Author Hour

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 decided to write in late 2024 and published in 2025, on a thousand words a week. Neil explains why “books are a way to own an idea,” how the story of a 19-year-old who got a C on a paper and turned it into the 27th Amendment proves you don’...

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 Price after recognizing what McKinsey calls the purpose gap: 85% of senior leaders say they’re living their purpose at work, versus 15% of everyone else. Stephen explains why purpose is a verb, not a whiteboard exercise, a constant cycle o...

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 COVID era scribblings" and grew into what Eric calls an act of public service. Paul tells the story of finding his grandmother's 1938 speech "in the bowels of the internet" — a speech that gave him chills because you could swap the names an...

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 newspaper sparked The Adventure Advantage , a book about moving through life with a posture of adventure. In this episode, Mike joins Scribe CEO Travis Stoliker to share why three weeks of writing alone produced only one beautiful paragraph...

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 . Jim tells the story behind the title: after 13 years of failed diagnoses by two of the best hematologists in the world, his problem-solving framework found the source of his wife's rare bleeding disorder in seven minutes. He shares how the bo...

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 communities around the world, and then write books anyway. On this episode of Author Hour, Chris joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Build the Fort , his playbook for the economic developers and community builders trying to make their cities...

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 before quitting his doctors and medications cold turkey and healing himself through nutrition, fitness, and faith. In this episode, Hadley joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about his book, Drug-Free Crohn's: Overcoming Big Doctors, Big Hospitals...

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. In this episode of Author Hour, the founder and CEO of Falcon Wealth Advisors joins Scribe Media CEO Travis Stoliker to talk about Retiring Right: Smart Steps for Exiting Corporate America , why the book has become his new business card and...

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 himself telling that story over and over to anyone who needed it. Writing a book was the way to stop repeating it. In this episode of Author Hour, Ian joins Scribe Media CEO Travis Stoliker to talk about Healing Hacks: Bring Your Body Back to Nat...

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 Author Hour, he tells Eric Jorgenson how a mentor's suggestion to write a manual for his 18 year old grandson turned a decade-old manuscript into Money Mind: Beyond Speculation , a Canadian bestseller that has brought ultra high net worth in...

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 counselor, joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about his memoir Answering the Hard Questions: I Almost Ended My Story Too Soon . Devin shares how growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in America, watching both parents battle addiction, and s...

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 child. Yarona draws on nearly two decades of early childhood development, psychology, and coaching to make a provocative argument: a parent's real job isn't to protect their children at all costs, it's to give them the tools to thrive without...

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 episode, he shares how publishing At the Corner of IP and Amazon transformed his business development strategy, replacing disposable cold outreach with something prospects actually hold on to. Mario breaks down his exact playbook: cold mail...

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 women to graduate, then spent decades writing, teaching, and serving. When her oldest daughter decided West Point was the only place for her, MyLinh couldn't sleep. That fear became the engine for her memoir, Raising Athena, published by Scrib...

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 Manhattan firm. Over the next few decades, he built a specialty in 401(k) and 403(b) plans, and after carrying a book idea in his head for 10 years, he finally sat down on weekends to write it. The result was Common Financial Sense, a plain-Engl...

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 that she finally wrote the book she'd been putting off for years. In this episode, Gale shares how she turned a 12-hour self-defense course into a character-driven, story-based safety playbook for young adults, what the AWARE method is and wh...

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 launching her consulting firm and writing Running Great Stores , a 30-day implementation guide for store managers and district managers. In this episode, Rachel talks with Eric Jorgenson about how she finally committed to the book, the creativ...

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 Underdog to Bulldog, to talk about the unexpected and remarkable doors his book has opened since he published it seven years ago. Candler shares how a fraternity alumni email connected him with his now-CEO, how his personal story attracted a...

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 authoring “the single best thing I’ve ever done for the business and for people.” Gui walks through the procrastination and self-doubt that nearly stalled his first Scribe book, the “world-class ghostwriter” who got him through it, and the Dakota...

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 FireCircle 5x5 Method . Deneen spent 25 years building tourism and hospitality businesses across Canada before distilling that expertise into a digital program, and resisting her team's push to put it in book form for three years. In this c...

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 All About Relationships . Eddy shares the story of his sold-out launch event at Books and Books, the Miami independent bookstore he has loved since he was old enough to drive, and the unexpected ways readers have responded, including a Cornell...

Dr. Richard Harris joins Eric Jorgenson roughly six weeks after the release of White Coat, Heavy Soul , and three weeks after the audiobook went live, to walk through how the book got written, why he left the traditional hospital system for direct primary care, and the unexpected goodness already showing up. Dr. Harris wrote the manuscript in 12-hour days for three months after his son's traumatic...

Michael Erath joins Eric Jorgenson to walk through eight years and three Scribe-published books as the centerpiece of a 9-person coaching firm. Michael's first book, Rise , was a personal memoir about a business partner who embezzled half a million dollars and the marriage strain that followed; readers still reach out years later to share their own versions of the story. By his third book, The Fiv...

Dr. Laura M. Brown , ND joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Beyond Digestion: How GUT Health Connects to Your Mind, Body, and Soul , her book on the science and stories of gut health. Five years after publishing through Scribe, Dr. Brown breaks down the long-term ROI of authorship for a service business: a podcast tour she built herself across North America, new patients who arrive already pre-educ...

In this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Dr. Tod Stillson, MD , a family physician in rural America and the author of Doctor Incorporated . Tod shares how a single book about transitioning from employed physician to independent contractor became a catalyst for the Physician Entrepreneur Academy, now nearly 6,000 members strong, a six-figure coaching business, and ChatterX, a m...