Everyone needs to listen to this Greatness podcast with Vanessa Bennett, neuroscience expert, coach, and speaker. Why? We have learned more about the brain in the last five years than in the history of humankind and that knowledge is invaluable to us all. Vanessa shares concrete tips about how to "optimize your cognitive energy" in a way that allows you to improve your mental health and your performance, and avoid burnout. Our brains hate ambiguity, and even anticipating a difficult conversation creates stress. It's not enough to learn about our brains. The key is to build new habits that reduce stress and help us lead happier, healthier lives.

Delegation is a challenge for many leaders at all levels. I believe delegation is a critical skill because those who do not delegate drown in low-priority tasks. Author and consultant Shanna Hocking joined the Greatness Podcast to share tips on what to delegate and how to delegate from her insightful HBR article on the topic. She explains practical actions to take to improve your ability to delegate, including understanding your "why" that keeps you from doing it.

Do you sometimes feel like you are failing at everything? Not juggling fast enough? Not prioritizing your health? Danielle Dobson, author of Breaking the Gender Code, joined the Greatness Podcast to share the insights she gained through dozens of interviews and research on why many women have these feelings. Danielle shares that women often work "the triple shift" - paid work, domestic work, and emotional work. She encourages each of us to build our own code, not just around the gender code, but also around the class code, the race code, all the "codes" that influence our thinking. Danielle shares great advice for how we "decode" and "recode" to help us all build resiliency and avoid burn-out.