title: Going Supernova: The Bold Paths of 101 Superachievers
author:  Molly Lavik 
description: Molly Lavik is a teacher, entrepreneur, mentorographer, and motivational expert dedicated to providing access to success to those with major personal or professional goals. While spending thousands of hours teaching MBA classes and advising corporate leaders over the past twenty years, Molly developed a deep understanding of the challenges we all face in achieving our goals. This led her to create a new medium known as Mentorographies: autobiographies with an explicitly educational purpose. Through her company, Mentor InSight, she interviewed hundreds of superachievers to share the lessons of their accomplishments. She then put those lessons to use to help anyone with big dreams attain what she likes to call superachievement or Going Supernova. Dubbed a superconnector by friends and colleagues, Molly possesses a genuine gift for bringing together people with goals and needs and those with the resources and expertise to help them. Now she has turned those skills into a package of media tools: the MentorInSight.net Tool Kit, which can help you, too, to not only identify your passion and purpose in life but to start down your own path to superachievement. Molly developed insights for creating the Mentor InSight.net Tool Kit as a marketing professional and consultant for companies such as Westin Hotels &amp; Resorts, DreamWorks Animation, Microsoft, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and others. In her leadership role with the Sustainable Business Council, Molly has created innovative mentorship programs. She also helped spearhead the economic development of the digital media industry when she led the Los Angeles New Media Roundtable. Through her background in academia, Molly cultivated a reputation as a pioneering curriculum creator. She served as a professor at the Vatel International Business School, in Los Angeles, and was a practitioner faculty member at Pepperdine Universitys Graziadio School of Business and Management, where she taught graduate-level courses in marketing, management, and entrepreneurship with a mentorship component. Molly has a masters in technology management from the Graziadio School and a bachelors in mass communications from Purdue University. Learn how to Go Supernova at: www.MentorInSight.net.
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  being a nova, how the world has changed since novas’ arrival and what 
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  Portman: It is a distinct honor. Actually it’s just luck, really. Fate just 
  decided that I would erupt in a rather spectacular way, and I was lucky 
  enough to save lives. In general, though, being a nova is a wonderful thing. 
  Novas are simply people with special abilities.