A talk with best-selling author Donna Baier Stein about her catalogue of books. We run through her two fiction collections, her award-winning novel, and a surprise poetry collection.

Originally from Kansas City, Donna now lives in New Jersey and writes full-time. Donna also founded and publishes Tiferet Journal.

Learn more about her work here: https://donnabaierstein.com/

A return visit from Ed Mooney Jr. to talk about his new memoir Toy Jeeps, which details his childhood years in the 60s and 70s.

Buy the book here:
https://bookshop.org/a/109024/9781965412046

Learn more about Ed and his remarkable story here: https://www.brokentribepress.com/edmooney

A second talk with prolific writer Sean DeLauder. Sci-fi, monsters, comedy, this guy does it all!

An important talk with FUNCTIONAL & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE NUTRITIONIST Alicja Wypasek!

We talked about food quality, lifestyle, ultra-processed foods, plant-based diets and the ways you can get your health back on track now.

Alicja holds an MSc Life Science & Nutrition, MSc Biochemistry, DipBSLM, RNutr, PT
🥗Connect to improve your health via plant-based... more here: www.nutritionist-resource.org.uk/nutritionists/alicja-wypasek

Also see:

Plant-based health professionals:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/

And British Society of Lifestyle Medicine:

https://bslm.org.uk/

A special talk with songwriter, producer, and musician JR Richards. We talked about his musical influences, the writing process, and what it's like to transition from working in a band to being a solo artist. JR also took questions from the online chat (this special episode was recorded live with an audience).

Richards made waves in the '90s with an award-winning hit song "Counting Blue Cars" with his band Dishwalla from their 1995 debut album. The song was ranked as the most played track of 1996.

After four studio albums and a live album with the band, Richards embarked on a solo journey. A new album is expected soon. Here are his recent albums:

Explore his work here: www.jrrichardsmusic.com

A talk with John Wheaton, an emergency manager for the Nez Perce community in Idaho. We talked about his job protecting people and preparing for different situations.

The Nez Perce Reservation is in north-central Idaho and is about 770,000 acres. The tribe's traditional territory was much larger, spanning 17 million acres in what is now Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana.

To learn more about the Nez Perce, see:

https://nezperce.org

A talk with author Frances O'Roark Dowell is this week's special episode of The Purpose Tree.

Frances O'Roark Dowell is an American author of middle grade fiction and beyond.  Her books have received numerous awards, including an Edgar and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award.

See more about Frances here: https://francesdowell.com/

Find her books her: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001IXNUMS

A talk with writer Rita Signorelli Pappas.

Labyrinth was Rita's last poetry collection published by SHB in 2019. Her first collection Satyr's Wife also happened to be Serving House Books very first full-length poetry collection. Rita is widely published in some of the biggest journals.

Her new collection will be out in 2025!

https://www.amazon.com/Labyrinth-Rita-Signorelli-Pappas/dp/1947175157

https://www.amazon.com/Satyrs-Wife-Rita-Signorelli-Pappas/dp/0982546254

Special Veteran's Day edition: A talk with Susan O'Neill about her book Don't Mean Nothing and her experience as an operating room nurse in Vietnam.

https://servinghousebooks.com/susan-o'neill/

Her home site is: http://susanoneill.us/

A talk with New Jersey poet, Italian American Maria Mazziotti Gillan.