Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Erich, from the founder of 100 Hours Outside.

And one of your very favorite guests is back again today for time number five. Mike McLeod, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. This is number five now, is it? Number five. Oh my God. I know. Well, you're so easy to talk to you and you're so interesting. So this is always great for me. I'm like, please come back and everybody loves you.

So welcome back.

You, we are right around the corner from you having a new book and a new book workbook that are coming out. The executive function playbook and the executive function playbook in action, which is the workbook. Tell us what we can expect. There is actually not that much information. I was like, what are the chapter titles? You know, I was starting to kind of dig a little bit. So it's still kind of underwraps, but you could probably

give us a little preview. Yeah, so this is really going to be a very factual-based, hard-hitting

book about the youth of today, the lack of executive functioning skills. What are executive

functioning skills really defining

them so people understand? It's not time management and organization. It is the most crucial

set of skills for human beings to develop. The greatest predictor of success for human beings

is to have executive functions. And it takes a deep dive into what they are how we strengthen them

why they're needed we talk about what all that's going wrong with education today and ways to

improve it and how to make sure you can be the parent you always dreamed of being and how you can

make sure your child achieves their dreams and goals So we have the executive functioning playbook that gives

you all that information, really hard hitting. All the people who have gotten advanced copies in Reddit

have just been like, wow, I had to sit down and take a couple of deep breaths after reading this.

This is really hard hitting, factual. It was all the things that I was thinking inside,

but it was afraid to say out loud. So it's a really great book in terms of just factual-based information combined with the workbook to really bring all of the practices of the book into action. And the workbook, you know, that's an interesting combo. Not the combo itself isn't unusual, but like to have two things that come out at the same time is like a, is it, that's a heavy lift.

You know, it's one thing to have one book come out at one time, but to have the workbook and the book, both at the same time.

But it just goes to show you're so practical.

What you do is so practical for families and for parents and for educators.

So talk to us about what someone could expect from the workbook.

Yeah. And I love that term practical, because that is really what parents need today. You and I have

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