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Laura Gossner Otting: Finding Inspiration When Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should

November 28, 2023 • Nathan Hurd

This conversation is with Founder, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Executive coach, Mom and limitless inspiration, Laura Gassner Otting.

In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about:
- Her perspective on a rich life and the richness of life.
- Her ritual each year - she picks one word to represent and focus on for that year.
- The importance of having people in your life who will tell you the truth and provide a mirror to you as you pursue your goals.
- Navigating major family transition moments.
- The power of what she calls the “family meeting”.
- The most surprising attributes of successful people (For her last book she interviewed over 100 people ranging from gold medal Olympians to business Titans and there were some things that stuck out).
- How to the renegotiate your relationship with difficult and mixed emotions as you pursue your goals your dreams.
- The relationship between introversion, extroversion and luck.
- How to engineer luck.
- How to get closer to the truth of who you are your true self.

And so much more. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and please share it if anyone you know needs to hear it or could be served by it!

Laura Gassner Otting is a founder, keynote speaker (including her Ted talk from last year that has almost 2 million views). She helps audiences by inspiring people to push past the doubt and indecision. She helps people to think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current limited scope of belief.
Laura dropped out of law school and became a presidential appointee in Bill Clinton's White House where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She then went on to become the youngest VP of a leading global search firm until years later she realized that her values were not aligned anymore with that firm and founded one of the fastest growing search firms in the country. Years later she ultimately she sold that company to the same team she started it.

Since then she has appeared regularly on Good Morning America and The Today show. Her writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and HR magazine. She's a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of three books, including her most recent Wonderhell: How Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should and What To Do About It.