857: How to Stop Feeling Doubtful and Start Feeling Successful with Laura Gassner Otting

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Laura Gassner Otting reveals the surprising reason why success can sometimes feel like a burden—and what to do about it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why success often makes us feel conflicted.

2) How to turn impostor syndrome on its head.

3) How to find your confidence when doubt settles in.

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— ABOUT LAURA —

Author, Catalyst, and Executive Coach Laura Gassner Otting inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo by helping audiences think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current, limited scope of belief.

She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, corporate, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura is the author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019), as well as Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose (2015). Her most recent book is Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It (2023).

• Book: Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It (website)

• Book: Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life

• Website: heyLGO.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark

• Book: Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

• Past episode: 426: How to Feel Limitless in Your Career with Laura Gassner Otting

• Past episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 857 with Laura Gasner-Oding.
0:23.0	LGO, if you will, we brought her back because she has got a wealth of insight.
0:28.0	Once again, this time talking about why success sometimes doesn't feel as awesome as you thought it would or should.
0:37.0	And what the heck do you do about that?
0:39.0	This interview was very special to me because we took some unexpected turns and we entered some powerful emotional territory.
0:48.0	This might be the second or third time a podcast guest has had me quite tearful in a powerful way, which I hope is powerful and useful for you as well.
0:58.0	So you'll learn one, why success often makes us feel conflicted to how to turn imposter syndrome on its head and three, how to find your confidence when doubt settles in.
1:09.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, please visit us over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 857.
1:16.0	Check out some of our goodies full text searchable transcripts.
1:20.0	The golden nugget summary right up to your email on kinds of goodies at awesome at your job.com.
1:25.0	Here's a bit about Laura.
1:27.0	Laura is an author, catalyst and executive coach who inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keeps great ideas in the limbo by helping audiences think bigger and accept greater challenges.
1:38.0	That reach beyond their current limited scope of belief.
1:41.0	Laura delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the startup corporate nonprofit political as well as philanthropic landscapes.
1:51.0	Laura is the author of limitless, how to ignore everybody, carve your own path and live your best life, as well as mission driven, moving from profit to purpose.
1:59.0	Her most recent book is called Wonder Hell, why success doesn't feel like it should and what to do about it.
2:05.0	Big thanks to Laura for sharing our wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.
2:08.0	Check them out.
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