The Story Box

Tara Jaye Frank is an equity strategist who has advised and educated thousands of Fortune 500 executives across multiple industries and large member organizations. Her work, fueled by a deep belief in the creative power and potential of everyone, focuses on building bridges between people, ideas, and opportunity.Before founding her culture and leadership consultancy, Frank spent twenty-one years at Hallmark Cards, where she served in multiple executive roles, including Vice President of Creative Writing and Editorial, Vice President of Business Innovation, Vice President of Multicultural Strategy, and Corporate Culture Advisor to the President.Tara Jaye Frank resides in Dallas, Texas, with her rockstar husband, two of their six children, and their three dogs. She is also a proud Spelman Alumna, and a member of the Exec­utive Leadership Council, the Network of Executive Women, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.Get Waymaker Here: Amazon US Amazon AUS Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'.

StephenMilleris a creator and entrepreneur who has grown his platform to nearly one million followers in just two years through his showTheMillerFam, a channel that displays the beauty of diversity and adoption featuring his large, diverse, adoptive family of nine. With over fifteen years of ministry in some of the nation’s largest churches,Stephenhas recorded six studio albums and is the author ofLiberating KingandWorship Leaders, We Are Not Rock Stars.Cocreator of YouTube sensationThe Miller FamStephen Miller reveals how to turn failures, mishaps, and disappointments into a life of fun and fulfillment.Long before his YouTube channelThe Miller Fambecame a viral sensation with nearly a million subscribers, Stephen Miller endured countless failed endeavors, made too many rash decisions, and experienced deep discouragement at life not going as planned. Those experiences taught him a powerful lesson: that life will ultimately be okay, even when it seems in the moment like it won't.With the characteristic authenticity, love, and humor Stephen shows in his YouTube videos,The Art of Getting It Wrongshares hard truths and never-before-told stories of misadventures that challenge you.Get The Art of Getting it wrong here:Amazon US Amazon AUS Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'.

Mallory Ervin is known for exuding energy, joy, and laughter. But despite her public accomplishments, Mallory is no stranger to battling unhealthy attachments to performance and success. Now, in her unforgettable debut book, Mallory invites readers to see how her surprising journey—from achievement and accolades to devastating, never-before-shared lows—guided her and led her to a deeply fulfilling life.InLiving Fully, Mallory shares her personal story of overcoming the unhealthy and damaging patterns in her life and shows readers how to trade this for something completely new and more rewarding. What she discovered was there had always been a different life available to her, one that she had not yet seen. Now she encourages readers to resist a “just fine” existence and to step into a life they never dared to imagine before. Through inspiring stories and practical advice Mallory offers the motivation to all of us to live fully. Get Living Fully Here: Amazon US Amazon AUS Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'.

Moshe Bar, PhDis the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. He headed the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel until recently. Mindwanderingis the first popular book to explore the multi-faceted phenomenon of our wandering minds and the cutting-edge new research behind it. Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy, providing us with practical knowledge that can help you. Get Mindwandering Here: Amazon US Amazon AUS Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of theGreater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, andNew York Timesbest-selling author. His books have been published in 30 languages and includeNeurodharma,Resilient,Hardwiring Happiness,Buddha’s Brain,Just One Thing, andMother Nurture– with 900,000 copies in English alone. Hisfree weekly newsletterhas 220,000 subscribers and hisonline programshave scholarships available for those with financial needs. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of theWellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He loves wilderness and taking a break from emails.More of Dr Hanson Here: Twitter Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'

Daniel J. Levitin is an award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity and creativity.Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. His research has been featured over 1800 times in the popular press, including 17 articles in The New York Times, and in The London Times, Scientific American, and Rolling Stone. He is a frequent guest on NPR and CBC Radio and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNN. His TED talk is among the most popular of all time.He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books: This Is Your Brain On Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind and Successful Aging (published in the UK as The Changing Mind), as well as the international bestseller A Field Guide to Lies (also published as Weaponized Lies). A popular public speaker, he has given presentations on the floor of Parliament in London, to the U.S. Congress, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He has consulted for a number of companies including Apple, Booz-Allen, Microsoft, the United States Navy, Sonos, Philips, Sony, Fender, and AT&T. Listen to his new Album Sex & Math here: Pre-order my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'