Anna Gomez shares how she started in the mail-room and ended up in the CFO’s Office. She also tells us how she hid a career writing best-selling romance novels along the way? Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Anna Gomez – Right-Brained Left-Brainer, Romance Novelist, Immigrant.
Timestamps
1:45 – Who did you think you were going to be when you grew up?
2:16 – Anna opened the first bagel restaurant in the Philippines
4:01 – “That was my first lesson in humility.”
7:01 – “To have the letters CPA after your name, just helped bring some of the validity to the credentials that I earned in the past.”
9:35 – “I cry a lot. That’s the romantic in me.”
13:08 – “Opportunities come, but you have to go for them.”
17:03 – “That’s why I changed my writing from writing under a pen name to writing under my real name because I feel like I have to bring my whole self to the table because I represent a lot.”
19:12 – How do you thrive in Wonderhell?
21:48 – “I was a high performing depressed person.”
23:52 – “The mind plays with you. What you believe is what you believe.”
27:15 – Being a mother has helped me become a better manager.
28:48 – “I wrote my way out.”
29:43 – My husband is my cement in my shoes and I’m the helium in the balloon.
32:00 – How are you handling the pandemic?
34:32 – Why did you write with a pen name?
35:09 – “It took awhile for me to come into my own for writing sexy scenes.”
39:45 – Anna’s Coming Out Story
42:05 – “This is my priority. I love this job and I can make a lot more impact with this job and I want to keep it.”
44:38 – “Readers are promiscuous. They’ll read whatever.”
47:35 – Do you read the comments?
48:42 – “She read one of my books and put a tattoo of my book cover on her ankle.
51:40 – “Don’t you get bored? I can’t run 26 miles.”
52:25 – I wanted to create a sex toy delivery service.
55:48 – “You should start wearing heels.”
Pictured above is the tattoo that one of Anna’s fans got in honor of her 4th book, In This Life and the symbol was seahorses because they mate for life.
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.
