Laura Doughty
Television Booking Brief
Author · Entrepreneur · Endurance Athlete
At 59, She Moved to New York City.
This November, She’ll Run the NYC Marathon,
Turn 60—and Finally Tell the Story Beneath the Photographs.
Twenty-five years ago, Laura Doughty sold everything, packed her car and her cat Sam, and went to Malibu with no job, no friends, and no one waiting for her.
She built a spa. A real estate business. A visible life.
At nearly 60, she packed up again and moved to New York City—not to start over, but to finally tell the real story beneath the photographs.
RAISED BY FIRE
A Memoir by Laura Doughty
Public Release: November 20, 2026
The November Threshold
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Laura runs her third New York City Marathon
Her eighth marathon overall
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Laura turns 60 in New York City
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20
Raised by Fire is released publicly
On Camera
Booking Reel
Laura Doughty on reinvention, endurance, New York City, and the story beneath the photographs
Love Lounge
A warm, direct conversation about story, identity, and coming home to yourself
Speaking/Interview Clip
A live or recorded moment that shows Laura’s presence, humor, and command of a room
Conversation territory
Laura is available to speak about:
- Moving to New York City at 59—not to start over, but to live more truthfully
- Running her eighth marathon and third NYC Marathon at 60
- What photographs preserve—and what they leave out
- Writing a memoir without performing pain or asking to be rescued
- Building a visible life while carrying an invisible story
- Why women do not age out of ambition, endurance, possibility—or the right to remember who they are.
Raised by Fire
Raised by Fire is Laura Doughty’s memoir about the private history beneath a visible life: family, silence, survival, love, endurance, reinvention, and the long return to herself.
It is written for every woman who knows the photograph never tells the whole story.
Public release: November 20, 2026
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The girl at the center of the story.
The photograph that begins the question.
The first leaving.
An early chapter in the life that would eventually become Raised by Fire.
The life she built.
A visible life, a successful career, and the structure that existed long before the memoir told the deeper story beneath it.
The life she is living now.
New York, endurance, authorship, and the season that led to Raised by Fire.
Interview Availability
Laura is available for in-studio, remote, or taped television interviews:
Monday, November 16 through Friday, November 20, 2026
New York City / Remote
Advance interviews may also be arranged in October.
Contact
Laura Doughty
Author of Raised by Fire
For booking, interviews, images, and editorial requests:
[email protected]
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