The Published Author Podcast

Eli Schwartz’s incredible experience setting up a brand new SEO team in Singapore meant that he often wrote down instructions or explanations for his employees.  Eli had longed to be in Asia for a while, and SurveyMonkey’s CEO at the time, Dave Goldberg, granted Eli’s wish and opened an office in Singapore to keep Eli at SurveyMonkey.

After a demanding decade as the CEO of a global company, Maulik Parekh was looking forward to a sabbatical year of travel to nine countries with his family.  But when the pandemic struck, wiping out all those plans, he quickly switched to a long-anticipated plan B he’d never had time for: Writing a book. The result is Future Proof Your Company and Career. It’s a book about flourishing in an emerging era of artificial intelligence, a new digital-savvy workforce and the gig economy.

After an impressive military career, Craig Whelden decided he wanted to give back by sharing all he’d learned about leadership with the next generation of leaders.  Craig had a long career in the United States military, serving in various positions. He was Commander Marine Forces Pacific for bass operations, Deputy Commanding General, US Army Pacific. And he served as the first Chief of Staff for a four-star Navy-led Joint Task Force, and much more.

Dr. Daniel Crosby wanted to be the catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, but couldn’t throw a curveball, so had to settle with being a New York Times bestselling author. “It’s been a rough road,” he jokes with Published Author host Josh Steimle. The disappointment was fleeting, and today Daniel is happy with his success and somewhat unusual path as a behaviour finance expert, psychologist, and leadership coach.

Dave Parker is an entrepreneur’s Superman, ready to save them from disaster that could strike after being swept away by the passion of an idea. So there’s some dramatic exaggeration there, but it’s true that many entrepreneurs are blinded by an idea and dreams of success, without exploring financial realities or even whether their idea is viable.

Experiencing an intense fear of failure at the tender age of eight defined Dr. Rebecca Heiss’s career path. That fearful experience prompted her to give up theatre as a career choice, and focus on science instead.  Rebecca had planned to enter a public speaking competition, but at the last minute failed to show up because she was so afraid.

There are two fundamentals to a successful book launch. One, write a good book. Number two, make sure your social media following is significant. That’s the message from Scott Miller, who’s published three books in the past two years and has three more coming out this year! “Most publishers won't even speak to you if you don't have 50,000 Instagram followers and 100,000 YouTube subscribers, and you've maxed your Linkedin and maxed your Instagram and your Facebook,” Scott tells host Josh Ste

Entrepreneur Ben Ward is the first entrepreneur from the Published Author Program to publish a book - and it's a bestseller, too, with dozens of five-star reviews on Amazon! In this interview with Published Author founder Josh Steimle, Ben shares how the Mastermind group challenged him, how he refocused his ideas, what it was like writing his book, Sellership. This is an amazing episode revealing Ben's story of determination, focus, and success!

Having a profound positive impact on a young woman’s life is the one thing that kept entrepreneur Sarah Frey writing her book whenever she found it too difficult or painful. Sarah, author of The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm, grew up in rural poverty on a farm in Illinois and faced a lot of personal challenges as a child and teenager.

Marcus Whitney has experienced a lot of failure in his life. He dropped out of college, waited on tables and, as a born entrepreneur, spent considerable periods working for other people. Yet it was the lessons learned from all these setbacks that allowed Marcus to pass on invaluable, practical advice in his best-selling new book Create and Orchestrate: The Path to Claiming Your Creative Power From an Unlikely Entrepreneur.