The Book Leads: Impactful Books For Life & Leadership

The Book Leads – Episode 49: Greg Kettner & Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz Greg speaks to how this book changed his view on finances, which, let’s be honest, plays very much into our stress vs. peace of mind dynamic. It helped him organize and be disciplined about his business finances, freeing him to focus his ene...

The Book Leads – Episode 48: Edie Clarke &… Hello Fears: Crush Your Comfort Zone and Become Who You’re Meant To Be by Michelle Poler Practical Law of Attraction: Align Yourself with the Manifesting Conditions and Successfully Attract Your Desires by Victoria Gallagher I recently sat down with Edie, a Remote Video Producer & YouTube Strategist, to discuss two books which have impacted her l...

The Book Leads – Episode 47: Andrew Beamon & From Promises To Progress: A Leadership Guide To Help Organizations Avoid Common Mishaps And Bring Their Racial Equity Aspirations To Life I recently sat down with Andrew, a Corporate Social Responsibility Professional, Author, and fellow University of Hartford Alum, to discuss his career and experiences leading up to his new book. Beyond continuing...

The Book Leads – Episode 46: Ally Berthiaume & Dear Universe, I Get It Now: Letters on the Art and Journey of Being Brave and Being Me. I recently sat down with Book Coach, Writing Guide, and Ghostwriter, Ally Berthiaume, to discuss her career in and passion for writing, and her book. Here’s another creative in my circle who is sharing her story with me. This is yet another story of someone wh...

The Book Leads – Episode 45: Jim Frawley & Adapting In Motion: Finding Your Place In The New Economy There are two major lessons I’ve learned from my conversations while hosting The Book Leads. First, preparation is everything. Getting ready before we have to be ready, not waiting until the urgency is upon us, sets us up in a better position for what’s coming. And second, just how much we can...

The Book Leads – Episode 44: Tia Hawkins & Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Tranforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brene Brown I recently sat down with my childhood friend Tia Hawkins to talk about her journey to today and how Brene Brown’s book has influenced her path, development, and success. The book is about opening up with vulnerability and putting yourself o...

The Book Leads – Episode 43: Lisa Hammet & From Burnout to Best Life: How To Take Charge Of Your Health & Happiness Because of the nature (and timeliness) of the book, I wanted to read it before our conversation. From Burnout to Best Life really is a manual and tool box of insights, experiences, and exercises to put the knowledge Lisa shares into action. Lisa has lived the burnt-out life....

The Book Leads – Episode 42: Alla Weinberg & A Culture of Safety: Building A Work Environment Where People Can Think, Collaborate And Innovate COVID-19 has shown us what kind of gap exists between what people want and need in the workplace and what the reality is they actually get. Compounding the workplace impact of the pandemic is the growing fear of a impending recession which is leading to...

In most of the podcast episodes I’ve made mention about or been curious as to how the lessons of my guests, from the work they do, can be transferred and imparted on children. It’s a two-pronged approach: Beyond repairing what we need to as adults and building from there, how can we prepare the younger generations, providing them the right tools to make their arduous journey through life more effi...

The Book Leads – Episode 40: Nicole Weyer & Her Chapter "Escaping the Leadership Trap: My Journey to and through burnout” in the book Cracking the Rich Code, Vol 8. For this episode, Nicole walks me through her background and experience, from familial influence to studying abroad to living and working at various educational institutions around the U.S., where she learned as much about herself...

The Book Leads – Episode 39: Maureen Ross Gemme & Emerge: 7 Steps to Transformation (No Matter What Life Throws At You!) For this episode, Maureen shares with me the trauma that impacted her life, beginning with addiction, leading to the hard work of recovery addiction, and eventually using those lessons to help others. The method in which she helps others is fascinating – using both tradition...

The Book Leads – Episode 38: Jill Siegel & Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience It’s fitting that Jill selected Atlas as the book she wanted to discuss. The subtitle of the book seems to perfectly describe the journey she’s undertaken since having left the corporate world to focus full-time on the desire to do good for others in her community a...

The Book Leads – Episode 37: Brad Ritter & School of Grit: Unlock Your Potential Through Purposeful Adversity In this episode, Brad breaks down his book and career as a coach to his client’s physical, mental, emotional, intuitional, and warrior spirits, and how it all stemmed out of a calling he felt after he had already achieved success in the traditional sense. Before coaching others in thos...

The Book Leads – Episode 36: Cory Carlson & Rise & Go: How to Get Back Up with Courage and Move Forward with Confidence For this episode, Cory Carlson provides some background on his career and book. It’s been great to learn about what prompted his original journey into civil engineering and why he later pivoted away from that career, trading hats from being an executive himself to coachin...

The Book Leads – Episode 35: Drew T. Jackson & The Executive Leader’s Handbook: A Guide for the Daily Challenges of Leadership For this episode, Drew walks me through a career path that’s ranged from his faith-based work, including planting a church in Santa Barbara, CA, to his current career in leadership training, speaking, and coaching. His path to executive coaching was borne out of sharin...

The Book Leads – Episode 34: Jason Merchey & Wisdom: A Very Valuable Virtue That Cannot Be Bought For this episode, Jason walks me through his life’s curiosity, work, and writings as they pertain to Wisdom. From his decades of studying and appreciating the great philosophical thinkers, both those well- and lesser-known, Jason wants to bring Wisdom to the forefront, where it can achieve a new a...

The Book Leads – Episode 33: Stephanie Dalfonzo & Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom: How to Build Resilience and Overcome Anxiety. For this episode, Stephanie walks me through her career path as a celebrity DJ, life coach, and hypnotist. She speaks about the challenges in her own life which led her to helping others live their best life in spite of their experiences with anxiety. As with so many...

The Book Leads – Episode 32: Carrie-Lynn Hotson & Knowing Who You Lead: Important Lessons On Why We Need To Understand Those We Lead For this episode, Carrie-Lynn walks me through her book, one built on her life and career, from her time as a police officer to her work in human resources. Those experiences (along with those found living on a farm) lead her to launch her businesses to help othe...

The Book Leads – Episode 31: Karen Senteio & A Culture of Safety: Building A Work Environment Where People Can Think, Collaborate and Innovate For this episode, Karen and I cover a book that most organizations need and shouldn’t be without. Companies – and actually all of us in the business of relationships – look past this book at their own peril. (I’ll be recording an episode with the author...

The Book Leads – Episode 30: Andrea Waltz & Go For No! Yes Is The Destination, No Is How You Get There For this episode, Andrea walks me through what the Go For No! strategy means and how it has evolved since she and her husband co-wrote the book over a decade ago. Although the book was written with business and sales in mind, our conversation on Going For No, failure, and rejection illustrate...

The Book Leads – Episode 29: Nike Anani & Lifetime to Legacy: A New Vision for Multigenerational Family Businesses For this episode, Nike Anani guides me through the nature of her work as a Succession Specialist who guides families in preparing family businesses to live on beyond this generation, the next and those that follow. Her career journey began after returning to her homeland of Nigeri...

The Book Leads – Episode 28: Gramps Jeffrey & I Don’ Want To Turn 3 For this episode, multi-title author Gramps Jeffrey walks me through what it was that prompted him to write his book. Simply put, it came out of spending more time with his grandkids, watching the way they think, negotiate, and navigate their way through life. Gramps is a veteran of business, spending decades in retail and sal...

The Book Leads – Episode 27: Prati Kaufman & The Alchemist For this episode, Prati , a Marketing & Human Energy Expert – and close friend, collaborator, coach, and confidant of mine – breaks down The Alchemist with me. Books were her gateway to the world, both while growing up in India and in her travels across the globe before coming to the U.S. She shares how it was an innate curiosity w...

The Book Leads – Episode 26: Cornell Thomas & Oh, The Places You’ll Go! For this episode, Cornell, an international speaker and multi-title author, walks me through what this book means to him. It’s funny that he and I both shared the same reaction when the book was first introduced to us as impactful – to Cornell by one of his students years back and to me a few weeks ago when Cornell mention...

For this episode, entrepreneur Kisha Zullo breaks down the book and draws parallels between its lessons and the journey her career and life have taken. I’ve been hearing about the WIB Summit for years and have seen the resources Kisha and her partners have provided for its attendees in the areas of leadership, money management, entrepreneurship, and personal development. It creates a major ripple...