What do you do when you hold a vision no one else can see yet, and it takes twelve years to become real? In this episode, Kaye Doran sits down with John Spender, founder of the Journey of Riches anthology series and creator of the multi-award-winning documentary The Gift in Adversity. John carried a single idea from 2011 to 2024, through the loss of an early manuscript, years of self-doubt, and being turned away at the door, and never let go of the knowing that it was meant to be real. His story is a living map of what happens when you refuse to dismiss your own inner knowing. Unable to read until age nine, John went on to publish over 45 books with more than 450 authors across 50 countries, with royalties supporting a children's home in Bali. His documentary, featuring Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Jack Canfield and 21 other global thought leaders, began as imagined conversations on a vision board and became the real thing, one aligned step at a time. Kaye and John explore the courage to act before there is any evidence, the compassion that adversity carves into us, and why the willingness to keep going is the proof. This is a conversation about vision, devotion, and the quiet authority of trusting what you know long before the world can see it. The power of change is in your hands. What do you do when you hold a vision no one else can see yet, and it takes twelve years to become real? In this episode, Kaye Doran sits down with John Spender, founder of the Journey of Riches anthology series and creator of the multi-award-winning documentary The Gift in Adversity. John carried a single idea from 2011 to 2024, through the loss of an early manuscript, years of self-doubt, and being turned away at the door, and never let go of the knowing that it was meant to be real. His story is a living map of what happens when you refuse to dismiss your own inner knowing. Unable to read until age nine, John went on to publish over 45 books with more than 450 authors across 50 countries, with royalties supporting a children's home in Bali. His documentary, featuring Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Jack Canfield and 21 other global thought leaders, began as imagined conversations on a vision board and became the real thing, one aligned step at a time. Kaye and John explore the courage to act before there is any evidence, the compassion that adversity carves into us, and why the willingness to keep going is the proof. This is a conversation about vision, devotion, and the quiet authority of trusting what you know long before the world can see it. The power of change is in your hands. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
