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Hosted by Clarke Southwick · EN · 100 episodes
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Do you wish you could quickly get the best ideas from new books? That's what Author Hour is all about. Each week, we give you the best ideas and stories from a new book, through an in-depth conversation with the author. We cover all types of non-fiction: business, fitness, investing, self-help, and more. Listeners will get an entertaining and useful summary of each book, in a fraction of the time. A must listen for avid readers and aspiring authors.
Clarke Southwick hosts Author Hour, a arts show with 100 episodes published.
Five years after his first Author Hour appearance, Chris Belchamber returns to talk with Travis Stoliker about what has and hasn't changed since he wrote Invest Like the Best — and what he's learned watching the market s
David Burkus joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Best Team Ever: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams — his fifth book, and the first he published professionally after four traditional deals. David lays out the
Matt Moyers joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Venture Capital Alternative: A Blueprint for a Better Patent System — a book idea he sat on for the better part of a decade before deciding, in 2023, that "now is the ti
Nick Capman joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Passionate Workforce: How to Create and Maintain Maximum Employee Engagement , the book he wrote from a four-page Word doc called "book notes" that he'd been keeping in
Neil Thanedar joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Positive Politics: A Proven Playbook to Get into Politics, Change Your Life, and Change the World —the book he decided to write in late 2024 and published in 2025, on a th
Stephen Butler joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Why Is a Verb: How Well-Managed Teams Turn Purpose into Productivity —the book he wrote with coauthor Karissa Price after recognizing what McKinsey calls the purpose gap
Paul Hobby joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Glorious Tension: Rediscovering Our Sacred Middle Ground in an Age of Extremism — a book that began as "cathartic COVID era scribblings" and grew into what Eric calls an act
Mike Boydell built a global consulting practice helping leaders and teams navigate change. Then the pandemic grounded him, and an op-ed picked up by a national newspaper sparked The Adventure Advantage , a book about mov
Jim Sholler returns to Author Hour to talk with Eric Jorgenson about life four years after publishing Solved in 7: The Power of Disciplined Problem-Solving . Jim tells the story behind the title: after 13 years of failed
What do you do when a professor flunks you in freshman English and tells you that you can’t write? If you’re Chris Heivly, you co-found MapQuest, build startup communities around the world, and then write books anyway. O
Diagnosed with Crohn's disease at twelve and told he would be sick for life, Hadley Ott spent more than a decade on feeding tubes, steroids, and biologic drugs before quitting his doctors and medications cold turkey and
After 20 years specializing in retirement planning, Jake Falcon still could not find a single book he trusted enough to hand his clients, so he wrote his own. In this episode of Author Hour, the founder and CEO of Falcon
After getting seriously ill in 2009, health and fitness professional Ian Hart spent years figuring out how to heal his own body naturally, and then found himself telling that story over and over to anyone who needed it.
Brayden Sutton spent over 15 years learning the markets the hard way, with no inheritance, no formal training, and no industry connections. On this episode of Author Hour, he tells Eric Jorgenson how a mentor's suggestio
What does it look like to go from suicidal ideation to self-published author in fewer than four years? Devin Fish, a ten-year Army veteran and former career counselor, joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about his memoir Answer
In this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Yarona Boster, author of Unspoken Signals, to explore what it truly means to raise a resilient child. Yarona draws on nearly two decades of early childhood de
Mario Simonyan built one of the most specialized law firms in the country, helping e-commerce brands fight off IP infringers and unauthorized sellers. In this episode, he shares how publishing At the Corner of IP and Ama
MyLinh Shattan grew up between two cultures, an Irish American father and a Vietnamese mother, both storytellers. She went to West Point as one of the first women to graduate, then spent decades writing, teaching, and se
Harris Nydick has been in financial planning since the early eighties, when he was part of one of the first financial planning training classes at a major Manhattan firm. Over the next few decades, he built a specialty i
S. Gale Bleth spent decades teaching personal safety to students, employees, and community members—but it wasn't until her nieces started leaving for college that she finally wrote the book she'd been putting off for yea
Jeremy Burrows
Author of The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant · The Leader Assistant
1 appearance on this show
Kelly Smith
Founding Chair and Dean for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program · Southern University New Orleans
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Latifat Akintade
board-certified gastroenterologist · MoneyFitMD
1 appearance on this show
Pam Marmon
1 appearance on this show
Chris Heivly
MapQuest Co-Founder · The Startup Factory
1 appearance on this show
Daniel White
Assistant Director · Kansas Family Business Forum
1 appearance on this show
Nicholas Capman
The FDA Group
1 appearance on this show
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