David Marin is an everyday hero. He’s the adoptive father of three children. We discuss parenthood and how it changed his life from his book This Is Us.

Michael Korda is a New York Times best-selling author of several books. We look at the tragic hero of World War I, Lawrence of Arabia, from his biography of T. E. Lawrence titled Hero.

Ralph Morin is a film documentarian, an entrepreneur, an author and a lover of martial music. He’s taken a long film script about the Cold War period of 1946-1990 and turned it into a book. We discuss the Cold War era from his book, The Cold War: A Remembrance.

Kimberly Alyn has been an entrepreneur and successful business owner since the age of nineteen. As a professional speaker, she tackles topics every person can relate to. We discuss her book Men are Slobs, Women are Neat…and other Gender Lies that Damage Relationships.

Anne Balaban is a human potential trainer with a highly developed capacity to inspire and inform. She delivers an unusual New Year’s Message for 2012, “Don’t bother making resolutions.” We explore the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions people make this time a year and explain why some are futile and others are just plain dumb.

Tom Brown is a veteran of the music industry—most recently with Rhino Records. He lived a different reality in 1967 than most people remember about the “Summer of Love,” and that reality shaped him forever. We discuss his memoir of that part of his life from his book Summer of Love, My Ass.