Best Grant Faulkner Podcasts (2024)

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Listening, Learning and Leading with Aoifinn Devitt 29:08

9h ago29:08

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This week, we welcome Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Market Strategist and founder and creator of The Fiftyfaces Podcast. Aoifinn is a force when it comes to markets, investing and storytelling and together we explore her personal and professional journey and the lightbulb moments that have guided her success. We take a deep dive into the magic of hu…

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Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein 1:01:59

21m ago1:01:59

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This week’s episode airs Brooke in conversation with Naomi Klein at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. While this interview does not hew to Write-minded’s effort to offer weekly doses of inspiration for writers, Brooke and Grant decided to make this available both because our listeners requested it and because we admire the work Naomi Klein is doi…

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How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee 40:03

2h ago40:03

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Secrets come in all forms, big and small. We inherit secrets, carry the secrets of others, and struggle with the burden of all they hold and how they sometimes fester within us. This week’s episode with guest Margaret Juhae Lee explores the difference between people who want to keep the past buried and those who want to set it free. We explore inte…

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On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips 45:59

5d ago45:59

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This week’s guest, Jayne Anne Phillips, is a Pulitzer prize-winning author for her latest book, Night Watch, which gives Write-minded an opportunity to muse about awards—why they matter, what we make of them and do with them, and where we might find awards from things we seek out in addition to those we receive. Join us for this wide-ranging litera…

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Moving past an Involuntary Exit with Robin Merle 36:47

18d ago36:47

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This week we welcome Robin Merle, author of Involuntary Exit, A Woman’s Guide to Thriving After Being Fired, to share her insights. She brings a unique perspective to the conversation, showing how moving past the initial stages of anger and fear, and finding ourselves on a path of self-reflection can turn the experience into a positive one. It can …

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How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong 43:42

12d ago43:42

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This week’s Write-minded centers questions, and how questions guide writers, drive fiction, and unearth important stories. Guest Rachel Khong shares how the big and provocative question of who’s a “real American” informed her new novel and why she writes without an outline. We also talk about ambition and drive, why novelists have to grapple with p…

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Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa 44:24

19d ago44:24

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Write-minded is celebrating memoir as an evolving form this week, tackling the difference between imaginative writing in memoir and writing in memoir that might not be true. Memoir is increasingly embodying its rightful spot in the realm of creative nonfiction, in that there’s allowance for writers to explore ideas and truths within the realms of c…

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The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg 48:53

1M ago48:53

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This week we take on The Big Novel and unpack our thoughts on novel length, the very concept of The Great American Novel, advances, and more. Guest Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to talk about his own long works of fiction, as well as his writing process that involves seeing where his characters want to take him. We touch upon characterization vs. pl…

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen 47:11

1M ago47:11

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It’s Write-minded’s 300th episode! And we’re celebrating by bringing listeners the esteemed Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel, The Sympathizer, was adapted for HBO Max and started streaming in April. In this interview, Nguyen addresses didacticism as a craft choice, the mindset of writers who, like him, find themselves between two languages, and how h…

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One Life to Love with Founder, Courtney Lalotra 37:32

2M ago37:32

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This month we introduce you to Courtney Lalotra, Founder and President of the nonprofit organization One Life to Love. For Courtney it all started with a trip to India that changed her life path and she brings us along the way. She shares personal stories, from her own life and the children around her, that shows how her organization strives to emp…

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Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook 48:08

1M ago48:08

48:08

This week’s episode is one for book lovers, book collectors, aspiring authors, and every kind of writer. It’s always helpful to know what booksellers know—because bookstores do so much more than just provide a place for browsing and buying books. Join us to talk with Josh Cook of Porter Square Books about his new book, The Art of Libromancy, and wh…

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Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton 47:53

2M ago47:53

47:53

In this week’s extra-inspiring show, guest Dhonielle Clayton treats us to a generous conversation about effecting change in the industry and how that inevitable comes with backlash. We talk about representation in publishing, Penguin Random House’s recent firing of two high-profile publishers, and book bans—among other important topics, like packag…

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Become a Great Networker with Nancie McDonnell Ruder 33:03

2M ago33:03

33:03

Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito 42:04

2M ago42:04

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What will other people think? What will be the consequences of sharing my truth? These are among some of the questions that hold memoirists back, and their realities post-publication can cause “vulnerability hangovers.” Exposure, fear of fallout, concern for people we love—memoir doesn’t make it easy. With very recent experience informing her, this…

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Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig 37:40

2M ago37:40

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We’re living through a golden age of memoir, and guest Jennifer Leigh Selig’s Deep Memoir is a new contribution to the “how-to” space for memoirists who want to explore the how and the why of memoir writing. This episode will help listeners consider their own “why” when it comes to that age-old question of why to keep at it, and also to celebrate a…

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Become a Great Networker with Wisdom from the Warriors At Work Community With Dr. Rosina Racioppi 31:37

3M ago31:37

31:37

Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez 39:35

2M ago39:35

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This week’s Write-minded takes on grief, and why, as our guest Claire Jiménez says, “it’s where language collapses.” Jiménez’s new book deals with loss and grief and what happens in a family in the aftermath of a disappearance of a child, and yet, she weaves in humor and the history of American colonization of Puerto Rico and so much more. Grant an…

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Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman 36:38

3M ago36:38

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This week Write-minded is interviewing an established writer whose star is on the rise. Elwin Cotman’s new story collection blew us away for how he played with form and takes readers on an expected journeys. His stories don’t fit into any box—including length, and we loved it! On this week’s show Grant also announces his departure from NaNoWriMo an…

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Become a Great Networker with Wisdom from the Warriors At Work Community Amanda Grant, Teneo 42:04

3M ago42:04

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Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:41

3M ago49:41

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This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutations—not just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest Stacey D’Erasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel it as readers, and also to consider acts of intimacy, like an older actress showing her authen…

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

3M ago42:00

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This week’s guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads. His is an interesting take about how things were and how things are, along with insight about…

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Great Networking with Amy Horner, Founder True Nine 26:58

3M ago26:58

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Networking is a crucial aspect of any business. Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned business professional, building relationships can help you gain valuable insights and find new business opportunities. This series shares conversations with four extraordinary business women, from the Warrior community, to discuss the skills of networkin…

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Social Responsibility in Fiction, featuring Naomi Kanakia 46:41

4M ago46:41

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What does it really mean to consider your own social responsibility as a fiction writer? Guest Naomi Kanakia confronted that very question as she considered her modeling as a trans author writing YA books for teens. What if hers was the first book a genderqueer or trans kid ever read? What did she owe her reader? These are some of the questions at …

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Getting Real About Book Publishing, featuring Kathleen Schmidt 46:49

4M ago46:49

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Strap on your seatbelts ’cause we’re going for a ride—into the wild world of book publishing. Guest Kathleen Schmidt is a leading voice in publishing. Her popular Substack, Publishing Confidential, is a go-to source for tell-it-like-it-is realities about the industry and what authors can and should expect. We talk shop this week, touching upon auth…

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The Big Familia of Writing Inspiration, featuring Tomas Moniz 39:52

4M ago39:52

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An episode about friendship, writing about friendship, and how friendship influences our writing lives. As a community-minded podcast, Write-minded has often touched upon the importance of a broader net of friendship on our writing. This week we get a bit more specific with guest Tomas Moniz, who’s written a new book about male friendship and whose…

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Other People’s Words, featuring Lissa Soep 46:23

4M ago46:23

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This week’s Write-minded show examines the nuanced and deep exploration at the heart of guest Lissa Soep’s new book, Other People’s Words. A consideration of the ways others’ voices echo in our own, her book and this episode shows us a kaleidoscope of how we conjure and recycle and tap into the words of others. There’s much to unpack here, too, fro…

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Connecting Back to Nature at the National Aquarium with John Racanelli 43:39

4M ago43:39

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We welcome John Racanelli to join us in an inspiring conversation about our “Ocean Planet”. He shares with us his own journey and inspiration, as well as some of his innovative designs that bring awareness to the “ocean conservation space”. We know that protecting our oceans is essential for the well-being of our planet, but there is so much more. …

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Light-hearted Writing During Heavy-hearted Times, featuring Neely Tubati-Alexander 35:14

4M ago35:14

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Ready for a reprieve? Join Brooke and Grant and this week’s guest, Neely Tubati-Alexander, for a conversation about whether romance and rom-com writers are having more fun. We dive into questions of the success of the genre, what publishers are looking for, and how a writer gets into romance writing in the first place. A light-hearted episode in ce…

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Strategies for Writing About Childhood Trauma, featuring Javier Zamora 40:23

5M ago40:23

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This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether you’re writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (or raw material for fiction). Javier’s memoir, Solito, is a stunning book about his nine-week j…

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