Fail Forward: 🌍 Leading With Vision, Resilience, and Integrity: Lessons from Anne Leslie

27 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Anne Leslie discusses her greatest self-investment: education. The conversation opens with John Maxwell's "fail forward" philosophy, the idea of failing early and often but always moving ahead.

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That is amazing. Actually, my mentor John Maxwell is the one who made that quote famous: fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. Actually, there is a 2-minute video clip by Will Smith and Denzel Washington. They kind of talk about this philosophy. Maybe at the end I am going to play it. It's very, very inspirational. This is wonderful, man. I'm going to need to get you back here. You do have a half stop, right? It's 4 PM. Your time? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, quickly, man, I have so much to talk to you about. All right, so what is the greatest investment you have made in yourself?
I think the greatest investment I've made in myself— education. I think the education has served me in so many ways. It served to