Audiobooks narrated by Chris Reilly

Don J. Snyder (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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'Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates.' – Observer The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

Douglas Stuart (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self

A practical pathway to a meaningful life and courageous leadership In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias, and lead inspirationally. Listeners will acquire Five Steps to Courage, 3 NO's, 3 GO's, and Courageous Communication Plays. These lend deeper meaning to life, strengthen our character, improve relationships, and allow us to help others for the common good. They lead to contentment, love, and even happiness. The Playbook is a practical, behavior-based 'Other-Help' guide that equips us more effectively than the worried 'self-help' approach. The Courage Playbook includes: skills and strategies for healthfully and authentically deploying courage in your life; ways to actually solve tough moral problems and conflicts at their root cause, genuinely help others, model strength, and close the 'Courage Gap'; and methods for courageous and inspirational communication and leadership for all manner of situations-professionally, personally, relationally, and organizationally.

Gus Lee (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century

In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States' unmatched financial and technological potential. In compelling fashion, the author shows that the United States can and should invest in the industries and technologies of the future on an unprecedented scale in order to ignite a new technological revolution that would cement the country's geopolitical preeminence, greatly enhance human well-being, and create unimaginable wealth. In this book, you will find: an important new history of the Federal Reserve that details the transformation of the country's central bank from the passive lender of last resort created by its founders in 1913 into the world's most powerful economic institution today; a fascinating discussion of the evolution of money and monetary policy in the United States over the past century; an examination of the role that credit has played in generating economic growth; a detailed description of the country's capital structure and its dangerous deficiencies; and an urgent call-to-action for the United States to begin a multi-trillion-dollar investment program targeting industries of the future. The Money Revolution is an engaging listen that is ideal for anyone interested in the future of the United States.

Richard Duncan (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Cloud Security For Dummies

Cloud technology has changed the way we approach technology. It's also given rise to a new set of security challenges caused by bad actors who seek to exploit vulnerabilities in a digital infrastructure. You can put the kibosh on these hackers and their dirty deeds by hardening the walls that protect your data. Using the practical techniques discussed in Cloud Security For Dummies, you'll mitigate the risk of a data breach by building security into your network from the bottom-up. Learn how to set your security policies to balance ease-of-use and data protection and work with tools provided by vendors trusted around the world. This book offers step-by-step demonstrations of how to: - Establish effective security protocols for your cloud application, network, and infrastructure - Manage and use the security tools provided by different cloud vendors - Deliver security audits that reveal hidden flaws in your security setup As firms around the world continue to expand their use of cloud technology, the cloud is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives. You can help safeguard with the straightforward strategies discussed in this book.

Ted Coombs (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In

When Covid-19 forced a sudden shift to remote work in 2020, it only exacerbated what had been a long-simmering issue in the workplace: Feelings of isolation and loneliness among employees are on the rise, and contribute to a real and growing mental health problem that affects both individuals and organizations. In Connectable, you'll learn how addressing the issues-and finding practical, effective solutions-can transform an isolated workforce to one that's happier, more engaged, and more productive in their efforts. With more than a decade spent helping companies lessen worker loneliness, Ryan Jenkins and Steve Van Cohen distill their methodology in this book, showing you what's causing today's loneliness, the role inclusion plays in solving it, and how you can decrease loneliness and increase belonging, engagement, and performance with employees at every level-including yourself. You'll learn: how to develop emotional intelligence to show up for others; how to identify lonely or depressed employees; how to create psychological safety for employees; how to create environments of belonging and inclusion; how to create and cultivate connections across teams (in person or remote); how to create connected, driven, and high-performing teams using the four-step Less Loneliness Framework; and more.

Ryan Jenkins, Steven Van Cohen (Author), Chris Reilly, George Newbern (Narrator)

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The 6-Minute Work Day: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Using the Power of Leverage to Create Abundance an

You've heard again and again that getting rich means working hard and being willing to put in long hours, often at the expense of everything else in your life. The 6-Minute Work Day is here to dispel that myth. So many financial gurus, business books, and corporate training seminars teach you to hustle, grind, work harder, start work early, and stay late to be able to move forward in your career-or even just make ends meet. But then you get that promotion or pay off that debt and the hustle starts again. And again. And again. The truth is, you don't need to put in more hours to make more money. In fact, you should put in less-specifically, six minutes. Douglas Vermeeren, an award-winning entrepreneur trainer, has distilled his proven advice into this book to help you cast off your workday, optimize your time and freedom, and dramatically increase your income. In The 6-Minute Work Day, Vermeeren breaks down: why we go to work-and why we don't need to do that to accomplish our goals; what we can really do in six minutes; how we can create and maintain a six-minute workday; and how we can expand on the income streams that our six minutes have generated to gain even more wealth.

Douglas Vermeeren (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Education: A Very Short Introduction

Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students. In this second edition of his Very Short Introduction, Gary Thomas explores how and why education has evolved as it has, examining the ways in which it has responded over the centuries to various influences in politics, philosophy, and the social sciences. Focusing on education today, he considers especially the controversies over progressive versus formal teaching, and also examines education worldwide, assessing the accelerating trend on both sides of the Atlantic of the move to charter, academy, and 'free' schools. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated moves to online learning in schools and universities, and in this new edition Thomas looks again at curriculums and what shape they should take in a rapidly changing world. He asks why action on race, gender and social inequality has borne so little fruit thus far, questioning the oft-made claim of education to be a force for social mobility, and offering an analysis on how education may develop over the coming century.

Gary Thomas (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive-but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive? In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers unflinchingly argues that self-deception evolved in the service of deceit-the better to fool others. We do it for biological reasons-in order to help us survive and procreate. From viruses mimicking host behavior to humans misremembering (sometimes intentionally) the details of a quarrel, science has proven that the deceptive one can always outwit the masses. But we undertake this deception at our own peril. The Folly of Fools is an ambitious investigation into the evolutionary logic of lying and the costs of leaving it unchecked.

Robert Trivers (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company. Author Alberto S. Silveira, Jr., leverages his industry knowledge to explore why the high-performance distributed team model is vital to the future of business, and explains how to build and maintain one through times of change. You will learn to differentiate between distributed teams, remote work, offshoring, and what each means in a modern context. Silveira also weaves in stories from his other life as a boater and sailor, using analogies and lessons gained from humankind's thousands of years of maritime adventure to illustrate the value of well-managed teams, and to also convey the importance of life-work balance in today's working world. Whether you are a department head, a business owner, or a team leader, this book presents the no-nonsense knowledge you need now to chart your course for success.

Alberto S. Silveira Jr., Alberto S. Silveira, Jr. (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Cyber Mayday and the Day After: A Leader's Guide to Preparing, Managing, and Recovering from Inevita

Digital transformation and cyber insecurity are two global trends that converged in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated these global challenges into paradigm-changing realities that threaten to destroy every company, government, network, and individual. But what can be done to embrace the accelerating digital disruption and at the same time manage the explosion of vulnerabilities, cyber threats, and business risks? What strategies are enabling technology leaders to thrive in this fast-changing landscape and stay calm in the midst of a world filled with ransomware, online deception, and nation-state hackers? Cyber Mayday and the Day After is a business book, a communication toolkit offering stories, strategies, tactics, and outlook with key extracts and lessons learned from top C-executive leaders around the world. Some of these insights come from former FBIs, NASA agents, government CISOs, and high-profile CxOs, offering practical examples and workable solutions for leaders to succeed in the twenty-first century. This book unpacks key learnings on leadership and influence. It equips listeners with the mastery of their stakeholders and explores how to effect a cultural change within organizations.

Daniel Lohrmann, Shamane Tan (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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I Took the Only Path To See You: A Guide to Finding Professional Success Without Sacrificing Persona

Learn how to achieve the highest levels of success without sacrificing who you are In I Took the Only Path to See You, author and CEO Jon Fisher delivers an inspiring message that reminds listeners that professional success does not have to come at the expense of personal happiness. Fisher is proof that professionals can achieve success on a grand scale without having to sacrifice their personal ethics, personal relationships, and more. The book's author shares the experiences of those who have risen to become leaders in their fields, some of whom are his close friends. This important book teaches listeners: - How to achieve success without losing sight of being a good person - That, while not everyone makes it to the top of their chosen field, everyone can always work toward healthy personal relationships - That personal growth is the key to real and sustained personal happiness Perfect for young entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals alike, I Took the Only Path to See You will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone interested in achieving personal fulfilment while pursuing material success. The road to true success and happiness starts with personal happiness.

Gerald Fisher, Jon Fisher, Wallace Wang (Author), Chris Reilly (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Chris Reilly