What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter with Laura Clery

I finished her book ten minutes before we hit record. Ten minutes. I have a two-year-old and a ten-month-old, and this is the second book I've read in three years — so understand what I'm telling you when I say I could not put it down. I texted my mom about it. I told Laura she's my new best friend, out loud, on the recording, like a normal person.

Laura Clery has 26 million followers, three books, and a new one called What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter — which, if that's not hot mom sh!t, I don't know what is. She wrote it over four years while her marriage came apart in real time, so it reads less like a memoir and more like a thriller you keep having to remind yourself actually happened to a real person. And she still made it funny, because that's what she does.

We got into all of it: the boundaries she didn't have, the ones she has now, why motherhood is the thing that made her brave, and what "hotter" actually means when it has nothing to do with your face.

In this episode we get real about:

Why Laura swears her lack of a filter is the actual secret to 26 million followers and the times that has cost her

Waking up to a phone full of calls and texts because her ex announced their separation on YouTube before she'd even told her own mom

Being told to pick a lane and why she throws all of it on one page instead

Why motherhood, not sobriety and not career wins, is what made her the bravest she's ever been

Going from codependent to running her whole life by herself

Comparison, haters, and the practice that keeps her self-worth out of the comment section

What "hotter" actually means in that title, and her AND: she can love being a mom and want to be very far away from her kids for a minute

Momma, if you've been quietly waiting for permission to be more than one thing at a time, this is it. Two hot moms, one book, no notes.