Best Seller Podcast

Dr. Deepak Chopra, author of Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, his 89thbook, felt compelled to write this book because we live in chaotic times and he wants to create a world that is more peaceful, more healthier, and joyful. This is his latest contribution to that effort. He defines ‘metahuman’ as the need for people to stop being robots by observing their behavior and themselves wit...

Nelson Griswold, author of Breaking Through the Status Quo: How Innovative Companies are Changing the Benefits Game to Help Their Employees and Boost Their Bottom Line tackles a very timely topic: healthcare costs. Griswold argues that “healthcare has become the second or third largest P&L line item, for every company in America.” He states that the problem lies with insurance companies telling CE...

Branding involves creating a name, symbol, or design that consumers can easily identify a specific company or celebrity with. Bernt Ullmann, CBA, author of The Billion Dollar Branding Blueprint: 7 Steps to Building a Brand and Accelerating Your Wealth, explains the importance of having a memorable brand because, “In order to kind of evoke an emotion, in order to get a transaction, you need to conn...

Dr. Gary McGrath, author of A CEO’s Journey: The 7 Steps of Intentional Leadership – Making Bosses Into Great Leaders wrote this book to help CEOs that are struggling with being good bosses and might be in need of someone to coach them through some of the rough patches of being a c-suite leader. He says that it is very easy for CEOs to feel like they are in a vacuum with few resources to help them...

David Newman, author of Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits and Crush Your Competition, writes a book where “nothing is assumed” and where anyone – whether a beginner or a seasoned professional, can “flip open the table of contents” and get whatever they need or want. Newman says the book is about sales-driven marketing with seventy-seven specific strategies...

Eddie Turner, Jr., author of 140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders, wrote a book that is applicable to everyone – those early in their careers as well as those well into their career. The ‘one hundred and forty’ refers to the number of characters that Twitter allowed early on, as he realized that everyone reads a tweet, but not everyone reads a scholarly book. His goal is to give readers t...

Nina Sunday, author of Workplace Wisdom for 9 to Thrive: Proven Tactics and Hacks To Get Ahead in Today’s Workplace talks about future-proofing one’s employability by improving our human skills. A “tsunami of automation” is already upon us and that brings opportunities, dangers, and pitfalls. Sunday says that in order to prevent AI and automation to fully take over, we need to up our human skills,...

Author Dwight Holcomb wrote the book, The Lean CMO, with the purpose of teaching CMOs how to capture the right audience that will pursue your message because they see what you’re offering them as it’s tailored to their specific needs. He states that this is the “new model” of doing business as opposed to the “old” way where CMOs put too much emphasis on metrics with no real return as a result of t...

Andrew Tarvin, author of Humor That Works: The Missing Skill for Success and Happiness at Work, talks about how people need to learn how to incorporate humor into their professional lives in order to be more productive and achieve better results. Tarvin wanted to write a book that was actionable, that people could read and immediately start implementing humor into their workplace. He says that peo...

Larry Vaughn, author of Business Cards and Shoe Leather: How Dyslexia Help Me Found One of the World’s Premier Business Cooperatives, wrote a personal book about being dyslexic and thriving as an author, speaker, and businessman in spite of struggling with the disorder from a very young age. Vaughn started out selling print and because of his dyslexia, resorted to perfecting the art of storytellin...

T.A. Laser, author of Organization Culture Killers: How Leaders Build Cultures of Success, capitalized on her experience in senior leadership to write this, her first, book. Laser says her book is geared towards future leaders, including millennials, because they don’t know the pitfalls to avoid when it comes to leadership. She adds there’s a big disconnect as companies aren’t doing a good job of...

Makarand Utpat, author of How to Kickstart Your Digital Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Build Your Brand, Dominate Social Media, Publish Compelling Content, Drive Traffic and Close More Deals talks about the building blocks for successful digital marketing. Utpat says people need to focus on the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ by building, engaging and converting. He adds that when building a website, you h...

Dr. Rachel MK Headley, author of iX Leadership: Create High-Five Cultures and Guide Transformations wrote a book that tackles both leadership and culture from a completely different perspective. Headley incorporates elements of her scientific background as a former Operational Science Officer at NASA, and applies it to leadership types that can be found in any industry. She takes an in-depth look...

Jill Griffin, author of Follow These Leaders: Wisdom and Mentorship from the Voices of Success decided to write a book that details personal stories of triumph from her vast network of contacts. Griffin’s book is a compilation of advice from colleagues, acquaintances, and even a few strangers detailing the best piece of career, or life, advice they’ve ever been given, who gave it to them, and how...

Technology is at the forefront of everything we do and it affects every aspect of our lives, personally and professionally. David Fergusson, author of The transHuman Code: How To Program Your Future says the book acts as an invitation for anyone who wants to take control of how they will use technology in their own future. Fergusson says he co-wrote the book, along with Carlos Moreira, because the...

Positivity is in scarce supply these days due to a number of factors – from social media, to lack of sleep, a poor diet and exercise regime and even electronics. All of these constantly bombard us with ‘fake’ messaging and short-term stopgaps that keep our own positivity from reaching its full potential. Brian Hazelgren, author of Positive People Make Things Happen! wrote a book that focuses on en...

Brandon Steiner, author of Living on Purpose: Stories About Faith, Fortune and Fitness That Can Lead You to An Extraordinary Life, is best known for his sports memorabilia and collectibles business, Steiner Sports. However, he wrote this book to encourage readers to do good and look past the “money grab” – which he labels as financial success, and also learn to focus on their faith, fortune and fi...

Allison Shapira, author of Speak with Impact: How to Command and Influence Others, says she wanted to write a book that took her public speaking methodology to a wider audience. Shapira noticed many books in the marketplace that talked about public speaking, but few walked readers through the process of writing, practicing, and delivering a speech in a short amount of time. She says the book is ai...

Theresa Rose, author of Mindful Performance: How to Powerfully Impact Profitability, Productivity, and Purpose, wrote the book to help people navigate the landscape of their work life, home life, and the increased stress they’re experiencing. In this fast-paced world, people are feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and over-medicated and they’re searching for something that simplifies their lives. Ros...

Anthony Iannarino, author of Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away From Your Competitors, wrote the book to teach others how to create greater value, become more strategic, and how to make people think better, and make better decisions about running their business. Iannarino felt that, while there are plenty of books about sales, no one had taken the time to list the steps on how to gain custome...

Author Diane Hamilton, Ph. D., sits down with host Taryn Winter Brill to discuss her latest book, Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential.  With this book, Hamilton accomplished something that, she says, hasn’t been done before: conducting research about the things that hold people back from being curious. She argues that there’s plenty of research out there about curiosi...

Jeffrey Hayzlett, author of The Hero Factor: How Great Leaders Transform Organizations and Create Winning Cultures, looks to highlight all of the good things businesses are doing to create a culture that’s based on great mission and vision statements and deeply ingrained values while helping the world be a better place and still increasing their profit margins. He says this, his fourth book, is th...

Julie Cottineau, author of Twist: How Fresh Perspectives Build Breakthrough
Brands, wrote the book with the purpose of teaching business owners and
executives how to give their brands a fresh look and sound, while standing out in
a crowded marketplace. Cottineau says she wanted the book to be about
branding advice anyone can use to build their business instead of branding
theories. She states that...

Mike Pierce, or “Antarctic Mike” is the author of Leading at 90 Below Zero: Extreme Condition…Extraordinary Results, a book about running a marathon in the coldest continent in the world and applying the lessons learned to the business world. His trip to Antarctica was inspired by a book he read about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914 – where the expedition ship got trapped in pack i...

Host Taryn Winter Brill sits down with author Leo Bottary to discuss his book, What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth. In this book, Bottary looks at all the people we surround ourselves and how those people are instrumental in helping us along the way. Bottary says that, “The more positive people we can surround ourse...