Here’s What I’ve Been Up to Professionally
Laurie E. Smith is the author of The Flow Habit (Hay House/Penguin Random House) and a trusted voice on creativity and flow. Laurie specializes in developing customized workshops and programs to help clients experience more flow, awaken their unique talents and gifts, and follow their creative callings. Her programs include powerful storytelling, interactive exercises, and are designed to be uplifting, inspiring, and fun. Laurie‘s clients and students often share that her relaxing guided meditations, which she creates intuitively on-the-spot are a favorite part of her programs.
Laurie E. Smith’s book, The Flow Habit, is a step-by-step guidebook to changing your life with the power of flow (December 2025/Hay House Publishing, an imprint of Penguin Random House). The Flow Habit includes a fresh take on the latest flow research from the perspective of creativity and well-being.
In her earlier book Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Self, Laurie Smith documents her own journey through the 28-Day Flow Challenges, and includes more than 350 creative exercises, poems, and inspirational quotes to help you unlock your own creative voice.
Laurie Smith is absolutely passionate about the power of flow–specifically, how flow has the power to boost our creativity, intuition, improve emotional well-being, and quickly connect us with our wisest, truest selves. Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, Laurie has been offering her 28-Day Flow Challenges, which include supporting participants in choosing a 5- to 10-minute daily activity that they love to do that has a high chance of getting them into flow. This is just one way she leads highly creative, intuitive people in uncovering their own unique formulas for flow and changing their lives. Laurie’s programs integrate best practices from the business world, tapping her experience in marketing and public relations, as well as creative visualization, intuition/energy work, and life coaching.
Laurie loves developing unique customized workshops on creativity and flow for groups, organizations, and businesses. Her speaking clients include Fortune 100 companies; not-for-profit companies and educational institutions such as The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA, BBYO leadership conferences, Partners in Policymaking of Maryland; The Philadelphia School District; New Beginnings School/NJ, and others. She loves delivering ongoing staff team-building workshops for start-up and small creative firms, and being a regular teacher/trainer at a wide variety of wellness organizations including yoga studios, spiritual organizations, and Self-Healing Expressions, an online educational service serving tens of thousands of people undergoing difficult times and interested in personal transformation.
In addition to flow, has experience speaking on the following topics: Stress Management, Interpersonal Communication; Managing Transitions and Change; Creative Visualization; Manifesting Your Dreams; Your Happiest Moment; Seven Paths to Awakening Your Inner Wisdom; Energy Clearing: Making Space for What’s Next; and DreamCatching: A Five-Step Process for Uncovering Your Unique Gifts and Living the Life of Your Dreams.
Laurie Smith is also the founder of DreamCatching™– her unique five-step intuitive coaching process for helping people create the lives and businesses of their dreams. Prior to her work in coaching and personal development, Laurie Smith worked in the world of public relations, specializing in national media relations for healthcare and business clients. She worked for Johnson & Johnson, and then for Burson-Marsteller in New York City. She then launched her own public relations business WordSmith Communications, Inc.
Her marketing clients have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fortune, Time, and many other national media outlets. She worked on the launch of several well-known pharmaceutical medications, and patient education programs on topics including osteoporosis, patient communication, hand washing and diabetes management. She was also a ghost writer and editor of the first edition of The Black Man’s Guide to Good Health, published by Putnam Publishing.
Professional Credentials
Laurie Smith has a B.A. in Communications from The University of Pennsylvania, with a specialization in sociology and journalism. She also studied at The Institute for Holistic Studies and is a certified Life Coach, Certified NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner, Certified Professional Soul Coach®, Certified TimeLine Therapy™ Practitioner, Certified Humanistic NLPsychology™ Practitioner, Certified Reiki Master Teacher, and a graduate of The Accelerated Path™ Feng Shui School, a 200+hour program that included training in space clearing and doing intuitive readings for clients by internationally-respected teachers including Nancy SantoPietro, Nancy Rosanoff, and Denise Linn.
Laurie was among the first to graduate from Denise Linn’s Soul Coaching® International Institute, SC2). She is also trained in Ericksonian hypnotherapy through the Institute for Holistic Studies, reached level four in energy healing at the Foundation for Spiritual Development, has completed numerous professional development programs in meditation, mindfulness, energy healing, and intuition development, including attending several multi-day in-person retreats with the meditation teacher Pema Chodron.
In addition to her multiple professional certifications, over the past 25+ years, Laurie Smith has taken numerous in-person professional development trainings and personal enrichment workshops with internationally-recognized teachers on meditation, intuition development, creativity, life coaching, energy healing, spiritual development and personal growth. These have included in-person workshops with Martha Beck, Barbara Brennan, Julia Cameron, Pema Chodron, Laura Day, Dana Duryea, Wayne Dyer, Debbie Ford, Joan Halifax, Louise Hay, Rob Jokel, John Kabat Zinn, Byron Katie, Anne Lamott, Denise Linn, Gwenievere Maria, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Caroline Myss, Christiane Northrup, John Perkins, Nancy Rosanoff, Ilana Rubenfeld, Dan Ruiz, Andie (Nancy) SantoPietro, SARK, Mona Lisa Schultz, Stacey Simpson (TLC), William Two Feather, and John Windwalker, among others.
At the time of the pandemic, Laurie Smith was inspired to do a deep-dive into the flow state, and how flow activities can naturally help us to heighten our creativity, intuition, and embody our truest, most innovative and authentic selves. In addition to her own research, interviews, and leading her Flow Think Tanks, she has also studied extensively the work of the Hungarian-American psychologist who coined the term “flow”–Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, as well as research by his students, and other highly-regarded flow researchers around the world. She has also taken workshops with the Flow Genome Project, The Flow Research Collective (AI), and the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute, and served as a mentor for the Flow Genome Project’s introductory course Flow Fundamentals.
Laurie loves writing and spending time with her two kids and husband, her partner and best friend of 30+ years. She also enjoys hiking, kayaking and spending time in nature with loved ones and friends. She lives with her family near San Francisco, CA.
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