Guest: Camille Sweeney and Josh Goldfield, co-authors of The Art of Doing.

What really separates the best from the rest? We all know that it takes hard work, dedication, and the occasional dose of luck for someone to make it to the top of their chosen field. Yet, we also suspect that it takes a little something more—but what?
The Art of Doing asks today’s most successful celebrities, businessmen, and iconoclastic achievers, “How do you succeed at what you do?”

Camille Sweeney has known she wanted to be a writer since she was 5. She’s written for The New York Times and other publications. Josh Goldfield has worked on farms and as a carpenter and cartoonist. He was the Art Director of New York Magazine. His illustrations and photos for major magazines, record companies and book publishers have won numerous awards. Together this husband and wife team have learned a lot from their collaboration and the superachievers they interviewed for their book.

Guest: Adam Grant, Professor at the Wharton School at of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Give and Take.

Give and Take changes our fundamental ideas about how to succeed, both at work and in life. For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. Give and Take illuminates what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.

Using his own groundbreaking research as the youngest tenured professor at Wharton, Adam Grant examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. In professional interactions, it turns out that most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.

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Guest: Laurie Watson, author of Wanting Sex Again: How to Rediscover Your Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage.

Do you feel like sex just isn’t worth the effort? You’re not alone; forty million American women are frustrated by their lack of sexual passion. They know something’s missing – and their husbands know it, too – but the emotional, physical, and mental obstacles to healthy desire can be a knot that seems too tangled to unravel.

Laurie’s book illustrates the challenges of the sexual relationship in long term committed relationship starting with the honeymoon through the child-rearing years and later life. Both practical and psychological solutions tackle tough sexual problems: lack of orgasm, frequency discrepancies, difficulties with enjoying oral sex, power struggles, stresses of child-rearing on the bedroom, the madonna-whore split, depression, family of origin problems and losses, poor seduction, communication, molestation from childhood, sexual pain problems (vaginismus and vestibulitis), menopause, and weight and body image.

Laurie Watson is an AASECT certified sex therapist and has been a licensed couple’s counselor for two decades. In clinical therapy, she has helped thousands of couples recover sexual passion and make love again in joyful, intimate, creative and exciting ways, sometimes even after years of sexless marriage. Due to her many years of counseling experience, Laurie remains incredibly hopeful that committed love and monogamous sex can fulfill a couple, heal deep wounds from childhood, restore each spouse to a sense of hope, and offer stability from which to face the world together.

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Guest: Ray Arata, author of Wake Up, Man Up, Step Up:Transforming Your Wake Up Call to Emotional Health and Happiness.

Wake Up, Man Up, Step Up:Transforming Your Wake Up Call to Emotional Health and Happiness is a guide book for men and support tool for women. Ray wrote this book as a result of his own wake up call in 1999 which was the divorce to the mother of my three children. This event was a painful one that “woke him up” to looking at himself, learning about himself, growing up (manning up)  emotionally, and bringing all of him as a man (stepping up)  to his roles in life; husband, father, leader, partner, businessman, and friend. His inner men’s journey, what he learned, how he learned it, and how it can serve you on your journey is the essence of this book.

Ray Arata is an integrative leadership coach, diversity consultant and cultural facilitator, fascinated by a potent and strategic blend of leadership,diversity and culture in the workplace. In addition to his coaching and consulting practice, Ray is an author and speaker, dedicated to his mission of  empowering men to step authentically  into their roles as fathers, husbands, leaders, businessmen and friend.

Guest: Christina Steinorth, author of Cue Cards for Life: Thoughtful Tips for Better Relationships.

With almost 7 billion people on the planet, we’re bound to run into communication problems sometime. And though we know healthy relationships and a sense of community are essential for a healthy, happy, and successful life, some of us are not equipped or quite prepared to deal with the situations and the life transitions we sometimes face. Cue Cards for Life is a handy, intuitive “how to” guide that can be easily applied in real life situations.

Cue Cards are deceptively simple reminders and remedies that anyone can use to immediately improve just about any relationship. Each card is accompanied by a clear and encouraging explanation of the psychological principles that make the cue card work. These straightforward tips are so practical and down-to-earth that anyone can use them to communicate effectively with others, minimize conflict, and handle life transitions with greater ease.

Christina Steinorth is a Licensed Psychotherapist in private practice and a Board Certified Diplomate of professional counseling (IAMBCP). Her advice and insights are often seen in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Huffington Post, Woman’s Day, Fox News, Shape, Celebrity Parents, Canadian Living, as well as online.

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