A Day In Her Life

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Corre Larkin, the food creator behind Coco Larkin Cooks and author of the debut cookbook Season to Taste , out November 10. Corre lives in Newport Beach with her husband, Matt, and their two kids (10 and almost 13). She sold the company she ran for 13 years to private equity to go "all in on something I actually wanna do."...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Samantha Arak, interior designer, hot power vinyasa teacher at Down Under Yoga, competitive runner for Whirlaway, and mom of two boys in West Medford. Samantha shares how she wakes between 5 and 6am without an alarm, runs the Boston Marathon course before teaching a 9:30 class in a 100-degree studio, and is tucked into bed with a bo...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Erin Roberts, vice president of her family's third-generation Coca-Cola bottling company, writer of the Substack What Erin Cooks, and mom of three in rural Missouri. Erin shares what it's like to wake at 5:10am for a basement workout, have groceries delivered to her office (stores won't deliver out to her house), and...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Kate Fisher, founder of Kate Fisher Tutoring and mom of two daughters on New York's Upper East Side. Kate shares what it's like to tutor back-to-back on Zoom from 4pm to 9pm with zero breaks (dinner included), cook the family's dinner at 11am so it's ready to reheat later, and pop out mid-session to say goodnight...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Elizabeth Wellington Rollins, a former award-winning tech copywriter turned full-time novelist whose debut, "The Three Graces of Pearl Street," just landed on the USA Today bestseller list. Liz shares what it's like to launch a book she's been working toward for 20 years, working "investment banking hours&qu...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Carly Martin, an illustrator and mom of two boys in Denver who spent over a decade building a custom wedding stationery business before pivoting to align with her passion. Carly shares what it's like to wake up at 5am for a workout before her early-rising kids are up, and why she's now pouring her energy into writing and i...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we’re sitting down with Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, a retired U.S. ambassador who spent thirty years in the Foreign Service before reinventing herself as a personal stylist, memoirist, and small-town finance committee volunteer. Elizabeth shares what it’s like to trade fifteen-minute State Department increments for mornings with no alarm clock and to “walk the estat...

Tell us what you think!!! Welcome to this week's episode - a quick coffee chat of sorts - about the lessons I've learned from guests over the past 3.5 years. I went through every episode - honest - it took way longer than I thought it would, and distilled down the biggest lessons I've learned so far.  There's no right or wrong way to do something. Just what's working for e...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're chatting with Kate Zeitler, founder of Zeitler Design — the creative agency behind A Day in Her Life's own rebrand — who runs her studio on an "intensive model," taking on just one client at a time. Kate shares what it's like to build an entire brand and website in a single week, raise three kids in Natick, Massachusetts, and stil...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're chatting with Alexa Archibald, who spent nine years at Meta — including a stretch on the AI and machine learning team — before walking away to run her jewelry brand, Charm Lane Collection, and her content business ( @CharmLane ) full-time. Alexa shares what it's like to pack every order herself out of her home studio and parent two wild little b...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Emma Shulman, a self-described "recovering executive" who left a 15-year tech career to chase her lifelong dream of writing a novel. Emma shares what it's like to be out the door by 4:45am three to four mornings a week to write at her regular Starbucks — where she knows every barista by name — before her kids can &quo...

Tell us what you think!!! Catharine Perry is the chief operating officer of a global trade association, splitting her time between Omaha, Nebraska and Washington, D.C., overseeing finance, HR, operations, and member programs for an entire industry — and she still blocks her 9:00–9:30am Eastern hour as "available by phone" so she never misses daycare drop-off. In this week’s conversation,...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, you're stuck with me for a solo episode on what it actually looks like when I travel for work. I'm walking through my exact packing system (mouth tape included), the carry-on I've used for almost 10 years, and the loyalty programs I will defend to the death. In this casual check-in, I share my TSA Touchless routine at Logan, why I'll do just...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Karina Monesson, a workforce researcher at Great Place to Work and mom of four girls (ages 1, 3, 6, and 11) in South Florida.  Karina shares what it's like to run a three-and-a-half-hour bedtime marathon every night, wear a continuous glucose monitor that shows her blood sugar spiking from stress alone, and grow a food forest o...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Hannah Rosenberg, a poet and writer whose first book, "Same," came out this past October. Hannah shares what it's like to write about your own life as it's happening, four months postpartum with a newborn and a three-year-old, catching poems in parked cars and the gaps between camp drop-off and coffee with friend...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Sabina Hitchen, founder of Press for Success and mom to a seven-year-old in Portland, Maine. Sabina shares what it's like to wake by 5am for a solo walk that doubles as her idea generator, run a PR company with her husband (who she hired away from his own media career), and touch an actual tree before she can stop being "P...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Barbara Mighdoll, owner and CEO of MNT Studio — the first wellness social club combining Pilates, co-working, sauna, and childcare — who also runs the marketing agency behind her brand New Modern Mom and just co-founded Roam Collective, a family sabbatical company. Barbara shares what it's like to grow one Pilates studio into s...

Tell us what you think!!! This week, we're sitting down with Lydia Fenet, the world's leading charity auctioneer who has raised over a billion dollars for nonprofits, founder of a talent agency for auctioneers, two-time author (her first book optioned by Hulu), and mom of three living in Tribeca. Lydia shares what it's like to spend 90 nights a year on stage, run a household where h...

Tell us what you think!!! Rachel Hochhauser was killing time on her phone in a hospital waiting room — her husband recovering from emergency brain surgery, her 18-month-old at home — when a meme of Cinderella's evil stepmother stopped her cold. "This isn't a villain. She's just trying to take care of her two daughters." That spark became "Lady Tremaine," her debu...

Tell us what you think!!! Emilie Dayan Hill got her start in finance by pure luck — a phone call that came as she was literally climbing into a moving truck, leaving Mississippi for Atlanta with no job and no connections. A decade later, she's a partner and high net worth investment advisor at a major investment firm, and the writer behind Finance That Feels, where she's reshaping the wa...

Tell us what you think!!! Melissa Hines never planned to own a business. She just refused to compromise on care — and that single non-negotiable turned a one-woman practice into Wellest Integrative Health, a Back Bay pelvic floor PT clinic with seven practitioners and an expansion already underway. In this episode, Melissa pulls back the curtain on building what she calls her "third baby&quot...

Tell us what you think!!! Francesca Cervero has been a full-time yoga teacher for 21 years — and she will tell you, this is her passion. Francesca has evolved her teaching from 40-50hr weeks in person in New York, to now teaching exactly when her son is in school virtually. In this week’s conversation, Francesca shares how a serious hip injury at 23 (she was walking with a cane while teaching full...

Tell us what you think!!! Jennifer Cook wakes up at five every morning — not because she has to, but because she's wired that way. A fashion buyer for a multi-brand store in Soho, a hot yoga teacher, and the writer behind the Mom Friend Substack, she's built a life in Brooklyn that holds a two-and-a-half-year-old, three jobs, a musician husband, and a self-imposed 8:45pm bedtime. The key...

Tell us what you think!!! Alison Hall doesn't know where her day will take her — and that's the point. As a correspondent for Inside Edition, she might get a call at 7am sending her to Long Island for a court hearing, spend the afternoon at the FaceTime set doing virtual interviews with sources in California, or hop on a flight to London. Her workday ends with show tape between 3 and 5pm...

Tell us what you think!!! Kathryn Humphries turned down a buying position at Bergdorf Goodman to bet on a one-woman PR agency run by someone she'd just met — and that gut instinct shaped everything. From interning in Ralph Lauren's celebrity dressing department to running social media at Gap, she built a career across New York's fashion world before moving home to Houston, meeting h...