Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader.

That's what this podcast is all about.

Today, we're going to talk about a book that I co-authored

with my friend Jason Goldsmith, a renowned sports performance coach for world-class athletes.

The book is available now wherever you buy books and is titled, Take Charge of You,

how self-coaching can transform your life and career. Now, what makes this book different

is you can obviously read this book from front to back, and I know you'll enjoy the stories that

Jason and I tell. But the big differentiator is that we have great exercises and tools that you

can use in this book to help you coach yourself to reach your full potential

in your life and career. This is a book you can not only read, it's a book you can use again and

again to take yourself to new heights. Now, you know, I usually do these podcasts myself and ask

all the questions, but I thought it'd be a lot of fun to let you hear from both

Jason and I and have someone else interview us. So I asked my friend Donna Barton Brothers to sit

in and guide our conversation. Donna is a former jockey and world-renowned broadcaster for NBC.

She's the one you see at the Kentucky Derby interviewing the winner on horseback riding

backwards. That's pretty incredible. So we're off to the races. Let's not wait any longer. Here's a

very fun conversation with two of my good friends and soon to be yours, Donna Barton Brothers

and Jason Goldsmith.

It's my pleasure to talk today with David Novak and Jason Goldsmith, the co-authors of Take Charge of You.

So why this book, why now?

And you've written three books about yourself.

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