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Michaela Haas, PhD, is a reporter, lecturer, and consultant (www.michaelahaas.com). She is the owner of HAAS live!, an international coaching company for media, mindfulness and communication training. Since the age of sixteen, she has been working as a writer and interviewer for major nationwide German newspapers, magazines and TV stations including hosting her own successful nationwide talk show. In America, her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and numerous online media.

Michaela is the author of Bouncing Forward, Dakini Power, co-author of Coco Schumann-der Ghetto-Swinger, translator of Light Comes Through, as well as contributor to and editor of numerous other books. Should be a good one!

Bill welcomes novelist Laura Dave to the show. Laura Dave is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The First Husband, The Divorce Party, London Is The Best City In America, and her most recent, Eight Hundred Grapes. Dave’s fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, ESPN, Redbook, Glamour and Ladies Home Journal. We'll talk all things fiction, life, love, and writing in general. Don't miss it.

Bill welcomes debut novelist Anna Lefler to the show. Hardly a novice to the writing world, Anna joins Bill to discuss her first novel, Preschooled, her work on Nickelodian's “Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor,” as well as her strange journey to the world of fiction. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes author, teacher, and fellow podcaster A. C. Fuller to the show. A.C. is the host of the fabulous WRITER 2.0 Podcast and the author of the media thriller The Anonymous Source. Previously, he was a chef, a journalist, and an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. He teaches writing and literature at Northwest Indian College and lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two children. We'll talk all things, writing, life, teaching, and much more. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes author and life coach Rhys Thomas to the show. Rhys Thomas  is a visionary author, speaker, trainer, and coach in the personal growth and energy medicine field. He is the founder of the Rhys Thomas Institute of Energy Medicine and the creator of the Rhys Method®, a powerful system self discovery, transformation, and healing. Join us as we discuss his latest book, Discover Your Purpose: How to Use the 5 Life Purpose Profiles to Unlock Your HIdden Potential and Live the Life You Were Meant to Live. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes Kristin Meekhof to the show. In 2007, when Kristin Meekhof was 33, her husband (a teacher and veteran) of four years was diagnosed with advanced adrenal cancer. Approximately eight weeks later, he died. Bill and Kristin will discuss the book she wrote in response that experience, and which has names as a Maria Schriver "Architect of Change." Don't miss this inspiring interview.

Bill welcomes novelist and slam poet Karen Finneyfrock to the show. Karen was influential during slam-poetry's infancy. She has since been short-listed for the Stranger genius award, and was named Seattle Magazine's "Queen of the Spoken

Word." Karen has now aimed her considerable talents toward the world of books, with her young adult novel Starbird Murphy and the World Outside. This should be a good one. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes debut suspense writer Christine Carbo to the show. Join us as we talk about the pleasures and perils of taking that first dip in publishing waters, what does or doesn't make for good suspense. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes John C. Robinson to the show. Dr. Robinson is a clinical psychologist with a second doctorate in ministry, and is an ordained interfaith minister. Bill and John will discuss his work with spiritual-oriented psycholtherapy, as well as his writing and teaching about the powers and benefits of aging. Maybe it ISN'T all downhill after 40! Turne in and find out.

Bill welcomes Will North back to the show. Will has led a varied writing life. He has written more than a dozen non fiction books. He was also a ghostwriter—for an American President, a Vice-President, a famous mountaineer and explorer, a team of Everest climbers, a group of dinosaur-hunters, and a pioneering doctor, among others. He also wrote a series of off-the-beaten-track guidebooks to Britain. Now he's writing ficiton. What an interesting guy! Don't miss it for anything.