How do you start in the mail-room and end up in the CFO's Office, and how do you hide 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."