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Aug 30, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with authors Chris Mefford and Kyle Buckett about their book, Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy Seal (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win. What is leadership and where did we all learn to define it? For many of us it happens in the business world through perpetual...


Aug 23, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with authors John Roth and Leonard Grob about their book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, And Endangered Democracy. American democracy is under the most sever threat since the Civil War. As Holocaust experts both Roth and Grob are aptly placed to make the careful comparison to the mechanisms that...


Aug 22, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author and educator Adam Bessie about his new book, Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey. An English professor at a community college in the Bay Area, Bessie shares with us what it was like for both teachers and students to have to go virtual. Unlike most of his colleagues however, Bessie was...


Aug 11, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with Sally and Jonah Ismael about their book, The Night Blooming. Twin competitive Taekwondo athletes Sally and Jonah endured severe childhood psychological, emotional, and mental distress as they confronted their fears, doubts, pain, and chronic PTSD during the traumatic experience of abuse,...


Aug 9, 2023

Matt Crawford speaks with author S.C Gwynne about his book, His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine. This is the tragic story of the British airship R-101 which went down in a hydrogen fireball in 1930, killing more people than died in the Hindenburg disaster seven years later....