My guest today is the wellness-minded Les Alfred.

Les is the founder of the phenomenal Balanced Black Girl Podcast and Blog.

Balanced Black Girl helps you find your balance to feel your best.

Les is an excellent communicator, a dedicated fitness person, self care educator, is so good at podcasting and ultimately is balanced.

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Books Mentioned:
Harry Potter Series
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
A Love for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Becoming by Michelle Obama
the Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Worthy by Nancy Levin
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

Places to Find More From Les Alfred:
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Our guest today is the intentional Dr. Marcus Collins.

Dr. Collins is Best-selling Author of "For the Culture"

Marcus previously worked with Apple, was a digital strategist for Beyoncé, the Brooklyn Nets and is currently a professor of Marketing at the esteem, Ross School of Business at University of Michigan (GO BLUE)

Marcus is a culture scholar a brand expert, a marketer, an educator, a father,
and a lover of A Tribe Called Quest and The Monkeys.

Check your copy of 'For The Culture' today!
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/...

Timestamps:

1:20 - Culture & 2024 Election
3:40 - The Brand of America
4:40 - Brand Campaigns
6:40 - Brands and Cultural Producers
8:24 - Jay Z
12:02 - Start with the Soul, End with the Sell.
15:35 - Every Brand start with Zero
16:34 - Apple Think Different
18:43 - Liquid death
20:43 - Brand Identity
22:20 - Beyonce
24:21 - Beyhive
27:20 - 12 Notes - Soul + Science
30:11 - Brooklyn Nets
36:30 - Writing "For the Culture"
38:58 - Culture and Faith overlap
41:20 - Stories that missed the book
42:58 - Last,Now,Next Books
43:58 - Founders Toolkit
45:00 - Marketers Toolkit
46:38 - Places to Find Marcus Collins

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/marctothec/...
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/Marctothec

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Our guest today is the brilliant Alex and Books!

Alex is the passionate reader behind the Alex and Books social handle that has amassed roughly 1m followers across all social medias.

Alex is also the creator of newly launched The Art of Reading course

Alex is a founder, a writer, a podcaster, a book content creator and loves helping people read more.

Timestamps:

1:07 - Becoming a Reader
3:30 - Getting into Book Content Creation
5:39 - Alex on Writing
6:45 - Headlines and Writing on Social
8:01 - Newsletter Writing
9:10 - Capturing Attention
11:15 - The Art of Reading Course
12:40 - Doing Courses
13:38 - Helping People Read More
15:20 - Building in Public
16:35 - Picking A Great Book
18:14 - Community and Engagement
19:33 - Retaining what you read
21:11 - Reading Challenges
23:30 - Readers are Leaders
25:08 - Working at a Publishing House// Future of Publishing
27:35 - Last, Now, Next Books
30:00 - Reading Schedule
31:50 - More/Less of in the Book World
34:00 - Outro

Places to find more from Alex and Books:

The Art of Reading Course - https://alexandbooks.mykajabi.com/the...
Twitter - https://x.com/alexandbooks_
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alexandbooks_/
Website - https://alexandbooks.com/

Books Mentioned:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Boron Letters by Bond Halbert and Gary Halbert
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• How to Read a Book by
• A Guide to the Good Life by
• $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
• $100M Leads by Alex Hormozi
• Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols

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