Behind the Book: Complications
Complications was a deliberate turn away from my usual military and science fiction. Here is why I set out to write a book women would enjoy, and what it taught me.
Tag: Relationships
Marriages under strain and the coaching that helps, including an approach that treats a crisis like one.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
IntrovertThe System Crashed on a Friday Night. I Had Nobody to Call.
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.
Personal GrowthIt Took a Camera to Make Me Comfortable Around Women
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
HostingI Hid in the Bedroom at My Own Party. It Was Going Fine.
Out of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
CultureI Set Out to Understand What I Was Watching on YouTube
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
BiasRelationship and Dating Echo Chambers – Where Loneliness Becomes a Worldview
You did not go looking for a dating ideology; the algorithm found one for you, a breakup video, a fitness reel, a 2 a.m. search for confidence, and soon every creator has a label for what is wrong with you…
BiasFamily and Social Echo Chambers – When Love Comes With Conditions
The toughest echo chamber to leave is the one you were born into, because when your beliefs are stitched into your traditions, holidays, and family group chat, questioning them does not feel like curiosity, it feels like betrayal. Saying what…
BiasCult Echo Chambers – When Belonging Becomes a Trap
Nobody joins a cult; they join a group that promises something beautiful, and the cult part arrives later, after the doors lock. Cults recruit not with warning labels but with answers, belonging, purpose, love, right when you need them. A…
Author TalksErin Riley: The Dark Force, Surviving a Covert Narcissist, and Writing It Down
Former radio DJ Erin Riley joins Author Talks to discuss The Dark Force, surviving a covert narcissist, and turning journaling into a memoir.
coachingMarc Johnston on Crisis Marriage Coaching and the ICU Approach
Marriage coach Marc Johnston on saving relationships in crisis and the two things that quietly kill a marriage.