Book 101 Review

Christopher Mckeithen
Founder and Combat Veteran Teaching Companies to See Their Own Blind Spots.
Spent 7 years serving in the U.S. Army, including a combat deployment to Iraq. When I came home, I brought with me the same discipline, mission focus, and zero-tolerance for blind spots that kept people alive downrange and after years of figuring things out and reintegrating back to civilian life I chose to apply it to cybersecurity. What I found when I entered the security world surprised me. Most small and mid-sized businesses are completely exposed and have no idea. Not because they don't care but because nobody has ever shown them what their external attack surface actually looks like. They think they have a vulnerability problem. They actually have a visibility problem. They have come accustomed to being reactive instead of proactive. That gap is why I built Aegis Cyber Defense. I founded the company in 2026 as a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, and I built the platform from scratch while attending cybersecurity school full time and raising a newborn at home. Aegis gives IT Directors and Security Managers at companies with no dedicated security team the same exposure intelligence that enterprise organizations pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for. I'm not a vendor. I'm a practitioner and a founder who has lived the mission. I talk about security the way real IT professionals think about it without the jargon, without the fear mongering, and without pretending this stuff is harder than it needs to be. What I bring to your audience: a combat veteran's perspective on risk and resilience, a founder's honest account of building a cybersecurity company from zero, and a contrarian take on why most security advice misses the real problem entirely.
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Shilo Creed
Bestselling, 7-time award-winning author of 42 novels and 1.4M+ books sold, helping readers find courage, faith, and purpose through fiction.
I bring podcast hosts a rare blend of credibility, story, and spiritual transformation. I’m a bestselling, 7-time award-winning author of 42 novels under multiple pen names with more than 1.4 million books sold, but the heart of my message comes from something much more personal: I was healed from a serious heart condition, and that experience changed how I understood faith forever.
That journey became the spiritual foundation behind my Christian sci-fi novel Plunged, a story about fear, weakness, impossible circumstances, and the kind of faith that moves mountains. When I come on a show, I don’t just talk about books—I talk about how faith actually works, how believers can move from anxiety to trust, how we renew our minds with biblical truth, and how God uses story to awaken courage, purpose, and spiritual hunger.
If your audience needs encouragement, hope, and a fresh way to talk about faith that is both deeply biblical and highly engaging. I can speak to Christian listeners who feel stuck in fear, worn down by anxiety, hungry for purpose, or longing to believe God for more. My goal is to serve the host, bring warmth and substance to the conversation, and leave listeners feeling strengthened, stirred, and pointed back to Jesus.
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Cherif Medawar
Nation’s #1 Commercial Real Estate Deal Maker, Best-Selling Author, Real Estate Investor, Mentor & Fund Manager
Cherif Medawar brings a real estate investing perspective that connects directly with what most audiences are trying to solve right now: how to invest in the right asset class, how to scale, and how to raise capital more effectively without guessing, over paying for legal fees, or taking unnecessary risk.
His work centers on helping investors at all levels, from beginners to experienced operators, understand how deals are structured, how capital is raised ethically, and how to move from “I want to invest” to a clear, executable strategy. Instead of theory-heavy conversations, he focuses on practical frameworks, decision models, and step-by-step approaches listeners can apply to their own situations. The money is in the structure and he GIVES the listener the structure and exact strategies to apply TODAY!

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Hakeem Bourne Mcfarlane
Speaker, coach, and storyteller blending humor, raw truth, and accountability. I bring real-life lessons, uncomfortable honesty, and practical frameworks that challenge listeners to choose themselves.
I speak from the space between who I was forced to become and who I chose to build.

My work, my voice, and the Choose Yourself philosophy were not born from inspiration... they were forged through collapse, addiction, loss of identity, and the slow, humbling work of rebuilding a life from the ground up. I didn’t wake up one day motivated. I woke up tired of repeating the same pain with better excuses. That’s where everything changed.
Choose Yourself to Be Chosen is not a slogan. It’s a survival principle. It’s the realization that no relationship, opportunity, calling, or sense of peace can stabilize a life that lacks internal structure. I learned (often times the hard way) that self-love without self-discipline becomes self-deception, and discipline without compassion becomes self-punishment. The work lives in the balance.
On podcasts and shows I don’t offer shortcuts.. I offer systems for action and accountability.
We talk about accountability in a way that doesn’t shame, but also doesn’t enable. I speak openly about addiction not just substances, but addiction to chaos, validation, numbing, drama, productivity, and being needed. We unpack how many people mistake intensity for purpose, stimulation for fulfillment, and freedom for a lack of structure.
I walk listeners through the Choose Yourself process... not as theory, but as lived experience and a relatable format for all to begin their journey with their next choice!
It starts with recognizing trigger points. The moments you feel reactive, defensive, avoidant, or restless aren’t flaws, they’re signals. Most people numb them but I learned to study them. Triggers are not enemies.. they are doorways into unhealed patterns and misaligned environments. Triggers are signal for change not retreat.
From there, we evaluate environment. Not just people but food, media, routines, conversations, consumption, sleep, noise, expectations. Your nervous system is always responding to something and if you don’t choose your inputs, your outputs will never feel like “you.” I share how changing my environment changed my identity faster than any affirmation ever could.
Then comes foundation. The center piece of all transformation. This is where most transformation talk gets vague but I make it practical. Foundation is not motivation... It’s the non-negotiables. Wake times. Movement. Stillness. Nutrition. Digital boundaries. Morning structure. Evening shutdowns. The boring things that save your life quietly. I explain how discipline became my nervous system’s safety net, not its prison.
Self-investment follows but not just money... invesment of attention, effort, time, energy and honesty. I talk about the seasons where investing in myself meant saying no to comfort, approval, and distraction. Where it meant choosing growth over familiarity, structure over spontaneity, and long-term integrity over short-term relief.

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Dorothy Ward
Author
In 1983, I read a newspaper article about an elderly woman who claimed to have been a colonel in Pancho Villa’s army during the Mexican Revolution. Fascinated by the idea of a woman warrior in the Mexican Revolution, I began reading about the conflict and the various roles women inhabited during the revolution. Years later, I started writing my novel LIGHT, WHICH IMPRESSES. I completed three chapters with a female soldadera/soldier as the main character, but I set my manuscript aside when I assumed a new administrative position at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Once I retired from UTEP, almost ten years later, I resumed writing the book; however, I realized during the hiatus that I could not write honestly from the perspective of a Mexican woman fighting in her country’s revolution. Though the soldadera/soldier remained a major character in the novel, the protagonist role shifted to a female photographer—Sarah—living in the border city of El Paso, Texas, during the Mexican Revolution. A strong, unconventional female protagonist, Sarah must grapple with the political and social unrest of her time.
The novel is historical fiction that depicts the Mexican Revolution’s impact on lives along the Border, especially in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, during the period of 1910-1916. Yet the topics addressed in the novel are still at the forefront of today’s news: tensions at the U.S.-Mexico border, smuggling and sedition; immigration, internment, and deportation; racism, racial profiling, and racially-charged riots.
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