Karl Mecklenburg is an All-Pro Defensive player for the Denver Broncos who played in the 1990s. He shares the lessons he learned playing football and how those lessons apply to student athletes and adults today from his book Heart of a Student Athlete.
Peg Tyre is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who spent years writing for Newsweek and the New York Times, among others. She’s written The Good School to make the thorny policy questions around schooling understandable to parents. We discuss her findings.
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Monday, August 22, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.
William Dietrich is a best-selling novelist. Typically, I don’t interview novelists, but the premise for his latest book, Blood of the Reich, fascinated me. We discuss the secret—and controversial—Nazi mission to Tibet in 1938 and its impact on Hitler and the world.
Paul Egereman is the founder of eScription—a medical transcription company. He sold his company to Nuance and earned a huge payday for starting the company. He believes, like Warren Buffett, that the wealthy should pay more in taxes to help America out of its current financial situation. We discuss whether lowering the top of society through taxation can lift the bottom or not.
David Avrin helps individuals and companies go from obscurity to top-of-mind in their area of expertise. We discuss how people and businesses can raise their visibility from his book, It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You.