About The Guardian Academy
The Guardian Academy was a weekly publication that ran from 2022 to 2026.
It is no longer publishing new work. What you’re reading is the archive.
If you’re trying to figure out what to do with that, the short version is: the writing is finished, but everything that was published is still here. The full body of work has also been distilled into a single short book called Come Home: The Life That’s Already Yours, which is the cleanest version of what we were trying to say. If you want one place to start, that’s it.
What the work was about.
The Guardian Academy was built on a fundamental observation: the people who consistently produce extraordinary results — across business, performance, and life — operate from a different toolbox than the rest of their industry. Not better tactics. Not harder work. Different toolbox. We called it a first-principles toolbox, as opposed to an industry-norm toolbox.
The publication wrote across four lenses:
Self-knowledge — getting clear on what actually matters to you, and noticing the gap between what you say and what you do
Strategic thinking — seeing the field clearly, and making decisions that hold up over decades rather than quarters
Peak performance — the principles behind people who win at the highest level, and the principles behind people who keep winning
Business growth — building businesses that retain, refer, and produce raving fans, with the operational discipline that makes growth sustainable
Three years of weekly writing, hundreds of posts, and the body of work that came out of it is what’s archived here.
The contributors.
Four people wrote The Guardian Academy. Nic Peterson, Joseph Robertson, Jeff Spencer, and Lukas Resheske. Each of them brought a distinct register and a distinct lens. The publication worked because it was four voices, not one.
Other voices appeared along the way as guests, collaborators, and contributors — investors, operators, performance coaches, builders. Their fingerprints are on the archive.
What’s next.
The Guardian Academy is closed as a publication, but the work itself is not finished. It’s continuing in a different form.
The next container is called The Foundry. It’s a paid membership built around the same four lenses that emerged out of TGA, but structured as direct teaching rather than weekly broadcast. It’s for the readers who want to do the work, not just read about it.
The Guardian Academy archive stands on its own. The Foundry is for the readers who want what comes after.
A note for the people who were here.
If you read along during the years TGA was running, thank you. The publication only worked because somebody was on the other end. The writing was real because you were real.
Live to learn. Give to earn.
— Nic
The Guardian Academy
