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Virna DePaul

Koren — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:19:22 +0000

Virna DePaul is a former criminal prosecutor whose debut mass market paranormal romantic suspense novel, Chosen By Blood by Berkeley Books.

In addition, Virna writes contemporary romantic suspense for Harlequin Romantic Suspense (Dangerous To Her, September 2011) and HQN (new series launching April 2012).

Virna has also self-published several novels, including A Vampire’s Salvation, This Magic Moment, and the craft book Love Writing: How To Write And Publish Your Romance Novel Without Losing Your Perspective, Passion or Sanity.

Virna and I discuss:

transitioning from lawyer to author
going for your dream
the dream versus the reality
self publishing versus traditional publishing
Two Takeaways – for those wanting to become a writer

Connect with Virna

website
book: Chosen By Blood by Berkley Books
links mentioned in the interview: Romance Writers of America
Onlineauction by author Brenda Novak in support of juvenile diabetes research (May 1-31) www.brendanovak.auctionanything.com

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Gretchen Rubin

Koren — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:29:10 +0000

Happiness. What is happiness? Gretchen Rubin is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project. Gretchen and I discuss happiness and what it means to us and to the people she has met along the way while from her book and her blog.

We discuss:

how happiness happens
results versus process
getting unstuck to becoming happy
getting out of lonliness

What does happiness mean to you?

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Connect with Gretchen

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Gretchen Rubin

Koren — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:28:58 +0000

Yale Law School grad, former clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor then turned author spent a year studying happiness by making changes every month. Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project, #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Listen as Gretchen discusses:

how to keep resolutions
resolutions that really helped Gretchen
The Takeaway – two things you can do for immediate results

Find Gretchen on twitter

Find Gretchen on facebook

Gretchen’s website

After listening to Gretchen and the two takeaways, what did you get from the interview?

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John St. Augustine

Koren — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:00:59 +0000

My friend and mentor John St. Augustine is back with us today. John hosted his own inspirational radio show and was known as “the voice of America.” Then he helped launch Oprah Radio and was the producer for Dr. Oz, Jean Chatzky, and Bob Green’s radio shows on XM radio. John has written his second book Every Moment Matters and we are going to talk about why those moments make a difference in our lives.

moments-shape our lives
difficult moments/lessons learned
serendipity – having faith on our journey

John’s Facebook

John’s website

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Dr. Cheryl Saban

Koren — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:00:59 +0000

Author of her latest book, What is Your Self-Worth? Dr. Cheryl Saban is on a mission to help women improve their self-worth so they can live the lives they were meant to live instead of struggling in the despair of life that some of us go through. Listen to the extremely candid interview with her about her own life, and the tipping point that began the change in her journey as a twice divorced, single mother of two with limited income into happiness even before her life became so financially abundant.

Gretchen Rubin

Koren — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Career transitions to happiness. We hear a lot these days about following your bliss. Gretchen Rubin went from law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, to published author of four books and is currently working on her next book The Happiness Project (out in Jan 2010, Harper) and her blog alson named The Happiness Project. In this interview we discuss:

Gretchen career transition
an “interest journal”
key to happiness: make other people happy