Dr. Jeff Spencer
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333 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Dr. Jeff Spencer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, first and foremost, I got the self-start gene. I don't need any motivation whatsoever. I just get up and I make things happen. And I show up every day and I faithfully execute the one or two things that have to go right to move me forward. And that's the way that I've always done it. And it's always served me really well. So that would be first and foremost.
The other side of this as well is that I had three amazing angels in my life that made up for the lack of mentorship that I got at home because my father was virtually a non-entity as was my mother. They certainly didn't get in my way, but they were not there to support me. So I was really lucky.
I had an amazing cycling coach that actually chose me to be able to train with his group of Olympic champions and world champions. And I was like 11 and they were like in their mid to late twenties. I mean, they were the top of the pile. And he said, winning is a learned skill, and I want to teach you that skill.
And I want you to be around the conversation you need to listen to now so you know exactly what it's like. And if you have it within you to be able to become this, then our conversation will awaken something that's already within you to be able to make that happen, which it did 10 years later.
I just had amazing mentorship, and I had people say the right thing at the right time to naturally harness my abilities to be able to manifest that first and foremost goal of mine.
I think it was everything, actually, because I was a self-starter. I'd show up on time. I didn't need to be told anything. I would always show up well-prepared. I would work really hard. I would ask really good questions. I was always respectful of the opportunities in front of me. And, you know, also I did have the physical ability to do this.
You know, there has to be a blend of mentality, being able to stand in front of leadership, to be able to take constructive criticism and advice, to be a student of the discipline, all of those things I naturally had. And that endeared them to me to be able to share with me what the secrets that they used to become the standout performers that they were.
And I deeply appreciate their acknowledgement of that within me.
Well, I never saw that as a limitation. I actually saw that as a opportunity and a strength because I saw the other people put way too much confidence in their equipment. You know, staying in the best hotels, you don't need a fourth season to become an Olympian. You can sleep anywhere. You just have to decide you're going to show up and get the job done.
So I actually felt that I had a huge advantage in not having the financial means to do what other people did. I was able to find a way forward. And because of my natural ability verve and my natural enthusiasm, people were really willing to be able to support me in ways that I couldn't support myself.
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. 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 was 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 things. 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, 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
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.
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