The Biz Book Broadcast

An alien arrives and ends war, famine + poverty. Everyone's delighted. But is it actually benevolent?

Kandas Rodarte of the Sci-Fi Book Pod is back for a Fiction Pop-Up. We're sharing faves about worlds where the machines have solved everything + the knock on effects for humanity.

There's also a murder by mushroom, a book Kandas loved and hated at the same time + the series I've been re-reading since 1987.

Look for more Fiction Pop-Ups roughly every month.

Books discussed in this episode:

Rejoice! A Knife to the Heart - Stephen Erickson

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Omega Force series - Joshua Dalzelle

The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett

A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

A Trade in Blood - Robert Jackson Bennett

Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks

The Culture series - Iain M. Banks

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Running Man - Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)

To Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer

Kandas' Website: kandasrodarte.com

Kandas' Podcast: Gratitude Geek

Kandas' YouTube: Gratitude Geek Podcast on YouTube

 Kandas's Sci Fi Book Podcast: Sci Fi Book Pod 

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This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

Big meeting coming. A mountain of documents to get through first. AI can help here, but not in the way most people assume.

Chris Fenning is back for part three of our mini series. He explains why the executive summary will quietly let you down + what to ask instead - including the question that surfaces the problem nobody in the room is mentioning.

There's also the reason Chris now leaves his typos in.

Look for previous episodes with Chris.

Books discussed in this episode:

The First Minute - Chris Fenning

Effective Meetings - Chris Fenning

The One Page Keynote - Brian Miller

Chris's Website: chrisfenning.com

Chris on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/chris-fenning

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

Some books promise you one thing and hand you another. That breaks the trust of the reader. 

I've read three of them recently + I’m still furious. 

Ron Tester is back + he's brought a multi-million bestseller filled with a promise it can't really keep. I've brought two that made me squeak with rage, including one that does something unforgivable to the most beloved character in all of Dickens. 

If you're a book purist, become irked by inconsistencies or enjoy hearing me having a proper rant, this one's for you. 

If you're writing a book, this whole show is what to avoid lest your readers loathe you (quite the warning).

Look for more in the Book Huddle strand.

Books discussed in this episode:

Motherland - Julia Yoffe

The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Havisham - L. Macrae

Sense and Sensibility + Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

Ron's Website: rontestercoaching.com

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

CFO Karen Gordon is back for a Classics episode + we're taking The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods entirely seriously as a business proposition. Magical or not - sadly, it does not hold up.

We discuss the many issues of which not having a business plan is only the start - what happens when your only customer pays in gold? And that's before we get into the hygiene issues of magical creatures.

This is a Classics episode, where we treat a book that is absolutely not a business book as though it were.

Books discussed in this episode:

The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods - Mikey Please

The Cave Downwind from the Cafe - Mikey Please

Karen’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/karengordongowmm

Karen’s Website: gordon-organization.com

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list

Turns out coffins have fashions. I was told dark wood wasn't in this year.

Nikki Smith is a death doula + grief coach. Not a job most of us have heard of, so I ask her what it involves. Then we turn to Caitlin Doughty's From Here to Eternity, on how the rest of the world handles death rather better than we do.

We discuss the festival where families bring their dead back out for dinner each year, why Nikki insists on the word death + the one thing to keep with your will that almost nobody thinks of.

Bleak subject. Surprisingly good fun.

Look for more Book Huddles. And a miniseries from Nikki coming soon. 

Books discussed in this episode:

From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty

Nikki's Website: www.nikkithedeathdoula.com

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If you’d like my help with your Business go to www.lizscully.com/endlessClients

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And don’t forget to get your reading list of the 10 essential reads for every successful biz owner - these are the books Liz recommends almost on the daily to her strategy + Mastermind clients.

This isn’t your usual list of biz books, these answer the challenges you’ve actually got coming up right now. Helpful, quick to read and very timely.

Click here lizscully.com/reading to get your book list