Dr. Laura Gallaher is an Organizational Psychologist, Speaker, and Leadership Coach. She began her career at NASA Kennedy Space Center, after the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded upon re-entry in 2003. She worked for 8 years with NASA to positively influence culture, develop leadership capacity, and improve organizational performance at the Kennedy Space Center. Laura’s company, Gallaher Edge, applies the science of human behavior to organizations so they can get their edge, achieve together, and enjoy the journey.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Benjamin Hardy
- Suneera Madhani Founder of Fattmerchant
Also mentioned
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think asking for the sale was really hard for me. Like I would be in conversations with Leeds for far too long just stopping short of actually asking ‘do you want to engage with me?’ ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Book by Michael SingerFavourite Quote:
“If you are not good enough now you never will be”
Recommended Online Resources:
Medium – where words matter. Medium deliver’s the best stories and ideas on the topics you care about most straight to your homepage, app, or inbox.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“enjoy the journey, the journey is all you have… So, I would say let go of the pursuit of happiness and instead choose happiness in your pursuit”…[Listen for More]
More About Laura Gallaher:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser
Other Quotes From the Chat with Laura Gallaher:
- “selling is an act of compassion” Danya Shea
- “I had a scarcity mentality when I started out, a very fear-based scarcity mentality. And at the time it felt like I had to go after every opportunity that I was aware of and it lacked strategic focus, it wore me out and it didn’t take me in the direction that I wanted to go because I wasn’t even clear about that kind of direction”
- “once I got into the habit of practising and abundance mentality then it became a lot easier to say no to anything that would pull me away from my core focus… Knowing what to say no to its far more important than annoying what say yes to”
- “focus, focus, focus. This is on a micro level and on a macro level. doing something like power sessions, saying for 50 minutes I am going to shut off email, I’m not looking at my phone, I’m not looking at slack, I’m not going to let anything interrupt me, I am going to spend 50 minutes on this one task, I am just going to focus and I’m going to get it done. That level of focus increases my productivity to an insane degree. And then on a more macro level if I’m doing with that same idea of focus, I’m not doing 32 totally different tasks over the course of a week in these micro focus sessions but it’s all taking me in one direction… I think it gets harder as a company gets larger to really have that focus”
- “I choose to accept myself right now exactly as I am and I trust that my desire to improve myself is not going to go away just because I choose to accept myself”
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