Ep. 285 - Jonathan Fowler [LXV]

 

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess.

On this our 285th episode, our returning guest is Jonathan Fowler.
Jonathan is the all-time most frequent guest of The Rob Burgess Show.
Jonathan graduated with a BA in history from Indiana University in 2006. He is an unabashed left-wing political junkie. He has lived and worked in South Korea for over a decade, trying to help the citizens of that great nation, hopefully, "talk pretty one day."

You first heard Jonathan Fowler on Episode 2, Episode 10, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 29, Episode 30, Episode 31, Episode 32, Episode 34, Episode 35, Episode 43, Episode 48, Episode 51, Episode 56, Episode 64, Episode 74, Episode 83, Episode 92, Episode 102, Episode 103, Episode 104, Episode 105, Episode 106, Episode 107, Episode 108, Episode 109, Episode 111, Episode 114, Episode 115, Episode 116, Episode 119, Episode 126, Episode 127, Episode 133, Episode 137, Episode 140, Episode 146, Episode 147, Episode 149. Episode 153, Episode 156, Episode 158, Episode 160, Episode 162, Episode 164, Episode 167, Episode 168, Episode 169, Episode 172, Episode 173, Episode 174, Episode 179, Episode 180, Episode 181, Episode 185, Episode 236, Episode 247, Episode 249, Episode 251, Episode 261, Episode 264, Episode 270, Episode. 277 and Episode 281.

And on Episode 82 and Episode 216, Jonathan was a guest along with fellow regular guest Ash Burgess.

A quick programming note: In this episode, Jonathan and I discuss his family's land, which they purchased from Van Sanders. I discussed Van Sanders and his relation to Mitchell, Indiana extensively in Episode 280.

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The Rob Burgess Show · Ep. 285 - Jonathan Fowler [LXV]

Ep. 284 - Martha C. Lawrence

 Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess.

On this our 284th episode, our guest is Martha C. Lawrence.

A former editor at Simon & Schuster and Harcourt, Martha C. Lawrence has shaped the voices of some of the world’s most successful thought leaders. As executive editor at Blanchard, she has collaborated with Ken Blanchard for more than 20 years, including on “Trust Works!,” winner of the San Diego Book Award. Her editing credits include multi-million-copy bestsellers and no. 1 New York Times titles. She is also the author of an Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Shamus-nominated mystery series featuring private investigator Elizabeth Chase. Martha holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and studied creative writing at The New School in New York City. She was a founding faculty member of The La Jolla Writers Conference and has been a book reviewer for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Outside of her professional life, she is an avid hiker and long-time yoga practitioner. She lives in Escondido, California, with her partner and a full contingent of backyard wildlife. Lawrence is passionate about leadership, storytelling and capturing legacies that matter. Learn more at marthalawrence.com.

Her new book, “Catch People Doing Things Right: How Ken Blanchard Changed the Way the World Leads,” will be published by Berrett–Koehler Publishers on Oct. 21.

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Ep. 283 - Steve Schlam

 

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess.

On this our 283rd episode, our guest is Steve Schlam.

Steve Schlam first gained entrance to the “City of Words” through the doors of the public library in Brooklyn, New York, where he was born and spent a good portion of his childhood, and has maintained his residency ever since while living in cities and towns across the U.S.A. and in Mexico. An actor as well as an author, he has performed on stages in all the places he has called home, and earned an MA degree in Creative Writing under the tutelage of Joseph Heller, renowned author of “Catch-22.” His debut novel, “The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane,” published in 2024, was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Disquiet International Prize for Fiction. He lives now in sunny Southern California in a pretty little Craftsman house with lemons and tangelos growing in the backyard, in the company of his wife, Liora.

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The Rob Burgess Show · Ep. 283 - Steve Schlam