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Minter Dial

Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. Minter's core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at Lโ€™Orรฉal, where he was a member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Division. In this position, he was in charge of Digital, Communications, Education, the Eco-Salon and Business Development. Previously, he was MD of L'Orรฉal PPD Canada and MD Worldwide for Redken, which he ran for 4 years through 9/11 and a full revamping of the brand's look and main product lines. He's the author of one biography and three business books, Futureproof (2017), Heartificial Empathy (2019) and his latest book on leadership, You Lead, How Being Yourself Makes You A Better Leader (Kogan Page 2021).

Interviews: 164
Latest interview: 25 Oct 2023
Talked to: Mahan Tavakoli, Josh Bernoff, Brett Trainor, Petra Velzeboer and 2 others

Kitt O'Malley

Kitt O'Malley

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I'm an author, mental health advocate, public speaker, and former psychotherapist who lives with bipolar disorder. I have experienced depression so deep that it was a living hell and mania so severe that I was psychotic. There is help. Psychotherapy, medication, and coping skills have enabled me to live a fulfilling life. Acceptance has been key to my mental health recovery. Acceptance is essentially a spiritual experience. To accept yourself is to love yourself. There is hope. In my memoir, ๐—•๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—”๐—ฐ๐˜ โ€“ ๐—ช๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต ๐—” ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ, I share how I balanced living with bipolar disorder with my work as a mental health advocate and caretaker of my son and parents. My book offers hope to those living with mental health conditions and their loved ones and tells how my mental health journey has given me purpose.

Interviews: 19
Latest interview: 07 Apr 2023
Talked to: Petra Brunnbauer, Angela Talent, Jacqueline Capstick, Robert Adleman and 2 others

Joseph M Lenard

Interviews: 10
Latest interview: 20 Sep 2023
Talked to: Bob LeMent, Elizabeth Gagnon, Michael Gardner, Sara Troy and 1 others

Nathan Lewis

Nathan Lewis has written five books on economic topics. The most recent was Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How To Fix It (2022), coauthored with Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames. He has been featured in television documentaries in the U.S., South Korea, China, Russia, and Britain. He has spoken at events hosted by the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the American Principles Project, and others. He has testified in Congress on economic issues. His writing has appeared in many media outlets, including Forbes, the Financial Times, Huffington Post, Nikkei Business, Daily Reckoning, Worth, and other publications. He has been involved in professional asset management for over fifteen years.

Interviews: 19
Latest interview: 15 Jul 2022
Talked to: Dick Bove, John Aidan Byrne, Angelo Robles, King Banaian and 2 others

Brian Kaufman

Brian Kaufman

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Brian Kaufman is a curriculum editor for an online junior college. By day, he writes textbooks. By night, he writes fiction, including ten published novels and a collection of novellas. Kaufman lives with his wife and dog in the Colorado mountains, dividing his time between various passions, including writing, blues guitar, hiking, and book-hoarding.

Interviews: 1
Latest interview: 22 Nov 2023
Talked to: Patrick Boggs

Jason Lady

Interviews: 2
Latest interview: 03 Nov 2023
Talked to: Amy Lewis

Dahlia Adler

Dahlia Adler

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Interviews: 3
Latest interview: 06 Dec 2022
Talked to: Daniel Ford, Sarah Wendell

Travis Davis

An Air Force Brat that grew up in Arkansas, Spain, New York, and California. He joined the US Army at 17 years old as an Armored Reconnaissance Specialist and was stationed in the various forts in the United States and in Germany where he met his beautiful wife. During his three tours in Germany, he conducted hundreds of border patrols along the East-West German border and Czechoslovakia West German border. Where he saw first-hand communism and its oppression of its citizens. He retired from the US Army where his last duty assignment was Assistant Operations Sergeant of 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; Fort Polk Louisiana he is a lifetime member of the Sergeant Morales Club and received multiple awards including the Meritorious Service Medal. He currently works for a cyber security company as a Director Technical Solutions Specialist and has held positions of leadership in multiple leading software companies and has spoken at technology conferences in the US and Europe. He was the Technical Editor for Que Publishing for their Microsoft MCSE series and contributing author for the Windows 2000 Handbook. Travis is the co-founder of Point N Time Software and the inventor of Meeting Mapper and Strategy Mapper. While not writing or working, Travis enjoys exercising, traveling (loves a good road trip), baking different loaves of bread, and just relaxing in his backyard with friends and family while having a cold beer. He currently lives in Allen Texas with his wife of 36 years, he has three adult children, two daughters living in Arkansas and one son living in Northern Virginia, and seven wonderful grandchildren. โ€œTravis never met a stranger,โ€ is what his wife always says.

Interviews: 8
Latest interview: 11 Sep 2023
Talked to: Tom McGeady, John Winn Miller, Sara Grover, G. Scott Graham and 1 others

Damian White

Damian White is a writer and hip hop artist from Columbus, OH. He is the author of the poetry book, I Made A Place For You, which is his debut collection. Host of the "I Made A Place For You" podcast

Interviews: 14
Latest interview: 23 May 2023
Talked to: Roman Prokopchuk, Deeon Brown, Dennis Morolda, Marty Cooper and 2 others

John Winn Miller

John Winn Miller is an award-winning investigative reporter (Pulitzer finalist), foreign correspondent, editor, newspaper publisher, screenwriter, movie producer, and novelist. His debut novel, "The Hunt for the Peggy C: A World War II Maritime Thriller," has won numerous awards including Clive Cussler Adventure Writers semi-finalist, CIBA Hemingway Book Award shortlist, Military Writers Society of American historical fiction finalist, a gold medal from Literary Titans and it is an Editor's Pick for Booklife at Publishers Weekly. The Lexington, Ky., native was a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press and Wall Street Journal/Europe based in Rome, Italy; a reporter and editor at the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader; executive editor of the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) and the Tallahassee Democrat; and was publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, WA., and The Concord (N.H.) Monitor. He also helped produce four independent feature films: โ€œHitting the Cycleโ€ with Bruce Dern; โ€œArmed Responseโ€; โ€œGhost in the Family;โ€ and โ€œBand of Robbers,โ€ written and directed by Adam and Aaron Nee. That movie so impressed Sandra Bullock that she hired the brothers to write and direct her hit movie "The Lost City." He also served on the Associated Press board of directors and was twice a Pulitzer Prize judge. Miller and his wife Margo live in Lexington. Their daughter Allison Miller is an actress-screenwriter-director currently starring on the ABC series โ€œA Million Little Things.โ€

Interviews: 7
Latest interview: 20 Sep 2023
Talked to: Josh Baker, Travis Davis, Mike Pomp, Ken Cail and 2 others

Interviews: 9
Latest interview: 10 Jul 2023
Talked to: Ricky Allpike, Jonathan Astro, Douglas Lain, Spencer Leonard and 2 others

G. Scott Graham

G. Scott Graham is an author, a career coach, and a business coach in Boston, Massachusetts. Scott is driven to help clients follow their โ€œtrue azimuth,โ€ which is different from โ€œtrue north.โ€ It means coaching clients to identify the true focus of their life โ€” something that speaks individually to them. It means recognizing the forces that push our lives off course and adjusting to them so you get where you want to go. It means that when you are 90 years old and you look back on your life you have a sense of pride, accomplishment, and meaning โ€” with no regrets.

Interviews: 38
Latest interview: 27 Jul 2023
Talked to: Elizabeth Gagnon, Sue Dhillon, Stuart Sax, Claire Martin and 2 others