Welcome to the Dr. Leave Show, everyone, and I'm so thrilled to have John back again.

John and I go back a while. We've interviewed each other a few times and always have,

we always just have lovely conversations. And we both know Craig Siegel. He's a mutual friend.

And we've been on his Instagram lives together. So we kind of really compliment each other in the work that we do.

John, you're a prolific writer. I mean, I thought I wrote a lot of books. I've written 19. You've written 32. You've written kids books. And you've got a new one coming out. The seven commitments of a great team. I love that. So John, welcome. And just tell our audience a little bit about who you are and what you do and then we'll dive into a new book. Sure, yes, the seven commitments of a great team. It just came out of as my book and I really believe it's my favorite book I've written. It's my best book. I feel like I've been writing this book for 54 years. That's how long it took to write this book because it's a collection of my experiences and it all started with me back in the day growing up in Long Island, New York. I went to write this book because it's a collection of my experiences. And it all started with me

back in the day growing up in Long Island, New York. I went to college to play lacrosse in college

at Cornell University, had an incredible experience there. And I say that because Coach Richie was my

coach and he's also the main character in my book, The Seven Commitments of a Great Team.

Coach Ritchie really impacted me in incredible ways.

So I get done with college.

I'm trying to find my way.

Caroline, I actually opened up a bar in Buckhead when I was 24 years old.

I got some investors together, opened up this bar.

After I got my master's in teaching. So I taught

for a year and then I went into the bar business after teaching for a year. I love it.

You needed to drink off to teaching, did you? Exactly, exactly. But I consider myself a teacher

to this day. You're a teacher, I believe, as well. And we teach. Yeah, yeah. I mean,

obviously you're a scientist and so much more,

but you're also a teacher teaching us about our brain, about our mind, about our health and

everything that we need to know to live better lives, to live more optimally. And so in many ways,

I'm a teacher of positive leadership. But this is ironic for me because I grew up in many ways negative and I had to

work at being positive. And so my family was often negative growing up and I had to learn how to be

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