In this episode of The Podcast with a Thousand Faces, Cassidy joins JCF’s Joanna Gardner for a rich and personal conversation on the power of storytelling, the influence of Joseph Campbell, and the meaning of following your bliss. Together, they explore how our struggles can become sources of strength, and how the hero’s journey can
Pam Sherman can often stump a CEO of a major company by asking this one simple question: What’s one word you’d use to define yourself? While the answer comes easily to some, for others, thinking about who they are deep down is an exercise they’ve missed or avoided. That exercise, though, Sherman argues, is essential
Attorney Alan Dershowitz’s bestselling 2003 book The Case for Israel was flawed from the get-go by the fact that its author is Jewish and American. This is a topic best handled by an insider – and not a Jew, but an Arab. An Arab with intellectual curiosity, integrity, courage, and journalistic expertise. Lebanese-Iraqi journalist and
For Fox News, Randal Teague, author of Jesus and His Fishermen: The Untold Story, writes: Palm Sunday just passed and Easter is upon us. We know the scriptural accounts. We’ve heard them many times. But this year, we might look for something more — the rest of the story. When Jesus first called Peter, Peter
Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from The DNA of a Doctor: How Upbringing, Culture, and Unbridled Ambition Curates Achievement (Post Hill Press, 2026) Both of my grandmothers, living in two separate small villages in India miles apart from each other, had each secretly become believers in Jesus. At that time, in that environment, it was
The surprise in Jonathan Leaf’s The Primate Myth is that our relationship to the apes may be more distant than we think. The stakes are higher than when we play a round of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. If we are closest to the apes above all creatures, then we must, the evolutionary logic goes,
Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions. When Cohen Miles-Rath walks into his father’s house, the history of his psychosis is right there in front of him. There is the place where he was standing when he received a cryptic
In a guest column for the Shiny Herd substack, Rob Rosen, author of Crimes of Omission, writes: I am going to say something that might be very unpopular to many people: The media doesn’t lie to you. If you turn on MS NOW, CBS or Fox News Channel, most of the stories you’ll see are factually correct.
Former gossip columnist and A-list publicist, Rob Shuter, is turning his wild career experiences into a work of fiction. The Naughty But Nice podcaster, who once repped top tier stars including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Jon Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, is gearing up to release his first fiction book on April 21. It Started
Shyam Sankar, Palantir CTO and author of Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III, visits CNBC. Click here to watch the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
In an opinion piece for Fox News, Dan Doyle, author of the upcoming book Of Roughnecks and Riches, discusses New York’s stance on fracking. New York is making its poorest residents pay for a political fantasy. The Cuomo administration banned shale fracking in 2014, bowing to the noise of “fracktivists.” Hochul kept the ban and
In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, just as Boston was wrapping up St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, two men disguised as police officers showed up at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, claiming they were responding to a call about a disturbance. Even though this was a breach of protocol, one of the museum
These days, non-fiction book titles – and subtitles – can be extremely hyperbolic, promising a great deal more than they deliver. But the title of Lee Harris’s Lincoln, Roosevelt, Trump: Three Profiles in World-Historical Leadership actually undersells the contents. For this isn’t some lazy rehash of three presidencies: it’s one of those exceedingly rare books
On Thursday, March 5, former Army Captain of Military Intelligence and Afghanistan veteran Seth Keshel released his explosive new book, The American War on Election Corruption, from Post Hill Press. Keshel, who holds an MBA and whose election forecasting models are known worldwide, was personally commended by President Donald J. Trump for his groundbreaking analytical
My forever Valentine didn’t arrive wrapped in shimmering gold foil. He came as a voice drifting through a wall, a sound that found my heart before I saw his face. In the early ’90s, I was immersed in the fiercely competitive world of entertainment as EMI Music Publishing’s vice president of creative writer development. My
A Tony Award-winner for “Hairspray,” and a seven-time Oscar nominee, Marc Shaiman has written about his nearly 50 years in show business in a new memoir, Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner. Shaiman talks with Tracy Smith about collaborating with Billy Crystal on parody songs for the Oscars; composing scores for
Former U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander is using a new book to make a powerful closing argument for the value of public service. In The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump, the longtime Tennessee Republican reflects on more than 50 years in politics and encourages Americans who want change to seek elected office themselves.
When she was 12, Kylie Ora Lobell decided she no longer believed in God. Bullied at school, shuffled between her divorced parents’ homes and upset about her unanswered prayers, she embraced atheism. It didn’t help with her anxiety or make her feel better about herself — or anything else in her life — but it
In politics, it’s never too early to start looking ahead. For Republicans today, that means thinking about who will lead their party after Trump leaves the scene. Legal and political analyst Frank DeVito believes Vice President JD Vance is the man for the job, a case he lays out in the new book, JD Vance
Key leaders within the entertainment industry met at the Beverly Hills offices of marketing firm THE A LIST to celebrate the forthcoming launch of the new highly anticipated book, Straight From the Grapevine: How to Crush Your Job Search. Co-written by founders of the dynamic staffing agency The Grapevine, authors Rachel Zaslansky Sheer and Lori
In a new op-ed for Fox News, Dan Doyle, author of the recent book, Of Roughnecks & Riches by discusses his experience with the fracking industry. Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about the book.
Should you get the audiobook or hardcover edition of Marc Shaiman’s Never Mind the Happy? Click here to watch the reel. Click here to learn more about the book.
The company’s chief technology officer has co-authored a book which is rallying cry for bold leaders and risk-taking entrepreneurs to rearm western democracies. Shyam Sankar is talking, in contrarian Palantir style, about “crazy things” that are also “empirically true”. The chief technology officer of the US data analytics firm, gives an example of how building
Emmanuel Laroche, author of A Taste if Madagascar, discuss how much more there is to Madagascar than vanilla. Watch the episode here. Learn more about the book here.
We’ve all heard the advice: just stay motivated. But let’s be real—motivation fades. And when it does, most of us assume we’re the problem. According to bestselling author and master life coach Sarah Centrella, motivation isn’t the issue—it’s the outcome. The root of lasting change starts not with hype, but with your thinking. In her