Dr. Jeff Spencer
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333 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, I met him through a very interesting series of coincidences. Ha ha. I think it was very deliberate and it was providence actually. And he chose me. I was an athlete. Um, first and foremost, I had Olympic ambitions. I was well on my way to becoming an Olympian.
And he chose me to be his apprentice because he developed a whole new type of art glass sculptor, but he hadn't found anybody that he felt that could be trusted with supporting him and creating his masterpieces, but he chose me. And it wasn't because of my artistic ability, but I did have a lot of artistic ability because my father And my mother were both extraordinarily creative.
But the most important thing that that mentor showed me, he was 76 and I was 18 at the time. So it's a very unlikely pairing. But during our lunches and during our breaks, what he would do, he would read poetry to me. He would read the great philosophers. He would share with me classical music. He said, I need to fill you up on these other aspects of life.
And he was correct because I had the ability to be able to absorb that. And because he brought the heart and soul to my athletic prowess, I now had these two other assets that just made me a better performer in every way possible. So that was the incredible brilliance and opportunity that he brought to me, the finer points in life that I certainly did not have access to otherwise.
Well, I didn't actually choose that word. The word chose me through what other people said about me. And the genesis of that is the Rocky movie. And Rocky was someone that had talent, had ambition, had capacity to be able to become the perennial champion of the world, but he couldn't take himself there. And there's all sorts of different advisors.
You have coaches, like when I work with YouTube, Bono had his voice coach, but the voice coach didn't know about the rest of his life. So it was like, well, I hope the rest of your life doesn't get in the way of my voice coaching because I know I can do my part well, but I don't know about the rest of it. And so it's very similar also with mentors.
You can have like a life mentor, you can have a business mentor, but they don't know about a certain percentage of your life. And to me, what... Rocky had was the old guy Mickey in his corner that had seen everything and it helped people in many different areas become their own champions. And that's what I and why people call me the corner man because of my experience, my age and
where I've been, what I've accomplished. There's nothing that I have not seen in life and there's nothing that I haven't participated in or guided people through at the highest level of performance. And so therefore, I have a basic competency in virtually everything. So I can meet people exactly where they are
And because of that totality, I can select what has to go right when to be able to get the most progress with the least of time and effort and expense to move as quickly as possible towards any and every ambition that a person has. And that's why they call me the corner man because it's the rarest of all advisory species.
Well, I mean, you have to be your own champion of both of those. In becoming your own champion, it's a presence of being. It's not a technical difference. So whether it's locker room or boardroom, there are technical differences, but yet the us, the champion that needs to show up and make really good decisions consistently to make sure that we get ourselves into the...
winner circle, that remains consistent. So I don't see that there's any distinction whatsoever. Like, for example, I don't know what pencil sharpener to use, but we can find an expert to tell us that.
But I can tell you about you, the leader of your own life, CEO of you, Inc., what it is that you need to do and how you need to show up to be able to manifest the things that have to go right for you to be able to evolve into and demonstrate and manifest your talents and create the legacy that you're capable of creating.
You have to be coachable. You have to show up on time. That has to be your natural set point. You need to be able to do things that are unconventional. You have to learn to transcend your fear and the beliefs that you have that are no longer serving you well. You have to be a really great teammate. You have to be fearless about investing in yourself and in your bigger future.
And you have to have a certain amount of innate talent as well. And you have to be able to hold reality as preeminent rather than trying to tell yourself the stories that you want to hear. You need to be able to look at what reality really is.
And with all of those elements that I just described to you there, if a person has those, then it's only a matter of time before they manifest whatever the goals that they have for themselves.
Well, I mean, it's always a tragedy when you have a genius that can't manifest their genius and lives the life of desperation and dies really being a statistic and an example of what you should never be and what you should never emulate. I mean, that's tragic in and of itself and certainly a great loss to me as well. But the real take home from this is that he was missing two things.
Number one, he did not have a roadmap that showed him where he was and what that meant and what to do to be able to move forward towards next. And if we don't have that roadmap and we don't have the second part of this, the sound counsel that can help us interpret the reality of what it is that we're facing and considering, because a lot of the things that we believe to be true aren't.
and we can't make them take us to where we want to get to. By design, they can't do that inherently anyhow.
So therefore, two things, there has to be sound counsel in your life that can help shortcut your learning curve to eliminate the risk of succumbing to preventable problems, but also having a state of readiness to recognize and seize opportunities that could exponentially catapult us towards our bigger future.
And then there also, again, there needs to be a roadmap that can identify where we are in process so that we don't misinterpret things as being something that they're not. So, for example, in any highly aspirational goal, there's always a segment in the pursuit of that goal I call the daily grind. It's going to be hard. It's going to be really hard. You may actually find yourself wanting to quit.
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