Book Insights Podcast

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Road Back to You with special guest Jackie Brewster. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it...

*When you walk into a party, are you the type who hits the dance floor immediately, or the type who heads to the kitchen to see how you can help?  *Perhaps you’re more likely to bring a book and find a quiet corner. Or maybe you’re the first to kick off a spirited debate about current events. These are a few small examples of the nine personality types based on the ancient Enneagram concept.&...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Power of Habit with special guest Daniel Karim. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can a...

*Good habits, as moral codes and religion have taught us since time immemorial, create a good life, but it is only in the last 30 years that neurology and psychology have developed habit formation and self-discipline into a science.  * The Power of Habit was one of the first books to bring this emerging science to a popular audience, and it makes for fascinating reading.  *Considering va...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Deep Work with special guest Chuba Ezekwesili. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advanc...

*According to Dr Cal Newport, the secret to high productivity is simply having three or four hours of uninterrupted, focused work every day, five days a week.  *In this time, you can produce important work and still have plenty of time for family, hobbies, or just doing nothing.  *Sounds simple? The key is deep work, a term coined by Newport to describe bouts of intense work, undistracte...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Bad Blood. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn w...

*Bad Blood tells the compelling story of Theranos, the biotech start-up dreamed up by Elizabeth Holmes with ambitions to revolutionize blood testing and diagnosis.  *Despite drumming up millions of dollars in investment from high-profile figures such as Rupert Murdoch and Tim Draper, fostering strong links with the Clintons and wooing the press, the company was built on a lie.  *The tech...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Zero to One with special guest Ryan Fransden. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance...

*Every new invention or discovery since we learned to ignite fire and make the wheel changes how we live.  *Perhaps on the surface Facebook and the iPhone aren’t as momentous or paradigm-shifting as Newton discovering gravity, or Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin, but the impact of these two advances in technology and communication on society is seismic.  *In fact, for PayPal foun...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Grit with special guest Michele Hill. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your wo...

*Psychologist Angela Duckworth highlights the common quality behind many of examples of outstanding achievement: not natural-born talent, not simply luck, but passion and perseverance.  *She argues success is within everyone’s reach, if we can just manage to knuckle down and apply ourselves unwaveringly to our goals.  *Inspired by her own childhood experiences and supported by in-depth r...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Four Agreements with special guest Nathan Maingard. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it c...

* This global bestseller aims to help us break free from the personal agreements that we have tacitly accepted which create limitations and unhappiness. * The Toltec way of life, as Ruiz elucidates in his timeless book, is an antidote to the modern world. In life there are actually no leaders, and no followers. We are the masters of our own dreams, and we must regain our freedom. * Follow the four...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Daring Greatly with special guest Charles Francis. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can ad...

BOOK GIVEAWAY: We're celebrating our 100th Book Insights podcast episode by giving away over $100 worth of life-changing nonfiction. That's right! This book-filled gift basket could be sent straight to your home. Here's how to enter: 1) Follow @Bookinsightspod on Instagram Facebook or Twitter and comment below with your favorite nonfiction book That's it! Want bonus entries? Share this post in you...

*A culture in which so many people believe they are not enough – not successful enough, thin enough, powerful enough, smart enough, extraordinary enough, or certain enough – is a “culture of scarcity”, Brown writes in Daring Greatly .  *Preoccupied by what society perceives to be deficiencies, we find it a challenge to say “I am worthy.”  And we find it difficult to take risks, social, e...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Millionaire Next Door with special guest Ryan Fransden. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how...

*Based on in-depth interviews with more than 500 American millionaires, plus over a thousand surveys made up of more than 200 questions, The Millionaire Next Door yields some surprising findings.  *Even its authors, business academics Thomas Stanley and William Danko, were taken aback to discover that the majority of millionaires weren’t holed up in luxurious mansions surrounded by extravagan...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Educated with special guest Dr. Andrew Ross. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance...

*Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho, cut off from the outside world – she had no birth certificate, no medical records and no formal education.  *She worked alongside her brothers in her tyrannical father’s scrap metal junkyard, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  *Westover’s decision to get away, to educate herself and discover a world beyond the isolation and abuse at home, even...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Atomic Habit with special guest Kamilah O'Brien. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can adva...

* Upending the received self-help wisdom that success is founded on setting and accomplishing your goals, James Clear focuses instead on the power of minuscule habits to transform your life.  * Goals may be useful tools for identifying a destination to work towards, but systems of behavior – or habits – are the vehicles that get you to where you want to go.  * Minor changes brought on by...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Power of Now with special guest Michelle Hold. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can ad...

* By focusing on the present moment as our route to consciousness we can free ourselves from the stress, fear and anxiety that are created by our mind. * Suffering is identification with Mind. Our analytical mind has created a false ‘self’ – the ego – which we must jettison in order to find enlightenment. * When we surrender to the power of the present moment, the now, we are at one with Being and...