In April 2019, I spoke with Bryan Robinson, PhD, a psychotherapist, professor, researcher, and author. He is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on workaholism. He had just published #CHILL: Turn Off Your Job and Turn On Your Life, and we talked about why so many people feel driven, how a few quiet minutes a day can change that, and what calm actually feels like from the inside.
In March 2019, I spoke with Harry Derbitsky, who teaches the three principles uncovered by Sydney Banks and wrote The Evolution of Addiction Recovery. I had been reading his book, and much of it matched my own thinking at the time.
In January 2019, I spoke with Mani Saint-Victor, MD, a physician, hypnotist, and coach, and the author of Thinking About Quitting Medicine, which now runs to two volumes. He left his psychiatry residency to build a different kind of working life, and most of his coaching today is with physicians who are asking the same questions he once asked.
In December 2018, I spoke with Michael A., who had written an article about going through more than two dozen rehab stays over six years before he finally found something that worked.