Notes for An Awesome Life with John Spence

About Notes for An Awesome Life with John Spence

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, and advises organizations from startups to the Fortune 10. But here, he’s not talking about business strategy. He’s sharing the principles, stories, and reflective tools that help people live more joyful, successful, and yes…awesome…lives. Every episode delivers candid conversations about failure, resilience, and growth. You will also hear practical strategies to align your life with your values and stories that prove it’s never too late to design your life with purpose. Follow now and start your journey toward an awesome life, one decision at a time.

Publisher

Notes for An Awesome Life with John Spence

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Oct 2025

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Pruning Your Life

   Send us Fan Mail Overwhelm often shows up disguised as productivity. Your calendar is full, your brain is loud, and you keep hunting for the next book, habit, tool, or commitment that will finally make life feel under control. John and Josh discuss taking a different angle: pruning. Just like a garden grows healthier when you cut back strong branches, your life gets better when you remove even “good” things that steal time, attention, emotional energy, and presence from what you value most. I...

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   What Changes When You Stop Calling Yourself Broken

   Send us Fan Mail What if the things you’ve spent your whole life trying to “fix” aren’t the character flaws that you always assumed they were? At 55, Josh now sees years of distraction, procrastination, hyperfocus, overwhelm, and executive dysfunction in a new light: ADHD. This week, Josh and John talk about how understanding replaces self blame. John shares his own journey of learning more about his brain, and together they expand the conversation beyond neurodiversity to a common chal...

3. 

   11 Sept 2026

   John’s Cancer Journey: When Your Values Get Tested

   Send us Fan Mail Josh and John haven’t sat down together in a while, and there’s a good reason for that. John was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery. In this episode, he shares what the past few months have been like for him. But this episode isn’t really about cancer. It’s about what happens when your beliefs are put to the test. John talks about how his values, honesty, health, love, laughter, learning, and contribution, showed up when he was in a crisis. He and Josh get into fe...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings