The Sweet Spot Podcasts

The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment

MP3 File  Length- 22 minutes, 17 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Mr. Marc Allen, author of The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment published by New World Library.

Mr. Marc Allen

Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and president and publisher of New World Library, which he co-founded (with Shakti Gawain) in 1977. He has guided the company from a small start-up with no capital to its current position as one of the leading independent publishers in the country.

Marc is a well-known musician and composer as well, having produced five albums of music for his label Watercourse Media.

Marc is the author of The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment, The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams, Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success, and many other books and CDs.

He lives in northern California, with his wife and two children. Marc and his wife Aurilene have founded the Brazil Hope Foundation to help street kids in Brazil.

For more information, check out these websites: www.marcallen.com, www.successwithease.net, and www.newworldlibrary.com.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's blog and website.

Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality

Length- 21 minutes, 14 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Christine Comaford-Lynch, author of Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality published by McGraw-Hill.

Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.” Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.” Newsweek says “by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.”

Christine Comaford-Lynch

Christine Comaford-Lynch is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance. Christine’s popular column on www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched January 2007.

Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her best-selling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.  Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.  Visit her website.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website.

The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment

Length-26 minutes, 59 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mr. Marc Allen, author of The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment published by New World Library.

Mr. Marc Allen

Marc Allen has had a multi-faceted career. He studied music as a child, and began composing at age 16. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota in 1968, with a degree in Theater Arts and English Literature. He worked as an actor and composer, then spent most of his twenties studying yoga, Eastern philosophy, Zen Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 30, he co-founded New World Library with Shakti Gawain. Marc has guided the company, as President and Publisher, from a small start-up operation with no capital to a major player in the independent publishing world.

He has written several books, including Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success and A Visionary Life. He has also composed several albums of music, including Breathe, Awakening, and Solo Flight. He lives in Novato, California with his wife and two children. Visit his website.