BookMattic Best Books Podcast
Discover author secrets from books that'll make you feel, grow, and learn. The BookMattic Best Books Podcast features authors from a wide range of backgrounds. This platform gives each author, no matter how well-known they are, a chance to tell their story and shine in front of the BookMattic community. As listeners, you'll get a chance to discover life-changing books you may have never heard of before. It is my belief that all people deserve a chance to reach more people with their impactful stories and knowledge.
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' Twas the night before Christmas…What a perfect night to share about A Career Carol by Dr. Helmut Schuster and Dr. David Oxley. The concept is loosely based on A Christmas Carol, with ghosts and everything.
Part 1: A Career Carol
In this fable, the protagonist, Shey, faces the night before graduation with skepticism about conventional success narratives. The story unfolds through four ghostly visitations, each r...
Join us for an insightful 28th episode with Gunnar Andri, a native of Iceland and author of Message From The Middle of Nowhere: Icelandic Viking Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life.
In this episode, we explore lessons from Gunnar's book, including the importance of voracious learning and belief in one's ability to succeed. Discover how embracing a positive attitude, coupled with the proper knowledge and pl...
Welcome to the BookMattic Best Books Podcast! 📚 In this episode, we explore the transformative insights from "The 80-80 Marriage" by Nate and Kaley Klemp. 🌟
👫 The authors embarked on an unprecedented journey, using their marriage as an experimental lab. The 80/80 Marriage model emerged as a groundbreaking approach in human history, striving for true equality in marital partnerships.
❌ Breaking away from conventional models like ...
Star Trek had an absolutely amazing impact on so many people's lives including my own. Ryan Britt writes a brilliant history of Star Trek all the way to 2022, its philosophy, how it affected society, and what the future of Star Trek pushing the boundaries may hold.
If you're new to Star Trek, you can still enjoy this episode as we try to cover the basics of the show and its movies.
If you're a fan you'll thoroughly enjoy the topics...
When you write, write for your audience. Put your book out there before even publishing it. Rob Fitzpatrick and I had a wonderful deep dive conversation about his book called Write Useful Books as well as the Workshop Survival Guide. He explains his process of writing as a product. In order to write (build) a lasting product, it needs to go through several iterations. He is currently making over $25k per month just on a few of the ...
Have you ever felt immature, much younger than your current age? We all have at one point in our lives. Luckily, Julie Lythcott-Haims wrote her book, Your Turn - How to Be An Adult for this very reason. Many adults feel that they don't have the necessary skills to survive in the adult world. Your Turn answers most of the questions you may or may not have thought about.
She gives us her heart by opening herself up through the book w...
Mark W Schaefer is a master at marketing and human connection. The two go hand-in-hand. Marketing is nothing without human connection and he drives this point hard in most of his books. The first book of his that I read and discussed with him is Cumulative Advantage and the second one was Marketing Rebellion.
Mark truly has a way of writing to a specific audience so it feels like he is writing directly to you. He is a believer in n...
Jo Wimble-Groves, the author of Rise of the Girl, talks about many of the struggles and strengths that girls have and how parents can help guide their daughters to become stronger. I loved having these conversations with Jo as I have a daughter myself, so the topic is extremely valid for me and probably is for you too if you have daughters.
Buy Jo's Book
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Girl-Empowering-Conversations-Daughter/dp/024150...
Teaching kids about money is such an important skill to have, but unfortunately, most schools don't teach about money and most people don't know much about money except for how to spend it.
Will Rainey has taken it upon himself to create an amazing platform called Blue Tree Savings and a book, Grandpa's Fortune Fables, where he shares fun lessons for kids and parents to learn about how to save, invest and grow your money through ...
ArmaniTalks is a fantastic brand that helps you to become a better communicator. I talked with the founder in this episode of BookMattic Best Books Podcast about his book Speak Easy: How to be Articulate, Assertive, and Audacious Around People. It's a straightforward-packed-full-of-value book. Arman is also the author of several other books that are sure to help you to become a better communicator. Check out some of his sites below...
Half memoir and half self-help book, Jim Rees takes you on an adventure through his Race Across America (RAAM). Doing the race three times at over 3,000 miles of nonstop cycling as a solo rider ought to teach you something plus more about perseverance and strength. As Jim states in his book, RAAM is more about having a strong mindset than it is about being physically in shape, although both are still important. If you love physical...
The Heroic and Exceptional Minority by Gregory V. Diehl is on the BookMattic Top 10 Books of 2021 for a very good reason. Here is a description of how amazing this book is. Many people struggle throughout their lives, unable to identify the source of great inner existential discontent. No matter their material comfort or good fortune, they cannot escape the idea that they do not live the lives they ought to. They are not in environ...
Deborah Burns reached out to me about her book Authorize It: Think Like a Writer to Win at Work and Life which is helpful for everyday employees who would benefit greatly to progress in their career by using the frameworks within her book. The frameworks are kind of like mental models that come from shaping a story, but in this case, the story is your life and it can be shaped the way you want if you put yourself in the path of whe...
Uplift and Empower: A Guide to Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation by Danielle Hawa Tarigha is an inspiring and uplifting book about how individuals like us can truly make an impact and dent in poverty. She digs deep into the realities of what life is like for people living in poverty and breaks down, step-by-step, how people in poverty can collaboratively build a foundation to move out of poverty.
Our conversatio...
Bill Morrison's Lions in the Grass is a rollercoaster of the principles of the psychology of marketing. Our episode together includes stories about how manipulation can be used for bad and good. It includes stories about Gillette and Chrysler and even a story about a time when Bill bought seven huge carpets that he didn't need for his already carpeted apartment just because there was a crowd of people storming a sale on carpets. Li...
My conversation with Nick Velasquez about his book, Learn Improve Master went extremely well because it is about one of the most important topics - how you can become the best at learning, improving, and mastering your skills.
We talked about a lot of topics from the amazingness of his Bibliography to the Myth of the 10,000-hour rule.
Support this podcast by subscribing and definitely support Nick by getting a copy of his book...
It was a pleasure talking with Edward Turnbull about his book Mindful Communication for Happiness. Communication, we can all agree, is such an important topic and I believe Edward's book can help you center your communication skills well.
Pick yourself up a copy of Mindful Communication for Happiness: https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Communication-Happiness-Edward-Turnbull/dp/1525587935
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It's hard to find really good books that you will reread someday. Tamed by Gui F.C. Albieri is one that after you read you will want to revisit again because it has many powerful and effective self-control strategies you can apply in your life immediately. Gui and I had a great conversation about his book and how we all can live better lives.
Buy Gui's Book
https://www.amazon.com/Gui-F.-C.-Albieri/e/B08DQ6HJ9W%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_s...
Handi Kurniawan and David Wee wrote an amazing book about solving everyday challenges at work and in life called Great Advice. In this episode of the BookMattic Best Books Podcast Handi and I talk about career advice, working in Asia and abroad along with several helpful tips for building a solid career.
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Buy Great Advice:
📚What book(s) did you not want to end? I didn't want Productivity is for Robots by Corey McComb to end! ⠀
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REASONS I LOVED PRODUCTIVITY IS FOR ROBOTS ⠀ 1️⃣This book is filled with stories of inspiration and burnout, creativity, and humanity. It's a book for everyone who is dying to be productive but don't want to lose their h...
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