Laura grew up in a small town in southern Oklahoma and moved to Los Angeles site unseen when she was 22. Years of film and television production followed, and in 2007 she married the director she met on her first movie set. 

For six years, Laura wrote regularly at Hollywood Housewife, a blog that opened doors of friendship and opportunity all over the world. Through blogging, Laura traveled to Sri Lanka, Haiti, Israel, and all over the United States writing and speaking. 

Eventually she closed the Hollywood Housewife blog and moved toward podcasting. She was a regular co-host on the girlfriend chat show Sorta Awesome and is the creator and host of the topic-driven Smartest Person in the Room. 

In 2019, Laura launched the 10 Things To Tell You podcast, a show born out from her realization that sharing herself online and in person pulled her out of a long season of loneliness. Each episode of 10 Things To Tell You provides a prompt for you to take to your journal or text to a best friend or use to start a deeper, more meaningful conversation. Because sharing yourself is the key to connection.

From the 10 Things To Tell You podcast came her first book Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level (2021). Her second book will release in 2023 and is titled The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs.

Laura lives in LA with her husband, Jeff, and their two children. She is passionate about 20 minute reading timers, bold lipstick, Stephen King, and chicken wings.