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Embracing limitless possibility as well means embracing failures. Hither to shed lite on how y'all tin can go limitless and live your all-time life isLaura Gassner Otting. Laura is a renowned author, speaker, media personality, and executive coach helping entrepreneurs, change agents, and industry leaders push past doubt that hinder bang-up ideas. In this episode, she shares insights from her latest book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Cleave your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life, which debuted at No. 2 in the Washington Post Best-Seller'south Listing. Join in as she chats with Tony Martignetti nigh defining your success, being comfortable with the uncomfortable, embracing failure, and more. Stay tuned!

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How To Achieve Limitless Possibility And Live Your Best Life With Laura Gassner Otting

Information technology is my award to introduce you to my guest, Laura Gassner Otting. She helps people become unstuck and achieve boggling results through limitless possibilities. She collaborates with alter agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to push past the doubt and indecision that export keen ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating alter beyond the startup, non-profit, political, and philanthropic landscape. She'southward truly a busy person here.

She is the writer of a book for those, Mission Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose  and Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Ain Path, and Live Your All-time Life . It's of my favorite books, which debuted at number two on the Washington Postal service'due south bestseller's listing correct behind Michelle Obama and which Skilful Morning America, Robin Roberts chose as one of her favorite books in 2019. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the show, Laura.

It's and so neat to exist here.

I'm thrilled to take you on. It has been my pleasure to become to know you and see the impact that you lot have made on the world. As we exercise on the show to often unwind, how did the person get here? How did they arrive in this place where they are making an impact in the world? Truly, y'all have been making an impact for many years. That's what nosotros are going to practise.

I think y'all just call me old.

Information technology's not the years in your life but the life in your years.

No.

I'm kidding. I'1000 a huge fan of RuPaul'southward Drag Race. I watched it with my son. There'southward a chapter in the earth of RuPaul'south Drag Race called Queen of the Universe. One of the drag queens is 42 years old. When she came on stage, they were similar, "You lot have a lot of feel." She was like, "Did you lot but call me one-time?" I was like, "I've got to call up that."

In this day and age, 42 is young. I was reflecting on the fact that Betty White passed away. It's amazing to meet how much life she put into her life. That's wild.

My grandmother passed away years ago at 93 and 3/4. She wanted to make it to 94. She had a hard early and middle office of her life and and so found much more happiness later in life. She used to say every twenty-four hour period, "Above ground is a adieu." That woman was learning how to play Blackjack when she had a fatal stroke that took her. She lived, fifty-fifty when she couldn't live.

Early on on she couldn't do what she wanted to do because she was constrained past a sick husband, a daughter with polio, or living in a social club that didn't think women could do much of anything other than be wives, nurses or teachers. Nurses, teachers, and wives are slap-up only those were the but options that were available to her.

She didn't permit that finish her. She made sure to alive when she could. Equally I was turning forty, I ran the kickoff mile of my life. I found my inner athlete. I ended up a couple of years later running in the Boston Marathon. Information technology's the offset marathon of my life. I put her name on my arm. My running double-decker pulled me over at mile 16, right before you make the turn at mile 17 to get up Heartbreak Colina, which is storied possible hard. Information technology breaks the eye of marathon runners. He said, "Remember what Rosie would think." She paired me up to Heartbreak Hill. They say, "It's non the years in your life merely the life in your years." I practice think that'south pretty truthful.

We have already stepped into the earth of limitless possibilities correct here. This is why you are the right person to be given these messages. Information technology'due south time for u.s.a. to go into your story. Let'southward jump in. As we do on the show, nosotros talk about people's stories through what are called Flashpoints, points in your story that have ignited your gifts in the globe. I'1000 going to plough information technology over to you in a moment to share what are the moments that have revealed who y'all are. You tin can start wherever you like and share what you would like to share simply permit's finish along the way and encounter what's showing upward.

I spent twenty years of my life working as an executive recruiter. I did that work for mission-driven organizations, universities, foundations, advocacy organizations, any one of the 501(c)(iii) or 501(c)(four) universe. It was my great approving and burden that I've got to hear people'southward real stories. Nobody came to me similar, "I want to increase shareholder value." Who cares? That's deadening unless y'all want information technology for shareholder value.

I could have fabricated a lot more money doing an executive search for Coca-Cola, Hilton Hotels chains or shareholder value is where it's at. I did this work for domestic violence shelters, charter schools, foundations, the ACLU, and the organizations that specific fabric of our globe. I used to get to hear from people about the female parent, father, teacher, mentor or whoever it was in their life who influenced them, the diagnosis, real tragedy or something that set them on a course to make them who they are.

I believe that it'southward that person, the one who was shaped early on that shows up at 3:00 in the morning when the crap hits the fan. When everything goes wrong and you lot get a phone telephone call from your best employee that they are quitting and from your worst board member that they are non, what do you do? Information technology's how you were shaped when yous were younger. Sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Sometimes the apple tree falls and gets far away from the tree every bit it peradventure can but it'southward a magnetic force one mode or the other that'southward either pushing or pulling.

I wrote a book chosen Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life because I was set on a path by a female parent who probably wanted to go to law schoolhouse and didn't have that choice. Information technology was in the '50s and '60s. At that place were not a lot of lady lawyers being turned out by colleges. I had a fourth-grade teacher who told me that I was belligerent and peradventure I would make a good lawyer. I watched Ally McBeal on TV and LA Law. I was similar, "Susan Dey is glamorous. She's dating Harry Hamlin. I want to be like her." I had this idea that maybe that was the correct direction.

You tin can lose yourself in serving others but there is so much to be institute also. It's in that growth that nosotros really get to get the people we are meant to be.

I graduated from high schoolhouse in 1988. I watched as immature child lines at gas stations when oil prices were skyrocketing. There was an oil embargo and the Islamic republic of iran hostage crisis. I think thinking like, "Somebody needs to solve this problem," and being righteously indignant that nosotros are the greatest country in the globe, yet there are a bunch of people in some other countries that are holding guns to the heads of our citizens and they tin't be free. I was much younger and manner more naive. I didn't empathize the geopolitical like, "Let's keep them hostages until Reagan becomes president so he could let them be gratuitous," and all of a sudden, "Reagan, yay." I didn't understand all of that was going on dorsum there.

In my head, I thought, "Did leaders are the ones who fix things? There are problems in the world and I desire to fix them." For the about part, a lot of those people, ironically, not Carter or Reagan, are lawyers who ran for role and concluded up fixing things. I was like, "I'm going to run for Senate." This was 1985 when I was planning this idea. The idea of a woman in the White Firm seemed crazy. We still accept to prepare that. Information technology was one of those things where I was like, "I'thousand going to run for Senate. I'one thousand going to exist the outset female Democratic Senator from the slap-up State of Florida."

I set myself on this course to get to police schoolhouse. I ended up in law schoolhouse. On the very first day, I looked around and was like, "I don't want to exist hither. I don't like what we are studying. I'thou not interested in any of my peers. I don't want to be like my teacher. What is going on? I take made a huge mistake." I did what most people practice when they discover themselves in a place in their life where they are very unhappy. I dated somebody terrible for me.

I used to ride my bike to campus and that day happened to be raining. This guy said, "I will give you a ride home. Nosotros will stick your bike in the dorsum of my IROC-Z," which tells yous everything you need to know about this guy. "Commencement, we have to cease this guy's campaign office. He'southward running for president." Kids, this is what yous used to do before the cyberspace. You have to become to a strip mall in your local town, go to some local office, go a printed piece of paper and a list of issues in where the candidates sit on the event. I was like, "Governor who, from where, Arkansas? Non a gamble in hell simply fine. Your automobile is dry. I need a ride habitation."

We practice information technology. I walked into this part. In the corner of this niggling teeny tiny strip mall office in Gainesville, Florida, is and so Bill Clinton and he's talking nigh the written report of service. He'south saying that there is zip wrong with America that can't exist stock-still with what's correct with America. Flashback to twelve-year-old me, I was like, "We are the greatest land in the globe. We can do it. Nosotros can fix things. We can fix these issues. I'thousand going to fix bug." He says, "I'm offering as a solution service, service of ourselves to our country. You get for a couple of years and assist fix a community that is non your own. Through it, y'all are not only improving the customs merely y'all improve yourself by serving someone else. Equally a result, you get college tuition, ameliorate yourself while you are improving other people, and then everybody wins."

I was like, "That needs to happen." This is what I gave my TEDx Talk about. It was at that moment that I switched from, "I can exercise it. I can help. I can solve all the bug," to, "What needs to happen and who needs to be in the right place to get there?" I concluded up condign a head hunter years afterwards. You can see some of the little threads already starting to form but those moments were probably some of the nigh formative in my life virtually who I am, how I respond to problems, and how I recollect well-nigh solutions to those problems.

Yous tell your story in such a very entertaining way but there's so much to information technology that is wrapped upwards in what I can imagine your values are. You value fairness and enabling people to serve in a way that's going to assist move us forward equally a social club and people. To me, it touches on a very deep core of what we need more of in the world. There'south this quote that comes to mind around, "Losing yourself in the process of serving." There's something of import to you. When you lot are serving other people, you lose yourself in that process.

You do lose yourself in that process simply you find yourself as well. We saw a lot of this at the beginning of the pandemic. I have finished the three-twelvemonth study on what makes people happy at piece of work. It's all based on the work that I did in recruiting and the book I wrote, Limitless. If you take read the book, you know that I talk most this idea of continence, where it's not the pursuit of happiness or success. It'south the pursuit of continence, what's alignment, what's flow, and what you do matches who you are.

That continent is fabricated upward of iv parts, Calling, Connection, Contribution and Control. Calling is the gravitational force that gets yous out of bed in the morning, the inspiration to build the business, abound the bottom line, nurture the family unit, solve the problem or whatever it is. Connection, does your work connect to that calling? Are you connected? Does what'southward on your email and to-do listing in your calendar matter? Does it get you lot closer to your calling?

Contribution, are you edifice the life that you want? Does this work contribute to your ability to manifest your values daily, to have the career trajectory y'all want and lifestyle you lot want to live? Control, how much agency practise you take to affect the projects that you are working on or the teams that get assigned to you? How is your work judged and how you are rewarded for it? Information technology's interesting because I would have thought that pre-pandemic versus post-pandemic, we would take a whole lot less control and we would desire much more than control. What I found is that well-nigh of these metrics, calling, connexion, and contribution, stayed the same but nosotros've all got more than control.

Readers are similar, "What? I experience totally out of control." In so far as our work is concerned, so much of the nonsense fell away like the decorated work, the stuff that didn't take a purpose, and the work that we were doing because we have always done it. All of a sudden, we were like, "Are nosotros in a survival mode? How do we connect? How practice we brand sure we see each other? How do nosotros care near each other?" Nosotros lost ourselves in serving the higher purpose of like, "We are all in this together."

The power to exist comfy existence uncomfortable makes a huge difference.

We too found something else, which was nosotros had more control over doing the work that mattered to us. A lot of the states asked ourselves the question, "When life goes back to normal, is the life I'chiliad going dorsum to is normal I want?" For a lot of people, The Great Resignation is showing us. It'due south a resounding no. I do think that yous can lose yourself in serving others but there is so much to exist found equally well. It'due south in that growth that we become to become the people nosotros are meant to exist.

Information technology's such a beautiful concept that yous bring out here. It's near paradoxical. We have this idea that through uncertainty, nosotros become clarity. "How is that possible? How do we find clarity in dubiousness?" The reality is nosotros find out what we can command and tin can't control. Nosotros double downward on the things we tin control and that allows us to stay focused.

Y'all know that I'grand a runner and a rower. Both long-distance running and rowing, whatever distance, are very painful sports. There is this idea of the pain cave where yous go deep into the pain cave and figure out what you are made of at that moment. When things get hard, that'southward when you figure it out. The very first marathon I ran was in 2012 and information technology was 92 degrees on Mon.

In Boston, it's not commonly 92 degrees but if you remember that mean solar day, it was 92 degrees. I accept this very unexciting condition chosen vasovagal syncope, which means I tend to pass out ofttimes with very low blood pressure. If I go anxiety, spikes or aridity, I tend to pass out. I ran the get-go mile of my life when I turned 40 and found this inner athlete in me.

I decided to run the marathon. I get to Newton Eye, which is 3/iv of the way up Heartbreak Hill. You've got a little fleck more than to become. You lot are at mile 20. You've got lx minutes if yous are a boring runner like me to comprehend the next 6 miles or if yous are a faster runner, y'all will do it in thirty minutes. I'1000 never going to practise it in 30 minutes.

I get to Newton Eye. A friend of mine holds up his iPhone, shows me 92 degrees and says, "Wesley Korir just finished." He finished it like a personal best, some ridiculously fast number, even though it was 92 degrees. I think thinking, "I'k never going to be able to terminate this." I take limped upwardly Heartbreak Hill. I'm then tired. I don't even know my name. Somebody complimented me on the Ziploc numberless of ice ahead of my task brought mile 17 that my married man gave me at mile 16. At mile 17, I couldn't even recall where they came from. I was like, "What did these become here? What a good idea." I didn't know my name by the time I finished it.

In retrospect, I think virtually that moment and what information technology took for me to stop that marathon. It took me five and a half hours to finish that. It's not fast. I had to become deep into my hurting cave and figure out what I was fabricated of. Hither'south the matter. For Wesley Korir to stop that marathon in 92 degrees at his personal all-time also, had to go deep into his pain cave. The depth moment of the deepest, darkest pigsty of your pain cave, whether you are Wesley Korir, me, you or the reader, looks and feels the same. Information technology still feels like the hardest you are ever going to work, regardless of whether you are doing information technology at iv.5 or 12-infinitesimal miles. However, you are giving information technology everything yous have.

Fifty-fifty though it took him 2 hours and 15 minutes to finish the marathon and it took me v hours and 12 minutes to stop the marathon, we still both institute the depth of our pain cave. It is in that depth of the hurting cave that you realize that it'southward not a cave. Information technology'south a tunnel and you can come out the other side. When you lot come out the other side, you lot are similar, "I'm made of more I thought. I learned something about myself in this identify. The next time I go there, I tin go a footling farther." Information technology's this ability to be comfortable being uncomfortable that makes a huge difference. When we are in service of other people or we are lost and we don't know what we are doing or when we feel completely out of control, those are the moments where we get back to this idea of your central state of leadership.

I read about this in Harvard Concern Review. It's like, "Who are you lot when y'all are at your very best? Y'all are firing on all cylinders, making it pelting, and closing the deal. Maybe you lot are having this quiet moment with a loved i. Yous are helping a colleague through a hard situation. You were in this moment where you could walk through burn. You can bound over tall buildings. You lot are at your fundamental best." Information technology'southward in these moments where if you lot do being that person, y'all can find that person deep at the bottom of your pain cavern and become into it.

Years agone, I spoke at an Army base in Japan chosen Military camp Zama. At this point, I take been a few years into my newfound fitness journey. I said to my trainer, "I'thou going to become do PT with the guys at 0600. You've got to brand certain I'm in shape for this. What do they do?" He did some research and we realized that they do these intestinal exercises called a hollow agree, where you lay on the ground, lift your head, arms, and anxiety up at the aforementioned fourth dimension. Your cadre is on the ground. Yous are on the ground in your back merely simply your belly is pushed into the ground. You take to hold it for as long equally you lot possibly can. Nosotros had gotten me to the betoken where I was able to agree a hollow hold for three minutes.

I'k old. It was impressive as it tin can be. I become to Camp Zama and I'k doing calisthenics. It'southward cold in the morning. I'thousand wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt. At that indicate, I'1000 45. The commanding officeholder is like, "Stick with united states as long equally y'all can. It'southward okay. Don't worry about information technology. If you lot tin't keep upwards, it'south all right." I'thousand doing all this stuff and I'm in pretty decent shape. I'yard feeling fine. They are talking and it all smack at me. People are falling off like flies. Finally, it's me and this ane other kid left. Corporately, he's probably three days into the Army. He doesn't know what he's doing or where he is but he'southward huffing, puffing, and staying with it.

Failure is not fatal.

I strip off my sweats by this signal. I'm wearing little shorts and joggers. You lot tin can see my six-pack. I'1000 there and doing it. We accept to do the hollow hold at the very end. Nosotros both get on the ground and start doing this hollow agree. You could tell that he'due south having a hard time doing this. He's looking over at me sweating bullets similar, "I can't lose to this, one-time lady. What am I going to do? I'one thousand non going to become downwardly to military duty for the adjacent month."

I'k looking at him and thinking to myself similar, "I'one thousand going to permit him win. You don't become to someone's firm and steal their silverware." I'grand trying to figure out how long I tin can practise it. Information technology's a proficient story. Of a sudden, he stops animate. He'due south holding the hollow and I'k looking over. I'm like, "Is he dead? Is he okay?" This look comes over his confront. I don't know where he went but somewhere in his head, he went to his happy place. He became serene and constitute comfort in the discomfort.

Back on Heartbreak Hill, I was similar, "My heart is going to intermission." He could concur that thing for a half-hour if he had to. I don't know what kind of training he had just he knew that he had to get to that place where he was comfy beingness uncomfortable. He did it. I looked at him. Fifteen seconds later, I dropped my arms and legs. I was like, "It doesn't matter how long I hold it. I'one thousand not beating him. He figured out how to exist comfy in being uncomfortable."

It makes me think of those challenges on Survivor. If you continue people on Survivor and yous see some people who are struggling busing from the moment they become started, and so some people are at-home equally heck. They sit down there and they are in their zone. They are past that moment of pain. They are non fifty-fifty there. They accept left their body and accept gotten another aeroplane. I don't hateful to exist so Zen but the reality is when you realize that there are possibilities that are beyond what you are experiencing, you lot can transcend the pain and discomfort, knowing that on the other side of that, there's more to be had and experience.

I'm so impressed by people who can have the mental fortitude and are tough. It's not just grit, resilience, and beingness to come dorsum. Mayhap it'south being older. It's having perspective. Our mutual friend, Dorie Clark, talks nigh The Long Game . Everything doesn't have to be now. Sometimes you have to let things play out over time. Having a sanguine mental attitude towards it, knowing that you are planting a lot of seeds, there is some pain here and there, and each time you take pain, confusion or doubt, it lays the groundwork to be okay when information technology'due south less sure when the stakes are higher.

My next book is going to exist called Wonder Hell. It'southward going to be about this moment that you have, where it is incredible, humbling, and wonderful that this thing I'one thousand working on is working amazingly. Also, I have never been so exhausted in my entire life. I'm anxious, scared, full of Imposter syndrome, doubtfulness and exhaustion. It'southward wonderful and hell. It'southward wonder hell.

In those moments of wonder hell, yous realize what you are capable of and how much more you want. Isn't that exciting? If you are okay with the uncertainty here taking a step, maybe you are okay taking 2, iii, and four steps later. Y'all figure out what y'all tin do, who's with you and non with you forth the way. There are so many lessons at each new level and with each new devil.

I'm glad that y'all brought in this concept of what your new book is about because I beloved it. We demand to spend an entirely new episode on that. In that location's so much to it that we all feel in these periods and information technology'southward too knowing who are the believers who are along the path with you, who are championing you merely also knowing you enough to be able to say, "Maybe you lot are taking on too much that yous are stretching yourself too sparse."

Where practice those people sit? Some of them sit in the arena with you, on the sidelines, on your bench with y'all similar in the training room and the press box. Those are the ones who are writing stories about you but they don't have an investment. They are mostly invested in how they expect vis-a-vis your story. "Am I writing a story almost her? Are my analysis and critique good?" There are a lot of people who are on the ride with y'all but they are not necessarily going in the same management with you. They don't share the same goals.

Sometimes those people are people who love y'all. My parents love me. They take no thought what I'm capable of. When I left the White Firm, midway through Bill Clinton's start assistants, people thought I was crazy. Nobody leaves in the middle of the assistants. When I left the big marquee search firm to outset my ain, I just had my first babe.

They idea I was insane. When I decided to sell that company, when I could ride off into the dusk and exist there forever, the work was super easy and we were busy as could be. They idea I was nuts like, "What are yous doing? Why are you doing all these things? Why are you making all this stress?" The concluding time I lived in the same house as my parents, I was seventeen years former and I put empty milk cartons back in the fridge, left muddy socks on the living room floor, and forgot to make full the car with gas.

I didn't have a frontal lobe. When they call back about what I'm capable of doing, they love and like me but they don't know me. When I take their advice, "Y'all shouldn't do that," they don't know who I am. When you come across somebody at Starbucks or something and yous tell them your big, crazy, scary goal, they are similar, "Tony, you can't practise that. That's too scary."

What they mean is, "I tin't do that. I'm too scared," but yet nosotros hear them, whether it comes from honey, this identify of fear or jealousy. How many people exercise you have in your life? I promise it'southward not a large number simply we all take some who judge your rise only in so far equally information technology shows their fall. They annotate and nitpick. It's like cancer and information technology gets in that location. Fifty-fifty if you don't think information technology bothers yous, it's those mornings at three:00 in the morning when you are like, "I don't know if I can do this. I'm uncomfortable. This pain cavern feels deep." You lot start hearing their voices once again.

Two S words come to mind. People want to go along you lot Safe and Small-scale sometimes and considering of that, yous have to know, "That's their perspective. I can either accept it and integrate what is helpful or I could leave it and move on from this place."

You have survived all your bad days. You accept survived all of your failures. There'due south a rail record in that location. Yous are going to survive.

We are so committed to identity. We all have an identity and my identity is mirrored based on the identity of other people around me. I had an interesting conversation with Marker Metry, who has a podcast called Humans 2.0. He'south likewise a Boston guy. He was telling me, "Nosotros are non who we recollect we are. Nosotros are who we remember other people think we are." I was like, "That is so profound." My identity is non my identity. My identity is who you think my identity is. If y'all like to keep me pocket-sized, I want to grow bigger. As I grew bigger if you seem to not exist happy about that, is there a conflict there?

I want to have a moment and ask, if you were to retrieve dorsum on your journey, you take shared a lot of insights nigh the challenges and getting out of your comfort zone just what are the lessons you lot take learned about yourself along your path that you want to share with people? Maybe i or 2 things that you experience similar you lot want to highlight around your self-journey.

Your 4th-grade teacher doesn't know crap about who you are and what you should exist. Nosotros all have that parent, boss, instructor or even that vocalisation in our head that'due south like, "I don't know." The number one affair that I would want to share with people is that failure is not the finale. Information technology's not fatal. Information technology's not where we end and die. Yous accept survived all of your bad days and failures. In that location's a rails record right there. Failure is that place where you learn, iterate and abound. Isn't that amazing? When I was growing upwards, I would bring abode a 99% on a exam and be like, "I'm going to become in then much trouble for not getting the 1% right."

I learned to think that getting a 99% was a failure. Non getting everything perfect is a failure. As adults, all of united states of america have this idea of, "If I get hired for beingness proficient at something, get paid, promoted, and praised for doing that matter but if I step to the left or correct and spiral up, it'southward going to be the end of me." Nosotros don't attempt new things. We don't iterate, innovate and change. We get bored and stagnate. What happens when you lot get bored and stagnate? Yous neglect because of everything you are trying to avoid.

There's such a crazy feeling around that. Oftentimes when nosotros have stepped out and been chastised for it or take been called, whether information technology'due south in a job where people take felt like, "You didn't exercise this right," you accept experienced that, and so y'all feel like you have to step dorsum in line, it'southward sorry considering those people, leaders, bosses or whatever it may exist are the ones who are property u.s. back in line and limiting us. It's safe and pocket-size. That'due south unfortunate because we have to realize that's the end of one. It'southward one situation that we should learn from only it shouldn't be the finish.

I gave this talk where I talked about this thought at Renaissance Weekend once in Austin, Texas. I've got on stage and did my whole thing. I was similar, "Every failure is not the finale. It's full-grown." I looked in the audience and in that location was an astronaut. It's Renaissance Weekend, so at that place are lots of astronauts. This particular astronaut had spoken earlier me in another room nigh his three spacewalks. I was like, "For everyone else in this room, failure is not the finale. It's total-grown but for you, ignore what I'm going to say side by side."

Very few of us were failures in the end. We have to learn how to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Sometimes that means stepping out and doing things that you can't e'er do perfectly the starting time time. When I was a kid, I never wanted to try anything that I couldn't practise perfectly the first time. I was the typical kid who sabbatum on the sidelines until I knew I could main something, and so I would go in and exercise it perfectly because I had to exist perfect. That's who I was. That was my identity. I accept gotten much older and more mature. I am totally fine sucking at something new.

I have one last question and I asked this for all my guests. I'm dying to detect out your answer for this 1. What are one or 2 books that accept had an bear on on you and why?

I'grand going to requite you one book that's fiction, which is chosen Stones from the River . This volume is one-time. It's past an author named Ursula Hegi. She'southward German. The book is most a woman past the name of Trudy who was a dwarf. It takes identify during Earth War II. Trudy works as a waitress at a coffee store. All of the Nazi officers come to this java shop. It's in occupied Amsterdam. She's waiting on them. They are ignoring her because they don't call up of her as a human. She will hang in there every bit a total person. They write her off.

They talk about all their plans in front of her. She works with the resistance and helps to overthrow the Nazis. What I took from that book is everyone is going to ascertain the states in a very particular fashion just that's not who we are. We write our own stories. I have always idea that book was beautiful considering of the way that she decided to write her ain story. It's a piece of work of fiction and I would positively highly recommend it. Information technology'due south hard to come up with another volume. I take so many favorite books but I might be like a total fangirl and recommend Dorie Clark'south The Long Game.

I dearest Dorie. She's fantastic. She does tell a story virtually me in the volume. That's cheesy of me to recommend. If your readers don't know her, and they must know her past now, she is and then brilliant. She is a good person to think about how you want to construct who you lot are and what your career is going to be. This book, in particular, talks about the things that you exercise throughout your career, the seeds that you plant throughout your career, how to help fertilize and grow them throughout the length of your career likewise. Dorie has been a dandy friend of mine and a solid thinker for me on the field of study. Everyone who is reading this and thinking nigh where they want to get and who they are should think about reading this book.

Both books are fascinating. First of all, I know The Long Game . I have read it twice since it's out. The first ane, what a remarkable book? I love the lessons you share because it's so absurd. This has been an amazing chat. Thank you then much for coming to the show. I'k so grateful and our readers volition be, as well.

Everyone's going to define united states of america in a very particular way just that's not who we are. Nosotros write our own stories.

What are your books? Do y'all ever tell people your books?

I do sometimes. I have readers lists on my website, which I share with people. The two books that I dear to mention the most are The Art of Possibility  past Benjamin Zander, which I'g a huge fan of. My second volume would exist The Volume of Mistakes  past Skip Prichard. Information technology's a book that is fictional considering it'due south told through the story of a boy learning these lessons but it's a great business volume too. Information technology'due south a beautiful book. If you haven't read that, you should check information technology out. This has been brilliant. Before I allow you go, I demand to make certain that people know where to find yous. What's the best place to detect you?

All my good friends call me LGO. Y'all can observe me at HeyLGO.com. It is a shortcut to my website and @HeyLGO on all the socials. If you lot heed to me talk about the idea of continence, calling, connection, contribution, and control and you are like, "I need to figure that out," there are iv questions you demand to enquire yourself and you can discover those four questions at MyFourQuestions.com.

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Important Links:

• Mission Driven: Moving from Turn a profit to Purpose
• Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life
• TEDx Talk – Cease Request "How Tin I Help?"
• The Long Game
• Humans 2.0
• Stones from the River
• The Art of Possibility
• The Book of Mistakes
• HeyLGO.com
• @HeyLGO - Instagram
• MyFourQuestions.com

Well-nigh Laura Gassner Otting

Washington Postal service Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that go on nifty ideas in limbo because her presentations brand listeners call up bigger and accept greater challenges that achieve beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating alter across the kickoff-up, nonprofit, political, every bit well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

Laura's entrepreneurial border has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton'due south White Business firm, where she helped shape AmeriCorps.

She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to aggrandize the startup ExecSearches.com. Laura also founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from get-go-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold NPAG to the squad that helped her build it, both because she was hungry for the next chapter and considering she held an audacious dream of electing our nation'southward outset female president.

Forth the manner, while serving on Hillary Clinton's National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became so popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura has spoken across the United states of america and internationally to universities, companies, conferences, accelerators, TEDx, and the The states Armed forces.

She is the author ofMission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose(2015) and the Washington Post Best Seller Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Cleave Your Ain Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019). She lives with her married man, two teenage sons, and troublesome puppy exterior of Boston, MA.

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