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My Conversation With Rachel Lyon, Author Of Self-Portrait With Boy: A Novel

Click Here To Listen Rachel Lyon A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship. Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, responsible for her aging father, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. One day, in the background of a self-portrait, Lu accidentally captures on film a boy falling past her window to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous, the best [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|Fiction|Comments Off on My Conversation With Rachel Lyon, Author Of Self-Portrait With Boy: A Novel
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My Conversation With Fran Leadon, Author Of Broadway: A History Of New York City In Thirteen Miles

Click Here To Listen Fran Leadon An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street. In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century’s Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the way up to Marble Hill, Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|History, Transportation|Comments Off on My Conversation With Fran Leadon, Author Of Broadway: A History Of New York City In Thirteen Miles
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My Conversation With Dr. Adam J. Cox, Author Of Cracking The Boy Code: How To Understand And Talk With Boys

Click Here To Listen Adam Cox All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. How do you penetrate this shell before they are lost to you? Drawing on decades of experience garnered through thousands of hours of therapy with boys, Cracking the Boy Code explains how the key to communicating with boys is understanding their universal psychological needs and using specific, straightforward communication techniques. Coverage includes: Why it's important to understand the psychological needs of boys How to talk to be heard, and listen to [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|Men, Parenting, Youth|Comments Off on My Conversation With Dr. Adam J. Cox, Author Of Cracking The Boy Code: How To Understand And Talk With Boys
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Bram Baker

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Professional Services Bram Baker -Currently working for The Bank of Nashville a division of Synovus. Specializing in working with commercial clients with annual sales 10 million or greater. -Worked at US Bank prior to in the business banking division. -Has 19 years of banking experience ranging from retail to commercial lending -Lives in Hendersonville where I am involved with the Hendersonville Civitan and Hendersonville Rotary. -Graduate of Alabama A&M University -Member of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church -Married to wife Jennifer with two sons 12 and 14. -Spends the majority of my free time watching my boys play football, baseball, and basketball. Both [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|African Americans, Banking, Biography, Finances, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Bram Baker
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Dan Ryan

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Professional Services Dan Ryan his role as Principal at Ryan Search & Consulting, Dan leads the Talent Acquisition, Talent Development and Succession Strategy processes for their clients. The primary market segments for the firm include Engineering, Construction, Architecture, Corporate, and Healthcare. Dan has worked with multi-national clients employing large workforces and has also helped small firms in the emerging economy understand how to best utilize and leverage their existing talent. Dan has earned a M.Ed. from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, a MBA from Tennessee State University, and a BS in Engineering Physics from Murray State University. He has been an adjunct faculty member for [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|Business, Careers, Human Resources, Williamson Leading|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Dan Ryan
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Eric Meriwether

Click To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Professional Services Eric Meriwether Eric L. Meriwether is a 2005 graduate of the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University where he received his Bachelors of Business Administration with a concentration in Business Management. Eric has been in the financial industry for over 14 years. He began his career in financial services in 2004 with SunTrust Bank as a part-time teller, and quickly moved up the ranks into management after graduating from MTSU. Eric established a solid track record of successfully managing financial centers for SunTrust and 5/3rd Bank amassing numerous awards, recognitions, accolades, and most importantly client advocacy. In 2014, he [...]

By |May 14th, 2018|African Americans, Banking, Finances, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100, Uncategorized|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Eric Meriwether
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My Conversation With Jonathan Lamb, Author Of Economics is Like Sex: Common Sense Thinking For Better Decisions Through the Taboo Topics Of Money, Budgets, Markets And Trade

Click Here To Listen Jonathan Lamb Economics has become a taboo topic because is not well understood. As a taboo topic it doesn’t get discussed, and since it is not discussed, it is not understood―what a vicious cycle! Shying away from open discussions about money, budgets, markets, and trade has resulted in many misconceptions. Economics is all around us, and with a little common sense understanding of economic principals, Jonathan M. Lamb changes the way people view the world. Economics is Like Sex advocates that economics isn’t a boring subject filled with charts and theories cooked up by some dead guys who lived centuries ago. Economics is about decisions. Decisions that relate to money, life, [...]

By |May 12th, 2018|Banking, Economics, Finances|Comments Off on My Conversation With Jonathan Lamb, Author Of Economics is Like Sex: Common Sense Thinking For Better Decisions Through the Taboo Topics Of Money, Budgets, Markets And Trade
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“Live From Sydney Australia”- My Conversation With Sarah Wilson, Author Of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety

Click Here To Listen Sarah Wilson The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age—anxiety—viewing this widespread condition not as a burdensome affliction but as a powerful spiritual teacher that can deepen our lives. While reading psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison’s groundbreaking account of bipolar disorder An Unquiet Mind, Sarah Wilson discovered an ancient Chinese proverb that would change her life: To conquer a beast, you must first make it beautiful. Wilson, a bestselling author, journalist, and entrepreneur, had spent years struggling with her own beast: chronic anxiety. And the words of this proverb would become the key to understanding her condition. First, We [...]

By |May 11th, 2018|Gospel, Health, Medical, Science, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on “Live From Sydney Australia”- My Conversation With Sarah Wilson, Author Of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
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