Author Hour

After more than 20 years as a family doctor, Dr. Joey Rotella kept seeing the same thing: patients show up with nothing, leave with nothing, and can't remember what the doctor said. When his own daughter called him confused after an appointment, he sent her a one-page care plan, and it worked. In The Illusion of Care: Why Patients Leave Confused and the Clinical Operating System That Fixes It, Joey explains why patients don't need more information. They need clear, simple plans for what to do next.In this episode, Joey joins Lex Statzer to talk about why the doctor's original role as teacher has been lost, how patient confusion feeds physician burnout, and the simple care plans he has built for thousands of conditions, medications, and procedures. He also shares how David Goggins's book led him to Scribe, why 200 pages on paper doesn't equal a book, and why you only need to be "ready enough" to start.More information on Joseph Rotella.More information on The Illusion of Care.

Christopher Day grew up poor on a farm believing the stock market was for other people. It wasn't until he was about 40, after building businesses across seven industries, that it clicked: small amounts of money, invested consistently over a long period of time, can make almost anyone a millionaire. In The $25 Millionaire: The Million Dollar Lesson Most People Learn Too Late and its companion, The Official Guide to the $25 Millionaire, he shows readers exactly how to start, with four example plans and step-by-step instructions to automate the habit.In this episode, Christopher joins Lex Statzer to explain why $25 a week is the magic number, why the real villain in building wealth is delay, and what he would tell a 40-year-old who thinks it's too late. He also shares what he learned from the 1987 Black Monday crash, why he chose a physical book to carry the message, and why working with a ghostwriter who knew nothing about his topic was the best thing that happened to his first book.To listen alongside an in depth episode summary, highlights, and full transcript, visit [link for Author Hour episode on Scribe website]More information on Christopher Day.More information on The $25 Millionaire.More information on the guidebook.

When every car was streaming west out of New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina, Chad Perez was the only one driving east, cutting his vacation short to get back to his post. In Treading Water: A New Orleans Police Officer's Memoir of Survival and Service During Hurricane Katrina, Chad tells the story of the five days after the storm that he believes has never been told: officers who lost their own homes, slept in cars and Walmart parking lots, and kept serving with no playbook and no help from above.In this episode, Chad joins Lex Statzer to talk about being both a first responder and a victim of the same storm, what those five days taught him about leadership and the strength of middle managers, and how Katrina broke down the "us versus them" mindset he had carried as a young cop. He also shares how his wife pushed him to finally tell his story, why writing the book turned out to be therapeutic, and his advice for every first responder who has a book in them.More information on Chad Perez.More information on Treading Water.

Jake Kheel took a job inside a major Caribbean resort company expecting to learn how to fight the private sector. Instead, he discovered its enormous untapped potential to solve environmental problems. In Waking the Sleeping Giant: Unlocking the Hidden Power of Business to Save the Planet, Jake shares 20 years of lessons from Punta Cana, from restoring coral reefs to turning 15 tons a day of organic waste into a profitable worm compost business.In this episode, Jake joins Travis Stoliker to talk about why sustainability and profitability can work together, how writing for one specific reader made his book more useful, and the surprising result of publishing: two paid board seats that came almost directly from the book. He also shares what it really takes to become a paid speaker and how he is repurposing his book into social content today.More information on Jake KheelMore information on Waking the Sleeping Giant

Dr. Mike Simpson spent 32 years in the U.S. Army, most of it in special operations as a Ranger, Green Beret, and physician, before writing Honed, a men's health guide for staying sharp after 40 that he published with Scribe. When a pandemic layoff left him with three unexpected months off, he finally wrote the story that had been in his head for decades: The Last Dungeon Crawler, the first book in the Falgrim Firebeard trilogy, about a 6,000-year-old dwarf who teaches archaeology at NYU by day and hunts dangerous artifacts by night.In this episode, Mike joins Travis Stoliker to talk about the pivots that shaped his life, why today's storytellers have to hook readers in the very first sentence, and the Facebook ad playbook that has worked best for his novels. He explains how his nonfiction readers followed him into fantasy, why you can't manage what you don't measure in book marketing, and how he learned from a Pentagon colleague that Honed had been cited in congressional testimony.For more information on Mike Simpson, visit https://scribemedia.com/authors/michael-simpsonFor more information on Honed, visit https://scribemedia.com/published-books/honed