Books Applied Podcast

Learn how to convey more warmth, competence, and charisma as Jenn T. Grace and I discuss the book Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards. This book describes the exact things you can say and do to have your desired impact on the people around you. Jenn and I talk through the details of how it is done.

This engaging book by Georgia Cloepfil gives an insider look into professional women's sports at the not-quite-ultra-elite level. In conversation with Skippy Steve, we explore the challenges and rewards of Georga's experience in women's sports and how this story has been missing from the lore of semi-pro athletics in the public eye.

Remember the it-only-takes-10,000-hours-to-be-an-expert craze? This book is by the guy (Anders Ericsson)who did the research on how to become an expert that was misinterpreted and started all the hullabaloo. The book clarifies what you actually need to do to become an expert and how to do it. (It may take less than 10,000 hours!)

Dan Heath created a ton of additional resources and info for this book. You can find these treasures at danheath.com/reset, and for resources for each chapter in the book, go to danheath.com/reset-links. Happy learning!

This book could have devolved into a bucket-list-frenzy for how to maximize the 4000 weeks we each have to live. Instead it looks at how to live well in the time we do have. Erika Cooley and I talk about how this book has influenced (or not) our lives and decisions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Erica and I discuss the eminently readable Finding the Mother Tree. This book by Suzanne Simard describes her journey as a forest researcher and her surprising (to everyone more than herself) findings. Along the way, we talk about Suzanne's struggles with the status quo and what it takes to be a revolutionary in a deeply traditional field. Learn more about Erica and her work at catchlinecommunications.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

This book can radically reduce stress and conflict in your interpersonal relationships.   The Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Eddy is a book that will help you make sense of those difficult people and challenging relationships in your life. Therapist Tracey Biebel and I get into the details in this deep conversation.   We particularly hope you enjoy the part when we wax poetic about how strongly we both recommend everyone read this book.   Learn more about Tracey and her work at https://www.traceybiebel.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

There are more than winners and losers in every conflict - there is a third side. Enjoy this quick survey of a book with ideas I use very, very frequently when creating new and improved conflict response processes with leaders and their organizations. (This episode also references The Dawn of Everything and Sapiens.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Is there a note-taking strategy that will change your thinking and make it easy to write multiple books a year? How to Take Smart Notes makes this claim (and more!). This conversation with Kathleen Gabriel gets to the bottom of these claims by examining the philosophical and practical applications of the book and the method it describes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Holding Change is a book about how to thoughtfully facilitate and mediate so one can create profound change. In this episode, my sensational friend Jayne Nucete and I explore the nuances of this book and how it impacts how we facilitate (and mediate) groups in many different settings. This book is part guide, part manifesto, and part deep wisdom around how we show up with groups and co-create meaningful experiences. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Blink is not a new book but its insights have seeped into everyday life. The barrier between how we respond "without thinking" and our conscious "rational" thought is the topic of this fascinating book. Wendy Kleinfeldt and I discuss the benefits and disadvantages of these non-conscious reactions and how they affect our lives and organizations. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

To many of us steeped in grind culture, just the idea of rest is heretical. In this excellent manifesto, Tricia Hersey shares the deeply revolutionary practice of rest as something we all deserve because we are humans. It is not something we must steal or hide or something granted to us so we can be more productive. Join Lisa Alexander and me as we discuss what it means to engage in rest as an act of resistance. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

I read this book and immediately got so excited that I recorded a podcast episode. It is so good. Learning about the different kinds of feedback might just revolutionize how you give feedback. Learning to receive feedback better is a skill that we can all improve - this book tells you why that is so important and how to do it without losing your mind. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Check out these links and extra resources Lauren mentioned during the show: https://emilyladau.com/ Emily Ladau's podcast https://www.theaccessiblestall.com/ ASSUME THAT I CAN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ivgabfdPQ "Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions become reality. In sociology, this is called a 'self-fulfilling prophecy.' Why not reverse our perspectives? If we have positive assumptions about people with Down syndrome, they will have opportunities at school, at work, in relationships, and in other activities. And maybe these positive assumptions will become reality." “I'm Guilty”: People Check Their Own Biases Against Down Syndrome After Watching New Ad https://www.boredpanda.com/powerful-new-ad-challenges-stereotypes-about-down-syndrome/ From What If to What Next podcast Episode 63 - What if disability justice, deep inclusion and liberation were centred in healthcare, education and the arts? https://fromwhatiftowhatnext.libsyn.com/63-what-if-disability-justice-deep-inclusion-and-liberation-were-centred-in-healthcare-education-and-the-arts Episode 64 - What if the Black Fantastic reshaped the world? https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/64-what-if-the-black-fantastic-reshaped-the-world/id1538281063?i=1000586919985 Episode 97 - What if there was an alternative to capitalism, after all? https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/97-what-if-there-was-an-alternative-to-capitalism-after-all/id1538281063?i=1000648727593 Imperfect Resources, including a guide to 2SLGBTQ2AI++ inclusion, an inclusive language guide, ableist words and terms to avoid, and more https://www.theimperfect.network/resources --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

In the book Think Again, Adam Grant teaches about the power of being able to change your mind. He makes a strong case for why this mental flexibility is crucial for a happy and healthy life. You're not a sell-out when you learn and grow! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We are CONSTANTLY having (or avoiding) difficult conversations. This book will tell you how to do it well. Special guest Marsha Shandur and I talk through highlights of the book and have some laughs discussing having (and also avoiding) Difficult Conversations. Marsha made this secret webpage with more resources based on this podcast episode! She is such a pro. Check it out: https://www.yesyesmarsha.com/booksapplied/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Naming your emotions (being aware of how you feel) is integral to emotional intelligence. The feelings wheel is a tool I often share with folks to help jump-start their creativity and awareness when putting words to feelings. In Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown does us one better by explaining what those words for feelings actually mean and why naming them is useful. In this episode, I talk with Jo Linden about this beautiful book and how naming emotions frees us to be more actualized people. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

DEI Director Charley Downing and Iggy discuss the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. We explore the metaphors and reality of caste Wilkerson researched in the US and beyond. We also focus on applying what caste means in a practical sense as a foundation for our work, for Charley as someone tasked with addressing racial equity in the workplace, and for Iggy as a perspective on organizational policy that supports institutional toxicity. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We explore the surprising and weird world of breathing in this conversation about the book Breath by James Nestor. Lenka Koppova and I discuss improving our lives by paying more attention to how we breathe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells us how to live the life of a creative. Special guest Franklin Taggart and I get into what we like from her advice - which was mostly useful but not completely. We (I) also go off on a minor tangent about how I did not like Eat, Pray, Love - strongly did not like. Listen to find out why. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Winners are better at quitting. Their ability to know when to quit gives them the space and energy to win (instead of wasting their efforts on a losing endeavor). The book Quit by Annie Duke explains this counterintuitive phenomenon and tells us how to get ahead by being better at quitting. In this episode, I discuss the book with Natalie King. We talk about the practical applications of this work and how quitting can lead to more useful outcomes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

The book Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher can come off as a dark exposé of the problems we cause ourselves because we've ingested and internalized capitalism to the point that we can't even imagine another system for a functional world. It can also be read as an introspective chat with the worst of ourselves, with a few exciting movie references along the way. Instead, author and intellectual Tara McMullin and I take another approach to the potentially heavy content: we dig into how we understand where we are and how it helps us make better choices moving forward as workers, leaders and humans. And laughter - there is a ton of laughter in our conversation. It's not all gloom, people. You can find Tara's excellent, mind-expanding newsletter at: explorewhatworks.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow provides surprising insights into how we got here and what we've written off along the way to make civilization as we know it seem like it evolved in a smooth linear progression. If you enjoy the experience of saying, "I've been lied to my whole life!" as much as I do, you'll love this conversation I have with Rachel Allen. More about Rachel's work can be found at boltfromthebluecopywriting.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

There's more to our brain than we think. In this episode Roberta Ravella and I discuss the book Boddha's Brain and the overlap between Buddhist thinking and modern neruroscience. You can shape how your brain functions - this book will tell you how and this podcast is all about it! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Learn about ecstasis and why it is unique, unusual and also something you can create (in many ways!) in your life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Madeline and I discuss her book about being at home as our world changes. Madeline interviewed people in four communities that are navigating their changing world. The book is a compelling narrative of long-form journalism. The book also includes some noteworthy tangents - my favorite being a dive into the tragedy of the commons (Madeline's take-down of the concept and author was top-notch!). Learn more about Madeline's journalism work at her website: https://madelineostrander.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

This is a book about finding flow in all aspects of your life (sports and work and beyond). It's not about tennis -- well it's a little bit about tennis but mainly as an example for how to achieve flow. (Going after flow with intense serious focus and scripting your actions doesn't work, by the way.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

When you can communicate numbers well, you can shock and amaze people. This book (and conversation) tells you how. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Who know taking on a new leadership role could elicit so many laughs? Special guest Sabrina Walker Hernandez also brings up some great points about when you should revisit the ideas in this book - such as during a big transition. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

In Daring Greatly, Brene Brown writes about what it means to have courage in the modern world. My special guest Janine Bolon and I discuss this book and, in the most practical sense, how to be a courageous person. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Your brain doesn't have different parts that fight with itself. It sculpts the world you perceive. Its job is to regulate your body efficiently. Learn more fascinating truths (and bust some myths) about your brain in this nerdtastic conversation with Audrey Holst covering the book 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain by the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We depart wildly from the usual nerdy book fare for this nerdy discussion about how those early English women writers created such enduring heroines. I talk with Robin Henry about these women writers and the lessons that we can learn from their struggle to write, and the epic nature of their heroines. Reading List for listeners who want to know more! Scholarly Works: Carriger, Gail. The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture. GAIL CARRIGER LLC, 2020. Donovan, Josephine. “Women and the Rise of the Novel: A Feminist-Marxist Theory.” Signs, vol. 16, no. 3, 1991, pp. 441–62. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174584. Accessed 7 Jul. 2022. Frost, Cy, et al. “Autocracy and the Matrix of Power: Issues of Propriety and Economics in the Work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Harriet Martineau.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 1991, pp. 253–71. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/464017. Accessed 7 Jul. 2022. Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Yale University Press, 1984. Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge Mary, and Mary Poovey. The proper lady and the woman writer : ideology as style in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. University of Chicago Press, 1984. Siskin, Clifford, and Henry W and Albert Berg.The work of writing : literature and social change in Britain, 1700-1830. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Authors to look at if you want to know more about early women's writing and read some: Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley Anne Radcliffe Maria Edgeworth Eliza Haywood Charlotte Lennox Mary Robinson Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Be sure and check you the Chawton House Library, since it has a special mission to collect and promote scholarship on early women writers. https://chawtonhouse.org/the-library/using-the-library/ You can see more writing about books, reading, and writing craft at http://readerly.net. If you would like to join the Read Like a Writer Book Club, email robin at readerlybooks@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

My friend Fabienne Raphael and I discuss the memoir Will by Will Smith. We read the book before the 2022 Academy Awards, and although we don't talk about the Oscars specifically, we do talk specifics about WIll Smith's life and the lessons it has for us. You can learn more about Fabienne's work at http://fabienneraphael.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

How do you know if you have an introvert on your hands? What are the strengths of introverts and why do we stampede over them at times? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Thinking Fast and Slow has had a huge impact on how I work with people and make decisions. In this episode, I speak with trainer and facilitator Mark Suroviec about highlights from the book and how it influences his work. We both had so much excitement when reading we blabbered all about it to anyone who would listen. Luckily, we found each other to talk about it. Learn more about Mark and his work (he also has a fun and insightful podcast!) at: workplaysolutions.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We discuss when it is better to wait and delay making a decision or taking action (spoiler alert: pretty much all the time - but the reason why is intriguing). Some related tangents include fighter pilots, OODA loops, experiential education, wilderness medicine and more. Join us for a lively conversation littered with pearls of wisdom from the book. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rogers is by turns inspiring and grounded. Special guest Tierra Bonds works in the field of personal and business credit and we have a thoughtful and uplifting conversation about how we think, feel and act regarding money. We should all be millionaires and this book (and hopefully this conversation about the book) will help you take tangible steps to make that a reality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

I talk with Julia Williamson of Unburdened Life about the book Secondhand by Adam Minter. Julia is here to help you discard the crap you hate and this book talks about how that works. We have a great time talking about the very personal mysteries of letting things go and the global realities of where those things go when that happens. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Robbie and I discuss his book and what makes it interesting and useful for people who are building their businesses. Robbie also very generously set up a personalized link for listeners to download The Big Results Toolkit, which has several resources to help you implement the strategies in "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List." Get your download today: www.RobbieSamuels.com/iggy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We discuss How to Steal Like an Artist and what that means for us as creators in the worlds of improv, coding and leadership. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Which is worse: a scattered distribution of answers to a question or many (or even most) answers being slightly wrong? Surprise! The scattered distribution is way, way worse. Also, when is the last time you thought about how statistical analysis could change your life and decision-making? Well, here's your chance to listen to me talk very, very excitedly about this topic using the book Noise as a guide. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We discuss what it takes to do creative work consistently. Dan Cayer brings insights from the world of professional writing. Learn more about Dan Cayer and his work here. ---- To expand your creative problem solving with fun and laughter join me at the monthly Leadership Ecosystem Lunch. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We talk about how to create amazing moments in your life (and in the lives of those around you). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

An improvement on Extreme Ownership (by the same authors) that addresses more of the nuances of leadership. I found it to be a fascinating explanation of how to identify competing extremes in finding your balance as a leader. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Creativity Coach Hannah Fitzgibbon and I discuss how the brain works and how you can make it work better according to Daniel Pink n his book A Whole New Mind. Learn more about Hannah and her work at https://hannahfitzgibbon.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We discuss curiosity, what it is and how to cultivate it to live a better life. A lively conversation with Chris Martin. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

How we got to be who we are and the convenient lies that made it happen. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Poker isn't about lying and your capacity to adapt and learn is even bigger than you probably expect. Join Maria Konnikova on an amazing journey from not even knowing how to play poker to sponsored professional player in about a year. It's a wild ride and tells you a huge amount about human nature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

We love good habits and detest bad habits - this book gets down to details and practical about cultivating more of the good ones and rewiring the bad ones. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

Safiya Robinson and I discuss the ideas presented in Range - why it's better to have broad interests and follow many divergent paths (even if you later choose to specialize in a single area). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support

An examination of people who survive harrowing extreme situations and what they share incommon and how to bring more of those deep survival skills into our everyday life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksapplied/support