Meet Laura
wild awake woman
The Beginning of Wild Awake Woman
For much of my life, I believed what many women are taught to believe: if I worked hard enough, achieved enough, and checked all the right boxes, fulfillment would naturally follow.
So I did what was expected. I built a career, raised a family, embraced every role, and kept moving forward. From the outside, my life looked successful.
Yet beneath all of it was a quiet truth I could no longer ignore.
I wasn’t fully living my life. I was managing it.
Like so many women, I had become incredibly skilled at meeting expectations while slowly losing touch with myself. I was constantly doing, rarely being. Always moving, rarely pausing. I had built a life that worked, but it no longer reflected the woman I was becoming.
Midlife didn’t feel like a crisis. It felt like an invitation.
An invitation to question the definitions of success I had inherited, to step away from the noise, and to discover what was actually true for me.
That decision changed everything.
As I began spending more time in nature, alongside horses, traveling with intention, and creating space for reflection, I discovered something that has become the foundation of Wild Awake Woman:
Transformation doesn’t happen because we try harder.
It begins when we create the conditions to hear ourselves again.
Everything began to change when I stopped searching for the next answer and started creating space to hear my own.
I realized the life I had built no longer reflected the woman I was becoming. Instead of trying to do more, I chose to slow down. I immersed myself in nature, spent time with the horses, traveled with intention, and embraced experiences that invited reflection instead of distraction.
What I discovered was simple, yet life-changing:
Transformation doesn’t happen by accident. It begins when we intentionally create the conditions to reconnect with ourselves
This marked my wild awakening.
It wasn’t an overnight transformation. Letting go of a lifetime of expectations, achievement, and proving wasn’t always easy. But with every intentional choice, I felt more like myself. I learned to protect my time, honor my boundaries, and trust my own inner knowing over the expectations of others. That shift didn’t just change my life. It changed what I believe is possible for every woman who is willing to pause, listen, and choose a life that feels true to her.
Today, I live differently.
I no longer measure my life by how much I accomplish, but by how present I am within it. My work is no longer something I do; it is an expression of who I am and what I believe.
Wild Awake Woman grew from that realization.
Every conversation, gathering, retreat, and experience is intentionally designed to create the space for women to reconnect with themselves, not by becoming someone new, but by remembering who they’ve been all along.
That is the life I choose to create.
It’s also the invitation I extend to every woman who steps into a Wild Awake Woman experience.
Most importantly, I believe that your story is not over and you have what it takes to live your most audacious life starting NOW!
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver