Welcome to the feel good effect. Okay, mindfulness. Does it sound daunting or boring or like something that you could

never do? Well, this episode is all about what you really need to know about mindfulness and how to do it

in real life. Let's make it happen. Welcome to the feel good effect, a podcast about what it

really means to be healthy. I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs. I'm a researcher, blogger,

storyteller, and educator, and I know firsthand just how hard creating a healthy lifestyle can be.

In this podcast, we'll talk to health and wellness thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries to deconstruct healthy to help you feel good.

Hey, hey, feel good effect community.

I'm so glad you're here.

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welcome. Go ahead and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. And for those of you who return

every week, as always, I am so grateful for you. Thank you for being part of this community

and this conversation about what it really means to be healthy. I have such a treat for you today. We are talking with

Dr. Leah Weiss. Leah is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. She teaches compassionate

leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she created the always waitlisted

course leading with mindfulness and compassion. She is a principal teacher

and founding member of Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, which was conceived by the Dalai Lama.

Her first book, How We Work, Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, Embrace the Daily Grind,

focuses on developing compassionate and soft skill-based leadership, while also offering research

back to actionable steps toward finding purpose at work.

I wanted to bring Leah to you, Dr. Weiss, because she's the real deal.

So first of all, she has a PhD.

She has a master's in social work, and she spent years studying under the Dalai Lama.

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