Laura Gassner Otting: Breaking through discomfort

Success can be exhilarating, exhausting, even emotional. But even if you have it, you get a niggling feeling you could achieve more.

In this episode I am joined by Laura Gassner Otting, author of Wonderhell. We talk about the complexities of success, fulfilment, and personal growth.

Laura shares the importance of recognising the emotional challenges that accompany success, and how to navigate them effectively. She discusses the significance of aligning personal goals with values, and the importance of recognising this as a practice for all areas of life, not just your work.

Whether you’re riding high, full of self-doubt or wanting to get back to your A-game, there is a lot to learn from Laura.

You’ll hear about:

• How to use your emotions as catalysts for growth
• Why you need to align goals with personal values
• Fulfilment and the roles balance and success play to achieve it
• Reinvention as a lifelong process not just in your work
• How to communicate strategy so that everyone in your company actually gets it

More about Laura

Laura’s secret superpower is seeing your greatness and reflecting it back on you, so that you can get ‘unstuck’ — and achieve extraordinary results. A regular contributor to Good Morning America, The Today Show, Harvard Business Review, and Oprah Daily, Laura is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of three books, Wonderhell, Limitless, and Mission-Driven.

Laura’s 30-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a presidential appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, helping shape AmeriCorps; left a leadership role at respected national search firm to expand a tech start-up; and founded, ran, and sold her own global search firm, partnering with the full gamut of mission-driven corporate and non-profit executives.

Laura is turned on by the audacity of the big idea and that larger-than-life goal you just can’t seem to shake. She’s an instigator, motivator, and provocateur, and she’s never met a revolution she didn’t like. Just ask her enduringly patient husband, two almost-grown sons, and two troublesome pups with whom she lives outside of Boston, MA.

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