TELEVISION

CBS News Sunday Morning: “Love Is Something That Never Dies”:
Completing Her Father’s Bucket List

Drew Barrymore Show: Drews News Segment on Washington Post story:
“She found late father’s bucket list, then spent 6 years completing it”

NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt: Daughter Honors Late Father
By Finishing His Bucket List

Drew Barrymore and Ross Mathews Join CBS Mornings
Talk of the Table:
Daughter Gives Late-Father’s Bucket List New Life

Tamron Hall Show: This Woman Is On a Mission to Complete
Her Late Father’s Unfinished Bucket List


Daily Blast Live: “It Was Really Important”: Woman Spends Six Years
Completing Late Dad’s Bucket List (Laura Carney)

NBC News NOW: Bucket List Book—Woman Completes Her
Father’s Uncompleted Bucket List Items


Fox2 News Studio STL St. Louis: A Father’s List, the story of a daughter who
finishes her dad’s bucket list


The Richmond Sentinel “Our City Tonight” Vancouver, Canada: Laura Carney

KATU2 ABC Portland, Oregon: “Afternoon Live”: My Father’s List

TV2 Norway: Etter faren døde fullførte Laura (45) hans bucket list

WGN News: Woman Completes Late Father’s Bucket List

Breakfast With Eamonn & Isabel: My Dad’s Bucket List

Inside Edition: In Completing Her Late Father’s Bucket List, Daughter
Faces Mortality: “I Had Something That Needed to Heal”

CBS News: “Deadly Crashes Involving Teens Up 10 Percent”

Inside Edition: “Woman Finds Dad’s Bucket List Years After His Death,
Vows to Complete It: ‘It’s What I Was Meant to Do.’”

Fox 5 New York: Eight-minute live interview with Ernie Anastos

Carpe Diem—Montclair State University: “The Myths Surrounding Distracted Driving”

Chasing News: “Daughter Goes on Mission to Fulfill Her Late Dad’s Bucket List”

CBS News: “As Car Crash Deaths Rise, Experts Say ‘We’re Not Doing the Right Things’ to Prevent Them”
(This is about distracted driving and not the list directly.)

Podcasts and Radio

BBC Radio 4 “The Digital Human”: “Unfinished: Aleks Krotoski explores
whether the digital world results in us having more unfinished business
and whether this is always a bad thing"

NPR “Morning Edition”: “Daughter Starts Checking Off Things on Her
Deceased Father’s Bucket List”


Delaware Public Media: “Enlighten Me”: Delaware native Laura Carney completes
late dad’s bucket list in “My Father's List”


WBRM Radio, Marion, North Carolina: Dan Deaton in the Morning

Ruthless Compassion Podcast: Life Lessons Learned From
Finishing My Father’s List With Laura Carney


Life, Death and the Space Between, Dr. Amy Robbins podcast: Laura Carney’s Unforgettable Bucket List Journey

The Fearless Now: Living Beyong Your Thinking with Sam Led: How ADHD Helped Laura Carney
Finish Her Late Father Mick's 54-Item Bucket List in Six Years, Part 2


Good Enough-ish podcast: Episode 57 Wandering and Wading

Freelance Writing Direct Podcast with Estelle Erasmus: My Father’s List With Author Laura Carney

Mitch Unfiltered, with Mitch Levy: Episode 244 Sonics Return Optimism & Completing Dad’s Bucket List

Two Writers Slinging Yang with Author Jeff Pearlman: Laura Carney: Author,
"My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free"


This Podcast Will Change Your Life with Ben Tanzer: This Podcast Will Change Your Life Is a Quite
Happy and Special Father's Day Episode (as well as episode Three Hundred and Eleven for those counting at home)—
It's A Commandment, Starring the Laura Carney.


The Fearless Now: Living Beyond Your Thinking with Sam Led: How ADHD Helped Laura Carney
Finish Her Late Father Mick's 54-Item Bucket List in Six Years

The Dead Life with Allison Dubois: My Father’s List

Who I Met Today podcast: Laura Carney—My Father’s List

All Things Good podcast: Laura Carney

Radio Dad with Mike Austin: (“Show 43) My Father’s Bucket List With Laura Carney”

Plant Your Seed with Fred Ferris: “Catch-up Conversation Laura Carney”

We Said Go Travel with Lisa Niver: “Laura Carney FOUND and
FINISHED her father’s BUCKET LIST!”


Do the Thing Podcast with Stacey Lauren: “Laura Carney Discover
This Author’s Journey of Grief and Growth as She Completes Her Father’s Bucket List”


Do the Thing Podcast “Expert Panel for the Start a Book Challenge”: “These Hand-Selected Experts
Share Why You Should Surrender to the Story As You Start a Book”

Voice of America Russia: “My Father’s Wish List”: 13 years after her father’s unexpected death, Laura Carney found
his wish list. To cope with the pain of loss, she decided to fulfill everything herself.

Triple M Sydney: The Rush Hour With Gus, Jude & Wendell

Run With Purpose podcast: “What’s Next? With Laura

Poet Runner Podcast: “Poet Iris De Anda and runner Laura Carney”

Ruthless Compassion Podcast: Laura Carney
“Surprising Life Lessons Gained by Fulfilling Her Father’s Bucket List”


The Ultra Marriage Podcast: Laura Carney “Set Your Soul Free”

UNConventional With Amy Guth podcast: “Laura Carney”

Making Waves With Tom Prather podcast: “What If You Could Finish Your Father’s
Bucket List With Laura Carney”

An Interview With Melissa Llarena podcast: “Laura Carney Didn’t Find Her Purpose—
Instead, It Found Her!”

Run With Purpose podcast: “Reframing With Laura”

The Healing Gem Instagram Live: “Live With Laura Carney”

Plant Your Seed podcast: “Laura Carney: My Father’s List”

Why We Tri podcast: “Living Out Her Father’s List &
Aligning With Her Own Why in Life”

Keep Kids Alive podcast: “Laura Carney”

Tell Me About Your Father podcast: “Laura Carney”

The Art of Living Big podcast: “Laura Carney: Living My Father’s Bucket List”

The Mindset Experience podcast: “Laura Carney: My Father’s List”

Legacy on Purpose podcast: “My Father’s Legacy”

The Only One in the Room podcast: “Laura Carney Is the
Only One Completing Her Father’s Bucket List”

Adrift Interview Series with Alessandro Fresco:
Episode 16: “Abundance” with Laura Carney

Women Empowered Podcast: “Myfatherslist: Daughter Completing Her Father’s Dreams”

Run With Purpose podcast: “Connection”

Forgotten History podcast: “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gift to Football”

WGN Radio: Saturday Night Special: “Big Goals and ‘Bucket Lists’”

CJAD 800 AM

Moms Who Know

In Print

People magazine: “Daughter Completes Bucket List Her Late Dad Made
the Year She Was Born: ‘I Know He’s Proud’”


The Times of London: “Woman Ticking Off Dad’s Bucket List Skydives and Meets Jimmy Carter”

The Washington Post: “She Found Late Father’s Bucket List, Then Spent 6 Years Completing It” This story was picked up by The NJ Star Ledger, Alaska Dispatch, Tampa Bay Times, Union Leader (N.H.), and newspapers in states like North Carolina and Texas and others; it was also picked up globally in The Guam Daily Post, the Sydney Morning Herald, Portal6 (Brazil), El Tiempo (Colombia), Noticas Caracol (Colombia), Protagon (Greece), RDS Radio (Italy), Donna Moderna News (Italy), Corriere Della Serra (Italy), Informazione (Italy), Mag. El Comercio (Lima), El Diario (Mexico), Russia Posts English, Noticias (Spain), Tenemos Noticias (Venezula), and other newspapers, in Australia, Prague, and Ukraine; and on the websites Nation World News, Crikey.com, The Week, Upworthy and Montco Today.

AARP: “Daughter Honors Late Dad By Completing His Bucket List”

Audiophile magazine: “Top Summer Listens”

Shondaland: “Laura Carney Set Out to Complete Her Father’s Bucket List
and Ended Up Finding Herself in the Process”

The Philippine Star: “Daughter spends six years fulfilling bucket list of father who got killed in distracted driving”

Clarin (Argentina): “Dedicó 6 años a cumplir la lista de deseos que dejó su padre antes de morir”

McDowell News: “Author Writes Book About Late Father’s Bucket List:
Laura Carney Has Connection to McDowell”


The Star-Ledger: “Dad’s Life Was Cut Short by Car Crash. Daughter Fulfilled
All 60 Items on His Bucket List.”


Asheville Citizen Times: “Author Laura Carney swam the French Broad
while completing her late father's bucket list”


St. Louis Riverfront Times: Laura Carney

St. Louis Magazine: “Laura Carney, Copy Editor, Writer and
Illustrator to Talk About My Father’s List


St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Laura Carney

Insider: “I Found My Dad’s Bucket List 13 Years After He Was Killed.
I Set Off to Complete the 54 Items In It.”


Richmond Sentinel: “Spotlight on Author, Cocktail, Dining”

Philadelphia magazine: “Things to Do This Week”

Bay to Bay News: “Wilmington Native Finds Connection With Late Dad Through ‘My Father’s List’”

Little Visioneers: “Light Up Your Path—Then Walk It: What my tour for my book about grief is teaching me about life”

Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper: “Most of Us Think Middle Age Is a Time for Mastery.
My Dad Taught Me It’s a Time for Adventure.”


New York Post: “Daughter Completes Dad’s Bucket List After Her Father Is Killed: ‘I Had to Try’”


Take Five magazine: “In Dad’s Footsteps: I Completed My Father’s Bucket List
to Honour His Life…and It Changed Mine”

Real Simple magazine: “The Best Books of 2023 (So Far)—According to Real Simple Editors”

Guideposts magazine: June/July 2023, “Once In a Lifetime, Completing Her Dad’s Bucket List”

Prevention magazine: “Prevention Pulse: Finding Hope and Joy After a Loss”

Serendipity magazine: "Serendipity’s 2023 Summer Reading Guide”

Woman’s Day: “I Love You Dad”

PopSugar: A Daughter Sets Out to Complete Her Late Father’s Bucket List
in Laura Carney’s ‘My Father’s List’”


Lit Reactor: “Finding One’s Voice Through Grief: A rumination on
‘My Father’s List’ by Laura Carney”


Apartment Therapy: “23 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts 2023”

PureWow: “11 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in June”

Daily Mail: “Fifty-four adventures in six years: I discovered my father's unfinished bucket list 13 years after he was killed by teen driver who was on her cellphone—and knew I had to complete it for him”

Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper: “After Her Dad Died, Laura Carney Found His Bucket List.
Now, She’s on a Mission to Complete It,” by Laura Carney

Real Woman Magazine: “Completing My Father’s Bucket List Changed My Life”

Montclair Magazine: “Bucket List Legacy Laura Carney Writes About Achieving Her Late Father’s Goals”

Foreword Reviews: “My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free”

Solace Cares: “Daughter Finishes Dad’s Bucket List, Finds Herself”

Run Tri Mag: “The Humility of the Long-Distance Runner”

Upworthy: “I’ve Been Finishing My Late Father’s Bucket List.
Things Got Tricky When I Got to the Political Part.”

Baristanet Profile: Laura Carney

University of Delaware Magazine: “Following in her Father’s Footsteps”

The Fix: “On Navigating Uncertainty”

THE COMMITTED photo series by Adrian Bacolo

Mission Bay Aquatic Center interview: “Myfatherslist: A Journey to Check Sailing Off the Bucket List”

The Fix: “Digital Detox: I Gave Up My Smartphone for 22 Days”

The Modern Domestic Woman: “Distracted Driving Awareness Month Provides a Firsthand Lesson”

Good Housekeeping: “I Honored My Father’s Memory by Meeting President Jimmy Carter”

The Daily Mail: “‘This Is What I Was Meant to Do.’ Woman, 39, Explains Why She Is Finishing Her Late
Father’s Bucket List 13 Years After He Was Killed by a Distracted Driver”

Around Campus

I Admire U: “My Father’s List: Distracted Driving Advocate Honors Her Dad”

So About What I Said...: “Interviews with Women Writers: On the Journey to Finish a Father’s Bucket List”

Catholic Online: “‘Correspond with the Pope’: Woman’s Inspiring Journey to Honor Late Father Goes Viral”

My LA Moment (LA Marathon)

Good Housekeeping: “My Dad Had a Bucket List of 60 Things. He’d Only Checked Off 5 When His Life Was Cut Short”

You can read more about Laura Carney's activism here.