Mel Robbins

I am so excited that you're here.

It's always an honor to be together and to spend this time with you.

And if you're a new listener or you're here because somebody shared this episode with you, I just wanted to take a moment and personally welcome you to the Mel Robbins Podcast family.

Today, we're talking about research that will change your life and your career from the number one professor on decision-making at Harvard Business School.

Today's guest is a leading authority on how people decide what to reveal, what to withhold, and how those decisions shape trust, relationships, success, and happiness.

I'm talking about Dr. Leslie K. John.

She is a Harvard Business School professor, the James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration, and a behavioral scientist who has spent decades studying honesty, self-disclosure, trust, privacy, regret, and decision-making.

Her research has been published in the most respected scientific journals in the world, and she is the author of the best-selling book, Revealing.

The Underrated Power of Oversharing, which completely changed how I think about silence, vulnerability, and the things we don't say.

So without further ado, please help me welcome Dr. Leslie John to the Mel Robbins Podcast.

Oh, thanks so much for having me.

I am so excited to dig into everything that you're about to teach us, your research.

And where I want to start is how selfishly, how could my life be different if I take to heart everything that you are teaching at Harvard Business School?

the lessons, the takeaway, the research, and I really apply it to my life.

How is my life going to change?

You know, Dr. John, I'm sitting here thinking, if you're standing before a class at Harvard Business School,

You gotta have a bunch of really type A people in there who wanna go into iBanking or be the next billionaire or build something meaningful, hardworking, hard driving.

They end up in front of you and you're like, hey, let's talk about the power of oversharing.

I know.

How do you sell the benefit?