A Mike Drop Moment

I dedicated my book, Limitless, to one of my mentors, Arnie Miller, who taught me to bring everything I am to everything I do. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Why? Because it’s not just about not getting it wrong. We have to make sure we are getting it right. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ He was the toughest boss I’m so … Read more

Boston Marathon 2013

This post was originally published on Facebook the day after the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013. Some of the facts (like additional undetonated bombs) turned out to prove false, and some (like me running in 2014) turned out to be true. The sentiment remains intact as ever. On the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013: Hi … Read more

I Climbed Everest, Sort of

This past weekend I climbed Everest.  But not really. I climbed Mt. Stratton 17 times to get to a total of 29,029 feet of accumulated elevation, the height of Mt. Everest. “What, LGO, that’s crazy! How did I not even know you were doing this? I’d think you’d be posting about training and preparation and … Read more

Stop Crushing It

Are you “Crushing It!?!” (Read that question with an in-your-face, temple vein pulsing instafluencer rage, preferably standing in front of a rented jet and someone else’s car.) The largest looming threat to the prickly relationship between my advancing dotage and my tenuous hold on good health happens almost daily.  It is the moment when some … Read more

Let It Go, and You’ll Shift Your Mindset Forever

When I was pregnant with my first son, I had a birth plan and I was not going to let it go. It was a beautiful birth plan.  It was my beautiful birth plan. And, I was a fool. No, I wasn’t a fool for having a plan, for envisioning what would feel consonant to me, … Read more

Help! I Wrote a Self-Help Book

Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life by Laura Gassner Otting

I wrote a self-help book. About a month after my book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life came out — debuting at #2 on the Washington Post Bestseller list right behind Michelle Obama’s Becoming — I had a crushing realization: I wrote a self-help book. I thought … Read more

Don’t Be Afraid of Real Conversations with Employees

Employee engagement feels elusive… but all you need is to have the right conversations to find out what really drives your team. I speak for a living.  And the biggest question I get when corporations want to bring me in to speak to their audiences is this: “When you get on stage and tell all … Read more

Entrepreneurship isn’t for the Weak

Hustle porn tells us that “Entrepreneurship isn’t for the weak!”  And, it’s true: it’s not. But it’s also not for the strong either.  Being single-focused, blindered, unwavering won’t get you far.  Or, at least it won’t keep you there when it does. As a serial entrepreneur and life-long mentor and coach to entrepreneurs, I’ve seen … Read more