Life and Lessons by Sean Spooner

The podcast is back. Every Monday morning, every week of 2026. Let's do this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, I turn 30. After 7 years of sharing the life lessons I wish I knew sooner on the internet, I feel fairly qualified to reflect on how to live a better life in your twenties. In this episode of Life and Lessons, I reflect on the past decade of life, and share the 16 lessons I needed to know in my 20s. They can change your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this unexpected episode of Life and Lessons, I have you an update on what's been going on in life recently, and try to answer a question I've had a lot recent: am I doing okay? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I tell you about a session I'm planning for students that might change the way they look at productivity forever, and I explain how progress just kind of... happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I encourage you to have a bias towards action, I speak about how to make the most of the next 100 days, and I explain how to build luck into your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I ask the question have things really been that bad for me this year, I explore the idea that you need to be the person to draw a line in the sand, and I discuss why you're life is never more than 45 mins away from changing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I tell you about my big talk in Paris, about visiting parliament for PMQs, and I explain why doing anything often enough makes you good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I explain where I've been for the past few weeks and why I disappeared, and I discuss an important mindset on not always needing to close feedback loops. Download a list of the 20 books that transformed my 20s: https://seanspooner.co.uk/books/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Download a list of the 20 books that transformed my 20s: https://seanspooner.co.uk/books/ On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I share a mindset that is helping me make difficult things more enjoyable, and I encourage you to question if you've found the root cause of your problems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Download a list of the 20 books that transformed my 20s: https://seanspooner.co.uk/books/ On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I explain why you're going to win 2025 one week at a time, and I discuss a new mindset I have towards fixing small, hardly noticeable issues in life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, to mark episode 200, we do something a little bit different. I sat down with my close friend Adam Horton and invited him to switch roles and interview me.  Adam puts your questions to me, on topics including the consistency of this podcast, progress on my book, the behind-the-scenes stories of my time on The Apprentice, dealing with my dad's illness...

Book a year planning session here: https://seanspooner.co.uk/plan On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I tell you the story of how broken car ruined my week, I share a lesson it taught me, and then I plea with you to make a plan for 2025 – regardless of how you do it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Download the 20 books that changed my 20s – for free: https://seanspooner.co.uk/books On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, to make turning 29, I share 7 lessons I needed to hear 10 years ago, when I was 19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Download the 20 books that changed my 20s – for free: https://seanspooner.co.uk/books On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I give you an update on running three marathons in ten weeks, and I share some details on how I'm approaching my planning for 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I make the case for why you should act like the person you're not, and I explain why right now is a perfect time to turn off the noise of the world and focus on yourself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you feel like you're fighting a constant uphill battle that you can't seem to win, it's probably your mind playing a trick on you. You are making progress, even if it doesn't feel like it. And when you zoom out far enough, you can see just how dramatically your life is changing. So you need to keep going. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and author of books including The Sunday Times Bestselling 'Four Thousand Weeks' and his latest release, 'Meditations For Mortals'. No matter how hard you try, you're never going to get everything done. There simply isn't enough time in our finite lives for us to tackle everything we'd like to. Our to-do lists are always going to win the battle. So what can we do ab...

On this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I tell you all about running two marathons over three weekends, I share details of the talks I've given across the UK this month, and I discuss the foundation I'm building for 2025. Donate on JustGiving: https://www.justgiving.com/page/sean-spooner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rory Sutherland is an author, behavioural scientist, and vice-chairman of Ogilvy.  If you’re anything like me, you could listen to Rory talk for hours. I was lucky enough to speak to Rory for the podcast a couple of years ago, and the scope of our conversation back then was fairly all-encompassing. This time around, I wanted to get Rory’s insights on how we can use the principles of behaviour...

It can be tempting to focus your self-improvement efforts on the areas of your life where things are already going well. But this isn't how you bring about meaningful change. In this week's episode of Life and Lessons, I explain why you should focus on the things you suck at first, before trying to hyper-optimise pointless 1% skills. I also discuss the idea that winners hardly ever realise they're...

Did this lesson resonate with you? Please leave a review in your podcasting app.  If you enjoyed today's Little Lesson, please consider sharing it with a friend. This podcast only grows when you make it grow.  If you want more life lessons delivered directly to your inbox, join my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/  Want to say hello? Drop me a message on In...

Did this lesson resonate with you? Please leave a review in your podcasting app.  If you enjoyed today's Little Lesson, please consider sharing it with a friend. This podcast only grows when you make it grow.  If you want more life lessons delivered directly to your inbox, join my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/  Want to say hello? Drop me a message on In...

Did this lesson resonate with you? Please leave a review in your podcasting app.  If you enjoyed today's Little Lesson, please consider sharing it with a friend. This podcast only grows when you make it grow.  If you want more life lessons delivered directly to your inbox, join my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/  Want to say hello? Drop me a message on In...

Did this lesson resonate with you? Please leave a review in your podcasting app.  If you enjoyed today's Little Lesson, please consider sharing it with a friend. This podcast only grows when you make it grow.  If you want more life lessons delivered directly to your inbox, join my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/  Want to say hello? Drop me a message on In...

Did this lesson resonate with you? Please leave a review in your podcasting app.  If you enjoyed today's Little Lesson, please consider sharing it with a friend. This podcast only grows when you make it grow.  If you want more life lessons delivered directly to your inbox, join my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.seanspooner.co.uk/  Want to say hello? Drop me a message on In...