I'm Jon Levesque. I wrote Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life, a self-help memoir by a high school dropout who probably has no business writing one. Here is what I can talk about, what your listeners leave with, and how to book me.
Pick one, or tell me who listens and I'll pick. All fourteen frameworks are on the frameworks page.
At thirty I spent an October night on a ferry terminal bench. No marriage, no house, nobody to call. I walk through how I pulled the facts of that night apart from the story I had stapled to them.
What happened and what you made it mean are two different things. You wrote the meaning. You can rewrite it.
Your listeners get: Two columns they can fill in that night: what a camera would have recorded, and what they made it mean.
I said "fine" to a proposal, a house we couldn't afford and a church where the certainty never came. Nothing slammed shut. Each "fine" closed one more door until there were none left.
Every "fine" tightens the trap. "Fine" is not a yes. It's a slow no to your own life.
Your listeners get: A way to catch their own "fine" while it is still cheap to take back.
GED, no degree, $7.25 an hour at Blockbuster at nineteen. Then a string of jobs, a startup that fell apart, a promotion I didn't get, and most of a year not knowing what was next. I'm not self-made. Nobody is.
No big leaps. Rungs. Every job, every risk, every ask is a parlay to the next one.
Your listeners get: Permission to stop waiting for the big leap, and a way to pick the next rung.
I believed that for years. Then I grew Microsoft's Power Platform community to 2.2 million members. What changed was learning to enroll people in something instead of selling them on it.
Community doesn't find you... you build it. Needing people isn't weakness. It might be your superpower.
Your listeners get: How to invite people into something they will stay for, at work or at home.
From my parents I got chaos and love with strings attached. From my grandparents I got love without conditions. Something always gets passed forward. I talk about choosing what, on purpose.
You don't have to pass down everything you were handed. Keep the gold. Refuse the rest. What you refuse to pass on ends with you.
Your listeners get: One question to ask before they hand their kids what they were handed.
25+ keynotes, 200+ talks and a dozen podcast guest spots.
The book has no studies in it. Every framework comes out of something that happened to me, and I tell it the way it happened.
Every chapter ends with questions and one exercise. I bring the one that fits your audience.
Use them, change them, or ignore them and ask what you want.
Jon Levesque has no business writing a self-help book, and he knows it. He's a high school dropout with a GED who spent his twenties surviving, then fixed his thinking and built a career in tech. Today he's VP of Community & Developer Relations at OutSystems. Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life is his first book.
Pick a time, or write to me. I read every one myself.