The Dr Laura Schlesinger Program, heard weekdays for three hours on Sirius XM Radio, consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and often features her short monologues on social and political topics.
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Schlessinger used to combine her local radio career in Los Angeles with a private practice as a marriage and family counselor, but after going into national radio syndication, she concentrated her efforts on The Dr Laura Schlesinger Program heard each weekday, and on writing self-help books.
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Laura Schlesinger's show moved to the Sirius XM Stars satellite radio channel on January 3,2011.
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Laura Schlesinger's parents were Monroe "Monty" Schlessinger, a Jewish American civil engineer, and Yolanda Schlessinger, a Catholic war bride from Italy.
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Laura Schlesinger has ascribed some of the difficulty to extended family rejection of her parents' mixed faith Jewish-Catholic marriage.
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Laura Schlesinger credited her father with giving her the drive to succeed.
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Laura Schlesinger received a bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University.
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At its peak, The Dr Laura Schlesinger Program was the second-highest-rated radio show after The Rush Limbaugh Show, and was heard on more than 450 radio stations.
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Laura Schlesinger currently offers a short podcast of the "Call of the Day" from her SiriusXM daily show, and it is ranked in the top 25 "Kids and Family" podcasts on iTunes.
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On Yom Kippur in 2000, Dr Laura Schlesinger said she "deeply [regretted] the hurt this situation has caused the gay and lesbian community" and asked for forgiveness, while abstaining from offering a retraction of her words.
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Dr Laura Schlesinger aired its last first-run episode on March 30,2001, on the stations that continued to air it, with reruns continuing until September 2001.
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Laura Schlesinger discontinued the column in July 2000, citing lack of time due to her upcoming television show.
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Laura Schlesinger wrote a monthly column for WorldNetDaily between 2002 and 2004, with one entry in 2006.
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Laura Schlesinger suspended the column in mid-2007, resumed writing it later, then discontinued it in December 2008.
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Laura Schlesinger currently writes columns on her blog, on a variety of topics.
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Laura Schlesinger was the editor, her husband a contributing photographer, and her son the creative consultant.
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In 2017, Dr Laura Schlesinger began donating proceeds from the sale of jewelry and glass art she designs and hand makes to Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, a charitable organization that provides college scholarships to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty.
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Laura Schlesinger received the National Religious Broadcasters Chairman's Award, and has lectured on the national conservative circuit.
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Laura Schlesinger was the commencement speaker at Hillsdale College in June 2002, and was awarded an honorary degree as a doctor of tradition and culture.
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Laura Schlesinger occasionally clarified ethical and moral issues with her local Orthodox Rabbi Moshe D Bryski, before mentioning them on the air.
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Laura Schlesinger was embraced by many in the politically conservative segment of Orthodox Judaism for bringing more awareness of Orthodoxy to her radio show.
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Laura Schlesinger had not spoken to her mother for 18 to 20 years before her mother's death in 2002 from heart disease.
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Laura Schlesinger's mother's remains were found in her Beverly Hills condo about two months after she died, and lay unclaimed for some time in the Los Angeles morgue before Schlessinger had them picked up for burial.
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Laura Schlesinger said that she had not mourned the deaths of either of her parents because she had no emotional bond to them.
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Laura Schlesinger discussed the word and its use by blacks and in black media.
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Laura Schlesinger's program is available as a podcast at iTunes and from her own website.
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