What if the biggest leadership breakthrough starts when we stop judging the behavior we can see and get curious about what’s driving it? That’s the question sitting underneath this whole conversation. My guest, Pax Prentiss, spent ten years addicted to heroin. He was in and out of treatment centers through most of the 90s, and every one of them handed him the same thing: a label and a lifetime of managing it. Then his father asked him a question. Why do you think you’re using? Pax got sober in 2000 and hasn’t touched a drug or a drink in more than 25 years. Passages Malibu opened in 2001 and has helped more than 40,000 people get sober by treating what’s underneath the addiction instead of stopping at the label. Pax and his father also wrote the book The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure. Pax and I talk about what he found when he finally looked beneath the addiction. We talk about courage, and why it can’t exist without discomfort. We talk about why leaders, and honestly all of us, do better when we ask for help. ABOUT PAX PRENTISS Pax Prentiss is the CEO and co-founder of Passages Malibu and the co-author, with his father Chris, of The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure. After ten years of heroin addiction, he got sober in 2000. Passages Malibu, which opened in 2001, treats body, mind, and spirit with one-on-one therapy and individualized care, focused on healing the depression, anxiety, trauma, and low self-esteem that drive substance use. It has helped more than 40,000 people get sober. ABOUT LARRY OLSEN Larry Olsen is a Two-Time Vistage Speaker of the Year and Fortune 50/500 Executive Performance Advisor with 40+ years of client work at Toyota, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Harley-Davidson, Honda, American Airlines, State Farm, Frito Lay, Lexus, and Tropicana. He is the author of Get a Vision and Live It! and the founder of Performance Driven Neurology. IF THIS LANDED FOR YOU The next step is Larry’s Brain Hacks Intensive. It is a guided practice that walks you through the foundational mindset shifts Larry teaches Fortune 500 executives. Brain Hacks Intensive: https://neuromindedcollective.com/brain-hacks-challenge FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERS If you want to find out which patterns are currently running your leadership, take Larry’s free 5% Leadership Assessment. Less than 5 percent of leaders operate from the patterns it measures. 5% Leadership Assessment: https://tally.so/r/kde74r CONNECT WITH LARRY Website: larryolsen.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/larry-r-olsen CONNECT WITH PAX PRENTISS Website: passagesmalibu.com Book: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure - https://passagesmalibu.com/philosophy/the-alcoholism-and-addiction-cure LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/PaxPrentiss Instagram: @PassagesMalibu Facebook: /PassagesMalibu SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE New episodes of the Brain Vault Podcast publish every other Wednesday. Yours in growth, Larry
What if the biggest leadership breakthrough starts when we stop judging the behavior we can see and get curious about what’s driving it? That’s the question sitting underneath this whole conversation.
My guest, Pax Prentiss, spent ten years addicted to heroin. He was in and out of treatment centers through most of the 90s, and every one of them handed him the same thing: a label and a lifetime of managing it. Then his father asked him a question. Why do you think you’re using? Pax got sober in 2000 and hasn’t touched a drug or a drink in more than 25 years. Passages Malibu opened in 2001 and has helped more than 40,000 people get sober by treating what’s underneath the addiction instead of stopping at the label. Pax and his father also wrote the book The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure.
Pax and I talk about what he found when he finally looked beneath the addiction. We talk about courage, and why it can’t exist without discomfort. We talk about why leaders, and honestly all of us, do better when we ask for help.
ABOUT PAX PRENTISS
Pax Prentiss is the CEO and co-founder of Passages Malibu and the co-author, with his father Chris, of The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure. After ten years of heroin addiction, he got sober in 2000. Passages Malibu, which opened in 2001, treats body, mind, and spirit with one-on-one therapy and individualized care, focused on healing the depression, anxiety, trauma, and low self-esteem that drive substance use. It has helped more than 40,000 people get sober.
ABOUT LARRY OLSEN
Larry Olsen is a Two-Time Vistage Speaker of the Year and Fortune 50/500 Executive Performance Advisor with 40+ years of client work at Toyota, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Harley-Davidson, Honda, American Airlines, State Farm, Frito Lay, Lexus, and Tropicana. He is the author of Get a Vision and Live It! and the founder of Performance Driven Neurology.
IF THIS LANDED FOR YOU
The next step is Larry’s Brain Hacks Intensive. It is a guided practice that walks you through the foundational mindset shifts Larry teaches Fortune 500 executives.
Brain Hacks Intensive: https://neuromindedcollective.com/brain-hacks-challenge
FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERS
If you want to find out which patterns are currently running your leadership, take Larry’s free 5% Leadership Assessment. Less than 5 percent of leaders operate from the patterns it measures.
5% Leadership Assessment: https://tally.so/r/kde74r
CONNECT WITH LARRY
Website: larryolsen.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/larry-r-olsen
CONNECT WITH PAX PRENTISS
Website: passagesmalibu.com
Book: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure - https://passagesmalibu.com/philosophy/the-alcoholism-and-addiction-cure
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/PaxPrentiss
Instagram: @PassagesMalibu
Facebook: /PassagesMalibu
SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE
New episodes of the Brain Vault Podcast publish every other Wednesday.
Yours in growth,
Larry