Saints and Soldiers Inside Internet-Age Terrorism, From Syria to the Capitol Siege by Rita Katz More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of the jihadist militants she spent her days monitoring, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention to the Far Right. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online―including mas...
Oct 18, 2022•42 min
THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF BASEBALL: ECHOES FROM A DISTANT PAST by WILLIAM R. DOUGLAS Authorwilliamrdouglas.com In the year 2166, a post Second Civil War America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years. 12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man's land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bl...
Oct 17, 2022•32 min
Ruari Fairbairns, Founder of One Year No Beer Oneyearnobeer.com
Oct 16, 2022•53 min
Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World by Gautam Mukunda Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States? In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing an objective and tested method to assess whether they will succeed o...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Lauren V. Mingee, Founder & CEO of Quintessa Marketing Quintessamarketing.com
Oct 14, 2022•32 min
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter by Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights. According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power movement before there was a Black Power mo...
Oct 13, 2022•36 min
Ron Feldman, President of World Business Services Inc. Worldbusinessservices.com
Oct 12, 2022•35 min
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II by Bruce Henderson, Gerald Yamada One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldier...
Oct 11, 2022•35 min
Gonzo Wall Street: RIOTS,RADICALS,RACISM AND REVOLUTION: How the Go-Go Bankers of the 1960s Crashed the Financial System and Bamboozled Washington by Richard E. Farley The long-hidden history of how the corrupt Wall Street investment banks of the 1960s held Congress over a barrel and got an outrageous taxpayer-funded bailout of what they owed their customers—and how little Congress and the SEC got from Wall Street in return. This set the precedent for the bailouts of the 2008 Financial Crisis—an...
Oct 11, 2022•33 min
Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge! There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as...
Oct 09, 2022•21 min
Soul Winners: The Ascent of America's Evangelical Entrepreneurs by David Clary American evangelicals have always been innovators. They reimagined what a church could be, whether it was a humble tent in a rural field or a high-tech urban megachurch. They embraced new forms of media to spread their message to the masses. They thrived in a fiercely competitive religious marketplace. In Soul Winners, journalist David Clary argues that this entrepreneurial spirit has indelibly shaped evangelical mini...
Oct 08, 2022•42 min
Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey by Fred Haise, Bill Moore The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise,Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon. An oxygen tank exploded, a crewmate uttered the now iconic words, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched as one of h...
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr
Lewis Raymond Taylor, CEO & Founder of The Coaching Masters Thecoachingmasters.com
Oct 07, 2022•34 min
Mary Grothe, Founder & CEO of the House of Revenue Houseofrevenue.com
Oct 07, 2022•35 min
Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done by Charlie Baker, Steve Kadish A Leader's Guide to Executing Change and Delivering Results. Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service: "Wedge issues may be great for making headlines," he writes, "but they do not move us forward. Success is measured by what we accomplish together. Our obligation to the peopl...
Oct 06, 2022•42 min
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution―the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...
Oct 06, 2022•45 min
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan From Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president’s words could bring the nation together or tear it apart. A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confeder...
Oct 05, 2022•38 min
Suzanne Justice, Founder and CEO of Blake Rian Consulting Blakerianconsulting.com
Oct 05, 2022•35 min
Live Life in Crescendo: Your Most Important Work Is Always Ahead of You (The Covey Habits Series) by Stephen R. Covey, Cynthia Covey Haller The inspirational, encouraging final book from the legendary leadership expert Stephen R. Covey, internationally bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Stephen R. Covey spent his long and storied career inspiring millions of individuals to make their lives more effective, compassionate, and meaningful. Near the end of his life, Covey ...
Oct 04, 2022•38 min
How to Invest: Masters on the Craft by Billionaire David M. Rubenstein NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest names in finance, from the legendary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein. What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world’s largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-e...
Oct 03, 2022•27 min
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich The NYT's Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law. Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, the Catholic Church, and much of the Fortune 500; helped Donald Trump get el...
Oct 02, 2022•50 min
Stop Dieting, Start Thinning - 9 Golden Rules of Weight-Loss for People Who Love to Eat By David Medansky
Oct 01, 2022•30 min
Oelo Lighting Solutions CEDIA Show 2022 Interview See them at CEDIA Show 2022 Booth #7015 Oelo.com
Sep 30, 2022•11 min
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir by Boyah J. Farah A searing memoir of American racism from a Somalian-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Blacks in his adopted land, the United States. “No one told me about America.” Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war. Arriving in America, he believed that the code ...
Sep 30, 2022•51 min
WARHOLCAPOTE: A Non-Fiction Invention by Rob Roth An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends—Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months, and that these tapes would be the source material for the play. The tapes were then filed away and forgotten. Their play was never completed. Now, award-winning director Rob Ro...
Sep 29, 2022•42 min
Before You Knew My Name: A Novel by Jacqueline Bublitz Winner of Crime Debut and Readers’ Choice Awards—Sisters in Crime “A brave and timely novel.” —Clare Mackintosh, internationally bestselling author of Hostage This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought together in the dark underbelly of New York City to solve a tragic murder. When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee w...
Sep 26, 2022•25 min
Steve Tcherchian, CISSP - Chief Product Officer and CISO of XYPRO Technology Corporation Xypro.com
Sep 25, 2022•34 min
Michael Saxon, CEO of TAAT Global Alternatives Taatglobal.com
Sep 22, 2022•22 min
Dr Libby Kemkaran of Tame Your Brain Kemkaran.com
Sep 21, 2022•38 min
Kurek Ashley, The Transformer, Author, Success Coach, Speaker The live version is happening Sept 27th - 29th. https://kurek-ashley.mykajabi.com/stop-whats-stopping-you-live-training kurek-ashley.mykajabi.com
Sep 19, 2022•25 min