414: Taking Your Next Book From Blank Page to 10,000 Copies Sold with Chandler Bolt
In this conversation with Self-Publishing School's Chandler Bolt, he walks us through a proven path to taking your book to bestseller status.
Mar 15, 2022•34 min
Read to Lead Podcast
If you believe as I do, that intentional and consistent reading is key to success in business and in life, then this is your podcast. My goal each week is to bring you key thoughts and insights from my conversations with those I consider to be among today's brightest minds: our generation's non-fiction authors. We discuss their latest book, as well as their unique perspectives on Leadership, Business, Personal Development, Marketing, Career, and Entrepreneurship. If you love reading, or desire to do more of it, then consider this podcast your audio Cliff's Notes. The Read to Lead Podcast is a four-time Best Business Podcast nominee.
Episodes
413: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life with Todd Cherches
VisuaLeadership will forever change the way you think and communicate by showing how you can quickly and easily leverage the power of visual imagery, mental models, metaphor, analogy, storytelling, and humor to help you take your game to a whole new level.
Mar 08, 2022•31 min
412: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness with Elaine Pofeldt
Could you be the bottleneck that is preventing your business from the growth you'd hoped for? Today's guest has just the help you need to get over the hump to the next level.
Mar 01, 2022•38 min
411: The Actions That Will Make AND Keep Your Family Rich
If the American dream of formal education, work, buying a house, working some more, and trying to raise a family, isn't leading you where you want to go, then this is for you!
Feb 22, 2022•35 min
410: Creating the Most Persuasive Presentations of Your Life with Dan Roam
Dan's new book outlines a fast and practical visual storytelling method that puts a powerful new toolkit into the hands of leaders, innovators, salespeople, teachers, and anyone who needs to quickly make an impact on increasingly distracted audiences.
Feb 15, 2022•44 min
409: Break Free From Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life with Nataly Kogan
Filled with simple, science-backed practices and Nataly's contagious energy, The Awesome Human Project will teach you how to create more supportive relationships with yourself, with your thoughts and emotions, and with other people, so you can become the awesome human you're meant to be.
Feb 08, 2022•43 min
408: How to Lead a Life of Significance by Embracing Your Trials with Warwick Fairfax
In Crucible Leadership, Warwick Fairfax explains what he learned about himself from a devastating failure – who he was and who he was not, what his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.
Feb 01, 2022•31 min
407: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance with Dr. Nate Zinsser
The Director of West Point’s influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.
Jan 25, 2022•34 min
406: A Workaholic's Cure for Anxiety with Charlie Hoehn
If you or someone you know suffers from bouts of anxiety, or from workaholism, or both, this conversation is one you do not want to miss.
Jan 17, 2022•36 min
405: How the Power of Pace Can Help Your Organization Achieve All New Levels will Elizabeth Knox
With years of experience helping organizations reimagine their identities, communication, and effectiveness to create a more productive workplace, Elizabeth Knox details her experience and data-driven strategies to help readers evaluate and discover a pace that allows both their organization and employees to succeed.
Jan 10, 2022•39 min
404: Leading Successful Meetings, Dynamic Workshops, and Effective Training Events with Paul Maltby
The Fearless Facilitator consolidates twenty years of experience and hard-learned lessons into a summary of powerful techniques you can deploy now.
Jan 03, 2022•41 min
403: How History's Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together with Robert Dilenschneider
CEO and respected advisor Robert L. Dilenschneider examines the trajectories of iconic figures to reveal the choices that enabled them to fulfill their potential.
Dec 27, 2021•34 min
402: Reclaim Control and Make Every Situation a Win-Win with Gail Rudolph
Gail Rudolph helps readers discover how to harness their innate interpersonal power, revealing the cues and signals that help us respond effectively.
Dec 20, 2021•37 min
401: How Great Leaders Prepare, Perform and Prevail with Jim Afremow and Phil White
This book taps into the same tips and techniques honed by top-tier athletes, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble, to become a champion at work and the ultimate team player at home.
Dec 06, 2021•36 min
400: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact
Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Wiseman explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact.
Dec 05, 2021•49 min
399: Applying Relationship Rules in Business for Ultimate Success with Honoree Corder
Want to take your networking to another level? Apply the rules of personal dating to cultivate valuable business relationships like never before!
Nov 29, 2021•36 min
398: Learning and Development Programs That Stick with Meredith Bell
Use this book as a roadmap for strengthening the people in your organization and building a positive coaching culture.
Nov 22, 2021•32 min
397: Thursday is the New Friday with author Joe Sanok
Learn to let go of the paralyzing need to be perfect. Find out how to navigate your fears of failure. And stop holding onto the industrial mindset that logging hours boosts productivity.
Nov 15, 2021•42 min
396: How to Write a Non-Fiction Book That Sells with Julie Broad
In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your first chapter. To write a book that boosts your brand, generates a profit, and makes you an influencer in your industry, you need the 'no boring books' way.
Nov 08, 2021•28 min
395: How Leading Organizations Blend the Digital and Physical with Robert E. Siegel
Siegel shows how to create lasting profits and growth in the smartest way possible: by creating a solid partnership between digital innovation and traditional business operations―in other words, by marrying brains and brawn.
Nov 01, 2021•28 min
394: Take Your Life Back From Your Business with Dr. Sabrina Starling
Grinding it out is grinding us up. Work should support life, not the other way around. The irony is the less we work, the more effective we become. In The 4 Week Vacation, you will discover strategies to build a thriving life and business. Get ready to take your life back!
Oct 25, 2021•36 min
393: You Can Change Other People with Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson
In You Can Change Other People, the world's number-one executive coach, Peter Bregman, and Howie Jacobson, PhD, share the Four Steps to help the people around you make positive change - even if they've been stuck for years.
Oct 18, 2021•31 min
392: Stimulate Greater Engagement and Productivity with Roy Heintz
How engaged are your people? What does their performance productivity look like? Sadly, 67% of those surveyed said they were “not engaged” and 18% said they were “actively disengaged!”
Oct 12, 2021•32 min
391: Take Back Your Time the Guilt-Free Way with Chrisy Wright
Decide what matters. Stop doing what doesn't matter. Create a schedule that reflects what matters. Protect what matters. Be present for what matters.
Oct 04, 2021•29 min
390: The Magnetic Leader with Chris McClure
In The Magnetic Leader, discover 18 Essential Actions you can practice daily to upgrade your influence and impact. People will follow your lead, becomes more confident, draw out the best in each other, enjoy healthy relationships, and make a difference!
Sep 27, 2021•34 min
389: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short Term World with Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark shares unique principles and frameworks anyone can apply to their situation, as well as stories from her own career and other professionals' experiences.
Sep 20, 2021•39 min
388: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy with John Meese
Survive and Thrive paves the path for any entrepreneur to start from scratch and build a profitable business in any economy, including this one.
Sep 13, 2021•42 min
387: 8 Tools You Need to Get Paid the Money You Want with Jill Young
The Earning Advantage is a unique resource for employees to earn more money while promoting their company's growth.
Sep 06, 2021•48 min
386: How to Listen Like You Mean It with Ximena Vengoechea
In Listen Like You Mean It, Ximena offers an essential listening guide for our times, revealing tried-and-true strategies honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews with marriage counselors, podcast hosts, life coaches, journalists, filmmakers, and other listening experts.
Aug 31, 2021•36 min
385: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career with Jeff Brown
If you already know that reading is critical for success, Read to Lead (the book) will help you get more out of the books you read. If you aren’t a reader (yet) it will help explain why you should be, and give you tips on how to jump into it painlessly.
Aug 23, 2021•32 min