Book Insights Podcast

*The old-world method of mass advertising through TV and radio was hugely successful for big corporations. With the arrival of the internet, everything changed.   *Traditional marketing is about trying to sell something to someone, trying to get something out of them. The new way is almost the opposite. It’s about generosity, listening, and making a connection that lasts.  *New opportuni...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Big Magic with special guest Lauree Ostrofsky. 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...

*Part spiritual guide and part pragmatic how-to, in Big Magic bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert shares her secrets and processes for all things creative.  *Warm and uplifting, Gilbert will help you to embrace curiosity and let go of your shame or fear of failure – whatever you are creating. Theme 1: A Creative Life Should Be Driven By Curiosity, Not Fear - 0:29 Theme 2: Science, Reason, an...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Difficult Conversations with special guest Kevin Gazzara. 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...

* Difficult Conversations grew out of fifteen years of work at the Harvard Negotiation Project, which focuses on matters of negotiation and conflict resolution.  *The result is a remarkable guide that lets you in on the powerful techniques that have been employed in world trouble spots to bring opposing sides together and forge new futures.  *Following the lessons learned from these high...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with special guest Kevin Palmieri. 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...

*It’s been said that, in the United States, the influence of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is second only to the Bible.  *Not only is it listed as core reading for employees in many Fortune 500 companies, but even former US Presidents Clinton and Obama have recommended it.  *Sales now exceed 25 million copies, and it was the first non-fiction book to sell a million copies in au...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Lean Startup with special guest Brendan Kumarasamy. 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...

*Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup brilliantly articulates the incremental, iterative approach to innovation, which provides a reality check on ego-driven ideas that might look good on paper but just won’t fly.  *As all great entrepreneurs know, business success comes from a curious mix of blue-sky thinking and a love of feedback and data.  *The lean approach helps new ventures launch products...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book You Are a Badass with special guest Nancy Pickard . 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...

*When it comes to self-help, Jen Sincero has been there, read that, and got multiple T-shirts.  * You are a Badass is her effort to distill everything she learnt during years of attending motivational seminars and devouring self-help tomes, mercifully sparing her readers all the cheesiness.  *This sassy brand of positivity may sound very different to classics of the genre – it’s out with...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Lost Connections with special guest Brittany Days. 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...

*Prompted by his own experience of living with depression and the escalating levels of depression and anxiety across the Western world, Johann Hari set out on a three-year investigation, interviewing experts and sufferers the world over.  *He questions the conventional wisdom about depression – essentially that it’s all in our heads, caused by an imbalance in our brain chemistry – and the eff...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 with special guest Christina Eanes. 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 h...

*In their number one New York Times bestseller, Bradberry and Greaves lay out the four key skills that – once adopted – will exponentially enhance your emotional intelligence.  *The authors conducted extensive research into emotional intelligence, interviewing over half a million people in order to identify the traits that underpin high ‘EQ’.  *In today's fast-paced world of competitive...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book 12 Rules for Life with special guest Joe Barnes. 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...

*Jordan Peterson has been a controversial figure since he spoke out against a Canadian government bill concerning gender identity and expression.  *His book tour promoting 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has met with angry protests and some academics and commentators have rounded on him, questioning his credibility.  *At the same time, Peterson’s public lectures regularly sell ou...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Body Keeps the Score with special guest Miranda Wise. 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...

*A worldwide expert on trauma, Bessel van der Kolk examines exactly what trauma is, and how and why it affects so many of us.  *He explores the impact traumas ranging from sexual abuse to violence, witnessing abuse, neglect, and divorce (among others), have on the body and mind, and how they can disrupt the brain’s wiring and develop into PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder.  *Trauma s...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Quiet with special guest Terrance Lee. 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 w...

*Introversion/extroversion is the most fundamental divide in personality, Susan Cain argues, the ‘North and South of temperament’.  *Yet extroversion has become the ideal in the West, at the expense of our appreciation of introverted qualities. Centering a whole culture – be it a company, university or nation – on extroversion, means that decision-making gets taken over by the more assertive,...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 5 Love Languages with special guest Julie Nguyen. 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...

*After the first flush of romance fades, how do you stay in love? Gary Chapman’s multimillion copy bestseller has the answers, based on his years of experience as a marriage counsellor, pastor, and husband.  *Chapman had his wife Carolyn have been together over 50 years. He has also worked as an anthropologist, researching the cultural patterns of love and marriage in indigenous cultures arou...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Sapiens with special guest Ruben Chavez. 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...

*Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book that dares to tackle the biggest questions about the progress of humanity. Harari puts pay to the idea that the study of history is a dusty affair involving arcane debates about the reigns of forgotten kings.  *Instead, he pulls together familiar portions of history – such as the rise of the first cities, the age of exploration, the Industrial...