Book Insights Podcast
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Each week we do a deep dive into a nonfiction bestseller. Self-Help. Psychology. Business. Philosophy. In around 30 minutes we cover the major themes and ideas of a recent hit, an important work, or an ancient classic.
The result: concentrated wisdom that goes beyond the headlines, makes you think and helps you succeed in relationships, career, or business.
The podcast builds on the work of Tom Butler-Bowdon, author of the “50 Classics series”.
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The Key to a Good Life: Aristotle's Groundbreaking Insight | Book Insights on Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
July 05, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MB*Aristotle’s relentless quest to categorize everything has had a massive impact on philosophical and scientific thinking over the last 2,000 years. *His very rational, left-brain way of seeing is the essence of Western civilization. *The Nicomachean Ethics (dedicated to his son, Nicomachus) is the best expression of Aristotle’s moral philosophy. It provides a recipe for the good life that is still discussed and applied today. *The good life is one where reason is taken into account at ...
James Comey on Clinton, Trump, and ethical leadership | Book Insights on A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
June 21, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB*Through his discussion of his early life and studies, his long career in law enforcement and role in the spotlight of various Clinton and Trump controversies, ex-FBI head James Comey examines what it takes to be an effective, ethical leader. *Comey led the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails that some believe tipped the 2016 election result in Donald Trump’s favor. *Getting to the truth was crucial, but so too was running the investigation independently from the inevitable polit...
How Phil Knight's 'Crazy Idea' - Nike - Revolutionized an Industry | Book Insights on Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
June 07, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MB*In Shoe Dog, the famously reticent founder of Nike opens up to tell the story of how he transformed a $50 loan into a multibillion-dollar business. *Opening with Knight on a brisk morning run, aged 24, we’re treated to a description of the almost divine manner in which the idea for starting a shoe company first strikes. *Yet the actual making of the future megabrand was founded on Knight’s own athletic prowess and business acumen, not to mention his dogged determination. *While his co...
Mark Manson Says You Should Give Less F's | Book Insights on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
May 24, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MB*Despite the attention-grabbing title, this isn’t a guide for rebels without a cause, keen to flip the middle finger at society and authority. Instead, it’s an unusually deep and thought-provoking look into the human experience. *Mining his own memories of being expelled from school for drug possession, travelling around the world seducing women, coming to terms with his parents’ divorce, and struggling to forge a career as a blogger, Manson presents a unique and intriguing life philosophy...
Meet the True Renaissance Man | Book Insights on Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
May 10, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MB*Banned from elite schools due to the circumstances of his birth, Leonardo propelled his own education through endless reading, observation and experimentation. *He found refuge in the world of art, where his paintings of sacred dramas and Earth-based beauty astonished contemporaries. *Today, most of us know the name Leonardo da Vinci and something of his genius, but little of the full breadth of his creative impact and achievements. *Acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson’s richly illus...
Warren Buffett's Investing Secrets | Book Insights on The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence A. Cunningham and Warren Buffett
April 26, 2023 14:00 - 20 minutes - 36.8 MB*Countless books have been written about him, but The Essays of Warren Buffett (first published in 1997) is the only edited compendium of writings from the ‘Sage of Omaha’ himself. *Buffett’s eagerly anticipated annual letters to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway contain valuable insights into his philosophy and idiosyncratic investing style, plus many simple nuggets of wisdom that everyone – multimillionaire or not – can benefit from. *Despite their age, the basic lessons in these essa...
Life Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius | Book Insight on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
April 12, 2023 14:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MB*The twelve chapters of The Meditations, the personal writings of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD), offers modern audiences a clear understanding of Stoic philosophy. *The ancient Greek school of Stoicism hails from the 3rd century BC and was a flourishing movement in ancient Greece and Rome for some four hundred years. *It was used to build strength of character and emotional resilience in order to live wisely and cope well with life’s misfortunes. *Many of its principles remain h...
Improve Your Life - Beginning with Your Bed | Book Insights on Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. Raven
March 29, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MB*Admiral William McRaven belongs to the US military elite, a Four-Star Admiral who was tasked with some of the country’s most crucial missions. *He hopes his true stories of perseverance, determination, and valor against all odds during his time as a United States Navy SEAL will inspire others to overcome their own challenges. *McRaven came face to face with high-profile war criminals such as Saddam Hussein, and inevitably lost friends and brothers-in-arms in the line of duty. *Through...
Why Humans Need a Tribe | Book Insights on Tribe by Sebastian Junger
March 15, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MB*Sebastian Junger’s work as a journalist and film-maker in war zones led him to some startling facts about conflict and hardship: people are often happier in times of war than in peace; disasters are sometimes recalled more fondly than vacations or weddings; and mental illness increases the richer a society becomes. *Rather than hardship, what people cannot bear is the feeling that they are unnecessary, not part of some tight group that needs them and looks out for them. *History bears t...
Katherine Graham: American Icon | Book Insights on Personal History by Katherine Graham
March 01, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB*Katharine Graham had an image as a cultured society hostess who held court from a grand Washington residence, and as the friend of US presidents and their wives. *But this image omits the less fabulous details of her life and the decades of hard work to make The Washington Post into the institution it became. *Personal History is partly the story of the building of that enterprise, but it’s also a leadership book. *Graham never intended or wanted to lead, but she became one of the mos...
How to predict the future | Book Insights on The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
February 15, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MB*Our brains are machines that are always simplifying and approximating, focusing on some detail that captures our attention. Those details may be important, but we are only a brain within a vast universe, and our biases often lead us to bad predictions. *Drawing on his groundbreaking forecasting work, Nate Silver surveys the field of prediction and discusses how to identify a meaningful signal in amongst a barrage of data. *Only forecasting that arises from many points of data, both quan...
How to Find Hope in a Hopeless Place | Book Insight on Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
February 01, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MB*Viktor Frankl’s wife, parents and brother died in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Enduring extreme hunger, cold and brutality, first in Auschwitz then Dachau, Frankl himself was under constant threat of going to the gas chambers. *He lost every physical belonging on his first day in the camps, and was forced to surrender a scientific manuscript he considered his life’s work. Yet having been lowered into the pits of humanity, Frankl emerged an optimist. *His reasoning was that e...
Life and Times of Apple's Visionary | Book Insights on Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
January 18, 2023 15:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MB*The story of Steve Jobs’s rise, fall and restoration at Apple resembled a Greek epic, and Walter Isaacson was fascinated by the chance to reconstruct this odyssey. *Like the fabled Icarus, Jobs tested the limits of technology and design to soar ever higher. *But while he took a number of nosedives – descending for a time from the heights of Apple’s leadership – he never totally crashed to Earth, but was held aloft by his imagination and peerless intuition about the future. *That remar...
How to Truly Eat Well | Books Insights on In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
January 04, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MB*The common sense and clarity of Michael Pollan’s message – Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants – is what gives it its power, all the more so when contrasted with the dizzying, conflicting dietary advice and convoluted lists of ingredients we are faced with on a daily basis. *Pollan is a voice of reason amid the earnest, often ill-informed clean eating and wellness debates. Here he explains how industrialization, supposed advances in nutrition and manufacturing, and misleading media have...
Do You Think Like a Fox or a Hedgehog? | Book Insights on The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
December 14, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MB*In later life, Isaiah Berlin regretted calling his essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, but it’s an undoubtedly intriguing title. *While it investigates the two ways of approaching knowledge, that of the fox who ‘knows many things’ and the hedgehog who ‘knows one big thing’ – outlining what would become a key principle of modern cultural theory – the essay’s real subject matter is the Leo Tolstoy’s view of history. *Berlin had studied his fellow Russian Tolstoy’s work (he had also translated...
Effective Communication with Kids | Book Insights on The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
November 30, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB*Parenting can be tough work, and at times it can feel like just surviving is the most you’re able to do. But psychotherapists Siegel and Bryson show that the most difficult moments are actually opportunities to thrive – you just need to use integration. *Integration means connecting the two sides of your – and your child’s – brain. *This can occur both horizontally, left brain to right brain, or vertically, ‘upstairs’ brain to ‘downstairs’ brain. *It’s about engaging both the emotiona...
How to Think Like a Shark for Your Business | Book Insights on Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
November 16, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes - 44 MB*In today’s world, competition is becoming increasingly fierce. This leads to bloody battles among competitors who are forced to keep reducing prices while continuously spending money on incremental improvements in product quality. *If they are successful at this, they will merely stay afloat in red oceans. Because other firms are doing the same, everyone is facing the risk of drowning. *Blue Ocean Strategy offers a different way of making business. Instead of swimming in red waters repl...
Rachel Holliss on How To Achieve The Life of Your Dreams | Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
November 02, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MB*Like many people, Rachel Hollis had a difficult time growing up. But she realized that, whatever her circumstances, it was no excuse for not designing and building a great life. *Success has to be seized, and involves sacrifices, but it’s no harder than settling for mediocrity. *The former party planner with a flourishing media company and family reveals what’s behind the influencer persona. *Hollis is shockingly honest about her struggles, mistakes, crises, and the sheer amount of ti...
Want to live forever? Eat this | Book Insights on How Not to Die by Michael Greger
October 19, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MB*If dying is a certainty, dying early is almost always a choice. *This is the thread running through Michael Greger’s How Not To Die. Backed up by a catalogue of studies, Greger compellingly demonstrates how we can prevent, treat and even reverse our most common chronic diseases. *The subtitle is Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease. *Greger argues that to avoid the fifteen leading causes of death and disease in the developed world, all it takes is on...
The History of the Human Species | Book Insights on Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
October 05, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB*Arguably the most influential self-help book of all time, Dale Carnegie’s bestseller had an immediate impact on publication in 1936, going through 17 editions in its first year alone, and coining a much-imitated phrase. *Still highly popular today, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a paean to integrity and good humor in the name of healthy capitalism, and a touchstone of American self-improvement. *People continue to flock to Dale Carnegie courses and swear by his simple, yet pow...
How to Lead with Likeability | Book Insights on How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
September 21, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MB*Arguably the most influential self-help book of all time, Dale Carnegie’s bestseller had an immediate impact on publication in 1936, going through 17 editions in its first year alone, and coining a much-imitated phrase. *Still highly popular today, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a paean to integrity and good humor in the name of healthy capitalism, and a touchstone of American self-improvement. *People continue to flock to Dale Carnegie courses and swear by his simple, yet p...
The Man, the Madness, the Tesla Founder | Book Insight on Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
September 07, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MB*Elon Musk is an enigma. His vision seems to be motivated by a love for humanity, but he has no trouble treating individuals poorly. *He’s left two ex-wives and countless ex-SpaceX and ex-Tesla employees in his wake, but he wants to ensure the survival of our species. *What drives him towards achievements that seem closer to fiction than reality? *Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance’s book, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, is a compelling read and offers some...
Book Lounge | Good to Great with Gary Garth
August 31, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Good to Great with special guest Gary Garth . Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book Insigh...
Why Companies Succeed or Fail | Book Insights on Good to Great by Jim Collins
August 24, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MB*Most great companies enjoyed years of obscurity before their great results compelled the world to look at them. In fact, they seemed just like any other company until a certain ‘transition point’ saw them leave the pack behind. *These leaps into greatness did not occur through revolution. Contrary to popular opinion, these firms did not get in an expensive new CEO to turn things around. *This is actually the mark of a mediocre company. And although the remarkable results of great compan...
Book Lounge | This Is Marketing with Brandon Leibowitz
August 17, 2022 14:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book This Is Marketing with special guest Brandon Leibowitz. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of B...
Marketing for the Digital Age & Beyond | Book Insights on This is Marketing by Seth Godin
August 10, 2022 20:38 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MB*The old-world method of mass advertising through TV and radio was hugely successful for big corporations. With the arrival of the internet, everything changed. *Traditional marketing is about trying to sell something to someone, trying to get something out of them. The new way is almost the opposite. It’s about generosity, listening, and making a connection that lasts. *New opportunities now exist for anyone to reach an audience with a new idea, cause or product launch. If you care en...
Book Lounge | Big Magic with Lauree Ostrofsky
August 03, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Big Magic with special guest Lauree Ostrofsky. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book Insig...
Unleash Your Creative Potential | Book Insights on Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
July 27, 2022 15:57 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB*Part spiritual guide and part pragmatic how-to, in Big Magic bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert shares her secrets and processes for all things creative. *Warm and uplifting, Gilbert will help you to embrace curiosity and let go of your shame or fear of failure – whatever you are creating. Theme 1: A Creative Life Should Be Driven By Curiosity, Not Fear - 0:29 Theme 2: Science, Reason, and Perseverance - 8:50 Theme 3: Trust In Your Work - And Yourself - 22:55 Like what you hear? Be ...
Book Lounge - Difficult Conversations with Kevin Gazzara
July 20, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Difficult Conversations with special guest Kevin Gazzara. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of...
From Combative to Constructive | Book Insights on Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
July 13, 2022 11:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB*Difficult Conversations grew out of fifteen years of work at the Harvard Negotiation Project, which focuses on matters of negotiation and conflict resolution. *The result is a remarkable guide that lets you in on the powerful techniques that have been employed in world trouble spots to bring opposing sides together and forge new futures. *Following the lessons learned from these high-stakes examples will transform your approach to the challenging encounters of everyday life – from reque...
Book Lounger - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with Kevin Palmieri
July 06, 2022 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with special guest Kevin Palmieri. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of th...
Book Lounge - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with Kevin Palmieri
July 06, 2022 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People with special guest Kevin Palmieri. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of th...
Stephen Covey's Timeless Advice | Book Insights on 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
June 29, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MB*It’s been said that, in the United States, the influence of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is second only to the Bible. *Not only is it listed as core reading for employees in many Fortune 500 companies, but even former US Presidents Clinton and Obama have recommended it. *Sales now exceed 25 million copies, and it was the first non-fiction book to sell a million copies in audio format. *Covey provides a masterful synthesis of what he argues are simply ‘natural laws’, timeles...
Book Lounge - The Lean Startup with Brendan Kumarasamy
June 22, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Lean Startup with special guest Brendan Kumarasamy. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of B...
Startup Success - Simplified! | Book Insights on The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
June 15, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB*Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup brilliantly articulates the incremental, iterative approach to innovation, which provides a reality check on ego-driven ideas that might look good on paper but just won’t fly. *As all great entrepreneurs know, business success comes from a curious mix of blue-sky thinking and a love of feedback and data. *The lean approach helps new ventures launch products and services that users and customers actually want, in a way that’s far more nimble, much cheaper, and...
Book Lounge - You Are a Badass with Nancy Pickard
June 08, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book You Are a Badass with special guest Nancy Pickard . Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book ...
Unleash Your Inner Badass | Book Insights on You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
June 01, 2022 14:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MB*When it comes to self-help, Jen Sincero has been there, read that, and got multiple T-shirts. *You are a Badass is her effort to distill everything she learnt during years of attending motivational seminars and devouring self-help tomes, mercifully sparing her readers all the cheesiness. *This sassy brand of positivity may sound very different to classics of the genre – it’s out with hugging your inner child, and in with something harder edged, bolder and badder – but the essential mess...
Book Lounge - Lost Connections with Brittany Days
May 25, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Lost Connections with special guest Brittany Days. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book I...
Depression's Underlying Cause | Book Insight on Lost Connections by Johann Hari
May 18, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MB*Prompted by his own experience of living with depression and the escalating levels of depression and anxiety across the Western world, Johann Hari set out on a three-year investigation, interviewing experts and sufferers the world over. *He questions the conventional wisdom about depression – essentially that it’s all in our heads, caused by an imbalance in our brain chemistry – and the efficacy of antidepressants. *Looking outside our heads, rather than within, Hari argues, we can iden...
Book Lounge | Emotional Intelligence 2.0 with Christina Eanes
May 11, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 with special guest Christina Eanes. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated li...
Why EQ Matters More Than IQ | Book Insights on Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
May 04, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MB*In their number one New York Times bestseller, Bradberry and Greaves lay out the four key skills that – once adopted – will exponentially enhance your emotional intelligence. *The authors conducted extensive research into emotional intelligence, interviewing over half a million people in order to identify the traits that underpin high ‘EQ’. *In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help ...
Book Lounge - 12 Rules for Life with Joe Barnes
April 27, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 94.9 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book 12 Rules for Life with special guest Joe Barnes. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book Ins...
Jordan Peterson's Life Wisdom | Book Insights on 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
April 20, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MB*Jordan Peterson has been a controversial figure since he spoke out against a Canadian government bill concerning gender identity and expression. *His book tour promoting 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has met with angry protests and some academics and commentators have rounded on him, questioning his credibility. *At the same time, Peterson’s public lectures regularly sell out, his YouTube channel has almost two million subscribers and 12 Rules for Life has become a runaway suc...
Book Lounge | The Body Keeps the Score with Miranda Wise
April 13, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes - 92.3 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Body Keeps the Score with special guest Miranda Wise. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of...
Trauma's Lasting Effects on the Body | Book Insights on The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
April 06, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MB*A worldwide expert on trauma, Bessel van der Kolk examines exactly what trauma is, and how and why it affects so many of us. *He explores the impact traumas ranging from sexual abuse to violence, witnessing abuse, neglect, and divorce (among others), have on the body and mind, and how they can disrupt the brain’s wiring and develop into PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder. *Trauma sufferers can find it difficult to have relationships, to connect with others, and to monitor their emoti...
Book Lounge - Quiet with Terrance Lee
March 30, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Quiet with special guest Terrance Lee. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book Insights, and...
Introverts' Hidden Powers | Book Insights on Quiet by Susan Cain
March 23, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MB*Introversion/extroversion is the most fundamental divide in personality, Susan Cain argues, the ‘North and South of temperament’. *Yet extroversion has become the ideal in the West, at the expense of our appreciation of introverted qualities. Centering a whole culture – be it a company, university or nation – on extroversion, means that decision-making gets taken over by the more assertive, while quieter, often more knowledgeable types are ignored – to the group’s cost. *Cain attempts t...
Book Lounge - The 5 Love Languages with Julie Nguyen
March 16, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The 5 Love Languages with special guest Julie Nguyen. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Boo...
Get fluent in the languages of love | Book Insights on The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
March 09, 2022 19:20 - 22 minutes - 31.6 MB*After the first flush of romance fades, how do you stay in love? Gary Chapman’s multimillion copy bestseller has the answers, based on his years of experience as a marriage counsellor, pastor, and husband. *Chapman had his wife Carolyn have been together over 50 years. He has also worked as an anthropologist, researching the cultural patterns of love and marriage in indigenous cultures around the world. *Such wide-ranging experience led him to identify the five love languages and the fu...
Book Lounge - Sapiens with Ruben Chavez
March 02, 2022 15:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBToday in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Sapiens with special guest Ruben Chavez. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and life. You’ll learn why it was selected to be part of the curated list of Book Insights, a...