Jody Brooks on Authentic Living, Mental Health & Leadership | Famous Interviews

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with coach, award-winning business owner, sustainability expert, and United Nations speaker Jody Brooks. His remarkable journey has taken him from senior leadership roles in international education and sustainability to confronting a deeply personal mental health crisis marked by severe anxiety, depression, and suicidal thinking that pushed him to the edge of what felt survivable. But Jody didn’t simply recover — he rebuilt his life from the inside out. That transformative experience became the foundation for his Nine Principles of Authentic Living, a powerful framework designed to help others reconnect with themselves, overcome internal struggles, and create lives rooted in honesty, resilience, and purpose. Today, Jody combines lived experience, leadership insight, emotional intelligence, and authentic coaching to guide people toward healthier, more grounded lives. He possesses a rare warmth, honesty, and ability to make deeply personal conversations feel safe, meaningful, and accessible. In this interview, we discuss mental health, anxiety, depression, personal transformation, authentic leadership, sustainability, emotional resilience, coaching, healing, mindfulness, purpose, self-awareness, and the importance of living truthfully in a demanding modern world. This is a moving and deeply human conversation filled with wisdom, vulnerability, and hope. Enjoy this interview with Jody Brooks. More Jody Brooks:https://authenticcoaching.me/ For More Famous Interviews: Subscribe via Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgi6GpDDDrc_PgOzaERGbLQ Subscribe via iTunes/Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/famous-interviews-with-joe-dimino/id1660256991Subscribe via Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7j92QDS13LXgajPt80X2dh The Home of Famous Interviews: http://famousinterviewswithjoedimino.blogspot.com/ Contribute to Famous Interviews via PayPal:                    https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_b Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.