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Laura Gassner Otting - Limitless: How to ignore everyone and carve your own path
Inside Influence
English - July 28, 2021 02:53 - 1 hour - 137 MBManagement Business Marketing business entrepreneur leadership marketing negotiation sales Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Laura Gassner Otting - What would you do if you felt truly limitless?
Whether you call it “being in the zone”, “flow”, “hyperfocus”, “feeling invincible”, or in the words of my guest today “consonance” - we have all experienced those moments where we feel our abilities and passions are absorbed into the task in front of us. Time melts away and we produce some of our best work. What if you could have that every day?
On today’s Inside Influence Podcast episode best-selling author and entrepreneur Laura Gassner Otting describes how we can take the limits off our lives and live in a “limitless” state. A state describing when “what we do matches who we are (or want to be)” and the limitless possibilities that result. She calls this “consonance” - the opposite of dissonance.
Laura started her limitless journey at the opposite end of the spectrum. She had worked hard to achieve a successful career, but then realised she was working hard for someone else’s definition of success. Working in executive search, she also began to notice that those who appeared limitless had four decisions in common. Those four decisions enabled them to tap into their limitless potential. You can too.
Today’s Guest Laura Gassner Otting
Laura has over 25 years experience in service, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Today she is a best-selling author and an in-demand motivational speaker.
Dropping out of law school, Laura started her career as a campaign staffer for the Clinton and Gore 1994 Presidential campaign. She then worked in the Clinton Whitehouse helping to establish AmeriCorps (a domestic version of the Peace Corps). She then became an AmeriCorps program director and got her Master’s in Political Management from George Washington University.
She then entered the world of executive search and rose to the position of Senior Vice President of executive search startup ExecSearches.com.
After leaving the world of executive search, she founded the Nonprofit Professional Advisory Group (NPAG) where she held the position of President for over 12 years.
In 2015, she sold NPAG and after presenting at a TedTalk she was inspired to write her first book, “Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose”. She then followed this up with the 2019 Washington Post Best Seller “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life”.
Website: https://lauragassnerotting.com
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“Letting go of the controls of trying to go back to the way things were allows us to open up our lens to the way things can be.”
“If you are comparing your bloopers to someone else’s highlight reel of course you are going to feel terrible about yourself.”
“You can’t do it if you let other people limit you to what they think you are capable of because nobody knows what you can really do”.
“We cannot be insatiably hungry for someone else’s goals.”
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