Authors to interview

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, 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝘁 – 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗔 𝗕𝗶𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲, 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.

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.

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 L’Oréal, 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'Oréal 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).

Hi! I am an author with 2 books available. My first one is a humor book about a serious illness and the second is a serious book about a humorous person. The latter, Shelter of the Monument: A Provincetown Love Story, will be released on November 16, 2023 and it is a coming-of-age memoir about life in my quirky, Cape Cod hometown, falling in love with a wonderful, impish, guy and trying to make a life together despite his addiction to the popular drug of the '80's, cocaine. Within the struggle of all four seasons in a one season town, this is a story of what wonderful and heartbreaking events can take place when the wrong person says just the right thing. My first book is the well reviewed MS Madness! A "Giggle More, Cry Less" Story of Multiple Sclerosis. It details the year following my chronic illness diagnosis and how I learned that giggles are good for you and who knew, I can write funny! I have done many speaking engagements surrounding the topic of how laughter is a valid coping mechanism. I would love to appear on your podcast and share with others how I not only survived an MS diagnosis but how I have thrived in its aftermath and/or how despite his own demons, my first love gave me the courage to embrace life both inside and outside of our beautiful, small hometown.

Cortney McDermott is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and mind-body expert, with a Master of Science from the London School of Economics. Her work in the field of self-development and business strategy has been featured in Inc., Women’s Health, SUCCESS, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and many other mainstream business and lifestyle media.

 Cort's career highlights include her time as an executive at Vanity Fair Corporation, Vice President at Sustainability Partners Inc., and then running her own businesses, with clients and audiences at Universal Music Group, Google, Nike, and Virgin Unite.

 Cortney speaks four languages and lives between Italy and the US.

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: “Hitting the Cycle” with Bruce Dern; “Armed Response”; “Ghost in the Family;” and “Band of Robbers,” 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 “A Million Little Things.”

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.

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. “Travis never met a stranger,” is what his wife always says.