About The Author: Bill Torbert is Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College and serves on the Boards of the Amara Collaboration and of Global Leadership Associates (home of the Global Leadership Profile). Torbert received his BA and PhD from Yale, played leadership roles at Yale Upward Bound and The Theatre of Inquiry, later served as Graduate Dean at Boston College (where the MBA rose from below the top 100 to the top 25 during his tenure) and as Director of the PhD program in Organizatio...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Derek Sheen is a cuddly mess of insecurities and a gifted, one-of-a-kind storyteller. His ability to mine humor from the dark, humid corners of the human condition has made him a cult favorite of comedy nerds around the globe. Despite a lack of television or film credits, he has amassed a pretty loyal fan base touring with comedy legends (name-drop alert!) Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt and Janeane Garofalo. Derek Sheen has released four critically acclaimed albums on Minneapolis based Stand Up! Re...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min
About the book: Dinny and her brother make their escape from slavery on the pirate ship the Hades. It is the last place in the world Dinny imagined she’d meet the love of her life. Lei, a Chinese exile, recognizes Dinny as the woman of his destiny. But their new life is shattered when her former owner seeks his revenge. With the help of their friends, family, and colleagues, Dinny and Lei will face the challenges of finding love and happiness in the Caribbean world of the 17th century. Enjoy thi...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Brian “Mister Frodo” Livingston was born and raised in Marietta, GA. In 2012, he graduated from Clemson University with a B.A. in History. He then thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2013 before starting his J.D. at Washington & Lee University School of Law. He now supplements his hiking with reading, fishing, and copious live music. Brian currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife, Olivia, and black lab, Maddux. The Habits of Squirrels is his first novel.
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Book Marketing Mentor Judy M. Baker helps business authors get more bang for their book, turning content into cash long after a book launch. After conquering cancer in 2014, she became an author advocate and self-publishing evangelist. Her memoir/guidebook will be published in 2022. Her workshops and one-to-one mentoring have inspired hundreds of authors to build awareness about themselves, their books, and their businesses. Judy embodies how small, strategic action steps build your audience, ge...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 6 min
D. Edward served as a Special Agent in the US Army in the 1980's and 1990's and is a veteran of multiple overseas combat tours. He was the Special Agent in Charge of the 1990 Panama Canal counter-terrorism threat assessment report to the US Congress. Atlantis Solved! What if there were a place on earth that matched Plato's description of Atlantis to a scientifically proven 99.32% accuracy? What if multiple historical documents corroborate the location? What if NASA satellite images were found th...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 23 min
With over 2,000 clients, from more than 50 countries, over the course of 30 years, Simon T. Bailey has the knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to help you find your spark. Simon T. Bailey’s purpose in life is to help you discover your brilliance. Through motivational speeches, direct one-on-one success coaching, 9 personal and professional development books, a national television talk show program, a viral video with over 90M views, and beyond, Simon has a wealth of information to share. It s...
Jul 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Shaily started doing social media for her hobby community in high school… ON MYSPACE. She didn't realize what she did was doing social media until after college when she saw a question on a job application asking if she had ever managed an online community, and she realized there was something there. She graduated from Indiana University with a degree and certification in elementary education K-6, and she now uses those mad teaching skills to lead workshops, work with business owners 1-on-1 trai...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published more than 182 new books, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today. She is also the author of Simply Happy, a crash course in Chicken Soup for the Soul advice and wisdom that is filled with easy-to-implement, practical tips for enjoying a better life. Amy i...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Bo Bissett is the founder of Amo Ni , a blended philosophy incorporating kinesiology (muscle testing), meridian release points, pranayamic breathing, and NLP. Together, these practices form a heart-centered clearing method that gets you out of your own way, skyrockets your intuition, and removes the controls your past emotions have over today's decisions and tomorrow's results. Learning self-muscle testing changed my relationship with myself. Honestly, that was the biggest change and had the big...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground by Laurie Greene The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborh...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Comedian, actor, writer, amateur chef Craig Mitchell returns Craig Mitchell is an Actor, Stand-Up Comedian, Writer and Amateur Cook. On September 8th 2016 Craig felt faint hours after dinner and at the weight of 380 lbs he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. He then immediately embraced a healthy lifestyle with the guidelines of limiting his food intake to 1600 calories a day or less and 150 grams of carbs or less. Since that day, Craig has lost over 100 lbs and since Feb 5th 2017 has his Type 2...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Escaping Gravity is a first-hand account of how a handful of revolutionaries paved the way for a new era of transcendental change at NASA. From inside the space agency, Garver collaborated with key players such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and President Obama to usher in a more peaceful, inclusive and meaningful space age. Garver’s effort put her in the cross-hairs of established interests who viewed her as a threat to the trillion-dollar government contracting system that has centralized power in t...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 7 min
About Frank Forencich: Frank Forencich is an internationally-recognized leader in health and performance education. He earned his B.A. at Stanford University in human biology and neuroscience and has over 30 years teaching experience in martial art and health education. Frank holds black belt rankings in karate and aikido and has traveled to Africa on several occasions to study human origins and the ancestral environment. He is a regular columnist for Paleo Magazine and a featured teaching partn...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Edward Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried stirred his interest. Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. Set in the 1940s, as America emerged from the Great Depression and went to war, Ed's book, The Gift Best Given, recounts the sea...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr
Established in 2009 To Tony Productions is a dedication to Anthony Ranocchia III; close friend and cousin to founder Daniel Hess. From birth, Anthony was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that affects all aspects of life from proper growth to loss of appetite. Daniel and Anthony grew up together and were very close. At the age of fourteen, Anthony passed away from complications of CF when Daniel was only ten years old. As Daniel got older and began to develop an interest in writing, whic...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Morgan Quaid is an Australian-based writer of speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror, specializing in fast-paced page turners set against expansive fantasy backdrops. When Morgan isn’t writing novels, comics, graphic novels, or short stories, he’s usually composing or producing music, or staring with longing and regret at a bar of chocolate. Key Topics for Discussion Might Include: - Crowdfunding to support your writing projects, - The interplay between music and written word, - Marketing Madn...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 24 min
ess Paul is an American actor, producer & artist known for award-winning short “A Funny Man”, Revry.tv’s “Promenade” & 2014 Official Sundance Film Festival Selection, “The Immaculate Reception”. At 19, Jess self-produced the rock news webshow “Wrecked Radio News” which obtained Youtube Partnership, 3 million+ views & an international fanbase within its first 5 years. See her next as Myra in psychological thriller “Fang” and her dual roles in Austin Revolution FF winner “Galatea”. Oli...
Jun 11, 2022•1 hr 29 min
"Are you curious about a loved one on the other side? Perhaps you are having synchronous experiences that you would like to understand or maybe you are looking for intuitive guidance, direction or clarity. Welcome and thank you for trusting your intuition that brought you here! I am a professional medium, intuitive advisor and Reiki Master Teacher with years of experience, who has unique abilities to assist others on their paths of self-discovery. I am here to help guide you and offer clarity th...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Singer, songwriter, filmmaker, author, Matt Farley is best known for releasing over 23,000 songs under dozens of pseudonyms. Stories about Farley have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and NPR, among many others. He has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His movies with Charlie Roxburgh are the subject of the book Motern on Motern by Will Sloan and Justin Decloux.
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Randi-Lee was born and raised in Ontario, Canada and from a young age she had a passion for helping others. She attended Niagara College and graduated at the top of her class from Community and Justice Services after completing her placement at a recovery house for alcohol and drug addictions. Post-graduation she worked at a Native Friendship Centre for two and a half years while pursuing a university education in psychology. Randi-Lee continued working in social services for another four years ...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 8 min
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pat Daily is an engineer and former Air Force test pilot who worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on both the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. When not writing or trying to bring new airplane designs to life, Pat can be found gaming online. He is a fan of role-playing games – particularly open worlds with engaging storylines where actions have consequences. Pat and his wife spent twenty years in Houston before moving to central Washington. SPARK Solar Pr...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces-historical, psychological, economic, and culture-to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to ...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Born an illegitimate child in the wake of WWII in Berlin, Nazi Germany to a single mother, Vivianne Knebel’s options were limited and her future looked bleak. She experienced poverty, cold, and hunger, and was even driven to the point of commiting suicide. To seek out a better life, Vivianne immigrated to Canada as a teenager, but her misfortunes did not end there. However, in response to a miraculous intervention, she decided to preserve her life and keep moving forward. After this incident, Vi...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Glen Dunzweiler wants students to succeed! After teaching at universities for eleven years and seeing students put themselves into debt with no exit strategy, he looks to give students the tools he wishes he had while he was in school. Education doesn’t have to be the confusing poverty trap it has become. Read this book to find out how you can avoid a degree in homelessness. About The Author Glen Dunzweiler is a filmmaker/producer, public speaker, and video coach. His documentary yHomeless? is a...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Aaron Mostow, Kevin Flores, Rodolfo Tagle III are seasoned veterans in the Los Angeles creative community who come from culturally rich, minority backgrounds and have joined forces to pen a Love Hertz, a story of an underdog DJ who later grapples with the twists and turns of overnight success and finding true love. Aaron is a producer, sound engineer, and founder of a boutique media & creative company Catapult World who was born into a vibrant Filipino and Jewish household. Kevin is the son ...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Rethinking Your Teenager: Shifting from Control and Conflict to Structure and Nurture to Raise Accountable Young Adults by Darby Fox Publisher: Oxford University Press (January 15, 2020) The teenage years. . . parents fear this stage, dreading it even while watching their adorable toddlers explore the world. When it arrives, they try to control their teenager, in turn causing their teenager to push back more intensely. It's a natural instinct on both sides: teenagers are changing in every way wh...
May 17, 2022•1 hr 7 min
An opinion leader and public speaker, Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1983) has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation (2008–2014), which focuses on virtue and public life. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. He addressed the U.S. Congress on volunteerism and health, receiving the Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for Outstanding Achievement....
May 13, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Be a Happy Leader inspires readers to prioritize and elevate their personal happiness and create lasting career success through an easy-to-follow, 8-step methodology. Be a Happy Leader teaches leaders to lead positively, put their people first, and create engaged teams which lead to higher productivity and profit. It shows the reader how to be the type of boss that people want to work for―forever. It motivates leaders to make their personal well-being a top priority and shows them how to be both...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Dr. David D. Schein, MBA, JD, Ph.D. is a Professor, Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing and Director of Graduate Programs at the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Schein is frequently interviewed on employment and business law matters. He speaks for business and industry groups throughout the United States on various current topics. His new book is: Bad Deal for America. He is also the author of The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures (2018). ...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 13 min
