I'M LAURA!

Speaker | Leadership Development Expert | Organizational Psychologist

Hi, I’m Dr. Laura Gallaher, and I’m passionate about helping high-achievers like you unlock the secret to making life—and leadership—easier.

But I didn’t always live this way. 

Why I Do This Work

I spent most of my life stressed from about middle school on. Once I realized I could get straight A’s, nothing else felt good enough. If there was an honors version of a class, I wanted in. If I could compete and do better, I would. First chair oboe player, varsity tennis player as a sophomore, drum major in the band for 3 years (yes I was a band geek). In college, it was all about grad school, and then during grad school, I started working full-time for NASA.

So now I’ve got a full-time job, I’m teaching part-time, I’m taking classes, and I’m working on my dissertation. There was always so much to be stressed out about.

I kept telling myself, “It’ll get better once I…”

Get into grad school

Land the job

Finish my PhD

But the line kept moving - wedding planning, buying a house, starting a business.

And then I had a moment. I am sitting in my home office. My husband comes to the door.

“Hey Laura, Jake and Mary invited us to go to the movies tonight, wanna go?”

“I don’t have time right now” I tell him.

“Laura – you never have time”

“I know babe, but it’s only going to be like this until….”

And I realize I had no truthful end to that sentence.

Until…. What, until I leave NASA? That didn’t feel true. Once I left NASA, I’d be throwing myself hard into the business to make sure it can replace my income and I can prove to myself that I can make it on my own.

Until I hit a certain amount of revenue? Yeah right, I’ll magically decide, ok that’s enough.

And then I realize… “It’s only going to be like this until I decide I want it to be different.”

I realized I would never hit a certain milestone of “success” in my business and then that would be the magic wand to tell me that I don’t have to be so stressed.

It was a culminating moment when I realized that I was the only one who could truly do something to change anything about my level of stress. It was a strangely moving moment that was combined with sadness but also excitement and empowerment.

It became the catalyst for me to make real changes in my life that are still a part of my journey today.

The things that I learned and put into practice in my life had me going from feeling stressed, overwhelmed, constantly overworked, feeling behind, and never enough to feeling

confident, empowered, more relaxed, more of the time, proud of my progress, and confident in my choices.

And, I, personally, went from working a 9-5 to running my own 7-figure business – which I’ve been running for 12 years now. The statistics on this – the number of businesses that stay in business for over 10 years is 30%. And - people who take their business past a million in annual revenue is less than 9% - some stats say for female founders – it’s only 2%. I think that number is increasing – woohoo! And, it’s a very small number.

But I don’t tell you this to tell you that I’m amazing. What’s amazing is what you’ll learn in this workshop.

The concepts that changed my life are the ones that will help you:

Break through self-limiting beliefs

Perform at your highest level

Feel more at ease than ever before

You are already a rock star- now it’s time to feel like one - without the stress.