Leslie John (on the power of oversharing)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- June 17, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 42m
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- Last updated
- Jun 17, 2026
Discusses Leslie John (Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing) is a behavioral scientist, Harvard Busi…
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Leslie John (Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing) is a behavioral scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and expert on privacy, self-disclosure, and decision-making. Leslie joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in Waterloo, Canada, training professionally in ballet as a child, and how her family’s irrational penny-pinching sparked …
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Leslie John (Revealing: The Underrated Power of Oversharing) is a behavioral scientist, Harvard Business School professor, and expert on privacy, self-disclosure, and decision-making. Leslie joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in Waterloo, Canada, training professionally in ballet as a child, and how her family’s irrational penny-pinching sparked her fascination with human behavior. Leslie and Dax talk about why people are more open to revealing their dark secrets on a sketchy-looking we