{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F0937807a-d266-4476-898b-890ab3dd9735","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"370: Be Bold. Be Limitless \u2013 Laura Gassner Otting","description":"What if success doesn\u2019t equal happiness? What if happiness doesn\u2019t grow on trees? What if you live your life believing you can\u2019t do, blah, blah, blah? What if the problem is you and not seeing that you are limitless?\r\nMany of us spend our lives pursuing a singular idea of success, one that was created for us by someone else. We give votes to those who shouldn\u2019t even have voices and strive to go faster and faster even as we find ourselves falling further and further behind. We chase gold stars, we check all the boxes, we lean in \u2013 and yet we still feel incomplete. When we don\u2019t define success in our own terms, finding our purpose and carving our own path becomes impossible. So how do you break the cycle so that you can live your best life? You thrive in the land of possibilities and being LIMITLESS!\r\nBack for a second time, kick ass Mom, awesome speaker, and that funny gal, Laura Gassner Otting comes bearing gifts in her just released, invigorating new book,\u00a0\u00a0Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life [Ideapress, April 2, 2019]. Laura\u2019s on a mission to help you discover the meaning of consonance \u2014which simply put means aligning\u00a0what\u00a0do with who\u00a0are \u2014 to achieve your own personal definition of limitless potential. She\u2019s taken the lessons she\u2019s learned over 20 years of interviewing hundreds of nonprofit, corporate, and government leaders, all of whom were in the midst of massive change in their lives, and through the magical powers of her own lens on the world and through her words, is helping you the reader discover your greatness and encourage you to forge ahead and become the best versions of yourself.\r\nShow Highlights\r\n\r\n* You\u2019ll learn to say this word and know what it means \u2013 CONSONANCE\r\n* Answer this question \u2013 What would be different if we learned to live on the edge of our incompetence?\r\n* Failure, Finality, and Fulcrum \u2013 What do they each have to do with being LIMITLESS?\r\n* Learn Laura\u2019s 4-Step Process for finding your way, and becoming who you are meant to be when you are limitless\r\n* Confidence +Bold Competence lead her to this. What was it?\r\n\r\nAbout Laura\r\nLaura Gassner Otting helps people get \u201cunstuck\u201d \u2014 and achieve extraordinary results.\r\nThrough Limitless Possibility, Laura collaborates with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. 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.\r\nLaura\u2019s 25-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton\u2019s White House, helping shape AmeriCorps; left a leadership role at respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com; and 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, and the upcoming Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (April 2019).\r\nThrough her own commitment to give back, Laura has helped build a local Montessori school, co-founded a women\u2019s philanthropic initiative, advised a start-up national women\u2019s PAC, grew a citizen-leadership development program, and completed three charity-inspired marathons\u2014projects emblematic of her passions and values. She\u2019s turned on by the audacity of The Big Idea and that larger-than-life goal you just can\u2019t seem to shake. She\u2019s an instigator, a motivator, and a provocateur, and she\u2019s never met a revolution she didn\u2019t like.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}