Podcasts about Better World Books

As we continue our promise to put out regular shows (whistles self-consciously), it was with much delayed anticipation that we reached out to Master Printer and user of all film formats from half frame to 20x16 Mr Andrew Sanderson who agreed to come and chat with us. Although Andrew confesses his website isn't up to date here is the intro bio from that site. “Photographer, master printer, author and tutor. One of the UK's leading Photographers and a master printer, Andrew has written the definitive book on Night Photography: A Practical Manual; the highly acclaimed Home Photography: Inspiration on Your Doorstep and; is a regular contributor to photographic magazines in the U.K. He is an Ilford Master Printer, and regularly gives workshops to university tutors, students and private individuals. Andrew is recognised as the leading practitioner of the paper negative process and one of the world's best hand colourists. Examples of both of these techniques can be found in his third book; Hand Colouring and Alternative Darkroom Processes” See below for links to all four of Andrew's books including the recently updated book from Blurb on paper negatives.     Things we chatted about on the show:   Andrew kicked off the show by mentioning an obscure fact about Andrew Sanderson and Gene Nokon – Gene was the man behind popularising if not first inventing f-stop printing and Erik found this YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAiBNSpg6Y   You can also purchase copies of Gene's book but like many out of print titles it can be expensive so keep a watch. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/photographic-printing/author/nocon-gene/   Erik uses Arista 3.0 Ortho Litho film and their EDU sheet film in various sizes – go to the Freestyle website for more info. https://www.freestylephoto.com/531451-Arista-Ortho-Litho-Film-3.0-4x5-100-Sheets   Andrew's books. https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9673228-paper-negative-photography?fbclid=IwY2xjawGsBzFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTl7pBmkQKJe5_2nrsw1WIjerws8J8xw5Bi4AkSGaqZQg4lY78xK_g8C4w_aem_0Rh3eAGch4cpEfCxZjljmg   Andrew's other three books are out of print but still available via, WOB, Better World Books, AbeBooks or Ebay   “Night Photography” Argentum Press ISBN 1-902538-12-9   “Home Photography – Inspiration on your doorstep” ISBN 0-8174-3989-7   and   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Handcolouring-Alternative-Darkroom-Processes-Photo-lab/dp/2880465516   Fellow Master Printer Robin Bell was mentioned – Andrew Bartram has a DVD called “The Silver Footprint – the art of Robin Bell Master Printer” A documentary by Richard Dunkley – you may need to shop around a bit.   There is a book also but also expensive – Silver Footprint.   We discussed the unique properties of the Ilford Art 300 darkroom paper. https://www.ilfordphoto.com/multigrade-art-300-sheets   Andrew recently reviewed his growing print collection, it's useful toget help so he asked his friend and fellow photographer Matt Lathbridge to assist. Here is an article from On-Landscape. https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/author/matt_lethbridge   Last but not least the upcoming Mersey Meet up organised by Steve (Stig) Starr. https://www.photowalk.me/photowalk/merseymeetup-analogue-photo-walk   Andrew's links   Reach out and follow via Instagram or the LFPP Facebook Group. https://www.instagram.com/andrewsandersonphotography/     LFPP links - https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/ ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast   You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/   And now our Flikr group curated by Colin Devroe. https://www.flickr.com/groups/lfpp/   Twitter updates from Simon. https://twitter.com/simonfor   Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com   Podcast Hosts Social Media presence   Simon Forster www.forsteruk.com https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/ https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/ https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/ https://twitter.com/SimonFor   Andrew Bartram https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/   Erik Mathy A not updated website. https://www.erikmathy.com/about   IG probably best for all things including rabbits. https://www.instagram.com/erikhmathy/?hl=en   The East Bay Photo Collective https://www.ebpco.org/    

How can school leaders make informed decisions about reading curriculum when they know the home environments among their student body vary widely?I don't envy people tasked with these kinds of decisions. My opinion is that schools should ensure students get their instructional needs met during the school day, because it's difficult to control what happens to students once they leave the school campus.Direct instruction of reading has to fall on the plate of educators. If we assume certain practices will be done at home consistently, we create huge equity issues.With all that being said, school staff can work to create a shared partnership with families and communities. Even though they might aim to include the essentials during the school day, they can provide opportunities and tools for students and families to support literacy outside formal classroom instruction.I invited Susan Brady, a reading specialist from Illinois, to De Facto Leaders episode 179 to discuss how she's helped her community get access to books and extracurricular activities that support literacy. Susan Brady has been in the teaching profession for over 40 years. She worked in a private school where she taught first grade and kindergarten. Sixteen years ago she began work in the public schools as a kindergarten teacher. In 2008, she received her Master's Degree in Reading from Governors State University and became a Reading Specialist. She moved to middle school 5 years ago and works with small groups, large groups, and push-ins. She also has started and run engaging book clubs for her students to help get them excited about reading.This episode is part of the National Literacy Month series of podcasts, presented in partnership between the Be Podcast Network and Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).In this conversation, Susan shares:✅Are reading teachers getting the pre-service training they need to critically evaluate research and implement instructional practices?✅Relying a curriculum versus leveraging a curriculum to guide your practice✅How to start a book club and get students excited about reading✅Where to find inexpensive or free books for schools and families✅Navigating logistical and equity issues when hosting community events and running extracurriculars.The following resources were mentioned in this episode:Our partner for the National Literacy Month Campaign, Reading Is Fundamental (https://www.rif.org)Better World Books (https://www.betterworldbooks.com/)First Book (https://firstbook.org)BookShare (https://www.bookshare.org) United for Literacy (https://www.bookshare.org)Little Free Library (https://littlefreelibrary.org)In this episode, I mention the School of Clinical Leadership, my program that helps related service providers develop a strategic plan for putting executive functioning support in place in collaboration with their school teams. You can learn more about that program here: https://drkarendudekbrannan.com/clinicalleadershipIn this episode, I mention Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my program that helps SLPs create a system for language therapy. You can learn more about Language Therapy Advance Foundations here: https://drkarenspeech.com/languagetherapy/You can get 25% off either program when you join between September 15-October 15. Just enter coupon code RIF25 on the checkout page to get this special rate. *If you're already a member of either program and you refer a friend, tell them to email me at talktome@drkarenspeech.com if they join and let me know you referred them and I'll send you a $100 referral bonus. Here's what you can do right now to support this campaign and ensure you don't miss any of these amazing interviews/commentary. Go to Apple, Spotify, or any other directory you use for podcasts and subscribe to the De Facto Leaders podcast.Once you listen to an episode or two, leave me a rating and review. This helps get my show into the hands of people who need the information.Do you have a colleague or friend who needs to learn more about the research surrounding language and literacy? Do you want to spread the word about practices and ideas you'd like to see in your school, community, or state? If so, tell them about the De Facto Leaders podcast so they can listen to all the episodes in this special campaign. Reading Is Fundamental is a nonprofit that focuses on connecting educators and families with materials and training aligned with evidence-based literacy instruction. Not only is their model aligned with the science of reading; they also offer unique book ownership solutions for professionals and families to address book equity issues. You can learn more about Reading Is Fundamental here. You can also learn more about the other BE Podcast Network shows at https://bepodcast.network We're thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL's comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers' timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments

This week, the Billion Dollar Creator podcast is thrilled to host an exceptional lineup featuring Nick Huber, Matt Schnuck, Sieva Kozinsky, Xavier Helgesen, and Kurtis Lin.They join Nathan for a captivating discussion on how to pick the right market, what we can learn from our failures, and whether the classic advice to "follow your passion" always rings true in the business world.Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Cabo, these esteemed entrepreneurs share their journeys, insights, and invaluable advice for those looking to build successful ventures.If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe, share it with your friends, and leave us a review. We read every single one.Know more about Billion Dollar Creator: https://www.billiondollarcreator.com/Follow Nathan:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathanbarry/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanbarry/Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanbarryWebsite: https://nathanbarry.com/Follow Nick:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sweatystartup/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sweatystartupInstagram: https://instagram.com/sweatystartupFollow Matt:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattschnuck/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattschnuckInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattschnuckFollow Sieva:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skozinsky/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SievaKozinskyFollow Xavier:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavierhelgesen/Twitter: https://twitter.com/XavierHelgesenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/xavierhelgesen/Follow Kurtis:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtislin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtisjlinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kurtisjlin/Featured in this episode:ConvertKit - https://convertkit.com/Better World Books - https://www.betterworldbooks.com/Enduring Ventures https://enduring.venturesStorage Squad - https://storagesquad.com/Pinwheel - https://www.pinwheelapi.com/Dan Martell - https://www.danmartell.com/Liquid Death - https://liquiddeath.com/Highlights:5:26 The benefits of climbing entrepreneurial ladders9:34 The From Boise newsletter's Instagram reel marketing tactic16:59 It's important to like the people in your industry - are these the kind of people you want to hang out with for the next decade?23:47 On the topic of margin for error, recurring purchases are crucial26:40 Teach skills that make money to people who have money29:16 Nathan's new obsession with “network effects”34:43 ConvertKit's loom hiring strategy41:45 Nathan wants to do more hosting similar to Dan Martell's founders' hike48:03 Challenging the Silicon Valley joke of “the moment your founder starts posting regularly on Twitter, you should just write off the investment.”

Writers, if you're paying attention at all, you've heard from Zibby Owens in the past 2 years. She's the host of the Moms Don't Have Time to Read Podcast and the creator of Zibby Media, which at this point includes a magazine, a publishing house that's having a great month with, among other books, The Last Love Note, which KJ highly recommends and an LA-based bookstore. In 2022, Jess talked with Zibby about how she launched her literary life--and as that life gets bigger and bigger, we thought it was time to share her story again. Ever want to know “how she did it”? This episode is our little version of How I Built This, in which we ask Zibby Owens—whose name you surely know by now—about how she turned a desire to be part of the world of books into a one-woman mini book empire.Zibby Owens is the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Read, a daily podcast featuring interviews with authors that has over 900 episodes. She's also a Bookstagrammer with 16K followers, the host of a second podcast—Moms Don't Have Time to Have Sex—the editor of two anthologies, Moms Don't Have Time To and Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids—KJ contributed to that last one—and now the CEO of Zibby Books, a new publishing home for fiction and memoir. She's a regular contributor to Good Morning America, she's been called “America's Top Bookfluencer” and she has two books coming soon: Princess Charming, a picture book, and Booked, a memoir. She's also got four kids, and they're kids—elementary and middle school age, not a bunch of independent high schoolers wandering aroundBut.Five years ago Zibby was none of those things (except a mother of four). And that's what I want to talk about. She's built a massive literary life, a community, a reputation in just a few years, and—after totally owning the fact that she has help with her kids (heck, not just help, they're completely gone every other weekend because, divorce sometimes works like that) and also that this isn't how Zibby earns a living— we go back to the beginning and talk about what it took to get there.Because no matter who you are, you can't wake up and say, I think I'd like to be America's Biggest Bookfluencer, and whip out your Amex card and make it happen. You can't even take your Kardashian self and decide this is what you want and ask your assistant to set it up. This takes work and desire and passion, and we dig into how Zibby started, and how she made things take off.Links from the pod:Lee Carpenter: Red, White, Blue and ElevenAndre Agassi: OpenZibby BooksZibby Books Ambassadors (at bottom of Zibby Books page)#AmReadingZibby: Going There by Katie CouricHungry Hill by Eileen Patricia CurranThe Husbands by Chandler BakerThe Last Season by Jenny Judson & Danielle MahfoodKJ: A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. HarrowJess: Speaking of Race by Celeste HeadleeIt's that time again! Every year Jennie Nash and the Author Accelerator team put together a holiday bundle worth hundreds of dollars for folks who enroll in the Book Coach Certification Program ahead of the new year. Enroll this month to receive a $150 gift card to Better World Books, access to their $99 course the One-Page Book Coaching Business Plan Challenge, a copy of Jennie's Blueprint book in your genre, and MORE.And did we mention you can now pre-enroll in Author Accelerator's Memoir Certification Program? The course opens in March 2024, but if you enroll this month, you'll get $600 off the cost of enrollment – which is certainly something to be jolly for!When you enroll in the Book Coach Certification program, you'll gain access to a thriving community of friends and colleagues, more than 100 hours of training, videos, case studies, and worksheets to teach you the key editorial skills, client-management strategies, and the tools needed to help writers reach their goals and to help you start a thriving book coaching business. So, whether you're looking to expand your writing skills or start your new year with a new career, there is no better time to start your journey. Visit bookcoaches.com/podcast to get your special offer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com

Hey writers—I'm in a funny phase of novel drafting right now where I'm really only doing the prewriting—which is an odd style of drafting wherein, for me, I basically write only dialogue and statements of movement and the very most important bits of inner dialogue. (As in, no one is opening car doors or setting down their coffee cups, and there are also no quotation marks, and they could be anywhere as far as setting is concerned.)Writing this way keeps my eyes on the prize—basically it's what do I need to know to really write this scene, which kind of tricks me into what does the reader really need to know. I'll add some of the set dressing later, but I find that when I write this way, the end result is tighter and cleaner.Here's an example I found that ultimately became Chapter 3 of Playing the Witch Card. It's actually pretty accurate:Flair is desperately shutting door on what she's done, locking up wildly as if she could lock it inside, back door, Josie never comes to front, running from a ghost, you know better than to make a joke like that in Rattleboro Well did you No Just of herself How was day Sucked Customers 2 if you count Loretta What did she want? She comes in all the time actuall and when she does it's usually a little better, I think it's all that Halloween horror That's what people are here for but then my customers all prefer the alley it's part of the mystique Yep those rebel tattoos that x percent of the population has But not you When I think of something I want tattooed on me you'll be the first to know Sometimes that's my job, do you want to know what tattoo you should have I do not. Stop it. Change subject Loretta wanted me to make Halloween cookies And I suppose you said no. you should. If anything would change your luck I kow you hate it. But I don't see how you're going to be here and not be part of it. Met by lucie on the doorstep. I'm going back to Chicago. What happened today Stupid Halloween, stupid party Parties are nothing but halloween's a big deal around here. Your mom just got asked to do something for the Rattlebones. Even lucie looked up at that Really? Everyone wants to do that, Annabel's always telling people that her mom practically runs it but I don't think she gets to be out there---could I help? She says she's not doing it I don't want to You have to I'll think about it If I can't do that for Halloween I want to go back to Chicago Not happening, we agreed, you're here until we both go visit at thanksgiving (and she was hopeing not to do that) I'll think about it I guess you're doing Halloween I hate you. I'm not. But she knew she would. There's actually zero interiority in here, which forced me to add it later but only where the dialogue didn't already convey it. Which leads me to today's replay, which is one I needed: what's the difference between showing—in internal dialogue—and telling? Bc we don't want to info dump, and yet also our characters need to reflect on their past or think things they don't say. This episode is me, Sarina and Jess talking about the difference. I hope it's as helpful to you as it was to me!Original show notesThe whole “am I showing, or am I telling” inner debate can be tough in every part of a novel, memoir or nonfiction-with-elements-of-memoir draft. You don't want to “tell” about the action. You don't want to “tell” about the setting. And goodness knows you don't want to “tell” what the character is feeling.Except when you do. Sometimes a little telling, in the form of inner dialogue, is exactly what the reader needs to feel a part of the story, not just the happenings. Sarina, Jess and KJ are all in for a conversation about how to immerse a reader in emotions, reactions, fears, self-doubt and even self-deception.Got an inner dialogue question you're wrestling with? Try sharing it in our Facebook group—and for other burning questions, small and large, email us at amwriting@substack.com. We can't respond to every email, but we might answer your question on an upcoming show—or even invite you on for a little coaching.Links and quotes from the pod:From In Her Boots:“Jasmine was still a little leery of the animals, so I set out to charm her with them. **Here's what my editor said here:  Maybe Rhett could think here about how the animals always made her feel good and she wants to impart some of that to Jasmine, who is stretching so far outside her comfort zone to help Rhett? This could be a nice friendship moment to show Rhett caring about Jasmine.** After we fed the entire crew—which would make any human popular—I gave Jas Brownie's curry comb and showed her the places where he loved to be scratched, and together we groomed the little pony to a sheen, Jas brushing while I pulled his mane and tail. Jas ran inside and emerged with a bandana that we tied in his forelock, giving him a rakish look suited to his personality, and at the same time we both pulled out our phones.”Here's the revision:“Some barn time would absolutely help me feel better. If Jas was a little more comfortable with them, I knew she would feel the same way, and I wanted that for her. I didn't care about the Maggie part of it. I'd overheard her on the phone with Zale last night, and I wanted her to know that the farm was a refuge for her no matter what. After we fed the entire crew—which would make any human popular—I gave Jas Brownie's curry comb and showed her the places where he loved to be scratched, and together we groomed the little pony to a sheen, Jas brushing while I pulled his mane and tail. Jas ran inside and emerged with a bandana that we tied in his forelock, giving him a rakish look suited to his personality, and at the same time we both pulled out our phones.”From We Are Not Like Them:p. 113 “I'm relieved to see that the crowd really is peaceful, so many faces filled with righteous conviction and purpose. Nonetheless, my cynicism kicks in. Ain't nothing changed but the music. All the clever signs and chants, the people who showed up just so they could post it to their social media, what does it add up to?”From Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake:p. 161 “She laughed and then hoped he'd meant her to.”p. 179 “Rosaline didn't want to jinx it, and possibly she was reading too much into one ambiguously encouraging look from Marianne Wolvercote, but she thought she could do okay this week. Possibly even well? After all, she had a strong concept. And the part of her that used to do homework under test conditions was now secretly rather glad to get to practice in an unfamiliar kitchen.”Also mentioned:Beach Read by Emily HenryTalia Hibbert#AmReadingJess: The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor HansonKJ: We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo PiazzaSarina: The Enneagram in Love: A Roadmap for Building and Strengthening Romantic Relationships by Stephanie Barron HallIt's that time again! Every year Jennie Nash and the Author Accelerator team put together a holiday bundle worth hundreds of dollars for folks who enroll in the Book Coach Certification Program ahead of the new year. Enroll this month to receive a $150 gift card to Better World Books, access to their $99 course the One-Page Book Coaching Business Plan Challenge, a copy of Jennie's Blueprint book in your genre, and MORE.And did we mention you can now pre-enroll in Author Accelerator's Memoir Certification Program? The course opens in March 2024, but if you enroll this month, you'll get $600 off the cost of enrollment – which is certainly something to be jolly for!When you enroll in the Book Coach Certification program, you'll gain access to a thriving community of friends and colleagues, more than 100 hours of training, videos, case studies, and worksheets to teach you the key editorial skills, client-management strategies, and the tools needed to help writers reach their goals and to help you start a thriving book coaching business. So, whether you're looking to expand your writing skills or start your new year with a new career, there is no better time to start your journey. Visit bookcoaches.com/podcast to get your special offer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com

Ok, we probably don't feel as cheery as that little subtitle sounded after we've been away from a project for a while. Most of the things that yank us away from our work unexpectedly aren't good things. (There must be exceptions?)In my case, I got sick, and then I overdid and got sicker, and the result is a project I haven't touched in a week. Which is SO not that bad or that long—sometimes things happen and it's a month or more before we can get back into the work—but it made me think about what I do when I'm forced to stop and re-start. * Forgive yourself. Might you have been able to do better? Maybe. Would a real writer have managed to work through whatever it was? Maybe. And maybe, if you'd really had to, you would have. Or maybe not—sometimes even people with deadlines and editors and fans clamoring need to put their work aside for a while, because sometimes you just cannot. Or sometimes you do anyway, and maybe, as I once did, you turn in an article during one of the worst weeks of your life thus far and it includes a recipe for Miso Roasted Cod in which you forget to include the miso, which is published because apparently there were no backstops at this particular entity, thus ending your recipe writing career forevermore. (Obviously that worked out ok, but 21 years ago I would have told you my life was over.) Let it go. You needed time. You took it. It's for the best.* Check in. Is it really time to get back to this? Can you look ahead and see yourself getting back into whatever routine is in the cards for you now, or are you setting yourself up to disappoint yourself? Look, only you know. Some people write at the worst times. Some people wait for better times. Sometimes those are the same people at different points in their lives. It is okay to hunch over a laptop under circumstances when people think you should be doing something else, and it is okay to decide to re-read all of Anne of Green Gables even when the waters are calm again.* Do your commit-thing. If it's time and you're ready, do whatever you do when you start something. Tell a friend, tell the world, stick a post-it on your desktop, re-up your timer app on your phone, make a list or a plan or a mood board, make a promise, light a candle, stand outside and scream up at the clouds to tell them you're back in the game, babies!* Allow for some prep-time. Maybe you need to read over your project or your outline. (Or maybe you shouldn't, because going in an unexpected direction could be a great thing.) A thinking-walk or drive could be good, or a re-read of your favorite motivational or craft book, or even just a page of it. If you're a pre-writer, start there and let yourself hit a downhill before you start actually sticking in all the punctuation. * Start somewhere easy. Maybe that's right where you left off. Maybe it's a scene you've been writing in your head. Maybe it's the end or a new beginning. * Go all in. Once you open the file, stay in the file. You're out of practice. This will be harder than it was last time. Your text messages, your laundry, that annoyingly long pinkie nail, all will beckon. (Actually it's ok to go trim the nail. But you do NOT NEED YOUR PHONE to do that.) Set a timer, throw your phone across the room, handcuff yourself to your desk, do whatever you do. Maybe for a teeeeeny bit less time than usual. But do it. And then stop even if you're rolling. Every day this will get easier if you just do the thing. * You might need to go back and forgive yourself again. Maybe this is harder than you thought. Maybe it feels like you've lost the thread. Maybe you don't feel like you'll ever, every get it going. What would you say to a friend right now? Bet it's nicer than whatever you're saying to yourself. You will keep going. Be kind.* SAVE THIS POST. The time will come when you need it again. And so do I. It's that time again! Every year Jennie Nash and the Author Accelerator team put together a holiday bundle worth hundreds of dollars for folks who enroll in the Book Coach Certification Program ahead of the new year. Enroll this month to receive a $150 gift card to Better World Books, access to their $99 course the One-Page Book Coaching Business Plan Challenge, a copy of Jennie's Blueprint book in your genre, and MORE.And did we mention you can now pre-enroll in Author Accelerator's Memoir Certification Program? The course opens in March 2024, but if you enroll this month, you'll get $600 off the cost of enrollment – which is certainly something to be jolly for!When you enroll in the Book Coach Certification program, you'll gain access to a thriving community of friends and colleagues, more than 100 hours of training, videos, case studies, and worksheets to teach you the key editorial skills, client-management strategies, and the tools needed to help writers reach their goals and to help you start a thriving book coaching business. So, whether you're looking to expand your writing skills or start your new year with a new career, there is no better time to start your journey. Visit bookcoaches.com/podcast to get your special offer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com

Xavier Helgesen is the co-founder of Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. He also co-founded Better World Books and was the founding CEO of Zola Electric. We talk about holding companies, the publishing industry, capital allocation, focus, reinventing ourselves, building things that last, parenting, and more. — (02:43) Why run 20+ businesses instead of 1? (04:38) Everyone is a capital allocator whether or not they know it (07:13) Impact of VC on startup growth trajectories & sustainability (16:18) What's misunderstood about building holding companies (19:29) Long term thinking (23:40) Focus is the founder master skill (27:56) Work in the medium, not the abstraction (31:14) The fear of reinventing ourselves (36:02) Build organizations that last (38:03) Legacy publishing & acquiring Scribe Media (46:22) Building an audience (52:29) Should books evolve? (56:06) Why Africa is the future (01:00:41) Children reintroduce parents to play (01:03:00) How can you be more human? — Xavier's Twitter: https://twitter.com/XavierHelgesen Enduring Ventures: https://www.enduring.ventures/ Spencer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R Spencer's Blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com

Join us for an exciting episode of The Founder Podcast as Chris Lee sits down with the one and only Xavier Helgesen, an extraordinary entrepreneur with a knack for building and transforming businesses. Xavier, the mastermind behind Enduring Ventures, takes us on a journey through his remarkable career. From humble beginnings in a small iron mining town to founding multiple successful companies, Xavier's story is nothing short of inspiring. He shares his early entrepreneurial endeavors, including running a mini golf course and a college social network. But the real game-changer came when Xavier recognized a unique opportunity in the used textbook market, leading to the birth of Better World Books. Discover how this venture became a multi-million dollar success by helping libraries and nonprofits while becoming one of the first third-party merchants on Amazon. Now, as the founder of Enduring Ventures, Xavier shares his current passion: acquiring cash-flowing businesses and nurturing their growth. Learn how he evaluates and shapes these businesses, emphasizing brand and sustainable cash flows. Tune in to gain valuable insights, entrepreneurial wisdom, and a glimpse into the mind of one of the most remarkable founders of our time. Xavier Helgesen's journey is a testament to the power of innovation, persistence, and the relentless pursuit of building enduring businesses. Enjoy this enlightening conversation on The Founder Podcast! HIGHLIGHTS "I remember the first day I made like 100 bucks, and like grimy dollar bills. And I was like, this is the best thing I've ever done in my life." "But then I stayed in school, which was the dumbest thing to do during the internet boom, like I should have dropped out after freshman year." "I'm much more interested in cashflow, like how much cash actually goes in the bank account after taxes after depreciation after capital expenses after all of it." TIMESTAMPS 00:00: Introduction 06:44: Lessons From Parents 10:11: The Age Of The Internet 16:53: Book Drive 20:09: Leader In Book Sales 26:30: Building His Own Brand 29:05: Early Lessons 37:47: The Right Person To Take Over 43:19: Turning A Company Around 45:29: Entrepreneurship  51:41: What Gets You Excited In Life?

Are you ready to buy the business that will finance your future? Today we share the secret to generating wealth through acquisitions, explain why you need to invest for the long term, and teach the art of the deal. Hosts Sahil Bloom and Greg Isenberg are joined by the founders of Enduring Ventures, Xavier Helgesen and Sieva Kozinsky, who are building the modern Berkshire Hathaway. Xavier and Sieva share the origin stories that shaped them into blue-collar entrepreneurs and explain why QSBS creates limitless economic opportunities in America. Finally, Sahil and Greg share what they believe to be the best businesses in the world and ask for your help to break down their unit economics. ►► Want more community? Learn more here: http://trwih.com THIS EPISODE Sieva Kozinsky: https://twitter.com/SievaKozinsky Xavier Helgesen: https://twitter.com/xavierhelgesen Enduring Ventures: https://www.enduring.ventures/ Better World Books: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ ZOLA Electric: https://zolaelectric.com/ Sahil Bloom: https://twitter.com/SahilBloom Greg Isenberg: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Production & Marketing Team: https://penname.co/ FIND US ON SOCIAL Twitter: https://twitter.com/_trwih Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_trwih TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_trwih Web: https://trwih.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6aB0v6amo3a8hgTCjlTlvh Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-it-happens/id1593424985 SHOW NOTES 00:21 Xavier's Origin Story 06:01 Xavier's 2nd Company 07:58 Better World Books & Zola Electric 12:12 Sieva's Immigrant Origin Story 15:20 What is Enduring Ventures? 23:44 A Search Fund on Steroids 30:20 Patience is Key 33:58 Where Buffet is Right & Wrong 39:24 Great Companies = Great Narratives 43:21 Buying Businesses that Power America 45:40 Financing the Deal 51:40 QSBS Matters 54:25 Xavier's Advise 59:30 Sieva's Scaffolding Story 1:03:06 The Best Business's in the World 1:06:04 Where to Find Xavier & Sieva

Xavier Helgesen has spent 20 years as a serial entrepreneur focused on improving the standard of living around the world. He is a cofounder of ZOLA Electric, Better World Books, and EcoSafi. In this conversation Xavier and JP explore Xaviers Entrepreneurial journey, what he looks for in acquiring companies, and how to tackle the worlds biggest problems through Entrepreneurship.  Follow Xavier on Twitter at @XavierHelgesen Subscribe to the Podcast at Investing On Purpose Podcast

Amanda Brooks, run coach, creator of Run to the Finish and author of the book Run to the Finish: The Everyday Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury, Ignoring the Clock and Loving the Run shares why 10 years ago she made the life changing decision to shift from a journalism background and ecommerce to creating her Run to the Finish brand. She had already found a way to combine her love of research and running to find what worked best for her and to help others by developing her blog Run to the Finish (when blogging was the the thing to really get your brand out there). But while working full time and dedicating almost full time hours a week to Run to the Finish, Amanda found herself at a point where she needed to decide if this was where her career would take her. Amanda shares what that shift looked like for her. I was particularly excited to chat with Amanda because it was her out of the box "Couch to Marathon" plan that helped me return from a stress fracture in May and complete my first marathon this past November, and I do credit her 30 Day Core Challenge with keeping my ITB syndrome at bay for training. I just really really love how much Amanda loves running for the sake of running. She's turned it into a well-researched art that brings her joy and she shares that with her clients; there's not much better than that from your run coach. For more check out runtothefinish.com You can also purchase Amanda's book at your favorite bookseller or at my favorite, Better World Books, at: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Run-to-the-Finish--The-Everyday-Runner-s-Guide-to-Avoiding-Injury--Ignoring-the-Clock--and-Loving-the-Run-9780738285993 You can also follow Amanda on Instagram and get daily, dare I say, optimism for your running journey at @runtothefinish

This week's episode of The Mental Matchup is with Joanne P. McCallie, also known as Coach P. Coach P is known for her successful basketball coaching career, which has spanned Auburn, Maine, Michigan State, and Duke University. She is the only coach to have won conference championships in four different conferences. Her overall record is 646-255, she has won gold medals coaching US youth basketball teams, and has been named coach of the year multiple times. Coach P is also an advocate for mental health, as she was diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder (also known as bi-polar disorder) when she was 30. She was not open about her diagnosis until more recently, and has since published a book, Secret Warrior: A Coach and a Fighter, On and Off the Court.In the episode, we talk about how she dealt with her mental health episodes while coaching, the decisions surrounding when and how to be open about her diagnosis, how she managed her players who struggled with mental health challenges, and how she plans to be a mental health advocate moving forward. Coach P has started a mental health foundation which you can follow at @coachp4life on all social media platforms.If you want to purchase Coach P's book, Secret Warrior, you can find it from a variety of distributors, but we recommend our favorite used book platform, Better World Books: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Secret-Warrior--A-Coach-and-Fighter--On-and-Off-the-Court-9781646632909

This week's episode of The Mental Matchup is with Joanne P. McCallie, also known as Coach P. Coach P is known for her successful basketball coaching career, which has spanned Auburn, Maine, Michigan State, and Duke University. She is the only coach to have won conference championships in four different conferences. Her overall record is 646-255, she has won gold medals coaching US youth basketball teams, and has been named coach of the year multiple times. Coach P is also an advocate for mental health, as she was diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder (also known as bi-polar disorder) when she was 30. She was not open about her diagnosis until more recently, and has since published a book, Secret Warrior: A Coach and a Fighter, On and Off the Court.In the episode, we talk about how she dealt with her mental health episodes while coaching, the decisions surrounding when and how to be open about her diagnosis, how she managed her players who struggled with mental health challenges, and how she plans to be a mental health advocate moving forward. Coach P has started a mental health foundation which you can follow at @coachp4life on all social media platforms.If you want to purchase Coach P's book, Secret Warrior, you can find it from a variety of distributors, but we recommend our favorite used book platform, Better World Books: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Secret-Warrior--A-Coach-and-Fighter--On-and-Off-the-Court-9781646632909

Season 9 Ep.8 Wicked Witches & Fairies & the BIGGEST Bird In The World - The Wicked Witches by Theresa Mac. This is the last story from this book. It's been really fun reading the short stories by author Theresa Mac. You can find your copies of the book at the following resources:. Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan. A big thank you too Joyce McLennan /Theresa Mac for reaching out to me and inviting me to share this book with you all. It's been a real pleasure reading it and I hope that you all enjoyed it too. This podcast can be found at the following locations: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1041fb90-7c81-4020-9973-3f5f20e9a779/TEAFAIRY-STORYTIME-PODCAST you can also find TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime and Adventures on YouTube and Facebook. TeaFairy StoryTime can also be found on Instagram. TeaFairyGardener Art can be found on Redbubble.Com. and lastly my new TV series can be found on Greenbelt Access Television www.Greenbeltaccesstv.org and their YouTube channel and Facebook page as well. Soon we hope to be carrying the program on Access Humboldt in Northern California hopefully come September. You can also find me on the new show zoomAroom on their YouTube channel and Facebook page and soon to be on Greenbelt Access Television and Access Humboldt as well! Find me this weekend at the Labor Day Festival in Greenbelt Maryland making balloon animals and playing with giant bubbles!!! I am ALWAYS LOOKING FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE by NEW AUTHORS. If you would like to have your book shared either on the podcast or one of the virtual story times, please email me at teafairystorytime@gmail.com. Thank you for tuning in,listening & reading along! Reading with you is a great privilege! Sharing books by new authors is an honor. Join me for the next storytime via podcast, virtual picture book storytime (YouTube / Facebook) or Greenbelt Access Television & live storytimes and events in & around the Maryland/Washington DC area. For now, read a book every day! Expand your Mind, Expand your Horizons! I'll be reading with you soon! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Season 9 Ep.6 Wicked Witches & Fairies & the BIGGEST Bird In The World - The Biggest Bird in the World by Theresa Mac. Theresa started writing stories for her daughter who's enjoyment encouraged her to write more. When her two grand-daughters arrived, she wrote a few more stories. Theresa decided to approach a Publisher with her stories. She was surprised and excited that they were accepted by Pegasus on her first effort and enjoyed reaching the final result of her little book 'Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World.' "Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World" can be found at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan. TeaFairy & Friends StoryTime & Adventures: YouTube www.youtube.com/user/TofArcata On Facebook: the Page & the Group "TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime & Adventures" PODCASTS: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1041fb90-7c81-4020-9973-3f5f20e9a779/TEAFAIRY-STORYTIME-PODCAST BEGINNING AUGUST 27TH... watch fun new educational children's programming with the TEAFAIRY & FRIENDS STORYTIME ADVENTURES SHOW on GREENBELT ACCESS TELEVISION www.greenbeltaccesstv.org. (also on their YouTube channel & Facebook page) AND hopefully in late September you can find it on Access Humboldt as well in Northern California. I am ALWAYS LOOKING FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE by NEW AUTHORS. If you would like to have your book shared either on the podcast or one of the virtual story times, please email me at teafairystorytime@gmail.com. Support this podcast with a small donation to help sustain future broadcasts. Your contribution means a lot no matter the size! If you love TeaFairy StoryTime & would like to help assist me in my efforts to bring children's literature to you all, & introduce NEW AUTHORS work, any donation is greatly appreciated & helpful. You can become a supporter or give a gift via Anchor.fm. Thank you for tuning in,listening & reading along! Reading with you is a great privilege! Sharing books by new authors is an honor. Join me for the next storytime via podcast, virtual picture book storytime (YouTube / Facebook) or Greenbelt Access Television & live storytimes and events in & around the Maryland/Washington DC area. For now, read a book every day! Expand your Mind, Expand your Horizons! I'll be reading with you soon! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Season 9 Ep.5 Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World - Shirley's Secret Fairy Friends by Theresa Mac. Scottish author, Theresa Mac, is a retired teacher who worked at a few Universities. She also was a teacher of Business Studies. She working at Bristol University - Dept of Organic Geochemistry, associated with NASA, the only University in the UK to receive moon samples from NASA and she actually had the opportunity to hold a little vial of moon samples! "Throughout her life, she has maintained a keen interest in human behaviour and studied psychology for a short time. She had a happy childhood in Glasgow and developed an interest in antiquities, art and characters after frequent visits to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which was near her home." Theresa started writing stories for her daughter who's enjoyment encouraged her to write more. When her two grand-daughters arrived, she wrote a few more stories. Theresa decided to approach a Publisher with her stories. She was surprised and excited that they were accepted by Pegasus on her first effort and enjoyed reaching the final result of her little book 'Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World.' "Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World" can be found at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan "Reading is fundamental to the development of children and countless research shows the links between good reading skills from an early age and future success in life. Finding books children want to read, or authors that excite them, can be difficult. However, here the author has captured a delightful set of magical stories dedicated to boys and girls who like to read exciting tales. Find out what the toys get up to when they come alive at night; experience an adventure with the witches who live in the woods; fly through the air in magic fairyland; check out the baby bird who kept growing and growing, and more exciting tales. Written in a way that will not cause nightmares, they are suitable to read to younger children or ideal for a child to read on their own. The make-believe land captured by the author in this set of short stories is sure to keep your children's imagination alive." TeaFairy & Friends StoryTime & Adventures: YouTube www.youtube.com/user/TofArcata On Facebook find the Page & Group "TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime & Adventures" PODCASTS: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 BEGINNING AUGUST 27th watch TEAFAIRY & FRIENDS STORYTIME ADVENTURES on www.greenbeltaccesstv.org on GREENBELT ACCESS TELEVISION --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World - A Sad Little Dolly by Theresa Mac. Scottish author, Theresa Mac, is a retired teacher who worked at a few Universities. She also was a teacher of Business Studies. She working at Bristol University - Dept of Organic Geochemistry, associated with NASA, the only University in the UK to receive moon samples from NASA and she actually had the opportunity to hold a little vial of moon samples! "Throughout her life, she has maintained a keen interest in human behaviour and studied psychology for a short time. She had a happy childhood in Glasgow and developed an interest in antiquities, art and characters after frequent visits to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which was near her home." Theresa started writing stories for her daughter who's enjoyment encouraged her to write more. When her two grand-daughters arrived, she wrote a few more stories. Theresa decided to approach a Publisher with her stories. She was surprised and excited that they were accepted by Pegasus on her first effort and enjoyed reaching the final result of her little book 'Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World.' "Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World" can be found at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan "Reading is fundamental to the development of children and countless research shows the links between good reading skills from an early age and future success in life. Finding books children want to read, or authors that excite them, can be difficult. However, here the author has captured a delightful set of magical stories dedicated to boys and girls who like to read exciting tales. Find out what the toys get up to when they come alive at night; experience an adventure with the witches who live in the woods; fly through the air in magic fairyland; check out the baby bird who kept growing and growing, and more exciting tales. Written in a way that will not cause nightmares, they are suitable to read to younger children or ideal for a child to read on their own. The make-believe land captured by the author in this set of short stories is sure to keep your children's imagination alive." TeaFairy & Friends StoryTime & Adventures: YouTube www.youtube.com/user/TofArcata On Facebook find the Page & Group "TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime & Adventures" PODCASTS: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 and Greenbelt Access Television www.Greenbeltaccesstv.Org SO EXCITED!!!!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Season 9 Ep.3 Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World - Mr Cat and a Funny Rainy Day by Theresa Mac. Scottish author, Theresa Mac, is a retired teacher who worked at a few Universities. She also was a teacher of Business Studies. She working at Bristol University - Dept of Organic Geochemistry, associated with NASA, the only University in the UK to receive moon samples from NASA and she actually had the opportunity to hold a little vial of moon samples! "Throughout her life, she has maintained a keen interest in human behaviour and studied psychology for a short time. She had a happy childhood in Glasgow and developed an interest in antiquities, art and characters after frequent visits to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which was near her home." Theresa started writing stories for her daughter who's enjoyment encouraged her to write more. When her two grand-daughters arrived, she wrote a few more stories. Theresa decided to approach a Publisher with her stories. She was surprised and excited that they were accepted by Pegasus on her first effort and enjoyed reaching the final result of her little book 'Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World.' "Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World" can be found at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan "Reading is fundamental to the development of children and countless research shows the links between good reading skills from an early age and future success in life. Finding books children want to read, or authors that excite them, can be difficult. However, here the author has captured a delightful set of magical stories dedicated to boys and girls who like to read exciting tales. Find out what the toys get up to when they come alive at night; experience an adventure with the witches who live in the woods; fly through the air in magic fairyland; check out the baby bird who kept growing and growing, and more exciting tales. Written in a way that will not cause nightmares, they are suitable to read to younger children or ideal for a child to read on their own. The make-believe land captured by the author in this set of short stories is sure to keep your children's imagination alive." TeaFairy & Friends StoryTime & Adventures: YouTube www.youtube.com/user/TofArcata On Facebook find the Page & Group "TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime & Adventures" PODCASTS: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World - Mandi Meets The Fairies by Theresa Mac. Scottish author, Theresa Mac, is a retired teacher who worked at a few Universities. She also was a teacher of Business Studies. She working at Bristol University - Dept of Organic Geochemistry, associated with NASA, the only University in the UK to receive moon samples from NASA and she actually had the opportunity to hold a little vial of moon samples! "Throughout her life, she has maintained a keen interest in human behaviour and studied psychology for a short time. She had a happy childhood in Glasgow and developed an interest in antiquities, art and characters after frequent visits to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which was near her home." Theresa started writing stories for her daughter who's enjoyment encouraged her to write more. When her two grand-daughters arrived, she wrote a few more stories. Theresa decided to approach a Publisher with her stories. She was surprised and excited that they were accepted by Pegasus on her first effort and enjoyed reaching the final result of her little book 'Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World.' "Wicked Witches and Fairies and the BIGGEST Bird In The World" can be found at Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1907552693/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_284HVMQ258Q819PFEZC7 Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-by-Mac-Theresa-/223439387300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 Better World Books: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Wicked-Witches-Fairies-and-the-Biggest-Bird-in-the-World-9781907552694?shipto=US&curcode=USD Paper back copies can be purchased on Amazon for £24/$64.14 Kindle for $4.99 Kindle Unlimited you can read it for FREE Pegasus, the Publishers www.pegasuspublishers.com/authors/theresa-mac You can email the author at: tmc140@gmail.com. Her name on Facebook is her actual name - Joyce McLennan "Reading is fundamental to the development of children and countless research shows the links between good reading skills from an early age and future success in life. Finding books children want to read, or authors that excite them, can be difficult. However, here the author has captured a delightful set of magical stories dedicated to boys and girls who like to read exciting tales. Find out what the toys get up to when they come alive at night; experience an adventure with the witches who live in the woods; fly through the air in magic fairyland; check out the baby bird who kept growing and growing, and more exciting tales. Written in a way that will not cause nightmares, they are suitable to read to younger children or ideal for a child to read on their own. The make-believe land captured by the author in this set of short stories is sure to keep your children's imagination alive." TeaFairy & Friends StoryTime & Adventures: YouTube www.youtube.com/user/TofArcata On Facebook find the Page & Group "TeaFairy and Friends StoryTime & Adventures. PODCASTS: ANCHOR.FM: www.anchor.fm/s/55bb82e4/podcast/rss. SPOTIFY: www.open.spotify.com/show/2nENz4106xNMFpgeLJ7dfZ?si=lmocr69pSXyLMQh0hFJGjw&utm_source=copy-link GOOGLE: www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NWJiODJlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== BREAKER AUDIO: www.breaker.audio/teafairy-storytime-podcast POCKETCAST: www.pca.st/vu22isrs RADIO PUBLIC: www.radiopublic.com/teafairy-storytime-podcast-WdnBL7 SOON: TEAFAIRY & FRIENDS STORYTIME ADVENTURES SHOW @ GREENBELT ACCESS TELEVISION www.greenbeltacceestv.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teafairystorytime/support

Better World Books buys and sells books both new and used while supporting libraries, non-profits, and literacy programs around the world. Just this month they sold their 100th million book! For every book you purchase on BetterWorld Books.com, Better World Books donates a book to a reader in need. To date, they have raised over 32 million dollars for libraries and literacy programs, donated over 29 million books, and prevented over 373 million books from entering landfills by reusing or recycling them.See ResponsiblyDifferent.com for full show notes with links and bonus materials.Support the show (http://responsiblydifferent.com)

Bark Social is the first “dog bar” in the Mid-Atlantic region. It has a 25,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor craft beer, wine, and coffee bar and a professionally monitored (Bark Rangers) off-leash dog park. Bark Social is the culmination of more than two years of research and refinement from founders Luke Silverman and Jeff Kurtzman. Silverman, an entrepreneur and former reality TV producer with credits including American Idol and The Bachelor, and Kurtzman, a seasoned entrepreneur whose past experience includes co-founder of Better World Books and CEO of Aid Through Trade, both socially responsible ventures. More than a dog park, the year-round venue offers beer, wine, and coffee, small bites, a climate-controlled “clubhouse” with TVs and Wi-Fi, in addition to a “dog treat bar” (pupsicles and puppy ice cream), dog boutique, and dog wash stations. Bark Social has partnered with a local coffee roaster, Ceremony Coffee for the morning program, and will complement this with a rotation of local and national craft brews and wines for a “beer garden” like atmosphere in the afternoons and evenings. The Pike & Rose location will offer an array of events such as Doga (dog yoga), daily Yappy Hours, a Halloween dog costume contest, pictures with Santa, singles nights, and even dog birthday parties. Giving back to the local community and dog non-profits is a critical part of Bark Social’s mission. To honor its launch, Bark Social has launched a t-shirt fundraiser to support five local dog nonprofit organizations; Montgomery County Humane Society, Humane Rescue Alliance, Lucky Dog Animal Rescue, Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation, MCPAW, and one national organization, Tails of Valor Paws of Honor, a Veteran organization providing social interaction and human/canine bonding resulting in trained services dogs able to assist with the post-combat physical and psychological issues affecting Veterans and their families. Bark Social will donate $5 from each t-shirt sold to its non-profit partners.

Welcome to the What to Read Next Podcast. Today’s guest is Jessica from Peace Love Books Booktube and Instagram account. Jessica’s channel is one of the reasons why i read romance today. In this episode, we chat historical romance, dark and angsty romance, and some fantasy romance.    NOTE FROM SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by  The Mermaid The Witch and the Sea, by Maggie Tokuda Hall- published by Candlewick Press Buy it on Amazon- https://amzn.to/2ZNrjns Buy it on Bookshop- https://bit.ly/3hCcv19 BOOK RECOMMENDED  Heid’s Guide to Four Letter Word by Tara Sivec and Andi Arndt Morgan Brother’s series by Lauren Rowe What He Doesn’t Know by Kandi Steiiner Tessa Dare Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare Lord of Scoundrel by Loretta Chase The Highwaymen by Kerrigan Byrne The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne  The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare Kerrigan Byrne  Sarah MacLean Day of the Duchess Sarah MacLean Say No to the Duke by Eloisa James  Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lyndsey  Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James   Dark Romance/Angsty Romance Dark Notes by Pam Goodwin  Bullseye by Monica James  Blowback by Monica James    Anticipated New Releases  Beach Read by Emily Henry You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria  Palm South University series by Kandi Steiner  Fallen Men by Giana Darling    The House of Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Wolfsong by TJ Klune  Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire  Ember and the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir  The House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas Bareknuckle Bastard series by Sarah MacLean Hate Crush by Angelina M. Lopez Ilona Andrews  Joanna Shupe  A Night and Shining Armor by Jude Devereux  The Bride by Julie Garwood  Where to buy books? Better World Books  Ebay - Add Author + Lot  Thriftbooks    VIDEO MENTIONED Jessica’s May TBR CONNECT WITH JESSICA Youtube Instagram  Twitter     SUPPORT THE WHAT TO READ NEXT PODCAST! If you’re enjoying the show, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Spread the love. And if you liked this episode, share it with your friends   JOIN PATREON COMMUNITY  Join the What to Read Next Podcast Patreon Romance Book Club. We are offering one tier Weekly Recommendation + Early Access to Author Interviews and other bonus podcast content + Access to Patron-only Facebook Group:  + Twice a month Zoom meetups (Backlist Book Club &  Author Q&A ) + Conversation with Publishers + Rolling IG Chat: $5  This is a great romance loving community where you will get book recommendations, make new friends and an opportunity to discover to new to you authors, series and genres to binge on.  Want to join the fun? Sign up today; https://bit.ly/WTRNRomanceBookClub   FROLIC PODCAST NETWORK  What to Read Next Podcast is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!    CONNECT WITH LAURA YAMIN  WhattoReadNextBlog.com  Instagram  Goodreads Twitter

Xavier shares how he created a company that impacted the world, donated $20M+ to global literacy, maintained double digit growth for years and sold to a charity founded by the creator of Amazon's Alexa for millions of dollars. What You Will Learn in Today’s Podcast Interview: How and why Xavier sold his company to the creator of Amazon’s Alexa A framework to evaluate what problems in the world you connect with What a B Corporation is and how it works How rapid growth can lead to needing an investor Why Xavier would have had more options if he grew at 25% CAGR instead of 40% Xavier’s views on the “Triple Bottom Line” The value of transparency and public commitments How to approach working with venture capital How to integrate Conscious Capitalism into your business model How a strong mission and vision can lead to outsized long-term growth How to align your company’s vision and mission with a buyer How to learn and approach the sale of your company as an entrepreneur Tips for founders on how to pass along knowledge in your company Podcast Summary: What does it mean to bake your mission and vision into all aspects of your company? The guest on today’s episode, Xavier Helgesen, explains to us just how he did that as the Co-founder of one of the first B Corporations, Better World Books. B Corps formally combine public interest goals with profit earning throughout their business model—other B Corps you may know include Patagonia and Tom’s Shoes. Xavier shares how Better World Books raised over $20 million dollars for global literacy and donated tens of millions of books, while also maintaining double digit growth 15 years in a row. The company’s rapid growth led them to take on investors and ultimately sell to a charity, which is unique in and of itself, but the charity also happened to be founded by the creator of Amazon’s Alexa. Today’s episode hits home the power of building a company while intentionally linking it to the life you want to live. The underlying values and mission of a business can range from charity work to financial stability, and Xavier emphasizes the added growth a business can experience by integrating that mission into the company’s cost and future plans. This conversation focuses on how to intentionally align a social cause with a company’s mission at each stage of starting, growing, and selling a business—it is an inspiring story of how a “conscious capitalism” oriented company proves that good business is not just good marketing. About the Guest: Xavier Helgesen is an entrepreneur, technologist, global citizen, and builder of world positive companies. He co-founded Better World Books, the first ever b-corporation. Better World Books is an independent online bookstore with a unique triple-bottom-line mode

Xavier shares how he created a company that impacted the world, donated $20M+ to global literacy, maintained double digit growth for years and sold to a charity founded by the creator of Amazon's Alexa for millions of dollars. What You Will Learn in Today’s Podcast Interview: How and why Xavier sold his company to the creator of Amazon’s Alexa A framework to evaluate what problems in the world you connect with What a B Corporation is and how it works How rapid growth can lead to needing an investor Why Xavier would have had more options if he grew at 25% CAGR instead of 40% Xavier’s views on the “Triple Bottom Line” The value of transparency and public commitments How to approach working with venture capital How to integrate Conscious Capitalism into your business model How a strong mission and vision can lead to outsized long-term growth How to align your company’s vision and mission with a buyer How to learn and approach the sale of your company as an entrepreneur Tips for founders on how to pass along knowledge in your company Podcast Summary: What does it mean to bake your mission and vision into all aspects of your company? The guest on today’s episode, Xavier Helgesen, explains to us just how he did that as the Co-founder of one of the first B Corporations, Better World Books. B Corps formally combine public interest goals with profit earning throughout their business model—other B Corps you may know include Patagonia and Tom’s Shoes. Xavier shares how Better World Books raised over $20 million dollars for global literacy and donated tens of millions of books, while also maintaining double digit growth 15 years in a row. The company’s rapid growth led them to take on investors and ultimately sell to a charity, which is unique in and of itself, but the charity also happened to be founded by the creator of Amazon’s Alexa. Today’s episode hits home the power of building a company while intentionally linking it to the life you want to live. The underlying values and mission of a business can range from charity work to financial stability, and Xavier emphasizes the added growth a business can experience by integrating that mission into the company’s cost and future plans. This conversation focuses on how to intentionally align a social cause with a company’s mission at each stage of starting, growing, and selling a business—it is an inspiring story of how a “conscious capitalism” oriented company proves that good business is not just good marketing. About the Guest: Xavier Helgesen is an entrepreneur, technologist, global citizen, and builder of world positive companies. He co-founded Better World Books, the first ever b-corporation. Better World Books is an independent online bookstore with a unique triple-bottom-line mode

This is a slight diversion from the usual episode, but I know a lot of you are bookworms, like me. However, you might be finding it hard to read right now because you’re too stressed. Or you don’t want to read the same type of books. Or you’re having trouble getting books because you always relied on your local library, which is now shut down. So, I’m going to talk about all these things today, while also giving some book recommendations. I’m also going to talk about some non-fiction business books that have really helped me and my freelance business over the years. If you want to skip to just the business book recommendations, fast-forward to 29:00. I was in a bit of a book slump when the pandemic hit, so after reading one good book, I struggled to figure out what to read next. And while many of us might be struggling to read at times, turns out we’re buying a lot of books online. Let’s first talk about how you can access or buy books right now. First, audiobooks. The obvious place to start is Audible, which is Amazon’s audiobookstore. Audible offers the first month free for you to try it out. But I know many of you are anti-Amazon and would prefer to give your money to someone else. So, you might want to instead try Libro.FM, which allows you to buy audiobooks directly through your favorite independent bookstore. You can choose to buy audiobooks whenever you want or you can sign up for a monthly membership for about $15 a month. That gives you one audiobook a month, plus 30% off additional audiobooks. Libro’s profits are split with the indie bookstore of your choice. Get audiobooks from your local library through an app called Overdrive or an app called Libby, which is also by Overdrive. Now, let’s talk about buying books. Twitter pointed me to Better World Books, which is an online used bookstore that, turns out, is based in my home state of Indiana. Every time you buy a book, Better World Books donates a book to someone. The company also collects discarded books from libraries. Libraries need to get rid of books to make room for new ones, and sometimes these books end up in the landfills. But Better World Books takes in all those books, sells what they can and then donates a lot of them. And only then do they get rid of the rest—by recycling them. Better World Books right now is offering 20% off with free shipping if you have buy at least two books. I bought five books on my TBR list for $40 total. Another used book option is Half Price Books, which is a brick-and-mortar chain that sells mostly used books but also some new books. I bought four books from Half Price online as gifts for my parents. The store charged me for shipping for each book, which seemed strange even if it still wasn’t that expensive. But I soon realized it was because each book was pulled from whichever store had it in stock and shipped from that store. Next up, let’s support independent bookstores. I chose to buy two new books directly from Wild Geese Bookshop in my college town, Franklin, Indiana. Wild Geese is only a few years old. It opened in the fall of 2016. I heard about it through friends, and my mom and I checked it out a few years ago and instantly fell in love with this tiny, perfectly curated shop. Another way I could have bought from Wild Geese Bookshop or other indie bookstores is through a new website called Bookshop. At Bookshop.org you can buy books all in one spot but choose which independent bookstore the sale will benefit. Here’s how Bookshop works: Independent bookstores place affiliate links on their own websites, social media, e-newsletters, etc. For every book sold through that link, that bookstore receives 25% commission. Another way to find a good independent bookstore is through Indiebound.org, which also has the Indie Next List, a fun list of book recommendations from indie booksellers. Next up, my favorite book podcasts. My absolute favorite is What Should I Read Next by Anne Bogel, in which Anne asks a guest to talk about three books they love and one book they hate and what they would like to be different in their reading life. Then, she recommends three books to them on the spot. Other book podcasts that are new to me: All the Books! by Book Riot Currently Reading From the Front Porch And check out my friends at Writer’s Bone, where they interview authors about writing and their books. Book talks: A lot of book talks have now gone online, so it doesn’t matter where you live. Here in DC, Politics and Prose was known for having an author talk in the store every single night. Now, those talks are being streamed online. Other stores are doing the same. You can also check in with your favorite authors’ websites and social media accounts to see what they’re up to and where they might be streaming next. Anne Bogel did a Stay at Home Book Tour with several authors over the past few weeks via Zoom. All of these were recorded and you can watch them at your leisure.   Book recommendations: “The Splendid and the Vile,” by Erik Larson “The Glass Hotel,” by Emily St. John Mandel “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel “The Resisters,” by Gish Jen “The Red Lotus,” by Chris Bohjalian “Still Life,” book 1 in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny “The Widows of Malabar Hill” (book 1), by Sujata Massey “The Satapur Moonstone (book 2), by Sujata Massey “Murder on the Orient Express,” by Agatha Christie “And Then There Were None,” by Agatha Christie “Evvie Drake Starts Over,” by Linda Holmes “Daisy Jones & the Six,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid “Most Likely,” by Sarah Watson “The Freelance Content Marketing Writer,” by Jennifer Goforth Gregory “Atomic Habits,” by James Clear “Make Time,” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky “Deep Work,” by Cal Newport “Digital Minimalism,” by Cal Newport Biz Bite: Take Your Office Outside   Resources: Book recommendations are all linked above. “Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels” “Books Are My Secret For Fighting Coronavirus Anxiety” “Overdrive vs. Libby: Which Will Serve You Best?” “How to Get Books When Bookstores and Libraries Are Closed” Episode #4 of Deliberate Freelancer: Work Only with Nice Clients, with Jennifer Goforth Gregory Audible Libro.FM Overdrive Libby Better World Books Half Price Books Politics and Prose (DC) Kramerbooks (DC) Loyalty Books (DC) The Strand (New York City) Powell’s City of Books (Portland, Oregon) Wild Geese Bookshop (Franklin, Indiana) Bookshop.org Indiebound.org What Should I Read Next? podcast All the Books! podcast by Book Riot Currently Reading podcast From the Front Porch podcast Writer’s Bone podcast Stay at Home Book Tour

You would think that I would be the last person to bemoan the popularity of meditation.  But, believe it or not, there are some drawbacks to the explosion of mediation in the Western world.  Let's talk about it. Sponsor: Better World Books - Get great books at a discount and help spread literacy throughout the world.  All that happens when you buy books from Better World Books. Help ZEN commuter reach its goal **Become a Supporter of ZEN commuter - You know that the show adds value to your life, so please show your gratitude by helping support the show.** THANKS FOR LISTENING! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful, they help it reach a wider audience.  The more positive reviews the higher in the rankings it goes.  Of course that means more peace in the world.  So please let me know what you think.  I read ever one of them.

Societal messages can negatively impact our understanding of who we are and what our importance is.  Thankfully, meditation shows us the reality of our power and importance.  Let's talk about it. Sponsor: Better World Books - Get great books at a discount and help spread literacy throughout the world.  All that happens when you buy books from Better World Books. Help ZEN commuter reach its goal **Become a Supporter of ZEN commuter - You know that the show adds value to your life, so please show your gratitude by helping support the show.** THANKS FOR LISTENING! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful, they help it reach a wider audience.  The more positive reviews the higher in the rankings it goes.  Of course that means more peace in the world.  So please let me know what you think.  I read ever one of them.

Yesterday Pema Chodron gave us great insight into how meditation can help us see loneliness for what it is, simply a feeling, not one we need to run from.  Today I take a more clinical approach to meditation and loneliness as I read an article about the ways that meditation alleviates the feelings of isolation by changing the brain.  Let's talk about it. Links from the Episode: Meditation as Medicine for Loneliness by Davis Barash Sponsor: Better World Books - Get great books at a discount and help spread literacy throughout the world.  All that happens when you buy books from Better World Books. Help ZEN commuter reach its goal **Become a Supporter of ZEN commuter - You know that the show adds value to your life, so please show your gratitude by helping support the show.** THANKS FOR LISTENING! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful, they help it reach a wider audience.  The more positive reviews the higher in the rankings it goes.  Of course that means more peace in the world.  So please let me know what you think.  I read ever one of them. o look at the feelings that surround loneliness.  Today I get the scientists opinion about meditation and Loneliness.

Pema Chodron is a buddhist teacher and meditator who radiates love, grace and wisdom.  Today I will read an article of hers that allows us to see loneliness as something to invite, rather than shun. Links from the Episode: Six Kinds of Loneliness by Pema Chodron Sponsor: Better World Books - Get great books at a discount and help spread literacy throughout the world.  All that happens when you buy books from Better World Books. Help ZEN commuter reach its goal **Become a Supporter of ZEN commuter - You know that the show adds value to your life, so please show your gratitude by helping support the show.** THANKS FOR LISTENING! Thanks again for listening to the show! If it has helped you in any way, please share it using the social media buttons you see on the page. Also, reviews for the podcast on iTunes are extremely helpful, they help it reach a wider audience.  The more positive reviews the higher in the rankings it goes.  Of course that means more peace in the world.  So please let me know what you think.  I read ever one of them.

This one is a RIDE, you guys! We wanted to do something really fun this week—something that would lighten the mood for us and for you. So, strap in, because we’re talking about our favorite Old School Category romances today! We’ve got something for everyone — wolves and dragons and marine biologists and single moms and more wolves! A word of caution this week — we didn’t reread these books before we recorded, and they’re all published in the 80s and 90s, so tread lightly if you decide to read them…and let us know just how wrong we got the plots! (Just kidding, we’re for sure rereading all of them now). Next week was supposed to be the deep dive of Lorraine Heath, but Sarah has a book due, so we’re putting it on hold—but stay tuned, because we’ve definitely got something coming! Waking Up With the Duke will definitely be the next read, though: Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, or Kobo.Show Notes- If you're looking for a real cool summer sleepaway camp, check out Camp Kupagani. They'll pick your kid up at O'Hare!- You can order girl scout cookies online now. Good luck to all of us.- If you're in Chicago, I guess you could go to Navy Pier; But if you're in Peru, you should definitely go to Machu Picchu.- That American Dirt story is real wild. This review by Myriam Gurba is amazing, and Vox has you covered with an entire explainer. Remezcla has better recommendations for books about the border.- If you want to know what makes something a category romance, Love in Panels has a very good explainer. Also, if you're interested in Harlequin covers now, Jen interviewed Tony Horvath for Kirkus. He's the creative director in charge of all of Harlequin series romance.- Buying old category romances is easy. Check out ThriftBooks for the best prices and best shipping (Amazon charges for individual items from sellers), but also Better World Books. And if you're lucky enough, local thrift stores and used book stores. For more recent remaindered books, try Book Outlet.- We mentioned so many category series today. Check out this blog by Steve Imes with all the category series names and dates, and FictionDB for listings of books by series.- Sandra Brown wrote as Erin St. Claire and also Rachel Ryan. She was an 80s powerhouse who still writes romantic suspense. The book Sarah mentioned was Honor Bound, but Jen was thinking of a similar book called Hawk O'Toole's Hostage. Ope.- Jen reread and reviewed several of her first category romances for the Book Queen. The one about Pink Satin compares the book to the Harvey Weinstein case. It's honestly shocking how little has changed for women in the workplace.- White Satin was an early Iris Johansen about figure skating, but that author is also for being the book that inspired the "Who Did it Better on a Horse" post. And at the end of the episode, Sarah mentions that she had a house for sale if you're on the market, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A MANSION.- Brad Pitt is old and still working because of the patriarchy.- Deep Tracks is the name of an XM radio station that plays B sides and less popular songs, which is very on brand for the books in this episode.- Maybe you'd like to read those goodreads reviews for The Lady and the Dragon.- Jen loved Barbara Boswell. She was a fan of the Brady/Ramsey series where a bunch of sisters married a bunch of brothers. And then this one that is Brady Bunch fanfic. Eight is enough, I swear! Was this all Roe v. Wade blowback?- You actually can still get Harlequin subscriptions, but the best current Romance subscription is definitely the Bawdy Bookworms box.- In Demon Lover, the heroine thinks the hero is a coyote, but he's really an undercover DEA agent. Jen asked the Smart Bitches to help her find it in 2018, when it was available as an eBook, but it isn't anymore! All you need to know is that these 80s covers celebrated the Tom Selleck mustache in a big way.- Warrior was last in the McKenzie-Blackthorn series by Elizabeth Lowell. Light a candle for Utah, who never got his book. Ao3 needs to get on it! #JusticeForUtah- Virginity is a construct! Also, here's where the hymen is in case you need to know.- Sarah's on deadline, so who knows what's going to happen next week. Buy some stickers, buttons, or t-shirts to tide yourself over while we figure it out.- Please check out the photo array below for books we referenced. You may remember that we recorded an entire episode on category romances with Andie Christopher, but Jen screwed up the recording. By then, we moved on with Andie to cinnamon rolls. But Andie recommended Driven by Fate by Tessa Bailey, and Jen talked about Every Road to You by Phyllis Bourne. Sarah proably talked about Hot Touch, but Jen can't really remember...we'll just think of that episode as the one that got away.

The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, Company Culture, Six Weeks or Six Years, Unlike Anything Else, An Elephant Costume and a Hospital Visit. The 2019 October Event's livestream is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI (Things start happening around the ten minute mark)Wendy Hanamura's collected library of Japanese Incarceration is here:  https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration 2,500 MS-DOS games added:  https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-downloads

He's not on a mission to make money, quite the opposite. Xavier Helgesen is a mission driven founder, who uses money to do more good in the world. His first company, Better World Books sells 10 million used books a year that's collected by leftover books at libraries - in and shares revenues with literacy partners (Over $25M given to non-profits). This business lead him to Africa, where he noticed 20,000 people in a village had no electricity - so he decided to change that. He created Zola Electric, the largest solar power company in Africa, providing 1 million people with electricity per day. He talks to us about how he turned his college side hustle into a $70M biz, moving next to his customers in Tanzania, selling electricity to people who never used electricity and how ‘Mutual Improvement Societies’ could help you 10x your life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hey Podcast, on this episode I talk with my kids about some Micronesian history. We also read some excerpts from the book 'Edge of Paradise' by P.F. Kluge, one of my favorite books about Micronesians. Check it out on Better World Books: http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-9168431-13423012?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.BetterWorldBooks.com%2Fproduct%2Fdetail%2FKluge-9780824815677%3Futm_source%3DCJ_feed&cjsku=9780824815677 See you on the next podcast, and thank you for listening :)

It's a new year: maybe you are embracing a new you and getting some self-help books to lead the way. Maybe you are embracing this month's trend of "tidying up" and getting rid of some books. Either way, this product episode gives you a way to do both and support an ethical company in the process: Better World Books. Music credit: BehrMusic on Fiverr   Useful Links and Resources Include: Better World Books Home betterworldbooks.com   BWB Impact Score https://bcorporation.net/directory/better-world-books   About B Corps https://bcorporation.net/about-b-corps   Leave Marie Kondo the F*ck Alone https://medium.com/@JonathanGreene/leave-marie-kondo-the-f-ck-alone-abf35cb1bc90   Comparably: Better World Books https://www.comparably.com/companies/better-world-books/reviews   PayScale.com Review of BWB https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Better_World_Books/Reviews   Alibris Jumps in Bed with BWB... https://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2009/08/19/alibris-jumps-in-bed-with-better-world-books-and-takes-their-booksellers-with-them/   The Alibris Story https://www.alibris.com/about/story   Better World Books: What other dealers can learn from the new model https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/1011?page=4=id=1011=id=1011=id=1011   6 Ways To Recycle Your Used Books, Because You Know You Have Too Many https://www.bustle.com/p/6-ways-to-recycle-your-used-books-because-you-know-you-have-too-many-15570252   Little Free Library https://littlefreelibrary.org   LGBT Books for Prisoners https://lgbtbookstoprisoners.org   Books for Africa https://www.booksforafrica.org   Get Your Used Books While Everyone's Kondo-ing Their Homes https://lifehacker.com/get-your-used-books-while-everyones-kondo-ing-their-hom-1831838036   Parnassus Books Nashville https://www.parnassusbooks.net/about-us   IndieBound Independent Bookstore Finder https://www.indiebound.org/indie-bookstore-finder   Spend It Like You Mean It Web Site https://www.spenditmeanit.com

Welcome to episode 42 of ATG: The Podcast. For readers of Against the Grain, our guest this week will be familiar from her long-time contributions to the “Copyright Questions and Answers” column. Laura N. “Lolly” Gasaway is the Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita of UNC Chapel Hill. This week, she’s reading her column from the February 2016 issue of Against the Grain, v28 #1. As always, Lolly answers many intriguing questions. Included are questions sent in from an academic librarian, a public librarian, an elementary school teacher and more. But first, a few announcements. When this podcast is aired on Monday, November 6, it will be the start of the Charleston Conference week! We’re looking forward to seeing all of our attendees, presenters, sponsors, and exhibitors there. Please check in upon arrival to receive your name badge and attendee materials. Name badges will be required for entry into conference venues, the reception, and conference shuttles. The registration check-in desk will be located in the upper lobby of the Francis Marion Hotel at 387 King Street. Hours are posted on the conference website at the link provided in the show notes. The 2017 Conference Reception, sponsored by Elsevier, will be held on Wednesday, November 8, from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the SC Aquarium. Shuttle transportation will be available from the Francis Marion Hotel to the aquarium. The entire aquarium, plus the Shark Shallows touch tank outside on the deck, will be open for attendees to visit. Delicious Lowcountry specialties, like shrimp and grits, as well as more traditional reception fare will be served and beer, wine and soft drinks will be available at the bar. Live musical entertainment will be provided by The Soulfeathers. Side note – the awesome guy on drums is my brother! We’ll also have a photo booth, sponsored by Duke University Press, to take pictures with fun and goofy props. Conducting a Conference takes a lot of dedication, time, and assistance from a lot of people. It also takes money. The Charleston Conference would like to thank all of our sponsors that made generous contributions: Adam Matthew, American Mathematical Society, Better World Books, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Science Publishing, CHOICE, Clarivate Analytics, Credo Reference, Duke University Press, EBSCO Information Services, Elsevier, Gale, a Cengage Company, HighWire Press, IGI Global, IOP Publishing, MDPI, the OECD, Oxford University Press, ProQuest, Rittenhouse, SAGE Publishing, Springer Nature, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group, University of Hawaii Press, the Wall Street Journal, and Yewno. Please thank their representatives when you see them! --------------------------- And now, a few updates to the “If Rumors Were Horses” column from Katina Strauch. I hope that you have all heard that Leah Hinds has been appointed Executive Director of the Charleston Conference! Leah is tireless and deserves all the recognition we can give her! Look at all the new initiatives that have begun with ATG and ATG media! Speaking of which there was a free webinar on Wednesday -- Charleston Library Conference Tips and Tricks for Attending. Heather Staines and Leah organized it and many of the Charleston Conference regulars will be on the webinar. Here is a link to it for your use! It will be available on the Conference website as of Thursday November 2. https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/video/webinars See the Charleston Conference November print issue (v.29#5, p.85) of ATG for a picture of the awesome (we used to call him “the nemesis” in earlier ATGs) Chuck Hamaker who has retired from UNC-Charlotte. Chuck is pictured with his Emeritus certificate from UNC-C. What a career Chuck has had. He will be presenting at the Charlotte Initiative Symposium on Monday afternoon. 2017charlestonconference.sched.org/ If you haven’t encountered Carol Apollo you need to! Carol and Leah met when they were neighbors in Gilbert, SC. Carol is a Social Media Manager and Strategist who believes that a good social media campaign has the power to change the world. She has worked mostly with non-profit and volunteer organizations to optimize their Internet presence and engage their audience and has been working with Against the Grain Media for the past 6 months. Carol’s podcast on social media for libraries is available on the ATG newschannel. Carol has moved back up north but she will be in Charleston helping with the podcast at the Conference in the Gaillard Center lobby - recording takeaways and comments from attendees. She will also be helping with the Speed networking during the poster sessions at the Conference http://atgthepodcast.libsyn.com/podcast/atgthepodcast-039-libraries-and-social-media-with-carol-apollo Speaking of the Poster sessions, Tom Gilson has worked diligently with Jesse Lamarre of Morressier Gmbh in Berlin. Thank also to Sven Fund for hooking us up with Morressier and to John Williams who has worked with Tom and Jesse to make the virtual posters a reality. Hope that you all like them! There will be 37 Virtual posters in Charleston this year! jesse.lamarre@morressier.com www.morressier.com Fast Pitch finalists have been selected and we're in the process of coaching. Be sure to come and vote for our favorite at the session on Wed 11/8 at 4:40 PM.  Glenda Alvin is introducing Loretta Parham, one of our keynote speakers at the Conference. Glanda was reminiscing about African American Librarians attending the Conference. Many of them have retired and we are searching for more to take up the mantle! Be sure and meet Aaisha Haykal, manager of archives at the Avery Center for Research in African American History, who is attending this year! We told you in the print November ATG that Franny Lee is now VP of Product Development at Chegg, a publicly-traded company with a learning platform and product lines that include textbook rental, tutoring services, test pre, etc. Tom Gilson had a Penthouse Interview scheduled with Franny during the Charleston Conference but we have just learned that Franny is not able to come to Charleston because of a medical procedure. www.chegg.com/ I was poking around the ATG newschannel and learned that Napoleon was a bibliophile! He traveled with a library of miniature books and was a voracious reader. This was John Riley’s ATG Quirky ATG Quirkies: Napoleon’s Kindle on October 25. I seem to remember that Elisabeth Chapman was a collector of miniature books. Liz is retired but I’ll bet she is still collecting miniature books! Returning to John Riley! He will NOT be in Charleston this year because he is running for political office! Mayor of Northampton! That's the good news. The bad news is that he will have to miss his first Charleston Conference in 32 years! With the election being held on November 7 he just can't break away on time. Speaking of the 37th Charleston Conference! I am looking forward to it! I am not the spring chicken that I once was so I am having trouble getting around! BUT I WANT very much to meet all of you so please come up and interrupt me and let’s talk! Thanks and much love always, Katina Yr Ed.  

Each month, librarians Carrie Green and Eden Grey bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them. The theme of our seventh episode is Build a Better World. We discuss: "Utopia Drive: A Road Trip through America's Most Radical Idea" by Erik Reece "Classic Kentucky Meals: Stories, Ingredients, & Recipes from the Traditional Bluegrass Kitchen" by Rona Roberts "Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World" by Tracy Kidder "I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai "City of Saints & Thieves" by Natalie C. Anderson "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas Plus, Shaker Lemon Pie!

Starfish co-founder Beth Awalt and Starfish Board member Anna Jordan discuss how Beth and co-founder Jenn Zocco started the nonprofit -- and how it's grown in the past five years.    Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtsfromastarfish/  Starfish Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thestarfishchange  Starfish Instagram: www.instagram.com/starfishchange  Starfish website: www.thestarfishchange.org  Donate a book in honor of Anna's grandmother: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2IN9SGUH3ODKW/ref=cm_wl_list_o_1  Visit Starfish this summer: http://www.thestarfishchange.org/volunteerintern  Baltimore friends - An Evening for the Stars, April 29: http://www.thestarfishchange.org/an-evening-for-the-stars  Beth Kanter: http://www.bethkanter.org/  Joan Garry, Nonprofits are Messy: http://www.joangarry.com/  Dolly Parton's book donation campaign: https://imaginationlibrary.com/  Better World Books: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/ Acrobatiq: http://acrobatiq.com/  Get your own Captain Gratitude hat: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005922JUI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1    

News, reviews, and a discussion of the Commodore PET: history peripherals tech specs books/magazines/software emulation user groups current Web sites   Links mentioned in the show: Better World Books - http://www.betterworldbooks.com VCF Midwest - http://vcfmw.org 2013 Chicago TI International World Faire - http://www.chicagotiug.com/tiki-index.php?page=Faire World Longest Yard Sale - http://www.127sale.com Historically Brewed book by David Greelish - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/HB_Book.html The Commodore Pet at wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_pet Commodore's version of PET history - http://www.commodore.ca/products/pet/commodore_pet.htm Book, Commodore a company on the edge by Brian Bagnall - http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966 VICE Emulator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/?source=directory Chicago B128 Users Group (CBUG) software archive - http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/b/CBUG/ Toronto PET User's Group - http://www.tpug.ca/ World of Commodore – http://www.worldofcommodore.ca Terry Stewart (Tezza) video demonstration of PET 2001 -  http://youtu.be/bBJNSX_DKvo Port Commodore - http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=larry:comp:commodore:pet:start Edward Shockley's Pet B&P-series Website - http://www.insectria.org/b128.html CBM Pet File Archive - http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pet/index.html PET Index at 6502.org - http://www.6502.org/users/andre/petindex/index.html

Better World Books is a global bookstore that harnesses the power of capitalism to bring literacy and opportunity to people around the world.  An award-winning social entrepreneurship venture, Better World Books benefits a number of literacy charities around the world. David has served as President and CEO of Better World Books since 2004 (following a Mentor and Advisor role that began in early 2003).  David received his undergraduate degree (B.A.; Economics) from the University of Notre Dame and his graduate degree (MBA) from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.   David worked for over twenty years in corporate finance, operations and mergers and acquisitions with firms such as International Paper Company; The First Boston Corporation; Hutchison SA (multi-billion $ French subsidiary of the Total Energy Group) and Transcend Services, Inc.  He has also started several companies as well as served as CFO, COO and CEO for both privately held and publicly traded firms in the manufacturing, health care services and technology sectors.

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Robert Rulon-Miller is an antiquarian book dealer who lives, if not in a mansion, then at the very least in a great big house on Summit Avenue, one of the toniest in St. Paul, Minnesota. Not that toiling as a bookseller is anyway to get rich quick. He has worked hard for many years in the business, specializing in 'Rare, Fine & Interesting Books in Many Fields; 1st Editions, Americana; Literature; Fine & Early Printing; Travel; and the History of Language.' His most recent catalogue is titled Language and Learning. Robert is also the Director of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar scheduled for August 2nd-7th, 2009, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, immediately following the Denver Antiquarian Book Fair. We met at his home to talk books. Topics covered include de-accessioning, railway and mining tycoon James J. Hill, Robert's friendship with Elmer Anderson, book collector and Governor of Minnesota; Robert's interest in words and language, his expertise in dictionaries and grammars, and lack of interest in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, Better World Books's business model, partnering to buy and sell expensive books, and advice for the novice bookseller.