Jon Levesque
Author of Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life. Bios, photos, talking points and interview questions, ready to use. Everything here is cleared for press and event use with credit.
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Bios
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Jon Levesque dropped out of high school, became a tech executive, and wrote Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life.
Short
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.
Long
Jon Levesque has no business writing a self-help book, and he knows it. He's a high school dropout with a GED. What he has instead is receipts: eighteen moves before finishing school, a childhood of empty fridges, a first marriage that ended with a cleaned-out condo, and one long October night on a ferry terminal bench at what looked a lot like rock bottom.
Then he fixed his thinking.
He went from minimum wage to building communities for some of the biggest names in tech, including Microsoft's Power Platform community of more than two million people. Today he's VP of Community & Developer Relations at OutSystems.
Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life is his first book. He didn't write it to inspire anyone. He wrote it to hand readers the tools. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Alisha, and their three kids.
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The book
- Title
- Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life: Same Facts. New Story. Different Life.
- Author
- Jon Levesque
- Publisher
- Jon Levesque Media
- Publication date
- October 20, 2026
- Genre
- Self-help / Memoir
- Paperback
- 244 pages · ISBN 979-8-9975108-0-0
- Ebook
- ISBN 979-8-9975108-1-7
Quotes from the book
The bench wasn't rock bottom. The bench was the blank page.
"Fine" is not a yes. It's a slow no to your own life.
Being right is the most expensive thing I've ever owned.
The armor was genius. It's also a cage.
You don't get to choose what was given to you. You absolutely get to choose what you give.
Same facts. New story. Different life.
Talking points: the fourteen frameworks
Each chapter ends with one framework. Any of these can carry a segment. Full essays are on the frameworks page.
Part I · The Code Gets Written Early
- 1
The Stories You're Telling Yourself. The voice in your head isn't truth. It's programming... written by a kid, still running on the adult. You can't rewrite code you've never read.
- 2
The Trap You Built Without Knowing It. Every "fine" tightens the trap. "Fine" is not a yes. It's a slow no to your own life.
- 3
The Complaint You're Married To. The grievance that pays you in righteousness and charges you everything else. Divorce it.
Part II · Strip the Code
- 4
Facts vs. Fiction. What happened and what you made it mean are two different things. You wrote the meaning. You can rewrite it.
- 5
You Decided Before They Spoke. You decided what they meant before they spoke. Catch it red-handed: "What I heard was ___. Is that what you said?"
- 6
Is It Working? Not "could it work someday." Right now, in reality. If the math doesn't math, it's not working.
- 7
Being In My Life Is a Privilege. Access to you gets earned... even by family. Especially by family. Change the locks.
- 8
The Armor That Became a Cage. What protected you then is imprisoning you now. The door has always been unlocked from the inside.
Part III · Rewrite the Code
- 9
Stop Surviving, Play to Win. Survival mode has a ceiling. Stop asking "how do I not lose?" Start asking "how do I win?"
- 10
Let Them In. Community doesn't find you... you build it. Needing people isn't weakness. It might be your superpower.
- 11
Fuck Yes or Fuck No. Commitments require fuck yes. Adventures only require why not. Know which question you're asking.
- 12
Love Has Levels. You might be settling for a 4 because nobody ever showed you a 10. Take the armor off and find out.
Part IV · The Proof
- 13
The Climb. No big leaps. Rungs. Every job, every risk, every ask is a parlay to the next one.
- 14
The Cycle Breaking. 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.
Suggested interview questions
- You open the book on a ferry terminal bench at 3am. What happened that night, and why do you call it a blank page instead of rock bottom?
- You're a high school dropout with a GED who became a VP. What did you have to unlearn to get there?
- The book says the voice in your head is code written by a kid. What does that mean, and how does someone catch theirs running?
- What is "the complaint you're married to," and why do people hold on to grievances that are costing them?
- You say "fine" is one of the most dangerous words in your vocabulary. Why?
- "Is it working?" is a simple question. How do you use it on something you can't walk away from?
- You spent years believing "I don't need anyone," then built communities millions strong. How did that happen?
- What does breaking a generational cycle actually look like on an ordinary Tuesday?
Interviews, podcasts, keynotes
Jon reads every one himself.
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