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Life’s Math
I hated math growing up. And hated just about every math teacher I’ve ever had. Maybe because I’m dyslexic and it’s not fun looking at a bunch of numbers that are dancing around. Maybe it’s because I failed or barely passed just about every math class I had ever...
What Comes Around
I remember when I was 14 years old and I begged my father to take me skiing at Mt. Peter, a small ski mountain upstate New York in Warwick. I first started to ski when I was 13 and became obsessed with the slopes. I wanted to ski every chance I could get. Fast forward...
Ruthless
If I received a dollar for every time someone asked me, “What is your greatest advice?”, I’d be a wealthy man. Parents want to share the answer to this question with their children, husbands with their wives and vice versa, friends with their neighbors, and leaders...
Blessed AND Grateful
Pictured: Meet the father (figuratively and literally) and grandfather of Heart-Led Leadership – my dad Tom Spaulding, Sr. This week friends, my message is simple: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! May you be as blessed and grateful as I am for all the many...
Got Your Back
On Friday, I called Cathy DeGraff on her business line this past Friday at 5 p.m. for the very last time. Cathy DeGraff, has been my business manager, executive director of our National Leadership Academy and Global Youth Leadership Academy, and chief operating...
Give Until it Hurts
I heard years ago that when we give to others we should “give until it hurts.” It took me half a lifetime to fully understand those words – give until it hurts. I’ve learned there is a difference between giving and giving until it hurts. A big difference. One makes...
Influence Compass
My ghost writer Matthew Sharpe and I were locked in a conference room at the Grand Hyatt New York City a couple weeks ago spending hours and hours talking about the topic of my next book — Influence. “What’s the definition of influence?”, Matthew kept asking me. ...
Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute is Growing & Changing Lives
I'm excited to share a few special announcements for our Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute (501c3 non-profit youth leadership development organization): Our National Leadership Academy will celebrate its 21st annual Summer Academy in Denver, CO, this June 25 -...
SUCK – SUCK – SUCK
I'm on a plane with my eleven-year old son, Tate, heading home after a long weekend hockey tournament in Nashville. I didn't say I was sitting next to my son...thanks to Southwest Airline's open seating policy...Tate chose to sit in the back of the plane with his...
50 Letters
On Friday, July 12th I woke up to the rock'n Beatles tune, It's Your Birthday, with my wife jumping up and down and dancing on top of our bed holding balloons that said "Happy 50th Birthday". Half awake I said to Jill, "Today is not my birthday...you're a month off,...
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