This Mother Means Business · 2026-09-07 · 18 min
What if the hardest part of growing your business isn't strategy - but becoming the person who can keep showing up when life gets hard? Every entrepreneur faces setbacks, grief, criticism, and self-doubt. The difference isn't whether those challenges happen - it's how you choose to respond. A lasting business growth strategy isn't built during the easy seasons. It's built by continuing to move forward when life feels anything but easy. In this deeply personal episode, Laura shares four powerful lessons she's learned over more than a decade of entrepreneurship and motherhood. From navigating grief, illness, business failures, and relationship challenges to dealing with criticism and making difficult leadership decisions, she reflects on the mindset shifts that have helped her keep building a business through life's most challenging seasons. You'll hear why two things can be true at the same time - you can be struggling personally while still making progress professionally.
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