Beverly Flaxington explains the rules everyone needs to learn in order to understand and communicate with others more effectively. She provides insights we need to identify relationship missteps, and then apply easy-to-learn techniques to bring relationships to a more meaningful level in both personal and business settings from her book Understanding Other People.
Chris O’Dell is the world’s first female rock ’n’ roll tour manager. She worked with the most influential musicians of that era from 1968 to 1984. We discuss her experiences, her memories of the famous rock stars and how she became a tour manager from her book titled Miss O’Dell.
Peggy Orenstein believes the Girl Power movement that began in the 1980s has gone too far in the 2010s. We discuss the impact a “princess society” has on young girls, and whether or not it empowers girls from her book Cinderella Ate My Daughter.
Jesse Bering addresses the “religious reflex” that is intrinsic in all humans. He uses science to prove that God is not a delusion, but rather a sophisticated cognitive illusion. We discuss how belief has led to our survival as a species from his book The Belief Instinct.
Brother Gary Joseph has survived a journey we will all take, but from which few return. He died and returned to tell about his incredible experience. He offers Proof of the Afterlife—and I’m inclined to listen to what he says because he’s a Catholic Friar. We discuss his experience and how he knows there is an afterlife.
Jonathan Weiner explores the idea that we are approaching immortality. Average life expectancy increases two years per decade and, if extrapolated out, that means our species will approach immortality. We discuss the scientific, moral and societal implications of such a theory contained in his book Long For This World.