The Mel Robbins Podcast

Based on your new clinical research and the new what is going to be mega bestselling book, Help in a Hurry, you have also established that you can in 63 seconds stop yourself from a negative thought or emotional spiral.

Now, Charles' most recent book, Super Communicators, cracked something open to me and it's going to do the same for you.

Charles' New York Times bestselling book and all the research he did for the book Super Communicators.

Dr. Mackay is the author of three bestselling books on brain health, including The Women's Brain Book.

His newest release is the number one dad book, Be the Best Dad You Can Be in One Hour. I've read it. It's a fast, funny, and heartfelt read packed with the reallife lessons James Patterson wishes he'd known sooner.

Well, I am so excited to discuss your newest book. I mean, you've got so many books, but this one is really special. The number one dad book, Be the Best Dad You Can Be in One Hour.

I love this book. The number one dad book. Be the Best Dad You Can Be in an hour.

I could put this in a bathroom. I could put it in a bedroom. I can pick it up and I can read any chapter out of order or any little essay. I'm reading on page 65. And there are these short, beautiful vignettes.

Because this is, by the way, James, going to be my number one gift to every new father. I could put this in a bathroom. I could put this in a bedroom. I can pick it up and I can read any chapter out of order or any little essay.

I have a nonfiction book coming at the end of the year, Disrupt Everything.

And it has to do with this age of disruption we're in now, which is just insanity. And I don't just mean what's going on with the government, just in general. There's so much, I mean, disease, weather, college, sports, everything you look at, it's all just changing. And if we don't, and a lot of it is, from our point of view, it becomes negative. Our work, our business, people are getting fired. It's a very tough situation. And if we don't learn to disrupt positively, it's going to be very hard for people. So that book is about disrupting positively.

Wasn't it almost 20 years later, though, that Along Came the Spider was published? Yeah. That's kind of the Alex Cross novel.

Dr. Judith Joseph, who is a double board certified psychiatrist. She is a leading mental health researcher and the author of the brand new bestseller, High Functioning.

He said, I finished the book that you sent me... The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.

He's written five bestselling books, including his latest, Win the Inside Game, How to Move from Surviving to Thriving.

I'm reading from Win the Inside Game, page 90. The research you write about showed that over 100 years of Nobel prizewinning scientists, the distinguished scientists were 22 times more likely to perform, sing, or act, 12 times more likely to pursue creative writing, and about seven times more likely to participate in crafts like sculpting, painting, or glassblowing.

You write about this very interesting thing in your book, Win the Inside Game, and this is on page 123. The winner became more aggressive, attacking whatever opponent stepped into the cage next, while the losers hesitated, retreated, and defended, leading to a streak of wins for the winners and a streak of losses for the losers.

Dr. Shepard is also the author of the bestselling book, Generation M, Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause.

It's your buddy Mel Robbins today. You and I are learning from Dr. Jessica Shepard. Her bestselling book is called Generation M.

Chapter nine of your bestselling book, Generation M. I love the title, Thin Skin, Thinner Hair.

The bestselling book is Generation M.

He's also the author of Thriving with Anxiety, Nine Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You.

The title of your bestselling book is Thriving with Anxiety.

This is the name of his book, and you should go buy it right now.

His book is Thriving with Anxiety.

You have so many tools in your book, Thriving with Anxiety.

He's also written this awesome book, Finding Confidence in Conflict, which is also about how you use the science of negotiation in your life to get what you want.

Even in your book, I'm reading on page 11, you say negotiation is just any conversation where someone in the conversation wants something.

Her bestselling book is called Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or SelfInvolved Parents. It has sold over a million copies.

I found a part of your book so fascinating, Dr. Gibson. It's on page 84. You talk all about this thing called healing fantasies and how these healing fantasies that we have about our parents in particular...

It reminded me of something that you wrote in your book. This is chapter two on page 24, that the mission is not to disrespect or betray your parents, but to finally see them objectively.

I also appreciate you, Dr. Gibson, for putting words to the experience that so many people around the world have had. I know you're going to absolutely love this book, and you'll love taking all the tools that we discussed today and applying them to your life.

After our conversation today, and certainly after devouring your book, I definitely have the ability to tell when somebody is treating me well and when they're not. And that also includes when I'm treating myself well and when I am not.

He's also written a brand new book called Make Money Easy, which I've read and it's fantastic.

congratulations on your new book, Shift