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| Credit: Winners Take All |
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| Credit: Winners Take All |
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| Credit: How Not to Be Wrong |
Overview
The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer?
How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Credit: Book Culture; Jordan Ellenberg.
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| Credit: Sasha Talks | Guest Dr. Bob Rich |
Meet the 'Professional Grandfather'
Storyteller - Writer - Editor
November 26, 2025 - 1 pm AEDT (AET)
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| Credit: Send By David Shipley and Will Schwalbe |
Overview
Send, the classic guide to email for office and home, has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of useful and entertaining examples, Send dissects all the major minefields and pitfalls of email. It provides clear rules for constructing effective emails, for handheld etiquette, for handling the “emotional email,” and for navigating all of today’s hot-button issues. It offers essential strategies to help you both better manage the ever-increasing number of emails you receive and improve the ones you send. Send is now more than ever the essential book about email for businesspeople and professionals everywhere. Credit: Penguin Random House.
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| Credit: Leadership Unblocked |
Overview
Your mindset may be the only thing standing between you and your potential. Break free from the beliefs that hold you back. As a leader, do you find yourself frustrated, wondering why employees don't meet expectations, peers are slow to act, or pressure from your boss falls unfairly on your shoulders? It's easy to point a finger at others and double down on getting results. But have you ever considered that the problem might not be them—that it might be you?
Through countless hours coaching executives over the past twenty years, C-suite adviser Muriel M. Wilkins has pinpointed the biggest reason behind these common leadership challenges: hidden blockers. These unconscious beliefs can actively stall progress if leaders aren't aware of their existence, preventing them from seeing a situation clearly, solving problems effectively, and advancing their careers.
In Leadership Unblocked, Wilkins reveals seven key beliefs that hold leaders back, from "I know I'm right" to "I need to be involved" to "I don't belong here." Combining illustrative and powerful coaching conversations and research from the fields of neuroscience, leadership, and adult development theory, Wilkins offers a self-coaching guide for identifying, unpacking, and breaking through these barriers. Credit: Muriel M. Wilkins.
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| Credit: How Does Sanctification Work? |
Overview
The process of sanctification is personal and organic―not a one-size-fits-all formula.
Many popular views try to reduce the process of Christian growth to a single template. For example, remember past grace. Rehearse your identity in Christ. Avail yourself of the means of grace. Discipline yourself. But Scripture portrays the dynamics of sanctification in a rich variety of ways. No single factor, truth, or protocol can capture why and how a person is changed into the image of Christ. Weaving together personal stories, biblical exposition, and theological reflection, David Powlison shows the personal and particular ways that God meets you where you are to produce change. He highlights the variety of factors that work together, helping us to avoid sweeping generalizations and pat answers in the search for a key to sanctification. This book is a go-to resource for understanding the multifaceted, lifelong, personal journey of sanctification. Read more here. Credit: David Powlison.
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| Credit: Becoming Supernatural |
Overview
The author of the New York Times best seller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life.
Listeners will learn that we are, quite literally supernatural by nature if given the proper knowledge and instruction, and when we learn how to apply that information through various meditations, we should experience a greater expression of our creative abilities; that we have the capacity to tune in to frequencies beyond our material world and receive more orderly coherent streams of consciousness and energy; that we can intentionally change our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly mystical transcendental experiences; and how, if we do this enough times, we can develop the skill of creating a more efficient, balanced, healthy body, a more unlimited mind, and greater access to the realms of spiritual truth. Read more here. Credit: Dr. Joe Dispenza.
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| Credit: Writers Series | Guest, Helen Glanville |
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| Credits: Writers Series | Guest: Paul Rushworth-Brown |
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| Credit: Bag Man; Lew Frankfort |
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| Credit: True Nature; Lance Richardson |
Overview
Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), a towering figure of twentieth-century American letters, achieved so much during his lifetime, in so many different areas, that people have struggled to pin him down. While ambivalent about his WASP privilege—as a teenager he demanded that his name be removed from the New York Social Register—he attended Yale and cut his teeth in postwar Paris, co-founding The Paris Review as he worked undercover for the CIA. But then, after a rebellious stint as a Long Island fisherman, he escaped into a series of wild expeditions: floating through the Amazon to recover a prehistorical fossil; embedding with a tribe in Netherlands New Guinea; swimming with sharks off the coast of Australia. His novels, inspired by his travels, were unclassifiable meditations about Caymanian turtle hunters and frontier outlaws in the Florida Everglades. Meanwhile, his nonfiction became legendary: nature books like Wildlife in America—“key parts of the canon of emergent environmental writing,” says Bill McKibben—as well as advocacy journalism supporting Cesar Chavez, Leonard Peltier, and Native American land claims. Credit: True Nature; Better World Books.

Credit: The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian
Overview
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| Credit: Don't Be Yourself, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic |
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| Credit: Sasha Talks | Writers Series, Guest Sora Vernikoff |
Sora Vernikoff is a No Diet, Weight-Loss Coach at www.nodieting.net. Over 20 years ago, Sora healed herself of compulsive overeating by transferring her classroom “management” techniques to food “management” techniques thanks to her educational expertise teaching really challenged kids in East New York, Brooklyn. This led to the development of an easy to use no-diet, weight-loss system that she went on to teach to hundreds of unhappy dieters. Sora’s book "Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! A No-Diet, Weight-Loss Program" became a #1 Amazon Best Seller when it was published; also her book became the 2018 Distinguished Favorite by The New York City Big Book Award Contest. As an educator, speaker and author, Sora teaches her no diet system both online and offline. She likes to say, “If you want to eat what you want, stop when you want and become forever thin and healthy, then visit nodieting.net and start making peace with food today.” Credit: Sora Vernikoff; NoDieting.net.
Sora's Writer Series appearance is also available @ ❤️iHeartRadio.
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| Credit: Writers Series, Presented by Sasha Talks |
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| Credit: Change Your Brain Every Day By Dr. Daniel G. Amen |
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| Credit: When Breath Becomes Air |
Overview
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. Credit: When Breath Becomes Air.
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| Credit: The Happiness Files, Arthur C. Brooks |
Overview
Imagine if your life were a startup. How would you lead it and shape it to be most successful? That’s the question behind The Happiness Files, a rich selection of enlightening and instructive essays by Arthur Brooks, known worldwide for his inspiring yet practical wisdom and advice in his weekly column for The Atlantic and in his bestselling books, From Strength to Strength and Build the Life You Want (coauthored with Oprah Winfrey). The simple answer, as Brooks wisely explains, is to manage your life in a way that leads to truly valuable rewards: love, enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning—in other words, happiness. Credit: Arthur C. Brooks.
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| Credit: The Secret Book Society |
Overview
London, 1895: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club—a sanctuary where they can discover freedom, sisterhood, and the courage to rewrite their stories. Eleanor Clarke, a devoted mother suffocating under the tyranny of her husband. Rose Wharton, a transplanted American dollar princess struggling to fit the mold of an aristocratic wife. Lavinia Cavendish, an artistic young woman haunted by a dangerous family secret. All are drawn to the enigmatic Lady Duxbury, a thrice-widowed countess whose husbands’ untimely deaths have sparked whispers of murder. As the women form deep, heartwarming friendships, they uncover secrets about their marriages, their pasts, and the risks they face. Their courage is their only weapon in the oppressive world that has kept them silent, but when secrets are deadly, one misstep could cost them everything. Credit: The Secret Book Society.
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| Credit: Style My Soul, www.stylemysoul.com | Write for Us |
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| Credit: Writers Series, Guest Lauren Gibbons Paul |
Meet Lauren Gibbons Paul
Lauren Gibbons Paul is a Boston-area writer. She worked
as a freelance business/technology journalist for more than 30 years.
Her pivot to fiction coincided with taking up ballroom dance lessons
seven years ago. Lauren was immediately fascinated by the glamorous
world -especially the instructors - most of whom come here from other
countries. This world is a perfect backdrop within which to explore
themes of wanting to belong, wanting to be seen, making one's way in
America. Credits: Lauren Gibbons Paul; Clippings.Me.
Lauren's Writer Series appearance is also available @ ❤️iHeartRadio.
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| Credit: BLINDSPOTTING By Martin Dubin |
Overview
Blindspotting: How To See What's Holding You Back as a Leader
What you don't see about yourself can hold you back as a leader. As leaders, we all hit a point when things stop going well. A problem emerges that we think we can handle but discover we can't. The tools that got us this far somehow stop working. We don't understand; what are we missing?
What we don't see is what we can't see: we have blindspots. It's a known fact that we're often not great judges of ourselves, even when we think we are. Sometimes we're simply unaware of a behavior or trait that's causing problems. Other times, where we see normal, effective behavior, others see tremendous deficits. Bottom line: until we uncover these blindspots, we can’t move forward or deliver on our goals as leaders.
The good news is that you can learn to do your own blindspotting. Clinical-psychologist-turned-entrepreneur-turned-business-coach Martin Dubin has spent years learning when and how leaders get in their own way, and he has turned that experience into a deeply practical blueprint to help you identify your professional blindspots and work to overcome them. Blindspotting provides a framework for understanding six types of blindspots, then takes you inside coaching sessions with profoundly relatable leaders going through the process of learning to recognize their own blindspots. Along the way, you get the practical guidance you need to identify and manage those same blindspots in yourself, unlocking high performance and great leadership. Credit: BLINDSPOTTING by Martin Dubin.
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| Credit: Writers Series By Sasha Talks; Guest: Andrew Robinson |
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| Credit: Writers Series By Sasha Talks; Julian Morris-Haaker |
Meet Julian Morris-Haaker
Julian Morris-Haaker is a self-published author who has been in the business of telling tales regarding war and conflict on a fantastical scale for nearly 10 years. He primarily writes fiction, a hybrid of science fiction and fantasy ,where he challenges peoples' perceptions of conflict to reveal there is so much more that goes on beneath the surface. Telling stories and writing poetry has been a coping mechanism since Julian's parents passed away. He applied his personal experience of pain and grief to begin his journey of becoming an author. This outlet has granted him an opportunity to tell fantastical tales exhibiting defiant hope and rage against the inevitable. The four books of the series are as follows - Airborne: The Defiant Crusade, Landfall, Vigilance, and Galvanic Eruption. Credit: Julian Morris-Haaker.
Julian's Writer Series appearance is available @ ❤️iHeartRadio.
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| Credit: Writers Series - Guest Frank DiMaio |
Meet the Author - Frank DiMaio
Frank holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Providence College, his Doctorate from New York Chiropractic College, and a Master of Science degree from Troy State University. Born and raised in Rhode Island, he grew up in the restaurant business. This engendered a strong work ethic and a love of food, which helped him develop his perseverance, determination, and faith to be adventurous and driven.
As a published author, keynote speaker, and artist, he shares his journey. Teaching others through presentations, workshops on resilience, and keynote speeches about the healing power of positive language, and to help others shift the influence of negative words and learned behavior. *To Be and To Be With…The Yin and Yang of Emotional Prosperity*, his most recent work, offers perspectives on shifting negative emotion within the context of Chinese philosophy. Credit: Frank DiMaio; Emotional Prosperity Network.
Frank's appearance on Writers Series is available @❤️iHeartRadio.
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| Credit: To Be .. To Be With; Author Frank J. DiMaio |
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| Credit: Killing Kryptonite |
Overview
What’s your kryptonite? For so many Christians, frustration and fatigue set in as they try time and again to get free from what holds them back. God never intended for it to be this way. He destined you to be victorious in every area of your life, and more than that, He gives you the power to overcome whatever comes against you. In Killing Kryptonite, best-selling author John Bevere opens up about his own story, revealing key biblical truths that moved him from a life of struggle to a life of breakthrough. You can enjoy a life of intimacy and connection with God. You can have a vibrant, powerful faith that impacts the world around you. But first, you have to face off with spiritual kryptonite. This book is not for the faint of heart. But if you’re ready to embrace a journey of radical transformation, this message is for you. Are you ready to kill your kryptonite and step into the life you were born for? Credit: Messenger International; Amazon.
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| Credit: The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday |
Overview
Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. Credit: The Daily Stoic; Book.
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| Credit: This is Marketing By Seth Godin |
Overview
Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas that have made their way into mainstream business language, from Permission Marketing to Purple Cow to Tribes to The Dip. Now, for the first time, Godin offers the core of his marketing wisdom in one compact, accessible, timeless package. This is Marketing shows you how to do work you're proud of, whether you're a tech startup founder, a small business owner, or part of a large corporation.
Great marketers don't use consumers to solve their company's problem; they use marketing to solve other people's problems. Their tactics rely on empathy, connection, and emotional labor instead of attention-stealing ads and spammy email funnels. Credit: This is Marketing.
Credit: Sasha Talks | Writers Series, Guest Daniel C. Munson Meet Author Daniel C. Munson Daniel C. Munson worked for many years as a chem...