Episode 400: How to Use Failure for Success
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 ā¢ 2.4K Ratings
šļø 25 February 2026
ā±ļø 39 minutes
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Summary
Failure can either hold you back or become fuel for your growth. In this week's episode ā the Maxwell Leadership Podcast's 400th episode! ā John Maxwell joins Mark Cole for a glimpse into John's upcoming book, How to Get a Return on Failure, and a perspective-shiftingĀ discussion on how you canĀ investĀ failure to fuel resilience, sharpen your judgment, and accelerate your impact.
Key takeaways:Ā
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Your response to failureĀ determinesĀ whether it becomes an asset or a liability.
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Success and failure must be kept together; embracing both builds resilience and humility for lasting leadership.
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Progress isn'tĀ about avoiding mistakesāit'sĀ about learning, improving, and moving on with greater wisdom each time.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Episode 400: How to Use Failure for Success Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visitingĀ MaxwellPodcast.com/400Ā and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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References:Ā
Pre-order your copy of John Maxwell's resilience guide,Ā How to Get a Return on Failure
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | I've only said that 400 times in my life. |
| 0:15.4 | That's because John Maxwell, the man, the myth, our mentor, our guide, John, our friend caught a vision 400 episodes ago and says, what is a new way that we can impact the world around us? |
| 0:29.6 | And the Maxwell Leadership podcast was born. And John, we have seen tremendous impact. |
| 0:36.6 | It's amazing. I just, well, first of all, I can't even impact. It's amazing. |
| 0:38.1 | I just, well, first of all, I can't even bathe them 400 episodes. |
| 0:42.1 | You know, when you get older, time just seems to go faster. |
| 0:44.5 | When you came up with 400 episodes, I said, really, I mean, I would have thought, if you |
| 0:50.3 | had asked me, I said 200. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | And so, I mean, think about 400 already, helping all the people that we're helping. And it's been a really good resource for people, hasn't it? It has. You know, John taught us, I say this on almost every episode. I say two things. I say, we are a podcast that adds value to you so that you will multiply value to others. And then the other thing we say is everyone deserves to be led well. |
| 1:13.6 | But that whole concept that I use in every intro is really a driving factor of your life, |
| 1:19.6 | a driving factor of our organization, a driving factor of this podcast. |
| 1:23.6 | We exist to add value to leaders who multiply value to others. Who would have thought |
| 1:29.7 | that when you made that a decision, that we would be impacting over 2 million people a year |
| 1:37.1 | through our podcasts. We, John, we've now had not only 400 episodes. We've had 40 million, |
| 1:44.1 | over 45 million downloads. We've had |
| 1:47.6 | four, we have 400,000 followers on Apple and Spotify and you. It's all about you. Podcast family, |
| 1:56.0 | podcast listeners. Because of you, if you're not watching the podcast today, you're missing it because |
| 2:02.0 | John is looking incredible and green. But if you're not watching, you need to click over, |
| 2:07.1 | and I'll tell you how to do that in just a moment. But we surpassed 100,000 subscribers on |
| 2:14.4 | YouTube because of this podcast. In fact, Andrew was just telling me right before |
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