Today’s guest helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck.” She helps them push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo.

She is a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold a successful international executive search firm, built philanthropic and political action committees from scratch, and was a White House appointee on the team which created the national service project, AmeriCorps.

She is the author of multiple books including her latest, “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.” Not a surprising topic for someone who describes herself as the lightweight champion of the get-the-hell-out-of-your-own-way world, a competitive rower, and professional badass.

Please join me in welcoming Laura Gassner Otting.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is looking at other people, seeing their greatness, and reflecting that back on them in a way they can see it, believe it, and do something with it.”
• how her time in politics taught her the difference between the person on stage and the people who are leaders.
• her belief that success doesn’t create happiness and that success and leadership look different to each person.
• the four elements that remove limits and empower people to live their best lives.
• her knowledge of networking and how she learned to respect other people’s agendas.
• how she maintains relationships with people by being conscious of where she’s traveling and connecting friends from different walks in life.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 138