The heroic and inspiring Roger Hallam returns to talk about his work as an environmental activist and his new book, Your Party – Grasping the Enormity of the Moment.
Roger Hallam is an environmental activist known for having co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain, the cooperative federation organization Radical Routes, and the political party Burning Pink.
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Author Jodi-Ann Burey joins me to discuss her powerful new book, Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work, as well as several other topics & issues.
Jodi-Ann Burey is a writer, critic, and sought-after speaker on race, culture, and health equity. Her essays appear in various arts, business, and literary publications. Jodi-Ann created and hosts the prose and poetry salon Lit Lounge: The People’s Art and the Black Cancer podcast. She was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica; lives in Seattle, Washington; and will always call New York City home.
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Syrian expert and prolific author David W. Lesch joins me to talk about his captivating new biography, “Dodgers to Damascus: David Lesch's Journey from Baseball to the Middle East,” written by Catherine Nixon Cooke.
David W. Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far. An acclaimed scholar, educator, author, and conflict resolution specialist, he has advised five U.S. presidential administrations at the highest levels about the head-spinning political, religious, and cultural complexities of the Middle East. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including A History of the Middle East since the Rise of Islam, Syria: A Modern History, and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History.
Long before, as the number one draft pick for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980, Lesch followed his American dream, playing with many baseball greats until a shoulder injury sidelined him. He later became a distinguished professor of Middle East studies at Trinity University in San Antonio and was soon tapped by the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, and policy centers and governments internationally.
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Science journalist Peter Brannen joins me to discuss his brilliant new book, The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World plus so much more. I am also a huge fan of his earlier book, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions.
Peter Brannen is a science journalist who specializes in planetary science. His stories cover deep time, astrobiology, paleoclimate, paleontology, geology, geochemistry, marine biology, the philosophy of science, and evolutionary biology. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post, Slate, The Boston Globe, Aeon, and others. He was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and a 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow. Peter is a placental mammal, aerobic heterotroph and Boston Celtics fan.
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The beautiful and mystical Priyanka Kumar joins me to talk about her inspiring new book The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit has been called “environmental writing at its best.”
Priyanka Kumar is a nationally acclaimed naturalist and the author of Conversations with Birds, praised as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls” (Psychology Today). She profoundly re-envisions our place in Nature—and Nature’s place in our hearts—and has been compared _to Rachel Carson. A documentary inspired by Conversations with Birds produced by an Emmy-award-winning team is forthcoming.
Priyanka’s essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion, and Sierra magazine, and she has been featured on CBS, Oprah Daily, and Yale Climate Connections, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
She has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Southern California and serves on the Advisory Council of the Leopold Writing Program. Her feature documentary, The Song of the Little Road, is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Her forthcoming book, The Grassland Queen, will be published in Fall 2026. Her awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, an International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellowship, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry,

The inspiring Carole Hopson joins us to talk about her compelling new book, A Pair of Wings: A Novel plus so many other topics.
Carole Hopson is a Boeing 737 Captain for United Airlines, based in Newark, NJ.
After a remarkable 20-year career as a journalist and executive, she followed her dream to become a pilot and share her passion with others as a flight instructor, while raising her family.
Walking away from executive-level positions, she went to flight school with gusto and completed flight training at the peak of her corporate accomplishments.
True to her roots as a writer, Carole published her debut novel: A Pair of Wings, based on the life story of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, the first American to earn a French civilian pilot’s license.
Carole also heads the Jet Black Foundation, dedicated to sending 100 Black women to flight school by the year 2035.
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My friend Fred Mollin joins me to talk about his wonderful new memoir, Unplugged: Stories and Secrets from a Life of Making Records, Scoring Film, and Working with the Legends of Music covering his five decades in the entertainment industry. This one was fun because is such an incredible storyteller.
Fred Mollin is a Grammy-nominated and Juno Award-winning record producer and arranger with a diverse career spanning various genres. He has collaborated with renowned artists like Kris Kristofferson, America, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, and many others.
His early success includes producing Dan Hill's iconic hit "Sometimes When We Touch." Mollin has also achieved significant success in children's music, with over three million units sold as a producer and artist for Disney. In addition, he has composed extensively for film and television, including projects like Friday the 13th and Beverly Hills 90210, earning him four SOCAN awards.
Based in Nashville and Los Angeles, Mollin continues to pursue his passion for music production.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.

Author Megan Greenwell joins me to discuss her riveting new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream―An Exposé of Private Equity's Devastating Impact on American Lives, Communities, and the Economy plus so much more. This is a topic I have wanted to cover for a couple of years and how private capital is destroying America.

Megan Greenwell is a journalist who has written or edited for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, WIRED, and ESPN. She is also the deputy director of the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, a workshop and college access initiative for students from low-income backgrounds. A California native, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their pug.

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The brilliant Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs returns to talk about her powerful new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us. I also dedicated this show to my beloved mother, since we taped it on her birthday. All glories to the Divine Feminine and may it rise up into balance for the good of all being.
Anna is a New York Times bestselling author and multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. With a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge in addition to a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University, Anna translates her academic knowledge into stories that are clear and engaging.
Her articles have been published by TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN, Motherly, the Huffington Post, For Harriet, The Guardian, Darling Magazine, and Blavity. Anna’s storytelling also takes form in her talks, including her TED Talk that has been viewed 2 million times, as well as the scripted and unscripted screen projects she has in development. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three kids.
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This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.

The great political sage and one of my favorite truth tellers Sarah Kendzior (also find her on Substack!) returns to talk about what is unfolding in our country as well as her brilliant new bestselling book, The Last American Road Trip.
Sarah also wrote the bestsellers, Hiding in Plain Site (2020), and They Knew (2022). Sarah was also the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covered corruption in the United States and the rise of authoritarianism around the world. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.

This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.

A fascinating and deep conversation with Addison Witt (find him on TikTok and Instagram, too!) is an accomplished actor, political poet, creative entrepreneur, and social commentator whose work spans entertainment, activism, and human empowerment. Once a renowned Hollywood talent manager and acting coach, Addison now uses his voice and platform to inspire and challenge audiences toward a more conscious, compassionate world.

He is also the author of I STAND WITH THE SOUL OF AMERICA: A belief in the possibility of betterment, justice, and human potential.

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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.

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The inspiring Maggie Doyne (find her on X, Instagram, and Facebook!) returns to talk about the documentary, Between the Mountain and the Sky as well as co-founding the Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. The BlinkNow Foundation has also broken ground on the sustainable Children’s Village in Nepal.
For my friends in Martha’s Vineyard, there is the screening there on March 30th!
Maggie is co-founder of the BlinkNow Foundation and Kopila Valley Children’s Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal. At age nineteen, she used her babysitting money and worked with the local community to build a home for orphaned children in war-torn Nepal. In 2010, she and her team opened a school for five hundred of the region’s most impoverished children. Throughout the past decade, BlinkNow and Kopila have worked to deepen and grow the organization through grassroots community development efforts.
Her work has been championed by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Nicholas Kristof and the Dalai Lama, among others. The story of BlinkNow’s beginnings has been featured on The Huffington Post, VH1, MTV, and Fueling Young People to Change the World | DoSomething.org . Maggie was named Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year and was used as an example for her groundbreaking work at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy. In 2015, she was named CNN Hero of the Year.
Maggie’s story carries a message of hope, love, and the possibility of how the smallest individual acts can spark huge world change. She believes that poverty, hunger, and violence will be alleviated when children are provided with their most basic needs and human rights—a loving, happy childhood, nutrition, and a quality education. She believes that this can be achieved during her lifetime.
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A fascinating discussion with author and micro-biologist Richard M. Anderson on his new book, Outbound: Islands in the Void plus all kinds of other planetary happenings. We talk about climate change, humanity, the brain, and life across the galaxies.

Richard is an alumnus of San Jose State University, with a Master of Arts degree in microbiology with an emphasis in molecular biology. Throughout his  career The Evolution of Life: Big Bang to Space Colonies has been a dream of his that finally came to fruition as his first book. It is backed by years of research to  supplement and verify its content.

Richard's second book, Outbound: Islands in the Void is the first in a series of sci-fi fiction, the second of the series is due out in the spring of 2025, Outbound: Becoming Meta Mars.

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I had a wonderful conversation with author Paul Nugent on the ongoing UFO phenomenon and his brilliant new book, Maya Mire: A Spiritual Journey into Cosmic Truth and the Dawning of a New World.

Paul was brought up in the Church of England, culminating in regular worship and charitable work for the homeless at London's famous St. Martin's in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square. Having completed a business degree in 1980, he later embarked on a four-year study of Eastern Philosophy at London's School of Economic Science, as well as spending two periods at the New Age spiritual community of Findhorn in the north of Scotland.

For the past 23 years he has been a Director of The Aetherius Society, the world's oldest UFO organization, founded in 1955 by the Western master of yoga, Dr. George King (1919-1997).

The unique story of Dr. King is largely untold. In all, he brought through over 600 "cosmic transmissions" from Intelligences existing upon the higher dimensions of other planets, mainly from within our solar system. In order to bring this about, he would enter a "positive yogic samadhic trance," an extremely difficult and dangerous condition which he demonstrated on national television both in the United States and the UK.

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My dear friend Marianne Williamson returns to the show to talk about the current political landscape and the recent election. We touch on a wide spectrum of issues here with great depth and nuance. Please take a listen with an open mind and heart to this brilliant soul.
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader.
For over four decades, she has been a leader in spiritually progressive circles. She is the author of 16 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.
Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 18 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS.
She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger and racial reconciliation issues. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. Williamson ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and 2024.
Marianne Williamson knows firsthand how our current system is failing millions of Americans. She’s had a forty-year career facilitating personal and systems transformation, and has inspired millions of us to overcome in spite of the system.
That’s why Marianne is standing for an America where we can celebrate the places where we have been right and can admit to the places when we have been wrong.
This is not a time for politics as usual, for politics as usual has failed us.
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A beautiful and wide ranging conversation with the inspiring Adam Markel. I love how deep we went here and the life wisdom shared.
Bestselling author, keynote speaker, workplace expert and resilience researcher Adam Markel inspires leaders to master the challenges of massive disruption in his new book, Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience (McGraw-Hill, Feb. 22, 2022).
Adam is author of the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller, Pivot: The Art & Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life. A leading international keynote speaker, he has reached tens of thousands worldwide with his message of resilience as the competitive edge in today’s complex markets. An attorney, entrepreneur, and transformational trainer, Adam is a sought-after business culture catalyst who inspires, empowers, and guides organizations and individuals to create sustainable, high-performance strategies.
Adam is also the CEO of More Love Media and host of the Change Proof podcast, where he shares his insights on pivoting and resilience in today's fast-paced market and interviews experts, innovators, and influencers in the areas of business and life.
Adam credits much of his success to the principles he learned during his 8 years as a Jones Beach lifeguard in New York. As a first responder in a life-and-death environment, he learned the importance of cultivating a high-performance capacity and impeccable teamwork. He’s found that the principles of this type of culture and leadership equally apply to any business that wants to build a competitive advantage to win.
After building a multi-million-dollar law firm, Adam pivoted his own career path to become CEO of one of the largest business and personal growth training companies in the world. Here he learned that motivation and inspiration alone are not enough to effectively utilize change; it’s about providing leaders, teams, and audiences with effective takeaways to sustain them over time.
Adam’s keynotes, corporate workshops, and business mentoring combine his “Lessons from the Lifeguard Stand” with practical business strategies, personal development insights, and a unique delivery style to create a high-energy and impactful learning environment.
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My favorite political author and the absolute premier speaker of truth Sarah Kendzior returns to discuss what’s been unfolding lately, from the rise of Vice President Harris to the odd circumstances around the attempted shooting of former President Trump.
Sarah Kendzior is the bestselling author of THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY (2018), HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020), and THEY KNEW (2022). her next book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, will come out in 2025.
From 2018 until 2013, she was the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covers corruption in the United States and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.
She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Paul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.

This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.

The podcast returns with the glorious Sherry Sidoti discussing her moving new memoir, A Smoke and A Song. We talk about the passing of her mother and other life transitions she is navigating. As always Sherry shares so much wisdom in these treasured encounters.
Sherry Sidoti is an award-winning author and yoga teacher. She is the founder and lead teacher of FLY Yoga, a yoga teacher training program and non-profit that offers yoga and meditation for trauma resilience on Martha's Vineyard, MA. She leads Embodied Memoir Writing courses, somatic healing workshops, and retreats globally. Her musings, infused by twenty-plus years of practicing and teaching yoga, healing arts, and mysticism have been published in Heart & Soul Magazine, The Martha's Vineyard Times, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, The Covey Club, and the She Writes Press Anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis: Women Writers Respond to the Call.
Sidoti’s debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song received the Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir with Living Now Book Awards, was a Finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Awards da Vinci Eye Prize and earned Readers’ Favorites Five Star Prize.
She currently resides on Martha's Vineyard, MA.
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Paul Samuel Dolman, author, podcaster, and speaker, presents What Matters Most (the book!) a series of interview transcriptions from more than twenty inspirational Nashville and Tennessee residents, including special guest the journalist and author Bill Moyers.

Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, former Governor Don Sundquist, Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal, Grammy Award-winning entertainer Wynonna Judd, and many more share intimate and inspirational aspects of themselves.

This twentieth anniversary edition also features bonus material from thirty more notables from Tennessee, including local business owners, spiritual leaders, coaches, radio personalities, authors, and educators.

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn!), returns to discuss the climate crisis and her brilliant new book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. She is a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair in Public Policy and Public Law in the Public Administration program of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. She is also the Chief Scientist for the global conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy.

She has a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Colgate University, Trinity College, and Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Professor Hayhoe's research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to evaluate the future impacts of climate change on human society and the natural environment. She has published over 125 peer-reviewed abstracts and publications and co-authored Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and served as lead author on key reports for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academy of Sciences, including the Second, Third and Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessments. Her TED talk, The Most Important Thing You Can Do About Climate Change: Talk About It has received over 4 million views.

She is an Oxfam Sister of the Planet and currently serves on a number of advisory boards including the science advisory board for the Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University, the advisory board for King Philanthropies, the international advisory board for the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, the sustainability advisory board for Netflix, and the advisory board for the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.

In 2019, Dr. Hayhoe was named a United Nations Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation. In 2022, she received the American Geophysical Union's Ambassador Award and was named a Fellow of the AGU, while in 2023 she was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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“The only good life is a life of purpose, and beneficial purpose to be sure.”

In honor of our country’s July 4th holiday we thought we would have America’s late & great historian back on the show, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough. David was a long-time friend and mentor who modeled to me the very definition of true, holistic success. I miss him often and greatly.

David McCullough has been acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice winner of the National Book Award, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.

His most recent book, the widely praised The Wright Brothers, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and remained on the list for nine months. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, also a #1 bestseller, has been called “dazzling,” …“history to be savored.” His 1776 has been acclaimed “a classic,” while John Adams, published in 2001, remains one of the most praised and widely read American biographies of all time.

In the words of the citation accompanying his honorary degree from Yale, “As an historian, he paints with words, giving us pictures of the American people that live, breathe, and above all, confront the fundamental issues of courage, achievement, and moral character.”

Mr. McCullough’s other books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave Companions, and Truman. His books have been published in nineteen languages and as may be said of few writers, none of his books has ever been out of print.

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