Why Do I Love You So I Dont Know but Thats All I Need to Know

Embracing limitless possibility also means embracing failures. Here to shed light on how you can become 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 button past doubt that hinder great ideas. In this episode, she shares insights from her latest book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your All-time Life, which debuted at No. two in the Washington Post Best-Seller's List. Join in as she chats with Tony Martignetti about defining your success, being comfortable with the uncomfortable, embracing failure, and more. Stay tuned!

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How To Reach Limitless Possibility And Alive Your Best Life With Laura Gassner Otting

It is my award to innovate yous to my guest, Laura Gassner Otting. She helps people go unstuck and achieve extraordinary results through limitless possibilities. She collaborates with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to push by the incertitude and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom and catalytic perspective informed past decades of navigating alter across the startup, non-turn a profit, political, and philanthropic landscape. She's truly a busy person here.

She is the author of a volume for those, Mission Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose  and Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life . It'south of my favorite books, which debuted at number two on the Washington Mail's bestseller's listing right backside Michelle Obama and which Good Morn America, Robin Roberts chose as one of her favorite books in 2019. It is my pleasance to welcome you to the testify, Laura.

It's so great to be here.

I'm thrilled to have yous on. It has been my pleasure to get to know you and run into the bear upon that you have made on the world. Equally we do on the show to oft unwind, how did the person get here? How did they go far in this place where they are making an impact in the world? Truly, you lot have been making an touch on for many years. That'southward what nosotros are going to do.

I think you just call me old.

It's not the years in your life just the life in your years.

No.

I'm kidding. I'm a huge fan of RuPaul'due south Drag Race. I watched it with my son. There's a chapter in the world of RuPaul'southward Elevate Race called Queen of the Universe. One of the elevate queens is 42 years old. When she came on stage, they were similar, "You have a lot of experience." She was similar, "Did yous just call me former?" I was similar, "I've got to call up that."

In this twenty-four hour period and age, 42 is young. I was reflecting on the fact that Betty White passed abroad. Information technology'due south amazing to see how much life she put into her life. That'southward wild.

My grandmother passed away years ago at 93 and iii/4. She wanted to go far to 94. She had a hard early and middle role of her life and then found much more happiness after in life. She used to say every mean solar day, "To a higher place ground is a skillful solar day." That woman was learning how to play Blackjack when she had a fatal stroke that took her. She lived, even when she couldn't live.

Early on on she couldn't do what she wanted to practise considering she was constrained by a sick husband, a daughter with polio, or living in a society that didn't recollect women could practice much of anything other than be wives, nurses or teachers. Nurses, teachers, and wives are great but those were the just options that were available to her.

She didn't let that stop her. She made sure to live when she could. Equally I was turning 40, I ran the start mile of my life. I constitute my inner athlete. I ended up a couple of years afterward running in the Boston Marathon. It'south the first marathon of my life. I put her name on my arm. My running charabanc pulled me over at mile 16, right earlier you make the turn at mile 17 to get up Heartbreak Hill, which is storied possible hard. It breaks the heart of marathon runners. He said, "Recollect what Rosie would call back." She paired me upward to Heartbreak Colina. They say, "It's not the years in your life but the life in your years." I do think that'southward pretty true.

Nosotros take already stepped into the world of limitless possibilities correct here. This is why you are the right person to be given these messages. It's time for the states to get into your story. Permit's leap in. Every bit we practice on the show, we talk about people'southward stories through what are called Flashpoints, points in your story that take ignited your gifts in the world. I'thousand going to plow it over to you in a moment to share what are the moments that accept revealed who you are. You can showtime wherever y'all like and share what you would like to share but let's end along the way and see what's showing up.

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 ane of the 501(c)(iii) or 501(c)(4) universe. Information technology was my dandy blessing and burden that I've got to hear people's real stories. Nobody came to me like, "I want to increase shareholder value." Who cares? That'south boring unless you lot want it for shareholder value.

I could have made 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 world. I used to get to hear from people about the mother, father, instructor, mentor or whoever information technology was in their life who influenced them, the diagnosis, existent tragedy or something that set them on a course to make them who they are.

I believe that information technology's that person, the ane who was shaped early on that shows up at 3:00 in the morning when the crap hits the fan. When everything goes incorrect and you get a phone call from your best employee that they are quitting and from your worst board member that they are not, what do you do? It's how you were shaped when you were younger. Sometimes the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Sometimes the apple falls and gets far away from the tree every bit it peradventure can but it's a magnetic force one way 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 considering I was attack a path by a female parent who probably wanted to become to law school and didn't accept that pick. Information technology was in the '50s and '60s. There were non a lot of lady lawyers being turned out past colleges. I had a fourth-form instructor who told me that I was argumentative and mayhap I would make a practiced lawyer. I watched Ally McBeal on Idiot box and LA Law. I was like, "Susan Dey is glamorous. She's dating Harry Hamlin. I want to be similar her." I had this idea that mayhap that was the right direction.

You can lose yourself in serving others but in that location is so much to be found as well. It'southward in that growth that we really get to get the people we are meant to exist.

I graduated from high school in 1988. I watched as young kid lines at gas stations when oil prices were skyrocketing. At that place was an oil embargo and the Iran hostage crisis. I remember thinking similar, "Somebody needs to solve this trouble," and being righteously indignant that we are the greatest state in the world, even so in that location are a agglomeration of people in another countries that are holding guns to the heads of our citizens and they tin't exist costless. I was much younger and way more than naive. I didn't sympathize the geopolitical like, "Let'south keep them hostages until Reagan becomes president so he could permit them be costless," and all of a sudden, "Reagan, yay." I didn't empathize all of that was going on back there.

In my caput, I thought, "Did leaders are the ones who fix things? There are bug in the globe and I want to fix them." For the about office, a lot of those people, ironically, not Carter or Reagan, are lawyers who ran for office 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 thought of a woman in the White House seemed crazy. We however have to set that. It was one of those things where I was similar, "I'm going to run for Senate. I'chiliad going to be the first female Democratic Senator from the bully State of Florida."

I set myself on this course to go to police force school. I ended up in constabulary school. On the very kickoff solar day, I looked around and was like, "I don't want to be here. I don't like what nosotros are studying. I'm 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 error." I did what almost people do when they find themselves in a place in their life where they are very unhappy. I dated somebody terrible for me.

I used to ride my cycle to campus and that twenty-four hours happened to be raining. This guy said, "I will give y'all a ride home. Nosotros will stick your wheel in the back of my IROC-Z," which tells you everything you need to know almost this guy. "First, we accept to terminate this guy'due south campaign function. He's running for president." Kids, this is what you used to do before the cyberspace. You have to go to a strip mall in your local town, go to some local part, get a printed slice of paper and a list of issues in where the candidates sit on the issue. I was similar, "Governor who, from where, Arkansas? Not a run a risk in hell but fine. Your car is dry. I need a ride home."

Nosotros practise information technology. I walked into this office. In the corner of this piddling teeny tiny strip mall office in Gainesville, Florida, is then Bill Clinton and he's talking about the study of service. He's saying that there is nothing incorrect with America that tin't be fixed with what's correct with America. Flashback to twelve-yr-quondam me, I was like, "We are the greatest country in the world. We can do information technology. We tin fix things. We tin fix these problems. I'g going to fix problems." He says, "I'm offer every bit a solution service, service of ourselves to our state. You go for a couple of years and assist fix a customs that is not your own. Through it, you are not only improving the community but you improve yourself by serving someone else. As a upshot, you become higher tuition, improve yourself while you lot are improving other people, then everybody wins."

I was similar, "That needs to happen." This is what I gave my TEDx Talk nigh. It was at that moment that I switched from, "I tin do it. I can assistance. I can solve all the problems," to, "What needs to happen and who needs to be in the correct place to get there?" I concluded upwards becoming a head hunter years later. You lot can see some of the footling threads already starting to form but those moments were probably some of the most formative in my life about who I am, how I answer to bug, and how I recall nearly solutions to those issues.

You tell your story in such a very entertaining way but at that place's so much to it that is wrapped up in what I can imagine your values are. Yous value fairness and enabling people to serve in a way that's going to help move us forrard equally a society and people. To me, it touches on a very deep cadre of what we need more of in the world. There's this quote that comes to listen around, "Losing yourself in the process of serving." There's something important to yous. When you lot are serving other people, y'all lose yourself in that procedure.

You do lose yourself in that process but you observe yourself also. We saw a lot of this at the starting time of the pandemic. I have finished the three-twelvemonth study on what makes people happy at work. Information technology'south all based on the work that I did in recruiting and the book I wrote, Limitless. If yous have read the book, you know that I talk about this idea of continence, where information technology'south non the pursuit of happiness or success. It's the pursuit of continence, what'south alignment, what's menstruum, and what y'all practise matches who you are.

That continent is made up of 4 parts, Calling, Connectedness, Contribution and Command. Calling is the gravitational force that gets you out of bed in the forenoon, the inspiration to build the business, grow the bottom line, nurture the family, solve the problem or whatever it is. Connectedness, does your work connect to that calling? Are yous connected? Does what'south on your electronic mail and to-do list in your calendar matter? Does it get you lot closer to your calling?

Contribution, are yous building the life that you lot want? Does this work contribute to your ability to manifest your values daily, to have the career trajectory yous want and lifestyle you want to live? Command, how much bureau do you have to bear on the projects that yous are working on or the teams that get assigned to yous? How is your work judged and how yous are rewarded for it? It'south interesting because I would have idea that pre-pandemic versus post-pandemic, we would take a whole lot less control and nosotros would want much more control. What I institute is that nearly of these metrics, calling, connexion, and contribution, stayed the same only nosotros've all got more command.

Readers are like, "What? I experience totally out of control." In so far as our work is concerned, so much of the nonsense brutal abroad similar the busy piece of work, the stuff that didn't have a purpose, and the piece of work that we were doing considering we have always done it. Suddenly, nosotros were like, "Are nosotros in a survival mode? How do we connect? How do nosotros make sure nosotros see each other? How practise we care about each other?" We lost ourselves in serving the higher purpose of like, "We are all in this together."

The power to be comfortable existence uncomfortable makes a huge difference.

We also found something else, which was we had more command over doing the work that mattered to u.s.a.. A lot of us asked ourselves the question, "When life goes dorsum to normal, is the life I'one thousand going back to is normal I want?" For a lot of people, The Keen Resignation is showing u.s.. It'southward a resounding no. I do recollect that you lot tin can lose yourself in serving others simply at that place is so much to be found likewise. It's in that growth that we get to become the people we are meant to exist.

Information technology's such a cute concept that you bring out here. It'due south almost paradoxical. Nosotros have this idea that through dubiousness, we get clarity. "How is that possible? How exercise nosotros find clarity in incertitude?" The reality is we discover out what we tin command and can't control. Nosotros double down on the things we can control and that allows the states to stay focused.

You know that I'g a runner and a rower. Both long-distance running and rowing, whatever distance, are very painful sports. There is this thought of the pain cave where yous go deep into the pain cavern and figure out what you are fabricated of at that moment. When things become hard, that's when you figure it out. The very first marathon I ran was in 2012 and it was 92 degrees on Monday.

In Boston, it's non commonly 92 degrees merely if yous call back that day, it was 92 degrees. I have this very unexciting condition called vasovagal syncope, which means I tend to pass out often with very depression blood pressure. If I get feet, spikes or dehydration, I tend to pass out. I ran the outset mile of my life when I turned 40 and institute this inner athlete in me.

I decided to run the marathon. I go to Newton Center, which is 3/iv of the fashion up Heartbreak Colina. Yous've got a little fleck more to go. You are at mile twenty. Yous've got threescore minutes if you are a slow runner like me to cover the adjacent 6 miles or if you are a faster runner, y'all will practise information technology in 30 minutes. I'm never going to do it in 30 minutes.

I get to Newton Center. A friend of mine holds upward his iPhone, shows me 92 degrees and says, "Wesley Korir just finished." He finished it like a personal best, some ridiculously fast number, fifty-fifty though it was 92 degrees. I remember thinking, "I'm never going to be able to end this." I have limped up Heartbreak Hill. I'k and then tired. I don't fifty-fifty know my name. Somebody complimented me on the Ziploc bags of ice ahead of my job brought mile 17 that my hubby gave me at mile 16. At mile 17, I couldn't even remember where they came from. I was like, "What did these become here? What a good idea." I didn't know my proper name past the time I finished it.

In retrospect, I retrieve most that moment and what it took for me to cease that marathon. Information technology took me 5 and a half hours to finish that. It'southward not fast. I had to go deep into my hurting cave and effigy out what I was made of. Here's the thing. For Wesley Korir to finish that marathon in 92 degrees at his personal best too, had to become deep into his pain cave. The depth moment of the deepest, darkest hole of your pain cave, whether you are Wesley Korir, me, yous or the reader, looks and feels the same. It however feels like the hardest y'all are ever going to work, regardless of whether y'all are doing information technology at 4.five or 12-infinitesimal miles. Nevertheless, y'all are giving it everything you accept.

Fifty-fifty though information technology took him two hours and 15 minutes to finish the marathon and information technology took me v hours and 12 minutes to finish the marathon, we still both found the depth of our pain cave. It is in that depth of the pain cavern that you realize that it's non a cavern. Information technology'due south a tunnel and you tin can come out the other side. When yous come up out the other side, you lot are like, "I'yard made of more than than I idea. I learned something about myself in this place. The next time I go in that location, I tin can go a little further." It'due south this power 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 go back to this idea of your primal state of leadership.

I read near this in Harvard Business Review. Information technology'southward like, "Who are you when you are at your very best? You are firing on all cylinders, making information technology rain, and closing the deal. Possibly y'all are having this quiet moment with a loved 1. Yous are helping a colleague through a hard state of affairs. You were in this moment where you could walk through fire. Yous can jump over tall buildings. Yous are at your central best." It'southward in these moments where if you practice being that person, you can find that person deep at the bottom of your pain cave and go into it.

Years ago, I spoke at an Army base in Japan called Camp Zama. At this point, I have been a few years into my newfound fitness journeying. I said to my trainer, "I'm going to go do PT with the guys at 0600. You've got to make sure I'm in shape for this. What do they do?" He did some research and we realized that they practice these intestinal exercises called a hollow hold, where you lay on the ground, elevator your head, artillery, and feet up at the same time. Your core is on the footing. You are on the ground in your dorsum but only your belly is pushed into the ground. You have to hold it for as long as yous perhaps can. Nosotros had gotten me to the point where I was able to hold a hollow hold for three minutes.

I'thou quondam. It was impressive as it can be. I go to Campsite Zama and I'grand doing calisthenics. It'due south common cold in the morn. I'm wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt. At that point, I'm 45. The commanding officer is like, "Stick with united states equally long equally you tin. It's okay. Don't worry about information technology. If you lot tin't keep upwards, it'due south all right." I'm doing all this stuff and I'm in pretty decent shape. I'm feeling fine. They are talking and information technology 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'due south doing or where he is but he's huffing, puffing, and staying with it.

Failure is not fatal.

I strip off my sweats by this betoken. I'thou wearing petty shorts and joggers. Yous can run across my half dozen-pack. I'yard there and doing information technology. Nosotros have to do the hollow hold at the very end. We both get on the ground and start doing this hollow hold. You lot could tell that he's having a difficult time doing this. He's looking over at me sweating bullets like, "I can't lose to this, old lady. What am I going to do? I'k not going to get down to military duty for the next calendar month."

I'one thousand looking at him and thinking to myself like, "I'one thousand going to let him win. Yous don't go to someone's firm and steal their silverware." I'm trying to figure out how long I can do information technology. It's a good story. All of a sudden, he stops breathing. He's holding the hollow and I'm looking over. I'thou like, "Is he dead? Is he okay?" This look comes over his face. I don't know where he went but somewhere in his head, he went to his happy place. He became serene and found comfort in the discomfort.

Back on Heartbreak Hill, I was similar, "My heart is going to break." He could hold that thing for a half-hr if he had to. I don't know what kind of training he had but he knew that he had to get to that place where he was comfortable beingness uncomfortable. He did information technology. I looked at him. Fifteen seconds later, I dropped my arms and legs. I was similar, "It doesn't affair how long I hold it. I'm not beating him. He figured out how to be comfortable in being uncomfortable."

Information technology makes me call back of those challenges on Survivor. If you lot go on people on Survivor and you see some people who are struggling busing from the moment they become started, and then some people are calm as heck. They sit there and they are in their zone. They are past that moment of hurting. They are not even at that place. They have left their body and have gotten another plane. I don't mean to be and then Zen merely the reality is when y'all realize that there are possibilities that are beyond what y'all are experiencing, yous can transcend the hurting and discomfort, knowing that on the other side of that, there's more than to be had and feel.

I'1000 so impressed by people who can have the mental fortitude and are tough. It'due south non just grit, resilience, and being to come dorsum. Maybe it's being older. It's having perspective. Our mutual friend, Dorie Clark, talks about The Long Game . Everything doesn't have to be now. Sometimes you have to let things play out over time. Having a sanguine attitude towards information technology, knowing that yous are planting a lot of seeds, in that location is some pain hither and there, and each fourth dimension yous have pain, defoliation or doubtfulness, it lays the groundwork to be okay when it's less certain when the stakes are college.

My next volume is going to be called Wonder Hell. Information technology's going to exist well-nigh this moment that you lot have, where information technology is incredible, humbling, and wonderful that this matter I'grand working on is working amazingly. Besides, I have never been so exhausted in my entire life. I'm broken-hearted, scared, full of Imposter syndrome, doubt and exhaustion. Information technology's wonderful and hell. It'south 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, three, and 4 steps later. You figure out what you can do, who's with you and not with you along the way. There are and so many lessons at each new level and with each new devil.

I'm glad that you lot brought in this concept of what your new volume is about because I love it. Nosotros need to spend an entirely new episode on that. There's so much to it that we all experience in these periods and it's also knowing who are the believers who are along the path with you, who are championing you but likewise knowing you enough to be able to say, "Maybe you lot are taking on besides much that you are stretching yourself too sparse."

Where exercise those people sit? Some of them sit down in the loonshit with yous, on the sidelines, on your demote with you 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 about her? Are my assay and critique good?" There are a lot of people who are on the ride with you but they are not necessarily going in the aforementioned direction with you. They don't share the same goals.

Sometimes those people are people who love you lot. My parents honey me. They accept no thought what I'm capable of. When I left the White Business firm, midway through Nib Clinton's first administration, people idea I was crazy. Nobody leaves in the middle of the administration. When I left the big marquee search business firm to kickoff my ain, I simply had my first babe.

They thought I was insane. When I decided to sell that company, when I could ride off into the sunset and be there forever, the piece of work was super easy and nosotros were decorated as could be. They thought I was basics like, "What are you lot doing? Why are you lot doing all these things? Why are you making all this stress?" The final fourth dimension I lived in the same house as my parents, I was seventeen years sometime and I put empty milk cartons back in the refrigerator, left muddied socks on the living room floor, and forgot to fill the machine with gas.

I didn't have a frontal lobe. When they think about what I'one thousand capable of doing, they love and like me but they don't know me. When I have their advice, "You shouldn't do that," they don't know who I am. When you run into somebody at Starbucks or something and you tell them your big, crazy, scary goal, they are similar, "Tony, you can't do that. That'southward also scary."

What they hateful is, "I tin't do that. I'm also scared," simply yet nosotros hear them, whether it comes from dear, this place of fearfulness or jealousy. How many people practice y'all accept in your life? I hope it'south not a big number simply nosotros all have some who guess your rising simply in so far as it shows their fall. They annotate and nitpick. Information technology'south similar cancer and it gets at that place. Even if you lot don't think it bothers you, it's those mornings at three:00 in the morning when you lot are similar, "I don't know if I tin do this. I'g uncomfortable. This pain cave feels deep." You start hearing their voices over again.

Two S words come to mind. People want to keep you Safety and Modest sometimes and because of that, you have to know, "That's their perspective. I can either take it and integrate what is helpful or I could get out it and motion on from this identify."

Yous accept survived all your bad days. You have survived all of your failures. There's a track record there. You lot are going to survive.

We are then 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 ii.0. He's likewise a Boston guy. He was telling me, "We are non who we think nosotros are. We are who nosotros think other people recall we are." I was like, "That is and then profound." My identity is not my identity. My identity is who you call up my identity is. If you lot similar to keep me small, I want to grow bigger. As I grew bigger if yous seem to not exist happy nigh that, is at that place a conflict there?

I want to have a moment and ask, if y'all were to think dorsum on your journey, y'all accept shared a lot of insights nigh the challenges and getting out of your condolement zone but what are the lessons you lot have learned about yourself along your path that you lot want to share with people? Perhaps 1 or two things that you feel like you lot desire to highlight around your self-journey.

Your fourth-course teacher doesn't know crap about who you are and what you should be. We all take that parent, boss, teacher or even that vocalism in our head that'due south like, "I don't know." The number i thing that I would want to share with people is that failure is not the finale. Information technology's non fatal. It's not where we end and dice. You take survived all of your bad days and failures. There's a track record correct there. Failure is that place where you learn, iterate and abound. Isn't that astonishing? When I was growing up, I would bring home a 99% on a test and be like, "I'm going to get in so much trouble for not getting the 1% right."

I learned to think that getting a 99% was a failure. Not getting everything perfect is a failure. Equally adults, all of us have this idea of, "If I get hired for being good at something, go paid, promoted, and praised for doing that thing but if I step to the left or correct and screw upwards, it's going to be the finish of me." Nosotros don't endeavor new things. We don't iterate, introduce and change. Nosotros get bored and stagnate. What happens when you go bored and stagnate? You fail because of everything you are trying to avoid.

There's such a crazy feeling around that. Oftentimes when we have stepped out and been chastised for it or have been called, whether it's in a job where people accept felt like, "You didn't exercise this right," you take experienced that, and then you feel like you have to step back in line, it's sad because those people, leaders, bosses or whatever it may be are the ones who are holding us back in line and limiting us. It's condom and small. That's unfortunate considering nosotros have to realize that's the end of one. It'southward one situation that we should larn from but it shouldn't be the terminate.

I gave this talk where I talked about this idea at Renaissance Weekend once in Austin, Texas. I've got on phase and did my whole thing. I was like, "Every failure is not the finale. It's full-grown." I looked in the audition and there was an astronaut. Information technology's Renaissance Weekend, so there are lots of astronauts. This detail astronaut had spoken before me in another room about his 3 spacewalks. I was similar, "For everyone else in this room, failure is not the finale. It's full-grown but for y'all, ignore what I'chiliad going to say adjacent."

Very few of us were failures in the end. We have to learn how to get comfortable being uncomfortable. Sometimes that ways stepping out and doing things that you tin't always do perfectly the get-go time. When I was a kid, I never wanted to try anything that I couldn't do perfectly the beginning time. I was the typical kid who sat on the sidelines until I knew I could main something, then I would go in and do information technology perfectly because I had to be perfect. That'due south who I was. That was my identity. I have 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'thou dying to find out your answer for this one. What are ane or 2 books that have had an touch on you and why?

I'g going to requite you one volume that's fiction, which is called Stones from the River . This book is old. It'south past an author named Ursula Hegi. She's German. The volume is about a woman by the name of Trudy who was a dwarf. Information technology takes place during World War II. Trudy works as a waitress at a coffee shop. All of the Nazi officers come up to this coffee shop. Information technology's in occupied Amsterdam. She'southward waiting on them. They are ignoring her because they don't call back of her equally a homo. She volition hang in in that location as a total person. They write her off.

They talk nearly 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 us in a very particular way but that's non who we are. We write our own stories. I have e'er idea that book was cute because of the fashion that she decided to write her own story. It's a work of fiction and I would positively highly recommend it. It'due south hard to come up with another book. I have then many favorite books merely I might be like a full fangirl and recommend Dorie Clark's The Long Game.

I beloved Dorie. She'south fantastic. She does tell a story most me in the volume. That's cheesy of me to recommend. If your readers don't know her, and they must know her by now, she is so brilliant. She is a adept person to think near how you want to construct who y'all are and what your career is going to be. This volume, in particular, talks about the things that you practise throughout your career, the seeds that yous plant throughout your career, how to help fertilize and grow them throughout the length of your career as well. Dorie has been a peachy friend of mine and a solid thinker for me on the bailiwick. Anybody who is reading this and thinking about where they want to go 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 information technology twice since it'southward out. The first one, what a remarkable book? I love the lessons y'all share because it's so cool. This has been an astonishing conversation. Thank you then much for coming to the show. I'g then grateful and our readers will be, besides.

Everyone's going to ascertain us in a very particular fashion but that's not who we are. We write our own stories.

What are your books? Practise yous 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 love to mention the almost are The Art of Possibility  by Benjamin Zander, which I'yard a huge fan of. My second book would be The Book of Mistakes  by Skip Prichard. Information technology's a book that is fictional because information technology's told through the story of a boy learning these lessons only it's a great business book equally well. It'south a cute book. If yous haven't read that, you should bank check it out. This has been brilliant. Earlier I let you go, I need to make sure that people know where to notice you lot. What'south the best place to find y'all?

All my proficient friends phone call me LGO. You can find me at HeyLGO.com. It is a shortcut to my website and @HeyLGO on all the socials. If you listen to me talk about the idea of continence, calling, connection, contribution, and command and you are like, "I need to figure that out," in that location are iv questions you need to ask yourself and you can detect those 4 questions at MyFourQuestions.com.

Thank you. Thanks to the readers who are coming on the journey. I know you are taking away and then many not bad insights. Go grab Laura's book. It is fantastic. You won't exist let down. That'southward for sure.

Important Links:

• Mission Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose
• Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Cleave your Ain Path, and Alive Your Best Life
• TEDx Talk – Stop Request "How Tin I Assist?"
• The Long Game
• Humans 2.0
• Stones from the River
• The Art of Possibility
• The Book of Mistakes
• HeyLGO.com
• @HeyLGO - Instagram
• MyFourQuestions.com

Nearly Laura Gassner Otting

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to button past the incertitude and indecision that continue smashing ideas in limbo considering her presentations brand listeners recollect bigger and accept greater challenges that accomplish beyond their limited telescopic of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating modify across the beginning-up, nonprofit, political, equally well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to detect their vox, 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's White Firm, where she helped shape AmeriCorps.

She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com. Laura as well founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Informational Grouping, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from beginning-upwards 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 because she held an audacious dream of electing our nation'due south first female president.

Along the way, while serving on Hillary Clinton's National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became then popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura has spoken beyond the Us and internationally to universities, companies, conferences, accelerators, TEDx, and the US Military.

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

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