Book Insights Podcast

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 5 Second Rule with special guest Deanna Kuempel. 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...

*In this No.1 New York Times bestseller, lauded former Navy SEAL commanders Willink and Babin share their leadership lessons from managing one of the most decorated special operations unit of the Iraq war.  *Returning home from deployment, Willink and Babin launched a consulting firm to teach these same lessons to CEOs and Fortune 500 executives around the world.  *In this gripping, eye-...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Extreme Ownership with special guest Chris Rowan. 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 adv...

* In Can’t Hurt Me , Goggins explains how his exceptional experience can be applied to everyday life.  * He passes on his hard-earned wisdom about tapping into your unlocked potential, overcoming your fears and being better.  * With his tough talk, brutal honesty and extraordinary accomplishments, Goggins is an engrossing storyteller and provides us with inspiration to take the path of m...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Can't Hurt Me with special guest Cornelius Lindsey. 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...

* Despite a lack of experience in city planning or even a college degree, Jane Jacobs picked apart the figures and philosophies responsible for what she viewed as the downfall of American cities.  * Taking aim at those focused on aesthetically pleasing and cutting-edge cities, Jacobs exposed these models as part of a deeply flawed system that only stymies urban living.  * In redefining t...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Death and Life of Great American Cities with special guest Robert Kanigel. 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 ra...

* In this collection of remarkable case studies, physician and neurology professor Oliver Sacks introduces us to the bewildering world of the brain and its disorders.  * From patients afflicted with frenzied tics, and those who can no longer recognize familiar faces and objects, to others who have lost great swathes of their memories, Sacks permits the reader a greater understanding of the of...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat with special guest Dr Valentin Riedl. 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...

* Influence is the ability to change the minds and actions of others in a way that they are willing to accept. * Cialdini identifies half a dozen “weapons of influence”, ways of getting us to act automatically that sidestep our normal rational decision-making processes. These are used by professionals and salespeople to get us to say ‘yes’ without thinking. * They include: reciprocation, commitmen...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Influence with special guest Dr. Karin Tamerius. 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...

* Joshua Foer sets out to answer the question: "Can anyone develop a brilliant memory?"  * Foer learns the tricks of the trade from mnemonic masters and ‘mental athletes’ and ultimately earns the title of 2006 US Memory champion. Not bad after only a year’s preparation.  * Alongside the entertaining tale of rising to this challenge, Foer shows how memory built modern civilization, and is...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Moonwalking With Einstein with special guest Marlo Yonocruz. 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...

* The historian Tacitus described the events surrounding Seneca’s death in a way that made him into a Stoic hero, facing his own death with total equanimity despite the injustice of the situation.   * It was through lifelong training in Stoic philosophy that he achieved this state of mind.  * Throughout the centuries, Seneca has been admired as one of the greatest writers of antiquity.&n...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Letters to Seneca with special guest Donald Robertson. 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 ca...

* When John Gottman began researching marriage in the early 1970s, there was little scientific data on the factors that make it work.   * Counsellors depended on conventional wisdom, opinion, intuition, religious beliefs or the ideas of psychologists.    * The result? Not much effectiveness. Using quantitative research based on direct observation of couples, Gottman identified consi...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work with special guest Stephanie Coontz.   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...

* Several years ago, Kelly McGonigal began teaching a popular course at Stanford University on the science of willpower.  * Her students began reporting the life-changing impacts her course had on them. When they understood the science of willpower and practiced the methods she advised, they overcame bad habits, stuck to exercise programs, even kept better bank balances.  * Over the year...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal with special guest Dr. Ian Taylor. 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...

* When his solar energy business crashed and burned, Jeff Olson had an epiphany.  *When people have their backs to the wall, he saw, they will do anything to lift themselves up again, with often awe-inspiring effort.  * But when they do pull themselves up again, something happens: they relax a bit and start drifting again toward failure.  * When they get low, once again they pull th...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson with special guest Adam Ashton. 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 ho...

Today is a BONUS episode of the Book Lounge where Tom & Karin discuss: *Behind the scenes of Book Insights *Their favorite Book Insights of the year *An exciting new project from Memo'd, Book Insight's parent company   What is the difference between Book Insights episodes and Book Lounge episodes?   Book Insights are formal, structured summary, analysis and exploration of a bestselli...

*Albert Einstein appeared like a shooting star across the sphere of astrophysics while making the first of his great discoveries as a part-time doctoral candidate in Switzerland.  *His constantly changing simulations of the universe launched a new foundation for cosmology, and future breakthroughs in physics based on his relativity equations are likely to continue into the coming centuries.&n...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Einstein by Walter Isaacson. 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 li...

* On Writing reveals the master of horror's life in a mixture of memoir and writing tips.  *The result is an autobiography with a purpose, or a page-turning writing manual, depending on your needs.  *King takes us on a journey from his schoolboy love of gory stories, to his initial fame with Carrie , and to a fateful day in 1999 when his writing career – and life – hung in the balance.&n...