LGOtv: Big Talk

S3E16 Becky Robinson - Turn your book into a bestseller.

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:00:00 -0400

Turn your book into a best seller. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest, Becky Robinson.

Becky Robinson - Founder/CEO, Self-Taught Marketer, Marathoner.

Becky Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence, a full-service marketing agency that specializes in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for book authors, including business leaders, coaches, trainers, speakers, and thought leaders. Since launching more than nine years ago, under Becky’s leadership, the firm has provided a wide range of services to help clients launch more than 150 books, enabling authors to build their brands, acquire more business customers, and increase book sales. In April 2022, Becky is publishing her first book with Berrett-Koehler Publishers titled, “Reach: Create the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause.” Becky holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Wheaton College and received her B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Miami University.

Timestamps:

1:30 Reach is the users manual to becoming a thought leader.

4:07 We are promoting the value, not ourselves.

9:52 The reality of what it means to be a best times seller.

10:30 “What do you want your book to do for you?”

15:08 Traditional publishers vs. Hybrid Publishers.

18:50 The working phase.

24:25 Getting book reviews.

30:47 Four Commitments: Value, Consistency, Longevity, Generosity.

31:32 Value isn’t the same for everyone. Who is your audience?

41:22 Who is your book for and who is it not for?

43:29 We really don’t have competition, people usually will buy more than 1 book of the same topic.

48:47 Own your own domain - the place you own and control.

58:52 How to get in touch with Becky Robinson post episode.

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S3E14 Dr. Tina Opie - How to be a better ally.

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How to be a better ally. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest Dr. Tina Opie.

Dr. Tina Opie - Bodacious Bridge Builder; Convener; Strong Cup of Coffee.

Dr. Tina Opie is a voice for change—and coalition building—fostering a sense of inclusion in society, communities and organizations. As a thought leader and provoker, she combines practice and theory, an approach that ensures engagement, deep thinking and action.

0:50 The Shared Sisterhood framework.
3:40 Curiosity started with burning my hair on the pilot light.
4:55 Why do I have to choose between being Black or being a woman?
9:10 Feminism vs. Womanism.
11:34 I’m rebellious but I respect authority.
17:03 Black women are the canary in the coal mine.
19:17 Whiteness is different than being white.
20:19 We need to live in a race centric society.
26:20 Less judgmental, more curious.
28:50 The differences between Ally, Accomplice, and Co-Conspirator.
34:54 You don’t have to be female to be in the sisterhood.
36:40 Shared Sisterhood Step #1: Dig.
48:42 Shared Sisterhood Step #2: Bridge.
55:00 Shared Sisterhood Step #3: Collective Action.
57:58 What are the next steps and questions you should be asking as CEO of your company?

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S3E13 D'Arcy Webb - How do you learn to speak with the power, conviction, and influence that your great ideas deserve?

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How do you learn to speak with the power, conviction, and influence that your great ideas deserve? Join Laura Gassner Otting she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest, D'Arcy Webb.

D'Arcy Webb - Word Nerd, Speech Diva, Age-defying Old Broad.

For over two decades, award-winning voice and speech teacher D’Arcy Webb has been helping actors, performers, corporate executives, authors and speakers use their voices to connect with audiences around the world with power, eloquence and heart.

As former Associate Professor of Voice and Speech at the University of the Arts, D’Arcy has worked with hundreds of new and seasoned performers to make their words resonate with clarity, precision and confidence.

She has also served as voice, speech and performance coach for TEDxCambridge, and was the Head of Vocal Training for Heroic Public Speaking from 2016 to 2020. Now D’Arcy coaches and teaches in her private studio all those who want to speak with not only clarity but brio!
Keynote speaker and retired TEDx Cambridge Executive Producer, Tamsen Webster, has called D’Arcy’s work “magic.”

0:31 D’Arcy Webb - the Speech Diva.

2:52 We must learn to read with expression.

3:28 International phonetic alphabet!

5:32 80% psychological.

7:37 They were afraid of your power!

21:42 The role of confidence in our body.

24:18 “Hey Bike #7, SIT UP.”

29:59 Onomatopoeia.

31:00 Not everyone loves a person who is extra.

33:32 It’s better to be someones shot of whiskey than everyone’s cup of tea.

34:28 Learn to be present in our words.

37:02 I got comfortable being in the silence.

40:03 Give your audience time to think at the punctuation marks.

42:27 Why do we all hate the sound of our voices?

44:04 - Our voice is who we are.

46:00 - Use your bathroom muscles.

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S3E20 Deb Liu - Women in the Workplace, Listen Up.

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0400

Women in the Workplace, Listen Up - Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv Big Talk with special guest, Deb Liu.

Deb Liu - Extroverted Introvert, Perpetual Learner, Tea Enthusiast.

Deb Liu is the President and CEO of Ancestry. She was previously a senior executive at Facebook, where she created the Facebook Marketplace, the company's first mobile ad product for apps and mobile ad network, and Facebook Pay. Prior to Facebook, she spent several years in product roles at PayPal and eBay, where she led integration between the two products. She serves on the board of Intuit and Ancestry.

Actively involved in promoting diversity in tech, Deb founded Women In Product, a nonprofit with over 30,000 members, with the goal of connecting and supporting women in the product field.

Deb received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Each week, she posts her thoughts in Perspectives, her Substack newsletter. She lives in California with her husband and three children.

S3E12 Dr. Liane Davey - How to have productive conflict.

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0400

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Dr. Liane Davey.

Dr. Liane Davey - Conflict Coach, High Tea Lover, Watercooler Psychologist

Liane Davey is a New York Times Bestselling author of three books, including The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Your Organization Back on Track and You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequently called on by media outlets for her experience on leadership, team effectiveness, and productivity.

As the co-founder of 3COze Inc., she advises companies such as Amazon, TD Bank, Walmart, UNICEF, 3M, and SONY. Liane has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.

1:19 Ladies & Gentleman, Dr. Liane Davey.
2:14 I’m conflict adverse but I’m not shy to defend someone I love.
4:37 We are pugilistic when it comes to defending outside our tribes.
6:04 Canadians do have conflict, it’s just very passive aggressive.
8:39 Thinking about conflict like exercise: I don’t like doing abs - but I know it will make me stronger so I need to just do them. I don’t need to LIKE conflict, I just need to do it.
9:02 Conflict averse vs. conflict avoidant.
14:26 Don’t just rush into the answers when someone comes to you with a problem.
16:27 Start with “What’s the problem?” and then leave some space.
18:03 How do you determine what someone’s appetite for a solution is?
20:43 What do you need? Validation or Resuscitation?
23:40 The problem with “Let’s agree to disagree.”
26:50 How do we get into conflict debt - and how do we get out of it?
32:10 Manager and Leader are not the same role.
38:00 LGO’s most abusive management story.
40:47 Tension vs Friction.
42:09 Is this a meeting or a tea party?
49:06 Am I letting people on my team add value?
51:57 The role of conflict in the virtual workplace.
56:44 Great feedback needs to be concrete.
58:42 The LBD of feedback.

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S3E19 - Jason & Diana Kander - A Veteran reflects on PTSD and Politics

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:00:00 -0400

A Veteran reflects on PTSD and Politics.

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with special guests, Jason & Diana Kander.

Jason Kander - Veteran. Little League Coach. Recovering Politician.

President Barack Obama - in the final interview of his presidency - was asked who gave him hope for America’s future, and the first person he mentioned was Jason Kander.

A former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan, Jason was elected to the Missouri state legislature in 2008 and as Missouri Secretary of State in 2012, making him the first millennial ever elected to statewide office. In 2016, while Donald Trump was winning Missouri by 19 points, Jason nearly unseated a Republican U.S. Senator.

In 2017, he founded Let America Vote, a national campaign against voter suppression. His first book, Outside the Wire, became a New York Times bestseller the following year.

Jason is the President of National Expansion at Veterans Community Project, and the host of Majority54, one of the nation's most popular political podcasts. His memoir, Invisible Storm, is due out July 5th.

He lives in Kansas City with his wife Diana, their son True, and their daughter Bella.

4:19 “You have what I have, you have the natural.” - Barack Obama

7:28 I was denying my PTSD and was saying to myself: I had meetings, that doesn’t count as combat.

11:30 My M. Night Shyamalan twist to the story.

14:31: I learned how to triage threats and stress in my mind.

18:34 PTSD is applicable to a lot of people in different situations - not just those in the military.

24:39 You can’t see the picture when you’re inside the frame.

30:04 How many people are in jobs where where they have PTSD and all they get taken care of is not the treatment for it, but that it’s removed from their record.

32:14 One in five Americans have experienced trauma.

34:32 People write the book that they needed during a certain time.

37:58 As you go through the story chronologically, what we didn’t do was used language that we learned in therapy.

41:32 Can you be post PTSD?

43:00 You realize the voice inside your head is not your real voice.

48:20 The story of my son True and the dollar.

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S3E18 - Liz Wiseman - A thought leader’s struggle with faith-based politics.

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400

A thought leader’s struggle with faith-based politics.. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest, Liz Wiseman.

Liz Wiseman - Author, Top leadership thinker, and CEO.

Liz is a researcher and New York Times bestselling author who advises executives and teaches leaders around the world. She is the author of Multipliers, The Multiplier Effect, Rookie Smarts, Impact Players, and the CEO of The Wiseman Group. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world. Liz is a former executive from Oracle Corporation and is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford University.

Timestamps:

1:42 I’d rather be punched in the face than stabbed in the back.

2:57 Part of a leader’s job is to acknowledge the suffering.

4:03 Build cohesion among divisiveness.

8:05 People are in such a rush to assign a camp that if you’re with me, you’re against me.

20:47 Are we back at the Christian Crusades?

22:40 Developing the rule to separate behavior and intent.

29:22 Pet —> Success —> Threat.

35:38 The feeling of being trapped is self-inflicted.

38:40 When people feel like their point of view isn’t accepted - then it all goes underground and it festers.

43:02 Liberal intolerance is still intolerance.

47:08 We need to create a place where people can live out their faith but not everyone needs to follow the same rules.

49:52 We adults need to hold ourselves to the same standards as elementary and middle school civic classes.

53:20 What if we made a more purposeful commitment to “we are performing for the next generation.”

58:00 To really understand what threatens other people, is how I think we find solutions.

60:02 Now is a good time for managers and leaders to be the peacemakers and community builders.

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S3E11 Bill G. Williams - How do you electrify your life?

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How do you electrify your life? Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest Bill G. Williams.

Bill G. Williams - Ducati Riding, Promoter of AMAZING People, Electric Bill.

He’s called “Electric Bill” for a reason. Bill Williams is on a mission to shock us out of our static daily routines. He is known for his unique brand of electrified methodologies for the workplace, now available to you in electric Life.

Bill’s honest, succinct, and enthusiastic approach to leadership has inspired and reshaped countless national organizations over the span of thirty years. Whether coaching an individual over Zoom, or speaking to rooms of more than a thousand delegates, Bill’s impact is equally felt. His power comes from hearing “No” and reformulating it as “Not Yet.”

Bill is the principal and president of the boutique leadership development firm, The B4 Group Inc, and the host and brand ambassador for The Art of Leadership Signature Series / The Art of Leadership for Women . Bill caters his solution-based strategies to individuals and corporations in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors.

Timestamps:

1:24 Power comes from hearing “no” and reforming it to “not yet.”
2:50 William G. Williams from Fort Williams.
4:04 I was living a life that was fake.
6:20 Everyone wants to be special but no one wants to be different.
8:27 Always be self-full not selfish.
11:07 My two minds - Drunken Monkey Mind vs. Knowledge Mind.
14:27 The 12 microsteps.
17:21 The emotion of fear and excitement are the exact same.
19:50 The 12th microstep is “cross your river.”
23:52 How do we get rid of our drunk monkey minds?
31:45 Until you see who is asking you the question, you cannot hear a thing.
35:07 I may have been loved but not seen.
38:40 The golden rule.
42:00 You have to stop expecting you from me.
43:10 Watch out for those projections.
46:15 How do we rekindle the loose connections?
48:31 Virtual distance.
54:12 The people in the back row may not want to be seen on stage but they want to be seen as human.
55:30 Get rid of “Thank you” and replace it with “I appreciate...”

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S3E17 Alexandra Carter - Negotiate For Anything You Want.

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:00:00 -0400

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this week's episode of LGOtv with guest, Alexandra Carter.

Alexandra Carter - Negotiator , Law Professor, Tiny Giant.

Alexandra Carter is a professor at Columbia Law School, where she teaches conflict resolution. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations, Fortune 500 companies, civil rights agencies and more.

In 2019, Alex was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University’s highest teaching honor. Her first book, Ask for More: Ten Questions to Negotiate Anything, was published by Simon & Schuster and became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller -- the first negotiation book solo-authored by a woman to make that list.

Professor Carter is a frequent media commentator on negotiation and pay equity for women, with appearances on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and MSNBC Live, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the CBS Early Show and NPR Marketplace. She is a contributor for NBC News’ Know Your Value, a news site devoted to helping women grow in their careers and reach their full potential. She lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and daughter.

3:40 When I’m helping other people, I can access my more powerful self.
7:25 What’s our framework for doing it for the sisterhood?
8:00 Look in the mirror and ask the 5 Powerful Questions.
11:09 What would challenge look like for me?
12:14 How have I been successful in the past? Start from success.
22:44 Sometimes people don’t know what they need in a negotiation.
29:02 There’s a superpower most negotiation books don’t talk about.
33:16 “Tell me” is the most powerful open question.
36:21 We are never going to solve this issue until we are able to write the other side’s victory speech = “The I/We”
39:17 Look at negotiation as a venn diagram.
45:17 The power of fear and guilt.
50:38 Real power, comes from being who you are.
55:30 Small steps make quantum leaps.

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S3E15 Stephen Shedletsky - Why You Need to Create a “Speak Up Culture”

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:00:00 -0400

Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky helps leaders listen to and nurture the voice of others. He supports humble leaders—those who know they are both a part of the problems they experience and the solutions they can create—as they put their people and purpose first.

A sought-after speaker, coach, and advisor, Shed has led hundreds of keynote presentations, workshops, and leadership development programs around the world. As a thought-leader on psychological safety in the workplace, he supports leaders and organizations in all industries where human beings work.

He is the author of the forthcoming book, Speak Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up.

After years on a corporate track, Shed was introduced to and inspired by the work of Simon Sinek and, soon after meeting him, became the fourth person to join his team. For more than a decade, Shed has contributed at Simon Sinek, Inc., where, as Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience, Training & Development, he headed a global team of speakers and facilitators. Shed continues to work with Simon Sinek helping to create a more inspired, safe, and fulfilled world.

He lives in Toronto with his wife and two young children.

6:02 If you’re waiting for the “back to normal” post pandemic you’ll be waiting a long time.

7:01 Everyone needs a role model, even leaders.

7:50 Speak Up Culture: Encourage & Reward.

11:15 I’ll give Elon Musk credit for one thing: transparency.

15:20 Leaders need self awareness before they can start to help others

16:34 How am I as a leader getting in the way of what employees need to ask?

19:25 Senior leaders can’t say “We have a great culture.”

29:18 The trust and performance matrix.

32:27 I can’t teach you the culture, but I can teach you the skills.

37:24 The role of unconscious and conscious bias.

47:49 How do we figure out our leadership voice?

49:32 My job as a leader is not to breed more of me.

55:14 The most important meeting with your teams are your one-on-one meetings.

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S3E10 Liz Brunner - How do you find your voice of confidence?

Thu, 19 May 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How do you find your voice of confidence?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Liz Brunner.

An Emmy award-winning journalist, Liz Brunner’s television career spanned 28 years and featured many memorable highlights. Along with co-anchoring the #1 rated 6pm newscast at ABC-TV, WCVB NewsCenter 5 in Boston, she conducted exclusive one-on-one interviews with prominent figures ranging from professional athletes to global political leaders including President Barack Obama as well as cultural icons such as Oprah Winfrey.

In 2013, Liz excitedly embarked upon her next chapter, becoming the CEO and Founder of Brunner Communications and launched BrunnerAcademy.com in 2020. Both are dedicated to helping people find their authentic voice, tell their story and lead with presence. An expert communications coach, motivational speaker, Liz is also the host of the Live Your Best Life with Liz Brunner podcast. Liz guides her guests to share their stories of self-discovery and re-creation. Listeners around the world join in on the journey garnering inspiration from the wisdom shared.

A classically trained vocal performer and former high school music educator, Liz holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. She has performed with the Boston Pops and at professional sporting events for teams including the Boston Celtics, the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots, among others.

2:46 How do you figure out identity in a public setting?
4:08 My maiden name was Chaco. If I knew what I know now, I wouldn't have changed my last name.
6:48 I don't have the Big J on my chest.
7:58 Owning your voice is not an overnight process.
8:30 Being imperfect is better than being perfect.
9:10 Unconscious expectations.
10:07 No knowledge is ever wasted.
10:54 What connections can you make from good and bad experiences?
13:26 $100 Miss Marigold.
16:17 My biggest competitor is me.
16:56 My definition of success really came to me once I started writing my book.
20:37 Just do five more minutes.
22:00 My superpower is: I see progress in people before they do.
23:16 Once people see progress they start to own it!
29:13 Growth is where we were five minutes ago vs. today.
31:26 The goal of living is to absorb all the pain of life and lose none of the joy.
33:36 People always think "when I get to X, it will be better."
37:03 Why is this button being pushed for me?
37:20 Confidence is a choice.
40:21 We overestimate how long we have to be brave. We really just need 60 seconds, not 60 minutes.
41:46 Zoom fatigue is real.
43:29 Glossophobia.
45:28 Are you being fully present when you're speaking to a group?
46:41 You have to know your audience.
52:13 Where am I? Where do I want to go?
56:03 When life goes back to "normal" am I going back to the normal I want?
56:14 How do we deal with failure and rejection?
57:12 What is your definition of failure?
58:11 Failure isn't failure - It's an opportunity.

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S3E9 - Rachel DeAlto - How do you become a relationship expert, and what can we all learn about being relatable to anyone at any time?

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How do you become a relationship expert, and what can we all learn about being relatable to anyone at any time?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Rachel DeAlto.

Connector, Aspirant, Appreciator.

Rachel DeAlto is a communication and relationship expert, media personality, and speaker. She is the author of “relatable: How to Connect with Anyone Anywhere (Even if It Scares You)” Rachel has appeared as a relationship expert on Lifetime’s Married at First Sight and TLC’s Kate+Date. Rachel DeAlto maintains a law degree and a Master’s in psychology. In addition to her regular appearances, Rachel has also been featured on over 200 national media outlets, and has given three TEDx talks including Being Authentic in a Filtered World which is featured on TED.com.

1:43 How do I people?
3:20 How to go from picking heads off dandelions in the corner to becoming a relationship expert?
3:53 We learn from our pain.
5:47 The level of humility we experience makes us show up differently.
8:09 Where do you show up on the vulnerability scale?
9:12 We need to remind ourselves and our inner child that it's okay to just take that next baby step.
11:21 Rejection is a part of life we all experience.
12:01 It's okay to not be okay when we're rejected - the hard part is getting up and taking that step again.
12:37 You are not defined by those who reject you.
20:18 It takes 18 months for people to show all of their sides to someone.
23:30 Build a strong foundation remotely.
25:11 Let down your green screen!
25:54 We please so that they don't leave.
26:45 How do you feel when you say yes?
27:44 What if your love language is giving gifts?
28:13 Presence over presents.
33:06 Do not expect you, from other people.
34:42 3 Pillars: Connect, Communicate. Inspire.
35:56 We don't have to be perfect, just show up better than yesterday.
37:37 Once we decide who we are, how do we get the confidence to fly our freak flag?
46:15 The way we show up.
49:00 How do we figure out how to be self aware?
49.40 Answer: 1. Observation 2. Get Curious.
55:38 Inspiration...and then what?

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S3E8 Jay Acunzo - How do you tell a story that resonates?

Tue, 10 May 2022 10:00:00 -0400

How do you tell a story that resonates?

Jay Acunzo explores why work resonates and how ours can too. He hosts the narrative podcast Unthinkable, creates original series for B2B brands, and is the author of the book, Break the Wheel.

0:47 Secret Facebook Society.

1:22 The Media Guide!

3:41 Tell us about Jay as a child.

4:40 Love & Procreation episode parody.

9:01 The power of letting the audience linger in doubt and uncertainty - this is a storytelling game changer.

12:10 The role of structure and creativity.

14:16 There are two ways to rehearse: Do it a lot, or don’t do it at all.

14:44 Blueprints vs. Frameworks.

16:29 My first TedxTalk by LGO.

17:20 Find your own stage voice, don’t use someone else's.

22:30 “You damn dirty dog you!”

26:40 Game tape.

30:16 If you get bored while talking on stage and you’re certain your audience is too, take a pause and bring your audience back.

32:50 Navigating the factual and emotional gray areas.

33:05 Tips & Tricks r’ Us.

34:29 Speak in open loops.

35:56 “I want to be the Anthony Bourdain of B2b storytelling.”

38:31 There are two enduring rules of storytelling: 1. Something happens 2. It wasn’t certain that it would.

41:14 People don’t just climb Mt. Everest. The real story is climbing to base camp 1 and back down to the bottom. Then climbing to base camp 2 and back down again...

43:15 Storytelling: Is it clear? This is how it feels for me. Does it feel this way for you too?

45:29 Resonance - The urge to act that you suddenly feel when the story aligns with you and your life.

48:55 Annoying many to convert the few is not a good marketing plan.

50:36 We undervalue tiny pockets of big emotional response.

52:40 You are always the first member of your audience.

55:19 Ask a question that Google can’t answer.

58.07 Don’t skip the messy middle. You will get Green Smoothie Problems.

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S3E7 Nir Eyal - Becoming Indistractable

Thu, 05 May 2022 10:00:00 -0400

Becoming Indistractable.

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Nir Eyal.

Nir Eyal: Distractibility Buster, Habit Enthusiast, Home School Teacher.

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.
Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Bloomberg Businessweek wrote, “Nir Eyal is the habits guy. Want to understand how to get app users to come back again and again? Then Eyal is your man.”
He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.
Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, “the best business book of 2019.”
In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.
Nir invests in habit-forming products that improve users’ lives. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Canva, Homelight, Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Byte Foods, FocusMate, Dynamicare, Wise App, and Cutback Coach.
Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University.

0:00 Introduction.

1:59 Welcome to the yellow book club pt. 2.

2:53 We can build healthy habits with our technology.

3:19 How can we use social media to help us exercise more?

4:57 The pivotal moment with my daughter.

5:21 The power to be indistractable.

6:00 Doing what couples do best in bed...

7:01 We don’t know how to get out of our own way.

8:02 Techno pessimism and moral panic is actively harmful.

10:45 90% of distractions come from within internal triggers.

11:29 We need to master our internal triggers.

11:57 Any management change you want to make - you have to deal with discomfort.

15:54 Strive to be as honest with yourself as you would be with others.

16:48 Master your internal triggers.

17:08 The #1 reason we don’t achieve our goals is because we quit.

17:51 Make time for traction.

18:53 To do lists are dead.

19:09 Hack back external triggers.

19:43 Deciding in advance what holds you accountable.

23:12 What does your home screen look like?

23:28 It’s not about organizing apps it’s about changing your notifications.

30:50 Don’t adopt monikers that don’t serve you.

32:52 I’m an athlete vs. I want to lose weight, I’m going to vote vs. I’m a voter.

35:38 Consistency over intensity.

37:21 Reimagine your task.

38:00 How to get started? MEA: Minimal enjoyable action.

41:55 The illusion of exertion.

43:40 The opposite of habit, is deliberate practice.

44:05 We need to deal with discomfort in a healthy way.

47:12 Breakthrough happens at 100% of your discomfort.

47:47 The 10 minute rule.

51:08 Surf the urge.

56:00 The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought.

NirAndFar.com

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S3E6 Dr. Zoe Chance - Making Influence Your Superpower.

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:00:00 -0400

Making Influence Your Superpower.

Zoe Chance - Lover, Adventurer, Octophile.

Zoe Chance is an award-winning teacher and researcher at Yale School of Management. Her research has been published in top academic journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and Psychological Science and covered by the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, BBC, Time, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Thinkers50 named Zoe one of the world's top up-and-coming management thinkers. Her framework for behavior change is the foundation for Google’s food program, and her TEDx talk, How to Make a Behavior Addictive, has more than half a million views. Before coming to Yale, she earned a doctorate in marketing at Harvard and managed a $200 million segment of the Barbie brand at Mattel. She lives with her family in New Haven, CT.

Timestamps:
1:34 New Haven pizza.
2:54 Providing value and asking questions from a base of humility.
3:29 Cheers to the yellow book club.
4:04 Starting out in theater - I was shy.
5:40 A lot of people who join theater feel like they’re not being heard.
6:47 A lot of speakers are raging introverts - are we all in theater?
7:59 In a classroom - Professor Zoe is on stage!
8:44 My best year of teaching I was the most quiet. My students are the stars.
9:23 What does it look like to be authentic?
10:43 First talk, one fork and the lady who lunched me.
11:57 Wait, I’m allowed to be me on stage?
12:58 It’s not about you and what you say, it’s about them and what they hear.
14:55 Danny Meyer once said, we are all in the hospitality business.
16:51 Your job is not to control their experience, but to create opportunity.
20:07 Deep listening.
21:51 My longest weekend of listening was just recently and resulted in 500,000 views on Twitter.
25:17 When you’re willing to listen, listen to their underlying values. Be able to reflect that back to them.
26:03 When someone feels heard they’re more likely to listen to you.
39:28 Defense against the dark arts.
40:25 In order to protect yourself from everyone who wants to screw you over, you have to be so close minded.
43:20 The ugly side of that “funny feeling.”
44:26 The gift of fear - READ IT!
45:00 We can’t ignore that funny feeling.
46:38 It’s more to do with them than you.
49:20 We need to learn to criticize better and kinder.
50:02 Why are we more influenced by negativity than positivity?
51:32 When we give unkind feedback, it’s not effective.
54:26 The world needs more humanity right now.
56:42 How to be a kindly brontosaurus.
58:02 The magic question: What would it take to make this happen?

Links:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603636/influence-is-your-superpower-by-zoe-chance/

https://www.facebook.com/kristin.chance.9

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoebchance/

https://twitter.com/zoebchance

https://www.zoechance.com/

S3E5 - Melanie Sodka - Create More Capacity in Your Life.

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0500

Create More Capacity in Your Life.

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Melanie Sodka.

Melanie Sodka - Hustle Culture Buster. Capacity Creator.

Melanie Sodka is a human behaviour enthusiast helping overwhelmed people who are over-committed and distracted. She’s a podcaster and an international speaker who addresses Capacity Management. Through her structures and frameworks, she reveals how our addition to distraction is literally breaking down our bodies. Her research and trademarked tools have helped tens of thousands in managing their personal capacity while staying out of burnout and doing more of what they love. For many years, Melanie has been engaging and shifting the perspectives of her audiences in the classroom, boardroom and conference rooms. A TEDx speaker, Melanie designs custom talks and virtual series to serve her clients. She is also an experienced lead facilitator for national conferences as well as an EMCEE for various events.
Melanie is also pursuing her dream of writing a book where she shares true stories and a suite of tools, including her very own Egocake™ Framework, intended to guide people through the discovery of their personal capacity and ultimately how to respect it.

1:34 How do you create capacity?
2:44 I was never satiated. What's next?
3:19 Indulgent with capacity = burn out
4:08 You're not that important.
5:33 Double down where you are most important.
8:23 The dessert table of life.
10:30 Are you giving away your gold?
10:50 Busy doesn't always mean impact, sometimes busy is just busy.
13:41 Own what's important to you - where are you prioritizing your energy?
15:31 Are you in a prison of your own creation?
20:05 We have less time than we think and things take more time than we think they do.
21:00 We are distracted every 8 minutes and it takes 15 minutes to get back to our focus.
21:47 A two hour project might actually be a 5 hour commitment.
26:00 How do we make more capacity?
28:39 Value mining - how do you make your decisions?
30:26 When you're upset or stressed or burnt out, which of you values is violated?
32:56 The 5 Layer Cake.
36:00 The capacity assessment can show an indication of where you are over indulging.
39:01 If you're resisting that much to do something, it probably shouldn't be a goal.
44:26 Hustle culture.
45:08 Living in a time of addiction to notifications.
50:23 How do you push out the distractions?
51:35 The power of three!

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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-sodka/

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Assessment: www.capacitycreator.com

S3S2 - Dr. Ruth Gotian - How Do Successful People Become Successful?

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:00:00 -0500

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Dr. Ruth Gotian.

Dr. Ruth Gotian - Thinker, Adult Educator, Success Maker.

https://youtu.be/J7inAl4B1aA

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement “Radar” Award ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world to bridge theory and practice. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions. Her forthcoming book, The Success Factor, is now available.

Timestamps:

2:44 - Happy Book Birthday!
4:48 - 4 Attributes of high achievers.
5:20 - I’ve always been obsessed with top achievers.
5:40 - Success is a learned skill.
6:25 - I had my Jerry Mcguire moment, grabbed my fishbowl and started my own firm.
7:35 - As an adult educator I can’t just tell you what to have without teaching you how to do it.
8:20 - 20% of your time on passion in order for the rest of your job not to suck the life out of you.
9:00 - Have you ever done a Passion Audit?
10:02 - INVEST in your passion, don’t FOLLOW it.
14:06 - Will you get through this hurdle vs. how will you get through this hurdle?
16:18 - Surround yourself with a team of mentors who believe in you more than you believe in yourself.
17:50 - Top achievers fear not trying more than they fear failing.
18:51 - They embrace their lack of knowledge and are open to learning.
20:17 - If you’re the most interesting person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.
23:14 - What did it take to get there?
24:12 - I always thought success was for other people.
26:01 - It’s not just about getting the opportunity but knowing what to do with it.
29:20 - Olympians who win bronze medals are happier than those who win the gold.
33:15 - Have you ever done a Goal Audit?
35:00 - How do we teach this to our kids?

S3E4 - Marc Champagne - How do you ask better questions, and what does that have to do with becoming mentally fit?

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0500

How do you ask better questions, and what does that have to do with becoming mentally fit?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marc Champagne.

Marc Champagne - Reflectionist, Curator, Questioner.

Marc Champagne unpacks the mental fitness practices and reflective questions shaping the lives of some of the most successful and brilliant thinkers in the world. He is the author of Personal Socrates, a book exploring the pointed questions that stimulate our mental fitness and teach us how to direct our internal narrative to work for us instead of against us. Marc studies the prompts and practices of legends such as Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, James Clear, Coco Chanel, Stephen Hawking, and many others to bring clarity, intentionality, and possibility to every aspect of your life.

2:06 Are you one question away from a better life?
4:37 First Big Question - What do I want for my life?
5:41 Desperate people do desperate things.
7:00 Are you feeling sick everyday? You need to ask the big question.
7:41 The world of mental fitness.
8:57 How much longer do we have to empty out our savings?
9:29 How do you know when to stop?
11:53 This definition of where should we go and what we should do is hijacked by other people.
14:45 Do you have executive function?
17:21 Start your day with 5-10 minutes of journaling - mental fitness training.
18:20 The best exercise plan is the one you'll stick to - it's the same with your mental fitness workout.
20:02 Did we train ourselves to stop asking questions we don't know the answer to?
23:36 The actual practice of journaling is reflection.
26:32 If I could give credit or thanks to anyone, who would it be? And not your mother.
33:41 Is there any trend of top performers asking questions?
36:04 - What did I learn? What can I change? What do I want to celebrate?
40:32 The most curious person in the room is also the most present.
44:00 If you're stressed about getting your meditation in, you're not doing it right.
44:40 What are you pretending not to know?
45:35 Give yourself some credit, slow down and do what feels right.
47:11 Did I waste time asking the wrong questions? Or did they lead me to where I am today?

S3E3 - Pamela Slim - How do you find your best customers, and why is it important to cast the widest net?

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:00:00 -0500

How do you find your best customers, and why is it important to cast the widest net?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with Pamela Slim.

Pamela Slim - Entrepreneurial Fire Starter, Partnership Expert, Diversity Champion.

Pamela Slim is an award-winner author, speaker and business coach who works with small business owners ready to scale their businesses and IP. She is the author of Escape from Cubicle Nation (Penguin Portfolio, 2009) and Body of Work (Penguin Portfolio, 2014) and her newest book, The Widest Net (McGraw Hill, November, 2021). Pam and her husband Darryl co-founded the K’é Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona, where they host scores of diverse community leaders and regular small business programming.

0:54 Main Street Learning Lab.

2:00 The Big Blank Canvas.

5:09 What’s the goal that makes you get up at 2am when all hell breaks loose?

10:30 In 23 cities, a 3 month tour, only 7 people had seen a native american leading a conference as a subject matter expert.

11:17 Who is here? Who is not here? Why?

17:50 Delay to action.

19:22 No one talks about when it gets really ugly and all the sacrifices to get to your goals.

20:40 New business is like a 2 year old; it needs time and space to grow.

25:31 When you ask someone for advice, they become more involved in watching you succeed.

36:50 Are there other people who are already reaching customers that you love?

40:52 Tiny marketing actions are not always marketing

41:46 It’s about having clarity and passion of your mission

45:00 PBJ Partners

47:50 The dark underbelly.

56:12 How to figure out when you need a partner and who they should be.

58:02 Test and try with potential partners.

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S3E1 Mark Herschberg - What are the essential skills we all need for our careers, and why isn’t anyone teaching them to us?

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:00:00 -0500

What are the essential skills we all need for our careers, and why isn’t anyone teaching them to us?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mark Herschberg.

Mark Herschberg - Innovator, Impacter, Ballroom Champion.

From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, Mark has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually. At MIT, he received a BS in Physics, a BS in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, and a Master of Engineering in Computer Science, focusing on cryptography. At Harvard Business School, Mark helped create a platform used to teach finance at prominent business schools. He also works with many non-profits, including Techie Youth and Plant A Million Corals. He was one of the top ranked ballroom dancers in the country and now lives in New York City where he is known for his social gatherings, including his annual Halloween Party.

Timestamps:

1:51 - Classic 80’s Nerd.

3:47 - This one time… at Atari Computer Sleep-Away Camp.

5:32 - Loch Ness Monster, Black Holes, and Physics.

8:30 - I knew how to be smart, but I didn’t know how to be a student.

9:29 - I’m not a physicist, but the best thing I did was to learn physics because it teaches how to critically model, analyze, and solve problems.

15:33 - We need to connect what we are leaning to WHY we are leaning it.

19:28 - Our definition of what a leader should be is in the process of evolving.

23:13 - The double bind that women face.

25:08 - Men & women both need to recognize this.

25:45 - Society likes women in power but not women who want power.

29:13 - How do you find your voice?

30:43 - The Overton Window.

36:18 - How to go about finding mentors?

37:30 - The Linkedin and Tinder analogy.

38:00 - During our work from home time, take that commute time and turn it into networking time each day.

40:56 - Why does networking seem dirty?

44:00 - Champion vs. Mentor // Endorsement vs. Pass-Along.

45:35 - How do introverts deal with negotiation?

48:39 - The Hollywood montage of negotiations and how to prepare for them.

52:07 - How to make 30k with just 10 minutes of negotiation.

54:37 - MIT and Ballroom Dancing.

56:10 - Ballroom dancing helped with my public speaking skills.

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S2E24: Shane Feldman - Showing Up as Your Truest Self

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:00:00 -0400

Courage, community, and coming out over and over.

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Shane Feldman. Shane Feldman believes community is the answer to every question, and the solution to every problem.

Shane Feldman - Entrepreneur, Frequent Flyer, Gay Best Friend.

Recognized by The White House, Prime Minister of Canada, and United Nations for his achievements in community leadership, Shane Feldman helps leading brands optimize team culture, leadership, engagement and retention.

Shane is the founder of COUNT ME IN, the world-renowned social entrepreneurship incubator and community of 10.2M people across 104 countries. Started as a small project out of Shane’s high school locker, over the past 10 years COUNT ME IN has launched more than 30,000 ventures worldwide, contributing a value of over $2.6 billion to the global economy through service.
Having researched community leadership and human behavior in 28+ countries, Shane has uncovered universal strategies that make teams click and businesses thrive.

Shane has been featured by Larry King, Dr. Oz, Forbes, People Magazine, and is the subject of a TV series from A&E

S2E23: Loren Ridinger What does it take to build one of the largest online retailers in the world, and what can we all learn from the woman who did?

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to build one of the largest online retailers in the world, and what can we all learn from the woman who did?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Loren Ridinger.

Loren Ridinger is the Co-Founder & Senior Executive Vice President of internet retailing giant Market America | SHOP.COM. On her spare time, you can find her wherever her daughter and grandchildren are.

Loren Ridinger - People Lover, Therapist, Motivator.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro

1:45 "But Dad....I'm afraid of flying"

4:51 My first magic moment - I'm either going to authentically be me, or I'm going to become someone else that someone wants me to be

6:15 I knew I wanted to break out and be different

9:20 "Follow your passion" is the new "LIVE-LAUGH-LOVE"

10:39 It's easier to succeed than people think it is

11:10 Failure is not finale it's fulcrum

13:42 It's not just about the hard work, it's about the sacrifice

16:08 If I cut you out of my life, you've given me the scissors

22:38 Don't make decisions based on your past

24:00 I'll be happy when...

26:41 " What do you mean people going to shop online someday??" - 1992

30:30 The burden of your potential

31:16 Don't escape your Wonderhell, embrace it!

33:04 While we have momentum, we can't stop what we're doing

36:11 Getting from 1 billion to 5 billion

42:42 Get obsessed with the process

46:02 How do you decide who to bring on the boat?

55:53 I'm not your identity of who I am.

58:58 Find their greatness, that's what makes you great.

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/lorenridinger/?hl=en

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S2E22 Brandon Farbstein - How does a diagnosis of dwarfism lead to living Ten Feet Tall?

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How does a diagnosis of dwarfism lead to living Ten Feet Tall?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brandon Farbstein.

Brandon Farbstein - Anti-Bullying Advocate, Status Quo Challenger, Framework Builder.

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

Timestamps:
0:05 - Introductions
3:10 - How an airport + a transformer + lamborgini changed my life
4:53 - Meeting Haley Foster
5:34 The start of the rest of my life started at age 15
7:14 - No sense of self
9:23 - The difference between being different and feeling special
10:04 - Being loved vs. being seen
16:37 - What would you tell your 21 year old self?
20:37 - Brandon's next Wonderhell
24:42 - Hurt people hurt people.
26:21 - It's not about you, it's about them.
31:41 - Who do you surround yourself with?
34:19 - When you show up for people but they don't show up for you.
36:12 - It's not about being cold, it's about being choosy for self love.
40:44 - How do you teach other people to have empathy?
43:00 - Don't ask "how can I help?" ask "what needs to happen?"
46:45 - Empathy starts and stops with us
49:39 - We have more in common with people then what separates us.
51:36 - Inspiration vs. empowerment
1:01 - Kind Cult

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twitter.com/farbstein
brandonfarbstein.com
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Feet-Tall-Change-Freaking/dp/1732800219
https://kindcult.com/
https://www.thegivingkeys.com/

S2E21 Kim Kaupe - How does taking a job you hate lead to a life you love?

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

How does taking a job you hate lead to a life you love?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Kim Kaupe.

Accidental Entrepreneur
Squad Assembler
Shark Tank Alum

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

4:36 - Wanting a Change
5:16 - I've made a huge mistake.
6:55 - "I had plans for failure, but I never planned for success"
8:12 - Holyshit - this is working?!
11:45 - The unspoken learning curve of becoming CEO
13:27 - Success is a portal, not a finite destination.
15:00 - Aha Moment: I'm not happy.
28:40 - Good News or Bad News, take a 30 second beat before reacting.
30:39 - What does happiness look like to you?
33:41 - The St. Martin Memo
34:40 - Set aside time to be bored.
41:25 - Have you ever tried to push away your good ideas?
43:00 - "You can run away from the boulder, but not from yourself."
47:55 - If the URL for your idea is open...
50:05 - Wonderhell visits people who have the hunger for it.
52:03 - Keep disrupting yourself, keep jumping to new S Curves.
53:56 - Broccoli, Candy, Broccoli, Candy.
55:20 - We should always have a kid mentality. Let me try something harder to get to the next stage.
59:47 - You don't have to be perfect, just be present.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX-qcmpyusXbGaueN8OGIHQ

S2E20 Susan McPherson - What does the Queen of Connections do in a pandemic?

Thu, 06 May 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What does the Queen of Connections do in a pandemic?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Susan McPherson - Serial Connector, Social Impact Leader, Pup Lover.

Susan McPherson is a serial connector, seasoned communicator and founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focused on the intersection of brands and social impact. She is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships. Susan has 25+ years of experience in marketing, public relations, and sustainability communications, speaking regularly at industry conferences, and contributing to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. Susan is a Vital Voices global corporate ambassador and has received numerous accolades for her voice on social media platforms from Fortune Magazine, Fast Company and Elle Magazine. She resides in Brooklyn.

0:00 Intro
1:43 Getting paid to meet strangers in hotel lobbies
2:17 Why do you do what you do?
2:33 Networking vs. Connection
5:22 Are you following or connecting?
6:30 Take advantage of Social Media to gather information to build relationships
8:22 "Dear Susan..."
12:25 How to get younger generation comfortable connecting with people
13:49 "Even Queen Elizabeth Farts"
18:15 Most people want to be helpful
20:17 The "do" phase
25:40 Goal at Networking Events: Meet 3 people, Learn 3 things, Share 3 things
29:30 Social media hall of mirrors make us hide our light
33:18 Who are you - and what are you going to do with it?
40:12 Be intentional about WHO we want to reconnect with during the pandemic
44:10 Be a "Yente" connector
47:00 Listening...
50:10 Parallel Play
55:00 Top tips to stay fun while being professional

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/susanmcp1
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https://www.thelostartofconnecting.com/

S2E19 Kyle Sanders - What do the roles of agency, discipline, and forgiveness play in finding your values, and how to you pass that along to your children as well?

Tue, 04 May 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What do the roles of agency, discipline, and forgiveness play in finding your values, and how do you pass that along to your children as well?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Kyle Sanders - Wealth Advisor, Endurance Athlete, Father of Three.

Kyle Sanders challenges you to live a fulfilled life by embodying your core values.

0:00 Intro
3:19 Lead Values - Starting with Forgiveness
6:27 Not just forgiving yourself for what you’ve done, but what others have done
7:18 “Forgiveness is an inside job”
12:25 There’s an energy with the process of letting go
14:21 What is closure? Is that a real thing?
18:18 Being hurt is a human connection.
21:22 Spontaneous Radical Forgiveness
24:01 “Sometimes the best thing to do is shut your mouth”
26:00 What values do you want to instill in your family?
34:00 How do you discuss important values in your family?
38:52 “There’s two stories in our life - our life begins when we realize someday it will end.”
40:01 How do you stay super present in your home?
46:01 Someday men might gather the strength to “throw like a girl”
48:03 Not all princesses wear pink
1:00 Where does discipline come from?

https://www.instagram.com/legacyonpur...
https://www.facebook.com/LegacyConsul...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylesanders/
https://www.legacyonpurposepodcast.com/

S2E18 Ann McFerran

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How do you build a $50M lash company in a pandemic, and what is a young founder to do when that happens?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Ann McFerran - Game Changer, Risk Taker, Lash Magnate.

Ann McFerran was born in Bangkok, Thailand and immigrated with her single mother to America when she was 7 years old. After growing up in Manteca, CA, she gained admissions to UCLA and moved to Los Angeles where she graduated with a B.S. in Psychobiology. However, post-grad, she pursued her artistic passion and became a full time fine artist for several years where she sold various abstract and pop art commissions worldwide. While she enjoyed the creativity that art provided, she was feeling isolated as a full time artist. During these years, she knew that she had a passion for making her vision come to life and building a community around it. When she saw a gap in the beauty market for magnetic lashes that actually worked, she sought out to develop magnetic lashes in the styles she would personally wear. One year later, on July 2019 after teaching herself product development and marketing, Glamnetic was born. Six months since launch, Glamnetic is now doing 7 figures per month in revenue.

S2E17 Alex Ferreira - Mental Health and High Achievement Intertwine

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How does a young skiing phenom go on to win gold, and how do you get brave enough to attempt those crazy flip and spins in the air anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Alex Ferreira - Skier, Sauna Goer, Health Nerd.

Timestamps:

5:34 - At the end of the day, there's only room for one on the podium.
6:40 - "I know when I wake up in the morning, if I'm tired, it's going to be a good day."
13:48 - "There's that moment in time where I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, I did it. I freakin did it. I've been thinking of this since I was 10 years old...'"
22:00 - "Preparation equals victory."
28:10 - "In the air, it's just this feeling of weightlessness. It's a brief moment in time where you're comfortable because you know what you're doing, but you're uncomfortable because anything can happen."
35:25 - "I got to physical therapy, telling her what's wrong, 'Yeah my back is thrown out and i just slipped really hard. Can you put me back together in three days?'"
39:25 - Who's Hotdog Hans?
52:15 - "Most of the time, I'm like, 'Oh shit. I'm skiing in jeans right now. If I fall it's going to hurt really bad.'"
54:42 - "When you can't do the things that you love, you get a little depressed inside."

Links:

https://alexferreiraski.com
https://www.instagram.com/alexferreir...
https://www.tiktok.com/@hotdoghans?la...
https://youtu.be/SngXFooZaUs

Growing up in Aspen, Colorado, Alex was exposed to all things outdoors, and was on skis before he could barely walk. He quickly began winning local competitions, and he has gone on to reach celebrity status both in his hometown and throughout skiing culture.Driven by a powerful work ethic, a can-do attitude, and an infectiously charismatic personality, Alex continues to have an impact on the sport, both on and off the half pipe.

S2E16 Mark Metry - From Suicidal Tendencies to Human 2.0

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:00:00 -0400

What does a shy kid do to get over his crippling social anxiety, and how does that lead to hosting one of the top podcasts in the world?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mark Metry - Podcaster, Author, Social Anxiety Slayer.

Timestamps:
2:49 - "I used to never do small talk but now I do it for fun."
9:49 - "I spent a lot of time as a kid training my brain to not be in the present moment."
13:49 - "I always tell people that you have the choice in that single moment to choose to be Human 1.0 or Human 2.0."
22:44 - "The most damaged people are also the most wisest people."
24:00 - "Social anxiety is not a random thing that happens."
33:25 - "I would either wet my bed or not go to sleep."
38:29 - "I started to realize that all the thoughts in my head that were always telling me that I suck and that I was terrible, actually these thoughts were not from me."
45:39 - "What I've learned is that the one thing you think is your weakness, the one thing you need to hide from the world,... that's the one thing that you need to share in order to become your real self."
54:50 - Success doesn't equal happiness.

Links:
https://www.markmetry.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry
https://www.instagram.com/markmetry
https://twitter.com/markymetry

S2E15 Jenny Hutt - Falling in Love With Yourself at Any Age

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How do you figure out who you are, and how do you make a living out of it?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jenny Hutt - BunnyEyez Inventor, Just Jenny Radio Host, Body Positivity Spokesmodel.

Timestamps:
2:00 - Let's talk about these BunnyEyez!
8:26 - "It's still about the hustle."
11:32 - "I was feeling tired of me. Enough about me."
15:13 - "Within five days, I made a prototype using chopsticks and broken glasses."
20:40 - "Two weeks later, Hoda was talking about them on the TODAY Show... without telling me."
25:00 - "If somebody asks me for something, 9/10 times I say yes."
32:15 - "It took me about close to 50 years to start to realize that exercise was for something other than weight."
36:48 - "I do what I think is good for my body each day."
46:49 - "Lots of things are going to make me unhappy that I can't control. So why not take the things that I can control and let those be positive and uplifting experiences?"
56:12 - Emotions are a first draft.

Links:
https://bunnyeyez.com
https://www.instagram.com/justjennyhutt
https://twitter.com/jennyhutt?s=20

Radio host, author, television host, and lawyer, Jennifer Koppelman Hutt’s self-deprecating humor, honesty and willingness to talk about everything has won her legions of loyal fans since she started hosting on SiriusXM in 2005. Jenny has appeared frequently on television as a special correspondent for CBS/YAHOO’s The INSIDER, CBS’ Entertainment Tonight, and recently spent a year co-hosting on HLN’s Dr. Drew on Call. She was also seen many nights on HLN’s ShowBiz Tonight. Jenny has been featured on BetterTV, CNN newsroom with Brooke Baldwin. She has also appeared on the TODAY Show, CBS’ The Talk, The Wendy Williams show, Joy Behar – Say Anything!, Jane Valez-Mitchell, Good Day New York, WPIX and more.

S2E14 Margot Bloomstein - Rebuilding Trust in a Post-Fact World

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

In an era of doubt, how do you establish and hold trust, and why does it matter anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Margot Bloomstein - Optimist, Designer, Ventriloquist.

Timestamps:
1:44 - Laura Grassfed Otter.
9:24 - "They feel confident in themselves, then they can feel confident in you too. That's how we operationalize trust."
12:25 - "Know who you are before you can attempt to engage, help, or empower others."
14:10 - "In order to respect someone else, we don't have to have had the same lived experiences."
20:04 - There's a huge difference between being loved and being seen.
23:31 - "Use your illusion. Make it what you need it to be."
24:32 - The Rachel Hollis debacle.
26:51 - How do brands rebuild confidence?
36:53 - "It is not radical optimism. It is responsible."
44:45 - "This is not just about fixing your brand, or fixing your engagement with your audience. It's about fixing your world as well."
52:53 - "Maybe this is where empathy gets in the way of compassion."

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/mbloomstein
https://www.facebook.com/mbloomstein
https://appropriateinc.com/trustworthy
Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1989603920

S2E13 Antonio Neves - Success Doesn't Come Without the Work

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How do you take the wheel and create the life you want?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Antonio Neves - Autopilot Crusher, System Rebooter, Blueprint Builder.

Timestamps:
1:15 - Are you a Michigan boy by heart or by birth?
4:52 - "I'm a firm believer that how we show up on a regular Tuesday... determines the rest of our life."
8:52 - "Breakthroughs come with consistent discipline. Small steps."
12:18 - When they say they're not going to renew your contract, that means you're fired.
18:03 - "Not making a decision is making a decision."
20:52 - How do you get people to want their potential more than they're ready to believe or ready to act upon?
24:12 - "Yeah, it's never too late. And the longer you wait, the harder it's going to get."
38:25 - Guilt for being successful.
44:00 - "I know that if I want to have a good day, five things must happen."
50:48 - Sometimes we just get lucky.
52:00 - If someone was in your shoes, what would you advise them to do?
56:24 - "I'm only excited if I'm prepared. If I've done the work."

Links:
https://theantonioneves.com
https://theantonioneves.com/stop-livi...

S2E12 Jonathan Fields - Discovering Grace Looking for Perfection

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What is a good life, and how do you protect your energy to live the one you want?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jonathan Fields - Father, Husband, Maker.

Timestamps:

2:20 - "I wake up in the morning and I say, 'What can I create that doesn't exist?'"
8:23 - "What we see on the surface very often is not the primary impulse for effort underneath the surface."
11:43 - How did you realize that the thing that you tried to hide was actually the light inside of you?
17:57 - I would say you are one of the few humans I know who truly always is wherever his feet are.
22:32 - "I'm okay if it takes me 10 years to learn how to write a paragraph that finally matches that vision of the way I want the words to be in my head."
29:57 - "I didn't ever really go to class..."
36:51 - "One thing that I've learned is that there is no human being in the planet that I can't be a student of. Every life reveals something to every other life."
44:25 - "We are in a season of de-humanization that starts with ourselves."
59:23 - "It's easy to sell a business, it's hard to leave a community."
1:06:02 - "It's the sweet spot between this too and this too shall pass."

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/jonathanfields
https://www.facebook.com/jonathanfields
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanf...
https://twitter.com/jonathanfields
http://goddlifeproject.com/podcast

S2E11 Trina Gray - Leaving Others to Find Yourself

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0400

What do you do when you turn out to be different than what everyone expected, and how do you make peace with what you have to lose along the way?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Trina Gray - Rockstar Coach, Sidecar Superhero, Rules Rejector.

Timestamps:
3:12 - "You noticed me and that's a lesson in itself."
6:41 - "I show up hard when I show up."
12:57 - "I can have really high expectations for people because I have them for myself."
17:08 - Do people actually pay their kids for getting good grades?
23:28 - She came up to me and said, 'Laura, I don't care how late you were- You can not come to the White House with wet hair.'
27:38 - "I was lucky that I was believed...When I spoke up, enough other women did too."
34:27 - "Speaking French and being a journalist is not necessarily the qualifications to open a health club."
36:22 - "You were going somewhere when you were here...What would you want to do?"
41:40 - "I think fitness is what saved me because fitness isn't competitive with anybody else...I love fitness more than sports."
48:22 - "I fell in love with a woman and it made sense!"
58:23 - "I know they loved the version of me that they raised. This version is too hard."
1:01:48 - "Please stop seeking approval and permission. Just show up hard in this world."

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/trinagray
https://www.teamrockstarfit.com
http://www.trinagray.com

Trina Gray is an award-winning entrepreneur in the fitness industry, with a strong local and national presence. She was the IDEA Fitness Leader of the Year, the Beachbody CEO Award Winner, and earned the Top 10 Small Business of the Year from the Governor of Michigan.

S2E10 David Usher - Where Does Creativity Come From?

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:00:00 -0400

Where does creativity come from, and how does it push you in unexpected directions?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, David Usher - Lead Singer, Creativity Expert, AI Geek.

Timestamps:
1:25 - What did you want to be when you grew up?
5:00 - "You grow up white, you feel like you're white, but the reality is [that] if you don't look the same, your religion is not the same, you're not really white."
7:35 - Do you think the trauma of high school made you more comfortable?
12:15 - "Your job as a creator or a conductor is to do an analysis on your process and to understand..."
13:48 - "Creativity is a language. If you want to get better at the language, learn the language. Practice the language."
18:15 - "Leave no blank space for doubt."
22:50 - What fascinates you about artificial intelligence?
27:23 - I worry that this is another way that artists will not get fully paid...they're getting paid in monopoly money.
31:51 - Who is going to build sustainable ecosystems?
37:16 - "You can not talk about the future unless you understand AI."
45:51 - Was there pressure to "succeed" in tech within the AI world?
49:08 - Taking your goals seriously.
50:19 - "You don't want to tell people your idea too early."

Links:
https://www.reimagine.ai
https://www.davidusher.com
https://www.instagram.com/davidusher

David Usher is an artist, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. As a musician, he has sold more than 1.4 million albums, toured all over the world, and has had #1 singles singing in English, French, and Thai. When David is not making music, he is equally passionate about his other life, as the founder and creative director of Reimagine AI. Reimagine AI is an artificial intelligence creative studio that builds and deploys interactive virtual beings. David is an in-demand keynote speaker and travels the world speaking about creativity, innovation, and artificial intelligence. He is also

S2E9 Alisa Cohn - Learning to Bet on Yourself

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What can second acts, professional reinventions, and Broadway teach you about uncovering the best in other people?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Alisa Cohn - Startup Mastermind, Networking Guru, Kettlebell Queen.

Timestamps:
5:21 - "There's no canoeing in math camp."
8:50 - "When we know our lines, and we know what we're doing, then we can improvise and be open and flexible to what's going on."
14:25 - "At the end of the day, your job and goal is to think rationally and calmly to make good decisions as quickly as you can."
17:21 - "When you're the CEO, you actually don't get a choice. You have to show up as the leader the way a leader is supposed to show up."
23:39 - Stop giving State of the Union Addresses.
28:04 - I wonder if maybe CPAs aren't boring people, they're just bored of being CPAs.
31:18 - Why startups?
34:49 - "I said, 'No. I'm going to become a coach now.'"
36:00 - How did you get your first client? And more importantly, how did you get your second client?
42:23 - "You need to shake up the dynamic and find people who can give you a fresh perspective."
47:21 - Always bet on youth.
51:00 - What's the best way to re-start your coaching business?
54:32 - "Your fee is fear plus 10%."

Named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards in London, Alisa Cohn has been coaching startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. A one-time startup CFO, Alisa has worked with startups such as Venmo, Etsy, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch. She has also coached CEOs and C-Suite executives at enterprise clients such as Dell, Hitachi, Sony, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Calvin Klein.

S2E8 Whitney Johnson - Jumping From Comfort to Challenge, Again

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How can we learn to play to our strengths and also still learn as we grow?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Whitney Johnson - Innovation Expert, Disruption Theorist, Framework Codifier.

Timestamps:
2:55 - "If we, as an organization, want to accelerate our growth, we're going to use this mechanism of personal disruption to allow people to do something new."
7:20 - "That's the challenge: separating what you do from your identity and your sense of self."
9:27 - The S-Curve explained.
13:10 - "Launch point, sweet spot, high-end - It's slow, fast, and slow - That's how we grow."
16:40 - You're bored of winning. It isn't hard anymore for you.
18:22 - "If you're not growing, you're going to find a way to do it."
23:29 - "When you jump to a new S-curve, you are actually asking everyone else around you to jump to a new S-curve as well."
26:50 - The importance of transition time.
33:02 - "That ended up anchoring her because she was an expert at work that anchored her to do all that hard stuff at home."
39:51 - As women, we're told not to be ambitious.
42:30 - "I surround myself with people who say, 'You're not thinking big enough. Go climb a bigger mountain.'"
45:25 - You'll never outperform your inner circle.
48:45 - "I realized that I love the idea of vacations, but I'm actually really bad at taking vacations."

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/johnsonwhitney
https://www.facebook.com/wljadvisors

S2E7 Ilona Goldfarb - Reinventing the Wheel in COVID Crisis

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0400

How does someone become one of the top high-risk OBGYN’s in the world, and should pregnant women get the COVID vaccine anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Ilona Goldfarb - Doctor, Teacher, Optimist.

Timestamps:
2:35 - Fan Goggles
3:20 - What was it like to be a doctor on the front-line in February and March of 2020?
4:00 - Are you the type of person who runs towards or away from a disaster?
7:55 - "We made sure that everything we did was also an opportunity to learn."
8:47 - "People aren't going to just invite you. You have to offer what you have, to make sure that the work that you do is meaningful outside of your little bubble."
14:25 - "Historically, reproductive-age women were left out [of clinical studies]."
19:24 - There's not time and energy to onboard lots of new and complex information.
24:20 - "We need to be very transparent about what we don't know so that we don't accidentally coerce patients by promising them that everything is going to be okay."
30:37 - "Everyone was reinventing the wheel."
33:14 - "I have always been an optimist."
42:05 - "I was enamored. I just remember standing there in awe of what they had done...putting the patient back together again."
43:57 - At what point in the process were you like, "I like OBGYN but I want to do the hardest possible OBGYN?"
55:22 - "I knew that nothing good would come from forcing myself to move when I really didn't feel the pull."

Links:
https://twitter.com/GoldfarbIlona
https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/1...

Ilona Goldfarb, MD, MPH, is a board-certified maternal fetal medicine specialist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She completed medical school and residency in California and a fellowship at MGH. Her areas of interest and expertise include public health, perinatal infectious diseases, and quality improvement in obstetrical care. She spends the majority of her time providing direct prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care to women with high-risk maternal or fetal conditions. In this capacity, she provides consultation on high-risk pregnancy patients across New England.

S2E6 Sallie Krawcheck - Change the Rules, Change the World

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0400

What do women's rights and financial power how to do with one another, and what do you do when you realize it's up to you to change it all?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Sallie Krawcheck - Financial Feminist, Power Shifter, Money Boss.

Timestamps:
1:05 - I've never had a guest that's been fired on the front page of The Wall Street Journal...TWICE.
4:33 - "It was that moment, where someone gave me permission to be ambitious and to go..."
7:45 - Research analysts became rockstars.
13:30 - "We almost went out of business."
16:33 - "We are going to partially reimburse these clients. It is the ethical thing to do, it's the right thing to do, it's the business savvy thing to do."
17:31 - "I was fired because I was different."
23:40 - "I have two kids, two step kids, two cats, and a husband. And for them, I wanted to be average."
27:20 - "What you see across the numbers is that we tend to be more comfortable funding women in categories that are very female."
31:05 - "We got convinced that we were competing, when in fact what the men had been doing the whole time is collaborating."
41:15 - "We're told that it's sort of cute to be bad with money."
49:49 - "She said, 'You changed my life.'"
55:40 - What are you doing to thrive in these moments?
57:30 - "I was bullied in middle school...ate lunch alone, picked last for the team."

Links:
https://www.ellevest.com
Own It - https://amzn.to/3qQvVDE
https://twitter.com/SallieKrawcheck
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salliekra...

S2E5 Tiffani Bova - How to Get Better at Anything

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:00:00 -0400

What does a road warrior do in a pandemic, and how do you re-learn to be creative?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Tiffani Bova -Vision Boarder, Brilliance Curator, Ideas Alchemist.

Tiffani Bova is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change maker who’s thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a highly sought after keynote speaker and advisor for startups and Fortune 500 companies around the globe.

Timestamps:
3:09 - "In preparation for writing my book, I read 75 of the best business books ever written."
10:53 - "When Seth Godin says you should write the book, you go, 'I think I should write the book!'"
16:12 - "I wrote each chapter like it was a keynote. I stood up, recorded myself, recorded my voice, and transcribed each thing I said."
19:02 - "How could I scale the fact that I can't travel around the world at this pace forever?"
26:12 - I said something funny, and some stage-right laughed...and I was like, "Oh, I want more!"
33:05 - "My research was while I was traveling. Those hall room conversations, those backstage conversations with people that you meet."
35:15 - My husband said, "I love having you here but I'm looking forward to you coming home again.'"
39:31 - "Whatever your superpower may be, you have to become a student of that profession. And you're going to suck a couple of times."
44:32 - "At the end of my presentations, people would want the presentations. So I said, 'Here's my trade. Here's my email, email me feedback...then I would send them the deck."
47:05 - "Growth and comfort never coexist."
48:06 - "I think leaders are at a crossroads right now. You have the choice to go back to the status quo or you have a choice to reimagine what is possible."
52:17 - "If you're going to start asking questions, you have to be open to listen to what is said."
56:19 - "From that dinner and from those bottles of wine, I realized I am not an entrepreneur."
57:25 - "If everything's a risk, then you really have to fall in love with failure."

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/TiffaniBova
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanibova
www.tiffanibova.com
Growth IQ: https://amzn.to/3vpak8N

S2E4 Lydia Fenet - Becoming the Most Powerful Woman in the Room

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0500

How do you become the lead benefit auctioneer at the largest auction house in the world, and what does this teach you about power?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Lydia Fenet - Auctioneer, Glass Ceiling Shatter, Most Powerful Woman in the Room.

Timestamps:
1:32 - Make yourself available and say yes!
3:29 - At what part in your youth did you decide that you were going to work at Christie's Auction House?
5:42 - "The door is yours if you can kick it open."
8:25 - "At the end of the day, all I heard was yes."
15:22 - "I heard some of my male colleagues use that line, but from a woman, they didn't appreciate it as much."
17:45 - "As a charity auctioneer, the thing to always remember is that it actually has nothing to do with the people who are bidding...You are telling a story on stage."
23:20 - "When you realize you're making a third of what you want, you feel completely betrayed."
28:55 - "I said, 'There's no step 1 because there's no step 2. If I don't get what I want, I'm leaving.'"
35:42 - "Ask for the most you can and every year keep asking."
38:58 - It's the first time a women's magazine ever called me thin.
41:48 - "It was sheer force of will that the book ended up selling as many books as it did because I refused to let it fail."
45:36 - "I see the mountain getting higher and I think, strap on my crampons, we got the ice part of this going."
52:49 - "It was the moment that you need, when you realize there's a net underneath you that is so strong, that even if you were to fall, there are 20 people that have got you. That's when you realize that you've done it right."

Links:
https://lydiafenet.com
https://www.instagram.com/lydiafenet

S2E3 John Jantsch - Entrepreneurship Is Fetishized, if You Let It Be

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:00:00 -0500

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur, and how can you be even better than you thought possible?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, John Jantsch - Artist, Seeker, Introvert.

Timestamps:
1:40 - When did you know you were an entrepreneur?
3:30 - "My mom would say, 'Bob, you watch John, I'll watch the rest.'"
6:50 - Entrepreneurship is fetishized.
7:53 - "An entrepreneur is different than a business owner."
14:20 - "I started off as hustler."
18:45 - As an entrepreneur, how do you keep yourself calm?
22:40 - "I'm never satisfied, I'm never done."
28:07 - "You can't tell someone how to be self-reliant, the self part is on you."
31:58 - "Down in the valley is really where I lived and thrived."
34:07 - "This year of not speaking...has been very healthy for me."
43:31 - "If you're going to sell anything, it can't depend on you."
50:35 - "Businesses, a lot of times, thrive just by being in the right place at the right time. In really tough times, businesses survive and thrive...because they have a meaningful place in the hearts of customers."
55:39 - Goodbye is a gift.

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/ducttapemarke...
https://www.instagram.com/ducttapemar...
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ducttapema...

S2E2 Jill Sherer Murray - Jump and You Will Become the Net

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:00:00 -0500

What can you learn from improv, and how does it teach you to let go of what you hold most dear?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jill Sherer Murray - Writer, Dreamer, Releaser.

Timestamps:
1:42 - Does having a background in comedy help you with letting go with mid-life crisis? With putting your weight in Shape Magazine?
3:55 - "I think every child should take Improv..."
6:39 - "They have no idea that in 30 minutes they'll be hopping on one leg, and smacking each other in the butt..."
9:30 - How does someone with a control tendency find themselves in improv?
11:38 - "If we knew what would happen on the other side of an epiphany, we might have not taken action on it."
14:48 - "I saw a huge opportunity for feeling."
21:45 - "I stood up in front of the room at Weight Watchers at 12 years old."
23:08 - "I felt like, for one of the first times in my life, I was actually talking to my mother woman-to-woman."
23:35 - Reconciliation doesn't have to be couple's therapy.
29:22 - "I don't expect myself to be done. I no longer put that pressure on myself."
36:50 - "Jump and you are the net."
39:39 - "I got out there on that stage and I thought to myself, 'This is home.'"
41:30 - "I didn't change your life, you changed your life."
44:07 - "Those notes give me chills."
50:48 - "It was important to me to not talk in a 'fluffy' way to people. To give them tangible ideas for how they could think about letting go, understand what it meant."
56:35 - You don't have to give any of the trophies back.
59:22 - "It's not just about listening to other people. It's about listening to the truth inside of us."

S2E1 Jeff Lemberg - Why do the stories we tell matter?

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:00:00 -0500

How do we parent boys to be better, and what has social distancing done to our previously effective (or ineffective) strategies?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jeff Lemberg - Father, Educator, Storyteller

Timestamps:
2:09 - Have you taken the Oreo Challenge?
4:50 - "There needs to be more humanity in storytelling."
8:40 - "What type of country do we live in? And who are our neighbors?"
10:49 - The depth of my joy, my relief, my anger, all of it came out in that moment.
12:13 - Decency is back.
15:46 - What is Boys for the Better?
21:00 - "It felt like I was going to make other people around me have to struggle a little bit in the pursuit of my professional happiness."
24:00 - When did you come to this understanding of yourself?
26:50 - "I don't know that having a student respect the teacher, respect their classmates, and respect the space and the environment is 'learning like a girl.'"
29:38 - By the time he was five, I was like, "Yep, I definitely know."
30:40 - Treat your kid like a human.
33:46 - "Have them think more critically about the media they consume."
39:40 - So Wonder Woman can't be a strong successful woman with a career and have a love life?
41:16 - Superhero women and superhero men express despair differently.
42:38 - Veteran's Legal Services
47:31 - "I really respect what lawyers do and how they use storytelling..."
52:57 - What does organizational change at mission driven organizations take?

S1E42 Scott Osman - Seeing Potential Through a Photographers Eyes

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you build a legacy, and what can you learn from helping others build theirs?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Scott Osman - Listener, Simplifier, Synthesizer.

Timestamps
2:25 - How did you get into portrait and fashion photography?
4:25 - "For me, taking pictures was the equivalent of listening."
11:05 - The photographer came in and said, "Look, I gotta tell you. We don't get any direction about how to take this photo. We're just told, make them look good or make them look bad."
12:12 - "A lot of coaching is helping people see themselves and see the potential that they have."
17:04 - "He does know how to be a leader. And what it takes to be a leader"
19:35 - "He'd say, 'If I'm doing my job right, I should be able to leave early.'"
28:06 - Go find a mentor.
31:06 - Were your parents entrepreneurial when you were growing up?
33:15 - "They said, 'If you really want to be a photographer, then you should be a photographer.'"
36:30 - "The first job I got in photography was with a world class photographer."
41:05 - "Why did you leave photography?"
44:27 - "Every super power seems obvious to the person that holds the superpower."
50:09 - Recognize good leaders and know who to follow.
53:45 - "It's so hard not to think that the world is about you and that you're the center of it."
56:30 - "You can't take it with you, but you can leave it all behind."

Links
https://www.100coaches.com

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

S1E41 Vinh Giang - Where Does Magic Stop and Reality Start?

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How does a magician (who happens to be a world-famous speaker) make a global pandemic disappear by pivoting his entire life, family, and business?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Vinh Giang - Mad Scientist, Obsessive Magician, Disobedient Dad.

Timestamps
0:48 - Tell me about your tattoo.
3:30 - "I feel like America was home for me."
4:15 - The journey of becoming a magician.
5:25 - "If I left my packet of cards at home, I left my confidence at home, I left my personality at home, I left everything at home."
10:35 - "I said, 'Can you come home with me and tell my dad the exact same thing you just said? That was brilliant.'"
15:30 - How do you create luck?
16:55 - "That's the price you have to pay to be an early mover."
21:40 - "That's how most of the top performers become top performers. They were preparing when everyone else was sleeping."
24:50 - It wasn't that you were just doing magic. You were magical.
26:53 - "From my mom, to her 'I love you' is 'Have you eaten yet?'"
29:35 - "I'm just an empty human being. I'm just a showman with no substance..."
31:15 - "It's like riding a bike and only using one pedal."
34:01 - "We've got to stop trying to put things in boxes all the time because life is way more complicated than that."
39:30 - "Lenny is funny. You're not funny, stop trying to be like Lenny."
46:34 - "That one sentence made me decide to stop speaking and to come home."
51:50 - The focus is on creation. Not wealth.
54:20 - How do you get your students comfortable with unknown?
55:25 - "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician."
58:12 - "Do improv."

Links
https://www.stageworkshop.live/virtua...
https://www.facebook.com/askvinh

S1E40 Marie Incontrera - How Not to Fit in, and Love It

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you get stories from page to stage, and what does that teach you about producing your very own (award-nominated) movie in a quarantine?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marie Incontrera - Rom-Com Rule Breaker, Quarantine Movie Producer, Broadway Nerd.

Timestamps
1:10 - How did you find your voice?
4:20 - "Hey, look! Dorie was right."
8:25 - "I had to create skills out of things that I didn't even know."
9:30 - "All of a sudden, I became this TEDx person."
10:00 - Are you the only person who has done a TEDx talk in roller skates?
12:02 - How did you find your way to roller derby?
14:50 - "In roller derby, I found a lot of people that looked like me."
17:06 - "The thing about music is that everybody is an aspiring soloist."
21:25 - How did you make the decisions about when you say something or when you don't?
23:22 - "As a leader, no one wants to have to say that to somebody else."
26:15 - I used to tell people that I got paid to meet strange men in hotel lobbies.
32:54 - I would totally watch that show.
33:28 - "It's the first holiday rom-com featuring non-binary lead characters."
33:45 - "There's no coming-out story,...there's no queer trauma. It's just a fun story...I think we deserve that too."
36:23 - Are you getting pushback from some of the networks?
40:23 - "You don't serve everybody. You serve a niche."
46:10 - "He said, 'You're nothing but a skinny goof with a rainbow flag waving over your head.'"
49:44 - Hurt people hurt people.
55:57 - "Your ego just cares that you're alive. It doesn't care that you're happy. When change happens, even if it's the best change in the world, your subconscious is going to react."

Links

https://www.averyqueerholiday.com/
http://www.instagram.com/marieincontrera
http://facebook.com/marie.incontrera
http://linkedin.com/in/marieincontrera
http://www.twitter.com/marieincontrera

S1E39 Marko Cheseto - A Double Amputee's World Record Optimism

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 10:00:00 -0500

What happens when a promising young track and field star loses his legs in the dark Alaska winter, and how does that lead to a life of unimagined success?
Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marko Cheseto - Double Amputee, Marathon Runner, World Record Holder.

Timestamps
2:00 - That moment when someone handed Marko a business card
3:00 - "A website, a link, and online. In 2008, those were words that I didn't even know what they meant...On line is where we dried our clothes."
5:45 - "I was just a college athlete in Kenya...running because I loved it."
9:10 - "I think I have a pretty good idea of how snow falls. It's an accumulation of cold in the morning. The morning dew...piles up and in six months you have snow on the ground."
13:20 - "I went home that evening...he had hanged himself."
16:05 - "Nothing stuck with me like his last phone call."
18:10 - "I had to accept it was depression and that I needed medical help."
22:15 - "Where have you been for three days?"
24:45 - "They say, 'We have to amputate your feet.'"
27:31 - "I said, 'I can still move my toes.' They said, 'Oh we forgot to tell you this part, 'That is how you will feel for the rest of your life.'"
32:40 - "I trusted the process, pushed myself. Starting training again...And I started running again."
35:19 - I feel like you broke a lot of hearts.
36:35 - "I think there's nothing called low-points in life. There's no such thing."
38:20 - "I can embrace it or let it define who I am. I chose to embrace it."
43:00 - "There is nothing called wrong or right choice. It's the consequences of those choices."
46:42 - "Happiness is a skill."
51:23 - "I don't have sleepless nights, knowing what is going on around the world. I get sleepless nights not knowing what is out there."
56:02 - "You can't just fantasize on things you want to do in life. You have to practically put it into practice."
58:35 - How do you manage the expectation that the paraathlete world has on you now?

Links
https://www.facebook.com/marathonmarko

S1E38 Anna Gomez - CFO Comes Out as Romance Novelist

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you start in the mail-room and end up in the CFO's Office, and how do you hide a career writing best-selling romance novels along the way?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Anna Gomez - Right-Brained Left-Brainer, Romance Novelist, Immigrant.

Timestamps
1:45 - Who did you think you were going to be when you grew up?
2:16 - Anna opened the first bagel restaurant in the Philippines
4:01 - "That was my first lesson in humility."
7:01 - "To have the letters CPA after your name, just helped bring some of the validity to the credentials that I earned in the past."
9:35 - "I cry a lot. That's the romantic in me."
13:08 - "Opportunities come, but you have to go for them."
17:03 - "That's why I changed my writing from writing under a pen name to writing under my real name because I feel like I have to bring my whole self to the table because I represent a lot."
19:12 - How do you thrive in Wonderhell?
21:48 - "I was a high performing depressed person."
23:52 - "The mind plays with you. What you believe is what you believe."
27:15 - Being a mother has helped me become a better manager.
28:48 - "I wrote my way out."
29:43 - My husband is my cement in my shoes and I'm the helium in the balloon.
32:00 - How are you handling the pandemic?
34:32 - Why did you write with a pen name?
35:09 - "It took awhile for me to come into my own for writing sexy scenes."
39:45 - Anna's Coming Out Story
42:05 - "This is my priority. I love this job and I can make a lot more impact with this job and I want to keep it."
44:38 - "Readers are promiscuous. They'll read whatever."
47:35 - Do you read the comments?
48:42 - "She read one of my books and put a tattoo of my book cover on her ankle.
51:40 - "Don't you get bored? I can't run 26 miles."
52:25 - I wanted to create a sex toy delivery service.
55:48 - "You should start wearing heels."

S1E37 Matthew Kimberley - How to Sell Anything to Anyone

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you learn to persuade anyone of anything, and what's the secret to tough-love, anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Matthew Kimberley - Globetrotter, Email Whisperer, Whiskey Drinker.

Timestamps:
2:10 - Matthew can't talk about the most exciting thing that's happened to him. Or can he?
3:15 - I expect to be dead in the next 24 hrs.
6:45 - "That was the end of my career with Foreign Intelligence Services."
8:45 - Understanding your client.
12:20 - The line of what they want and what they need.
17:08 - "If I made the decision to go back for the last two years, then I was going to be happy. But if I felt that I had done it to appease them...I was going to do it with a chip on my shoulder."
23:00 - "I had endless levels of confidence."
26:12 - "I had a friend and my dad come out to visit...they were like, 'What on earth has happened??'"
27:50 - "I don't know if you've ever tried to walk around town with a pair of nunchucks shoved inside your belt? I couldn't bend at the hip."
29:55 - How To Get A Fucking Grip
34:28 - "A lot of self help is dangerous. A lot of self help encourages you to find blame."
37:15 - Do we remember people who aren't passionate?
37:45 - Where does passion lie in the sales process?
40:15 - "I don't want my kids to see my vulnerabilities."
44:15 - "I think it's always good to have an antagonist in any story. So it's a good idea to always have something you're against."
49:32 - "It's not about who you accept to do business with, it's about where you target your marketing."
51:40 - The reason I was so successful as quickly as I was because because I could laser focus on the clients I wanted and not the clients I needed necessarily...because I had that runway.
53:33 - "The world is not your market unless you're Nike 2020."

Links
https://marketingforcoaches.com/
https://www.100coaches.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottosman/
https://www.instagram.com/scottosman/

S1E36 Mike Ganino - From Trailer Park to Baby Daddy, the Storyteller's Story

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you go from growing up in a trailer park to training major corporations and successful CEOs on telling their stories, and how do you learn to tell your own story along the way?
Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mike Ganino - Storyteller, Queen Daddy, Hype Man.

Timestamps
1:55 - The shirt that Mike made for LGO.
5:35 - "When someone wants to have Rachel Ray on their show, they don't also look at Martha Stewart. They just call at Rachel Ray."
7:40 - You made me do improv and I thought I was going to die.
10:40 - "As a gay man, I got to decide what a gay person on stage looked like, not a writer..."
14:50 - "From an early age, I realized that there was two sides to everything."
19:00 - "It's the best communicated that wins."
24:25 - "They told me, and I believed them, 'You can be whatever you want to be.'"
28:24 - "I don't know what I'm going to do after this election cycle because I'm 100% funnier...I'm always best during the election cycle."
34:00 - "We play the role of researcher and reporter. I think that people want more revelation. What do you feel?"
37:10 - "If the emotional response is because of what happened to you, then maybe you're not quite ready to share it broadly."
38:43 - How do we find our stories?
46:00 - It's the small stories.
48:40 - "It's why every super hero has an underdog story."
49:08 - "If you're gonna be impressive, we also need you to be relatable."

Links
https://www.instagram.com/mikeganino
https://www.facebook.com/mikeganino
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeganino

S1E35 Melissa Wiggins - A Diagnosis Reveals a Life's Purpose

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

What do you do when your child is diagnosed with cancer, and how does it reveal your life's purpose?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Melissa Wiggins - Mum, Wife, Boss.

Timestamps
3:05 - That moment when it changed.
5:30 - "I gave birth to the twins in one wing of the hospital while my husband sat with our son having cancer surgery in the other."
8:58 - At what point did you realize that there weren't the kind of pediatric treatments that were available to kids?
9:39 - "And they said he has a 50/50 chance."
11:00 - Did you always refuse to take no for an answer?
15:30 - "I think finding your roar — becoming a mumma bear — is learning to let go of the opinions of other people."
17:25 - #nomoreoptions
19:30 - "I stood in front of the machine and I said, 'You can go get your lawyer I'll just wait.'"
22:20 - "Research is the one thing that we need more innovation in."
26:35 - "I have pictures of signs saying, 'Not this year. We're fighting cancer.'"
30:10 - "He doesn't have hearing, and he doesn't have the ability to naturally father a child because of choices I made for him."
34:00 - "We're doing an injustice to the kids who didn't make it because we're not showing what it really looks like if you do survive."
38:53 - "How can I add a little piece of family every day?"
40:00 - A cameo appearance as a mom is better than a starring role.
44:50 - Adopting Charlie.
47:38 - "Delegation is a skill."
50:05 - "If you want to adopt and you want to bond successfully with that child you did not birth...then you have to be able to put something else second for awhile."
53:44 - "That's the hardest thing I've ever done. Being with a 2 year old that I didn't know for 24/7."

Links
https://www.instagram.com/mummabearwiggins_/
https://www.facebook.com/CKcmelissawiggins83
https://cannonballkidscancer.org/

S1E34 Scott Monty - A Republican Becomes Biden's Loudest Supporter

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you build a business empire out of your passion, and what lessons do you learn along the way?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Travis McKenzie - Storyteller, Endurance Junkie, Dot Connector.

Timestamps:
2:10 - You are my first COIVD positive guest.
3:25 - "Usually politics and religion are that third rail. They're the third rail of polite society. They're the third rail of business."
4:35 - "You need to go to where people are."
5:46 - "As the cliche goes — I didn't leave the Party. The Party left me."
9:20 - My kids can be anything they want to be. They only thing they cannot be is non-voters.
11:40 - The more votes we have, the less contested this election is going to be.
15:45 - How do you take that stance and what do you do with risk of possibly alienating half of the people who are your customers?
17:40 - "As a business leader, if there is something going on that is against your moral code and what you stand for as a leader and what's behind the values of your business — then I think you ought to say something."
21:28 - "To me, wearing a mask is a statement that you care about other people."
24:02 - "Now that I'm running my own business, I can decide what I stand for."
28:49 - "Now everybody has their own Tik-Tok experience, their own Youtube experience, their own social media feed on Twitter...There's very little that we have in common anymore."
33:40 - "We've gotten to the point where people think you have to pick one or the other."
38:38 - "American society has become all about ME."
39:25 - I think we should reinstate the draft. It doesn't have to be military service, it can be community service.
41:55 - "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? The people that were better off to begin with ARE better off now...They don't have that empathetic eye as to what's going on."
46:02 - "Emotional intelligence is made of four different things: self-awareness, self-management, relationship management, social awareness."
48:04 - "The leaders that we have that inspire us are people that we develop relationships with, that we hear from on a regular basis."
52:35 - "The way you show up to the job and the way you take the job seriously and the way you treat people around you...that speaks volumes about who you are."
55:38 - Gaslighting
56:45 - "If you are having a discussion with someone and you gaslight them and tell them what they're seeing is not actually happening, then you're violating their dignity."

S1E33 Travis McKenzie - An Athlete's Journey to Entrepreneurship

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you build a business empire out of your passion, and what lessons do you learn along the way?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Travis McKenzie - Storyteller, Endurance Junkie, Dot Connector.

Timestamps:
1:50 - Which endurance athletes do you look up to?
3:30 - Consistency
5:00 - "You have to show up and do the work."
7:35 - The First Ironman Production with Julie Moss
9:10 - "It's okay to overcome struggle. It's actually probably better. Because no one really loves a winner who doesn't go any kind of struggle."
12:43 - "There was never a moment where I thought that I wouldn't be able to come back."
15:09 - "They said, 'Who's this guy? Let's get him out of here. He's like ruining the vibe for everyone.'"
18:05 - "I already knew that she was the one. And then she did not leave my side."
21:02 - Your Entrepreneur Journey
22:42 - "I wanted to have the freedom and the autonomy to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. And create something magical for the world, but also pursue my dream of getting back to competing as an athlete."
26:17 - "How can you just get better at making better decisions?"
29:12 - "I still want to do the $10 work for a time, so that I know what I'm looking for when I hire someone to do the $10 work for me."
31:18 - Where does procrastination come from?
32:33 - "No one cares about your email funnel and whether it works or not. But you do! And there is that fear holding you back."
41:20 - Breathing, Attitude, and Technique
44:50 - Supersapiens
50:30 - "The ability to see this in real-time, that's the revolution."
53:00 - The timing of the fueling is very important.
56:30 - What does success look like to you? Has your idea of success changed or stayed the same?
56:48 - "Ironman has ruined me."
59:25 - Mini goals
1:01:48 - "If we don't have big ambitious goals then we're not living a big full ambitious life."

Links:
https://www.supersapiens.com/en-US

S1E32 Mitch Matthews - The Role of Faith in the Journey of Entrepreneurship

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

Where does hope come from, and what is faith to the faithless?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mitch Matthews - Storyteller, Encourager, Catalyst.

Timestamps:

2:45 - Mitch the Kid, growing up in Iowa.
4:23 - "I realized this allowed me to be different."
9:47 - "I was creative and I was putting that creativity towards worry."
11:43 - "He looked me right in the eye and he said, 'Mitch, I think you're going to have to fight him.'"
13:37 - "He laid down on the hill and cried."
18:12 - "Hurt people hurt people."
22:42 - The rise of Limitless
24:22 - "What are some of those things that I can do to keep my heart in the place I want it to be."
27:59 - "Their success expands and their capacity to worry expands."
29:15 - "I think it would take more faith to not believe in God than it does to believe in God."
34:00 - Action based, Vision based, and Evidence Based
39:52 - "If it's faith that means that it can't be fully fact."
41:30 - "Would you heal my son?"
48:15 - Entrepreneurship is a demonstration of faith.
52:58 - "In the Bible it says, 'I know what it is to have plenty, and I know what it is to have lack.'"
54:07 - "How can I not compare to, but how can I learn from?"
59:39 - "Let's throw away the measurement stick of 'how are you doing vs. me."

Links:
https://mitchmatthews.com
https://www.instagram.com/mitch.matthews
https://www.facebook.com/mitch.matthe...

S1E31 Joe De Sena - When Life Is Turned Upside Down, the Standards Don't Change

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:00:00 -0500

How do you create the world's leading obstacle race, and what do you do when COVID cancels it all?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Joe De Sena - Obstacle Crusher, Burpee Enthusiast, Spartan.

Time Stamps:
0:40 - "On time is LATE."
2:12 - Growing up in Queens and starting a pool cleaning business.
4:25 - "Wherever you grow up, no matter who you are, there is some North Star. Some person that you aspire to be as a kid."
8:02 - "This was a hobby."
12:15 - I'm raising soft kids.
15:05 - "Mom, Dad, I can't believe you sent me here...This is like being in prison."
18:50 - "The standards don't change."
19:30 - "When this is all over, I don't think we would be as excited saying, 'Man Joe, I can't believe you binged watched 120 shows on Netflix.'"
24:10 - The burden of your potential is only as big as your ego.
27:18 - "Let's change a bunch of lives. Let's put on a really cool event name Spartan."
32:25 - How do you keep going?
35:50 - I think the True North is 'What is your Calling?'
37:00 - "Seek the Hard Way"
38:39 - "If you ever can't find any gratitude, just remember you're alive, so find it there."
45:00 - Is it addiction?
48:13 - "This text comes in on my phone and says, 'Hey you got to get 10,124 burpees done sometime this week.'"
52:36 - "My younger boy said, 'Mom, I think I'm in the wrong family.'"
55:52 - "We want to get a hundred million people healthy. The fastest way there is to do burpees."
58:15 - Why Spartan? Why Ancients?
1:00:15 - When do races come back?

Links
https://www.instagram.com/spartan
https://www.spartan.com/
Email: Joe@spartan.com

E1 S30 Dan Pontefract - Being a Leader who Matters

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do we find the leader within us, and why does it matter?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Dan Pontefract - Potential Seeker, Benevolent Behaviorist, Bald Guy.

Timestamps
2:10 - How do you get employees to from only 33% engagement to 90% engagement?
3:26 - "Don't forget: there are always-in every organization a host of people who are awesome."
4:50 - "How do we switch from training as event to learning as a lifelong curiosity?"
8:10 - "Leadership is a daily action."
14:10 - "When there's no empathy in leadership, we tend to lose the humanity of the situation thus we lose the employee."
19:25 - Is COVID a phenomenal leadership opportunity?
21:12 - "I hate the whole 'new normal' terminology."
23:40 - Windshield Time is my best parenting time.
24:55 - "I'm a hugger on hiatus."
26:55 - Family Meeting is the most important meeting of my week.
31:00 - How did you first get interested in leadership?
32:30 - "I don't tell this story very often, and I might get emotional."
35:39 - "Global and Worldwide in the same title? I'm in!"
41:34 - "Being emotional is okay."
45:30 - "The Declaration of Purpose: We're not here to see through each other, we're here to see each other through."
53:50 - "If you wanna win the hearts and minds of your team, you must care in your leadership."

Links
http://www.leadcarewin.com
https://www.instagram.com/dan.pontefract
https://www.facebook.com/DanPontefrac...

S1E29 Amberly Lago - A 1% Chance Still Means There Is a Chance

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What happens when a motorcycle accident changes your life, and how do you turn that tragedy into triumph?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Amberly Lago - Warrior, Hope Dealer, Advocate

Timestamps
2:40 - You had your accident at 38. What was your life like at 37?
3:55 - Everything changed overnight.
6:36 - "I knew it was really serious when people were not running up to me to help me. One lady fainted when she looked at me."
7:40 - "I was wishing I would die because the pain was so bad."
8:00 - "I heard this crying but like wailing, really...And I realized it was my husband and I've never seen him cry before."
9:25 - "Get off my tubes."
14:10 - "When they told me I had a 1% chance, I though, 'Oh thank goodness, there's a chance.'"
17:00 - "I thought, 'Why not me?' I could show others that they can heal too and that they get can get through tough times."
20:10 - "I don't think it really hit me hit me how terrible things were until I was diagnosed with nerve disease."
23:50 - "I was so busy trying to take care of other people, I was neglecting myself."
25:10 - "Asking for help saved my life."
25:33 - "Your hard work puts you where your blessings can find you."
32:10 - "After my accident, something shifted in me, where I could embrace the pain, embrace those vulnerable parts..."
40:10- "When you find those good girlfriends...that's golden. That's priceless."
47:15 - "If you don't take care of your health, you can't enjoy anything else."
48:08 - Does LGO have a morning routine?
53:12 - "Everything is perspective."

Links
https://www.instagram.com/truegritand...
https://www.instagram.com/amberlylago...

S1E28 Kara Goldin - From Hating Water to Founding Hint Water

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do you grow a brand worth hundreds of millions of dollars from hearing "no" over and over and over?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Kara Goldin - Barrier Breaker, Obstacle Obliterator, Purpose Pursuer.

Timestamps

1:30 - The beginning of Hint, Inc.
4:30 - "Never once did I sit there and say, my diet soda was ultimately making me sick..."
6:00 - "This is why I don't drink water. This is so boring."
9:35 - "I was at a point where I was saying, 'How about someone tells ME what to do? Tell me something that I don't know.'"
12:12 - "It was at that point that my husband really realized that this wasn't just about creating a beverage company, for me, it was around really changing an industry...."
14:20 - A no is a maybe and a maybe is a yes.
15:55 - "Fortune Magazine really helped me to understand finance."
19:35 - "I said, 'Hi, I'm here to see Marshall Loeb.'"
20:00 - "There are jobs, you just have to find them. And be creative about it."
25:25 - "We put so much focus on this piece of paper versus actually trying to figure out how to get an interview."
29:55 - How did you meet all these amazing people? Because I'm old.
35:15 - "You just have to know your walk-away."
40:20 - "There will be layoffs if we do not have your support in reallocating you into these different roles."
47:40 - Your COO is your husband. How often do investors and retailers think he's the boss?
51:53 - "My husband is the first one to say, 'she's actually the CEO.'"
54:35 - Undaunted Book Launch - World's largest streaming book launch on Facebook hosted by Sheryl Sandberg

Links
https://www.karagoldin.com
https://www.drinkhint.com/LGOtv

S1E27 Sanford Greenberg - A Lifetime of Blindness and A Fight to Save Others

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How does a missed diagnosis lead to a lifetime of blindness, and a fight to save others?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Sanford Greenberg - Second Generation Physicist, Innovation Nerd, Structure Champion.

Timestamps
1:40 - "I met my wife when we were in 6th grade."
3:25 - She was your "beshert."
5:35 - "I entered my junior year with 20/20 vision...by the end of the year, I had 0/0 vision."
11:56 - "I am a drop-out, I have no money, I have no eyes, and I have no future." She married me anyway.
16:50 - Where did you find the drive to say that you are not going to live a life of mediocrity?
22:03 - "When [my grandmother] hugged you, it was like being anointed."
24:45 - How did you get out of bed on the days where it felt like it was almost too much?
25:00 - Art Garfunkel and Sue were everything.
30:32 - "I suddenly walked into something very soft, a woman's breast."
33:19 - "My first thought when I woke up from surgery was, 'My God, my mother is seeing her eldest son go blind...'"
36:42 - Art Garfunkel left me to find my way home, completely blind, on the New York City Subway. "He said, 'I knew you could do it, but I wanted you to know that you could do it.'"
39:18 - "You have to deal with the blindness every day. Every hour. Every minute. The only rest you get is when you sleep."
43:05 - "It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science."
51:40 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a hero to us all, and a neighbor and friend to Sandy.
53:05 - End Blindness by 20/20
55:50 - "We decided that we would end blindness within the next 2,978 days. Because that was the time that it took Neil Armstrong to land on the moon..."

S1E26 Safi Bahcall - How to Get Out of Your Own Way

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:00:00 -0400

Why do good teams kill great ideas, and what can you do to get out of your own way?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Safi Bachall - Second Generation Physicist, Innovation Nerd, Structure Champion.

*In an unusual twist, Laura's guest today only agreed to come on the show because she consented to let him ask questions of her, too.*

Timestamps

3:25 - Laura to Safi: "Were you a disappointment to your parents?"
6:13 - "I've always been curiosity-driven."
13:35 - "When I told my parents [that I was leaving academia], they reacted in sort of shock and horror. They went through the five stages of grief."
15:02 - "I started a biotech company to find drugs for cancer.. so rather than the search for truth, I wanted to help people spend more time on earth with their loved ones. "
16:32 - "It was more consonant for me to combine business, science, and doing good."
17:02 - It's okay to leave some money on the table.
18:32 - What does the idea of phase transition in physics have to do with good teams killing great ideas?
20:00 - Safi to Laura: "How did you go from 20 years in executive search to where you are now? And, what did you learn from Arnie Miller, the man to whom you dedicate your book?"
33:22 - Safi to Laura: "One of the things I learned is that it's not really interesting asking people about their successes."
40:45 - "Laura, what do you wish you would have done differently 2-3 years ago?"
45:45 - When did you decide to write Loonshots?
51:32 - "When I'm losing curiosity in what it is that I'm doing, that's the litmus test. That's the sign that it's time to make a transition."
54:38 - How do you keep making the puzzles harder?
1:00 - Dating, and the crazy story of how Safi met his wife.
1:09:08 - Safi to Laura: "How did you meet your husband?"

Links
Twitter: @SafiBahcall
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/safi-bahcall/
Email: speaking@bahcall.com
Book website: www.loonshots.com
Blog: www.bahcall.com/loonshots-blog/

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and ment

S1E25 Brad Meltzer - The Story Behind Every Story

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How does someone live a life of wonder, and what kind of world can we create today?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brad Meltzer - Superhero Nerd, Mystery Debunker, High School Sweetheart.

Timestamps
1:30 - Our paths crossed many times, from high school to the White House.
3:22 - Tell me the story of Bill Clinton and Eli Segal.
3:40 - "I made the first bootleg Simpson's T-shirts."
5:50 - "He said, 'Don't go to law school.'"
6:34 - "This guy name Bill Clinton calls up one day and says, 'Will you run my campaign?'"
8:45 - "I thought I wrecked my life."
18:35 - "You appreciate what that means when that person that you look up to so much is thinking of you and shows you that kindness."
22:30 - "For life, so many things, it takes one person to say yes sometimes. And our job in life is to find that person."
25:30 - "There's one name on the cover of every book, but only a fool thinks it's a one person show."
31:04 - The TODAY Show was our first interviews.
37:15 - "The opening line review opens with, 'This show would be good if Brad Meltzer wasn't in it.'"
41:30 - Brad Meltzer's reading time with Barbara Bush: Re-creating the chocolate conveyor belt scene from I Love Lucy.
46:40 - "My 18-year old, with his eyes closed, feeling braille in the book and was like, 'Dad this one's actually good!'"
47:18 - "I love the fact that people now use our books to fight back against what they see in America today."

S1E24 Heather Monahan - Betting on Yourself

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do you go from a trailer to the c-suite, and what do you do when another woman is the villain in your story?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Heather Monahan - Confidence Creator, Villain Leapfrogger, Boss in Heels.

Timestamps

2:10 - Where did your confidence come from?
8:23 - "If I'm going to start out as a rookie, I'm going to start out as a rookie for myself. If I'm going to roll the dice on someone, I'm going to roll the dice on me."
9:36 - "I used to be so frustrated because I'd go to board meetings with these great ideas only to be told I was too creative."
12:30 - "I googled, 'speaker fees.'"
16:35 - "I had so many things going, and so many of them failed."
17:03 - "When you are a new entrepreneur, six months is a lifetime."
19:18 - Tell us about that moment when you realized you had a villain that was getting in your way.
23:39 - "She held a big check and said, 'If you sign this paper, you're gonna get this check,' and I pushed those papers back to her, I refused to sign it, I walked out, and I wrote a book about what had happened."
26:00 - "I'll never regret walking out. She was smirking and smiling, and I thought there was no way she was going to fire me.... but she made an emotional decision that day that cost her her business."
29:30 - There are very few moments in our lives when we hold all the cards, and even fewer when we actually realize that we do.
35:50 - "You did this, and it worked. You did that, and it worked. That gives me confidence."
37:02 - "If I put enough man-hours in and I have enough experiences to go to the points and that they worked AND I didn't die, then that will give me confidence moving forward."
40:35 - "We all have our own answers, we just have to start asking ourselves better questions, hold ourselves accountable, and take action."
42:08 - How do you separate who is a villain and who is a hero?
48:00 - "Ask this question, 'Is this person who is giving me advice right now- have they been where I want to go?'"

Links
https://heathermonahan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heathermonahan/
https://www.facebook.com/heathermonahanofficial
https://twitter.com/_heathermonahan/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/theheathermonahan/
Confidence Creator Book

S1E23 Chris Plough - Staring Suicide In the Face

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do you stare suicide in the face, and what does that have to do with the exquisite beauty in everything?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Chris Plough - Ambulance Driver, Adventure Seeker, Soul Shaman.

***Trigger Warning: Please note that this episode contains conversations about suicide, depression, and homicide***

Timestamps
1:30 - Trigger warning: Suicide, Depression, Homicide
5:00 - Everything was perfect, but it wasn't.
8:50 - "I think for a lot of people it's a necessary phase to realize that we're driven on this fuel of ambition."
11:09 - How do we realize it's the wrong fuel and when we do, how do we find the right fuel?
15:30 - "I found myself overwhelmed with this sense of melancholy and, in the past, I would have been like, 'Be happy. I don't want to feel this way.' And instead, I just allowed this experience to happen and I felt into it."
18:00 - 10,000 miles of self-love.
18:35 - "The way I rationalized it was, 'Look I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to be around so I'll go do something grand.'"
18:52 - "It ended up being the three of us, in this used ambulance that I purchased on Ebay...sight unseen [and, we drove from the UK to Mongolia.]."
24:45 - "I actually began to look forward to life again and that was the key difference."
28:20 - "You don't have to do it all at once."
34:50 - When we met, we fell into an immediate deep conversation, and that was unusual. Why were you able to have that conversation with me that night?
42:25 - Being an "Empathic Listener" & "Witness"
44:48 - "Asking for help is when I feel weakest and I feel most vulnerable."
46:20 - "And you're training yourself to make that call."
47:45 - "90+ percent of the time, all someone needs is someone who is willing to listen."
50:00 - "Caring is a superpower."
54:35 - Project Liberation
1:00:08 - "I don't want to be anybody's guru."
1:02:15 - Final Thoughts, and how to call and talk to Chris.

S1E22 Simon Tam - Defending the Marginalized

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to defend your marginalized identity in front of the Supreme Court, and how does everything change after?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Simon Tam - Bass Player, Radical Optimist, Troublemaker.

1:55 - Who picks up the bass?
7:03 - Why apply for trademark registration for your brand name?
8:45 - Why didn't you bail out early when it was clear that success was nigh impossible?
10:02 - "If I had an opportunity to make a difference, why would I walk away?"
10:32 - "The true costs of following your dreams and following your values isn't what you sacrifice in order to do that, it's what you lose when you don't."
18:11 - How do you talk with a White Supremacist?
24:42 - "I get a bill for printing for $11,000 from the federal government. And I just thought, 'Why am I doing this?'"
27:42 - "Much to the chagrin of my attorneys, when I encountered social justice groups that didn't agree with me, I said, 'You should file a case against me.'"
29:51 - "The first time I heard that we won was when I saw on Twitter that the Supreme Court ruled in our favor."
31:10 - "Millions of Americans right now are experiencing discrimination...it's incredibly degrading."
33:30 - The Slants Foundation
39:16 - "I always grew up thinking that I would do music, play bass forever, and rock stages across the world. But this provides me with a level of reward and fulfillment that no stage has ever provided."
43:00 - Using the first floor of a newly purchased home to create an art gallery and event space for marginalized voices.
52:30 - "The thing about privilege is that we're blind to it."
55:20 - "Supporting the arts isn't just charity, it's not just entertainment, it is justice."

Links
www.simontam.org
Instagram: @simonthetam
http://www.facebook.com/simonthetam
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonstam
http://www.theslants.com/foundation/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733629106

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E21 Jordan Harbinger - Creating One of the World's Largest Podcasts

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to build one of the most successful podcasts in the world, and how do you talk to just about anyone?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jordan Harbinger - Reformed Lawyer, Podcast Guru, Playbook Deconstructor.

Timestamp
3:00 - The route from corporate law to successful podcaster.
13:12 - Jordan's 6 Minute Networking Course
13:22 - I tested your Connect 4 Strategy and got to Malala.
17:40 - "You have to dig the well before you're thirsty."
24:30 - "We double booked you and another show... Do you want Kobe Byrant?"
30:07 - Who are your dream guests and who were you most intimated by?
33:40 - "A lot of people think you need famous people on the podcast to make the show a success, and it's just not true."
38:26 - "He goes, 'What if I give you $5,000 and I just sleep on your couch for two weeks?' And I was like, 'Ok.'"
48:20 - "Once you start doing the calculation of valuing the time away from people and not just valuing the time for yourself,..the calculation is totally different."
49:49 - "Kids spell love T-I-M-E."

Links:
Pizza Hut Gorbachev TV Spot Commercial: [https://youtu.be/fgm14D1jHUw](https://youtu.be/fgm14D1jHUw)
https://www.jordanharbinger.com/
https://courses.jordanharbinger.com/courses/6-minute-networking
https://www.instagram.com/jordanharbinger/
https://www.facebook.com/JordanHarbinger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharbinger

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E20 Jen Welter - Becoming the First Female Coach in the NFL

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to become the first female coach in the NFL, and how do you handle the pressure thrust upon you when you do?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Dr. Jen Welter - Catalyst, NFL Coach, Glass Kicker

1:40 - Were you athletic as a child?
3:14 - "My first love was football and I think it was because they looked like superheroes to me."
5:04 - "This guy tells me because of my height and my build, I'll never be strong enough to play pro tennis...It shifted my whole mindset."
5:52 - "I did start lifting weights at that point because I didn't want anybody to tell me I wasn't strong enough."
7:15 - "In team sports, I really found myself."
9:42 - "Then I found rugby. It's football meets soccer, and they tackle!"
12:05 - "At this level I can teach other people to do what you do, I can't double your size"
13:00 - "It's no wonder that I haven't been in corporate America since then. False advertising."
13:50 - "I don't care who you, every single one of us has that moment of doubt."
14:40 - "What if I got so close to this love of my life and it doesn't love me back?"
18:55 - "You're going to have to cut me or kill me."
19:00 - "I didn't want to be the narrative of, 'We had a girl once..."
20:25 - "Not expecting things to be perfect can allow you to let yourself off the hook to be a little bit more adventurous."
22:38 - How do you navigate being the first one of one when there's no other like you?
33:00 - "As a coach, the second you have to worry is when I get quiet. Why? Because I've given up on you."
35:20 - "Speak when you have value, and if you don't, be okay with silence."
45:06 - "It wasn't about me."
49:47 - "Professionalism is a mindset, it is not what they pay you."
1:00:00 - Critter Fitter Children's Book Series

Links
https://www.jenwelter.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DrJenWelter
https://twitter.com/jwelter47
https://www.instagram.com/welter47/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/welter47/
Speaking: https://www.jenwelter.com/keynote](https://www.jenwelter.com/keynote
Critter Fitter Book Series: https://www.jenwelter.com/critter-fitter

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E19 Dorie Clark - Getting Others to Pay For Your Do-Over

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

Where do you start when you want to restart, and how do you get people to pay you for it?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Dorie Clark - Reinventer, Diversifier, Logophile.

1:35 - When did you know that you were smarter than the average bear?
8:48 - It takes a lot of strength to reinvent yourself.
9:00 - "Usually the naysayers are actually, ironically, the people who are closest to us."
12:10 - How did Tony Robbins' book change your life?
13:36 - I'm putting together a list of the people who detract from our lives. I'm calling it "The Dirty Dozen."
18:44 - What was the job that you couldn't wait to get?
19:33 - "I wanted to build a time machine."
30:24 - How does the leap happen from politics into the business world?
33:24 - "For two years, I became the executive director of a bicycling advocacy organization."
35:03 - I learned how to be a businesswoman by making every single possible mistake you can ever learn.
41:36 - The importance of multiple revenue streams.
42:58 - "It's really about taking a core IP and leveraging it in smarter, different ways."
46:24 - "The harder part is actually becoming a recognized expert."
48:05 - "We have to prove to the world why they should listen to us."
51:18 - "It is a very meaningful thing for me to help smart, awesome people get their ideas heard."
53:39 - "The problem is that you need to have all three pillars. You need to be working on the thing that you're not strong in."

Links
Instagram: @dorieclark
https://www.facebook.com/dorieclark
https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec/
https://twitter.com/dorieclark
https://www.dorieclark.com/entrepreneur
https://dorieclark.com/toolkit
Dorie's 88 question Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook
Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-You-New-Preface-Imagine/dp/1633693880/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=dorie+clark&qid=1600194157&sr=8-1

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E18 Jackie Huba - Learning Drag Queen Confidence

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do you start a social movement, and what can drag queens teach you about confidence?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Jackie Huba - Civic Activist, Confidence Creator, Drag Aficionado

1:55 - How does a person go from being a kid to doing a TEDx in drag?
3:36 - "I understood what it meant to be a super-fan from the smallest, smallest age."
5:18 - "We were big Devo fanatics!"
8:16 - "You are playing a character in this world all the time, and you don't even think about it."
9:55 - "I found RuPaul's Drag Race."
13:20 - Power Priming your brain.
15:40 - "Some of it is delusion!"
25:42 - "I have a new talk, but I'm going to come out in my drag persona."
25:38 - "I had no idea how this corporate audience was going to react to this."
32:00 - Creating Drag Out the Vote
33:25 - "When I realized, after the election, that a hundred million people didn't vote and could have made a difference in so many different ways, I was possessed."
35:13 - "What would Lady GaGa do?"
42:43 - Jacki Huba appeared on The Daily Show
45:12 - "Fundraising was going so well until March."
45:55 - Shared Sacrifice
49:32 - Tell me who your favorite Drag Queens are?

Links
Instagram: jackiehuba
https://www.facebook.com/JackieHubaAuthor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiehuba
instagram.com/dragoutthvote
twitter.com/dragoutthevote
www.dragoutthevote2020.org
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/vote2020/account/1001678/
RuPaul's Drag Race: http://www.vh1.com/shows/rupauls-drag-race
Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen: https://www.amazon.com/Fiercely-You-Fabulous-Confident-Thinking-ebook/dp/B01C6JJSJQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jackie+huba&qid=1600194453&sr=8-1
Lady Trinity's Fundraiser: https://secure.qgiv.com/event/vote2020/account/1001678/
Drag Out the Vote on the Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lTpRVl6XIE
Lady Trinity's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-mnlxBRZwIA6JofthF3L-A

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E17 Josh Mantz - What It's Like to Die

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What's it like to die? Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Josh Mantz - Veteran, Consciousness Seeker, Ghost.

Timestamps:
2:41 - Let's start with the moment that you were shot and walk us through minute by minute until you died.
11:00 - "We've got to understand that the rational mind, our ability to think, completely goes offline during these responses."
12:39 - "What I experienced was a prolonged 15 second autonomic response."
15:42 - "It's not just survival. It's 'What is most important to move through the situation?'"
17:50 - Let's discuss moral trauma, and the effect it has on all involved.
26:52 - "My soldiers, yelling for me was almost like this hand reaching down and grabbing me, before I slipped away."
30:33 - "It was such a privilege to me, to be conscious for this...to be able to watch them work. "
37:30 - "All the good, all the bad, all positive, all negative, everything dissipates. Everything goes away. when you die"
39:28 - "There is no sense, whatsoever, of finality in death. We fade into death, just like we fade into life."
50:00 - "I was forced to reckon with the question, 'Was I too much of a humanist in that environment?'"
58:45 - "Trump is not pro-cop. He uses his people as pawns."
1:02:45 - "My interpreter was executed...just for working with us."
1:10:12 - "This environment that our military folks have been in is very similar to the risks our law enforcement professionals take every day."

Links:
https://phaedrusfactory.com/
https://vimeo.com/450852731
https://www.linkedin.com/in/phaedrusfactory
https://smile.amazon.com/Beauty-Darker-Soul-Overcoming-Connection/dp/1619616742/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=josh+mantz&qid=1598539962&sr=8-1
https://americandreamu.org/

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E16 Scott Stratten - How to Handle Losing Everything

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to achieve everything you’ve ever wanted, only to lose it all, and what do you figure out in the climb back?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Scott Stratten - Disruptor, Jackass Whisperer, Defender of Man Buns

Timestamps:
2:30 - "I asked my mom, 'Wait, is that a job? You can just yell at people and go home?!?'"
4:15 - "Potential means: You suck now, but one day you may suck less."
6:50 - You think it's hard to sell your product? Scott sold air.
17:50 - "I had always said, 'Unsolicited feedback is worth what you pay for it.'"
19:43 - "The problem with polarizing so hard is that, in your mind, it's black and white, and nothing is. When we start dealing with absolutes, that's when we have a problem."
21:20 - Any time your political stance hurts other people, it becomes a moral stance.
22:28 - "I want more grey in my life so I can give more stances to the black and white."
25:40 - "I am a pro at doing nothing."
32:05 - "I'm going to enjoy the schnitzel."
34:28 - "One thing I never got upset at or anxious about was regret that I'm not on stage. And that was fascinating to me."
37:05 - "I haven't been home for a month straight, ever, since being an adult."
37:48 - Getting time back before the children leave the nest.
57:06 - "I was always about, 'outsourcing your weakness and accenting your strengths.' But that's a statement of privilege."

Links:
http://www.unmarketing.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UnMarketing/
https://twitter.com/unmarketing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/unmarketing/?originalSubdomain=ca

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E15 Marcus Whitney - From Paycheck to Major League Success

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How does one man go from living in a week-to-week efficiency hotel to co-owning a Major League Soccer team, and how do you find the inner entrepreneur who asks 'Why Not Me'?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Marcus Whitney - Survivor, Adapter, Creator.

Timestamps:
2:25 - Waiting tables, living in a week-to-week hotel, drinking too much. And then everything changed.
6:12 - "Some people just make the mental call that failure is not an option."
9:30 - "Sometimes just working, staying busy, staying productive, and staying creative is a great hack to stay positive."
12:05 - Big life events that changed Marcus.
19:04 - "I was so focused on making money, but I had no idea how to manage my own finances."
22:00 - "It was this moment that I realized I had used alcohol as a tool to deal with a very very difficult time."
31:13 - "I did the best I could. It doesn't mean I was successful. I fell short, but I learned. I am who I am today because I fell short."
42:34 - The elements of orchestrate and create starts from leadership. "Leadership is the most essential, but marketing is the most comprehensive."
43:40 - Learning how to pay myself.
46:40 - This is the, "Don't fuck it up"chapter.
50:45 - "The pendulum swung big time into the 'servant leadership.' I actually think it robs people who are not in the executive level of leadership of being leaders."
54:28 - "If you can understand that it's not a perfect system, then you can understand that it's pretty difficult to be perfect in an imperfect system."

Links
Instagram: @marcuswhitney
Facebook: https://facebook.com/marcuswhitney
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcuswhitney/
https://marcuswhitney.com/press-kit/
https://smile.amazon.com/Create-Orchestrate-Claiming-Creative-Entrepreneur/dp/1544509774/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=marcus+whitney&qid=1598539691&sr=8-1

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E14 Alan Mulally - Learning from a Humble Titan

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0400

What can we learn from one of the most humble CEOs to ever grace the corner office, and what does it take to transform both Boeing and Ford?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Alan Mulally - Family Man, Team Player, American Icon

2:20 - Working Together: "Everything I really believe in and understand is shown on this chart."
9:28 - The story behind the airplane doodle.
17:30 - "I started out my little business. My TV guide route, my lawn mowing, working at the grocery store, as a bagger and a checker."
21:20 - Business Plan Review Meetings, where working together came alive.
22:27 - "When I arrived at Ford, all I had was my piece of paper."
24:55 - "No one wanted to be the first person to show a red, because people disappear."
27:43 - "What happens in this working together when you don't commit to the culture?"
31:33 - "We need not only the smartest people in the world, but we also need their hearts."
33:53 - Where does the patience come from when you're getting pressure from every stakeholder and stockholder to trust the process?
38:29 - "We knew if we worked on a plan together that would deliver profitable growth for all (PGA). If we did that and worked on efficiency, working together was going to work."
41:32 - "It starts with who you are."
43:32 - "Consonance is a phenomenal concept...Whether it's connection or whether it's purpose...bringing those two in alignment is going to allow you to do the things we're talking about — to be your best best self."
44:42 - How can we allow leaders to operate with freedom and creativity while accomplishing their goals?
47:42 - You never went in, looking to clean house. You just knew that you'd present your way of operating and that the people who didn't want to operate within this environment would self-select out.
51:02 - "It's not about you now, it's about you facilitating all the people together around that business strategy plan."
51:26 - "There's always a reason to be humble because there is so much to learn."
58:19 - "How fortunate, that over the hundreds of thousands of employees, the first one taught me about humility, love, and service, and never to be arrogant?"
1:04:20 - Has there ever been a challenge from which you backed down?
1:07:40 - "To serve is to live."
1:12:02 - What's next for you?

https://www.amazon.com/Limitless-Ignore-Everybody-Carve-your/dp/1940858763

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E13 Laura Huang - Turning Adversity Into an Advantage

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What can a Harvard Business School professor teach you about turning adversity into an advantage, and how do you best position yourself to find your edge?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Laura Huang - Stereotype Crusher, Obstacle Crusher, Edge Finder

Timestamps:
2:30 - Sometimes adversity can be used to your advantage.
2:43 - How did Laura come up with her concepts of adversity advantage?
4:16 - "With society right now, there is such a premium on people who are uplifting and trying to do big things."
6:04 - An individual hire can't be diverse.
11:10 - How do we understand what our role is?
11:53 - "There are two different types of [interview] questions."
17:12 - "Both male and female investors are equally likely to be asking to be asking women entrepreneurs prevention-focused questions."
19:06 - "We've also lost, to some extent, the meaning of diversity."
23:05 - How does anyone handle using this adversity and turning it into an advantage in a society that is expecting this undue perfection out of them?
31:10 - Laura Gassner Otting's Edge Quiz results!
43:10 - "The number one sensation that we feel when we fail is an embarrassment. And when we're embarrassed, we're the most likely to be like, 'Never again will I put myself in that situation.'"
46:15 - "Is this making me bitter or is this making me better?"
57:30 - What's it like teaching Millennials?

Links
Instagram: @LaurahuangLA
www.facebook.com/laurahuangla
www.laurahuang.net

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E12 Orlando Bowen - Finding Forgiveness When Everything is Taken From You

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400

How do you find forgiveness after you've had everything taken from you, and how can we apply this to our lives and work today? Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Orlando Bowen - Game Changer, Former CFL Linebacker, Forgiveness Prophet

Timestamps:
2:12 - When I was on the ground, all I could think was, 'I can't believe my life is going to end like this.
8:22 - The nurse at the hospital guessed that Orlando was hurt by the police.
9:43 -This is bigger than us. We have to get through it."
12:30 - There has to be something bigger than what I am experiencing in the moment, because of the level of irony.
13:04 - I felt a deep sense of sorrow for the officers. We're not wired to tear each other and destroy each other like that.
18:29 - Forgiveness is not saying 'what they did was okay.' Forgiveness is not condoning the behavior. For me, [it's saying] that I'm releasing myself from the emotion from that moment and of that transgression."
22:34 - You don't want to wallow in the past, but the past is part of what makes you who you are.
25:05 - He put his hand on his pistol, and he turned to his partner, then he looked at me, then he said, 'I'm going to shoot him in the head, I swear to God.
38:07 - How does One Voice One Team work?
42:44 - Get off the sidelines and be a gamechanger for others.
45:00 - What does greatness look like to you?
50:33 - Michael Jordan's Last Dance: They started winning when [Michael] worked to bring out the greatness in everyone around him.
51:10 -For each one of his teammates, he did different things."
56:54 - Sometimes we gift people things that we would appreciate versus having conversations about what they are driven by.

Links:
Instagram: @orlando.bowen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orlando.bowen/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlandobo...

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

S1E11 Brant Menswar - Why we reject black sheep, and who the flock cares, anyway?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0400

Why do we reject the black sheep, and who the flock cares, anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Brant Menswar - Black Sheep, Rock Star, Minister of Razzle Dazzle

Timestamps:
1:50 - Where did you grow up? And where did you come from?
5:40 - What happens when you lose that identity?
7:45 - "Being on stage was the closest I could get to being on the mound."
8:34 - How did you find religion in that moment?
12:56 - Theo's story
23:03 - Living after you've said goodbye
23:25 - Tell us about the black sheep
33:53 - How do you find your core values?
42:30 - "People are afraid of who they might be."
45:00 - Your core values don't change?
50:00 - "The biggest part of my work, is teaching people that they are enough."
57:30 - "When we think about 'feeding the sheep', we think about output, but you also need to think about input."

Links:
Instagram: @brantmenswar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrantMenswar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brantmenswar
www.brantmenswar.com
www.findyourblacksheep.com

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E10 Samra Zafar - Escaping Life as a Child Bride

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:00:00 -0400

How do you escape a life as a child bride, and what does the process of rebuilding entail?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Samra Zafar - Humanist, Traveler, Child Bride

Timestamps:
3:10 - Tell me about the day you decided to leave.
4:54 - "Everyone turned to look at me and I was scared."
6:56 - "As a child, I was told to dream but don't dream too big."
11:07 - "It was as if I was living in two different worlds."
12:57 - "I gained leverage, and learned how to manipulate the system to my advantage."
16:22 - "There many times that I was assaulted, humiliated, and abused and I didn't even know what to call it. I thought it was normal."
18:30 - The sign that made all the difference.
20:14 - "The diagram of the Power [and Control] Wheel changed my life."
25:26 - "The worst thing I faced was the backlash from my family, community, and culture."
27:30 - How do you get loud when The Culture of Honor says to stay quiet?
29:59 - "No one believed me when I said I was leaving because I was abused."
30:47 - "If that community at the university hadn't been there, I would have gone back."
32:29 - "Hundreds of women have written to me over the years saying, 'I can't leave because my family would never talk to me again...I'll lose everybody.'"
33:00 - "Honor killings are just the tip of the iceberg."
34:34 - Domestic violence is on the rise due to COVID-19. "The isolation is the abuser's best friend."
36:00 - Why did you decide to go public with your personal story?
37:47 - "My story is not just my story. This is the story of millions and millions of girls around the world who continue to suffer in silence because no one wants to talk about it."
41:04 - "A man wrote and said that he decided that he is going to cancel his teenage daughter's wedding and send her to school after I read your story."
42:27 - The letters from the haters are less difficult to bear than the letters from supporters and the girls and women who you inspire.
44:25 - How do you thrive in this space of Wonderhell, where what you are doing is so necessary that you have to be the one that continues to bring the energy and put yourself out there?
50:19 - "The work takes a toll."
51:18 - "It's okay to take care of yourself."
54:00 - Where does the internal strength come from?
58:13 - "We are all here in this world for a purpose."

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/samrazafar001
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrazafar
https://twitter.com/iamsamrazafar
http://www.samrazafar.com
http://www.ncdsv.org/images/PowerControlwheelNOSHADING.pdf

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E9 Mitch Joel - What Does the Future Have in Store?

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400

If that kid from 'Almost Famous' was real, and grew up to see the future, what would he tell us is coming?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Mitch Joel - Bass Geek, Information Synthesizer, Decoder of the Future

Timestamps:

2:33 - Who's your favorite bass player of all time?
5:40 - "The best candidate doesn't always win."
7:15 - "Sometimes the people who make the most impact are not the ones you know."
10:23 - Are some people just luckier?
16:50 - "When you ask and what you are monetizing is a factor when you are in the business of selling what you think."
18:32 - "Know thy customer."
21:00 - "I've had times where I've done way less and got a much greater outcome."
22:48 - What is "the Mitch Club" and how did I get into it?
28:45 - The challenge of content creators is to figure out which are our best channels.
30:00 - How to be vulnerable but not to be exposed.
30:44 - "I'm not personal at all online. I'm personable."
34:54 - "If COVID has taught us anything, it's that we have no control over anything except for how we feel about things."
40:08 - "My entire life is a workshop."
41:40 - In the '80s is where music really opened up with more genres. How much do you attribute that to video?
45:30 - It's an incredible time to be a creator.
48:07 - "We live in a world where people are trying to build their domain of authority."

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/mitchjoel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchjoel
http://www.twitter.com/mitchjoel

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E8 Dr. Aviva Legatt - Dealing with College Admissions in 2020

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:00:00 -0400

What on earth is a high school senior to do in this weird wacky college admissions year, and how are we parents going to survive it, too?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Aviva Legatt - Elite Admissions Expert, Theatre Kid, Rebel Heart

Time Stamps:
3:22 - "For rising seniors, my heart goes out to you"
4:10 - The biggest difference for COVID applicants is standardized test scores.
4:33 - Does "test-optional" mean that those who have test scores will still receive preference?
8:04 - How does an admissions officer know the difference between traditional and non-traditional students and schools?
10:00 - How do students tell their story when they're relying so heavily on GPAs during this time?
10:21 - What can students use to set themselves apart when all of the internships, extracurricular activities, and sports are canceled?
14:30 - The two things every student should include in their essay.
14:57 - How do high school students build a robust, well-rounded experience when they can't even show up for school?
17:55 - Should students do lots of different things lightly, or go deep on one thing and show impact?
20:18 - The activity list and resume list are the best places to demonstrate impact.
20:28 - Use the S.T.A.R. framework.
23:28 - During this time where admissions rely less on test scores, will students who are quirky and interesting standing out more?
24:15 - How to use the COVID-19 hardship section on admission applications.
26:36 - Writing about COVID loss.
27:42 - What does "ACT / SAT optional" really mean?
33:37 - Athletes should note that scholarships for NCAA still require test scores.
34:24 - How does the scholarship process work this year?
36:22 - Universities rely heavily on full-freight international students. What are you expecting there?
39:02 - Have you seen any schools that stand out in terms of robust distance-learning or infrastructure that predates COVID?
41:30 - "What is the true value of college?"
43:34 - I feel for the college freshmen who are not going to have the first-year experience.
44:55 - What about the gap year?
46:26 - You don't have to go to college this year to have a successful life, but if you want to go to college then you should.
46:56 - Is there a strategy to leverage acceptance to one school to get into a school that initially rejected them?
48:40 - A useful tool: the Emerging Leader Program.
50:46 - Speed-round questions: Would you send your student to college this fall? How do we say goodbye if we do send our kids to college? Is college right for every kid and who should make alternative plans?

Links

Instagram: @avivalegatt
Facebook: http://facebook.com/avivalegatt
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/avivalegatt
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/avivalegatt

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.

S1E7 Rohit Bhargava - The Secret to Publishing Successful Books

Tue, 04 Aug 2020 10:00:00 -0400

What does it take to spot trends and predict the future, and what do you do when you think you have a book inside of you dying to get out?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Rohit Bhargava - Trendspotter, Olympics Fanatic, Non-Obvious Thinker

2:05 - You’re a nice guy, and here's how I know.
3:43 - How did you get into publishing?
8:30 - A little shared love for the physicality of a book.
10:00 - How do you predict the future?
11:15 - Where does creativity come from?
12:05 - Pro-tip: The secret lies in Modern Farmer Magazine.
15:43 - How to speed consume media and spot trends like a pro.
18:38 - The “triumph story” of Olympics is an American way to watch the Olympics
23:32 - What is it about the Olympics that got you into it?
29:05 - What else should be on our 2020 Bingo Card?
31:53 - How has COVID changed us, and what's next?
36:49 - In praise of empathy.
37:27 - How do we take advantage of our current situation to make our work even better?
39:39 - What are you doing these days that you are really enjoying?
40:42 - The Non-Obvious Show, Rohit's new weekly rundown of the top trends.
42:18 - Why are you doing this new weekly show?
44:45 - Why should we be building email lists?
46:39 - How do you approach failure?
49:29 - “I don’t think anyone always has confidence.”
52:18 - Making social media social.

Links:
Instagram: @rohitbb
https://www.facebook.com/rohitmarketingauthor
https://www.facebook.com/rohitmarketingauthor
www.nonobvious.com/bookmarketing
www.youtube.com/rohitbhargava

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

S1E6 E. Napoletano - When Following Your Dreams Makes You Unpopular

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

What do you do when following your dreams makes you unpopular, and what's that got to do with fake boobs, fake lashes, and fake friends, anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, E. Napoletano - Hope Burrito, Peacock, Billy Porter

4:50 - E is a hope burrito but Billy Porter is a transcendent god. We stan.
8:45 - Creators are making their own doors.
12:04 - Fill your life with "Front Stabbers."
13:54 - Why is it important to be unpopular?
15:22 - Who is E?
21:29 - The liberation and the weight of identifying as non-binary.
37:30 - How does television get written? (Hint: wake up everyday and make shit up.)
46:10 - Speaking is like standup comedy.
58:22 - The secret to writing characters is this.

Links
Instagram: @ENapoAF
Website: enapoletano.com

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

S1E5 Tameka Fryer Brown - When Does Representation Matter?

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

How to become a children's book author, and why does representation matter?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Tameka Fryer Brown - Observer, Striver, Recovering Perfectionist

3:05 - Welcome fellow North Miami Senior High Pioneer! Class of 1988!
7:06 - "Reading a book with my daughter changed my life."
9:01 - We are all made up of patterns from our past.
13:12 - Will kids today go through the same mid-life shift as us?
15:30 - A rejection letter opened the door to success.
17:16 - Did you learn the craft of writing or marketing first?
23:06 - The best literary agents are the ones that guide your career.
25:32 - How do you know when you've found your voice?
33:15 - A book can have a universal story and be a source of representation at the same time.
34:04 - "Publishing is 80% white" and there are not enough books, even about black stories, written by "own voices."
37:38 - If someone is trying to diversify the inputs, are there are certain authors, curators, and lists that we can go to?
40:13 - What to read to learn more about racism right now?
43:42 - What was your experience in high school?
46:32 - High school to me, was still mostly white
50:07 - How do you stay 'pure' when writing? How do you write what you want to write, while also writing a book that will sell?
59:06 - "Sometimes the nostalgic feeling hits me."

Social Links

Instagram: @tamekafryerbrown
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tamekafryerbrown.author
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Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

S1E4 Michael Bungay Stanier - The Secret to Giving the World's Best Advice

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0400

What is the secret to giving the world's greatest advice, and how do stay curious long enough to do it?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Michael Bungay Stanier - Provocateur, Man of Letters, Feminist

2:45 - Who is MBS?
3:13 - The LGO/MBS Origin Story: a rejection.
4:28 - Not everyone can get sued by a law professor for defamation, but MBS managed it.
5:30 - "The Balloon Incident"
9:22 - Self-Publishing, and selling nearly a million copies.
11:00 - How to "Do More Great Work"
15:12 - "I have a sense of in-built confidence and self-worth that is just magic beans."
18:18 - There's a fine line between arrogance and confidence.
14:47 - How do you leave a company you founded, grew, and ran: Leaving Box of Crayons.
28:51 - When did you know it was time to go?
32:44 - Knowing the difference between good advisors and bad advisors.
36:01 - LinkedIn Live Festival
40:40 - How do you give the world's greatest advice?
45:29 - Do you feel like most of the time people who want advice just want praise?
48:56 - How do you get your coaching clients to see the forest has trees?
52:52 - The secret to staying curious longer.
56:28 - There is a place for giving advice, it's just a little later than you think.
56:50 - Shutting up your Advice Monster.

Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbungaystanier/
https://www.facebook.com/boxofcrayons.biz/
boxofcrayons.com
michaelbungaystanier.com
thecoachinghabit.com

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

S1E3 Jackie Summers - Experiencing Racism in the Alcohol Industry

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0400

What's it like to be the first (and only) black person in America with a license to make liquor, and how the hell do you become that person, anyway?

Join Laura Gassner Otting on this episode of LGOtv: Big Talk with special guest Jackie Summers - maker of Sorel.

Jackie Summers is a New York-based food writer, a speaker, a distiller, and the author of a soon-to-be-published illustrated book about social justice. He's been sharing this story about his experiences with racism in the drinks industry for a decade, though since the nationwide protests for Black Lives Matter, it seems like people might actually be listening. "It feels like I have been saying, 'UFOs are real,' and people just saw their first UFO," he told me when we talked a couple weeks ago. So, he's sharing it once again.

Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

2:46 - You're a mama's boy!
4:24 - Why do you call me Notorious?
5:53 - Tell us about being an Autodidact, Polymath, Liquortarian.
6:18 - You are also a griot. What is a griot?
7:44 - Jackie Summers isn't your given name. Where did it come from?
10:12 - "School is designed to create workers, not thinkers."
13:35 - How did you get into graffiti?
16:24 - And how does that lead to a career in the bar industry?
20:19 - At what point do you break in your corporate career?
23:44 - "Me being me, and doing my job well, was problematic for everybody else."
29:45 - "And then I had a brain tumor removed."
35:56 - Sorel is a family recipe. What's in it?
40:23 - "I was the only black person in America, at that time, to get a license to make liquor."
44:41 - "Women don't get enough credit for having started the Cocktail Revolution."
47:45 - The timeline of Sorel Liqueur.
56:59 - The Phoenix Myth
1:00:53- What's Jackie doing now?
1:02:51 - A special sneak peek at The Garden of Infinite Fucks
1:04:35 - A little poetry, and I dare you not to be taken by its power.

Social Links
Instagram: TheLiquortarian
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JackFromBkln
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-summers-80b80/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackfrombkln

Website: http://lauragassnerotting.com/
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Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.

S1E2 Jesse Mermell - Why Would Anyone Ever Run for Office?

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:00:00 -0400

Why would someone ever want to run for office, and how on earth do you run a political campaign during a global pandemic and a social justice re-awakening?

Join Laura Gassner Otting on this episode of LGOtv: Big Talk as she interviews Jess Mermell - Congressional Candidate, Judy Garland Enthusiast, and Dog Mom.

2:04 - Who is Jesse?
2:58 - Why on earth would anybody put themselves out there to run for office right now?
4:03 - You have to be an optimist to be engaged in your community.
6:24 - Jesse is a huge Judy Garland fan.
9:42 - You are a manager, and that's a compliment.
15:30 - The hardest working candidate?
16:02 - How has COVID-19 affected your campaign?
18:29 - That sad state of Equal Pay in the United States.
22:48 - If you were a man, how would things be different?
39:03 - We need to look at every policy issue through the lens of racial justice.
41:01 - Taking on Trump.
43:00 - Campaigning during COVID-19.

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https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jm-...

Social Links

Instagram: @jmermell
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jesse4MA
LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-mer...
Twitter: @jessemermell

S1E1 Rahaf Harfoush - What Does a Writer Do When She Has No Words?

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:00:00 -0400

When do we hustle, when do we float, and what on earth do K-Pop Stans and Witches have to do with global social movements?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts the very first episode of Big Talk and interviewing Rahaf Harfoush - strategist, navigator, and digital anthropologist.

2:49 Big Talk and Why We Write
8:00 What to Do When There Are No Words
32:22 What's the Weirdest Thing You've Found on the Internet
39:22 K-Pop and Trump
51:23 Amy Cooper and What Does Canceling Mean?

About the Guest: Rahaf Harfoush is a Strategist, Digital Anthropologist, and Best-Selling Author who focuses on the intersections between emerging technology, innovation, and digital culture. She is the Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture and teaches “Innovation & Emerging Business Models” at Sciences Politique’s school of Management and Innovation in Paris. She is currently working on her fourth book.

Her third book, entitled “Hustle & Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work,” was released in 2019. She has been featured by Bloomberg, The CBC, CTV, and Forbes for her work on workplace culture. .

Rahaf is the co-author of “The Decoded Company: Know Your Talent Better Than You Know your Customers” It was published in early 2014 and was listed on both the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. It won a 2015 Gold Axiom Award for Best Business Technology Book. The Decoded Company explores how big data is providing an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to dramatically improve their decision making, increase their performance and, most importantly, intentionally create happy and vibrant work cultures.

In 2019, the prestigious “Les Napoleons” named Rahaf as one of the most innovative women in France. She was listed as one of the top future thinkers to shape the world by the Hay Literary Festival in 2017. Rahaf was named as a Young Global Changer by the G20 Global Think Tank Summit. Rahaf has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Shaper, and by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society as a Rising Talent for her thought leadership in the fields of digital culture and technology. In 2014, Rahaf was also named as a “Canadian Arab to Watch,” by the Canadian Arab Institute. She is a member of the German Marshall Network of Transatlantic Leaders.

About the Host: Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.

Laura’s entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps.

She is the author of Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose (2015) and the Washington Post Best Seller Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019). She lives with her husband, two teenage sons, and troublesome puppy outside of Boston, MA.