Jay Abraham is the world’s highest-paid marketing consultant, a proven business leader and top executive coach in the United States. As Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group, Inc., Jay has spent his entire career solving complex problems and fixing underperforming businesses. He has significantly increased the bottom lines of over 10,000 clients in more…

Jane Friedman is an icon in the publishing space. With over two decades of experience in the business, she is truly considered the world’s leading expert on traditional publishing, self publishing and where the twain shall meet. She’s the curator of The Hot Sheet, a biweekly paid newsletter, oversees a wildly popular blog and is…

Do you really need me to tell you who Jeff Garlin is? Well, the simple way to handle that is to tell you that he stars on arguably the most adored show of all time (Curb Your Enthusiasm). But he does so much more than just come to you via your SmartTV. He’s also a…

Ed Kressy is not your average human. He’s much sweeter than your average human and his sweetness emanates from him. He also has a much crazier story than your average addict with a crazy story…and this is coming from someone who’s heard every crazy addiction story over the past two decades. The short version: he…

Derek Murphy is a USA Today bestselling author with a PhD in Literature, who’s been featured in CNN, writes fantasy and sometimes lives in castles. When not trolling obscure bookshops, he prefers to be sipping espresso, surrounded by kittens and pursuing research on what it means to be a successful creative. Now the word unique…

Originally from Dublin Ireland, David Nihill is the founder of FunnyBizz Conference, bestselling author of Do You Talk Funny?, winner of San Francisco International Comedy Competition, runner up in the Moth’s largest US Grandslam storytelling competition and the first-ever Irishman to have a special on Dry Bar Comedy. His work has been featured in Inc,…

Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, teacher for Writer’s Digest and adjunct instructor at New York University. The former editor-in-chief of five national consumer women’s magazines, her work has appeared in dozens of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, Huffington Post Personal, Marie Claire and more. Now she’s…

Dave Chesson is the creator of Kindlepreneur.com, a website devoted to teaching advanced book marketing which even Amazon KDP acknowledges as one of the best by telling users to “Gain insight from Kindlepreneur on how you can optimize marketing for your books.” Having worked with such authors as Orson Scott Card, Ted Dekker and more,…

This special episode is a solo chat about the implosion of Scribe Media. While it doesn’t contain tips about how to launch a book that transforms your career, it’s a deep dive into what NOT to do when building a business from your book. Everything in here is, like all episodes, just my opinion but…

Regular listeners know that I’m obsessed with PickFu, a software that, in technical terms, provides actionable pre-launch feedback on creative options. (How obsessed? I never had ads on the podcast because I wanted to wait until there was something I loved so much that I could recommend it without reservations. And, well, PickFu is it!)…