Mick Unplugged

I just dropped my new book, Beyond the Mic, The Game Changing Guide to Podcasting. Go to this link and I'll send you an autographed copy today.

I wrote another book called March or Die. Same as the podcast that talks about our experience in Iraq and some small books that we've written on posttraumatic stress, suicide, spiritual resiliency, a lot of content, a lot of resources that we put out.

The DNA of Achievers. The 10 traits of highly professionals that really have been successful.

I'm going to hold it up for all the viewers. Yet Here I Am. Lessons from a black man's search for home.

She is the author of Personal Podium and creator of the hashtag Mental Toughness Moments.

And I want to segue to your book, The Personal Podium, because in your book, you have a lot of really huge gems that I just go back to, but you talk about achieving your personal gold standard.

The book is a must have in your life. If you're a high performer, if you lead people, if you just want to overall get better with your personal mental toughness, that's the book for you.

Ten years before John Gordon and I write that bestselling book in 2019 called The Coffee Bean.

He said, we'll call it The Coffee Bean. And in the summer of 2019, Mick, 10 years after our first story from Muhammad in a jail cell in Dallas County jail, that book, The Coffee Bean came out, took the world by storm.

In the summer of 2019, Mick, 10 years after our first story from Muhammad in a jail cell in Dallas County jail, that book, The Coffee Bean came out, took the world by storm. Four to six weeks at the top of every bestseller list, got a global publishing deal, and was reprinted in many languages.

Blue Collar Cash. Right. An amazing book. It's one that has been a quick reader for me and I've given it to some family and friends that I have as well, too.

I love it, man. And you brought up the book. So let's transition and segue there. Blue Collar Cash. Right. An amazing book.

It's a way of life... those three words, comfort, peace and freedom, I just couldn't get rid of them. I almost devised them like a triangle, independent upon each other for their very existence.

If you go to kenrusk.com, you'll see the book.

I'm going to purchase 20 copies, Ken... the first 20 that message me blue collar, I'm going to send a copy of the book.

Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow by Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman. Okay. Is a good book.

Exit Voice and Loyalty by Albert O. Hirschman, who looks at the different way that economists and political scientists think about how people react when things start to go wrong.

I love that... let's go to speaking out the new book, man. Like, I want to get the backstory of what compelled you to write it because me as a writer, my first book is coming out later this fall. So for you speaking out, like what was the compelling reason that said, I've got to put this on paper?

We mentioned that if you're the leader and you're thinking, do I say something? You have to listen first. Then you have to be valuesdriven, know your North Star, and when you take a position you need to put your money where your mouth is and have accountability steps for the organization.

I'm going to tell the story of one of my coauthors in a book I wrote called The Smart, cowrote called The Smart Mission.

He said the challenge of a friend sparked the idea, noting he'd been blogging for years and didn't think he had the discipline to sit down and write a full book.

He described the process as cathartic, saying it let him take four or five years of writing, contemplate his life, and put it all into one cohesive story to tell people where he'd been, what he'd learned, and why it mattered.

Mick prompted the discussion, asking Will to tell listeners about the book and what they could pick up from it.

He said the journal was broken into four sections--grief, healing, selfdiscovery, and hope--with prompts, space for writing, doodling, and reflection.

Will mentioned the journal would be available on Amazon, launched on July1, priced at $10.99, and described it as a paperback that's very travelfriendly.

Mick asked how listeners could get access to the journal, prompting Will's description of its release details.

I've been reading mostly romantic novels these days. It's called the Empyrean series. It begins with the fourth wing. One of the things that I really love about this is the fact that the main character has a disability and there are lots of disability advocacy in the book. It's really beautiful and it shows that no matter what you face, if you're meant to lead, you will do it.