NICE4 - Gratitude, listening, and rethinking passions with Laura Gassner Otting.
Laura Gassner Otting joins me to talk about her book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.
As a professional motivational keynote speaker and Washington Post best-selling author, Laura helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck” in their thinking - and achieve extraordinary results. She is turned on by the audacity of The Big Idea and that larger-than-life goal you just can’t seem to shake. She is an instigator, a motivator, and a provocateur, and she has never met a revolution she didn’t like.
As a professional female keynote speaker, Laura inspires audiences to push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. Her motivational presentations encourage professionals to think bigger and accept greater challenges beyond their current limited scope of belief. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to identify their voice, and generate the confidence necessary to tackle bigger-than-life challenges while exploring innovative ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.
Laura’s 25-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 a respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com. She founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. She is the author of Mission-Driven, a book for those moving from profit to purpose.
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What we talked about…
Being present for your people.
Practicing gratitude.
Spending twenty years as a headhunter and five years in politics.
Learning how to listen effectively.
Networking as an introvert.
“Figure out who you are and do it on purpose.” - Dolly Parton.
Consonance. Calling, Connection, Contribution, and Control from her book, Limitless.
How we can zero in on our calling and gain some drive.
You’ll never outperform your inner circle.
Following your passion is the worst career advice. Instead, invest in your passion.
Practicing gratitude. Larry Fish wrote Thank You notes.
“Wear your nice on your sleeves and we’ll all applaud your fashion sense.”
Read Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You by Brant Menswar.
Say hello @heylgo on social media and heylgo.com.
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