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Author Hour
Do you wish you could quickly get the best ideas from new books? That's what Author Hour is all about. Each week, we give you the best ideas and stories from a new book, through an in-depth conversation with the author. We cover all types of non-fiction: business, fitness, investing, self-help, and more. Listeners will get an entertaining and useful summary of each book, in a fraction of the time. A must listen for avid readers and aspiring authors.
Episodes
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The Take Action Effect, Seven Years Later: Scott Voelker on Turning a Book Into Authority
Scott Voelker started out working in his father's construction company for seven dollars an hour and went on to build multiple six and seven figure businesses…
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Competing at Machine Speed: Roald van Wyk and Joan Smith on Commerce in the Agentic Era
Big consumer brands were built like cruise ships: huge, powerful, and slow to turn. Today the market moves faster than most of them can compete in. In…
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Unsplode: Caleb Pinegar and Trevor Hanson on Why a Life Deferred Is a Life Gone
Trevor Hanson spent his career managing money. His cousin Caleb Pinegar spent his repairing bodies. For years, they kept having the same conversation: what…
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Trials and Tribulations, Five Years Later: Atiyah Nichols on Giving Her Story a Voice
The youngest of 12 children, a teenage mother, and now the CEO of a growing assisted living business, Atiyah Nichols wrote Trials and Tribulations to make sure…
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The Illusion of Care: Why Patients Leave the Doctor's Office Confused with Dr. Joey Rotella
After more than 20 years as a family doctor, Dr. Joey Rotella kept seeing the same thing: patients show up with nothing, leave with nothing, and can't remember…
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The $25 Millionaire: Why Delay Is the Real Enemy of Wealth with Christopher Day
Christopher Day grew up poor on a farm believing the stock market was for other people. It wasn't until he was about 40, after building businesses across seven…
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Treading Water: A New Orleans Cop's Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina with Chad Perez
When every car was streaming west out of New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina, Chad Perez was the only one driving east, cutting his vacation short to get…
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Jake Kheel on Waking the Sleeping Giant: Unlocking the Power of Business to Save the Planet
Jake Kheel took a job inside a major Caribbean resort company expecting to learn how to fight the private sector. Instead, he discovered its enormous untapped…
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The Last Dungeon Crawler: From Special Operations Medic to Fantasy Author
Dr. Mike Simpson spent 32 years in the U.S. Army, most of it in special operations as a Ranger, Green Beret, and physician, before writing Honed, a men's…
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Be Amazing or Go Home: How Shep Hyken Turns Books Into Speaking Business
Shep Hyken has spent his entire career on one question: what makes customers come back? As Chief Amazement Officer at Shepard Presentations, he has worked with…
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Food 5.0: How We Feed the Future, From Biotech to AI
Robert Saik grew up on a mixed family farm, the grandson of Ukrainian farmer immigrants, and went on to build one of North America's largest agriculture…
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Ryan Bisio on Why Basketball and Music Are the Same Thing
What if basketball and music aren't just similar, but the same thing? Ryan Bisio has spent two decades as a coach and as a lead singer, and somewhere between a…
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Maranda Dziekonski on Saying the Hard Parts Out Loud
Most leaders tell a success-only story. Maranda Dziekonski decided to tell the rest of it. She grew up in rural Michigan in a house that didn't always have…
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Timothy Arrigo on Why Real Change Starts from the Inside Out
Most of what we call problems are really symptoms. Timothy Arrigo learned that the hard way, through childhood trauma, addiction, homelessness, and divorce…
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Joy Lane on Six Years at City College and the Engineering of a Breaking Point
Six years at City College. Thirteen restaurant jobs. Calculus III three times. By 23, Joy Lane was lying in the grass, ready to walk away from her last final…
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Greg Hiebert on Facing the Fear, Choosing to Win, and Why You Can't Give What You Don't Have
For 16 years, writing a book sat on Greg Hiebert's goals list. Deep down, he was afraid no one would read it, and if they did, they wouldn't like it. He…
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Paul Zak on the Neuroscience of Immersion and Why Every Good Book Is a Sitcom
What makes an experience extraordinary? Paul Zak has spent more than a decade answering that question in his lab, measuring what he calls the brain's "give a…
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Dr. Monifa McKnight on Leading, Surviving, and Thriving as a Black Woman in Education
Getting a Black woman into the leadership seat is a milestone. Keeping her there, supported and thriving, is the real work. Dr. Monifa McKnight spent more than…
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Richard Shaull on the Third Option for Business Owners: Exit Without Selling
Every day, roughly 10,000 baby boomer business owners hit retirement age, and most of them have no exit plan. The conventional wisdom says they have two…
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Trust Is Your Currency: Physician Brand Rx with Matthew Ray Scott
On this episode of Author Hour, Matthew Ray Scott joins us to talk about Physician Brand Rx, the book he co-wrote with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Sigman…
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Small Changes, Big Transformation: The Self-Care Dare with Carrie Cox
On this episode of Author Hour, gym owner and former schoolteacher Carrie Cox joins us to talk about her new book, The Self-Care Dare: 25 Habits for Lasting…
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Ron Thurston on Turning Two Books Into a Paid Speaking Business
After more than 30 years leading stores for some of America's biggest brands, Ron Thurston realized no one had ever written a book for the 55 million people…
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21 Authors, One Book: How Autobahn Built Rock Your Business With Brandon Pipkin
Rock Your Business: Navigating the Road from $50 Million to $500 Million and Beyond is the offensive follow-up to Rock the Recession, the 2019 book Autobahn…
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How to Market Without Marketing: Scott A. Martin's Groundswell Playbook
What if you could market without marketing? After more than 30 years in marketing, advertising, and strategy, Scott A. Martin set out to solve that "unsolvable…
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Better Than an MBA: How Julie Newman's Book Became Her Strongest Career Lever
Julie Newman wrote Pull Don't Push to fix a message she had watched go wrong at more than 50 Girls in STEM events: well-meaning speakers telling girls they…
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Chase the Light: Becoming Unbreakable After a Head-On Collision with Cesar Perez
In 2018, Cesar Perez was on the rise. He had acted opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Beast of Burden, filmed with Clint Eastwood, and landed an audition for Venom…
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Books to the Big Screen: Alec Roth on Adapting an Author’s Story Into Film
Alec Roth grew up in Hollywood — the son of screenwriter Eric Roth, watching his father adapt books into films from a home office — and he’s now doing the same…
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How a Book Took Cameron Herold's Speaking Fee From $3K to $40K
Cameron Herold never wanted to be an author. As he tells Travis Stoliker, his wife signed him up for a three-book package with Scribe as a birthday present —…
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Creative Cash: Gino Barbaro on Turning One Book Into a Seven-Figure Real Estate Empire
Gino Barbaro joins Travis Stoliker to trace the full arc of a single book — from getting an idea "out of your head and down on paper" to building a…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Marketing: Atul Minocha on Fake ROI & the Book That Paid for Itself in 6 Months
Atul Minocha joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Lies, Damn Lies, and Marketing — the book an engineer wrote to fix marketing's trust problem. Atul explains…
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The Black Sheep Advantage: Dr. Thom LeBeau on Writing the Book You've Put Off for 20 Years
Dr. Thom LeBeau joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Black Sheep Advantage — a book he'd been "talking about for 20 years" before he finally sat down to…
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Must: Dr. Stephen Rue on Turning Your Pain Into Purpose
Dr. Stephen Rue joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Must: Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be — a personal-development book born from profound loss and…
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The Brooklyn Paramount Theatre: Michael Hittman on the Shrine Everyone Walked Past
Dr. Michael Hittman joins Eric Jorgenson to tell the story behind The Brooklyn Paramount Theatre: An Intimate Portrait — and it is unlike most Author Hour…
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Sex, Drugs, and Soul: Kristin Birdwell on Writing Through Fear and What a Memoir Sets in Motion
Kristin Birdwell joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Sex, Drugs, and Soul — the memoir she wrote through COVID and published in 2022 — and everything it has…
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Brand Currency: Steve Susi on Taste, Time, and Why a Human Should Write the Book
Steve Susi joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Brand Currency — the 2019 book that grew out of his years as an executive creative director at Amazon — and…
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Invest Like the Best: Chris Belchamber on The Low-Risk Road to High Returns
Five years after his first Author Hour appearance, Chris Belchamber returns to talk with Travis Stoliker about what has and hasn't changed since he wrote…
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Best Team Ever: David Burkus on Turning a Book Into a Speaking Business
David Burkus joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Best Team Ever: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams — his fifth book, and the first he published…
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The Venture Capital Alternative: How Matt Moyers Is Fighting for America's Inventors
Matt Moyers joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Venture Capital Alternative: A Blueprint for a Better Patent System — a book idea he sat on for the better…
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The Passionate Workforce: Nicholas Capman on How Your Employees Really Feel
Nick Capman joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Passionate Workforce: How to Create and Maintain Maximum Employee Engagement, the book he wrote from a…
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Positive Politics: Neil Thanedar on Building a Y Combinator for Politics
Neil Thanedar joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Positive Politics: A Proven Playbook to Get into Politics, Change Your Life, and Change the World—the book he…
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Why Is a Verb: Stephen Butler on Turning Purpose into Productivity in the Age of AI
Stephen Butler joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Why Is a Verb: How Well-Managed Teams Turn Purpose into Productivity—the book he wrote with coauthor Karissa…
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Glorious Tension: Why Paul Hobby Offered His Radically Moderate Book to a Divided World
Paul Hobby joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Glorious Tension: Rediscovering Our Sacred Middle Ground in an Age of Extremism — a book that began as "cathartic…
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The Adventure Advantage: Mike Boydell on Threshold Moments and Writing Through Change
Mike Boydell built a global consulting practice helping leaders and teams navigate change. Then the pandemic grounded him, and an op-ed picked up by a national…
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Solved in Seven Minutes: How Jim Sholler's Book Saved a Life and Un-Retired the Fixer
Jim Sholler returns to Author Hour to talk with Eric Jorgenson about life four years after publishing Solved in 7: The Power of Disciplined Problem-Solving…
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Building the Fort with Chris Heivly
What do you do when a professor flunks you in freshman English and tells you that you can’t write? If you’re Chris Heivly, you co-found MapQuest, build startup…
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Drug-Free Crohn's: Hadley Ott on Taking Agency Over Your Health
Diagnosed with Crohn's disease at twelve and told he would be sick for life, Hadley Ott spent more than a decade on feeding tubes, steroids, and biologic drugs…
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Retiring Right: Smart Steps for Exiting Corporate America with Jake Falcon
After 20 years specializing in retirement planning, Jake Falcon still could not find a single book he trusted enough to hand his clients, so he wrote his own…
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Healing Hacks: Bringing Your Body Back to Nature with Ian Hart
After getting seriously ill in 2009, health and fitness professional Ian Hart spent years figuring out how to heal his own body naturally, and then found…
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Money Mind: Beyond Speculation with Brayden Sutton
Brayden Sutton spent over 15 years learning the markets the hard way, with no inheritance, no formal training, and no industry connections. On this episode of…
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From Hopeless to Purpose: Army Veteran Devin Fish on Answering the Hard Questions
What does it look like to go from suicidal ideation to self-published author in fewer than four years? Devin Fish, a ten-year Army veteran and former career…
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Teaching Kids to Live Without You: Yarona Boster on Unspoken Signals
In this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Yarona Boster, author of Unspoken Signals, to explore what it truly means to raise a resilient…
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Mario Simonyan: How He Never Ran a Book Ad and Still Distributed 10,000 Copies
Mario Simonyan built one of the most specialized law firms in the country, helping e-commerce brands fight off IP infringers and unauthorized sellers. In this…
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MyLinh Shattan on How West Point Shaped Two Generations
MyLinh Shattan grew up between two cultures, an Irish American father and a Vietnamese mother, both storytellers. She went to West Point as one of the first…
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Harris Nydick on How Writing a 401(k) Book Became His Firm's Best Business Card
Harris Nydick has been in financial planning since the early eighties, when he was part of one of the first financial planning training classes at a major…
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S. Gale Bleth: How a Retired Crime Prevention Officer Made Decades of Safety Expertise a Bestseller
S. Gale Bleth spent decades teaching personal safety to students, employees, and community members—but it wasn't until her nieces started leaving for college…
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Rachel A. Williamson on Turning 30 Years of Store Operations Experience into a Bestselling Book
Rachel Williamson spent 30 years leading retail operations at some of the biggest brands in the industry — from Bath & Body Works to Ann Taylor — before…
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From Walk-On to the Big Screen: How Candler Cook's Book Changed His Career and Started a Movie
What happens when a book you wrote to inspire strangers ends up transforming your own life? In this episode, Eric sits down with Candler Cook, author of From…
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Gui Costin: Two Books, Two Dakotaisms, and the Greatest Authentic Hack of All Time
Gui Costin, founder and CEO of Dakota, joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about writing two books with Scribe—The Dakota Way and Be Kind—and why he now calls…
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Deneen Allen: How a Reluctant Author Turned 25 Years of Tourism Expertise Into a Book
On this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Deneen Allen, founder of FireCircle and creator of the 5x5 Method, to talk about her new book The…
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It Really Is All About Relationships: Eddy Arriola
On this episode of Author Hour, host Eric Jorgenson sits down with entrepreneur, banker, and first-time author Eddy Arriola to talk about his new book, It's…