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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 work will change in the future.

Today's guest is Christopher Lockhead,

a best-selling author and host of the podcast Follow

Your Different.

Chris is a Silicon Valley startup advisor, and he was chief marketing officer at three publicly

traded tech companies.

He's also failed a lot along the way, which we'll discuss.

And like a lot of our guests, he's always working on something interesting.

And I'm always writing. I have two writing

partners in a group we call Category Pirates. And to the best of our knowledge, moral, we are the only,

if there's others out there, we'd love to find them. Nonfiction, business writing band. We put out a new

single every couple weeks and call that a newsletter. And then after we get to 12 or 15 of

those done, we package them up and launch that as a book. What might be surprising about the fact

that Lockhead is so prolific, though, is that he's dyslexic. He also has discalculia, which means

that numbers and math are hard for him.

But like so many others who have learning differences, he's managed to find his way and succeed

outside of the system, outside of the rules and regulations, written and unwritten, that a lot of us

think we have to follow to get ahead. I spoke with Chris about how his learning

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