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Laura, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Thank you so much for having me on today. I am thrilled to be here. Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. So as I was saying, before we hit record here, I found out about your work because you wrote in. but as always, with guests I picked, there's some method to this madness, which is only my curiosity. And I read your about page, and I think two things really struck me. One is that you actually host a podcast with your mom, and two is that you have this immense love for horses. And I'm always obsessed with people who are either good or obsessed with unusual things. But before we get into all of that,

I want us to ask you, what did your parents do for work? And how did that end up influence and shaping what you've ended up doing with your life and your career? It's been a pretty direct correlation.

So my parents actually met when they were talk show hosts at the same radio station. My dad's been at the same

station now for more than 50 years. And my mom started working there when she was 18. So they met,

they fell in love. They continued hosting radio shows. And somewhere along the way, I caught the bug.

And I was trying to resist it for so long, but couldn't do it.

How old were you when that happened?

When I first started to get into broadcasting myself.

Yeah.

I would always go on my dad's show for Take Your Daughter to Work Day from the time I was maybe six on and I would go on there with my sister.

She would do the vast majority of the talking because I was painfully shy.

But I got interested in doing a show of my own actually just a few years ago, maybe within the last four or five years.

So while you're growing up, anybody who does a creative career knows that it's fraught with

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