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b'ORIG AIR DATE 8/20/21\\n\\nLaura Gassner Otting is a professional motivational keynote speaker and Washington Post best selling author. Laura\\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.\\n\\nShe 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.\\n\\nThis Episode\\u2019s Heavy-Hitters:\\n\\nLaura became a member of Bill Clinton\\u2019s campaign after she realized law school wasn\\u2019t for her. She dropped out, and then \\u201cdid what everyone does when they\\u2019re in a bad position in life\\u201d and \\u201cdated a guy that was awful.\\u201d Thankfully, this awful guy introduced her to an early Bill Clinton campaign, which would eventually take her to the White House.\\n\\nThe worst part about leaving the White House is that all of a sudden, people are less interested in taking your calls.\\n\\nLaura is a motivational speaker, but accountability might be even more important to her than motivation. She\\u2019s a supporter of \\u201ccompulsory service\\u201d like what\\u2019s used in the military draft, but instead for services like teaching, volunteering and so on.\\n\\n\\u201cIn this country, we like women who are in power; we don\\u2019t like women who want power\\u201d \\u2014 Laura on Hillary Clinton\\u2019s loss in the 2016 presidential campaign.\\n\\nThe hardest part of the book writing process for Laura isn\\u2019t the writing, it\\u2019s the thinking. The writing is \\u201cpretty quick,\\u201d it\\u2019s the thinking through experiences that takes some time.\\n\\n\\u201cFailure is not finale, it\\u2019s fulcrum;\\u201d it\\u2019s where you can learn and rise from.\\n\\nIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review/rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast \\n\\n#thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller \\u2013 the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you\\u2019re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast.\\n\\nCheck out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ'