S2E344 Help in a Hurry - a Conversation with Dr. Caroline Leaf

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Your mind runs your brain — and how you manage it determines your quality of life. In this fascinating episode, Brian Buffini interviews cognitive neuroscientist and

bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf, who explains how to train your mind to work for you, not against you. Drawing from four decades of clinical research and her groundbreaking new book, Help in a Hurry: Simple Tips for Finding Peace When You're Overwhelmed, Anxious, or Stressed, Dr. Leaf shares powerful, practical techniques to quiet mental clutter, rewire toxic thought patterns, and experience peace and productivity in as little as 63 seconds.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur navigating stress, a parent balancing it all, or simply seeking more clarity in today’s noisy world, this conversation will help you renew your mind and live with greater calm, purpose, and joy.

YOU WILL LEARN:

The difference between the mind and the brain — and why that distinction matters.
How to manage the “messy mind” in the age of overstimulation and social media.
A simple, science-backed 63-second technique that helps you reduce stress, anxiety, and toxic thinking.

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Help in a Hurry: Simple Tips for Finding Peace When You're Overwhelmed, Anxious, or Stressed, by Dr. Caroline Leaf

Drleaf.com

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“Your mind runs your brain — your brain does not run your mind.” – Dr. Caroline Leaf

“We’re not in a mental health crisis; we’re in a mind management crisis.” – Dr. Caroline Leaf

“You can’t control events and circumstances, but you can learn to control your reactions.” – Dr. Caroline Leaf

“We're also living in an era of excess technology and not being taught how to manage it.” – Dr. Caroline Leaf

“The non-conscious mind not only has the problems that we've created, but also the solutions, because that's wisdom. Wisdom is solutions.” — Dr. Caroline Leaf

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing yourself and your business.
0:09.6	Here's your host, founder of America's largest business coaching company, Brian Bafini.
0:17.2	Well, the top of the morning, tea, and welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host Brian Bafini,
0:20.9	and we have a very special guest for you today. Her name is Carolyn Leif. In fact, Dr. Carolyn Leif,
0:27.7	and she is a cognitive neuroscientist, bestselling author, and an expert on how to manage your mind
0:34.0	when life gets messy. And her new book, which I'm holding my hand, which is
0:37.6	absolutely terrific, is called Help in a Hurry. And we're going to dig into some science-based
0:42.9	tools today to bring calm to the chaos. Dr. Leaf, welcome to the show. This audience is somewhat
0:50.0	chaotic in a chaotic industry. We need your help. Oh, thank you, Brian. It's so great to meet you and to be on your show. And I think I wrote the book for myself. Help and hurry, we all need it. Yes. Give us a little background on where did Caroline Leaf come from and how did you end up in this world? Oh, that's so funny. Okay, well, I come from my mom's Irish, as you were talking
1:11.4	before. Yes. Dad's Italian and you've brought the Italian background too. I grew up, I was born in
1:15.9	Zim, grew up in South Africa and been in the States for the last 16 years and I've been in the
1:20.6	field of clinical and clinical and research, neuroscience and psychoneurobiology for the last 40 years.
1:28.4	And still do research, write books, do clinical trials, help people,
1:32.7	and trying to help people to understand the most important thing, which is the mind.
1:36.5	No doubt.
1:37.1	I mean, we're a coaching company.
1:38.9	So we have all these great techniques to help people grow their business and so on and so forth.
1:42.6	So we have all these how-toes and all these things that if people follow, you know, our average client does
1:46.8	10 times out of their competitors. Incredible. But I'm going to say this, 60% of our coaching
1:51.5	is helping the person with the person. Okay. I get that totally. That makes so much sense.
1:58.0	You follow? It's the self-sabotaging that goes on, the family of origin
2:03.1	stuff that shows up, you know, be shocking how fear of success is such a bigger deal than I ever
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