

Specific exercises, foods, and lifestyle choices can help to reduce your stress level so that you can go about your day with a more cool, calm, collected, and sane outlook, allowing you to be more effective and efficient without having the knots in your shoulders and back to show for it. In her first book "The Guru’s Guide to Serenity" Laurel explores several ways to minimize stress in ways that work for your individual lifestyle without shaking up your schedule or forcing you out of your box. This is about finding your comfort zone.

How to Boost Your Confidence

Specific exercises, foods, and lifestyle choices can help to up your confidence, therefore improving your success in both business and life. It’s surprisingly easier than you would think to transform your attitude and how others perceive you.

Freshman 15? Here’s How to Lose It

College can put your body into crisis mode when it comes to weight gain, healthy eating, and stress. Undo the damage and retrain your habits so that you can live fit and healthy in the real world.

Staycations- How to "Go On Vacation" Without Leaving Your Town/City

Desperate for a vacation? Aren’t we all. If you don’t have the time or money to allow yourself the much-needed escape, you still can getaway and benefit from that out of town trip… without enduring the stress of air travel, traffic, or tourist traps.

How to Traveling Can Make You More Interesting

It’s amazing what a difference one plane trip, one hotel stay, one candle-lit dinner on the beach, or one kayaking tour can make. From food to people, experiences to just being in silence, make the most out of your vacations and help them to shift your life, add perspective, and even make you a more interesting person.

Media Training: How to be TV Savvy- How to Exude Confidence and Be Effective On the Air

Need to be more confident, calm, on the ball, and get your point across when on air? You could hire an expensive media trainer who will charge you an arm and a leg, or you could take the advice, tips, and tricks from someone who has been on air over a hundred times, made lots of mistakes at first, and learned the hard way about how to be an excellent on-air guest.

Mastering the Media

Mastering the media is crucial for anyone with a message or a product to pitch. If you are in advertising or PR, learn how to teach your clients to be effective on-air and give fantastic interviews. If you work in the non-profit sector or want to become a spokesperson or "news pundit," discover sure-fire techniques that won’t have viewers changing the channel. Laurel can help you understand the world of journalists and teach you how best to get your information into their hands.

In this seminar you can expect to learn how to:

Think like a reporter/news producer.

Interact with the media and get journalists’ attention.

Hone your message and deliver it succinctly.

Be confident and relaxed in any interview situation.

Prepare and dress for on-air appearances.

Use your voice effectively in radio interviews.

Write press releases that journalists actually read.

Money, Not Fame. How to Be a Ghost Writer

Many nonfiction books, especially those "written" by experts in fields other than writing, are actually written by ghostwriters. Ghostwriters have the gift of synthesizing information that comes out of someone else’s mouth, regurgitating it and spitting it out into an interesting, easily digestible book. Remember, we are all experts in something. Fashion designers may be good at putting together an outfit and fitness gurus may be good at slimming your body, but can they write a book? Not necessarily. But you can. You are a writer, that is your highly valued expertise. Take advantage of it. Los Angeles is where the diet, fitness, design and self-help trends are created. We are a melting pot of non-fiction experts, yet many writers in this city have their sights set on the big screen instead of the bookstore scene. Herein lies your opportunity to hook up with an expert and write their book!

In this seminar, you'll learn:

How you can segue from freelance magazine writer to freelance book writer

What the "rules" of ghostwriting are

How to land a ghost writing gig.

The process of ghostwriting a proposal and a book

How to Be A Great Mentor

Being a mentor isn’t just rewarding for the mentee, but also for the mentor. The question is- how can you be a great mentor, what is too much and where is the line?

How to Find a Mentor and Get the Most Out of That Relationships

Having a mentor can be a key component to your success. The question is- how do you find one, when can they do for you, how can you get the most out of them without crossing the line?

How to Fake Confidence in Business (until you ARE confident)

Are you afraid of Success? Do you have a hard time following up, or following through?

Sometimes you have to Fake It-  you have to pretend to be confident, pretend to be strong, pretend to be successful and sure until you actually are.

In this seminar you will learn:

How to get out of the way of your success

How to follow through and follow up

How to use the connections that undoubtedly already surround you

How to be a finisher

How to act and eventually be confident and successful

How to Turn Your Life into a Career: Sell Yourself- From Platform to PR

Plenty of entrepreneurs never went to school for "that." They just had the determination to follow a path- not even necessarily knowing where that path would lead, carving it out as they went along, following the light from their light bulb overhead until that light was given life. Now it’s your turn. Forget "if you build it, they will come." Sure, you can build it, and they will come… but only if you do the leg work to get from A (building it) to B (them coming). Learn to build your platform, establish your brand, and PR yourself to up your chances of "them" coming." In this time of transition, many of us are looking to change our ways, grab the reins and take control of our lives. We read dozens of self-help diatribes that explain in great detail how "thoughts create our reality" and that "if I think rich, I will be." Problem is- we are waiting for the happiness and fulfillment to happen to us, instead of taking action and making happiness and fulfillment happen.

You may be a bartender or a store buyer and you don’t know how to take your talent, your passion, your knowledge and expand it so that it better benefits you. This seminar can help you learn to:

-Extract Your Thoughts

-Organize Your Idea

-Create a Pitch

-Conceptualize and Design a Website-

-Write a Book Proposal

-Find an Agent

-Build Your Platform

-Create a Mailing List

-Learn how to be Your Own Publicist

-Be Media Savvy and More Comfortable in Front of the Camera

-Brand Yourself

-Expand Your Reach

How To Fake A Perfect Body, Complexion, and Confidence

Fake a perfect body, flawless complexion, and exude confidence in an instant with foods, fitness and lifestyle tweaks, tips and secrets.

You Have A Book In You… how get your story out of your head and onto paper.

Everyone has a book inside of them. Everyone’s life experience has given them enough for their own book. How to get the story out of your head is the question. Some people have the gift of gab. Other people find their voice in their fingers. More than writing your life, as you structure your book, you just might find that you also structure your life, think about and organize your thoughts, and figure out what you really want to do. Finding focus in your book helps find focus in yourself. And that’s empowering. Set your fingers free and your voice will come through them.

Bring your Light Bulb Concept to Life

Particularly in today’s change-seeking business climate, many of us are looking to hone and follow our passions, turning hobbies into self-made jobs. We want to stop working for someone else and start working for ourselves. But how? What are we supposed to do with our "aha" idea? How many people do you know, including yourself, who have such a great idea, but don’t have the time or know how to translate it into reality? If you have the drive, you have the high level concept, you have the contacts, then yes, you do have the time to make this happen.

Fact is:

You don’t need to be a guru to inspire.

You don’t need to be a teacher to teach.

You don’t need to be a writer to write.

You can take your career to the next level. You may be a bartender or a store buyer and you don’t know how to take your talent, your passion, your knowledge and expand it so that it better benefits you. You may be told that you can’t make a career out of what you do, you never went to school for that. Plenty of entrepreneurs never went to school for "that." They just had the determination to follow a path- not even necessarily knowing where that path would lead, carving it out as they went along, following the light from their light bulb overhead until that light was given life. Now it’s your turn. When? Right now.