Spartan Leadership with Josh Kosnick

Send us Fan Mail You hit the number. You get the promotion. You build the company. For a moment, you feel like you’ve made it. Then the target moves. In this solo episode of Spartan Leadership, I share how I spent over a decade chasing a version of myself who would finally achieve enough to feel at peace—and what happened when my identity became tied to my career, title, and results. From working as a Best Buy sales manager at 24 to building a financial services career, I kept telling myse...

Send us Fan Mail In January 2025, cameras caught Eagles receiver A.J. Brown reading Inner Excellence on the sideline during a playoff game. The book went to #1 on the New York Times list. What nobody saw was what was happening to the author that same week. Jim Murphy’s mother was dying. Business was slow, and for the first time in years he couldn’t pay off his credit cards. That Sunday, he was walking around downtown Dallas, looked up at a skyscraper, and asked himself whether he’d rather own...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve tried to change before. The new morning routine, the new diet, the new goal. Six days, twelve days, thirty if you’re lucky, and then you’re back. And then you blamed willpower, the calendar, the season of life. In Episode 2 of The Kairos Code Series, I name the actual thing. Steven Pressfield calls it Resistance in The War of Art, one of my top 10 reads of all time. My longtime mentor, John Wright Sr., pictured it as a river full of predators standing between you and t...

Send us Fan Mail You can be winning in business and still be out of alignment with the life God gave you. In this episode, Josh Kosnick explains the two Greek words for time and why the difference between them may be costing you more than you realize. Chronos is the clock: the meetings, the deadlines, the calendar that keeps moving whether you notice it or not. Kairos is the appointed moment, the season when something significant happens. Josh spent two decades building a life the world would...

Send us Fan Mail Travis Hasse put $10,000 down on a 1940 Wisconsin tavern with no bar experience and closed the loan in 48 hours. Behind that bar, he started pouring his dad’s apple pie recipe. In 2008, it became Travis Hasse’s Apple Pie Liqueur, which he grew for 12 years without outside investors before selling. He planned to take a year off after the sale. He lasted two months. Today his Amazon delivery companies move about 15,000 packages a day, he expects to be close to 400 employees by ...