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Dr. Jonah Berger and Invisible Influence

So you think you have a mind of your own? That no one influences your choices? Dr. Jonah Berger, marketing professor at Wharton and author of the new book Invisible influence, says whether we realize it or not, the actions and behaviors of people around us affect us and OUR behaviors more than we know!

We’ll learn how we’re affected by others, how losing can actually lead to winning, and why being different is good – but not TOO different! We’ll also find out what cockroaches can teach us about how we behave! Jonah shares some things that may change how we act!

Click here to listen to the chat with Pam and  Jonah

Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and bestselling author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On and Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior.

Dr. Berger has spent over 15 years studying how social influence works and how it drives products and ideas to catch on.  He’s published dozens of articles in top-tier academic journals, consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, and popular outlets like the New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work.

For more about Jonah, Click here for his website
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Pick up Invisible Influence on Amazon here

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Sacred Power- Author and Speaker Caroline Myss

Sacred Power- Author and Speaker Caroline Myss teaches us about our own Sacred Power and how to enhance our lives

When it comes to human consciousness, spirituality, and the science of medical intuition, there is no one more recognizable and respected than Caroline Myss. We talk about her new series on the Gaia network – Sacred Power: Mastering the Nature of Your Soul, and her live event at the GaiaSphere theater in Boulder, CO August 16-18.

Caroline explains how we all are intuitive, how we have to be careful about giving away our power to others, and how everything we do affects others. She also shares how to find trust, why we need to walk our talk, and how we have to tip the world towards compassion and empathy and not towards violence and evil by beating evil at its own game.

We talk about how this is the most pivotal time in history, how we can’t look to the past for answers, and how evil is so very addicting.

Click on the player below to hear the chat with Caroline and Pam

 

Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Caroline established her own educational institute in 2003, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), which offers a diverse array of programs devoted to personal development and draws students from all over the world. In addition to hosting a weekly radio show on the Hay House network, Caroline maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule.

Caroline developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific emotional/psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with diseases. Her research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm: THE CREATION OF HEALTH.

In 1996, Caroline released ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT, a New York Times bestseller that has been published in 28 languages and has sold over 1.5 million copies.

Caroline followed with two more New York Times bestsellers, INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER in 2004 and ENTERING THE CASTLE in 2007. Caroline’s latest book, DEFY GRAVITY, was released in October 2009, a book exploring the mystical phenomenon of healing that transcends reason.

In addition to her written work, Caroline has produced more than eighty audio/visual products on subjects that include healing, spirituality, personal development, and the study of archetypes.

For more about Caroline Myss: Click Here
Be sure to watch her series Sacred Power: Click Here
For more about Gaia: Click here

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Buzz Aldrin: Celebrating Space and Beyond!

As with the Kennedy assassination most people remember exactly where they were the day Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the Moon. The world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.  In this extraordinary interview from 2009, Buzz talks about his flight to the Moon and his life after returning to Earth. His book out “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon” is filled with  fascinating details of Buzz’s life

What will surprise you is finding out this American Hero also enjoys writing children’s books and even performs “rap” with Snoop Dogg! Listen to the fascinating interview on A Closer Look and be sure to roam about the site for more interviews and information.

Click on the player below to listen to the chat with Buzz and Pam

 

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Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Robert Kiyosaki Returns to Talk about FAKE

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki returns to chat with Pam about how we got suckered into paying back the guys who ripped us off in the bank debacle, how the student debt crisis is bigger than the 2007 sub-prime crisis, and how parents might start moving in with their kids. As outspoken and controversial as ever, the author of FAKE talks about the gold standard, mistakes he has made, and the living liability that you may not have considered!

Click on the player below to hear the chat with Robert and Pam

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad—the #1 personal finance book of all time—Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. He is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes that each of us has the power to makes changes in our lives, take control of our financial future, and live the rich life we deserve.

With perspectives on money and investing that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned an international reputation for straight talk, irreverence, and courage and has become a passionate and outspoken advocate for financial education.

Robert’s most recent books—Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and More Important Than Money—were published in the spring of this year to mark the 20th Anniversary of the 1997 release of Rich Dad Poor Dad. That book and its messages, viewed around the world as a classic in the personal finance arena, have stood the test of time. Why the Rich Are Getting Richer, released two decades after the international blockbuster bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, is positioned as Rich Dad Graduate School. Robert has also co-authored two books with Donald Trump, prior to his successful bid for the White House and election as President of the United States.

Be sure to pick up his book Fake, and learn more about Robert Kiyosaki: Click Here

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Inside the Kushner family with Vicky Ward

As we begin to fully understand all the ins and outs of the current administration, a big question is – who really are Jared and Ivanka Kushner? Who are the people behind the façade? Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Vicky Ward draws back the curtain and gives us some insight into Kushner, Inc., which happens to be the title of her NYTimes bestselling  book.

We find out how Jared and Ivanka’s fathers informed so much of their lives, and how Jared’s father thought his family was just like the Kennedy’s.  We’ll also understand why Jared bears so much animosity towards Chris Christie, and what his 3-point plan was to rehabilitate the family name and reputation.

Plus – Vicky tells us how dependent Ivanka is on her father’s approval and how Jared and Ivanka have an authenticity problem.

We didn’t have near enough time to ask everything we wanted, but here’s our chat with Vicky that will be leaving you wanting to know more about Kushner, Inc.

Click on the player below to hear the chat with Vicky and Pam

Vicky Ward is a New York Times bestselling author, investigative reporter, and magazine columnist.

Currently, she is the editor at large of HuffPost and HuffPost’s long-form magazine, Highline, as well as at Town & Country magazine. Previously, she was a contributor to Esquire and contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years where her articles covered politics, finance, art, and culture.

She was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years where her articles covered a wide array of subject matter: politics, finance, art and culture and society. Among other things she wrote about Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley, Bruce Wasserstein, a failed coup in Africa, Kate Middleton, Valerie Plame, counterterrorist czar Dick Clarke, Brooke Astor, Veronica Hearst, the Guggenheim, the Getty, Phillips de Pury Luxembourg, St Barths, Vivendi, Jeffrey Epstein, Washington Interns, the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund and Bernie Madoff.

She has also been a columnist for the London Evening Standard and has contributed to, among others, The Financial Times, the New York Times, The London Times and Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator Magazine, British Vogue, US Harpers Bazaar and Porter.

She is a graduate of Cambridge University in the UK, where aged 24 she was awarded runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham award, Britain’s most prestigious prize for longform writing by women under the age of 25.

Vicky’s Website: vickyward.com
Vicky’s instagram: www.instagram.com/vpjw_
Vicky’s Facebook: www.facebook.com/VickyPJWard/
Vicky’s Twitter: @VickyPJWard

For your own copy of  Kushner Inc.  Click Here

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We Say #Never Again: Parkland Teachers

When I was offered the opportunity to talk with two of the teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had been on campus during the horrendous shooting on February 14th of this year, I jumped at the chance. There was so much to ask about. Not only what went through their heads at the time, but also what they saw in the kids that day, and in the days after.  Many of these kids came out of it with a mission and purpose, and the energy and determination to see it through.

Melissa Falkowski (journalism) and Eric Garner (broadcast) asked many of their students to write about that day, about how they felt, and what they wanted to accomplish. It’s now in book form, edited by Falkowski and Garner, and titled “WE SAY #NEVERAGAIN,”  Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists.”

The day of the interview was the day after another mass shooting – this time in California at the Borderline Bar and Grill. You can imagine how raw Falkowski and Garner felt when we spoke. We talked about why they asked the students to write these essays, what the kids learned about journalism from the event and its aftermath, and how they see things in these kids that the rest of the world can’t begin to understand.

In December, the Parkland’s March For Our Lives activists were chosen as finalists for the 2018 TIME Magazine Person of the Year. Melissa Falkowski and Eric Garner give us a little insight into why. The book WE SAY #NEVER AGAIN will give you a lot more.

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Former Navy Seal Jocko Willink Talks About the Dichotomy of Leadership

 

Several years ago we took on the concept of Extreme Ownership with Navy Seal co-authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.  We learned that if you’re in charge – you better own it!

Now these two leadership experts and co-founders of Echelon Front  have a new book out called The Dichotomy of Leadership – and maybe because some people took their original advice to the EXTREME!!

We talk with Jocko Willink— former Commander of Seal Team 3 – Task Unit Bruiser (which, by the way, was the most highly decorated US Special Ops unit of the Iraq War), about this dichotomy.  What can we learn about balance – and why it’s important.

Plus – when it’s time to fire someone… how to know when to back off… and why humility is so important.

Thanks for listening!

Click on the player below to listen to the conversation with Jocko Willink and Pam Atherton