Jon Gordon

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1,207 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard May 2024 last heard 14 Jul

Jon Gordon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan · The Positive Habits That Build Better Leaders and Better Lives with Jon Gordon · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And my dad was a New York City police officer, undercover narcotic.

So he was fighting the drug cartels in the streets of New York, and he wasn't very positive.

Loving man, but positive.

very negative when i started speaking you'll get a kick out of this he said i can't believe people actually pay you to speak he said when you're a kid we paid you to shut up is what he said so so i struggled with my mindset and i struggled with a lot of performance anxiety as well as an athlete and a division one athlete played lacrosse at cornell university and my teammates cannot believe what i'm doing now because they're like you were a mental wreck in college and i and i really i really was

And then in my 20s, mover, shaker, trying to make things happen, trying to be successful, entrepreneur, restaurant owner, nonprofit, started the Phoenix organization in Atlanta.

I was getting all these young professionals involved and I was doing a lot of cool stuff.

And then I met Catherine.

We had kids.

And then I lost my job during the dot-com crash.

I sold my restaurants.

I went to go work for this dot-com, thought I was going to make my fortune and everything just crumbled.

And during that time, I was fearful, anxious, and being really negative.

Like everything in my life that I was hoping for and dreaming for now was coming to an end.

And I'm blaming Catherine for why I've not lived up to my dreams, why I haven't achieved my potential.

And she said, you know, I'm not going to spend my life with someone who makes me so miserable.

She said, if you don't change, we're over.

And it was in the middle of a big fight.

And I agreed to change because I wanted to stay married.

And I began looking for ways to become a more positive person.

And I found this research that said you can't be stressed and thankful at the same time.

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