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 Bestselling Author, Speaker and Management Advisor

 Author of the Washington Post Bestseller, Embrace the Chaos, which is about my journey of learning to embrace change and move forward in my job, career, business and in life. 

 I grew up helping my family run our Dairy Queen family business for 20 + years which was the subject of my first book, Treat Your Customers. 

 Worked in corporate America for Pfizer Inc. for 23 years in numerous successful roles and did business in over 30 countries. After leaving Pfizer, I joined a startup as Chief of Business Development, helping to bring a Big Idea to Market. 

 Today I advise companies and CEOs, speak to audiences everywhere and advance the idea that in order to GROW in times of change, we must think and act differently. We must embrace change. #EmbraceChange #Transformation #BigldeasToMarket 

John David Mann has been creating careers since he was a teenager.

Before turning to business and journalism, he forged a successful  career as a concert cellist and prize-winning composer. At fifteen he  won the prestigious BMI Awards to Student Composers and received the  award at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, ..........

Jeff Wald is a serial entrepreneur,  Board Member, Best Selling author, Keynote speaker and investor.   Jeff’s most recent company, Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers was acquired by ADP in 2018. Mr. Wald has founded several other technology companies, including Spinback, a social sharing platform (eventually purchased by salesforce.com). He began his career in finance, serving as Managing Director at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a Vice President at venture capital firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan. 

Interview with Ida Linehan Young, author of the award-winner Mary Ro series from Flanker Press!

Ida Linehan Young is a grandmother to the most precious little boys, Parker and Samuel, a mother to three adult children, Sharon, Stacey, and Shawna, and a wife to Thomas. In her busy daily life, Ida works in the information technology sector of the federal government of Canada, and she volunteers her time in the community of Conception Bay South with the Kiwanis Club of Kelligrews.

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Originally broadcast on October 4, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB

It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!

Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​

This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​

Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​

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This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with Paul David Power, the astonishing playwright behind 'Crippled' and contributor to 'Land of Many Shores,' both published through Breakwater Books!

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Originally broadcast on September 27 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB

It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!

Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​

This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​

Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​

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This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

Interview with author Susan Flanagan, author of the Supermarket Baby from Flanker Press and The Degrees of Barry Lick from Running the Goat.

Susan Flanagan has worked as a freelance journalist in St. John’s for more than thirty years. She graduated from King’s College in Nova Scotia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1991, and her written works have appeared in Canadian Geographic, National Geographic (maps), Canadian Running, Newfoundland Quarterly, Hockey News, Doctors’ Review, Atlantic Progress, Atlantic Business, Saltscapes, and many others.

Susan contributed a biweekly column, “48 Degrees,” to the Newfoundland Herald (2002–04) and a weekly column, “The Kids are Alright,” to the Telegram (2011–15). She has been a contributor on CBC Radio (St. John’s), The Point, Out Front, Radio Noon, and Definitely Not the Opera (DNTO) and has worked for both NTV in St. John’s and CBC TV in Halifax and St. John’s as reporter, producer, and researcher.

Pick up Supermarket Baby using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3J64VLc

Originally broadcast on April 12, 2021 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB

It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!

Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​

This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​

Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​

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This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew

“I look for a voice and I'm looking for a story. That story might be a very bare bones just kind of a narrative arc, a vague shape or it might be something that feels more like a story. You have to keep your ego in check because you've got to be able to throw things away that you may think are great.”

After immersing himself in the language and craft of Shakespeare at graduate school in Stratford-upon-Avon, Simon Leake joined Amazon.com in its second year of operation where he was part of the team that built the company’s customer service messaging, before joining the editorial department to create content for the books and DVD divisions. Thereafter, becoming a freelance copywriter, creating video scripts for a wide variety of clients, including Microsoft, Nordstrom, HP, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation.

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Interview with author Carolyn R Parsons, author of the The Forbidden Dreams of Betsy Elliott from Flanker Press and Desolate from Engen Books.

Carolyn R. Parsons is a Newfoundland & Labrador author with a background in freelance journalism and is the owner-operator of Cabochon Manuscript Services. She served on the board of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador until 2021 and is the author of six published books including The Forbidden Dreams of Betsy Elliott released by Flanker Press in 2019 and The Key of Impasto novella, a Slipstreamers book by Engen Books in 2020. In 2021 she was chosen as one of 125 authors from around the world to have her entire body of work launched to the moon on the Peregrine Mission via SpaceX and NASA as part of their lunar time capsule Writers on the Moon payload. The launch is scheduled for June 2022. She married Kent Chaffey in front of 18,000 people in the Zamboni Corner during the first intermission at a NHL hockey game in New York City in 2012 and together they have raised four children.

Pick up Betsy Elliot using this link to help the channel: https://amzn.to/3EjSytA

Originally broadcast on August 05 2019 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

Check out As Loved Our Fathers, the latest book from Write Project host Matthew LeDrew: https://amzn.to/3HB7BAB

It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!

Listen on CHMR online at http://www.chmr.ca/​

This program, and others like it, are helped by support from viewers and fans on Patreon. Consider helping support Engen Books on Patreon for as little as $1.00 a month for excellent rewards, including books! https://www.patreon.com/engenbooks​

Checkout Engen titles at http://www.engenbooks.com/​

The Write Project signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8W9OT
Engen Horror Society Signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8Yemr
Fantasy Files signup for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/c8X4zL
Engen's Science-Fiction Newsletter for FREE book: http://eepurl.com/ir5Jmg

This recording copyright © 2023 Matthew LeDrew