Laurie Halter is the owner of Charisma! Communications, a public relations firm for tech providers in automotive.
First car: Chevy Citation with one headlight popped out and rope holding my passenger side door closed
First concert you attended: New Kids on the Block (I am seriously dating myself here!)
Name a pet peeve: Playing the victim. Do what needs to be done and move on to better things!
Most thrilling/adventurous thing you’ve done: I took both my teens to Belize last year and we swam with sharks, found howler monkeys in the jungle, cave tubed and hiked to the back of an ancient cave with sacrificial burials. Very cool memories!
Your personal hero and why: My personal heroes are my kids. They have such a good head on their shoulders and they chart their own path. I could not be more proud of them.
First job: I would make my mom buy a package of Blow Pops for $5 and sell them to the kids coming home from elementary school for a quarter each, netting $12 a box! I was 12. Boom. Entrepreneurship, baby!
Something on your bucket list: African safari
One thing you learned on the job you never forgot: Don’t ever burn bridges. Our industry is small and it always comes back to bite you.
3 people you’d invite to dinner, living or dead: Dalai Lama, Julia Roberts, Cleopatra
Do you collect anything? Apparently a lot of junk based on the contents of my last move
What’s your Netflix binge show? I am obsessed with “Ted Lasso.”
You’re queen for a day. What’s your first order? Someone get me a dozen donuts and bring them to my bed, stat.
The most important room in your house: Kitchen. Hands down. It’s where we gather.
Favorite line from a movie: “You work on commission, don’t you? Big mistake. Big. Huge!” Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman”
Who’s on your Spotify playlist? Flo-Rida, Pink, Nelly, Meghan Trainor