This Week in America with Ric Bratton

What if you discovered that something happening 600 years in the past was about to erase you from existence?

Award-winning author Gabriel F.W. Koch joins Ric Bratton on This Week in America to discuss his science fiction time-travel novel, Steel Blood.

Dr. James Cancilleri is the founder of time travel science. But when he discovers that his ancestors are dying before they can marry and continue his bloodline, he faces an extraordinary dilemma. If he does nothing, Cancilleri could disappear from history—along with his life's work and the thousands of lives his discoveries have saved.

His only option? Travel six centuries into the past and try to change history.

Steel Blood combines futuristic science fiction with medieval adventure, exploring the fascinating paradoxes of time travel along with questions of family, identity, destiny, sacrifice and the consequences of changing the past.

Koch also discusses the inspiration behind the novel, creating believable worlds in two dramatically different time periods, and how his background as an award-winning writer and photographer influences his storytelling.

Gabriel F.W. Koch is the recipient of numerous writing honors, including the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award, and Steel Blood earned Gold/1st Place for Science Fiction at the 2025 CIPA EVVY Awards.

Could you risk changing history if your own existence depended on it?

Watch the conversation with Gabriel F.W. Koch on This Week in America with Ric Bratton.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts, innovators and fascinating people from around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative and entertaining conversations covering books, health, business, personal development, current issues and much more.

Discover Steel Blood by Gabriel F.W. Koch and hear the story behind an award-winning time-travel novel where changing the past may be the only way to save the future.

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Why do some teams innovate, collaborate, and thrive while others struggle in silence?

On this episode of This Week in America with Ric Bratton, Ric talks with leadership expert, organizational consultant, and author Timothy R. Clark about The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety and why psychological safety is essential to creating high-performing teams and innovative organizations.

Psychological safety creates an environment where people feel able to speak up, ask questions, contribute ideas, make mistakes, and challenge the status quo without fear of punishment or humiliation. Timothy's framework identifies four progressive stages: Inclusion Safety, Learner Safety, Contributor Safety, and Challenger Safety.

During the conversation, Timothy explains how fear can quietly undermine workplace performance and how leaders can replace it with trust, accountability, collaboration, and a culture where employees feel empowered to contribute. He also discusses why psychological safety doesn't mean lowering standards—instead, it can help organizations create an environment where both candor and high performance can flourish.

Whether you're a CEO, manager, entrepreneur, team leader, HR professional, or employee, this conversation offers practical insights into creating stronger workplace cultures, improving communication, encouraging innovation, and unlocking the potential of every member of a team.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features engaging conversations with authors, experts, innovators, business leaders, and thought leaders from around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking interviews covering books, business, health, personal development, history, entertainment, and the issues that matter.

Discover how Timothy R. Clark's four stages of psychological safety can help leaders build trust, encourage innovation, improve employee engagement, and create stronger, higher-performing teams.

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Why do some teams innovate, collaborate, and thrive while others struggle in silence?

On this episode of This Week in America with Ric Bratton, Ric talks with leadership expert, organizational consultant, and author Timothy R. Clark about The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety and why psychological safety is essential to creating high-performing teams and innovative organizations.

Psychological safety creates an environment where people feel able to speak up, ask questions, contribute ideas, make mistakes, and challenge the status quo without fear of punishment or humiliation. Timothy's framework identifies four progressive stages: Inclusion Safety, Learner Safety, Contributor Safety, and Challenger Safety.

During the conversation, Timothy explains how fear can quietly undermine workplace performance and how leaders can replace it with trust, accountability, collaboration, and a culture where employees feel empowered to contribute. He also discusses why psychological safety doesn't mean lowering standards—instead, it can help organizations create an environment where both candor and high performance can flourish.

Whether you're a CEO, manager, entrepreneur, team leader, HR professional, or employee, this conversation offers practical insights into creating stronger workplace cultures, improving communication, encouraging innovation, and unlocking the potential of every member of a team.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features engaging conversations with authors, experts, innovators, business leaders, and thought leaders from around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking interviews covering books, business, health, personal development, history, entertainment, and the issues that matter.

Discover how Timothy R. Clark's four stages of psychological safety can help leaders build trust, encourage innovation, improve employee engagement, and create stronger, higher-performing teams.

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What begins as a medical research assignment quickly turns into a murder investigation.

On this episode of This Week in America with Ric Bratton, author Susann Camus discusses her gripping novel, Bless Your Heart: A Jeannie Johal Thriller, a fast-paced mystery filled with pharmaceutical intrigue, Southern charm, and unexpected twists.

Healthcare researcher Jeannie Johal arrives in Greenville, North Carolina, to investigate suspicious activity surrounding a promising new drug study. Before she can even begin, her new boss is murdered. Suddenly, Jeannie finds herself navigating a maze of hidden motives, dangerous secrets, poisonous plants, and a community where everyone seems to know more than they're willing to admit. 

Drawing on her own background in healthcare and her experience as a Master Gardener, Susann Camus brings authenticity to the story. Her experiences in Greenville and with the Pitt County Arboretum also helped shape the novel's setting. 

With compelling characters, realistic medical details, and suspense that keeps readers guessing, Bless Your Heart combines elements of the medical thriller, murder mystery, and Southern suspense novel while introducing readers to a smart and determined female protagonist.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features engaging conversations with authors, experts, innovators, business leaders, and thought leaders from around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking interviews covering books, business, health, personal development, history, entertainment, and the issues that matter.

Whether you're a fan of medical thrillers, crime fiction, murder mysteries, suspense novels, strong female protagonists, pharmaceutical conspiracies, or Southern mysteries, Ric Bratton's conversation with Susann Camus offers an inside look at the inspiration behind Bless Your Heart and the creative process of building an unforgettable thriller.

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What begins as a medical research assignment quickly turns into a murder investigation.

On this episode of This Week in America with Ric Bratton, author Susann Camus discusses her gripping novel, Bless Your Heart: A Jeannie Johal Thriller, a fast-paced mystery filled with pharmaceutical intrigue, Southern charm, and unexpected twists.

Healthcare researcher Jeannie Johal arrives in Greenville, North Carolina, to investigate suspicious activity surrounding a promising new drug study. Before she can even begin, her new boss is murdered. Suddenly, Jeannie finds herself navigating a maze of hidden motives, dangerous secrets, poisonous plants, and a community where everyone seems to know more than they're willing to admit. 

Drawing on her own background in healthcare and her experience as a Master Gardener, Susann Camus brings authenticity to the story. Her experiences in Greenville and with the Pitt County Arboretum also helped shape the novel's setting. 

With compelling characters, realistic medical details, and suspense that keeps readers guessing, Bless Your Heart combines elements of the medical thriller, murder mystery, and Southern suspense novel while introducing readers to a smart and determined female protagonist.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features engaging conversations with authors, experts, innovators, business leaders, and thought leaders from around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking interviews covering books, business, health, personal development, history, entertainment, and the issues that matter.

Whether you're a fan of medical thrillers, crime fiction, murder mysteries, suspense novels, strong female protagonists, pharmaceutical conspiracies, or Southern mysteries, Ric Bratton's conversation with Susann Camus offers an inside look at the inspiration behind Bless Your Heart and the creative process of building an unforgettable thriller.

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Is work-life balance really possible—or have we been chasing the wrong goal all along?

On this episode of This Week in America, Ric Bratton welcomes executive coach, author, speaker and podcaster Denise R. Green, author of Work-Life Brilliance: Tools to Break Stress and Create the Life and Health You Crave.

Instead of constantly struggling to perfectly “balance” work and life, Denise offers practical strategies designed to help people reduce overwhelm, lower stress and experience greater fulfillment in their careers, relationships, health and home life. Her approach focuses on changing the thoughts, habits and behaviors that can leave even highly successful people feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or stuck. 

In Work-Life Brilliance, Denise explores how to reduce stress for the long term, shift negative thinking, create lasting habits, say no without unnecessary guilt, improve sleep and develop relationships that help us become our best selves. 

Denise brings extensive real-world experience to the conversation. Before founding Brilliance Inc., she spent more than 15 years in senior positions with companies including Oracle and Charles Schwab. As a transformational executive coach, she has worked with corporate leaders and organizations across multiple industries, helping people become more effective while creating greater confidence, fulfillment and peace in their lives. 

Her mission also grew out of a deeply personal experience. Following a serious car accident, Denise suffered a broken back and other significant injuries. Overcoming that experience helped inspire her work assisting others in moving beyond obstacles and creating meaningful change in their own lives. 

If you're feeling overworked, stressed, burned out or simply wondering whether there's a better way to succeed without sacrificing the rest of your life, Denise R. Green offers a different way of thinking about work-life balance—and how to replace it with work-life brilliance.

About This Week in America:
This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts, innovators, and fascinating people from across the country and around the world. With more than 20,000 interviews during his broadcasting career, Ric Bratton brings decades of experience to conversations covering books, health, personal development, current issues, inspiration, and the stories shaping our lives. This Week in America is heard on radio stations across the United States and available on leading podcast platforms worldwide.

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Is work-life balance really possible—or have we been chasing the wrong goal all along?

On this episode of This Week in America, Ric Bratton welcomes executive coach, author, speaker and podcaster Denise R. Green, author of Work-Life Brilliance: Tools to Break Stress and Create the Life and Health You Crave.

Instead of constantly struggling to perfectly “balance” work and life, Denise offers practical strategies designed to help people reduce overwhelm, lower stress and experience greater fulfillment in their careers, relationships, health and home life. Her approach focuses on changing the thoughts, habits and behaviors that can leave even highly successful people feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or stuck. 

In Work-Life Brilliance, Denise explores how to reduce stress for the long term, shift negative thinking, create lasting habits, say no without unnecessary guilt, improve sleep and develop relationships that help us become our best selves. 

Denise brings extensive real-world experience to the conversation. Before founding Brilliance Inc., she spent more than 15 years in senior positions with companies including Oracle and Charles Schwab. As a transformational executive coach, she has worked with corporate leaders and organizations across multiple industries, helping people become more effective while creating greater confidence, fulfillment and peace in their lives. 

Her mission also grew out of a deeply personal experience. Following a serious car accident, Denise suffered a broken back and other significant injuries. Overcoming that experience helped inspire her work assisting others in moving beyond obstacles and creating meaningful change in their own lives. 

If you're feeling overworked, stressed, burned out or simply wondering whether there's a better way to succeed without sacrificing the rest of your life, Denise R. Green offers a different way of thinking about work-life balance—and how to replace it with work-life brilliance.

About This Week in America:
This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts, innovators, and fascinating people from across the country and around the world. With more than 20,000 interviews during his broadcasting career, Ric Bratton brings decades of experience to conversations covering books, health, personal development, current issues, inspiration, and the stories shaping our lives. This Week in America is heard on radio stations across the United States and available on leading podcast platforms worldwide.

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A.C. Adams joins Ric Bratton on This Week in America to discuss Chasing Shadows, a spiritual and romantic journey exploring the search for true love, the importance of faith, and what it means to find a God-honoring soulmate.

Drawing from personal experiences and deeply held beliefs, Adams examines the difference between genuine love and lust while challenging readers to consider how faith in Jesus Christ can influence relationships and some of life's most important decisions. Chasing Shadows explores the emotional and spiritual consequences of casual relationships while offering a different vision—one centered on commitment, core values, personal growth, and lasting love.

During the conversation, A.C. Adams discusses the experiences that inspired the book, accepting the changes that inevitably come throughout life, and the lessons learned through his own journey. Adams also shares how his Mississippi roots, small-town values, National Guard service, and Christian faith have influenced his writing and outlook on life.

One reader told Adams, “After reading your book, I saw my own life play out before my eyes.” It's a reflection of the personal connection Adams hopes readers will find within the story.

A.C. Adams is also the author of works including The Footprints of an American Soldier, the Clay series, As the Journey Begins, and Looking Forward as the Journey Continues.

About This Week in America:
This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts, innovators, and fascinating people from across the country and around the world. With more than 20,000 interviews during his broadcasting career, Ric Bratton brings decades of experience to conversations covering books, health, personal development, current issues, inspiration, and the stories shaping our lives. This Week in America is heard on radio stations across the United States and available on leading podcast platforms worldwide.

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A.C. Adams joins Ric Bratton on This Week in America to discuss Chasing Shadows, a spiritual and romantic journey exploring the search for true love, the importance of faith, and what it means to find a God-honoring soulmate.

Drawing from personal experiences and deeply held beliefs, Adams examines the difference between genuine love and lust while challenging readers to consider how faith in Jesus Christ can influence relationships and some of life's most important decisions. Chasing Shadows explores the emotional and spiritual consequences of casual relationships while offering a different vision—one centered on commitment, core values, personal growth, and lasting love.

During the conversation, A.C. Adams discusses the experiences that inspired the book, accepting the changes that inevitably come throughout life, and the lessons learned through his own journey. Adams also shares how his Mississippi roots, small-town values, National Guard service, and Christian faith have influenced his writing and outlook on life.

One reader told Adams, “After reading your book, I saw my own life play out before my eyes.” It's a reflection of the personal connection Adams hopes readers will find within the story.

A.C. Adams is also the author of works including The Footprints of an American Soldier, the Clay series, As the Journey Begins, and Looking Forward as the Journey Continues.

About This Week in America:
This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts, innovators, and fascinating people from across the country and around the world. With more than 20,000 interviews during his broadcasting career, Ric Bratton brings decades of experience to conversations covering books, health, personal development, current issues, inspiration, and the stories shaping our lives. This Week in America is heard on radio stations across the United States and available on leading podcast platforms worldwide.

Discover A.C. Adams and Chasing Shadows in this This Week in America interview exploring faith, Christian relationships, true love, soulmates, personal growth, and the search for a meaningful, lasting connection.

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Is the papal chair truly occupied — or could it have been vacant for decades?

It’s a question that challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about the modern Catholic Church.

Our guest is author and theologian Griff Ruby, whose two-volume Sede Vacante! series takes an extensive look at Catholic doctrine, Church authority, Vatican II and the controversial theological position known as sedevacantism.

Ruby examines sixteen areas of Catholic doctrine and asks whether what has happened within the Church since Vatican II can be reconciled with its traditional teachings.

Raised without a religious upbringing, Ruby’s own search for answers eventually led him to Christianity, Catholicism and ultimately Traditional Catholicism.

So what does he believe happened to the Catholic Church? What role did Vatican II play? And what does Sede Vacante — literally, “vacant chair” — mean for Catholics today?

We’ll ask Griff Ruby. He joins us on This Week in America.

This Week in America with Ric Bratton features conversations with authors, experts and newsmakers from across the country and around the world. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Ric Bratton, the program brings listeners informative and thought-provoking interviews covering books, health, history, current issues, personal development and more.

Listen to This Week in America and discover compelling authors, fascinating books and conversations that inform, inspire and make you think.

In this conversation, Ric and Griff explore challenging questions surrounding Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, papal succession, Catholic doctrine, Traditional Catholicism and the identity and authority of the modern Catholic Church.

Whether listeners agree with Ruby’s conclusions or reject them, Sede Vacante! raises fundamental questions about faith, tradition, authority and what it means for the Catholic Church to remain the same Church throughout history.

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