The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
You Don't Need the Title
The Spark
Most people think leadership begins when someone puts you in charge.
I don't.
Leadership starts much earlier.
The Weekly Spark with Dr. Rod
A Little Spark Can Change Everything.
Big changes do not always begin with big moments.
Sometimes they begin with one idea that makes us think differently, one question we keep thinking about, or one small challenge that encourages us to take the next step.
The Weekly Spark with Dr. Rod is a short weekly message designed to keep those moments going.
One Spark.One Question.One Challenge.Once a Week.
$1 A MONTH
or $9.99/year · Best Value
Short. Practical. Encouraging. Delivered once a week.
A Small Moment With a Purpose
Leadership Is Built in Everyday Choices.
Leadership is not something we think about once and then master.
It develops through everyday choices.
How we respond when something goes wrong.
How we treat someone who needs encouragement.
Whether we try again after a setback.
Whether we take responsibility when it would be easier to make an excuse.
Whether we choose to listen before we judge.
The Weekly Spark creates one small moment each week to think about those choices.
It isn't another long lesson to finish.
It's simply a spark.
Something to think about, talk about, and put into practice.
The Same Rhythm Every Week
Read It. Think About It. Try It.
Every Weekly Spark follows the same simple format so the experience feels familiar while the idea changes each week.
01
The Spark
A short message from Dr. Rod about leadership, character, confidence, resilience, empathy, attitude, responsibility, relationships, vision, or personal growth.
02
Think About It
One question designed to turn the week's idea into a moment of reflection or conversation.
03
Try It This Week
One small action that puts the idea into practice.
This Week's Spark
You Don't Need the Title.
Here's what a Weekly Spark actually feels like.
The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
Edition 01 · Leadership
You Don't Need the Title
The Spark
Most people think leadership begins when someone puts you in charge.
I don't.
Leadership starts much earlier.
It shows up when you keep your word even when it would be easier not to. When you admit you made a mistake instead of looking for someone else to blame. When you notice something needs to be done and decide to help without waiting to be asked.
Someone is already paying attention to how you show up. It might be a friend, a teammate, a classmate, a coworker, or someone younger who looks up to you.
You don't need a title to influence them.
You already do.
Leadership begins when you become intentional about what you do with that influence.
Think About It
Who might be paying attention to the example you're setting right now?
Try It This Week
Choose one thing that belongs to you, a promise, responsibility, mistake, or unfinished task, and take care of it without being reminded.
— Dr. Rod
One Message. Many Conversations.
Use It Wherever Leadership Is Growing.
A Weekly Spark can begin with one person and become a conversation with someone else.
Parents & Families
Read the Spark yourself and use the question or challenge to begin a meaningful conversation at home.
Educators
Bring the idea, question, or challenge into the classroom when it fits the conversations you're already having with students.
Mentors
Use a Spark as a starting point for meaningful conversations with the young people you guide.
Teens
Read it for yourself. Think about the question. Try the challenge. Decide what the idea means in your own life.
A Small Commitment With a Purpose
Small by Design. Meaningful by Intention.
The Weekly Spark is intentionally designed to be a small commitment.
Not because the ideas are small.
Because making room for them should be easy.
One message.
Once a week.
One opportunity to think, talk, and put something into practice.
$1 A MONTH
or $9.99/year · Best Value
No complicated program to complete.
No long lessons to keep up with.
Just a little spark each week.
Your Weekly Rhythm
A Familiar Spark, Waiting for You Each Week.
Part of what makes The Weekly Spark meaningful is its rhythm.
Same recognizable format.
A new idea each week.
Delivered on a consistent weekly schedule.
Over time, the format becomes familiar.
You know what to expect.
A New Spark Arrives Every Tuesday Morning
A Spark.
A question.
A challenge.
And one small opportunity to lead a little more intentionally.
The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
You Don't Need the Title
Edition 01
The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
What Happens Next?
Edition 02
The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
Who's in Your Pack?
Edition 03
The Weekly Spark
With Dr. Rod
What Energy Are You Bringing?
Edition 04
Dr. Rod Inspires
The Conversation Doesn't Have to End.
A story can introduce an idea.
A conversation can help us understand it.
Practice is what begins to make it part of who we are.
The Weekly Spark keeps those conversations going between books, classrooms, leadership programs, school visits, and everyday life.
One Idea Can Stay With You All Week.
Make room for one small moment each week to think, talk, and put something into practice.
The Weekly Spark with Dr. Rod
$1 A MONTH
or $9.99/year · Best Value
One Spark. One question. One challenge. Once a week.