Marc Champagne's inspired over 86 million people to personal inquiry through journaling. As a Mental Fitness expert, he's interviewed over 200 people on his top-50-rated podcast Behind The Human (Check out the episode he did with Rosie on human flourishing). Now, with his book Personal Socrates, published by Baronfig, he draws on his interviews with award-winning writers, designers, photographers, strategists, entrepreneurs, technologists, musicians, athletes, and more to provide inspiration and examples as to where and how pointed self-inquiry can help your health, happiness and performance.

Arlan Hamilton went from being homeless and on food stamps to managing millions of dollars and investing in over 100 companies. Her story would be mythic, if it weren't so Real. Listen in to this national icon share about her journey from sleeping on the San Francisco Airport floor to gracing the cover of Fast Company magazine -- the first African-American woman to ever do so who didn't come out of sports or entertainment. Arlan's story is inspirational for anyone wanting to make it out of poverty and anyone wanting to be authentic about who they really are. 

For women entrepreneurs (and anyone sick of the status quo), this smart, unapologetic collection delivers fifty proven hacks to leapfrog over obstacles and succeed in business. "A must-read for any woman who has a great idea and the nagging thought that doors are closed to her; Molina Niño helps to blow them open."--Publishers Weekly Think the most critical factor for becoming a great entrepreneur is grit, risk-taking, or technical skills? Think again. Despite what every other business book might say, historical data show the real secret ingredients to getting ahead in business are being rich, white, and male.  Until now. Leapfrog is the decades-overdue startup bible for the rest of us. It's filled with uncompromising guidance for winning at business, your way. Leapfrog is for entrepreneurs of all stripes who are fed up with status quo advice--the kind that assumes you have rich friends and family and a public relations team. Refreshingly frank and witty, author Nathalie Molina Niño is a serial tech entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of BRAVA Investments, and a proud daughter of Latinx immigrants. While teaching budding entrepreneurs at Barnard College at Columbia University and searching the globe for investment-worthy startups, she has met or advised thousands of entrepreneurs who've gone from zero to scalable business. Here she shares their best secrets in the form of fifty "leapfrogs"--clever loopholes and shortcuts to outsmart, jump over, or straight up annihilate the seemingly intractable hurdles facing entrepreneurs who don't have family money, cultural capital, or connections.

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity.  Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world. A call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.

Rosie von Lila and Raman Frey take a deep dive into the science of why we categorize ourselves into in-crowds and out-crowds. Explore David Berreby's excellent 2004 book: Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind. 

Raman Frey is the founder of Good People Dinners -- a San Francisco based community that fosters trust and friendship through food, drink and conversation. Over one hundred-fifty gatherings, dinners, overnights and retreats, have occurred. You can read his work on Medium.com.

Chip Conley is a serial bestselling author, world class hotelier and hospitality industry titan. Through building his famed Joie De Vivre boutique hotel company, he discovered a paradigm for creating resilient and triumphant organizations in any economic climate. PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow. About the book: 

After fifteen years of rising to the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley's company was suddenly undercapitalized and overexposed in the post-dot.com, post-9/11 economy. For relief and inspiration, Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic Hierarchy of Needs. This book explores how Conley's company "the second largest boutique hotelier in the world" overcame the storm that hit the travel industry by applying Maslow's theory to what Conley identifies as the key Relationship Truths in business with Employees, Customers and Investors.

In this episode of What Comes Now LIVE, Rosie von Lila goes with Wendy Garcia, the Chief Diversity Officer for NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's Office. They discuss growing up Dominicana in Washington Heights NYC, moving to Delaware and being the only New Yorker there, her educational path to being one of the most powerful women in New York, and what power a Chief Diversity Officer holds. This episode was recorded with a live audience in New York City at The Assemblage on July 30, 2018. 

In this inspirational episode of What Comes Now LIVE, Rosie von Lila converses with New York State Assembly Member Michael Blake about voting, elected office, growing up in the Bronx, graduating from school at Northwestern. This episode was recorded with a live audience in New York City at The Assemblage on June 26, 2018. 

Rosie von Lila and Andy Russell discuss Intelligent Governance for The 21st Century: A Middle Way Between West and East by Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels.