49 min
Laura Okmin, Fox Sports Reporter: What’s Your Honey? Pro Mindset® Podcast
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Hall of Fame Sports Reporter Laura Okmin joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann as they discuss meaningful and heavy issues. Laura talks about her pivot point in her life when she survived a turbulent plane ride and the changes she made afterwards. She vowed she would start creating a life that would make her care about life. She checked a lot of boxes in her career and then realized that boxes weren't making her happy. She pursued the answer to the question: how do I make my life bigger? That's when her journey really became magical.
What's your plan B? It took Laura about nine months after graduating from college before she got her first job. She heard, “What is your Plan B?” a lot as she watched all her friends have lives, get jobs, have money and relationships, get homes and have babies. Yet she was home with her parents sending out reel tapes. Everybody would ask every day, “What's your Plan B?” She would always just say her Plan B was to figure out how to get her Plan A to work. Craig added from his experience with NFL players, “If they have a Plan B it's only a matter of time before it becomes their Plan A.”
A reporter’s life is being a great storyteller. She loved telling stories and there's no better stories in the world to cover than sports. She shares the key to success is having confidence in yourself.
Laura covered Michael Jordan playing baseball and then followed him back to Chicago and covered him with the Bulls. She shares when Michael walked into a room, you knew it. By the way, she said the same thing about MJ when he walked out on the court. She recalls the feeling in the United Center shifted (she referred to this as the “room tilted”).
Laura, who has covered many Super Bowls, Olympics and major sporting events in her career, also reflected that they that besides MJ the only other times she has ever felt the room tilt was when Muhammad Ali was in the arena and when Bruce Springsteen was at a shopping mall in LA.
For nearly 30 years Laura Okmin has been covering the biggest names in sports on the biggest stages. What Laura is most known for, and most proud of, is the connections she has cultivated over two decades of building relationships … not sources. Trust has been the foundation of every interview she conducts, the content she creates – and now her company, GALvanize, leading the next generation of women sports broadcasters.
Always passionate about her job, GALVANIZE gives Laura a purpose: Training and mentoring young women entering the sports world on – and more importantly – OFF camera.
Laura is the third longest tenured sideline reporter in NFL history. You’ll find her covering the league for the NFL on FOX and Westwood One’s NFL national radio games. She’s covered more than 10 Super Bowls, hosted Olympic coverage from the London, Sochi and Pyeongchang games, and reported from multiple World Series, NBA and NHL championships.
What’s your honey? What has always made sense to Laura and it's still her mantra to this day is if you take a pot of honey and you just put it on the table outside, the bees are going to come. The honey doesn't have to call the bees to the honey. Honey doesn't have to sell itself to the bees. The honey doesn't have to make a big deal about itself. The honey just has to be honey. And the bees will come. Honey time is when you're just right where you're supposed to be and making sure that you're in a place where you can see and receive your blessings. You just need to be in your shoes right where you are.
Hall of Fame Sports Reporter Laura Okmin joins Pro Mindset host Craig Domann as they discuss meaningful and heavy issues. Laura talks about her pivot point in her life when she survived a turbulent plane ride and the changes she made afterwards. She vowed she would start creating a life that would make her care about life. She checked a lot of boxes in her career and then realized that boxes weren't making her happy. She pursued the answer to the question: how do I make my life bigger? That's when her journey really became magical.
What's your plan B? It took Laura about nine months after graduating from college before she got her first job. She heard, “What is your Plan B?” a lot as she watched all her friends have lives, get jobs, have money and relationships, get homes and have babies. Yet she was home with her parents sending out reel tapes. Everybody would ask every day, “What's your Plan B?” She would always just say her Plan B was to figure out how to get her Plan A to work. Craig added from his experience with NFL players, “If they have a Plan B it's only a matter of time before it becomes their Plan A.”
A reporter’s life is being a great storyteller. She loved telling stories and there's no better stories in the world to cover than sports. She shares the key to success is having confidence in yourself.
Laura covered Michael Jordan playing baseball and then followed him back to Chicago and covered him with the Bulls. She shares when Michael walked into a room, you knew it. By the way, she said the same thing about MJ when he walked out on the court. She recalls the feeling in the United Center shifted (she referred to this as the “room tilted”).
Laura, who has covered many Super Bowls, Olympics and major sporting events in her career, also reflected that they that besides MJ the only other times she has ever felt the room tilt was when Muhammad Ali was in the arena and when Bruce Springsteen was at a shopping mall in LA.
For nearly 30 years Laura Okmin has been covering the biggest names in sports on the biggest stages. What Laura is most known for, and most proud of, is the connections she has cultivated over two decades of building relationships … not sources. Trust has been the foundation of every interview she conducts, the content she creates – and now her company, GALvanize, leading the next generation of women sports broadcasters.
Always passionate about her job, GALVANIZE gives Laura a purpose: Training and mentoring young women entering the sports world on – and more importantly – OFF camera.
Laura is the third longest tenured sideline reporter in NFL history. You’ll find her covering the league for the NFL on FOX and Westwood One’s NFL national radio games. She’s covered more than 10 Super Bowls, hosted Olympic coverage from the London, Sochi and Pyeongchang games, and reported from multiple World Series, NBA and NHL championships.
What’s your honey? What has always made sense to Laura and it's still her mantra to this day is if you take a pot of honey and you just put it on the table outside, the bees are going to come. The honey doesn't have to call the bees to the honey. Honey doesn't have to sell itself to the bees. The honey doesn't have to make a big deal about itself. The honey just has to be honey. And the bees will come. Honey time is when you're just right where you're supposed to be and making sure that you're in a place where you can see and receive your blessings. You just need to be in your shoes right where you are.
49 min