Irish comedian Maeve Higgins shares what it was like transitioning from a small town in Ireland to living in New York City, how to talk to our kids about the importance of having friends and family in their lives, and how the pandemic helped her appreciate friends even more. Maeve’s new book is Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them.

Dr. Nate Zinsser, Director of the Performance Psychology Program at the US Military Academy at West Point and a sport-psychology mentor for numerous elite athletes including two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning, discusses how we can be our own best friend without being delusional about our abilities, how to handle failure, and how to trust that we actually CAN perform at a high level. Dr. Zinsser’s new book is The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance.

Molecular biologist Christopher Kemp talks about how complex navigation actually is, whether we should look at people who can't navigate as having a disability, and how we can change our navigational abilities. Christopher's new book is Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation.

ABC News anchor and correspondent Diane Macedo shares tools to help us sleep better, why sleep is so important, and how to recognize if we, or our kids, have a sleep problem. Diane's new book is The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More.

Book reviewer, essayist, and author Amy Gentry discusses whether a college student works for the professor or vice-versa, what we should tell our kids about the pressures of higher education, and how the graduate school environment encourages students to behave badly toward each other. Amy's latest novel is Bad Habits.

Historical fantasy novelist Nicole Glover talks about how the Underground Railroad worked, how to help our kids find an unbiased version of history, and when it's the right time to add fantasy to historical fiction. Nicole's debut novel is The Conductors.

Charles Wheelan, bestselling author of Naked Statistics and Naked Economics, shares how his family changed after traveling together for nearly a year, how travel shapes a child's worldview, and how the family worked through meltdowns. Charlie’s new book is We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year – Nine Months, Six Continents, Three Teenagers.

Dr. Giulio Boccaletti, a globally recognized expert on natural resource security and environmental sustainability, discusses how sustainable and stable our water infrastructure is in the face of climate change, what we can tell our kids about water, and whether democracies have been better at managing water than authoritarian regimes. Dr. Boccaletti’s new book is Water: A Biography.

Keith Boykin, CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, discusses whether the end of white supremacy in the United States is inevitable as demographics shift, how we can agree on what's real and what's not, and who we are as a country. Keith’s new book is Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America.

Bobby and Cheryl Love share their remarkable true story of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five-plus years who never knew his secret and discuss how to steer our kids away from prison, how we can restructure our criminal justice system, and how they worked through Bobby's big secret. Bobby and Cheryl's new book is The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice.