Author Archives: Derek

Paul Gilmartin is host of the Mental Illness Happy Hour, a terrific podcast about mental health that you should go listen to right now. Follow him on Twitter @MentalPod. The show opens with Slow Magic’s Corvette Cassette and closes with … Continue reading →

I discovered Kristin Wong while googling something or other, and I ended up on this story she did about breaking out of a career rut. I had just finished What Should I Do With My Life, so I was curious to hear … Continue reading →

This was a fascinating interview. Darren Pillsbury struggled as a writer for many years, and even gave up on it for a period, but in the past few years he’s been crushing it through self-publishing. Here’s his Amazon page. That’s … Continue reading →

Lawrence Lanoff is, as he describes it, “a sex positive, streetwise, business savvy life coach,” also known as Catholic rehab. Follow him on Twitter @soullight Links to more info about some of the things we covered: Christoper Hitchens’ takedown of the Dalai Lama Lawrence’s … Continue reading →

Thomas Frey is a the founder of the DaVinci Institute, and his job is to think about the future. How cool is that? Here are just a few of the many things we touched on in the interview: The Oculus … Continue reading →

Warning: this is the depression episode. Not only do we talk about depression, but I was literally in the midst of a pretty bad clinical depression myself when I produced it. Rand Fishkin is co-founder (with his mom!) of Moz. … Continue reading →

John Corcoran is an attorney and the founder of Smart Business Revolution. He’s also the consummate networker. Listen to the episode to here how you can grow your network and in turn use it to grow your business. Some of the things we … Continue reading →

This episode is a little different. Michael Amon is the national practice manager of a major consulting firm, the name of which will remain secret. (Trust me, you’ve heard of them.) He self-published an e-book called Kill the Interview that has been … Continue reading →