Welcome guys and gals to the Mantox show. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of

Mantox. This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and

extraordinary individuals to

help teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer in life, love, and business.

Joining me today is a friend and just really incredible gas.

This is such a great conversation.

Joining me today is Dr. Russell Kennedy.

Dr. Kennedy or Russell is a neuroscientist.

He's a medical doctor. He's a corporate speaker and entertainer and certified yoga teachers.

So his personal qualifications, he's listed as the anxiety MD. And we're going to talk much more than just anxiety today. You can think

about this podcast episode as being all about stress relief, which I feel like is such a huge

conversation and topic today. So he's called the anxiety MD because he's lived with anxiety for most of his life and has

devoted his entire career to helping others get out of the whole that he's actually found

himself into the past for a very long time.

So he believes that there's no better teacher than the one that there has, you know,

than the person that has really been able

to go through it, that has a medical training for it, that understands the neurology and the

neuroscience behind it. So, you know, Russell's anxiety started when he was quite young and he grew up

with a really severely mentally ill father, which we're going to dive into, who would lapse,

his father would lapse into psychotic depression and high states of anxiety. And it really

was fragmenting for him to the point that he developed a fairly severe anxiety disorder,

even as a doctor. So, so Russ actually shares a bit about his experience in the beginning,

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