Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

Russell Brand

Apr 2019 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Russell Brand

About this audiobook

"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.

Ratings and reviews

Dude this was great. Brands voice has a real sense honesty and it's easy to understand the point of the subject matter. I found myself jotting down notes as I listened through the chapters, reflecting upon and recongizing the peeps that have taken the various different mentor roles in my own life. I enjoyed this on multi levels ....it's concise doesn't waste your time and ya can hear the progression and learning the author went through to be able to convey his thoughts/perspective.

I relate to the struggle. I've been blessed with over 26 yrs. of continuous sobriety. I learned humility and became humble & grateful, by God's grace and mercy. I was of maximum service to other's suffering in recovery. I'm so thankful to Dr. Bob & Bill Wilson, My family, my recovery family, recovery mtgs & materials; Last but not least, my sponcers and mentors along my journey, one day at a time.

Another great book. Thank you.

About the author

Russell Brand is a comedian and an addict. He's been addicted to drugs, sex, fame, money and power. Even now as a new father, fifteen years into recovery he still writes about himself in the third person and that can't be healthy. He is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Recovery. He still performs as a comic and is studying for an MA in Religion in Global Politics. He has two cats, a dog, a wife, two babies, ten chickens and sixty thousand bees in spite of being vegan curious. He is certain that the material world is an illusion but still keeps licking the walls of the hologram.