Send us a text In this episode of Daily Energize, Spencer Jones shares a powerful quote from James Clear: “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” Learn how intentional actions, guided by your vision, can shape who you are becoming each day.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text In this episode of Daily Energize, Spencer Jones breaks down the difference between attitude and behavior—and why aligning the two is key to feeling balanced and authentic.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text In this episode of Daily Energize, Spencer Jones reminds us of the power of gratitude—not just listing what we're thankful for but truly feeling it. Learn how to shift your mindset and energy by embracing gratitude with intention and presence.By Spencer Jones

In this special episode of Eye Own a Business, I’m sharing three powerful conversations from a previous podcast I hosted, Can I Ask You One Question? Each segment features a bestselling author exploring a common theme: how to influence human behavior in ways that lead to better outcomes—for your patients and your practice. You'll hear from Dr. Step…

Send us a text In this special episode of Daily Energize, Spencer Jones guides you through a short gratitude-focused meditation to help you feel calm, centered, and energized for the day ahead. Perfect for a quick reset—just breathe, relax, and refocus.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text In this episode of the Daily Energize, Spencer Jones dives into the Pomodoro Technique — a simple, science-backed method to boost your focus and productivity. Learn how working in 25-minute bursts with short breaks can help you get more done and feel calmer throughout your day.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text It is a self-love challenge for this weekend. Here's what it looks like. I want you to intentionally take one hour total over today, Saturday and Sunday. It can be one hour total to do something that truly fills your cup, that energizes you, that makes you feel alive and whole, and it's just poured so much love and joy into your hear…

Send us a text Today's episode of The Daily Energizer, I want to talk about self-doubt. You know those times, those moments in your life when you don't believe in you, when you struggle to have faith in yourself, in your abilities, in who you are, what you're doing in one aspect or sometimes many aspects of our life.…

Send us a text Have you ever had a communication breakdown? You know, the times when you can't seem to understand what that other person's saying or no matter how hard you try, they just can't seem to understand or comprehend what you are saying.By Spencer Jones

In this episode, Steve Vargo interviews Nathan Hayes, discussing the challenges and strategies surrounding payroll and hiring in optometry practices. They explore the complexities of hiring decisions, balancing fear and logic, and the importance of having the right team members to drive growth. They also touch on practical advice for managing staff…

Send us a text Every word carries energy to build, to break, to breathe life into something new. Join me as we explore the art, emotion, and intention behind language.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's topic and something I want to share as we start this week, or even whenever you're listening to the start of the week or not, I hope it helps is how to stay positive.

Send us a text Today's challenge is this. I'm challenging you to intentionally have fun, intentionally have fun this weekend.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text What makes you happy? What makes your heart smile?By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's episode is all about letting go, releasing things that no longer serve you. Because let's face it, we all hold on to things that are not serving us. Yes, myself included. And many others, we all hold things that do not serve.By Spencer Jones

In this episode, Dr. Steve Vargo addresses a common challenge faced by practice owners: how to increase revenue production from associate ODs. He emphasizes the importance of clear communication in setting expectations, tracking performance metrics, and having productive review meetings. Dr. Vargo highlights the need for mentorship, focusing on pat…

Send us a text Today's topic was it comes from a post a number of posts actually that I've seen recently, and I'm curious if the universe is sending me a message and I think it is. So, I just want to share it with you.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's topic is all about loved based leadership, or fear-based leadership. But before you turn it off, because you're like, I'm not a leader, Spencer, it's okay. Because here's how I look at it. I believe we are all leaders. Some of us have titles and roles that are leaders in companies and organizations.…

Send us a text Hey Energizer. What's happening? Happy Friday. And in today's episode of the daily Energize, I'm going to lay down a challenge for you. I love laying down challenges. You probably already know that just from being you and being an avid listener of the Daily Energize.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text What is a popular cliche that you hear? And especially, what's a popular cliche that you hear within the personal growth in this personal development and mindset world?By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today I want to talk about feedback. Like the feedback you get from other people. Now, we get feedback all the time, right? Even what we see is feedback. What we hear is feedback.By Spencer Jones

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Stewart returns to discuss her remarkable journey back into private practice after selling her first practice. Reflecting on her initial decision to step away and the motivations behind her return, Dr. Stewart shares insights into what she learned about patient care and business operations. The conversation explores th…

Send us a text Today's question I have for you is, well, I'll make it a tip here in a little bit, but hopefully it'll give you a jolt of energy to help you live your life to the max. And the question is, what are you grateful for?By Spencer Jones

It's part 2 with MJ Morley! We've walked through the factual allegations of the Jones v Abel lawsuit, but we called in for legal reinforcements to walk us through the law! We are thrilled to be joined by MJ Morley (@morewithmj) who has extremely relevant experience in New York employment law, and has also been covering the Lively v Baldoni suits on…

Send us a text Hey Energizer. I have a quick question for you. Where can you be vulnerable? Where in your life can you be you? You know, just let your light shine. No walls, no facades, no shields, no armor. You're just able to be you.By Spencer Jones

We've walked through the factual allegations of the Jones v Abel lawsuit, but we called in for legal reinforcements to walk us through the law! We are thrilled to be joined by MJ Morley (@morewithmj) who has extremely relevant experience in New York employment law, and has also been covering the Lively v Baldoni suits online from a neutral perspect…

Send us a text Question! Of the time that you spend with people, maybe with your spouse, your kids, your friends, how much of that time is meaningful time? That's right, meaningful time. Time that you are present with them and not distracted by other things.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text I wanna share some about an evening routine and how I have built my evening routine in hopes that it can help you because it has helped me a lot.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today is a check-in. I want you to check in with yourself and with your alignment. So in previous episodes, a number of episodes before, maybe you've heard and maybe you haven't, we've talked about your compass, your priority compass. What matters to you? You know, you have your priorities and things that really matter too, your valu…

The future of optometry is evolving, and today’s new grads have different expectations, career goals, and challenges than ever before. In this episode, I sit down with Howard Purcell, OD, FAAO, President and CEO of New England College of Optometry, to discuss what the next generation of optometrists really wants—from practicing to the full extent o…

Send us a text You are amazing. Shine that light out, be your authentic self but it can be so hard at times, it can be difficult at times to try to be our authentic selves.By Spencer Jones

We finish our thorough review of the Jones v Abel complaint. In the next episode, we'll be speaking to a lawyer with expertise in this specific area of law in this jurisdiction. But from where we're sitting, this looks really bad for Abel et al... Support the show, get rid of ads, and get bonus stuff over on patreon.com/gavelpod!…

Send us a text The quick tip for today is all about the power of connection and the energy of connections. Building relationships and having connections, relationships with people makes such a huge difference in our lives and you could probably just reflect on your own life and realize how true that is with your family, with friends, with coworkers…

While the It Ends with Us controversy carried out in front of the world, there was significant drama behind-the-scenes in the PR world, culminating in a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Jennifer Abel, Melissa Nathan, Justin Baldoni, and Wayfarer Studios. Lydia kicks off the episode with some background on the Plaintiffs in that suit - Steph…

Send us a text Today's topic will hopefully help you let it shine. Life can be serious at times. The things we have to do, the things we experience in this human experience, can be stressful.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's episode is brought to you by a joyful moment I had this morning. It's brought to you by a joyful moment I had this morning, and it actually connects with an episode we had last week.By Spencer Jones

This begins a chunk of episodes on Jones v Abel. But you know us, we first need to lay a lot of foundation. After Blake Lively's CRD complaint and the story in the New York Times became public, folks spoke out in support of Lively, and expressed shock at the alleged actions of Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer team. We detail the fallout in timeline …

Send us a text I hope you enjoy today's episode, and it is helpful to and for you. So, today's about being open and it stems from a lunch I had last week.By Spencer Jones

In this episode, Kayla Ashley, founder of Spexy, joins the podcast to discuss the importance of influential communication and how simple behavioral adjustments can notably improve patient trust and practice outcomes. Ashley shares actionable insights into reducing patient walkouts, optimizing team interactions, and enhancing the overall patient exp…

Send us a text I hear that a lot of our energizers are drowning themselves. They're drowning themselves in the could'ves, would'ves, should'ves in the guilt and shame of the past. And sometimes they're drowning themselves, actually a lot of times, they're drowning themselves in taking care of others.…

Send us a text What is your intention for today? What is your intention for the week? Now we've had many episodes where we've talked about intentions and we do them often or often enough every, you know, maybe month or two months or something like that, because they're so easy to forget. It's so easy for us to get sucked into the daily run of life.…

Send us a text Today I want to share something that kind of irks me a little bit. It just rubs me the wrong way and I need to do some digging into why it bothers me, but it does. Yes, not a lot, not like it's really super annoying, but it's one of those things that just goes, makes me go, uh, really like, come on.…

Send us a text How often do you beat yourself up? Not physically, at least I hope not physically. I'm thinking more mentally and emotionally, like when you make a mistake, because let's face it, we all make mistakes at times.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's topic, as it says in the title is faith and work. Faith and work. I met someone recently and he's doing some incredible work with men's mental health, and he has his own organization and he's doing some great stuff and he's continuing to build it up.By Spencer Jones

At The Connection 2025, Dr. Todd Cohan discusses the importance of integrating a business mindset into optometry practices. He shares insights on balancing patient care with effective business management, highlighting three pillars of his practice: primary eye care, myopia management, and dry eye treatment. Dr. Cohan emphasizes the need for entrepr…

Send us a text Today's episode is about not taking yourself so seriously. And I'll be totally upfront with you as I always try to be. I had a different episode planned for today and this recording. So I moved it I bumped it to I'll record this one for next week. But in any case, I changed it. Because you just don't take yourself so seriously. Have …

Send us a text Today's episode, I want to share something, a phrase, turning around some words that we use to help it empower you. So, we're going to talk about it in a little bit and this is one that I've heard many, many times from a variety of different sources.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today I want to talk about inviting people. Now one way you can take it is invite people to join the Energizer family. Invite people to listen to the podcast.By Spencer Jones

Send us a text Today's episode is all about how are you giving back? How are you sharing your gifts with the world? And what's cool is there's so many ways we can give back. We can give back through monetary donations, we can give back through volunteer, we can give back by sharing our talents and gifts with the world.…

Send us a text You know what? You are awesome. That's right. You are awesome. Yes, you right there. I see you. I feel you. You are awesome. I hope that you know you are awesome. Don't, don't let it get to your head and become egotistical.By Spencer Jones