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.
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
Rachel Williamson spent 30 years leading retail operations at some of the biggest brands in the industry — from Bath & Body Works to Ann Taylor — before launching her consulting firm and writing Running Great Stores , a
What happens when a book you wrote to inspire strangers ends up transforming your own life? In this episode, Eric sits down with Candler Cook, author of From Underdog to Bulldog, to talk about the unexpected and remarkab
Gui Costin, founder and CEO of Dakota, joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about writing two books with Scribe— The Dakota Way and Be Kind —and why he now calls authoring “the single best thing I’ve ever done for the business a
On this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Deneen Allen, founder of FireCircle and creator of the 5x5 Method, to talk about her new book The FireCircle 5x5 Method . Deneen spent 25 years building touri
On this episode of Author Hour, host Eric Jorgenson sits down with entrepreneur, banker, and first-time author Eddy Arriola to talk about his new book, It's All About Relationships . Eddy shares the story of his sold-out
Dr. Richard Harris joins Eric Jorgenson roughly six weeks after the release of White Coat, Heavy Soul , and three weeks after the audiobook went live, to walk through how the book got written, why he left the traditional
Michael Erath joins Eric Jorgenson to walk through eight years and three Scribe-published books as the centerpiece of a 9-person coaching firm. Michael's first book, Rise , was a personal memoir about a business partner
Dr. Laura M. Brown , ND joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about Beyond Digestion: How GUT Health Connects to Your Mind, Body, and Soul , her book on the science and stories of gut health. Five years after publishing through S
In this episode of Author Hour, Eric Jorgenson sits down with Dr. Tod Stillson, MD , a family physician in rural America and the author of Doctor Incorporated . Tod shares how a single book about transitioning from emplo
Independent California gubernatorial candidate Jon Henderson joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about how a financial planner who'd never been on social media ended up writing California 2.0 , a 22-chapter plan for "the politi
Matt Shoup got fired from a corporate banking job, knocked on doors painting houses, and accidentally became a speaker and author. In this episode, he breaks down how publishing Painted Baby with Scribe unlocked his firs
Tommy Short spent nearly two decades officiating Division I college basketball and international play -- and was attached to his phone every minute of it. After retirement, a question from his young daughter stopped him
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Adam Castillo is a Marine Corps veteran who deployed to Afghanistan, built a security company in Myanmar, and spent 12+ years leading the American business community through a coup, civil war, typhoon, and earthquake. Hi
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
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Dr. Latifat Akintade
board-certified gastroenterologist · MoneyFitMD
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Pam Marmon
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Chris Heivly
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