Stop Enduring Your Life and Start Designing It with Laura Kelly

What if the life you are grinding for never shows up on “the other side”? For Laura Kelly, entrepreneur and founder of Life 2.0, how you feel along the journey decides how you feel when you get there.

In this episode, Angela Chanowsky sits down with her good friend Laura to talk about her path from clinical psychology to coaching leaders at Dell and Eli Lilly, to helping grow nine home service companies with her husband Josh. Laura shares why she finally went out on her own, how she helps leaders get out of their own way, and why waiting to be happy “someday” is a trap.

Angela and Laura dive into:

• The regret minimization framework and the Five Wishes exercise
• Why a person can’t be influenced when they feel judged
• The daily progress report: turning an annual revenue goal into daily wins
• Why your team needs to feel safe telling you the truth
• “Flip your cup”: why giving only works from the overflow
• Getting your blood work done as the P&L for your body
• Why every new level of your business needs a new version of you

If you are achieving a lot but still feel tired or stuck, this conversation will help you see what is holding you back and how to build a life you enjoy every day.

About Laura Kelly:

Laura Kelly is an entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of Life 2.0, a personal development company helping ambitious people build lives that feel as good as they look.

Her career spans corporate leadership development, software, entrepreneurship, and business growth. Early on, she worked with organizations like Google, Dell, EMC, and Eli Lilly, building business growth events and leadership development programs. She later helped grow a software company through a successful exit before cofounding Clover, a coaching and consulting company that grew to more than $10 million in annual revenue.

But after achieving many of the things she once believed would bring happiness, Laura faced a harder question: Why doesn’t success always feel like success?

Episode Highlights:

• “Sometimes you just need to borrow someone else’s belief in you.”
• “Your business is a vehicle to lead you closer to the life you want. Nothing more, nothing less.”
• “A person can’t be influenced if they simultaneously feel judged.”
• “It’s only in the overflow that you can sustainably give.”
• “How you feel along the journey determines how you feel at the destination.”
• “You will never take your business to the next level until you become the next best version of yourself.”
• “There is no perfect blueprint. It’s about helping you identify your way.”

Links and Resources:

• Life 2.0: www.life20.com
• Follow Laura on LinkedIn
• Book mentioned: Five Wishes by Gay Hendricks

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