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After countless generations of searching for and sharing wisdom, why does man's quest for meaning remain so elusive? Answers abound, and yet people remain stuck and unhappy, self-limiting, and periodically self-destructive. Elevate offers insight into the meaning of life as it weaves together five powerful insights and 10 essential skills - linking awareness and action, East and West, ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific - so that we can build a staircase of success.

Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion. Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded.

Leadership has always required judgment. What has changed is the environment in which judgment is exercised. Artificial intelligence now shapes how information is produced, filtered, and presented to leaders. It accelerates analysis and offers recommendations with increasing confidence. In many organizations, decisions appear to emerge naturally from systems and models—leaving less visible space for deliberation, responsibility, and human judgment. A Return to Strategic Leadership: Judgment in the Age of AI explores what happens when optimization begins to replace accountability.

What motivates you to action? Is it seeing the success of others? Why do you want the things you want in life? How do you plan to get there? Success Psyche takes listeners on a deep and personal dive into their own mind because for most people, they simply don’t know how. Maybe even worse, they don’t know why they set certain goals and never reach them. Each chapter is designed to represent one of the 12 massive actions that are necessary for success in any industry and for anyone. The time for excuses is over, and the time for measurable and attainable action is now.

Dr. Henry Kaufman is the most famous economist Wall Street has ever seen, renowned well beyond the financial industry. He was the subject of New Yorker cartoons, had cameos in drama productions and two seminal literary works of the 1980s, was subject to death threats, and enjoyed the nickname "Dr. Doom." His pinnacle of influence arrived on August 17, 1982. That single day turned out to be the beginning of the world that we now live in.

Science has finally uncovered the miracle and magic of our observable universe. For the first time, this book captures the interwoven journey of science and religion to elucidate and reconcile the definition, purpose, structure, and function of life, death, God, and the human soul in this simplistic narrative helping the listener navigate life lit up by observable and inclusive awareness unlike ever before.

In August 1967, I fulfilled my dream of becoming a fighter pilot when I was accepted into the 123rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, the Redhawks, of the Oregon Air National Guard. That dream became indelibly ingrained in my psyche when on the morning of my first day in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Korean War, at the age of 12, I watched F-80 fighter jets make simulated gun strafing passes on a firefighter training tower at the city’s edge of the Cook Inlet.

In Catching Hell, longtime seafood mogul Allen Ricca and author Joe Muto take listeners behind the scenes of the high-end restaurant world and the international market for seafood, and how that industry has been impacted perhaps like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Travis Ridout and Michael Franz examine how political advertisements function in various kinds of campaigns and how voters are influenced by them. The authors particularly study where ads are placed, asserting that television advertising will still be relevant despite the growth of advertising on the Internet.

Former Detroit homicide detective Edwin Blake broke into show business as a script consultant on cop movies. Now living in Los Angeles five years later, Blake is suffering from clinical depression, is no longer in demand in film and TV–and money is short. But things look up when Blake gets a call from wealthy, oddball producer, Jason “JP” Perry, telling him he wants to hire him for a future cable TV series. But there’s a catch.

Science, not speculative philosophy, is the only guide, however imperfect, to the nature of existence. Science culture uses and supports science. The social brain experiences free will and needs religious faith. Empathy is a choice based on intuition. We need a better scientific understanding of dogma and chauvinism, and this book explores these issues. It also describes the Crisis of the Anthropocene is a wakeup that needs to overcome ignorance and naïve optimism, and reach our deepest emotions.

It made sense for Abigail Dresden to help her father with his porta potty business when reconstructive surgery on her knee ended her career as a dancer – but CEO? They claim that she’s a natural, but she has felt like a fraud all along. With no one to talk to, her life was spiraling out of control until she met a so-called CEO-whisperer named Saul and his larger-than-life group of CEO’s that she’d never have dared to call peers. Can she pull her health, business, and relationship out of a tailspin and regain some balance in her life? Perhaps, but certainly not alone.