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Mentors
- How to Help and Be Helped
- Narrated by: Russell Brand
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"British comic Russell Brand narrates this powerful combined memoir and personal growth lesson as if he were performing a one-man play.... [T]his audiobook reveals Brand's startling insights about how we human beings can make a lot of serious mistakes but somehow keep the faith about our potential for healing, love, and honesty in all of our affairs." (AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner)
This program is read by the author.
Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes, and mentors.
Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow-up to the New York Times best seller Recovery - describes the benefits of seeking and offering help.
"I have mentors in every area of my life, as a comic, a dad, a recovering drug addict, a spiritual being and as a man who believes that we, as individuals and the great globe itself, are works in progress and that through a chain of mentorship we can improve individually and globally, together.... One of the unexpected advantages my drug addiction granted is that the process of recovery that I practise includes a mentorship tradition.
"I will encourage you to find mentors of your own and explain how you may better use the ones you already have. Furthermore, I will tell you about my experiences mentoring others and how invaluable that has been on my ongoing journey to self-acceptance and how it has helped me to transform from a bewildered and volatile vagabond to a (mostly) present and (usually) focussed husband and father." (Russell Brand)
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped describes the impact that a series of significant people have had on the author - from the wayward youths he tried to emulate growing up in Essex, through the first ex-junkie sage, to the people he turns to today to help him be a better father. It explores how we all - consciously and unconsciously - choose guides, mentors, and heroes throughout our lives and examines the new perspectives they can bring.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-06-03
Excellent book
Philosophically well written and spoken, Brand communicates to the reader an Honest, Open, and Willingness to tackle the subject of mentorship and what it means to those who look to implement such strategies in today's world.
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- Jason
- 2019-07-14
Recommended, well done, important
Mentors is an important reference even if your not dealing with all the trouble that comes up in the duration of anyone’s existence. Are you looking for a better way to articulate issues and want to integrate possible advances? Read / listen to this. Serious and well put meaning can be funny in how accurate it is. I’d expect a lot of people can finally identify and move with a few more things of themselves and others from this.
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- jay doucette
- 2020-09-08
more about being mentored
I enjoy his podcasts mostly thought I would give his books a try and this one is okay
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- Chris
- 2019-07-07
Short stories with insight.
I liked Russell Brand from his movies and TV show appearances. It was afterward I learned he turned to spirituality. It was easy to brush him off as a hack but after listening to his podcast I realized he had real depth and things to teach. He gets into it with this book and it reads as a series of short stories for each mentor he encounters. The thing that sets him apart from other spiritual teachers is that he infuses his comedic flare into his points and it really helps drive home points. I always believe that comedy is the key to reaching out to people. It holds truth and can instantly connects people with a good laugh.
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- Georgiablue
- 2021-01-25
It’s just perfect
I am only sorry it had to come to an end.
Russell Brand is becoming the best spiritual leader out there, and I know from whence I speak, having read/listened to so many of them over decades.
I’ve just spent some time availing myself of the free courses being offered by some other ‘coaches’ and found them to be less than sincere and more like infomercials.
Listening to Mr. Brand amplifies by contrast the egos and greed of many who hang their shingles under the ‘self-help’ or ‘spiritual awakening’ banners.
Russell Brand asks for nothing but gives much and damn, he is magic with words.
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- Sheryl P.
- 2019-05-03
plain speaking and powerful message.
I've heard Russell Brand speak before, and this book is like one rambling conversation. Powerful message delivered in his no-holds-barred style.
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- Urszula Muntean
- 2019-05-09
Great book! Really enjoyed it.
I so enjoyed Russell Brand's lyrical expression. His words paint vivid & inspiring pictures. Really enjoyed this book from start to finish.
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- wordsrcool
- 2023-08-23
If words had ADD, this is their story.
I've never heard someone say so little while saying so much. What are you even trying to say? I thought I was a fan of Russell Brand and his witty intellect, but suddenly I'm not so sure. Did his editor just run this through a thesaurus to try and make everything in this book sound more sophisticated?
This was so painful to listen to that I didn't make it past the second chapter.
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