NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: During a recent ‘Today’ episode, hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager welcomed Liz Tran, an executive coach, author, and creator of Reset. The guest star shared useful insights on how to manifest success in life.
On Tuesday, July 25, Liz Tran, who recently released her book ‘The Karma of Success’ joined Kotb and Hager as she shared her journey towards inner success, trusting intuition, and the three key elements for a centered life. The book is described as a guide to achieving professional and personal success by aligning one's internal world, actions, and values. Drawing from ancient sources of wisdom, including Zen Buddhism, the Tao, Reiki healing, astrology, and Vipassana meditation, the book reportedly offers spiritual strategies to help readers free their inner genius and fulfill their innermost dreams and ambitions.
Who is Liz Tran?
Tran is a notable figure in the tech industry and the founder of Reset, a modern learning company that focuses on executive coaching for CEOs and founders. Before starting Reset, Tran had an extensive career in the tech industry, including working as the only female executive at a leading venture capital firm. She has over a decade of experience in the field. In addition to her work in the tech industry, Tran is also an author. She has written a book called ‘The Karma of Success’, which was published recently in July 2023 by Portfolio Books.
The book explores the concept of success and provides insights and strategies for achieving it. Tran is known for her expertise in coaching and helping individuals and teams create growth-mindset corporate cultures. She has founded Reset as a platform to provide executive coaching services and has also launched a podcast under the same name. Tran is passionate about helping CEOs and founders build high-performing teams and achieve their goals. She’s married to Dev Aujla and shares a dog named, Grover.
'Stillness, Solitude, and Silence'
During a recent ‘Today with Hoda and Kotb’ episode, the hosts welcomed Tran and talked about her latest book. Kotb said, “We’re so happy you’re here on your pub date. This is the date your book is published.” She continues, “Well, this defines success for you. You got your book published, and this is your big day, but finding the definition of success is important. Otherwise, we don’t know what we’re running towards, right?” Tran replied, “Exactly! The thing is, there is the arrival fallacy in psychology. We set a goal. We get it. Then we feel exactly the same afterward.” Tran discussed how it is important to find the “internal success” which is “unique to you, meaningful and long-lasting.” She believes each one of us is “preprogrammed tracks." She further went on to explain her book which tells people to realize, “I’m unique, I have my own path.”
During their discussion, Hager questions Tran, “You say in your book, one of the most important things to do is to listen to our intuition. But we’re totally overstimulated as a society with cell phones and television. You have advice on how to garner it?”
Tran then explains, “Yes, what it means is when you know something without knowing how you know it.” She continues, “It’s like that moment in the shower when you are like, I have an idea, I know what I am doing or need to call this friend and you call them and she says I needed you, right?” “So intuition is a space for that manning I can to come in when you know something without knowing how you know it,” she said.
Tran then shares her three essentials for a grounded life as she said, “You need your fill of the three S’s every day, Stillness, Solitude, and Silence.” Kotb explains her reaction to the three S’s, “They seem – I feel relaxed even hearing the words. If you find those, what do you do with that time?” Tran replies, “We can say how can I have an hour of the three S’s every day. You just need 15 minutes. It might be taking time for yourself over a cup of tea, walking your dog without your cellphone, anything where you can hear yourself and let that intuition come in because otherwise, we are just, you know, following beeping on our phones every day instead of tunning into ourselves.”
The ladies shifted the topic to manifestation as Hager asked, “Manifesting is something that we talk a lot about on this show. And something that we do on this show. But you have a process when it comes to manifesting and success. Talk to us about it.” Tran then explains her tips on manifesting success as she explains, “It’s a very simple three-step process.” She continues, “The first step is to visualization and that’s about seeing what it is that you want in five sensory detail," further adding, “And then to vocalize it. Tell someone. Bring it to life.”
