Notes for an Awesome Life with John Spence takes you beyond the boardroom into the habits, reflections, and small decisions that can help you create more clarity, resilience, and balance in your life. This show features one of the world’s top leadership thinkers, John Spence, named by the American Management Association as one of America’s Top 50 Leaders to Watch. John has lectured at more than 90 universities, including MIT, Stanford, Cornell, and Wharton, served as CEO of five companies, a ...
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Make It Easy to Win: Goal Setting That Works
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Send us a text In this week’s episode of Notes for an Awesome Life with John Spence, John and Josh break down what effective goal setting really looks like. John shares how to use SMART goals without overcomplicating them, how checklists create reliable progress, why imposter syndrome shows up even for high performers, and how a simple “two letter”…
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Living in the Moment and Practicing Gratitude
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Send us a text What if the most powerful change you could make is only a breath wide? We dig into the “gap” between stimulus and response, the tiny pause where you can trade impulse for intention, and show how gratitude and presence turn that pause into a lifelong advantage. John Spence shares how he went from breaking things in anger to asking him…
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How Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence Shape an Awesome Life
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Send us a text In this episode of Notes for an Awesome Life with John Spence, Josh and John dive into one of the foundations of a truly “awesome” life: self awareness. John explains why emotional intelligence, especially self awareness and self regulation, is the starting point for better relationships and better mental health. John shares practica…
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Send us a text John and Josh explore how our areas of daily focus shape our future and how small, deliberate choices can compound into a massive change of course towards a life of success and joy. John shares personal stories, practical tools, and a two-list homework exercise to align your time, relationships, and self-talk with your values. Email …
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Send us a text Episode 5 - Envisioning Your Ideal Life What does your ideal life actually look like and how do you get there? John and Josh unpack a practical visioning process, talk about why “hope is not a strategy,” and then talk about maintaining boundaries, how to say no without guilt, all in the service of much needed self-care. Email us: awe…
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Send us a text What is your mission, your reason for bounding out of the bed in the morning? John and Josh look at the importance of setting a direction for your life that aligns with you values and abilities. We explore purpose as a living, practical force, something you can define, test, and build into your day. Email us: [email protected]…
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Borrowing Beliefs? Try Writing Your Own Values
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Send us a text John and Josh explore why clear personal values make hard decisions simple and how to align daily behavior with what matters. John shares the pitfalls of borrowed values, how safety and fear and recognizing what you can control play a roll in getting started, and an exercise to define, score, and live your core beliefs. Email us: awe…
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Send us a text What if “success” isn’t rich, famous, powerful but values lived daily and relationships that last? In this episode, John and Josh talk about defining a successful life, résumé vs. eulogy virtues, the importance of relationships and a deceptively simple definition of success: when your values and your actions match. Email us: awesomel…
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Send us a text About this episode: John Spence is one of the world’s top thought leaders but he almost wasn’t. Before the accolades, before lecturing at MIT and Stanford, before helping people and businesses around the world…he failed out of college with a 1.6 GPA, was cut off from his family, and found himself sitting on a Gainesville curb realizi…
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