Each time we achieve success, we also envision and hunger for a potential that we never knew existed. It’s amazing, it’s exciting, it’s energizing; it’s wonderful. But it’s also anxiety-provoking, identity-shaking, and exhausting; it’s hell. Based on a two decade career in executive search interviewing thousands of the most successful people in the world, Laura Gassner Otting explains why success doesn’t bring happiness, and how to take advantage of the “wonderhell” that it presents instead. Laura Gassner Otting has spent 25 years studying leaders and stewarding them through massive moments of career and life shift, whether as a political appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, the founder and president of an international executive search firm, or in her current role as an author and keynote speaker. Her last book “Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life” was a Washington Post bestseller and was named by Robin Roberts as one of Good Morning America’s Favorite Books of the Year. She is a regular contributor to The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, and Harvard Business Review. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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The author opens up about her new book "Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life" live on "GMA." READ MORE: https://gma.abc/2HEC1Dr

Are you stuck in a rut? Are you exhausted from constantly trying to find where you fit? Do you feel like you are chasing other people's definition of success? The Today Show Transformation Tuesday with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager have speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, as a guest appearance to discuss the pressure we put on ourselves to meet the expectations of others.

Washington Post Best Selling author and professional speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, challenges GMA viewers to consider their life, their calling, and determine if they are pursuing a professional path that truly connects to who they are. Take the assessment at www.limitlessassessment.com/GMA or visit the Good Morning America site and learn more: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/author-laura-gassner-otting-time-redefine-measure-success-63203494 Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others. Laura’s entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com. Laura also founded and ran the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold NPAG to the team that helped her build it, both because she was hungry for the next chapter and because she held an audacious dream of electing our nation’s first female president. Along the way, while serving on Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became so popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura has spoken across the United States and internationally to universities, companies, conferences, accelerators, TEDx, and the US Military. She is the author of Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose (2015) and the Washington Post Best Seller Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019). She lives with her husband, two teenage sons, and troublesome puppy outside of Boston, MA.

It’s time to stop giving votes to people in your life who shouldn’t even have voices, because when we listen to everyone else’s definition of success, we fail to make room for our own. Use the 4 C's to determine your calling and ensure the what you do matches the who you are.

GMA host Robin Roberts interview career coach Laura Gassner Otting on how to work smart from home and how to stay connected to others in and out of the office. Laura Gassner-Otting, the author of the book "Limitless," shares her tips on how to manage such challenges as social isolation, slower communication and distractions at home.

Loved being a guest on The Morning Show on Global News. Watch and learn as we discuss what to do with failure and how to live to pursue a life of limitless possibility.