Episodes

David Kaufman, Ph.D. is a published author with several years' experience in writing academic works, journal articles, and books, both fiction and nonfiction. His recent book, Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley histories: language, archaeology, and ethnography, was published by the University of Nebraska Press (2019). David offers an analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic change in the Lower Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700. He charts how linguistic evidence aids the understanding of ear...

Chloe Isabelle Morris is a talented 5th-grade writer and artist. Her book, Memories of the Past, was inspired by her mom, who died in 2016 when Chole was 7 years-old. Her mom, Julia Kalontarova, was an accomplished animation artist, who worked on the movie, Frozen and on The Wild Thornberrys, an American animated television series that originally aired on Nickelodeon. Chloe uses art and poetry in her book to communicate her feelings about her friendship with her mother, and about her feelings ab...

Andy Cowan is an award-winning writer, producer, and performer. He began his career as a segment producer, writer and performer on The Merv Griffin Show during the '80s, and interviewed hundreds of luminaries, from Orson Welles to Jerry Seinfeld. He is the only writer associated with multiple episodes of Cheers, Seinfeld and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Numerous other comedies and talk/variety shows are among his writing credits. He won a CableAce Award for producing, writing and starring in the Showt...

Jasmine & Kay West are the Co-Authors of the Legends of The Eternal Realms: The Legend of Forsythia: Book one Foretold. The Eternal Realms is a world that 'worlds' exist in. The books brings to life The Legend of Forsythia, a magical adventure melding skill and strategy as two foreordained groups rise up to finish what their parents started and end a contrived civil war before the finale can start. Jasmine & Kay share their back-story of how they met and began to co-create their fantasy world. L...

Lori Vann, M.A., LPC-S is on a GLOBAL MISSION to PREVENT the start of Self-injurious behaviors (NSSI) and stop needless deaths by suicide. She is a Global Authority on Self-injury and a Suicide Interventionist. Lori holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology, she is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor (LPC-S), with over 20 yrs of Clinical experience, and she is an International Speaker. Lori has offered numerous books on the Amazon website, including: A Practitioner's Guide to the Treatme...

William (Bill) Funnemark is the author of "Last Lunch", his story of what it is like to lose your best friend, your wife, your lover, the mother of your children, and then pick up the pieces and go on living. It is a story of his faith in God and the love of family and friends. Bill invites you to reach out to him and learn more about his book and what he’s up to, on the Last Lunch Facebook page. Link to the SuccessInsight Podcast: https://www.successinsightpodcast.com/2019/09/william-bill-fun...

Tim Hicks has been a conflict resolution practitioner and teacher for 25 years. From 2006 to 2014, he was the first director of the conflict resolution Master’s degree program at the University of Oregon. His book, "Embodied Conflict: The Neural Basis of Conflict and Communication”, explores how our brain’s capacity to encode and store experiences within the neural structure, inform what we know, think, create beliefs about, and understand the world we live in. This understanding enables us to a...

Angela James is an Educator, Story Writer & Poet. Her book, Flower Among Ash, explores how, when faced with tragedy and unprecedented circumstances, and even the opportunity to throw in the towel, it is not enough to dissuade us from pursuing our dreams. Click here to find and connect with Angela on LinkedIn. Link to the SuccessInsight Podcast: https://www.successinsightpodcast.com/2019/09/angela-james-author-of-flower-among-ash.html

C. J. Jones is a true CCSU Blue Devil. "99 1/2% Won't Do" has been his mantra while earning a B.A. and M.A. at Central, and serving the university as a basketball coach, director of the Educational Opportunity Program, and director of athletics. He was inducted into the CCSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. He is also the author of A Method to March Madness: An Insider's Look at the Final Four, written in collaboration with Tom Hazuka. As of the 2017-2018 academic year, more than 2,000 students ...

Robena Egemonye, Ph.D is a retired teacher. Her first fiction novel, "The Fence Mender," was published in December 2016. In 2012, she wrote a children's book about Alzheimer's called "When My Grandma Sings," and years before that she wrote a teacher's classroom discussion guide. You can click here to communicate with Robena on her website. Link to the SuccessInsight Podcast: https://www.successinsightpodcast.com/2019/09/robena-egemonye-is-educator-and-author.html

Amor Traceski is a two-time cancer survivor. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and then ovarian cancer in 2016. Not only did she NOT dwell on her negative circumstances, she embraced life and found a higher purpose: a mission of life for life! She believes that she survived so that she can share her knowledge and wisdom, borne from experience with others and help them cope and continue living life, despite the disease. Thus, authoring her first book, “Been There, Done That: Practical ...

Adi Tantimedh is the author of a Detective Crime Trilogy, The Ravi PI Series: Her Nightly Embrace (Book 1), Her Beautiful Monster (Book 2) and Her Fugitive Heart (Book 3). Adi has written radio plays and television scripts for the BBC and screenplays for various Hollywood companies, as well as graphic novels for DC Comics and Big Head Press, and a weekly column about pop culture for BleedingCool.com. He also wrote "Zinky Boys Go Underground," the first post-Cold War Russian gangster thriller, wh...

Jonathan Branfman, Ph.D. is a Gender Studies researcher and children's book author. His work focuses on LGBTQIA diversity and social justice. His book, You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family, is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation, and family diversity easy to explain to children. Throughout the book, kids learn that there are many kinds of people in the world and that diversity is something to be celebrated. It cover...

Tulip Chowdhury is a freelance writer and a retired teacher. She has written features, short stories, and poems for newspapers and magazines from an early age. Though she often tackles difficult subject matter, her message is one of love and happiness. Tulip has published a collection of essays, Reaching Beyond Words; a compilation of fiction, poetry, and essays, Rainbow; a collection of short stories, Stars in the Sky; and two collections of poetry, The Raindrops and Nature and Love. She autho...

Elliot Silber, with more than 7000 contacts in the phone book, he is not just known as a master networker, but as The Master Connector ... connecting the dots from a long lifetime of businesses, sciences, networking, vocations and careers. To obtain a copy of Elliot’s book, Laser language: For Sales, Marketing and Networking, email him at elliot@connectionsmaster.com Link to the SuccessInsight Podcast: https://www.successinsightpodcast.com/2019/08/elliot-silber-master-connector-author.html

Victoria Murray is the Owner of Inbox Virtual Assistants. Victoria fills a profound need in the entrepreneurial community. Too many small business owners spend more time working in their business than they were able to spend in the perfection of their craft. Inbox VA was born to fill that need. Inbox Virtual Assistants handle the back office side of your business, leaving you more time to grow your business and increase your revenue. Here are the links to some of the tools that Victoria recommen...

Jim Moran and the SimplifyISO Team have been helping organizations simplify their management systems since 1992. The team shows small and medium-size companies how to build a management system that’s easy to use and effective, and get certified and stay certified. Jim invites you to visit him at https://simplifyiso.com. Click here to visit Jim’s SimplifyISO YouTube page, and click here to connect with Jim on LinkedIn. Jim has launched his Simplify-ISO ISO 9001:2015 Essentials Training Course. ...

Ron Simplified Myers is an Author, Creator of Simplified-U, highly sought after speaker and Uplifting Life Partner (meaning we are all partners in life and here to uplift each other) and the author of the book, The Relationship Success Handbook: Get Rid of Your Problems Not Your Partner. Ron Shares that his drive and desire to bring out the best in himself and those around him moved him into the financial services arena, where he became a Regional Vice President. Through that company, he had th...

Joe Duffy is the former President of the Catholic Charities Diocese of Paterson NJ and Executive Director of Straight & Narrow, Inc. Years in the making, Joe just published his new book, “Being a Supervisor 1.0: A Handbook for the New, Aspiring & Experienced Supervisor”. Joe chats with Howard how about his career trajectory and how this informed that the chapters and content in the book. Recognizing that resource material for supervisors was spread across many sources, Joe sent out to compile ...

Brian Sly is the Chief Content Engagement Strategist at Emblem, Inc. The team at Emblem help clients tell their inner story through making emotional connections, providing a platform which enables clients to share their core belief system with the right audience at the right time, enhance their cultural interactions in targeted communities, and aide them in rallying their audience behind a purpose-driven mission. Brian chats with Howard about what brand identify means for clients, why it's impo...

John Bentley, Founder of Power 2 Transform, returns to the #SuccessInSight podcast to chat with Randy Ford about creating a safe environment when delivering performance feedback. After finishing a day giving appraisal feedback to his employees, John shares about the importance of setting-up an environment that creates meaning for the employee - unplugging the phone, turning off the computer and cell phone. John coaches other leaders to appreciate, that when giving feedback, show your team that...

Jack Finnell, CEO at Growth Accelerators, stops by the SuccessInSight Podcast to chat about his new book, DO YOU WANT TO BE A LEADER OR A MANAGER?: If You Can Do One, You Can Do Both. Jack shares select insights on how his career as a leader and C-level executive with two highly successful start-ups, and with an organization like Gartner, Ameritech Communications, Xerox, and the U.S. Navy, informed the content in his book. Jack shares proved activities and techniques that anyone who wants to ca...

John Bentley, Founder of Power 2 Transform, returns to the #SuccessInSight podcast to chat with Randy Ford about influence. When you lose control, you lose the ability to influence, and influence is a two-sided coin. First of all, you lose the ability, when you lose control, to positively influence others, and then you lose the ability for others to positively influence you. John also shares his Insight2Go. For more info about John, you can find him on LinkedIn, or contact him via his website...

David DuPont, President of Shure-Step, returns to the SuccessInSight podcast to chat about how an acute medical condition caused him to think how he maintains his personal health and the health of his business. It doesn't matter whether it's your personal health or the health of your business, they both require ongoing and diligent maintenance and attention. David shares details about the changes he made in both these areas. For more info about David, you can find him on LinkedIn, or contact hi...