How to Embrace the 'In-Between' Space After Shedding an Old Identity Laura Gassner Otting

Have you ever felt like the very identity that defined you was becoming a straightjacket? That the career path, role, or persona you'd so carefully crafted suddenly felt constraining rather than purposeful? If so, you've likely experienced the disorienting - yet potentially catalyzing - transition I'm exploring with my guest today. I’m joined by Laura Gassner Otting. As an author, speaker, and entrepreneur who helped innovate AmeriCorps in the Clinton White House, she's intimately familiar with the psychological terrain one must navigate when shedding an old identity to birth the next evolution. Her new book "Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life" provides a roadmap for this journey. *** And before we dive in, a quick note on the state of the show. So we have been in a season of reimagining here at Spark HQ, taking a look at what we're doing and why, how we're serving, and how best to keep serving you in the future. And as we do that, we've decided to take some time and place the show on hiatus while we deepen into new ideas and formats and ways to keep sharing the awakened work-life love. So this will be the final episode as we head into a quieter season of incubation and reimagining. We appreciate you coming along for the ride with us, and really look forward to being back with new ways to share new ideas. *** Find: Laura Gassner Otting Website | Books Host: Jonathan Fields, creator of Good Life Project podcast & the Sparketype® Assessment Read Jonathan’s Awake at the Wheel Newsletter More on Sparketypes: Discover Your Sparketype | The Book | The Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How to Embrace the 'In-Between' Space After Shedding an Old Identity Laura Gassner Otting is an episode from SPARKED by Jonathan Fields.

This episode is 28:10 long.

This episode was published on Jun 24, 2025.

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