This Mother Means Business: Strategy, Advice, and Support for Mom Entrepreneurs · Laura Sinclair

2025 in Review: What Worked, What Didn't and What Blew Up in My Face

·39 min·10 clips

Laura opens by naming 2025 as a year of high highs and low lows. She says this annual review is one she looks forward to and dreads. It is her third pass at the What Worked, What Didn't, and What Blew Up in My Face format. The year brought a lot of good. It also brought a lot of pain. One of the bright spots was planning a live event and watching ticket sales and excitement build. That momentum mattered because it reminded her how powerful in-person connection can be after years of building online. She says the event lit a fire in her to do more live gatherings. She also talks about how someone with a stroke cannot simply sit on a commercial flight home. That meant learning about air ambulances, repatriation, and the insurance gaps that can make a crisis even messier. The medical situation involved ailing parents and a father whose long-term diagnosis was still unknown. She describes the politics and logistics of getting someone from a U.S. hospital back to Canada. That reality sat beside the excitement of the event, which made the season feel hard to hold in one frame. Sinclair does not pretend the year worked neatly or failed cleanly. She keeps returning to the idea that it was both. That tension is what gives the episode its weight. Later, she points listeners to This Mother Means Business Live, returning on April 1, 2026 at the Pearl Hotel and Spa in Burlington, Ontario. She frames it as a room for women building businesses and raising kids, not just another networking event. The close lands on support, connection, and the belief that mothers can build on their own terms. The episode leaves the listener with a practical but emotional reminder that strategy has to survive real life.

As heard by us

A candid year-end reflection on growth, caregiving, and medically repatriating family.

Laura Sinclair's year-end reflection holds two realities at once: a successful live event and a family medical crisis that pulled her into insurance, air ambulances, and the work of medically repatriating a parent.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

For the week you want an honest year-end recap of high highs, low lows, and what actually happened in 2025.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from This Mother Means Business: Strategy, Advice, and Support for Mom Entrepreneurs