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Carve Your Own Path, with Laura Gassner Otting

Published: March 11, 2020, 8 a.m.

Carve your own path to achieve happiness and free time. Learn from Laura Gassner Otting on how to carve your own path too.

It\u2019s time to carve your own path once you\u2019re done listening to the experience and journey of Laura throughout her career. You will learn a lot from this podcast episode and you might be inspired to start living the life you want to have.

Laura Gassner Otting speaks with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to get them past the doubt and indecision that consign their 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.

What you will learn from this episode about how to carve your own path:
  • Laura shares her fascinating career path and explains how she ended up working in the White House at age 21 helping to develop AmeriCorps
  • Why you need to carve your own path first before you can enjoy the life that you\u2019ve dreamed of
  • How Laura established her own firm, the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, and why she chose to exit the firm after nearly 15 years
  • Why exiting her firm was one of the greatest challenges of Laura\u2019s life, and how she came up with an innovative exit strategy
  • Why everyone defines success differently, and why Laura defines her own success not by profitability but by happiness and free time
  • Why Laura decided to write her book Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life
  • Why Laura began to experience a lack of self-confidence, and how she wrote Limitless in just three weeks once inspiration struck
  • How Laura realized that putting clients\u2019 problems first and offering clear solutions was the right path to take in her business
  • Laura shares a story of giving a signed copy of Limitless to Good Morning America\u2019s Robin Roberts and then getting a booking on the show as a result
  • Why Laura believes that being authentic, offering value, and being open to possibility have been the keys to some of the incredible opportunities she has had
  • How to get yourself unstuck from your current situation and be able to carve your own path towards your dream life
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