{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F5d02165f-2f46-428a-82ce-f429593899a8","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"342: (UN)closeting Confidence & Your Personal Freak \u2013 Laura Gassner Otting","description":"We\u2019ve all struggled with confidence and being who we are. Shame, guilt, comparisons all get in the way of our happiness. Then one day we discover we\u2019ve been sucked into success as for of happiness, rather than letting our own unique freak guide us to living our passionate lives and purpose on this earth. There we sit, limited by our own doing. It\u2019s time to call in a kick in the pants to get you unstuck and back on track.\r\nLaura Gassner Otting is that kick in the pants. She\u2019s helped entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and even Bill Clinton, become change agents to produce extraordinary results. Which sounds great, but what Laura really does is encourage people to find the way to let their Freak Flap fly and be who they are meant to be \u2013 themselves \u2013 so that they can kick ass, take names, and have the best damn life possible \u2013 whatever that looks like for them.\r\nShow Highlights\r\n\r\n* Her goal is to reflect this back to people so they can see it. What could it be?\r\n* We each have this flag to fly and need to do it proudly\r\n* Big Question \u2013 If you could fuck it up, what would you learn?\r\n* Learn Laura\u2019s 4-Step Process for finding your way, and becoming who you are meant to be \u2013 limitless\r\n* Quote: You can only see the next dream based upon where you are now\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.\r\nLaura\u2019s Forthcoming Book\r\nLimitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. Based on a 20-year career of interviewing leaders from nonprofits, corporations, and the public sector, I have learned that when we seek success, as traditionally defined, we fail.\u00a0 It is only when we are in consonance, when the \u201cwhat\u201d we do matches the \u201cwho\u201d we are that our work matters and we feel success.\r\nThe book is filled with examples of people, from\u00a0Alison Levine,\u00a0who left\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0to mount the first American Women\u2019s Expedition to Everest, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew who left a plum\u00a0role in energy law after a top job\u00a0in Tip O\u2019Neill\u2019s office to come write the legislation that would become AmeriCorps (and introducing him to the Clintons and the Obamas in the process), and Army Captain\u00a0Josh Mantz\u00a0who died\u00a0on the field...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}