"Decisions, Courage, and Action" By Robert Plank

 

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Overview

What have you been putting off until you feel ready?

Maybe it's a project you keep restarting, a conversation you're avoiding, or a trip you've promised yourself for years. Meanwhile, the work piles up, other people need answers, and waiting has started to feel suspiciously like a decision.

Decisions, Courage, and Action brings together ten authors with real stories and practical approaches to making decisions, leading people, and finishing what matters. Compiled by Robert Plank, this collection explores what you can do when fear, exhaustion, competing demands, or rapid change make the next step difficult.

Rita Ainsworth recalls looking at her advertising dashboard and suddenly being unable to make sense of familiar numbers. Mitch Slater describes receiving a million-dollar check as a young financial advisor and discovering what another person's trust required of him. WL Gertz returns to poetry after roughly fifty years, with a reminder to stop postponing the experiences you want to have.

Alongside these stories, you'll find ways to help your team think for themselves, communicate through change, and build physical strength through repeatable practice. Donna Blevins explains how finishing three small tasks can get stalled work moving. Robert Plank's Five Little Boxes approach starts with the finished outcome and works backward to a step you can take today. 

For entrepreneurs, managers, creators, and anyone reconsidering what comes next, this book offers ideas you can put to work while you're still figuring things out. Credit: Robert Plank; Decisions, Courage and Action.

The book is a healthy collaboration of multiple contributors and authors.

 

p.s. Here's a flashback from when Sasha revisited Robert to explore time. 

(Original air date - 2018)

 

Trust by Hernan Diaz

 

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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts. Credit: Trust.

When Your Partner Says #MeToo

 

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Meet Shaun Hamilton, the author of 'When Your Partner Says #MeToo: Your Role And Responsibilities In Their Recovery Process'. He's passionate about helping partners of survivors navigate the complex journey of supporting their loved one's healing process. Drawing on his extensive research and experience, he's developed practical insights and actionable advice that can help anyone in this situation feel more informed, empowered, and equipped to support their partner. Shaun brings his unique perspective and expertise to share with audiences that can help make a positive impact in people's lives. Credit: Shaun Hamilton; When Your Partner Says #MeToo.

Shaun makes an appearance on Sasha Talks on Saturday March 11th @ 8 pm Central, US. Global listeners can check their local listings for show times.

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The Body Keeps the Score

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Overview

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. Credit: Bessel Van Der Kolk

#Spotlight 'Entrepreneurial Leadership'

 

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Meet the Author 

Joel Peterson is the Chairman of JetBlue Airways and the Founding Partner of Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm. Joel is on the faculty at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and has been since 1992, teaching courses in real estate investment, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Joel formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Trammell Crow Company, then the world's largest private commercial real estate development firm. Joel earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and received his Bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. He is the author of "The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great". (Credit: Amazon Authors)