Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess with Dr. Caroline Leaf
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have a very special episode to share with you! In this episode, John Maxwell talks with his good friend Dr. Caroline Leaf––a world-renowned communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist who just released her newest book Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess.
Dr. Leaf dives deep into her book and explains how properly managing our mind and thinking habits can shape our brain, and even our DNA, in a positive way. She and John discuss the implications of her research on leadership and our own ability to manage our minds instead of allowing our minds to manage us.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Mental Mess Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/MentalMess and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess by Dr. Caroline Leaf
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listeners, Mark Cole here and welcome to another episode of the John Maxwell |
| 0:11.4 | leadership podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Today is an incredible treat for me and I know you will feel the same in about 35 minutes |
| 0:20.6 | because today I'm joined on the phone with my friend, our mentor, Dr. John Maxwell and |
| 0:27.8 | he's in studio in Florida and has been impacting and adding value to literally thousands of |
| 0:34.5 | people today. |
| 0:35.7 | But he said, hey, stop the recordings, stop the cameras. |
| 0:40.4 | I want to go do a podcast with my special friend, Dr. Caroline Leif. |
| 0:45.9 | Now that's our special guest today and I've already John let the cat out of the bag because |
| 0:51.0 | we're going to have an incredible podcast. |
| 0:54.4 | Now you may know Dr. Caroline Leif for a lot of her work. |
| 0:59.1 | She is a pathologist, a cognitive neuroscientist helping people with communication but her passion |
| 1:06.0 | is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain and find their purpose |
| 1:12.6 | in life. |
| 1:14.3 | You also may know her as an author but I want to tell you that today she is the proud |
| 1:19.2 | author of another book because yesterday March the second her book cleaning up your mental |
| 1:27.0 | mass hit bookstores and that is what we want to talk about today because mental health |
| 1:33.1 | is a huge topic especially in today's times and that is what cleaning up your mental |
| 1:39.4 | mass is all about five simple steps for reducing anxiety and stress. |
| 1:46.8 | Dr. Leif I already feel better just saying that. |
| 1:50.4 | I'm so excited about today. |
| 1:53.1 | Now you can go ahead if you want to be at the student at the top of the class you can go |
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