Best of Anxiety Slayer: How to Cultivate Mindfulness and Calm Anxiety with Marc Lesser

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

#630: In this popular replay, Shann introduces Anxiety Slayer listeners to Zen Teacher and CEO, Marc Lesser. Marc is the Co-founder of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and the author of Seven practices of a mindful leader - Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen and several other books. He is also the host of the new Zen Bones Podcast. We begin our conversation by talking about the origin of Marc's inspiration for writing his book and delve into the following topics. How Marc's book can support business leaders who struggle with anxiety. The Dalai Lama and Anxiety How to begin a mindfulness practice The importance of connecting to our pain How simplifying your life can open you to more mindfulness You can get a copy of "Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader" at Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm your host Shan Banderleek and this
0:07.3	episode is brought to you by the Anxiety Slayer Academy. Visit anxiety Slayer
0:11.9	com to download our free anxiety Slayer starter course.
0:20.0	Today I have the pleasure of introducing you to Mark Lesser.
0:24.0	Mark is a CEO and Zen teacher who leads mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs
0:30.0	at many of the world's leading businesses. He also offers trainings and talks
0:35.6	worldwide. Hello Mark, welcome to Anxiety Slayer.
0:39.3	Hello, Sand, it's really a pleasure to be here with you. Yes, wonderful to have you here today.
0:44.0	Let's begin our conversation
0:46.0	by talking about the origin and inspiration
0:50.0	for writing seven practices of a mindful leader.
0:53.0	I'm also very intrigued by your tagline,
0:55.0	lessons from Google in a monastery kitchen.
0:59.0	Yeah, well that's been my life,
1:02.0	those, much of my life has been integrating what looks like those two different worlds the
1:07.9	mindfulness and contemplative practices world and the world of corporations and especially Google.
1:15.0	Very briefly, I took a one year leave of absence from university.
1:20.0	I was on the East Coast in Rutgers and went to the West Coast and that 10 years turned into,
1:27.0	I'm sorry, that one year turned into 10 years at the living at the San Francisco Zen Center.
1:33.8	As you might imagine, my parents not too thrilled about that.
1:37.7	As a parent, I get it now, in a way I didn't at the time.
1:41.6	Right.
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