Book 101 Review

Leading the Living Organization: Transform How You Lead to Deliver Extraordinary Results
KATHERINE SHARPE never expected to become CEO overnight. After her father’s sudden heart attack, she’s left steering the company through new product launches, a global pandemic, and unrelenting market pressures. Yet despite her efforts, she finds her team hesitant to take ownership, slow to collaborate, and unprepared for the challenges ahead.

Just as she nears her breaking point, Katherine meets Merlyn, a consultant who introduces her to The Living Organization® framework. Merlyn challenges her to see what most leaders miss: Organizations are not machines to be engineered but living beings to be developed. That shift changes everything.

Through their conversations, Katherine discovers that the key to leading isn’t controlling what people do but shaping the context that determines their behavior. She learns that authentic leadership requires more than plans and performance metrics; it calls for presence, wisdom, and the courage to lead with the whole of who she is—so the organization she serves can do the same.

Empowered by her newfound approach to align both strategy and culture, extraordinary results soon begin to materialize.

Leading the Living Organization delivers not just a leadership fable but a call to embrace a new paradigm of business leadership. Readers will see themselves in Katherine’s struggles, and leaders at every level will find inspiration and practical tools to meet today’s turbulence with clarity, resilience, and renewed confidence in building a better future.
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Alicia Dupree

Master Certified Consistency Coach
Meet Alicia Dupree, a Consistency Coach and creator of The Busy Woman’s Blueprint. She helps busy, overwhelmed women—especially working moms—stop putting themselves last and finally follow through on the goals they’ve been talking about for years. With a background in coaching, leadership, and wellness, she specializes in helping women create realistic systems that actually fit their lives—so progress doesn’t feel like another full-time job.

Listeners will walk away with:

-Practical tools they can apply immediately
-A new way to think about consistency and self-care
-Permission to stop chasing perfection and start building systems that work
-Encouragement that change is possible—even in a full life

She's conversational, relatable, & focused on delivering real value—not fluff. She's honest, encouraging, action-oriented, and cannot wait to have a conversation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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Louis Perron

“I Make Presidents, Governors, and Mayors”
Dr. Louis Perron is an internationally renowned political consultant, campaign strategist, and TEDx speaker. His track record includes winning dozens of election campaigns worldwide—from big city mayoral races to presidential contests. He is the author of "Beat the Incumbent: Proven Strategies and Tactics to Win Elections" (Radius Book Group, New York). His work has been featured on C-SPAN and in publications including Newsweek, RealClearPolitics, USA Today, The Hill, The Times, and The Guardian.

Whether you plan to run for school board or congress, are involved in somebody else's campaign or just want to learn more about what is going on in election campaigns behind the curtain, you can't afford not to listen to the THE CAMPAIGN DOCTOR™. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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Angel Willard
Fighting to Come Home: Coming Home to Myself.
Welcome to Fighting to Come Home: Coming Home to Myself.
In this episode, we meet author Angel Willard, whose memoir tells a deeply personal story of trauma, survival, motherhood, and healing. Angel shares what it means to live through life-changing pain, rebuild after devastating experiences, and keep fighting for the people and future that matter most.
This is more than a story about surviving. It is about accountability, resilience, breaking painful cycles, and finding the courage to become yourself again.
As Angel writes, she was not only fighting to come home to a place—she was fighting to come home to herself.
This is her story.
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What does hope look like when your health, your business, and your future are all uncertain? In this episode of Book 101 Review, Daniel Lucas welcomes entrepreneur, filmmaker, and author Jim Stavis to discuss his memoir, When Hope Is Your Only Option, revised edition, 2026.

Jim founded Paragon Steel in 1988 and built a company that contributed to landmark projects across Los Angeles, all while living with a chronic illness that eventually required three organ transplants at Cedars-Sinai. His journey includes multiple brushes with death, the loss of his business partner of 25 years, and a profound connection with the family of the organ donor who saved his life.

Together, we explore Jim’s belief that hope can become a practical strategy for moving through adversity. The conversation examines faith, purpose, grief, entrepreneurship, and the challenge of rebuilding when life cannot return to the way it was. We also discuss the responsibility of honoring a donor’s gift and how writing and filmmaking helped Jim share his experiences with others.

His memoir, a Montaigne Medal finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards and a Pacific Book Review Notable Book, offers a personal account of perseverance amid uncertainty. Join us for a meaningful conversation about survival, reinvention, and finding a reason to keep going when the odds seem overwhelming. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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