Author Hour

Six years at City College. Thirteen restaurant jobs. Calculus III three times. By 23, Joy Lane was lying in the grass, ready to walk away from her last final and everything she'd worked for. In F College: A Memoir of...

For 16 years, writing a book sat on Greg Hiebert's goals list. Deep down, he was afraid no one would read it, and if they did, they wouldn't like it. He finally confronted that fear, and the result was You Can't Give...

What makes an experience extraordinary? Paul Zak has spent more than a decade answering that question in his lab, measuring what he calls the brain's "give a damn" signal and building a company, Immersion, that movie...

Getting a Black woman into the leadership seat is a milestone. Keeping her there, supported and thriving, is the real work. Dr. Monifa McKnight spent more than two decades rising from the classroom to the...

Every day, roughly 10,000 baby boomer business owners hit retirement age, and most of them have no exit plan. The conventional wisdom says they have two choices: sell or shut it down. Richard Shaull, founder of Exit...

On this episode of Author Hour, Matthew Ray Scott joins us to talk about Physician Brand Rx , the book he co-wrote with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Sigman. Drawing on his background as an Army psychological warfare...

Rock Your Business: Navigating the Road from $50 Million to $500 Million and Beyond is the offensive follow-up to Rock the Recession , the 2019 book Autobahn Consultants founder Jonathan Slane co-wrote just months...

What if you could market without marketing? After more than 30 years in marketing, advertising, and strategy, Scott A. Martin set out to solve that "unsolvable problem," and the answer became his book, Groundswell...

Julie Newman wrote Pull Don't Push to fix a message she had watched go wrong at more than 50 Girls in STEM events: well-meaning speakers telling girls they don't belong in STEM, then asking them to join anyway. Her...

In 2018, Cesar Perez was on the rise. He had acted opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Beast of Burden , filmed with Clint Eastwood, and landed an audition for Venom . He never made it to that audition. On the drive to...

Alec Roth grew up in Hollywood — the son of screenwriter Eric Roth, watching his father adapt books into films from a home office — and he’s now doing the same thing from his own side of the table. In this Author Hour...

Cameron Herold never wanted to be an author. As he tells Travis Stoliker, his wife signed him up for a three-book package with Scribe as a birthday present — "You're doing three books with them over the next five years"...

Gino Barbaro joins Travis Stoliker to trace the full arc of a single book — from getting an idea "out of your head and down on paper" to building a seven-figure business on top of it. Once "the pizza guy," Gino and his...

Atul Minocha joins Travis Stoliker to talk about Lies, Damn Lies, and Marketing — the book an engineer wrote to fix marketing's trust problem. Atul explains the idea that became the seed of the whole project: "Fake...

Dr. Thom LeBeau joins Eric Jorgenson to talk about The Black Sheep Advantage — a book he'd been "talking about for 20 years" before he finally sat down to write it. A practicing physician seeing 250 patients a week...