Laura Day on Practical Intuition, Personal Growth and the Power of Small Changes

Making Space with Hoda Kotb

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Laura Day is a New York Times bestselling author and renowned intuitive who has spent more than four decades teaching people how to use intuition as a practical, evidence-based tool for change. Laura opens up to Hoda Kotb about the pain that shaped her purpose, how science and intuition helped her navigate profound loss, and the actionable framework behind her book “The Prism: Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future.” Plus, she explains why lasting transformation comes from small, intentional shifts, clear goals, and learning to work with reality rather than relying on belief alone.

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0:00.0	Have you ever met someone who sees the world so uniquely that you think, how could she know that?
0:14.1	Laura Day is one of those people. She's a New York Times best-selling author and a trusted intuitive,
0:19.9	known for what she calls practical intuition.
0:23.5	For more than four decades, she's helped celebrities, Fortune 500 CEOs, and scientists
0:29.7	tap into their own inner wisdom to find success in business and in life, even being called
0:36.3	the psychic of Wall Street by the British outlet,
0:39.3	the Independent. Brad Pitt once said, I believe in the gut and I believe in Laura Day.
0:45.9	But behind those headlines is a woman who turned her own pain into purpose. After a childhood
0:51.6	marked by neglect, abuse, and loss, she found a path to healing and has devoted
0:56.9	her life to helping others do the same.
0:59.0	In our conversation, she reflects on turning trauma into strength, balancing science with spirit,
1:05.0	and how clarity comes when you learn to listen to yourself.
1:09.0	Much of what she details in her book, The PRISM,
1:12.1	Seven Steps to Kill Your Past and Transform Your Future. I'm Hoda Codby to you. I've been admiring you. I've been listening to you. I've been stalking you. I've been loving all the things you're talking about. So when I heard there was this book out called, and I'm holding it up now, The Prism, Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Future, I was like, I've got to get this.
1:48.6	You've written a ton of books.
1:50.3	How did this one arrive into the world through you?
1:53.9	Most of the books I've written are about intuition and what people call psychic skills,
1:59.9	although not my favorite term. And because, and what people call psychic skills, although not my favorite term.
2:02.0	And because intuition, when it's really acute, when you can really use it, is because of trauma, I also wrote intuition and crisis and, you know, how to make your intuition subconscious so you don't go into OCD trying to predict
2:18.2	what's going to happen. But it was all about intuition, intuition. And then at a certain point
2:24.3	between the deaths of my brother and sister, which I'm sure we'll speak about later, between
2:30.0	their suicides, I realized that that as intuitive as we all are, the thing that saved me
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