'Dear GMA' Advice Guru Search: Spotlight on Liz Pryor
Jan. 26, 2011— -- From 15,000 applications, the search for the "Dear GMA" Advice Guru is down to the final four candidates. We're searching for someone to join the "GMA" team and answer questions about love, work, family, and much more.
The Advice Guru candidates have answered your questions online, shared their holiday advice and faced-off in Daily Guru Duels on viewers' questions.
This week on "GMA," we're spotlighting one of the finalists each day, taking you into their homes, work and lives.
CLICK HERE to ask Liz Pryor and the other Advice Guru finalists a question!
Liz Pryor, an author and single mother of three from Studio City, Calif., describes herself as part minivan mom and part go-to girlfriend. Juggling both roles, she says, has made her into a straight-talking advice expert and given her the skills to become the "Dear GMA" Advice Guru.
"Besides being sharp and smart I think you have to be intuitive," Pryor said.
Growing up in a large family in the Midwest honed Pryor's advice-giving skills. "I'm number 5 out of 7, two older sisters, two younger sisters and two older brothers. Pretty much everything about me is a byproduct of being from a big family," she said.
Having the support of her family gave Pryor the courage to head to Los Angeles and hit the acting scene. After getting married, she gave up Hollywood for motherhood until a tough divorce four years ago.
"It was terribly difficult for all of us...into that you're breaking up as a family," she said. "What I learned through my divorce, mostly, is that I can't fix everything."
At the time, Pryor was also mourning the loss of a close friendship. "I felt really badly about myself and failed and awful, so I started talking about it and writing about it," she said.
Her personal experience turned into a best-selling book on dealing with female friendships and launched a new career for Pryor as an advice expert. Her website, Life with Liz, where she dishes out advice on everything from parenting to dating, gets hundreds of hits a day.
"Just to be able to get my voice out there that I know has helped a lot of people," Pryor said. To "help that many more people would be a very, very cool thing for me."
CLICK HERE for her web column on living in the moment and the power of saying "no."
