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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

Written by Russell Brand

Narrated by Russell Brand

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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"British comic Russell Brand narrates this powerful combined memoir and personal growth lesson as if he were performing a one-man play... this 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 bestseller 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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 9, 2019
ISBN9781250231048
Author

Russell Brand

Russell Brand is a comedian, journalist, TV presenter and actor. He has won numerous awards including Time Out's ‘Comedian of the Year’, ‘Best Live Stand-up’ at the British Comedy Awards, ‘Best TV Performer’ at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, ‘Most Stylish Man’ at GQ's Men of the Year Awards. The first instalment of his autobiography, My Booky Wook, was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. It also won the Tesco ‘Biography of the Year’ award at the Galaxy British Book Awards.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Love it, Rusty but slow down! Fascinating and thought provoking.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book with a lot of little tidbits of advice. Raw, real, a breath of fresh air.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Russell Brand’s honesty is refreshing.
    His insight is encouraging.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I totally underestimated this book. It was a great listen and provided tons of useful insight into the relationship between mentors and mentees.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Russell Brand certainly knows how to turn a phrase! I found this book to contain quite a bit of poetry..very good poetry.
    I have always liked him and admired his quick wit and humor as well as his openness about recovery.But after reading this now I believe he has one of the most brilliant minds on the planet...and perhaps quite a bit north of the planet as well .
    I found it entertaining,thought provoking,warm hearted,funny at times and enlightening.
    Hopefully the reader of this review will enjoy it as much as I did.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I just keep coming back to it. This book- and it’s exquisite narration, do the work of spreading the information we know to be true in our bones. A forthright and kind reminder of the loving goodness that exists in the world, where it’s fallen out of style, and how to coax it back into life. Listen and invite the tide in you to rise up- lifting you, and every boat in your marina. A patient, true, and honest mirror through which we’ve been gifted the invitation of reflection.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Awful night.besties died within a two months of each other. Thanks for the need not two swan dive