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My Conversation With Jason Zook, Author Of Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way For Finding Happiness In Work, Life, And Love

Click Here To Listen Jason Zook Tired of all the "shoulds" that guide your life? Want to create a life full of meaning? Work on your own terms? See the world a little differently? Then it's time to Own Your Weird. Creative entrepreneur Jason Zook certainly walks the walk of "owning his weird." He's had some crazy yet successful schemes -- he's made over a million dollars by having more than 1,600 companies pay him to wear their t-shirt (a project called I WearYour Shirt). Later he auctioned off his last name twice, for $50K each time. He then self-published his first book Creativity for Sale by nabbing sponsors and generating $75K in revenue. Now [...]

By |September 17th, 2019|Business, Leadership, Uncategorized|Comments Off on My Conversation With Jason Zook, Author Of Own Your Weird: An Oddly Effective Way For Finding Happiness In Work, Life, And Love
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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Surviving Cancer-What You Need To Know On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Dr Valencia Campbell-Surviving Cancer - What You Need to Know

By |September 15th, 2019|African Americans, Business, campbell, Careers, Drugs, DrValencia, Health, Medical, Science, Uncategorized, Women|Comments Off on Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Surviving Cancer-What You Need To Know On DrAlvin.Com
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My Conversation With Kate Black, Author Of Represent: The Woman’s Guide To Running For Office And Changing The World

Click Here To Listen Kate Black “Over the last few years we’ve seen a remarkable surge of women running for office, and even better, winning. Running takes courage, passion, and commitment, but it also takes books like this. June and Kate have created a wonderful resource for women as they think about taking the leap.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton Turn “can I do this?” into “yes, I can!” Join the growing wave of women leaders with Represent, an energetic, interactive, and inspiring step-by-step guide showing how to run for the approximately 500,000 elected offices in the US. Written with humor and honesty by writer, comedian, actress, and activist June Diane Raphael and Kate Black, former chief of [...]

By |September 12th, 2019|Government, Politics, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Kate Black, Author Of Represent: The Woman’s Guide To Running For Office And Changing The World
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My Conversation With Gilly MacMillan, Author Of The Nanny

Click Here To Listen Gilly MacMillan-The Nanny “The Nanny kept me in white-knuckled suspense until the very last page. Gilly Macmillan’s breakout thriller is a dark and twisted version of Downton Abbey gone very, very wrong.” — Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another. When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, [...]

By |September 12th, 2019|Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Gilly MacMillan, Author Of The Nanny
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My Conversation With Andrew Gross, Author Of The Fifth Column

Click Here To Listen Andrew Gross-The Fifth Column “One of the best historical thriller authors in the business... [A] stellar novel.” —Associated Press #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One Man Andrew Gross once again delivers a tense, stirring thriller of a family torn apart set against the backdrop of a nation plunged into war. February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell’s Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, [...]

By |September 11th, 2019|Fiction, German, History, Jewish, Military, Nazi, Thriller, War, World War|Comments Off on My Conversation With Andrew Gross, Author Of The Fifth Column
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My Conversation With Sharon Robinson (daughter of Jackie Robinson), Author Of Child Of The Dream

Click Here To Listen Sharon Robinson An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inauguration speech as governor of Alabama. It is the beginning of a year that will change the course of American history. As the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, Sharon has opportunities that most people would never dream of experiencing. Her family hosts multiple fund-raisers at their home in Connecticut for the work that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is doing. Sharon sees her first concert after [...]

By |September 10th, 2019|African Americans, Biography, Sports|Comments Off on My Conversation With Sharon Robinson (daughter of Jackie Robinson), Author Of Child Of The Dream
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My Conversation With Benjamin Runkle, Author Of Generals In The Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, And Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II

Click Here To Listen Benjamin Runkle Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and their peers became the greatest generation of senior commanders in military history. As the U.S. Army’s triumphant homecoming from World War I was quickly forgotten amidst two decades filled with economic depression and growing isolationism, Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Omar Bradley, Lucian Truscott, Matthew Ridgway, and their brothers in arms toiled in a profession most Americans viewed with distrust. Before they became legends, [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|Military, War, World War|Comments Off on My Conversation With Benjamin Runkle, Author Of Generals In The Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, And Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II
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My Conversation With Caitlin Doughty, Author Of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

Click Here To Listen Caitlin Doughty Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|Death, Gospel, Health, Medical, Memoir, Murder, Science, Spirituality, Wisdom|Comments Off on My Conversation With Caitlin Doughty, Author Of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death
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My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America

Click Here To Listen Christopher Leonard - Kochland Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|Biography, Business, Careers, Leadership|Comments Off on My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America
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My Conversation With Talia Carner, Author Of The Third Daughter: A Novel

Click Here To Listen Talia Carner-The Third Daughter “In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and empowerment that will leave you both shaken and inspired.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy [...]

By |September 9th, 2019|Russia, Women|Comments Off on My Conversation With Talia Carner, Author Of The Third Daughter: A Novel
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