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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Interview With Business Leadership Author Michael Rabinowitz

"The business advice and self-help genres are filled with similar titles, but few offer advice that's as concise and thoughtful as Rabinowitz does in this work." — Kirkus Reviews

"Timely, exceptional, deftly crafted, and of enormous value… unreservedly recommended." — Midwest Book Review

1. What inspired you to write the book? In consulting with CEOs on internal organizational challenges, dealmaking, and communications, I kept finding that the root issue we were solving was trust. I had seen the same thing years earlier: whether leading billion-dollar product launches, turning around struggling businesses, or building programs that transformed industry practice, trust was the currency that mattered most. That insight felt too important to share one client at a time, so I wrote a book that summarizes the lessons and practical advice for leveraging this critical leadership skill.

2. What is the book about and who for? Win Via Trust takes a straightforward, effective approach that makes trust a learnable skill that drives results, not simply a soft virtue. I comprehensively cover the key aspects of trust that an organizational leader needs to know by first introducing the concept in a personal story from my more than 30 years of experience in Fortune 100 companies, startups, and nonprofits to make the issue relatable. I then review the existing evidence as found in studies, surveys, and industry best practices to provide an up-to-date picture of what we know and don’t. I summarize these insights and best practices in two paragraphs in a section titled “The Bottom Line.” In the next section called “So What,” I move from the science to what it means for how today’s leader acts. Each chapter concludes with “Winning Moves,” practical and actionable next steps a leader should take to leverage trust to improve their performance and their organization’s results. The book is for leaders who are open to improvement, wherever they are in their leadership journey, regardless of whether they work in marketing, sales, finance, technology, operations, or fundraising functions.

3. What do I hope readers get out of the book? My goal is for leaders to recognize the importance of trust and subsequently elevate their performance by applying practical approaches to lead with trust. By adjusting how they think about and apply trust, they should quickly see stronger short-term results such as faster decisions, closed deals, and engaged teams, along with more sustainable long-term impact.

4. How did I decide on the book’s title and cover? I wanted the title to set the tone for the book by being clear and concise. So, I quickly concluded that three words were enough: Win Via Trust. Similarly, I wanted a visual that communicated that we were not inventing something new, just unlocking a skill that everyone can further develop. My creative partner, Marko Markovic, developed the lock imagery, which we wanted to stand out against a strong navy background. Hopefully, readers will likewise stand out after unlocking the power of trust.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!? I am too early in my book journey to offer much advice, let alone wisdom. If this proves to be analogous to other major efforts I have undertaken, I simply suggest that the author ensure that they are writing about something that they are passionate about, be humble enough to learn and grow during the process, and trust themselves to make the choices that will allow their book to be authentic and a contribution beyond what is already available.

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading? There are several book trends that reflect broader trends across all industries. Digital saturation is driving a significant segment of consumers to seek non-digital sanctuaries, helping bookstores grow again. Influencers are entering publishing as ‘authorpreneurs,’ using their existing networks to efficiently scale a message and create consumer demand. Additionally, AI is both enabling and challenging what it means to publish original content. I believe that the publishing industry can thrive through all this change if it maintains an unrelenting focus on serving the needs of the reader, as it has done through every technological and societal advance since the printing press.

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book? That is an easy question since I used my life experiences to introduce trust concepts at the beginning of every chapter. Whether making high-stakes deals, leading a pharma company’s investor communications through a crisis, turning around a struggling business, coaching teenagers on a playoff basketball run, or leading a high adventure scouting trip in the Adirondacks, my experiences have reinforced that trust is essential to accomplish anything of substance. Trust is the engine that makes collaboration possible, and these experiences offer examples that bring the theory to the real world.

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to? I highly value the time readers spend with me and ruthlessly strive to be concise and practical. My recommendations are based on my experience and corroborated with real-world evidence, which I cite so that researchers receive full credit and readers can follow up on the primary sources if they wish. Readers who enjoyed Stephen M.R. Covey’s The Speed of Trust will find familiar territory, but my focus is on practical application, with evidence-based “Winning Moves” in every chapter that leaders can act on immediately.

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book? As a first-time author, every step in the process brought significant learning and growth. I wrote much of the book while traveling on planes to business meetings, and as other travelers will tell you, not every flight provided a comfortable environment to write. I also took a few months off when my father passed away, may his memory be for a blessing. When finalizing the book, I wrestled with whether to wait for newer study results or the impact of the next round of AI innovation on leadership. Ultimately, I decided the insights and practical approaches were evergreen and did not need to wait.

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours? If you’re looking to improve individual or organizational success, Win Via Trust crystallizes what you need to know as a leader and provides practical advice that you can apply immediately. One framework that you will not find anywhere else is the Trustworthy Decision Matrix, a simple yet powerful 2×2 decision tool built on two questions: does this person or company have a track record of meeting expectations, and how difficult or risky is the task at hand? Utilizing this matrix delivers a clear, evidence-based assessment on whether to move forward and what level of support is needed to succeed. For leaders of organizations large or small, for-profit or nonprofit, this practical architecture for decision-making elevates trust as a corporate value and a competitive advantage. As Kirkus Reviews stated: “The business advice and self-help genres are filled with similar titles, but few offer advice that’s as concise and thoughtful as Rabinowitz does in this work.” You can learn more about my book and listen to my Win Via Trust leadership podcast at winviatrust.com.

About The Author: Michael Rabinowitz brings more than thirty years of real-world leadership experience to every engagement. As a C-suite executive, entrepreneur, and advisor to organizations across the full spectrum of business, Michael has lived the challenges his audiences face every day. His presentations are grounded in decades of research and real-world application, rich with practical frameworks, and delivered with the authority of someone who has actually done the work. Audiences consistently leave with actionable insights they can implement. Please see www.winviatrust.com.

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This award-winning blog has generated over 10, 000,000 page views. With over 5,700+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” Copyright 2026.

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook. It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

You can connect with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum/ or https://www.facebook.com/brian.feinblum

Interview With Author Julie Ann Sipos

1. What inspired you to write this book?

With corporate fatigue at an all-time high, we've been given ample leeway to poke fun at people and personalities behind the machine, but we rarely dare expose the conduct of women in the workplace when we think men aren't looking. I call this syndrome "Mean Girls" for grown-ups, and some of us don't outgrow it when we put on a pair of pantyhose and a power suit.

2. What exactly is it about — and who is it written for?

Exiled from #MeToo Hollywood, Jaycee Grayson seeks unlikely refuge inside a beloved Midwest doll empire, where the empress has no clothes (and may never have existed at all). She has to decide whether to expose a billion-dollar secret and ruin her shot at a second chance or suck it up and play along—which has never been her strong suit. It's for anyone who's ever had a job, worked among lots of women, reported to one who isn't well-liked, or pondered the difference between "leaning in," lying down, and blowing the whistle on a sister.

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book?

Women will feel seen, exonerated, and maybe a little embarrassed. Men will feel stunned and terrified. We will all have a good laugh at ourselves throughout and wonder when the next installment is coming. (The answer is soon!) Visit the website, JayceeGraysNovels.com, for character-curated content, female empowerment merch, and inside dish. You can also hear me talk about all this on YouTube (Julie and Lisa at Dartmouth Park), along with many other ideas on books and stories I share with my screenwriting students in the Department of Cinema & Television Arts at California State University, Northridge.

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design?

When I pitched the idea to my former agent over lunch, she said something like, "I love the idea of your writing about all these horrible women." I had already decided on Wonderful Girls as the name of the doll company. Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls worked on pretty much every level. Damon Freeman of Damonza in New Zealand designs thousands of covers (including bestsellers like Dean Koontz) and picked mine among his top 10 last year. It's a critical relationship when branding a series centered around a heroine on the rocky road to reinvention. She has to be both recognizable and not through each standalone adventure. And it's especially challenging with a broad category like darkly comic literary suspense thriller. It has to pop and blend everywhere and nowhere at all. I think they've nailed it with the first two.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!?

Watch the sticker shock. Self-publishing isn't free, unless you are only publishing for yourself and a few close friends. If you want to be a professional about it, expect to make an investment and be realistic about returns on that investment in the immediate. That said, I don't think the challenges are all that different than they are for traditionally published mid-list authors, who are expected to bring their own audience, generate publicity, and fork over most of the profits. That makes no sense whatever to my personality type. If you're into risk-taking, reward-reaping feels like a fair trade-off. Just know how you define both.

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading?

I think consumers are both wearier and warier of machine consumption than ever, and we're definitely onto the "fauxgorithm." While self-publishing may not have been possible without technology, authors are extremely annoyed with the AI police, and there's a new premium on proof of life in the town square. Book fairs, crafts fairs, bar nights, public and little free libraries. It's both newfangled and old-fashioned at the same time. Social media, meanwhile, has turned away from real-life friends who want to show you their sandwich and more targeted to interesting pages and book clubs. I also think themed author collabs are really exciting for readers because it's a way to bypass the highly suspect bestseller machine and rely on someone you already like and follow to find something likely to land.

7. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to?

Kirkus Reviews called my writing style "punchy." Reviewing my second book, set in the dangerous world of Midwest artisanal meat sticks, and I quote, "the author stuffs each sentence like a sausage, serving bite after bite of clever quips and saucy scrutiny." I think there's a certain Seussian quality to it that may be challenging for some readers. But this is by design; the novels are voiced by Jaycee Grayson, an ousted children's entertainment executive who's fled the coast to duck for cover inside equally broken Middle American systems. We're sorting through all this while living inside her head.

8. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book?

It's dedicated to my sister Mary Beth, who did not live to see it published. Jaycee's sister, Meredith, is the heart of the story, and the reason it's more than a snarky satire about standing up to workplace bullying and corporate greed no matter the personal cost. Resurrecting my sister is never easy, but people who knew us in life tell me that reading the novels feels like being with us again on the page.

9. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours?

You can get it for $5.99 on Amazon. Writer's Digest Magazine gave me ten thousand dollars for it. I also got an awesome roll of gold stickers.

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About Brian Feinblum

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Interview With Four Authors On Book About Male Friendship

1. What inspired you to write this book? We realized that a forty-year friendship among four men had become something unusual. At the same time, we were reading more and more about loneliness among men. We wanted to share our story, not because we have all the answers, but because our friendship might offer a hopeful example of what is possible.

2. What exactly is it about, and who is it written for? The Wilderness of Friendship is about four men who met at Vanderbilt Divinity School in the 1980s and remained friends through marriage, fatherhood, careers, distance, loss, illness, and aging. It is especially written for men who want deeper, more meaningful friendships, but we think anyone interested in friendship and connection will find something in it.

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book? We hope readers will think about the friendships in their own lives and perhaps become more intentional about them. Friendship requires time, vulnerability, curiosity, humor, and the willingness to keep showing up.

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design? Wilderness has played an important role in our friendship because our annual gatherings often took us into mountains, rivers, and other wild places. But friendship can also be a kind of wilderness. There is no map, and you have to be willing to enter uncertain territory together. That idea became The Wilderness of Friendship.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers, other than run!? Write about what you know, but stay curious enough to discover that you may not know it as well as you think. Listen to good editors and trusted readers, be willing to revise, and keep your sense of humor.

6. What trends in the book world do you see, and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading? We hope publishing continues to make room for a wider range of voices and experiences. Some of the most important reading we have done has challenged us to see the world through perspectives very different from our own. Books still have an extraordinary ability to do that.

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book? Absolutely. Among the four of us, our lives have included ministry, psychotherapy, teaching, journalism, philosophy, advocacy, marriage, fatherhood, illness, loss, and retirement. The book grew out of those experiences and the many conversations we have had about them over the years.

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to? Because there are four authors, the book has four distinct voices. The writing is personal and conversational, but it also draws on literature, theology, psychology, philosophy, poetry, and popular culture. Writers and thinkers who have influenced us include Wendell Berry, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Richard Rohr, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book? Writing one book in four voices was probably the biggest challenge. We had different memories, perspectives, and writing styles. Rather than eliminate those differences, we tried to let them become part of the book.

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours? Because loneliness, particularly among men, is a very real problem. Our book offers the story of four imperfect men who have kept choosing friendship for more than forty years. If it inspires someone to call an old friend, have a more honest conversation, or make friendship a greater priority, we will be very glad we wrote it.

About The Authors:

Bill Friskics-Warren spent more than three decades advocating for unhoused people in Nashville and has written about Southern music for The New York Times since 2000.

Bill Harkins is an Episcopal priest, licensed marriage and family therapist, and former professor of pastoral theology and counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary.

Paul Shupe is a longtime United Church of Christ minister and theological educator who has spent four decades in ministry and mentored nearly 40 students preparing for ministry.

Bob Victorin-Vangerud is a former Lutheran pastor and retired philosophy and world religions professor who has taught in community colleges and Minnesota state prisons.

For more information, click here: The Wilderness of Friendship

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Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

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Interview With Financial Education Author Dr. Stacker

1. What inspired you to write this book?

The spark came from a conversation with my little sister. She is intelligent, hardworking, and had access to plenty of financial information, including me, but she still struggled to consistently do the things she already knew she should be doing.

That conversation forced me to ask a different question. Instead of asking, “What do people need to know about money?” I began asking, “What keeps good, capable people from doing what they already know?”

My sister lit the match, but my wife and daughter fueled the fire.

I wanted to create the kind of practical financial guide I wish I had 30 years ago—a book that addresses the beliefs, emotions, habits, identity, and expectations that determine whether financial advice ever becomes consistent behavior. Information is important, but implementation is how financial lives actually change.

My wife and daughter made the work deeply personal. I was not just writing a book about money; I was leaving them a wealth-building instruction manual. I wanted to create something that could help the people I love become more confident, capable, and intentional with their financial lives.

That is what ultimately inspired this book: one conversation revealed the problem, and my family gave me the reason to keep writing until I had created something that could genuinely help solve it.

2. What exactly is it about — and who is it written for?

Most investing books teach people what to do. This book focuses on and addresses why so many people struggle to do it consistently.

The formula for building wealth is not especially complicated: spend less than you earn, save consistently, and invest over time. The challenge is turning that information into behavior that survives stress, setbacks, emotions, and everyday life. That is what this book is really about.

It combines beginner-friendly investing fundamentals with stories, practical tools, and simple frameworks that help readers understand how their beliefs, habits, identity, and financial systems affect their results. The goal is not merely to help someone choose an investment. It is to help them become the type of person who can build wealth consistently.

The book is written for hardworking people who want to improve their financial lives but feel stuck between knowing and doing. They may understand that they should save more, reduce debt, or start investing, but they have struggled to create a system they can actually follow. It is especially for beginners who want clear financial education without jargon, shame, hype, or the assumption that they already know how everything works.

At its core, this is a book for people who are tired of starting over and are ready to build a stronger financial foundation from the ground up.

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book?

More than anything, I want readers to finish the book believing that building wealth is possible for them.

Too many people see the word impossible and forget that, with one small shift, it becomes I’m possible. Wealth is not reserved for financial experts, high earners, or people who started with every advantage. It is usually built through a few important decisions repeated consistently over time.

I want readers to gain practical knowledge about saving, investing, managing risk, and building a financial system, but I also want them to understand themselves better. I want them to recognize the beliefs, emotions, habits, and expectations that may have kept them from applying what they already know.

Most importantly, I want them to leave with greater financial self-trust. I want readers to be able to say, “I understand what to do, I have a system that fits my life, and I am capable of following through.” The real goal isn’t simply to know more about money, it’s to become more confident, capable, and consistent in the way you handle it.

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design?

That part was actually easy. Before I wrote a single word, I knew I needed a powerful metaphor that would make the wealth-building process easier for beginners to understand and remember. Growing a garden was the natural choice because building wealth works in much the same way.

You begin by preparing the soil, then you plant seeds, create a system for watering and caring for them, protect what you are growing through difficult seasons, and patiently allow time to produce the fruit. You cannot plant a seed on Monday and become angry when there is no harvest by Friday. Wealth also requires patience, attention, consistency, and trust in the process.

That metaphor led directly to the subtitle, Planting Seeds & Growing Riches, and it shaped the entire structure of the book. The title, Beginner’s Guide to Growing Wealth and Investing, makes the promise clear: this is an approachable starting point for people who want to understand investing and build wealth from the ground up.

The cover design followed the same idea. I wanted it to feel hopeful, accessible, and connected to growth—not like a technical textbook or another book promising overnight riches. The imagery of seeds, roots, and growth reflects the central lesson of the book: wealth does not suddenly appear. It is planted through small decisions, nurtured through consistent systems, and grown over time.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!?

Whether you sell 100 copies or 100 million copies, write the book as though it will be read by 100 million people. And not for the reason you might think.

Ask yourself this: if you knew with absolute certainty that 100 million people were waiting to read your book, how long would you allow F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) to keep you from finishing it? Probably not very long.

Do not let F.U.D. delay your dream. If your dream is to write the book, then write the dang book. Do not overthink it. Do not wait until you feel completely qualified. Do not let the pursuit of perfection become an excuse for never getting it done.

Not to be morbid, but I often think about how many dreams die with people simply because they never acted on them or never finished what they started. Do not let your unwritten book become one of your life’s regrets. The book does not have to be perfect. It has to be written.

You can revise a completed manuscript. You cannot revise a dream that never made it onto the page.

While I was writing, my son would sing a line from Hamilton to me: “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?” My answer was simple: because I am. Time is my most precious asset, and I refuse to waste it leaving important work unfinished. My dream will not die with me. It’s in my book.

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading?

I’m living one of the biggest changes in publishing. Authors no longer need permission from a few major publishing houses to share their ideas. Independent writers can now publish, distribute, and build direct relationships with readers on their own terms.

As the industry becomes more digital, publishing will become even more accessible, but also more crowded. That will make authentic voice, lived experience, and real connection more valuable. And ironically, I think the more digital the world becomes, the more some readers will return to physical books. Certain stories and ideas are simply experienced differently when you can hold them in your hands.

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book?

Going broke. Losing it all. That came in pretty handy.

I started with $5,000 and built a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio, then lost it. The collapse did more than damage my finances. It broke me, and I stayed down for nearly a decade.

What is interesting is that when I finally rebuilt, I did it using much of the same financial information I had known ten years earlier. The information had not changed. I had to change.

I had to become more intentional, self-aware, and capable of consistently doing what I already knew needed to be done. That experience taught me that financial transformation is not just about learning more. It is about becoming someone different.

My career also shaped the book. I have spent nearly 30 years as an educator, counselor, and college administrator helping people learn, change, and work through difficult transitions. That taught me that information alone rarely changes behavior.

This book sits at the intersection of those two experiences. Losing everything taught me what had to change, and my career taught me how to explain that process in a way ordinary people can understand, follow, and use.

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to?

I would describe my writing style as conversational, story-driven, and practical. I write the way I teach: like a professor who is willing to explain the lesson, a coach who will challenge you, and an uncle who wants to make sure you do not repeat his mistakes.

I use metaphors, personal stories, humor, and simple frameworks to make financial ideas easier to understand and remember. I never want readers to feel as though they need a finance degree or a decoder ring to follow along, and I never want them to feel talked down to or shamed for what they do not know or what they have done with money.

My work shares some similarities with Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money because of its focus on behavior and storytelling, and with James Clear’s Atomic Habits because it connects small, consistent actions to larger outcomes. But my approach is specifically focused on helping beginners build a financial identity and operating system that makes investing and wealth building easier to sustain.

The goal is for readers to feel like someone is sitting across the table from them, telling the truth, making the complicated simple, and helping them believe they can actually do this.

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book?

At first, I had no idea how much actually went into writing and publishing a book. Writing the manuscript is only one part of the process. There are edits, revisions, formatting, cover decisions, publishing choices, marketing, and a hundred other details nobody really warns you about. It can be overwhelming.

But honestly, the biggest challenge was me.

I had to get out of my own way. I had to learn how to deal with that little voice in my head that kept saying, “Who are you to think you can write a book?” “What are you doing?” “You are not an author.” “You are an imposter.”

Imposter syndrome is real. It shows up when you are trying to do something new, meaningful, or bigger than what you have done before. The mistake is believing that the voice has to disappear before you can move forward. It does not. I had to keep writing while the doubt was still talking. I had to stop treating fear like evidence and stop letting uncertainty make decisions for me.

For me, so much of life is about mind over matter: If you do not let it live in your mind, it does not matter.

The challenge is was refusing to let fear, uncertainty, doubt, and perfectionism keep me from finishing what I started.

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours?

You buy it because most financial books assume the problem is that you do not know enough. My book starts with a different question: what if you already know many of the right things to do, but you have never been shown how to do them consistently? It is not just financial education, it’s a personal transformation journey through a financial framework.

You may already know you should save more, invest regularly, reduce unnecessary spending, and plan for the future. The challenge is getting your beliefs, decisions, habits, and financial systems aligned well enough for that knowledge to become behavior. That is what makes this book different.

About The Author: Dr. Stacker, also known as Doc Stacker, Ph.D., is the founder of Stackers University, launched in 2022 to provide the financial education the school system did not. He teaches like a professor, challenges like a coach, speaks like a counselor, and keeps it real like a wise uncle while helping people break free from the Working Poor Cycle and build wealth on purpose. Starting with just $5,000, he built a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio, lost it all, and later rebuilt by transforming his mindset, emotions, identity, and financial systems. With nearly three decades in higher education as a professor and administrator, a Master’s in Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Dr. Stacker blends behavioral finance, psychology, practical investing, and lived experience to help people change how they think, decide, and act with money. Please see: www.stackersuniversity.com

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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Interview With Business Leadership Author Michael Rabinowitz

"The business advice and self-help genres are filled with similar titles, but few offer advice that's as concise and thoughtful as Rabinowitz does in this work." — Kirkus Reviews"Timely, exceptional, deftly crafted, and of enormous value… unreservedly recommended." — Midwest Book Review

Interview With Author Julie Ann Sipos

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Interview With Four Authors On Book About Male Friendship

Interview With Financial Education Author Dr. Stacker

"The business advice and self-help genres are filled with similar titles, but few offer advice that's as concise and thoughtful as Rabinowitz does in this work." — Kirkus Reviews

"Timely, exceptional, deftly crafted, and of enormous value… unreservedly recommended." — Midwest Book Review