Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vander League and today I'm speaking with Dr. Adam Bendelli.

Adam is a leadership advisor with over 20 years of corporate consulting experience

and a personal mental health journey that he ties into all of his work.

He's a leading expert on human behavior and relationships,

and his latest book, Relational Intelligence,

is available now wherever books are sold.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer Adam. How are you? I'm so good. It's good to be with you today.

Yes, a pleasure. a pleasure.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I realize that we haven't had a lot of conversations

with experts like you,

with people who can help us navigate what it's like to wrestle with a mental health

journey while we work to deal with bouts of anxiety or depression or what have you in the workplace.

Everything we've done has been so personal and lifestyle related and yet here we are.

We all have to make a living and workplaces can be super stressful.

So that's kind of where I'd like to start

is to have you kind of guide us through your mental health journey and how that ties to relational

intelligence and then maybe from there we can dig into how that relational intelligence can

help our listeners who are working in

stressful jobs. Yeah, no, that'll be great. I love to start. So I'll share a little

bit about my background first and how that's connected to my mental health journey.

So I grew up in the 80s, an athlete first.

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