Making Your Own Luck with Laura Gassner Otting
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Do you feel like success is just a matter of luck? Think again. Being lucky is a choice… and it's completely within your realm of control. I've got Laura Gassner Otting, author of Wonderhell, on the podcast and we're talking about the science of making your own luck. We dive into choosing your identity, borrowing confidence, breaking through your limiting beliefs and making choices about what you want to prioritize. No more fake it 'till you make it... believe it until you become it. After the show today, you'll walk away with actionable strategies to make your own luck with no 4 leaf clover required.
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| 0:00.0 | We have to stop, see how far we've come in order to see how far we can go. |
| 0:05.0 | It's like when you're hiking up a hill and you get to the halfway point and you think you're gonna die. You're catching your breath. You turn and you see, oh my gosh, I've come pretty far. All of a sudden you think to yourself, I think I can make it all the way to the top. But you also see, beyond the top of this mountain, there's another one and another one and you're |
| 0:23.6 | like, oh, I actually want to go there. |
| 0:25.6 | The thing that we saw from the bottom isn't actually the top. |
| 0:28.6 | And that's that moment where you're like, not only can I keep going, I didn't even realize |
| 0:33.6 | that I want to go to the other mountain beyond this mountain. |
| 0:35.6 | I think those moments are so definitional. |
| 0:39.7 | It's that mindset, not of, oh, oh my God. There's more mountains. It's, there's more mountains. |
| 0:48.6 | Yes. And that is 100% a mindset. I think there is so much to be said for making your own luck. Hello, hello, |
| 0:58.4 | everyone, and welcome to the Intentional Advantage podcast. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. This is episode |
| 1:04.7 | 288. We're going to be talking about making your own luck. Now, I know a lot of you feel like luck |
| 1:14.2 | is one of those things where you're either a lucky person or you're an unlucky person. |
| 1:18.8 | But the truth is, you get to make your own luck through your choices, through how you decide |
| 1:26.7 | to operate through this world. And I think that's |
| 1:29.2 | really powerful. When you decide that you want to make your own luck, it's really choosing to step |
| 1:34.7 | into your own power. So today on the show, I have Laura Gassner-Odding. Laura is an amazing |
| 1:42.6 | woman who has just had her book come out, Wonder Hell. |
| 1:47.0 | During its debut week, it hit number two in the Wall Street Journal bestsellers list, |
| 1:51.9 | which is amazing. |
| 1:53.6 | My friend Laura's secret power is seeing your greatness and reflecting it back to you. |
| 1:58.3 | And that's really what she does in her book. |
| 2:02.5 | She is frequently on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Harvard Business Review, Oprah Daily. She is a founder of a tech |
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