Define Your Own Path with Laura Gassner Otting & Joe De Sena

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Who has created your idea of success? Are you on the path you want should be on? Laura Gassner Otting, author of “Limitless” talks with Joe De Sena about carving your own way and revisiting what it is that ignites your passion. Don't be afraid of change, get comfortable being uncomfortable. Push yourself beyond what you thought was feasible, making the peaks & possibilities of life ahead of you Limitless!

Joe is joined by Marko Cheseto, a Kenyan runner who lost both legs while on a running scholarship in Alaska who now holds the world marathon speed record for a double amputee.

LESSONS

Stay in your center of competence & excellence

Failure is not a finale it’s a fulcrum

Lean out over your comfort zone

You ultimately make you own decisions Confidence to do big things comes from competence

Never settle for mediocrity

Define success for yourself

Consonance: calling, connection, contribution & control Remember that you GET to do this!

FIND OUT MORE:

Laura & her Book “Limitless:” https://lauragassnerotting.com/limitless/

SpartanX Leadership https://www.spartanxleadership.com/

TIME STAMPS

0:00 Joe & guest host Marko Cheseto introduce this episode and SpartanX

1:30 Interview begins at Fenway & Laura’s origins in Miami

3:00 Experiences in Law School leading to the White House

3:45 Working in the Clinton Administration

4:30 Becoming a headhunter & starting her own advisory group

5:55 Growing a business, becoming a professional speaker & author

7:00 Listening for eight motivating factors

8:00 Does success equal happiness?

9:30 Making decisions with the frontal lobe

11:00 Staying in a center of competence & excellence

12:45 Leaning out over your comfort zone

14:00 Pushing yourself to a place you haven’t been before

15:15 Competence & confidence 17:45 Never settle for mediocrity

19:00 Consonance: what is calling you?

21:45 What trajectory do you want?

23:15 Weekly family meeting

25:00 Reaching new heights

26:00 The blur of past & present

28:00 Challenging others to see the best in themselves

31:00 Marko & Joe discuss what they learned from this Limitless interview

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena & Guest host Marko Cheseto Dr. Johnny Waite, Col. Nye & Sefra Alexandra are off climbing a mountain Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty © 2019 Spartan

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We are your grit and resiliency partner.
0:04.0	We come at you every week, sometimes every day, to give you a little kick in the ass, get you out of bed,
0:08.0	get you off the couch, and get you moving.
0:10.0	I'm with my buddy Marco Chiseto, Johnny, Colonel Nye, and
0:13.6	Sephera climbing a mountain, so we're going to cover this woman.
0:16.8	She is unbelievable. She wrote this book Limitless
0:19.4	after interviewing tens of thousands of people. So she learned what works, what
0:24.5	doesn't. Were you impressed? Yes and this was not just recruiting just a
0:29.2	low-level individual. This was the top-notch guys and she said she figured out something that these guys were not even
0:39.2	happy at where they were.
0:41.7	Don't give away too much.
0:42.7	So we got a little sneak peek.
0:44.4	We have a program called Spartan X.
0:46.4	It's a leadership series.
0:47.7	It happens all over the world.
0:48.8	We bring teams together from companies.
0:50.8	We bring individuals in.
0:52.3	And then people like Marco, people like Laura, come up on
0:55.1	stage and teach you how to be limitless, right? Teach you how to be a limitless team, a
0:59.7	limitless individual, help your family.
1:02.1	Yes, and just living that life without limiting
1:06.0	itself just leave it to the fullest live it to the fullest and that's what we're
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