Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. And today, I'm so excited to bring you an interview

with best-selling author Gay Hendrix, whose newest book, The Genius Zone, The Breakthrough

Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity, is chock full of actionable

advice on how to unlock our best creative selves. I hope you take

away some inspiration and a commitment to action from my conversation with Gay. Gay Hendrix, author of

The Genius Zone. What an honor and a pleasure to have you on the Modern Mentor podcast. Thank you so much

for joining me. Thank you so much, Rachel. It's my pleasure to be here. You were the author. You are, the author

of The Big Leap, which made a big splash. When that came out, and the Genius Zone is your follow-up

to that book. Is that right? Yes, it's a sequel. It's kind of the whipped cream and cherry on top of the

ice cream Sunday. I mean, I love whipped cream and cherries and ice cream. They go beautifully together.

So tell me a little bit about the genius zone, how it came about for you, and what prompted you

to write it now? I got to thinking, there's one other kind of thing I wanted to,

the Marasino Cherry that I wanted to put on top of the big leap, which was the two big concepts

that are in the genius zone. One of them is how to spot what I call genius moments, those everyday

moments when you can jump directly into your genius zone.

And so that's one of the big things in the new book.

And the second big thing has to do with how to live in your genius zone, how to make the little

self-corrections that will keep you from kind of falling

over into the ditch. The big leap showed how to get into the genius zone, how to overcome the

upper limit problem, and map out what your particular zone of genius is. The new book is all about

enhancing the amount of time you can

spend there and how to grab hold of the little moments of the day that offer you the

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