Books Applied Podcast
Episodes
Books Applied Podcast - Radical Candor by Kim Scott - Featuring Special Guest Brandi Oldham
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Radical Candor exploded onto the business world in 2017, the story was that this book justified and celebrated the effectiveness of being an a-ho...
Books Applied Podcast - Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Caring for other people who are experiencing trauma can cause a trauma exposure response in us. In Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Co...
Books Applied Podcast - 10 to 25 by David Yeager - Featuring Special Guest Jo Linden
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Linden and I discuss the mentor mindset, what it is, and how to do it well, based on the book 10 to 25 by David Yeager.It turns out that the proble...
Books Applied Podcast - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara - Featuring Special GuestEffy
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Effy and I talk about Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara and its lessons for how to be deeply of service to others. Also, Effy defends working i...
Books Applied Podcast - Untamed by Glennon Doyle - Featuring Special Guest Daava Mills
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many reasons why I was late to pick-up Untamed by Glennon Doyle (I mention them specifically in the episode). I'm glad I did (eventually...
Books Applied Podcast - Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards - Featuring Special Guest Jenn T. Grace
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to convey more warmth, competence, and charisma as Jenn T. Grace and I discuss the book Cues by Vanessa Van Edwards. This book describes the...
Books Applied Podcast - The Striker and The Clock by Georgia Cloepfil - Featuring Special Guest Steve Price (AKA Skippy Steve)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This engaging book by Georgia Cloepfil gives an insider look into professional women's sports at the not-quite-ultra-elite level. In conversation ...
Books Applied Podcast - Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remember the it-only-takes-10,000-hours-to-be-an-expert craze? This book is by the guy (Anders Ericsson)who did the research on how to become an exper...
Books Applied Podcast - Reset by Dan Heath
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Heath created a ton of additional resources and info for this book. You can find these treasures at danheath.com/reset, and for resources for ea...
Books Applied Podcast - 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman - Featuring Special Guest Erika Cooley
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This book could have devolved into a bucket-list-frenzy for how to maximize the 4000 weeks we each have to live. Instead it looks at how to live well ...
Books Applied Podcast - Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard - Featuring Special Guest Erica Holthausen
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erica and I discuss the eminently readable Finding the Mother Tree. This book by Suzanne Simard describes her journey as a forest researcher and her s...
Books Applied Podcast - Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Eddy - Featuring Special Guest Tracey Biebel
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This book can radically reduce stress and conflict in your interpersonal relationships. The Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Edd...
Books Applied Podcast - The Third Side by William Ury
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are more than winners and losers in every conflict - there is a third side. Enjoy this quick survey of a book with ideas I use very, very freque...
Books Applied Podcast - How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens - Featuring Special Guest Kathleen Gabriel
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a note-taking strategy that will change your thinking and make it easy to write multiple books a year? How to Take Smart Notes makes this cla...
Books Applied Podcast - Holding Change by adrienne maree brown Featuring Special Guest Jayne Nucete
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Holding Change is a book about how to thoughtfully facilitate and mediate so one can create profound change. In this episode, my sensational friend Ja...
Books Applied Podcast - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Featuring Special Guest Wendy Kleinfeldt
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blink is not a new book but its insights have seeped into everyday life. The barrier between how we respond "without thinking" and our consc...
Books Applied Podcast - Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey - Featuring Special Guest Lisa Alexander
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To many of us steeped in grind culture, just the idea of rest is heretical. In this excellent manifesto, Tricia Hersey shares the deeply revolutionary...
Books Applied Podcast - Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I read this book and immediately got so excited that I recorded a podcast episode. It is so good. Learning about the different kinds of feedback might...
Books Applied Podcast - Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau - Featuring Special Guest Lauren O'Malley
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Check out these links and extra resources Lauren mentioned during the show: https://emilyladau.com/ Emily Ladau’s podcast https://www.theaccessibl...
Books Applied Podcast - Think Again by Adam Grant
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the book Think Again, Adam Grant teaches about the power of being able to change your mind. He makes a strong case for why this mental flexibility ...
Books Applied Podcast - Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen - Featuring Special Guest Marsha Shandur
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are CONSTANTLY having (or avoiding) difficult conversations. This book will tell you how to do it well. Special guest Marsha Shandur and I talk th...
Books Applied Podcast - Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown - Featuring Special Guest Jo Linden
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Naming your emotions (being aware of how you feel) is integral to emotional intelligence. The feelings wheel is a tool I often share with folks to hel...
Books Applied Podcast - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson Featuring Special Guest Charley Downing
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DEI Director Charley Downing and Iggy discuss the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. We explore the metaphors and reality of caste Wilkerson researched ...
Books Applied Podcast - Breath by James Nestor - Featuring Special Guest Lenka Koppova
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the surprising and weird world of breathing in this conversation about the book Breath by James Nestor. Lenka Koppova and I discuss improvi...
Books Applied Podcast - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - Featuring Special Guest Franklin Taggart
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells us how to live the life of a creative. Special guest Franklin Taggart and I get into what we like from her advic...
Books Applied Podcast - Quit by Annie Duke -- Featuring Special Guest Natalie King
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winners are better at quitting. Their ability to know when to quit gives them the space and energy to win (instead of wasting their efforts on a losin...
Books Applied Podcast - Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher - Featuring Special Guest Tara McMullin
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The book Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher can come off as a dark exposé of the problems we cause ourselves because we've ingested and internaliz...
Books Applied Podcast - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow - Featuring Special Guest Rachel Allen
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow provides surprising insights into how we got here and what we've written off along the w...
Books Applied Podcast - Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, by Rick Hanson - Featuring Special Guest Roberta Ravella
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's more to our brain than we think. In this episode Roberta Ravella and I discuss the book Boddha's Brain and the overlap between Buddhis...
Books Applied Podcast - Stealing Fire by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler Featuring Special Guest Gail Kraft
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about ecstasis and why it is unique, unusual and also something you can create (in many ways!) in your life.
Books Applied Podcast - At Home on an Unruly Planet, Madeline Ostrander - Featuring Special Guest, the author, Madeline Ostrander!
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Madeline and I discuss her book about being at home as our world changes. Madeline interviewed people in four communities that are navigating their ch...
Books Applied Podcast - The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey - Featuring Special Guest Loren Chadima
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a book about finding flow in all aspects of your life (sports and work and beyond). It's not about tennis -- well it's a little bit about tenn...
Books Applied Podcast - Making Numbers Count by Karla Starr and Chip Heath - Featuring Special Guest Melody Baran
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you can communicate numbers well, you can shock and amaze people. This book (and conversation) tells you how.
Books Applied Podcast - You're In Charge, Now What? by Thomas Neff and James M. Citrin - Featuring Special Guest Sabrina Walker Hernandez
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who know taking on a new leadership role could elicit so many laughs? Special guest Sabrina Walker Hernandez also brings up some great points about wh...
Books Applied Podcast - Daring Greatly, Brene Brown - Featuring Special Guest Janine Bolon
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Daring Greatly, Brene Brown writes about what it means to have courage in the modern world. My special guest Janine Bolon and I discuss this book a...
Episode 26 - 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett, featuring special guest Audrey Holst
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your brain doesn't have different parts that fight with itself. It sculpts the world you perceive. Its job is to regulate your body efficiently. Learn...
Early English Women Novelists and their Heroines
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We depart wildly from the usual nerdy book fare for this nerdy discussion about how those early English women writers created such enduring heroines. ...
Books Applied Podcast - Will by Will Smith - Featuring Special Guest Fabienne Raphael
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My friend Fabienne Raphael and I discuss the memoir Will by Will Smith. We read the book before the 2022 Academy Awards, and although we don't talk ab...
Books Applied Podcast - Quiet by Susan Cain - Featuring Special Guest Aurora Burds Connor
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know if you have an introvert on your hands? What are the strengths of introverts and why do we stampede over them at times?
Episode 22 - Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (Featuring Mark Suroviec)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking Fast and Slow has had a huge impact on how I work with people and make decisions. In this episode, I speak with trainer and facilitator Mark ...
Books Applied Podcast - Wait by Frank Portnoy - Featuring Special Guest Dan Miller
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss when it is better to wait and delay making a decision or taking action (spoiler alert: pretty much all the time - but the reason why is int...
Episode 20 - We Should All be Millionaires by Rachel Rogers Featuring Special Guest Tierra Bonds
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rogers is by turns inspiring and grounded. Special guest Tierra Bonds works in the field of personal and busin...
Books Applied Podcast - Secondhand by Adam Minter - Featuring Special Guest Julia Williamson
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I talk with Julia Williamson of Unburdened Life about the book Secondhand by Adam Minter. Julia is here to help you discard the crap you hate and this...
Books Applied Podcast - Small List, Big Results by Robbie Samuels - Featuring Special Guest, The Author, Robbie Samuels
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robbie and I discuss his book and what makes it interesting and useful for people who are building their businesses. Robbie also very generously set u...
Books Applied Podcast - Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon - Featuring Special Guests Amy Angelilli and Chandra Sivaraman
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss How to Steal Like an Artist and what that means for us as creators in the worlds of improv, coding and leadership.
Books Applied Podcast - Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Which is worse: a scattered distribution of answers to a question or many (or even most) answers being slightly wrong? Surprise! The scattered distrib...
Books Applied Podcast - The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin - Featuring special guest Dan Cayer
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss what it takes to do creative work consistently. Dan Cayer brings insights from the world of professional writing. Learn more about Dan Cay...
Books Applied Podcast - The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath - Featuring Special Guest Jess Kubat
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about how to create amazing moments in your life (and in the lives of those around you).
Books Applied Podcast - The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Wilinik and Leif Babin
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An improvement on Extreme Ownership (by the same authors) that addresses more of the nuances of leadership. I found it to be a fascinating explanation...
Books Applied Podcast - A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink - Featuring Special Guest Hannah Fitzgibbon
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity Coach Hannah Fitzgibbon and I discuss how the brain works and how you can make it work better according to Daniel Pink n his book A Whole N...
Books Applied Podcast - Curious by Ian Leslie featuring special guest Chris Martin
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss curiosity, what it is and how to cultivate it to live a better life. A lively conversation with Chris Martin.
Books Applied Podcast - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - featuring special guest Stephen Warley
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How we got to be who we are and the convenient lies that made it happen.
Books Applied Podcast - The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Poker isn't about lying and your capacity to adapt and learn is even bigger than you probably expect. Join Maria Konnikova on an amazing journey from ...
Books Applied Podcast - Atomic Habits by James Clear. Featuring Special Guest Gregor Stoddard.
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We love good habits and detest bad habits - this book gets down to details and practical about cultivating more of the good ones and rewiring the bad ...
Books Applied Podcast - Range by David Epstein - Featuring Special Guest Safiya Robinson
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Safiya Robinson and I discuss the ideas presented in Range - why it's better to have broad interests and follow many divergent paths (even if you late...
Books Applied Podcast - Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An examination of people who survive harrowing extreme situations and what they share incommon and how to bring more of those deep survival skills int...
Books Applied Podcast - The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you like to receive appreciation? How do you like to show it? What are the blindspots you're missing when appreciating others?
Books Applied Podcast - Extreme Ownership by Jocko Wilink and Leif Babin
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ownership of your actions is a great way to take control of your life and when you take it to the extreme you can make powerful changes. Check out the...
Books Applied Podcast - Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How to change your habits and change your life from the master Charles Duhigg.
Books Applied Podcast - Mindset by Carol Dweck
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A look at the highlights of the book Mindset by Carol Dweck and how to apply these ideas to your work, sport or life.
Books Applied Podcast - Deep Work by Cal Newport
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Working deeply is an art and a skill that can be cultivated. Get more done and do better work by applying the ideas from Deep Work by Cal Newport.