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Lora Cheadle is a transformational thought leader and media personality who empowers women to let go of judgment, overcome the need to please, express themselves fully, and find uninhibited success and joy every day. She is the author of the bestselling book FLAUNT! Drop Your Cover and Reveal Your Smart, Sexy, & Spiritual Self. Using the five steps of FLAUNT!, she encourages others to take the lead in the dance of life despite any external circumstances. 

What We Discuss with Lora Cheadle:

• Lora’s professional journey and finding that call to look within
• The notion of naked self-worth and what burlesque dance taught her
• The FLAUNT! methodology
• The shimmering glitter that distracts us and how it manifests in people
• How to break your limiting self-beliefs
• Understanding the process of hypnosis and practices to develop self-awareness
• The story of Eliza
• Uncovering your fetish
• Lora’s book writing process

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Jane Egerton-Idehen is a telecommunications executive with over 17 years of experience in the Nigerian, Liberian, and Ghanaian telecommunications market. Her book Be Fearless: Give Yourself Permission to Be You talks about how women can walk through each crisis of career, especially in male-dominated fields without giving up.

What We Discuss with Jane Egerton-Idehen:

• The spark of resilience
• Being caged like a bird
• Finding your own tribe
• Having a strong support network
• Speaking to young women
• Learning how to protect your dreams
• Message to aspiring writers

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Lisa Linfield is a Wealth Manager, sought after Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host of Working Women's Wealth and Course Creator that partners with women around the world to change their mindset and help them make money, invest it and protect it from life's unexpected turns. Today, Lisa talks about her book Deep Grooves: Overcoming Patterns That Keep You Stuck.

What We Discuss with Lisa Linfield:

• The book as part of her strategy for launching a new conversation
• How the deep grooves start to reveal itself
• How the different voices of the world shape us
• How our assumptions become our identity
• Your signposts towards your best life
• How to reverse these grooves
• The writing process

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With his over 30-year experience, Gerry Murphy has led the marketing function for some of the biggest retail brands on both sides of the Atlantic. In Gerry's book And You May Find Yourself: A Guided Practice to Never Fearing Death Again, he describes his medical trauma in great detail – being put in an ICU for five days, completely isolated, and using his love for music as the backdrop of his story.

What We Discuss with Gerry Murphy:

• Dealing with personal feelings of doubts and insecurities
• Weaving music into his story
• Being put in the ICU and the idea of practicing death
• The book writing process
• How much time he spent on writing
• The smallest gifts are the greatest

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Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her 1992 bestselling debut book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She is the author of six additional books, including The Woman’s Retreat Book, The Life Organizer and Why Bother? With close to a million copies of her books in print in nine languages, Jennifer is a sought-after speaker, addressing audiences across the USA, Canada, and Europe. 

What We Discuss with Jennifer Louden:

• Struggling with self-acceptance
• The book writing process for Why Bother? 
• The premise of the question
• How to move through your “why bother” period
• Writing the book is a self-transformation process
• Your book as the starting point of many conversations
• How to connecting with the reading part of the brain
• The power of connecting with your deep why

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Five-time New York Times bestselling author, Carol Kline, has devoted her career to teaching, writing, and speaking about consciousness and personal growth. Inspired by her experience writing Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul in 1997, she became deeply involved in animal rescue work. 

What We Discuss with Carol Kline:

• Carol’s writing journey and how she became a Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author
• Writing the book Conscious Luck with Guy Hendricks
• Turning shame into an attractor field for luck
• Interview strategies and how collaborative work looks like
• Writing in the author’s voice
• How to wrestle with the feeling that you don’t deserve luck
• How you can consciously shift your notion of luck
• Honoring your bigger purpose and practicing radical gratitude

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Jason Stuart is an actor, comedian, and author of the book, Shut Up, I’m Talking! which chronicles Jason’s life and career as an actor and comedian. It’s the funny, poignant story of a gay Jewish boy whose life changed after seeing Funny Girl at a second-run movie theatre in Hollywood. 

What We Discuss with Jason Stuart:

• The impact on his life being a child of a holocaust survivor
• Coming out of the closet
• The knowing behind the knowing
• Showing up consistently

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In today’s episode, we talk with the authors of Chef Junior, a book written by five teens aged 11-14. They are the sons and daughters of healthy food bloggers who came together to publish a cookbook by kids and for kids. Today, they talk about their book-writing process, what it means to write your passion into a book, about food, and why this cookbook came to be. 

What We Discuss with the Authors of Chef Junior:

• The challenges of meal planning
• Some challenges they’re addressing in the book (ex. allergies, knife skills)
• Recipes they’ve contributed to the book
• The writing process and challenges
• How their peers reacted to them having published a book
• Advice to aspiring writers

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Rob Angel is a speaker, author, and entrepreneur. He just recently launched his book called Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World. In 1985, using a few simple tools, a Webster’s paperback dictionary, a No.2 pencil, and a yellow legal pad, he created the phenomenally successful and iconic board game Pictionary®. Putting together the first 1,000 games by hand in his tiny apartment, Angel mastered all the needed business skills including sales, marketing, and distribution before selling the game to Mattel in 2001. 

What We Discuss with Robert Angel:

• Finding your aardvark
• Taking that first step
• The writing process and why it became daunting for him
• The flaming coffee story
• The power of mindset shift and visualization
• The impetus for writing the book
• Why your book is supposed to transform you
• Why sometimes you can’t attach to big ideas and just start small
• From being a game inventor to entrepreneur

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Rob Angel is a speaker, author, and entrepreneur. He just recently launched his book called Game Changer: The Story of Pictionary and How I Turned a Simple Idea into the Bestselling Board Game in the World. In 1985, using a few simple tools, a Webster’s paperback dictionary, a No.2 pencil, and a yellow legal pad, he created the phenomenally successful and iconic board game Pictionary®. Putting together the first 1,000 games by hand in his tiny apartment, Angel mastered all the needed business skills including sales, marketing, and distribution before selling the game to Mattel in 2001. 

What We Discuss with Robert Angel:

• Finding your aardvark
• Taking that first step
• The writing process and why it became daunting for him
• The flaming coffee story
• The power of mindset shift and visualization
• The impetus for writing the book
• Why your book is supposed to transform you
• Why sometimes you can’t attach to big ideas and just start small
• From being a game inventor to entrepreneur

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