Show Notes
Laura E. Knights is our special guest for the Take Nothing When I Die Podcast Episode 11! This episode is all about her work as a reformed workaholic, her mission to empower people to create their own legacy and how being a 'bad employee' led to being a successful entrepreneur! You don't want to miss out on what she shares.
Laura E. Knights is an author, speaker, and relationship expert that helps people discover solutions, techniques, and strategies to achieve desired outcomes in their personal and professional relationships. Her expertise and background in business, organizational development, adult learning and education, and as a licensed clinical social worker has uniquely equipped her to teach others how to deal with both the "head work" and "heart work" required to succeed at work and in life. She has been developing both personal and professional programs in this vein for the last 16 years. Laura is also the Founder and Lead Consultant of Knights Consulting LLC, a leadership development consultancy focused on strengthening leaders and teams, and enhancing workplace culture through coaching, training, and consulting services.
Over the years, her multi-passionate adventures have taken her in many directions as a serial entrepreneur. Laura has worked as a wedding planner, social worker, licensed family therapist, non-profit program developer and administrator, and small business advisor, just to name a few. Today, she spends her time providing leadership development consulting to organizations and providing relationship coaching to couples. No matter how she’s spending her time, Laura is a teacher at heart. With all her activities, she always aims to fulfill her WHY —To educate and empower people so that they can uncover their full potential, walk boldly in it, and create their own legacy. She looks at life as one big adventure, and she always has her eyes open for the next leg of the journey.
Laura's #TNWIDTakeaway: "The energy that you spend on thinking you aren't going fast enough, you aren't doing things big enough, you are not 'on the timeline' will literally rob of your time, of your happiness, of your creativity, which is one of the most valuable things that we have."
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