How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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


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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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