Author Episodes

1,171 | Emily Erstad Reveals How to Lead with Soulful Intention Emily Erstad is a multi-passionate indie author, strategic leader, and soulful coach guiding others to live and lead with intention, clarity, and heart. As the author of It’s Not That Deep, Emily explores the nuanced intersections of emotion, identity, growth, leadership, and human connection. With a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University, Emily brings both clinical insight and human-centered leadership to her work. She currently serves as a Regional Operations Strategist and Executive Director in the hospice space, where she leads with empathy, vision, and a deep respect for the stories and transitions that define each life. A trusted voice for Soulful Leadership, Emily champions a grounded, heart-forward approach that blends emotional intelligence, strategic operations, and authentic self-expression. Her work inspire…

1,170 | Dr. Angelo Valenti Reveals How to Find Your Easy Way to Enjoy Life Dr. Angelo Valenti grew up in Cleveland (Shaker Heights, to be exact) and graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in psychology. He earned an MS and PhD in social psychology from the University of Georgia. He taught psychology at Oklahoma City University and served as a consultant with RHR International before starting his own practice. Dr. Valenti is a consulting psychologist in Nashville. His firm, The Company Psychologist, assesses talent for businesses in a variety of industries and is passionate about helping companies find the right individuals to fit their unique cultures. He strongly believes that “Companies hire for skills but fire for attitude.” He coaches leaders and those who want to be leaders, both in how to increase their effectiveness as leaders and how to become the best versions of themselves. He says, “People are capable of dramatic change and growth. Sometimes they…

1,169 | Michele Vrabel Reveals How to Find Joy at Any Age Michele Vrabel is an expert bean-counter by day. In addition to her work as a bookkeeper, her superpowers and side hustles include pastry chef, podcast host and author. She has been told she has “sass,” which she deploys regularly. She has with exponential joy finished her first book, Butterfly Stitches, and is working on the sequel. According to her King, she apparently has several other books in her. At 63, she has launched a podcast and is having the time of her life. She is an enthusiastic traveler, foodie, smart alec, and lover of her King, Jesus. Michele lives in Mesa, Arizona, with her daughter, who is lovingly known as Peanut. Michele would love to engage with you through any and all media. She is also available for speaking engagements and retreats. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.michelevrabel.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or sc…

Jim Tracy is the “Curator of Culture” who grew up in rural South Dakota as the 6th of 8 children. He was a welder working in remote locations when he fell head over heels in love and attended University with his new wife Sarah. Together they have built a family, successful business exits and worked through 45 years of change and growth. They are the parents of 5 kids and grandparents to 16! Jim spent over 3 decades in senior management including 23 as CEO of Legacy Telecommunications, Inc. Jim is a type rated jet pilot who was inducted into the Wireless History Foundation’s Wireless Hall of Fame Class of 2021. He spent time in private firms, family enterprises and private equity owned ventures. Today he is a high demand keynote speaker, author, and award winning podcaster who helps executive teams execute through strategy, coaching, board membership and advisory services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://thejimtracy.co…

1,162 | Larry W. O’Nan Reveals How to Live and Give with Purpose Larry W. O’Nan is a passionate advocate for biblical stewardship with over five decades of experience in ministry and consulting. He served on the staff of Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) for 18 years, dedicating 13 years to developing fund development initiatives that raised over $150 million for worldwide ministry. As Vice President of Stewardship Strategies at Management Development Associates, Larry provided counsel to Christian ministries, helping raise tens of millions of dollars. He is the author of “Giving Yourself Away” (1984) and “Intentional Living and Giving,” and has co-authored practical stewardship assessment tools. Larry’s passion also extends to helping children learn biblical values through his role as president of Andy Ant Productions Inc., creating engaging adventure books. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, Larry inspires and equips people to live as faithful stewards, experie…

1,161 | Bridget Cook-Burch Reveals How to Harness Your Story Bridget Cook-Burch’s clients call her “The Book Whisperer”. She is a New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, publisher, mentor, trainer, mamma-bear humanitarian, and speaker known for riveting stories of transformation. Her powerful work has been showcased on Oprah, Dateline, CNN, GMA, The History Channel, NPR and in People among many others. She is the CEO and Founder of YourInspiredStory.com. As a successful entrepreneur, Bridget has also owned and operated a multimillion-dollar trucking company, a phone book and a PR agency. She is also a co-founder and former executive director of SHEROES United, a non-profit organization that helps women and girls rise from trauma. As a leader, storyteller, trainer and humanitarian, her greatest passion is helping others to discover the importance of their own story, and to become leaders in their own communities, and worldwide. Bridget’s many national bestsel…

1,160 | Corey Lyon Folsom Shares How to Transform Love Through Communication Corey Lyon Folsom is a certified relationship coach. He’s also been a wilderness guide for newly sober people and a vision quest leader. After a spiritual soul-awakening, Corey participated in Non-Violent Communication, Source School of Tantra Yoga, Love Coach Academy, Tony Robbins and other programs. He's passionate about helping people expand their empathy, clarity and communication skills. Corey is the father of two grown sons. His award-winning book, Soul Statements: A Love Coach’s Guide to Successful Communication, is a practical guide for making small shifts that produce outsized benefits in life and love. Each chapter has a wealth of potent tools for upgrading communication, mindfulness and connection with life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://corerelationship.com/soul-statements-book/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or…

1,159 | Delphia L. Howze's Mission: Leading Inclusion From Anywhere You Are Delphia L. Howze has emerged as a new author with her new book, "Including You! Leading Inclusion From Where You Are." She is the CEO and Founder of D. Howze Solutions, LLC, a consultancy specializing in inclusion strategy, and serves as an executive for a large-scale national laboratory. With over two decades of experience, she is recognized as a forward-thinking leader in Human Resources and inclusion strategy, adept at helping organizations harness human capital and diversity to cultivate inclusive environments. Known as the Inclusion Strategist, Delphia's expertise lies in developing and implementing HR and inclusion strategies, facilitating talent development through training, mentorship, and leadership coaching, managing compliance, and delivering impactful keynote presentations. As a thought leader in the field, Delphia is often sought after for her insights and expertise on diversity and inclusion …

1,151 | Build New Bridges: Greg Stephens on Restoring Relationships & Mastering Communication Greg Stephens is a communication consultant and executive coach. He holds a Business Degree from Baylor University and is a certified professional behavior analyst, Master Certified Trainer, and a corporate executive coach. Is an experienced professional speaker, facilitator, corporate trainer, coach and author of Build New Bridges: The Art of Restoring Impossible Relationships. Greg has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies and National Organizations. He has 25 years of practical business experience and has Sales and Marketing with professional sports organizations, advertising agencies, technology companies, small business, the health care industry, and several government agencies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.alignment-resources.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check ou…

1,143 | The Process of Living: Bill DeBarba on Business Wisdom, Problem Solving & Second Chances Bill DeBarba is a serial entrepreneur. He began the classic “back bedroom office” business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew to the point where he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers nationwide. In his nearly 40 years of ownership and management, he achieved considerable success. One measure of that success is that, during those years, no customer ever resorted to legal action to resolve an issue. He learned how to recognize problems from others’ points of view. And he shared that knowledge in his book entitled The Process of Living. This publication explains how to manage the concepts of acknowledging thoughts, understanding feelings, and taking action. By effectively applying these functions in responding to difficult issues, he found the most efficient way to solve pro…

1,142 | Create a Life of Legacy: Rabbi Daniel Cohen on Light, Meaning & What Truly Matters Most Popular motivator, mentor, and inspirational speaker, Rabbi Daniel Cohen’s unique blend of authenticity, humor, wisdom, and insight helps anyone better navigate contemporary society and lead a life of legacy. Rabbi Cohen has served in the rabbinate for over twenty years and is the author of What Will They Say About You When You Are Gone? Creating a Life of Legacy, and his newest book, The Secret of the Light. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.rabbidanielcohen.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Fri…

1,138 | Bringing the 9th Century to Life: D. H. Morris on Genealogy, Historical Fiction & Legacy A native of San Diego, California, D. H. Morris has lived on four continents and traveled through many countries. She has four children and eleven grandchildren and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Choral Music education and pursued graduate work in English at USU and law at the University of Utah. She is also a published playwright. As a descendant of Judith and Baldwin, the author discovered their intriguing story while doing a genealogical project. This journey inspired her to research everything about the 9th Century – including food, politics, travel, war, education, clothing, jewelry, religion, holidays, marriage customs, and medicine. She loves this remarkable time in history when the European countries we know today were being formed and fighting for their very existence. She is pl…

1,135 | How Schools Make Race: Dr. Laura Chávez-Moreno on Latinx Identity, Education & Racialization Laura Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning scholar, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at UCLA. She is the author of the award-winning book "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America," published by Harvard Education Press. The book has been featured on several podcasts and in popular media, including the New Books Network, Forbes, and Ms. Magazine. She received the 2025 Emerging Scholars Award from the Critical Race Studies in Education Association. Visit LauraChavezMoreno.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://laurachavezmoreno.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect …

1,133 | Bounce Back After Divorce: Dr. Stem on Confidence, Healing & Overcoming Self-Sabotage Dr. Stem is a life coach, counselor, speaker, and trainer who helps women rediscover their strength, rebuild their confidence, and embrace life after life transitions. Guided by her "Bounce Back" philosophy, Dr. Stem empowers women to see this challenging chapter as an opportunity for transformation, renewal, and growth. With decades of experience as a counselor and coach, Dr. Stem has walked alongside countless women as they navigate the emotional, practical, and personal challenges of divorce. She understands the feelings of uncertainty, loss, and even fear that can accompany this life-altering transition, and she is passionate about helping women turn these emotions into catalysts for creating a brighter future. At the heart of Dr. Stem’s work is her transformative tool, Overcoming Self-Sabotage, found HERE, https://www.drstemmie.com/optin-fear-be-gone-overcoming-self-sabotage, de…

1,130 | Find Your Niche & Be Heard with Munira Zahabi Munira Zahabi, widely known as The Niche Navigator, is an accomplished author, consultant, and marketing strategist who helps entrepreneurs find their ideal clients and amplify their brand using podcasting as a powerful visibility tool. As the author of Invisible No More: Transform Guest Appearances into Marketing Gold for Coaches and Entrepreneurs, Munira shares her expertise in leveraging podcast guesting to establish authority, connect with the right audiences, and grow thriving businesses. Her book and coaching programs focus on uncovering unique niches, crafting compelling messages, and turning podcast guest appearances into strategic opportunities. With years of experience as a consultant and mentor, Munira has guided countless entrepreneurs to discover their niche and transform their stories into impactful marketing tools. She believes that a clear niche, paired with authentic storytelling, is the key to business succes…

1,128 | Leadership as Art: Charles Spinosa on Culture & Creating Organizational Masterpieces Charles Spinosa has been a management consultant for the last 28 years. He draws on thinking from philosophy and literature to develop leaders, change organizational cultures, and develop new customer propositions. He has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups in Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, and China. Before entering management consulting, he taught Shakespeare at Miami University in Ohio and then philosophy at U. C. Berkeley. With Fernando Flores and Hubert L. Dreyfus, Charles published Disclosing New Worlds (The MIT Press, 1997). The book looks at innovation in business, politics, and culture from a philosopher’s perspective. In 2024 with Matthew Hancocks, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Christopher Davis (on culture), Charles published Leadership as Masterpiece Creation (The MIT Press). The book provides the conceptual and practical frameworks for leaders t…

1,126 | 400 Farewells & 3,000 Miles: Diane Gansauer on Life, Loss & the Power of Sacred Ceremony Connected to respect for Nature, the power of places in personal history, and respect for each person's story. She founded the Celebrant Services Program for several funeral homes in the metro-Denver area while holding one of the few full-time Funeral Celebrant positions in the United States. She is also the owner of Lyrical Life Ceremonies, Ltd., through which she creates ceremonies across the full spectrum of life's transitions. Many of her ceremonies occur in the great outdoors. At home in the Rocky Mountains, Diane completed the Continental Divide Trail in 2023. She hiked most of this 3100-mile trek from Mexico to Canada when she was in her 60s-- 1000 miles of it by herself. She completed the trail at the age of 67. Her book The Waypoints: From 400 Farewells and 3,000 Miles chronicles the insights that overlapped from her experiences on the trail while also providing cele…

1,120 | Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Amy L. Bernstein on Fear, Creativity & Owning Your Voice Amy L. Bernstein is an author, book coach, and former award-winning journalist who has walked with doubt her whole life. Even after earning awards for her Master's thesis and then her journalism, Amy couldn't quite call herself a writer. Doubt is a gift that keeps on giving. But Amy has learned that "doubt is fuel as well as foe," and she persists despite her doubt monsters. And now she’s determined to help others do the same. Her new book is Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.amywrites.live 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comme…

1,118 | Upgrade Your Leadership: Dr. Ryan Gottfredson on Mindsets & Growth Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and Becoming Better. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://ryangottfredson.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to …

1,117 | Breakthrough From Within: Andrew Wilson on Healing Fear, & Grief Andrew Wilson is a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Practitioner, author, transformational coach, and host of the podcast Beyond Transcendence with Andrew. His healing journey began after the loss of his mother in 2021, a moment that forced him to face deep-rooted fear, grief, and burnout. Formerly in the oil, gas, and rail industries, Andrew now helps high-achieving professionals break through emotional blocks, inner child wounds, and subconscious patterns. His signature Breakthrough From Within™ System blends trauma healing, shadow work, and soul reconnection. He is the author of The Enemy Within: Fear as the Greatest Opponent and a guide for those ready to rise. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.andrewfwilson.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier qu…

1,116 | Jem Fuller on Conscious Communication, Global Lessons & Leading with Purpose & Presence Jem Fuller has lived a colourful, global life. From barefoot backpacker to senior corporate leader, fire-dancer and traditional tattooist, kindergarten teacher to motorcycle courier, masseuse and reflexologist, company director and recently Founding Board Chair of his charity, The Centre of Love. For more than 12 years now, he has run his own executive leadership coaching practice and international retreat company in the Himalaya, Bali and Australia. He is a dedicated partner and father, who loves surfing and meditation. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Art of Conscious Communication, and can be seen delivering his TEDx talks on YouTube. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://jemfuller.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro…

1,111 | Self-Publishing Made Simple: Rodney Miles on Launching Books, Brands & Author Careers Rodney Miles is a self-publishing expert, consultant, and provider of author services. In over 14 years he has helped create and publish over 300 books for clients and helped launch careers for authors and speakers, including self-help, business, memoir, fiction, and children's books. He writes about his experiences and methods anyone can follow in his latest book, "The Book Dude's Guide to Self-Publishing: The Modern Author. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://rodneymiles.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday …

1,109 | The Transformative Power of Imagination: Christopher Kaufman on Music & Storytelling Christopher Kaufman is an author, composer, concert presenter, illustrative artist and performer. He started creating imaginative fantasy books with illustrative art at the age of nine. During high school years he found music and attended The New Orleans Center for The Creative Arts and went on to major in music composition in college. He earned his DMA in music composition at Cornell University where he studied with Pulitzer Prize Winning composers who have prized his abilities as a composer. His stories never left him. He finished his schooling phase with advanced degrees in music, but also the full event structure for his classic epic fantasy series Tales Of The Ocean City in his mind - through book eight which he is presently completing. The Tales Of The Ocean City series exists now as graphically illustrated physical books and go-with audio albums filled with with cinematic symph…

1,107 | The Fear Formula: Jennie ‘AdrenaJen’ Milton on Courage, Comebacks & Extreme Living Jennie Milton, aka “AdrenaJen,” is a world-class extreme sports athlete, author, and keynote speaker who helps people overcome fear and build courage using lessons from the mountains. A snowkiting and kitesurfing champion, Jennie has turned life-threatening challenges—including spinal and brain surgeries—into powerful stories of resilience. She’s the author of the inspiring children’s book Gale and the Red Kite of Courage, and she now empowers women through retreats, coaching, and her “Fear Formula” for fearless living. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://jenniemilton.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Dro…