Audiobooks by Susan Page

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death. This is the eye-opening account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.

Susan Page (Author), Susan Page, TBD (Narrator)

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Why Talking Is Not Enough: Eight Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage

Why Talking Is Not Enough, written by Susan Page, author of the acclaimed bestseller If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? presents a novel relationship strategy based on subtle, powerful changes in your own actions. This method shows you the magic of 'Keep your mouth out of it!' Page's pioneering eight-step program invites you to give up problem solving and move directly to a warmer, more loving and fun relationship, based on universal spiritual principles. In this book you will learn how to transform your relationship into a Spiritual Partnership by adopting these Eight Loving Actions: Adopt a Spirit of Good Will; Give Up Problem Solving; Act as If; Practice Restraint; Balance Giving and Taking; Act on Your Own; Practice Acceptance; and Practice Compassion.

Susan Page (Author), Kim Niemi (Narrator)

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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory.' -- The Atlantic A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. THE MATRIARCH examines not only her public persona but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As a girl in Rye, New York, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother, barbs that left lifelong scars. As a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide. And as first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, she made history as the only woman to see -- and advise -- both her husband and son in the Oval Office. As with many women of her era, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved First Lady. She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America, played a critical role in the end of the Cold War, and led the way in demonstrating love and compassion to those with HIV/AIDS. With her cooperation, this book offers Barbara Bush's last words for history -- on the evolution of her party, on the role of women, on Donald Trump, and on her family's legacy. Barbara Bush's accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page explores them all in THE MATRIARCH, a groundbreaking book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential women in American history.

Susan Page (Author), Kate Levy (Narrator)

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The Power of Business Process Improvement: 10 Simple Steps to Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency, an

Regardless of how well or poorly your business operates, there isn't a single component of it that can't be improved upon-right now. The Business Process Improvement (BPI) method is a set of direct strategies for identifying and eliminating redundancies, streamlining daily operations and interactions, erasing costly errors and unnecessary expenditures, and responding quickly to changing needs. This audiobook's 10-step process can be adapted to any organization and is easy to test before full-scale implementation.

Susan Page (Author), Karen Saltus, Susan Page (Narrator)

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If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?: Ten Strategies That Will Change Your Love Life Forever

Relationship expert Susan Page asks one of life’s most puzzling questions: If I’m so wonderful, why am I still single? And she answers it in a fully revised and updated edition of her classic book first published twelve years ago. Full of Susan’s own brand of relationship advice and with a new foreword that specifically addresses love and dating in the new millennium, If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? helps singles sweep aside popular excuses for not finding a mate and helps identify the real reasons love may seem so hard to find. Using revealing anecdotes, case studies, and quizzes, Susan reveals ten essential steps to help you define your own plan of action and change your approach to dating and love forever. • Are you stuck with a dead-end lover? Learn how to say no to B.T.N. (Better Than Nothing) relationships. • Are you convinced that there are no good ways to meet people? Find out why this is one of the biggest myths around and what you can do to prove it wrong. • Do you want love but wonder if you might be better off alone? Learn how to identify your “hidden ambivalence” and how it sabotages your search for love. Written with humor and true been-there-done-that experience, this thinking person’s guide to love will show that actively searching for a mate can be done without sabotaging the better aspects of love and romance. If you’re genuinely interested in finding the perfect love, If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single? is your map to happiness.

Susan Page (Author), Joyce Bean (Narrator)

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How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Resolve Your Conflicts

Susan Page's groundbreaking approach to relationships gives readers the tools and encouragement they need to bring positive changes to their relationship, even when their partners are unwilling to do the work. Based on the premise that what you do in a relationship makes changes faster than anything you discuss, Page introduces the concept of 'Loving Leadership' and offers fourteen empowering and doable strategies for recapturing the positive feelings, including how to: * Overcome resentment and move beyond blame * Solve major problems--one at a time * Recapture lost intimacy Step-by-step, Page demonstrates that with tangible goals, and new ways of thinking, one partner can bring new levels of harmony and love to a relationship.

Susan Page (Author), Susan Page (Narrator)

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