Chelsea Fagan
Chelsea Fagan is the co-founder and CEO of The Financial Diet. She is the author of many books, including THE HIGH DIVE, coming May 27, 2025.
Chelsea is an avid home cook, and lives in Manhattan with her husband and dog.
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Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.
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Haley Shapley
Haley Shapley is a journalist whose writing has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Teen Vogue, Sierra, SELF, American Way, Shape, and the Telegraph. Her first book, Strong Like Her, was published in April 2020 by Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster.
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Jeffery Deaver
#1 international bestselling author of over thirty novels and three collections of short stories. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages. His first novel featuring Lincoln Rhyme, The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He's received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world.
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan is the New York Times bestselling author of IT'S A LOVE STORY, SUMMER ROMANCE, SAME TIME NEXT SUMMER and NORA GOES OFF SCRIPT. She is also the author of two novels for young adults, A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit.
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Meg Jay
She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Virginia and maintains a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Dr. Jay’s book, The Defining Decade, was a 2012 Slate.com Staff Pick and her 2013 TED talk “Why 30 Is Not the New 20″ has been viewed more than 2 million times. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Forbes, Psychology Today, and NPR.
Dr. Jay earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and in gender studies, from the University of California, Berkeley.
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New York Times, Washington Post & USA Today bestseller Sarah MacLean is the author of historical romance novels. Translated into more than twenty-five languages, the books that make up “The MacLeaniverse” are beloved by readers worldwide.
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In addition to her novels, Sarah is a leading advocate for the romance genre, speaking widely on its place as a feminist text and a cultural bellwether. A columnist for the New York Times, the Washington Post and Bustle, she is the co-host of the weekly romance podcast, Fated Mates. A Rhode Island native, Sarah now lives in New York City. -
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After graduating from Stanford University, she worked in the non-profit sector, teaching art and technology to youth in low-income communities. Following the success of her debut novel, The Language of Flowers, she co-founded Camellia Network (now Lifeset Network), a non-profit whose mission is to connect every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood. She currently lives in Monterey, CA, with her husband and four children.
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Jo Piazza
I write books about strong women defying the odds. I love an adventure and a book that both sweeps you away and starts a conversation with your friends.
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Book club visits are one of my favorite things to do and I zoomed into hundreds of them for my Good Morning America Book Club pick You Were Always Mine. I'm a former travel editor who has gotten to visit 47 countries and I met my husband Nick in the Galapagos islands on a reporting trip. After living in NYC and San Francisco I have settled into Philadelphia (the greatest city on Earth) to raise my three feral children.) -
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Elissa Sussman
Writer, reader, pumpkin pie eater.
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I'm not very active on Goodreads, but I love hearing from readers. Visit my website to see how you can contact or connect with me!
Elissa Sussman is the author of the novel FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK, as well as the young adult novels, DRAWN THAT WAY, STRAY, and BURN.
She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from Pacific University, and in a previous life managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, Dreamworks, and Sony Imageworks. You can see her name in the credits of THE CROODS, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, and TANGLED.
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Beth O'Leary
Beth studied English at university before going into children’s publishing. She lives as close to the countryside as she can get while still being within reach of London, and wrote her first novel, The Flatshare, on her train journey to and from work.
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You’ll usually find her curled up with a book, a cup of tea, and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather).
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Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. She is a 2022 recipient of a Whiting Award, the editor of McSweeney's Quarterly, a contributing editor at NOON, and the Picador Guest Professor of Literature at Leipzig University in Germany, where she teaches courses on creative writing, zines, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building.
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Emily Henry
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.
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Yaa Gyasi
YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Hannah Orenstein
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Carley Fortune
Carley Fortune is the #1 New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of Every Summer After, Meet Me at the Lake, This Summer Will Be Different, and One Golden Summer. Her next book, Our Perfect Storm, comes out May 5, 2026.
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Carley's books have sold more than three-million copies and have been translated into thirty languages. Every Summer After is in production as a TV series with Amazon Prime Video.
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Holly Trantham
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Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner is a multi-award winning author who takes an unflinching look at business leadership by speaking truth to power. She was named one of 9 Top Impact Authors for the 2024 Annual Goody Business Book Awards for receiving 3+ awards in 1 year.
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Clarion Foreward Reviews calls her recent book Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction “pithy and persuasive,” while BookLife Review compares it to Kim Scott’s Radical Respect and Kim Dabb’s You Belong Here.
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Raz Mihal
Hello, I’m Raz Mihal, the author of Just Love Her . My journey as a modern hermit has led me to a deep connection with the world, yet I strive to live beyond its conventional boundaries.
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In my work, I explore divine love as a reflection of our souls; a force that transcends physical and societal limits. My writing encourages readers to embrace love in its purest form, not merely as an emotion, but as a path to transcendence, unity, and the creation of a world connected by enlightened souls.
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Lauren Okie
I write messy love stories with sharp teeth and high stakes, and I cannot wait to share my debut novel, THE BEST WORST THING, with you.
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Erin Lowry
ERIN LOWRY is the author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together and Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up Your Money. Her first book was named by MarketWatch as one of the best money books of 2017 and her style is often described as refreshing and conversational. Erin's appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, CNBC and Fox & Friends. She has written for Fast Company, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Refinery29 and regularly speaks at universities and conferences around the country. Erin spent most of her childhood living in Asia, but now settled in New York City with her husband.
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Jessi Fearon
Jessi is the founder of the popular personal finance blog jessifearon.com, where she shares her family's real life on a budget in order to help others learn to manage their money better. Jessi's work has been featured on Buzzfeed, Rockstar Finance, TIME/Motto Magazine, Money Saving Mom, Dave Ramsey, and The Penny Hoarder. Jessi resides in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia with her husband Pat, their three children Conner, Collin, and Charlotte, and a crazy crew of two dogs and a feisty cat. When she's not homeschooling her kids you can find her on the back porch with her head in a book.
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Nicole Lapin
Nicole Lapin is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of Rich Bitch, Boss Bitch, Becoming Super Woman and Miss Independent. She has been an anchor on CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg as well as the host of the business reality competition show, "Hatched" that aired on the CW for the first season and CBS for the second. She is the founder of Money News Network, a pioneer business- and finance-focused podcast network, which is the home of her daily show “Money Rehab” that reached #1 on Apple’s business charts as well as “Help Wanted” that she co-hosts with the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine Jason Feifer, among other shows on their slate.
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Cory Huff
The Starving Artist is a myth! Digital strategist to creative beings. I help artists sell their art online.
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Hannah Hart
Hannah Hart is a Youtuber, comedian, author, actress and somewhat of a chef. Her Youtube channel MyHarto features her weekly My Drunk Kitchen videos. She has also collaborated with a multitude of other Youtubers including her best friends Mamrie Hart and Grace Helbig. Hannah, Grace and Mamrie also co-created the movie Camp Takota where Hannah Hart plays a supporting role of Allison Henry.
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Erin Skye Kelly
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Winner of the National Non-Fiction Book Awards - GOLD winner (July 2021)
Winner of Reader's Favorite Book Award - GOLD (September 2021)
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Alexandra Gater
Before starting her YouTube Channel, Alexandra was the Home Editor for Canada’s iconic women’s lifestyle magazine Chatelaine, where she created the YouTube series The Home Primp, which launched her online career.
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Since then, she's connected with millions through her online home makeover series who are just like her—people living in rentals who still want those rentals to feel like home.
Previously, she was a host for the HGTV digital series Buy or DIY and the host and producer for Shopify’s Make My Space Work. Her work is frequently featured in Apartment Therapy, Domino Magazine, Architectural Digest, and The Rachael Ray Show and she is also a regular guest expert on Cityline and The Global Morning Show.
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Holly Trantham
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John Mackey
John Mackey is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and visionary of Whole Foods Market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, with annual sales exceeding $22 billion. Mackey co-founded the Conscious Capitalism Movement and co-authored a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book titled “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” and follow up, “Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity through Business.” He is also the co-author of “The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity” and “The Whole Foods Cookbook: 120 Delicious and Healthy Plant-Centered Recipes.” Mackey current
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Jessica Moorhouse
Jessica is a sought-after money expert, TV personality and speaker. She is an Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada®, an award-winning financial content creator and the host of the chart-topping More Money Podcast (4+ million downloads). As a personal finance educator for over 13 years, she has given presentations throughout North America and is regularly featured by major Canadian and US media including CBC News, CTV News, BNN Bloomberg, the Toronto Star, Forbes and USA Today. Her debut book Everything but Money: The Hidden Barriers Between You and Financial Freedom came out December 31, 2024 (HarperCollins Canada) and became an Indigo Staff Pick, Globe and Mail Bestseller, Toronto Star Bestseller, Quill & Quire Bestseller, and Amazon Bes
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Shannon Lee Simmons
Shannon is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Investment Manager (CIM), media personality, personal finance expert and founder of the New School of Finance.
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Simmons is widely recognized as a trailblazer in the Canadian financial planning industry and an expert in Millennial personal finances and money in the digital world. She was named one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30, the 2014 Notable Award for Best In Finance and New School of Finance recently won the 2016 Wealth Professional Award for Digital Innovation. She is a regular financial expert in the media and has a monthly column for Globe and Mail personal finance section and is the host of Coral TV’s Money Awesomeness.
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Jamie Lee Finch
As a survivor of both childhood trauma and religious trauma, I have a deep familiarity with the language used by those who come from authoritarian backgrounds and desire to return to a feeling of wholeness within their bodies — after years of assimilating to a belief that required them to separate from themselves.
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I specialize in reframing the reality of embodiment through that language of relationship, and I work with individuals of all genders who consistently find within themselves an inability to connect with, communicate with, and successfully relate to their own bodies — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. -
Upasna Barath
Upasna was born in Downers Grove, Illinois and lived in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. When she was 18 years old, she began writing for Rookie Mag publishing narrative essays on topics such as Indian identity, imposter syndrome, self-harm, and grief. She also had a video column with Rookie called Upasna Asks.
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Emily Bond
Emily Bond (aka Belden) is an author with Harlequin/HarperCollins and a Stage 2 Breast Cancer Survivor. She inked a two-book deal and her starred-review debut novel HOT MESS came out via Graydon House—a select hardcover and trade paperback imprint dedicated to publishing book club-worthy fiction with strong commercial appeal. Her sophomore novel HUSBAND MATERIAL is sold in bookstores nationwide, including mass retailers Target and Kroger. She is also the author of coming-of-age memoir, EIGHTYSIXED. Her most recent work is a magical realism rom-com entitled, SORT OF SEEING SOMEONE.
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Lindsay Miles
Lindsay Miles is an educator, speaker, author and passionate zero waste/plastic-free living advocate helping others live more meaningful lives with less waste and less stuff. She has been sharing ideas, tips, tricks and strategies on her website Treading My Own Path since 2013. Her first book, Less Stuff, was published in 2019 and her second, The Less Waste No Fuss Kitchen was published in June. Originally from the UK, Lindsay now lives in Perth, Western Australia.
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