On Good Authority: Publishing the Book that Will Build Your Business
553 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 227 ratingsThere are people who launch books and end up just having a nice thing to put on their shelves. Then there are people who launch books that transform their careers—and lives. As a former member of the first group, Legacy Launch Pad publisher and New York Times bestselling author Anna David strongly urges you to be part of the second.
In this show, she talks to entrepreneurs and authors about how to intentionally launch the book that will serve as the best business card and marketing tool you’ve ever had—and then how to use that to build your business even more.
Named one of the best publishing podcasts by LA Weekly, Feedspot, Podchaser and Kindlepreneur, On Good Authority features solo episodes as well as interviews with best-selling authors, entrepreneurs and publishing insiders. It has had over a million downloads, regularly appears on the top 100 career podcast list and manages to make discussions about publishing funny. Popular episodes include interviews with Chris Voss, Robert Greene and Lori Gottlieb.
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When Your Launch Doesn't Go as Expected with New York Times Bestselling Author Lori Gottlieb
January 29, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBLori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications. She is also a TED speaker, a member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change to Mind and advisor to the Aspen Institute. A contributi...
NY Times Bestselling Author Annabelle Gurwitch's 3 Musts for a Book Launch
January 22, 2020 20:00 - 42 minutes - 57.6 MBAnnabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and the author of the New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. Her other books include: Wherever You Go, There They Are, and You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (coauthored with Jeff Kahn). She was the co-host of Dinner & a Movie on TBS and has appeared on NPR, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, PBS, and numerous CNN and MSNBC programs. Her essays and satire have been featured ...
How Julie Reisler Used a Structured Plan to Launch Her Second Book
January 15, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutes - 41 MBJulie Reisler, Life Designer®, TV Host, Author and Global Brand Ambassador, is all about helping you to tune into your intuition to be your You-est You. Julie is the author of the Get a PhD in YOU book series, a multi-time TEDx speaker, the host of The You-est You® podcast and a mindfulness teacher on the popular app, Insight Timer, with over 110,000 downloads. Not enough for you? Julie also has a Master's degree in coaching, more than 12 certifications in mindset, leadership and...
What NY Times Bestselling Author Jennifer K. Armstrong Learned About Launches
January 08, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 50.2 MBJennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love. She spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly and has since written for many publications, including BBC Culture, The New York Times Book Review, Vice, New York magazine, and Billboard. She...
The Truth About Traditional Publishing with NYT Bestselling Author Jennifer K. Armstrong
January 08, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes - 50.7 MBJennifer Keishin Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia: How the Show About Nothing Changed Everything; a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; and Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love. She spent a decade on staff at Entertainment Weekly and has since written for many publications, including BBC Culture, The New York Times Book Review, Vice, New York magazine, and Billboard. ...
Make Sure Your Book is Muzzy Approved with Dave Chesson
January 01, 2020 08:00 - 46 minutes - 52.9 MBDave Chesson is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledges as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” Having worked with such authors as Orson Scott Card, Ted Dekker and more, his tactics help both fiction and nonfiction authors of all levels get their books discovered by the right readers. But that's the official bio ...
The Debut of Launch Pad with Dave Chesson
January 01, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 52.5 MBDave Chesson is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledges as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” Having worked with such authors as Orson Scott Card, Ted Dekker and more, his tactics help both fiction and nonfiction authors of all levels get their books discovered by the right readers. But that's the official bio stuff. Th...
Transgender Comic Ian Harvie on Life Changes (Re-release!)
December 25, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Ian Harvie joined me on my couch to talk about his childhood in rural Maine, his journey to discovering his true gender identity, his recovery from alcoholism, and his new life in sobriety as a trans comic.
Author Sarah Hepola on Going from Blackouts to Bright Life (re-release!)
December 18, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 92 MBAuthor Sarah Hepola isn’t just a writer but the author of the biggest book about addiction since A Million Little Pieces (as a fellow author of a book about addiction, this pains me to write but only a little because her book is so God damn good). Hepola’s memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, has been written about in seemingly ever publication known to man, clearly striking a chord among the recovery community and beyond. The Texas-based Salon essay edi...
Jemima Kirke on Drinking After Years of Sobriety (Re-release!)
December 11, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBActress and artist Jemima Kirke came on the podcast. Yes, those are thrilling words to write. This is not only exciting because she’s luminous, talented and plays Jessa on freaking Girls but also because she has a history with substances that you don’t hear many people share about. After a wild youth, which included multi-day benders and bouts of depression, Kirke showed up at her mom’s in early 20s, saying she was ready for rehab. She went from one treatment center to the nex...
Moby on Launching Himself Into a New Life (re-release!)
December 04, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBWhat is there to say about Moby that hasn’t already been said? The legendary musician, who burst onto the scene with his fifth studio album, Play, is also a DJ, photographer and soon-to-be memoirist (we all know he’s a descendant of Herman Melville, right?) And it’s not just his own music he’s had a hand in; the active animal rights supporter has remixed, co-written and produced music for many of the other greats. But let's talk about how, in his 40s, he launched into a whole ne...
Georgia Hardstark on Life Before She Became a Famous Murder Obsessive (re-release!)
November 27, 2019 16:20 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBGeorgia Hardstark has blown up since she and Karen Kilgariff launched the mega popular My Favorite Murder podcast. But what was she up to before that? This episode—a re-release from several years ago—focuses on exactly that. So who is Georgia Hardstark? Find out everything and more in this ep.
Rich Roll on Recovery, Plant-Based Nutrition, Launching His Podcast and More
November 20, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBBestselling author, ultra-endurance athlete, plant-based nutrition advocate and sober father Rich Roll has been hailed as one of the world’s fittest men. He also graduated from Stanford and Cornell Law and built up a successful law practice, all while drowning in alcohol. Then, after years of sobriety, he realized he was anesthetizing himself with food the way he had with drinking and what started out as a cleanse turned into—well, one of the world’s fittest men. Here, we talk about...
Marc Maron on Addiction, Recovery and Launching WTF
November 14, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBMarc Maron appeared on the podcast in 2017, back when the focus of the show was on addiction and recovery. This re-release covers his life BEFORE Obama strolled over to his garage for an interview, before he was starring on Glow...essentially when he was already huge but not the hugest. The legendary comedian and host of the immensely popular WTF podcast needs no introduction but I'm giving him one anyway: Marc Maron has spent a couple of decades honing his craft, has appeared on ...
Lewis Howes on Releasing Shame Around His Childhood Secret
November 06, 2019 08:00 - 57 minutes - 65.5 MBProfessional athlete Lewis Howes and host of the podcast The School of Greatness is also what’s known as lifestyle entrepreneur. The short version of the story is this: sidelined by an injury while playing professional football, Howes had no money, nowhere to live and no interest in doing anything but the sport that he could no longer do. So he took to his computer and managed to become a social media maven in just a few years, earning millions in the process and then coaching ...
Dr. Neeta Bhushan on Surviving Domestic Violence & Much More
October 30, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBDr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. She helps entrepreneurs own their story, create their message in the form of books to chart their next big chapter. She conducts Book To Bestseller workshops, and optimizes businesses to scale their message, their business, and their impact. Despite having met Neeta a few times, I had no idea what her back...
Melyna Harrison on Building a 7-Figure Biz After Losing Everything
October 23, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBMelyna Harrison is a 7 Figure Entrepreneur and a business coach. While that's amazing, the craziest part of her story is where she was able to build that from. See, she and her husband were doing just fine—his business was moving along, they had a couple kids—when, out of nowhere, they lost everything. She realized she could feel sorry for herself or she could do something. She chose the latter. That led to her becoming a network marketing leader, with 300,000 people ...
Nick Sonnenberg on How ADD Helped Lead Him to Success
October 16, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBNick Sonnenberg is a serial entrepreneur, business efficiency consultant, Inc. columnist and author of the book Idea to Execution. He is the founder and CEO of Leverage and Efficient Frontier Solutions, as well as co-founder of the Bullseye Mastermind Group. And he's worked with every big business name in the book, from Tony Robbins to Jay Abraham. He's also always seemed, to me, to be the ultimate example of someone who's 100% "together," whatever that's come to mean today. He's...
Hal Elrod on Cheerfully Accepting the News He'd Never Walk Again
October 09, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 50 MBAfter surviving multiple near-death experiences and impacting millions of lives through his books, Hal Elrod is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity, one person at a time. As the bestselling author of one of the highest-rated books in the world, The Miracle Morning, and his newest book, The Miracle Equation, he is doing exactly that. He is also perhaps the kindest person I have ever met. I learned this when I met him at a college speaking event over a decade ...
Stephan Spencer on Going From Poverty & Foster Care to Success & Love
October 02, 2019 07:00 - 47 minutes - 65 MBStephan Spencer is an SEO expert and bestselling author of The Art of SEO, Social eCommerce, & Google Power Search. He founded the SEO agency Netconcepts (acquired in 2010) and is now part of a multi-billion dollar ad agency conglomerate. He's optimized websites for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Chanel, Volvo, Sony, and Zappos and hosts two popular podcast shows: Get Yourself Optimized & Marketing Speak. He's also overcome circumstances that would have destroyed...
Shauna Faulisi on Turning Disordered Eating Into a Nutrition Business
September 25, 2019 07:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBShauna Faulisi is the CEO of Soul Wellness Method, a nutrition and wellness practice that's gained a loyal online following and high-profile clientele by teaching an accessible approach to holistic health. As a celebrity chef and nutritionist, she's been featured in places like Vogue, HuffPost, WGSN, The Zoe Report and PopSugar. As a former model who moved to New York after college, however, Shauna experienced loneliness, which she coped with by developing some not-so-healthy e...
Emily Fletcher on the Anxiety That Led to Her Meditation Empire
September 18, 2019 07:00 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBEmily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the creator of zivaONLINE, a powerful 15 day training in mindfulness, meditation and manifesting. She is considered the leading expert on meditation for performance and has spoken at Google, Harvard Business School, Apple and been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch. In this episode—taken from my Apple TV show—we talked about all those accomplishments, but also what led to them...namely being on Broadway, with a...
Emily Lynn Paulson on Sharing Her Story of Addiction & Recovery
September 11, 2019 07:00 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBEmily Lynn Paulson is an author, network marketing leader, certified professional recovery coach, and a member of the long-term recovery community. Formally trained as a chemist and a teacher, she rose to success in the top tiers of a direct marketing skincare company, where she gained her voice and a platform for sobriety and healing. Emily's on Instagram at @highlightrealrecovery and lives in Seattle with her husband and their five children. Sober since January 2, 2017, her rec...
Rory Vaden on the Keys to Success—and The NY Times Bestseller List
September 04, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBRory Vaden is the New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs. His insights have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, on Fox News national television and in several other major media outlets. As a world-renowned speaker, His Tedx talk has been viewed nearly 3 million times, he is a 2x World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist, has been called one of the top 100 speakers in the world by Inc Magazine and was recently inducted into the prof...
Brian Kurtz on Surviving Cancer, a Stroke...and Business
August 28, 2019 07:00 - 47 minutes - 54.2 MBBrian Kurtz has been a serial direct marketer for almost 40 years. Just how successful has he been at that, you ask? Well, in his first job, company revenues went from approximately $5 million (in 1981) to a high of over $150 million (in 2006). His first book, The Advertising Solution, was released in October of 2017 while his second book, Overdeliver: Build a Business for a Lifetime Playing the Long Game in Direct Response Marketing, was released in April of 2019. Well, that...
Natasha Case on Building the Biggest Female-Owned Ice Cream Biz
August 21, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBNatasha Case is the CEO and co-founder of Coolhaus, which is the is the leading women-owned ice cream business at grocery stores. If you're craving it right now, have no fear: it can be found in 7,500+ gourmet grocery stores. She has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 Food & Beverage, Zagat 30 Under 30, Linked in 10 under 35 for Food & Leisure, and was recently named UCLA LGBTQ+ 2019 Alum of the Year. She co-hosts the podcast, ‘Start to Sale’ through Eater/Vox Media. She is also my ...
Natasha Case on Building the Biggest Female-Owned Ice Cream Biz
August 21, 2019 07:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBNatasha Case is the CEO and co-founder of Coolhaus, which is the is the leading women-owned ice cream business at grocery stores. If you're craving it right now, have no fear: it can be found in 7,500+ gourmet grocery stores. She has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 Food & Beverage, Zagat 30 Under 30, Linked in 10 under 35 for Food & Leisure, and was recently named UCLA LGBTQ+ 2019 Alum of the Year. She co-hosts the podcast, ‘Start to Sale’ through Eater/Vox Media. She is also...
Suzy Batiz on Surviving Trauma to Build a $500 Million+ Company
August 14, 2019 07:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBSuzy Batiz is the founder of Poo~Pourri and supernatural. She experienced some of life’s lowest lows — poverty, sexual and domestic abuse, depression, two bankruptcies and a suicide attempt — which led to what she calls the luxury of losing everything. After harnessing the power of intuition, her journey led her to building her businesses from the ground up without ever taking a dollar of outside investment. Suzy harnessed the power of true transformation and turned ALIVE IDEAS int...
Joe Clark on Finding Friendship, Market Crashes & More
August 07, 2019 17:20 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBJoseph A. Clark, CFP, is a Certified Financial Planner and has been in the financial services industry for more than 30 years. He is the Managing Partner of The Financial Enhancement Group, LLC, an asset management and financial planning firm based in central Indiana. The firm currently manages more than $450 million serving families in 31 states. Joe is also a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at Purdue University, having taught the Capstone course for the Financial Counseling and Planning...
Joe Clark on Finding Friendship, Market Crashes & More
August 07, 2019 17:20 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBJoseph A. Clark, CFP, is a Certified Financial Planner and has been in the financial services industry for more than 30 years. He is the Managing Partner of The Financial Enhancement Group, LLC, an asset management and financial planning firm based in central Indiana. The firm currently manages more than $450 million serving families in 31 states. Joe is also a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at Purdue University, having taught the Capstone course for the Financial Counseling and...
Katie DePaola on How Death & Disease Helped Her Build Her Business
July 31, 2019 07:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBKatie DePaola is an entrepreneur, author and the founder of Inner Glow Circle. Exactly one hundred days after opening her business, Katie’s brother died from an accidental overdose. Also a Lyme Disease survivor, she built her business from her bathtub, taking the company from self-funded startup to million-dollar business. Katie has turned her greatest challenges into her greatest opportunities and says her business is what saved her life. Through certification programs, memberships ...
Paul Ollinger on Finding Success After Retiring at 42
July 24, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBPaul Ollinger is a nationally-touring stand-up comedian, author, Ivy League MBA, former Facebook sales leader and host of the podcast Crazy Money. What this means, between the lines: he was one of the first 250 Facebook employees, which means that...well, he was able to retire at the age of 42. But does that make him successful? That's what we discussed here—getting into the fact that he discovered he loved stand-up comedy while in business school (ie, the last place on earth...
Tony Grebmeier on Struggling to Success
July 17, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBTony Grebmeier describes himself as a husband and father first and then an entrepreneur, podcast host, journal creator, and host of the BEFULFILLED community. It's this value system that may be what's most responsible for his success. While he's best-known for building a multi-million dollar business, it's his mission in life to create a community where entrepreneurs know they can achieve anything they want despite their past. Sober since 2008, Tony had gotten to the point wh...
Lauren and Anna on What The Words "Struggle" & "Success" Really Mean
July 10, 2019 07:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBAs the podcast moves into this new incarnation, it felt important to really break down what the words "struggle" and "success" really mean. Here's why: I've discussed the podcast's new focus with people and I keep finding that they assume I'll be talking to people about their business challenges. While that will definitely be part of the conversation, the main thing I want to get at here is WHY so many successful people have had life throw so many struggles their way... parti...
Anna David on Why Light Hustler is Changing to Struggle to Success
July 03, 2019 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MBName change time! Yes, the podcast formerly known as AfterPartyPod, Recover Girl and Light Hustler is now transitioning into Struggle to Success, where I'm going to be interviewing some of the world's highest achieving people about how they've been able to make their greatest struggles into their greatest success. While I'll still be talking to some people about their issues with addiction and journey into recovery, I'll also be chatting with folks about other struggles and journeys....
Coach Mike Bayer on Going From Addiction to Dr. Phil & in the Process, Selling 100K Copies of His Book
June 05, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBMike Bayer, also known as Coach Mike, is Founder and CEO of CAST Centers and author of the Best Self: Be You, Only Better. His career began over 12 years ago as a mental health and addiction counselor. After a residency at The Hazelden Foundation, Mike spent five years in the field and became one of the leading interventionists in the country. He did crisis consulting for several of the country’s top treatment programs, including the Hazelden Foundation. Fifteen years ago, he...
Lifestyle Business Coach Lauren Wallett Sharing the Shameful
May 29, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBLauren Wallett is a woman of many occupations: business coach, personal coach, writer and my co-host on SHE-E-O, among other things. We spend an insane amount of time together and this episode is real fly-on-wall stuff: basically what we talk about when there aren't mics around (btw the mics got screwed up and so the interview was done on my Iphone...sorry if it sounds wonky). Only listen if you want to hear us confess those things we normally don't—getting into being attract...
Tech Titan Kevin Chiu on Quitting Drinking & Raising Millions
May 22, 2019 19:33 - 32 minutes - 30 MBKevin Chiu is the co-founder of Catalyst, an NYC-based startup that has raised $5.5M from top venture capitalists like True Ventures & Work-Bench to build a customer data platform that helps tech companies reduce user churn and increase product adoption. Prior to starting Catalyst, he led sales teams at fast-growing companies like Greenhouse Software and DigitalOcean. Kevin also recently received the Forbes 30under30 award for Enterprise Technology entrepreneurs. He is also two y...
SMART Recovery President William Greer on Alternatives to AA
May 15, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBIn 2014, Willam (Bill) Freer launched the first Family & Friends SMART Recovery meeting in Washington, DC. He was elected to the SMART Recovery Board in 2017 and was named chair of its first Communications Committee. That same year, he became a founding Board member of SMART Recovery International. He helped write the SMART Recovery Five-Year Strategic Plan: Freedom from Addiction. Now serving as President of SMART Recovery, Bill was a guest on our recent Light Hustle retreat whe...
Todd Zalkins on Being the Worst Case Doctors Have Ever Seen
May 08, 2019 07:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBTodd Zalkins is an addiction specialist, private counselor, interventionist, and public speaker. The author of the memoir, Dying for Triplicate, Zalkins was the subject of the award-winning documentary The Long Way Back: The Story of Todd “Z-Man” Zalkins, which documented his own descent into addiction as well as his relationship with the band members of Sublime. Todd is the Founder and CEO of Four Keys, Inc., an integrative enterprise that encompasses four major aspects of r...
Meditation Special with Anna David
May 01, 2019 14:59 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBWe break from our regular programming of stories and interviews for a guided meditation designed to help you get in your body, breathe and then access the part of you necessary to share your story. If you think you may have a story inside of you but haven't been sure how to access it, give this meditation a try. We'll be back next week with another interview. But in the meantime, why not give this a try?
The Sober Glow's Mia on Gray Area Drinking
April 24, 2019 07:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBMia is a teetotaling NYC broad currently living in LA. She gave up drinking in September of 2015 when she finally stopped ignoring the fact that she would never live the life she so craved if she didn't remove the booze. After nearly 4 years of living this unmasked lifestyle, she has organically created a community online of like-hearted women. Mia is currently facilitating alcohol-free adventure retreats, hosting book club circles and will soon be launching her signature Get High Na...
Ruby Warrington on Being Sober Curious
April 17, 2019 07:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBRuby Warrington is a British writer and thought leader currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Formerly Features Editor on the UK Sunday Times Style magazine, in 2012 she launched The Numinous, a cosmic lifestyle platform that updates all things "new age" for life in the Now Age. Ruby also works as a consultant, while other projects include "sober curious" event series Club SÖDA NYC and spiritual coaching program Moon Club. Author of Material Girl, Mystical World, Ruby's second book, S...
Omar Pinto on SHAIR-ing Sobriety
April 10, 2019 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBOmar Pinto is a Life Transformation Coach, Addiction Recovery Specialist and Lifestyle Entrepreneur who hosts the popular SHAIR podcast. He took his last drink and hit of cocaine in May 25, 2003. This was the beginning of his journey into personal development. Over the next 15 years he would completely transform his life - Mind, Body and Spirit. It took him four years to successfully complete the 12-Step recovery process in Narcotics Anonymous. He launched SHAIR in Februa...
Arlina Allen on Sobriety in Silicon Valley
April 03, 2019 07:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBArlina Allen is many things. A Silicon Valley executive, she is also a writer, the host of The ODAAT Chat podcast and the founder of Sober Life School. Sober since 1994, she's been married for 21 years and is the mother of two teenage boys. In her own words... "When I was 25 I hit rock bottom. I had managed to alienate my family and all my friends. Although I was ambitious, my drinking and using was getting the way of my sales career. My heart was broken after ending a re...
Anna David on Dating a Newcomer Who May Have Still Been High
March 27, 2019 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBAnna David is a NY Times bestselling author, journalist, occasional TV talking head, coach, creator of this podcast, CEO of Light Hustle Publishing and the person typing these words. This story involves the time she opted to respond to a missive from a stranger that read "I'm hot and you're hot; plus, I'm sober and you're sober." But was he sober? Well, that's something she found out more about when he moved from LA to New York to be with her. Just how did this love story e...
Bucky Sinister on Dating a Mysterious Woman with a Mohawk
March 20, 2019 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBBucky Sinister s a stand-up comedian and author of nine books, including Black Hole: A Novel and Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks and Weirdos. He's told many stories at numerous shows—including one where he brought a now-deceased friend (in an urn) up on stage with him—but it's safe to say this is the most graphic tale he's told at a Light Hustler show. Just how does a story about dating a mysterious woman with a mohawk get graphic? Let's just say it ...
Lauren Wallett on Flying to America from South Africa for a Date
March 13, 2019 07:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBLauren Wallet is an award-nominated actress and director who starred on the South African reality show My Top Billing Dream, has been interviewed on national television since she was nine years old, and ran Star Quality Performing Art School and Fame Academy in South Africa. The story she told starts off innocently enough—a nice night out in South Africa with a few new friends but quickly devolved into flying across the world for a romantic adventure with a guy she met in a blac...
Matt Lieb on Bottoming Out with a Turkey Baster
March 06, 2019 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBMatt Lieb is a comedian, writer, and actor from Los Angeles. As a stand up comedian in San Francisco, he was named one of the “2016 Best Comedians in the Bay Area” by SFist and has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2017, SF Skecthfest 2013-2017, and the 10,000 Laughs Festival in Minneapolis. Matt’s comedy has been featured on the VICELAND, Hulu, SeeSo, and Gabriel Iglesias’ “Stand Up Revolution Radio” on SiriusXM. Currently, Matt is a correspondent on Emmy Nominated sh...
Matt Gallagher on Doing Acid with a Bull
February 27, 2019 08:00 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBMatt Gallagher is an actor and comedian who has performed all around New York and Los Angeles. His work can also be seen on CBS, ESPN, The History Channel, and MTV. He created and starred in the popular live storytelling series THE STORY CELLAR with Jessica Wood, and you can see his first one hour special, A Stumble in the Woods, on Amazon now. In this story, Matt delves into a night he decided to try acid. And then decided to do more acid. And then decided to get into a cage wi...