This conversation is with Founder, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Executive coach, Mom and limitless inspiration, Laura Gassner Otting.

In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about:
- Her perspective on a rich life and the richness of life.
- Her ritual each year - she picks one word to represent and focus on for that year.
- The importance of having people in your life who will tell you the truth and provide a mirror to you as you pursue your goals.
- Navigating major family transition moments.
- The power of what she calls the “family meeting”.
- The most surprising attributes of successful people (For her last book she interviewed over 100 people ranging from gold medal Olympians to business Titans and there were some things that stuck out).
- How to the renegotiate your relationship with difficult and mixed emotions as you pursue your goals your dreams.
- The relationship between introversion, extroversion and luck.
- How to engineer luck.
- How to get closer to the truth of who you are your true self.

And so much more. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and please share it if anyone you know needs to hear it or could be served by it!

Laura Gassner Otting is a founder, keynote speaker (including her Ted talk from last year that has almost 2 million views). She helps audiences by inspiring people to push past the doubt and indecision. She helps people to think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current limited scope of belief.
Laura dropped out of law school and became a presidential appointee in Bill Clinton's White House where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She then went on to become the youngest VP of a leading global search firm until years later she realized that her values were not aligned anymore with that firm and founded one of the fastest growing search firms in the country. Years later she ultimately she sold that company to the same team she started it.

Since then she has appeared regularly on Good Morning America and The Today show. Her writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and HR magazine. She's a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of three books, including her most recent Wonderhell: How Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should and What To Do About It.

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Today's conversation is about risk. Risk is ever present in our lives. Every decision we make involves risk and the outcomes that we create all are in relationship to the amount of risk that we're willing to take and how we manage that risk.

Bryan Bottarelli is an expert in teaching people to have a healthy relationship with risk. He is the Head Trade Tactician and Founder of Monument Traders Alliance and runs a trading room called the War Room, which is a live, interactive trading room.

But his fascination with risk started young and never stopped.

Whether it was selling the Star Wars figures he collected as a little boy for 50 times their value or using $125 of grass-cutting money to buy a Michael Jordan rookie card that he later sold for $1,500, it was clear Bryan Bottarelli was a born trader – possessing the unique ability to identify opportunities and leverage those investments.

Graduating with a business degree from the highly rated Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bryan got his first job out of college trading stock options on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). There he was mentored by one of the country’s top floor traders in the heart of the technology boom from 1999 to 2000 – trading in the crowded and lively Apple computer pit. Executing his trades in real time, Bryan learned to identify and implement some of his most powerful trading secrets… secrets that rarely make their way outside the CBOE to individual traders.

Today, he instructs hundreds of thousands of readers and followers to embrace and use risk to create extraordinary outcomes in life.

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Show Notes;

Smart speculation [7:29]
Risk of inaction [10:59]
Zurich Axioms [15:38]
Early exposure to risk [20:40]
Asymmetric Risk [25:33]
Overweighting the downside [29:27]
The danger of playing it safe [32:03]
Losses are inevitable [35:24]
How to begin embracing risk [37:51]
Appreciating the role of risk [40:29]
Working on the CBOE [41:43]
Lessons from the world's elite traders [52:25]
Uncovering opportuntiy [57:03]
Bryan gives his top trades [59:05]
Following Bryan [1:03:52]

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This week I sat down with Shannon Graham, the first person I've ever known who has a ticket to go into space. He's also the Founder of a space company. Astranaut is the first company ever created to take visionaries to space to experience The Overview Effect and help them integrate their subsequent vision for humanity into action.

For the last 20 years, Shannon has been a success mentor to visionary founders running incredible companies and changing the world. He's the founder of a multi-year, peak performance coaching program he calls Legacy, where he works with founders to fully establish and live out the full potential of their business, of their leadership, and of their impact.

Shannon is the author of a book called The Expanded Leader. According the Graham, "The expanded leader is one who leads from wholeness and overflow rather than emptiness and sacrifice. The result is an organization built as a function of the leader's wholeness potential and full expression.

From the depth of these founding elements comes the creation of a culture that leads to even more richness, innovation and creativity. The resultant shift transcends the organization to have global impact, transforming competition into collaboration and helping leaders realize the fulfillment that comes from having amazing experiences in and of their own lives.

Leadership is not intended to be a restrictive box that imprisons you. It is intended to be a framework for expansion for both the leader and the organization."

If you are a leader or you aspire to be a leader in your own life or a leader in your business, Shannon shares the gives insights, tools and frameworks he uses to coach and support the luminaries that he serves.

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Show links:
www.shannongraham.com
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Show Notes:

Astranaut the space company [4:23]
The Overview Effect [6:00]
Shannon's first business [16:07]
Coaching beginnings and motivation [21:05]
Changing undesirable behaviors [24:05]
The coaching industry [33:05]
Qualities of a great coach [40:42]
What to look for in a coach [44:36]
Elements of a Rich Life [51:25]
Daily habits that fuel peak performance [59:18]
Shifting away from negative self talk [1:02:34]

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