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David Nadelberg is the creator of a grassroots storytelling project that’s hailed as a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek. We discuss the stage and television productions of his project, The Mortified Sessions.

Jane Leavy is a failed Little League pitcher turned sports writer. She’s written definitive biographies of two of baseball’s most enigmatic players. We discuss her latest biography of Mickey Mantle, The Last Boy.

Professor Lisa Randall is on Time Magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2007. She’s one of the country’s preeminent physicists and we discuss her latest book Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

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.

Adam Bryant has been a journalist for more than two decades. He reveals the indispensable and unexpected lessons he learned from CEOs on how to lead and succeed from his book titled, The Corner Office.

Erik Calonius is a former business reporter and editor. He’s turned his attention to finding out why certain visionary business leaders stay Ten Steps Ahead of the rest of us. We discuss his findings from his book, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries From The Rest of Us.