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Episode 177
THE E-MYTH REVISITED
– MICHAEL GERBER
INFLUENCE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION
– ROBERT CIALDINI
CULTURE MAKING
– ANDY CROUCH
HOW WE GOT TO NOW
– STEVEN JOHNSON
THE ONE-MINUTE MANAGER
– KEN BLANCHARD
THE OZ PRINCIPLE
– CRAIG HICKMAN AND TOM SMITH
LEADERS EAT LAST
– SIMON SINEK
WILD AT HEART
– JOHN ELDREDGE
Episode 176
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
– Steve Corbett
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
– Anne Lamott
The Power of Moments (Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact)
– Chip Heath
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
– Chip Heath
Episode 172
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
– Beth Kempton
Episode 169
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
– Eric Hoffer
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
– Timothy D. Wilson
Episode 167
Golf: The Ultimate Mind Game
– Rick Sessinghaus
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
You Are the Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
The Psychology of Winning
– Denis Waitley
The Power of Full Engagement
– Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
Episode 166
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Episode 165
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
– Don Miguel Ruiz
The Science of Getting Rich
– Wallace D. Wattles
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
– W. Timothy Gallwey
How to Win Friends & Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
The Art of Acknowledgement: Sacred Words that Elevate The Human Spirit
– Margo Majdi
Episode 162
Treasure Island
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Catalysts For Hope
– Thane Marcus
Can’t Hurt Me
– David Goggins
The Pilgrim’s Progress
– John Bunyan
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
– Ken Kesey
Outliers: Chapter 2
– Malcolm Gladwell
Flirting with Darkness
– Ben Courson
Episode 161
Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition
– Phil Knight
Pray for Potatoes: Pursue Professional Success Through God’s Love
– Rovina Broomfield
Episode 158
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation
– Latasha Morrison
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
– Robin DiAngelo
Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, & Identity
– Winona Guo
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
– Seth Godin
Episode 156
The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
– Willie James Jennings
Episode 153
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
– Seth Godin
Episode 152
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Episode 151
Good Night God
– Holly Bea
Episode 147
Where the Red Fern Grows
– Wilson Rawls
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
– Timothy D. Wilson
Episode 145
Published.: The Proven Path From Blank Page to Published Author
– Chandler Bolt
The Weekly Coaching Conversation: A Business Fable About Taking Your Game and Your Team to the Next Level
– Brian Souza
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
– Robert B. Cialdini
Episode 144
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
– Jocko Willink
Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
–
Anthony de Mello, SJ
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
– Andy Crouch
The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold
– Robert V. Levine
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Episode 142
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
– John Mark Comer
Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End
– David Gibson
Episode 141
Levels of the Game
– John McPhee
Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
– John Mark Comer
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
– Seth Godin
Open: An Autobiography
– Andre Agassi
Sleepers
– Lorenzo Carcaterra
Episode 140
Under Saturns Shadow (STUDIES IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY BY JUNGIAN ANALYSTS)
– James Hollis
Episode 139
Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
– Jeff Guinn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
– Mark Twain
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
– Louisa May Alcott
The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
– Judith Orloff MD
Into the Wild
– Jon Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
–
Jon Krakauer
The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold
– Robert V. Levine
Episode 138
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
– Anthony De Mello
Feelings Buried Alive Never Die
– Karol K. Truman
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
– Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
– Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
The Lessons of History
– Will Durant
Episode 136
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
– Timothy Keller
Under Saturn’s Shadow
– James Hollis
Episode 135
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
– Anthony De Mello
Green Eggs and Ham
– Dr. Seuss
One Pan, Two Plates: More Than 70 Complete Weeknight Meals for Two
– Carla Snyder
Episode 134
You Are The Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
The End of Stress As We Know It
– Bruce S. McEwen, Elizabeth Lasley
To Have or To Be
– Erich Fromm
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
– Anthony De Mello, J. Francis Stroud
Mindful Athlete
– George Mumford
The Inner Game of Tennis
– W. Timothy Gallwey
Episode 133
Falling Upward
– Richard Rohr
Power
– Andy Crouch
To Change the World
– James Davison Hunter
Antifragile
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Episode 131
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Episode 130
Pivot & Go
– David Nurse
Silence
– Shusaku Endo
Essentialism
– Greg McKeown
The Shack
– William P. Young
Episode 129
The ONE Thing
– Gary Keller
Episode 126
Echo
– Jordan Leach
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
Episode 125
From Here to There: A Quarter-Life Perspective On The Path To Mastery
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Episode 124
The Power of Full Engagement
– Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
Unstuck
– James S. Gordon M.D.
Conversations with God
– Neale Donald Walsch
Episode 123
Antifragile
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
High Output Management
– Andrew S. Grove
Thinking, Fast And Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Episode 121
The Secret
– Rhonda Byrne
Wuthering Heights
– Emily Bronte
From Here to There: A Quarter-life Perspective On The Path To Mastery
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Episode 120
How We Love
– Milan & Kay Yerkovich
Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith
– Victor Hunter & Lanny Hunter
Rich Dad Poor Dad
– Robert T. Kiyosaki
The E-Myth
– Michael E. Gerber
Is That Really You, God?
– Loren Cunningham
The Hiding Place
– Corrie Ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill & John Sherrill
Episode 118
Raising An Executive: Igniting Your Son’s Inner Executive To Outperform His Peers and Continue Your Legacy
– True Tamplin
Mastery
– Robert Greene
Extreme Ownership
– Jocko Willink
How to Win Friends and Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
Episode 117
Stories of Desire and Narratives of Faith: From Neanderthals to the Postmodern Era
– Victor Hunter
About Face
– Colonel David H. Hackworth
Episode 116
Flow
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Episode 115
Autobiography
– Benjamin Franklin
The Vanishing American Adults
– Ben Sasse
Range
– David Epstein
How to Win Friends and Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty
– Harvey Mackay
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
– Jim Cymbala
Endurance
– Alfred Lansing
Dune
– Frank Herbert
Lord of the Rings
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Episode 114
UnSelfie
– Michele Borba Dr.
Man’s Search for Meaning
– Viktor E. Frankl
The Road to Character
– David Brooks
The Servant
– James C. Hunter
Daring Greatly
– Brené Brown
Oathbringer
– Brandon Sanderson
The Wise Man’s Fear
– Patrick Rothfuss
Episode 113
If You Can Keep It
– Eric Metaxas
The Lessons of History
– Will Durant
Episode 112
You Are the Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
The Inner Game of Tennis
– Timothy Gallwey
The Body Keeps the Score
– Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Loving What Is
– Byron Katie
Breathing Under Water
– Richard Rohr
Episode 111
The Obstacle Is The Way
– Ryan Holiday
The Four Agreements
– Don Miguel Ruiz
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
The ONE Thing
– Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
Culture Hacks
– Richard Conrad
Episode 109
Big Magic
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Episode 108
Purpose Driven Life
– Rick Warren
The Way of the Superior Man
– David Deida
Outliers
– Malcom Gladwell
The Meaning Of Marriage
– Tim Keller
Episode 106
You Are the Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
Mastery
– Robert Greene
The Power Of Now
– Eckhart Tolle
Episode 105
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
Assumptions that Affect Our Lives
– Christian Overman
Mere Christianity
– C.S. Lewis
Episode 104
Influence the Psychology of Persuasion
– Robert Cialdini
You Are the Placebo
– Joe Disepenza
Episode 103
Steal Like An Artist
– Austin Kleon
Secrets Of the People Who Never Get Sick
– Gene Stone
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
– Marshall Goldsmith
Crazy Love
– Francis Chan
Living Life Backwards
– David Gibson
To Have Or To Be
– Erich Fromm
Episode 102
Shot Down
– Steve Sndyer
The Dip
– Seth Godin
Twelve Rules for Life
– Dr. Jordan B Peterson
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Strangers To Ourselves
– Timothy D. Wilson
The Magic Of Thinking Big
– David Schwartz
The One Thing
– Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Episode 98
You Are the Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
The Rise of Superman
– Steven Kotler
The Inner Game of Tennis
– W. Timothy Gallwey
The 4 Hour Work Week
– Timothy Ferriss
Unconditional Love
– Ben Stroup
Episode 96
Sacred Search
– Gary Thomas
Influence
– Robert Cialdini
Uninvited
– Lysa TerKeurst
Dare to Lead
– Brene Brown
Co Dependent No More
– Melody Beattie
The Nightingale
– Kristin Hannah
Episode 95
You Are the Placebo
– Dr. Joe Dispenza
The Servant
– James Hunter
About Face
– Colonel David Hackworth
To Have Or To Be
– Erich Fromm
Episode 92
Building a StoryBrand
– Donald Miller
The Power Of Full Engagement
– Tony Schwartz
Living Life Backwards
– David Gibson
The Brief and Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
– Junot Diaz
The War of Art
– Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Way
– Julia Cameron
Episode 91
To Have or to Be
– Erich Fromm
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
Episode 90
The Artist Way
– Julia Cameron
Educated
– Tara Westover
A List Of Books
– Jeanine Roth
Episode 89
Strangers to Ourselves
– Timothy D. Wilson
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Episode 88
My Utmost for His Highest
– Oswald Chambers
Twenty Two
– Allison Trowbridge
The Upside of Tension
– Andy Stanley
How We Got to Now
– Steven Johnson
Originals
– Adam Grant
The Tipping Point
– Malcolm Gladwell
Man’s Search For Meaning
– Victor E. Frankl
The Art Of Gathering
– Priya Parker
Episode 86
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
The Bible
Shoe Dogs
– Phil Knight
Episode 84
Essentialism
– Greg McKeown
Keep Your Love On
– Danny Silk
Garden City
– John Mark Comer
Wild At Heart
– John Eldredge
Waking the Dead
– John Eldredge
Fathered by God
– John Eldredge
This Present Darkness
– Frank Peretti
Episode 83
Notes From Underground
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From the Tilt-a-Whirl
– Indie Wilson
Episode 82
The 4-Hour Workweek
– Tim Ferriss
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Love Does
– Bob Goff
The Hero’s Journey
– Joseph Campbell
Strangers To Ourselves
– Timothy D. Wilson
The Righteous Mind
– Jonathan Haidt
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
The Heart-Led Leader
– Tommy Spaulding
Episode 81
The E-Myth Revisited
– Michael Gerber
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
– Robert Cialdini
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
How We Got to Now
– Steven Johnson
The One-Minute Manager
– Ken Blanchard
The Oz Principle
– Craig Hickman and Tom Smith
Leaders Eat Last
– Simon Sinek
Wild At Heart
– John Eldredge
Episode 80
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Hidden Christmas
– Tim Keller
On Fairytales
– J.R. Tolkein
Episode 79
You Are a Badass
– Jen Sincero
Episode 78
Sapiens
– Yuval Noah Harari
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
– Mark Manson
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
Meditations
– Marcus Aurelius
The Operator
– Thomas King
Conspiracy
– Ryan Holiday
Episode 77
From Here to There
– Thane Marcus Ringler
Switch
– Chip and Dan Heath
When Breath Becomes Air
– Paul Kalanithi
Episode 76
The Dip
– Seth Godin
Think and Grow Rich
– Napoleon Hill
Fierce Conversations
– Susan Scott
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
Episode 75
Habits of the Mind
– James Sire
From Here to There
– Thane’s New Book!
Episode 74
When Helping Hurts
– Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Mere Christianity
– C.S. Lewis
Think
– John Piper
Be You Do Good
– Jonathan Golden
How Bad Do You Want It
– Matt Fitzgerald
Episode 73
Titan
– Ron Chernow
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
– Stephen Covey
Desiring God
– John Piper
Things That Matter
– Charles Krauthammer
Episode 72
Humility
– C.J. Mahaney
Leadership and Self-Deception
– The Arbinger Institute
Lectures To My Students
– Charles Spurgeon
All In
– Mark Batterson
Episode 71
Conspiracy
– Ryan Holiday
Tribal Leadership
– David Logan
Flow
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Rise of Superman
– Steven Kotler
Episode 68
The Talent Code
– Daniel Coyle
Make It Stick
– Peter Brown
Episode 67
The Dip
– Seth Godin
Episode 66
Habits of the Mind
– James Sire
Episode 63
Evidence That Demands a Verdict
– Josh McDowell
Discipline Equals Freedom
– Jocko Willink
Boundaries
– Henry Cloud
Changes That Heal
– Henry Cloud
The Divine Conspiracy
– Dallas Willard
Screwtape Letters
– C.S. Lewis
How We Love
– Milan and Kay Yerkovich
Anatomy Trains
– Thomas Myers
Episode 62
The New Lonely
– Ethan Renoe
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
Drops Like Stars
– Rob Bell
The Talent Code
– Daniel Coyle
The Great Divorce
– C.S. Lewis
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl
– N.D. Wilson
Episode 61
The Princess and the Goblin
– George MacDonald
Episode 60
For the Glory
– Duncan Hamilton
Unbroken
– Laura Hillenbrand
Episode 59
Conspiracy
– Ryan Holiday
Amusing Ourselves To Death
– Neil Postman
Episode 58
Sapiens
– Yuval Noah Harari
The Rational Optimist
– Matt Ridley
Deep Survival
– Laurence Gonzales
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
– Donald Miller
Scary Close
– Donal Miller
Living Life Backwards
– David Gibson
Episode 57
Culture Making
– Andy Crouch
Worship Matters
– Bob Kauflin
Sanctification
– Michael Riccardi
Apologetics
– John M. Frame
The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness
– John MacArthur
Episode 56
Guns, Germs, and Steel
– Jared Diamond
Strangers to Ourselves
– Timothy Wilson
Discipline Equals Freedom
– Jocko Willink
Episode 55
Discipline Equals Freedom
– Jocko Willink
Consilience
– E.O. Wilson
The Alchemist
– Paulo Coelho
Ready Player One
– Ernest Cline
The Disappearing Spoon
– Sam Kean
A River Runs Through It
– Norman Macleon
Episode 53
Desiring God
– John Piper
The Impossible Dream
– Voctave
Episode 52
The Wizard of Menlo Park
– Randall Stross
Episode 51
Emergency Rations
– Philip De Courcy
About Face
– Col. David Hackworth
The Call
– Os Guinness
Knowing God
– J.I. Packer
Holiness
– J.C. Ryle
50 People Every Christian Should Know
– Warren Wiersbe
For the Glory
– Duncan Hamilton
The Red Sea Rules
– Robert Morgan
Spurgeon’s Sorrows
– Zack Eswine
Refresh
– Shona and David Murray
Reset
– David Murray
Just Do Something
– Kevin DeYoung
Episode 50
Fierce Conversations
– Susan Scott
Episode 49
Scribbling in the Sand
– Michael Card
Ulysses
– James Joyce
Fierce Conversations
– Susan Scott
The Three Laws of Performance
– Steve Zaffron
Episode 47
Ordering Your Private World
– Gordon MacDonald
Episode 46
Orthodoxy
– G.K. Chesterton
Episode 45
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
– Rosaria Butterfield
A Brief History of Everything
– Ken Wilber
The Naked Now
– Richard Roehr
New Seeds of Contemplation
– Thomas Merton
The Way of Zen
– Alan Watts
Episode 43
A Place of Healing
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Episode 42
The Treasure Principle
– Randy Alcorn
Wealth: Is It Worth It?
– Truett Cathy
Episode 41
Between the World and Me
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
Episode 40
Dangerous Wonder
– Michael Yaconelli
Episode 39
Strangers To Ourselves
– Timothy D. Wilson
When Helping Hurts
– Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Episode 37
The Quest For Truth
– Shannon Hurley
When Helping Hurts
– Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Episode 33
The Undoing Project
– by Michael Lewis
When Helping Hurts
– by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Episode 31
When Breath Becomes Air
– by Paul Kalanithi
Episode 30
When Breath Becomes Air
– Paul Kalanithi
The Emperor of All Maladies
– Siddhartha Mukherjee
Episode 27
Extreme Ownership
– Jocko Willink
Episode 26
Between the World and Me
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
Counterfeit Gods
– Timothy Keller
Episode 24
Gut and Psychology Syndrome
(GAPS) – Natasha Campbell
The Problem of Pain
– C.S. Lewis
Episode 23
Tipping Point
– Malcolm Gladwell
The Quarter-LIfe Breakthrough
– Adam Poswolsky
The 4-Hour Workweek
– Tim Ferriss
The Promise of a Pencil
– Adam Braun
Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
– Tim Lane
Episode 21
About Face
– Col. David H. Hackworth
The Lost Tools of Learning
– Dorothy Sayers
Invitation to the Pain of Learning
– Mortimer Adler
Make It Stick
– Peter Brown
Episode 20
Letters to a Young Calvinist
– James K.A. Smith
Easy Chairs, Hard Words
– Doug Wilson
Wordsmithy
– Doug Wilson
Future Men
– Doug Wilson
God’s Passion for His Glory
– John Piper (and Jonathan Edwards)
Jayber Crow
– Wendell Berry
For the Glory
– Duncan Hamilton
Blessed
– Kate Bowler
Episode 19
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
– by Alan Jacobs
Episode 18
Make It Stick
– by Peter Brown
Fierce Conversations
– by Susan Scott
Celebration of Discipline
– by Richard Foster
Culture Care
– by Makoto Fujimura
Growth Hacker Marketing
– by Ryan Holiday
Orthodoxy
– by G.K. Chesterton
The Creative Habit
– by Twyla Tharpe
The Artist’s Way
– by Julia Cameron
Episode 16
Hidden Christmas
– Tim Keller
Episode 15
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
– Mohsin Hamid
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
– Alan Jacobs
Great Books of the Western World
– Mortimer Adler
Lit: A Christian Guide To Reading Books
– Tony Reinke
How To Read Slowly
– James Sire
How to Read a Book
– Mortimer Adler
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
– Col. David Hackworth
Jude The Obscure
– Thomas Hardy
Dominion and Dynasty
– Stephen Dempster
The Power of Full Engagement
– Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Extreme Ownership
– Jocko Willink
The Glory of Christ
– John Owen
Unbroken
– Laura Hillenbrand
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
– Stephen Covey
Deep Survival
– Laurence Gonzales
Episode 14
The Abolition of Man
– C.S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
– C.S. Lewis
Tolkein On Fairy Stories
– Verlyn Fleiger
Recapture the Wonder
– Ravi Zacharias
Gilead
– Marilynne Robinson
No Country for Old Men
– Cormac McCarthy
Unapologetic
– Francis Spufford
Episode 12
Meaning at the Movies
– Grant Horner
Episode 11
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
– Stephen R. Covey
Episode 10
Thinking Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Episode 4
Purpose Driven Life
– Rick Warren
The Power of Full Engagement
– Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz