“I felt like every conversation with a mentor on another business person came back to ‘I don't know what I want to be when I grow up’ and I didn't like that because I knew for the longest time—this is it. I love what I do and want to do it forever... and then I didn't. And that was weird.”
—MARK HENSON, Founder of sparkspace & author of Ordinary Super Powers
Anyone who knows Mark would likely agree that he's one of the more upbeat and positive people you'll ever meet—and as the founder and creative force behind sparkspace, he's running one of the coolest places on the planet for creative inspiration, personal development and team building.
And that's all Mark wanted to do. Run a business just like that.
Until he didn't.
Mark opens up about what happens when you lose that spark for the thing you love, how depression can still get its grips on the optimist, and how figuring out what you're good at—and not simply passionate about—is the key to unleashing your ordinary super powers. This is a story of rediscovery and finding that spark again to do your best work—that stuff you were meant to do.
We also discover some interesting back history on Mark as he reveals tidbits about his life as as Top 40 radio disc jockey in middle America, with a not-so-middle-America on-air persona.