Book 101 Review

Alix Hogu  The "Stop Fixing Yourself" Expert Helping People Uncover Hidden Strengths & Build Confidence. If you've ever felt like no amount of self-improvement is making you happier, today's conversation may completely change the way you think. Our guest says the problem isn't that you need more will power, better habits, or another productivity hack. The problem is that you've been tryin...

Organizations fail when they treat culture like a construction project. They thrive when they treat it like a garden, cultivating conditions for growth rather than engineering behavior through rigid blueprints. Award-winning consultant Abi Adamson introduces the SERN™ framework (Soil, Exposure, Roots, Nutrients) to guide sustainable cultural transformation. Drawing from her experience working with...

Harry R. Martinez Harry Martinez (RET) Sergeant Major A sniper team leader’s unflinching account of urban combat in Ramadi  and the psychological cost of fulfilling their mission. “Leadership under fire. Harry R. Martinez is a former Marine infantryman, police officer, and Army National Guard sniper team leader who served in Ramadi during some of the bloodiest months of the Iraq War. His writ...

Matthew Cossolotto  The Empowerment Pro — Success Is An Inside Job Twenty-five years ago, author Matthew Cossolotto made a promise to his dying mother to finish writing a book she had been encouraging him to write and dedicate it to her memory. Harness Your PromisePower: Change Your Life, Transform the World is rooted in that make-or-break promise. Spoiler alert: Matthew kept that heartfelt p...

Dr. Katie Eastman  Dr. Katie Eastman: Finding peace in the midst of change. Finding peace in the midst of change—supporting you through loss, transition, and transformation with compassionate insight, practical tools. Dr. Katie Eastman, helps people answer one powerful question: Where’s the peace in this? Through her work in grief, change, and leadership, she. guides others to find clarity, p...

Jobert E. Abueva Author, The Janus Plan (Sept 2026) | TEDx Speaker | Driving Global Impact: Philanthropy, Marketing, Nonprofit Board Service Jobert E. Abueva grew up between worlds. Born in the Philippines and raised across Nepal, Thailand, and Japan through his father's academic work, he has spent his career learning that the hardest threshold to cross is the one inside yourself. The Janus Plan i...

Brandon Leibowitz  I have been involved with digital marketing since 2007 and want to share my knowledge about SEO, Social Media Marketing, and Google Ads. My name is Brandon Leibowitz and I run and operate SEO Optimizers. We are a digital marketing company that focuses on helping small and medium-sized businesses get more online traffic, which in turn converts into clients, sales, leads, etc...

Mark Taylor Creative and inspiring learning  Mark has been a professional percussionist for 25 years and has had the opportunity of performing with some the UK’s finest orchestras and theatre companies. With 3 children and his experience of delivering whole class music workshops around the UK, Mark wanted to share the creative and inspiring learning he was witnessing in schools. This was the...

Mark Taylor  Ex Crime scene photographer becomes Daniel Craig Double and author. Mark is an ex crime scene photographer for the met police in London who now works in film as a support artist, stand in and double. He's doubled for Daniel Craig on 3 projects but also worked on film and TV shows such as Andor, The Ipcress File, No Time to Die, The Magicians Nephew, The Thomas Crown affair, The C...

Jenny Leigh Hodgins Creative Empowerment Coach, Author, Music Educator, Vocalist/Pianist, Composer, Poet I’m Jenny Leigh Hodgins, a Creative Empowerment Coach, author, music educator, vocalist/pianist, composer, and poet with over 30 years of experience guiding individuals in creative growth, performance, and authentic self-expression. I help creatives, busy professionals, overwhelmed caregivers,...

Robbie Samuels. Book launch strategist and award-winning 4x author with 900+ Amazon reviews, 37 #1 Best Seller categories, and a proven launch system that turns entrepreneurs' books into business-building assets. I'm an award-winning author of four books that have received more than 900 written Amazon reviews and reached #1 Best Seller in 37 categories across four countries. The latter did nothing...

Our guest today is Ed Howard — founder of One Breath Leadership, a new human-centred leadership framework combining neuroscience, psychology, AI and three decades of Zen training. Before becoming a founder, Ed spent 20 years as a Regional Head of Compliance in global investment banking, where he saw firsthand how burnout, overwhelm, and cognitive overload were affecting leaders. Today he teaches p...

Rain Bennett  Rain Bennett, author of The Chief Storytelling Officer | Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker | Host, The Storytelling Lab Rain Bennett is the CSO of Elemmir, as well as an award-winning filmmaker, author, and storytelling coach. He hosts a weekly podcast called The Storytelling Lab which features the top storytellers in the world and is the author of the upcoming 2026 book, The Chief Story...

David Dorfman CEO @ Claimio | Techstars USC | Founder @ Yapi | 8-Figure Exit Irvine, California, United States Blue Navy Recovery has rebranded and is now known as  Claimio . Co-founder and CEO David Dorfman leads the technology-driven platform, which automates the navigation, verification, and filing processes required to recover unclaimed property from state governments across the United States

Gilad Rom  Gilad Rom is the founder of GetOpener, a platform helping brands get into retail and actually sell once they’re there. Before this, he worked with companies like Shopify, Clearco, and Google, and is now on a mission to fix what he sees as a broken distribution system where brands fight to get on shelves but fail to move product once they do. His work focuses on helping brands go di...

intao (LT) Lu  is a global business executive, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder, President, and CEO of  NAVAC Inc. , a New Jersey-based company specializing in HVAC tools, instruments, and industrial vacuum technology. Under his leadership, NAVAC has grown into an international brand known for innovation in the HVAC industry. He was born in a rural fishing village in...

Bren Marrick Author of Dicks I’ve Met Online | Exploring Self-Discovery Through Uncomfortable Experiences I didn’t set out to tell a story like this. I set out to tell the truth—about what happens when the life you built no longer fits, the quiet courage it takes to open doors you thought would stay closed, and the unexpected humor you find while figuring it out. At a certain point, I realized my...

Mark Kollar Retirement Income Specialist | Helping Retirees Avoid Running Out of Money | Author of The Retirement Navigator” Our guest today is Mark Kollar, a retirement income specialist and the author of The Retirement Navigator. Mark is the owner of Kollar Wealth Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm, and has spent more than 34 years helping retirees protect their assets and create re...

Book 101 Review  in its sixth season features Paula Panariello as my guest. Join us for a captivating and insightful conversation as Paula shares her journey as an author, the inspiration behind her work, and the experiences that have shaped her personal and professional life. Through thoughtful discussion, we explore the creative process, the challenges and rewards of writing, and...

Michelle Masters  A Personal Development Trainer and Coach since 1995, Michelle Masters’ work is an innovative alchemy of Neuro-Science based change techniques, Family Constellation work, and quantum healing modalities, combined with profound understandings of what creates transformation and lasting change for people. Her popular Money Magic workshop, and the book that followed, have helped p...

Ryan Wiksell NEW BOOK! The Last Seder of James: A Journey Through Passover Dr. Lon Wiksell founded Our Father Abraham in 2016 to promote awareness of the Jewishness of Jesus and Christianity, as well as to educate churchgoers about Jewish festivals like Passover. This just so happens to be the topic of their first published work, a fiction/nonfiction hybrid entitled The Last Seder of James: A Jour...

Raeanne Johnson Faith-rooted support for Mamas and Minds Raeanne is a Pediatric Mental Health Specialist, Nurse Practitioner and homeschooling mother of three. Her superpower is taking hard neuroscience concepts and pairing them with core Biblical truths and sharing that in a way that feels approachable and understandable. I am equal parts Biblical, practical and clinical and I desire to provide t...

Roberta Ravella Founder and Creator of The Joy Experiment The Heart and Science of Creating Joy, Ease & Flow in Your Life and Business Roberta Ravella is a speaker, strategist, and founder of The Joy Experiment™, a framework designed to help women align their energy, values, and business growth without sacrificing themselves in the process. With a background in trust-based marketing and energe...

Dan Leiva Founder | Strategic Advisor |Best-Selling Author Every week, another company announces they are replacing people with AI. Six months later, customers stop trusting the experience, employees stop exercising judgment, and nobody can explain who is responsible for what the system is doing. Dan Leiva has spent 25 years inside that problem at Apple, Intuit, eBay, and Travelers. His new book #...

Rohit Bassi Originator of PQ — The Third Quotient. #1 International Bestselling Author. Offering a distinctive perspective from being a Founder, Operator, Investor, and Advisor who has lived in 7 countries. I grew up as a military kid in India. My father served in the Indian Air Force for 21 years. We moved every two to three years. New schools, new friends, new everything — then start again. I di...