559: Josh Spodek, Author of "Leadership Step by Step"
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
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🗓️ 12 April 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Josh Spodek has quite the resume. He holds FIVE Ivy League degrees including a PhD in Astrophysics, he's led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship and sales at Harvard, Princeton and MIT, he's studied under a Nobel Prize winner and helped build an X-Ray observational satellite for NASA and holds six patents.
He also serves as an adjunct professor at NYU, as well as a leadership coach and workshop leader at the Columbia Business School. He's also a columnist for Inc. He's the founder of Spodek Academy and out with a new book called Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow.
The topic of the day is leadership and how some of us are natural born leaders. We also discuss the difference between managing and leading and that time Josh was asked to step down as the leader of a company he founded. A wake-up call for Josh and an inspiring lesson that led to his work today.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 559, Joshua Spodak, author of leadership step by step. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to So Money with award-winning money |
| 0:11.0 | money guru Farno Shkorabi. |
| 0:12.0 | Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial Award-winning Money Guru Farnu Shorabi. |
| 0:12.6 | Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration |
| 0:15.8 | from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, |
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| 0:28.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:35.0 | You're listening to So Money, everyone. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm your host, Farnoosh Terabi. |
| 0:39.4 | Our guest today is pretty accomplished, just a little bit. |
| 0:44.1 | He has five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in astrophysics. |
| 0:49.3 | He's led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. |
| 0:55.5 | He has studied under a Nobel Prize winner. |
| 0:58.8 | He's helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA. He's got six patents. This guy, let me tell you, his name is |
| 1:06.8 | Joshua Spodak. He's our so money guest today. He serves currently as an adjunct professor at NYU, as well as a leadership coach and workshop leader at the Columbia Business School. |
| 1:17.5 | He's also a columnist for Inc magazine, founder of Spodec Academy, and he's out with a new book called Leadership Step by Step |
| 1:25.8 | Become the person others follow. So the topic of the day is leadership. Some are born leaders and Josh believes you can teach leadership. Some are born leaders and Josh believes you can teach leadership, |
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