I'm Maura Aronsmeli, and this is The Anxious Achiever.

We look at stories from business leaders who've dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges, how they fell down, how they pick themselves up, and how they hope workplaces can change.

Today's guest is an idol to my kids and to many kids and adults around the world.

He's an Olympic gold medalist, five-time NBA All-Star. He's one of the big three with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, who helped the Cleveland Cavaliers reach four

straight NBA finals, including a 2016 championship. Not only that, he will earn about $31 million this year. And yet, Kevin Love is often

depressed and anxious. It's in his chemistry. Love has written eloquently about his experience,

and he's been in the press talking about this.

But before he started talking about it, he feared he'd be seen as weak, or that he wouldn't be taken as seriously on the court.

He was worried he would be shamed.

Now, of course, none of that has happened.

Kevin Love is a role model to so many, and he's helped spur a discussion in the National Basketball Association and in pro sports in general.

Recently, NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, even admitted that many players in his league are anxious and that the league needs to take action.

Our heroes have depression and clinical anxiety.

Remember that.

So I'm thrilled to have Kevin Love join us today to talk about mental health, success,

and the journey in between.

So you've been public about your struggle with depression,

and I'm curious, you know, was that a hard decision to make to go public?

It was a very hard decision because I feel like, you know, it was even more heightened and even more under a microscope because as athletes and as an athlete were looked at at superheroes.

I know that from growing up and, you know, having these superstars in my eyes like Charles Barkley or Shaquille O'Neal or even, you know, before that with Larry Bird and Matthew Johnson, Michael Jordan,

I'm looking like, these guys are indestructible. Nothing can hurt them. Growing up as a young man,

I thought to expose that, it was just going to put me in a light where people were going to look at me as weak. Not only my teammates or my counterparts, but, you know, as I got older, it was, you know,

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