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Radio Archive and Upcoming Shows

UPCOMING SHOWS

7/5 Mick Berry, co-author of Stage Fright: 40 stars tell you how they beat America's #1 fear.

PAST SHOWS

6/28 Caroll Michels, author of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul. To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

6/21 A Father's Day program: Warren Farrell on how dads can succeed in their career, while still being a good dad. To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

6/14 Pete Peterson, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and author of Education of an American Dreamer. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

6/7 Barbara Nemko and I discuss the book, Strengths-based Leadership.To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

5/31 Why I'm pessimistic about the American job market.. And how to thrive anyway. To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

5/24 Lily Whiteman, author of How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

5/10 Katharine Brooks, author of You Majored in What? To hear or download the show, clickHERE

5/3 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate what to do if your adult child is still career-clueless.To hear or download the show, clickHERE

4/26 Becoming and succeeding as a career and life coach. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

4/19 Using presidential communication strategies to abet your career. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

4/12 Will ObamaNomics work: A debate between a liberal (Dean Baker) and a Libertarian (Robert Murphy).To hear or download the show, clickHERE

4/5 How to become a great storyteller and use it in job seeking and in your work.To hear or download the show, clickHERE

3/29 Marty and Barbara Nemko on advice we'd give our adult child (Part 2) To hear or download the show,click HERE

3/22 Marty and Barbara Nemko on advice we'd give our adult child--if only she'd listen.To hear or download the show,clickHERE

3/15 Marty Nemko offers 3-minute career makeovers, with an emphasis on self-employment. Plus how to use Twitter to enhance your career. To hear or download the show,clickHERE

3/8 - Sramana Mitra, expert on Silicon Valley startups and author of Entrepreneur Journeys.To hear or download the show,clickHERE

3/1 Marshall Goldsmith, top career coach and author of Succession: Are You Ready?To hear or download the show,clickHERE

2/22 Barbara and Marty Nemko on finding willpower.To hear or download the show,clickHERE

2/15 Kathryn Troutman, author of 10 Steps to a Federal Job.To hear or download the show,clickHERE

2/8 - Marty Nemko does 3-minute career makeovers on callers. To hear or download the show,clickHERE

2/1 - Dan Monez on what it’s really like to be a police chief (and actor) To hear or download the show,clickHERE

1/25 - Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book the 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Plus 3-minute career makeovers. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

1/18 Dr. Ellen Moffatt on what it’s really like to be a forensic pathologist/autopsy physician. Plus three-minute career makeovers. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

1/11 Jonathan Woetzel, author of Operation China: From strategy to execution. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

1/4/09 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate the 18-point plan in his essay, "If I Were President of the United States." To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

12/28 Barbara Nemko debates Marty Nemko on his predictions for 2009. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

12/21 What I have to say to new graduates (and to anyone elsewho'll listen)To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

12/14 Charles Murray, author of Real Education. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

12/7 Mark Coleman on what’s it’s really like to bean insurance agent.To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

11/30 Peter Imburg, CEO of Elfster: on what it’s reallylike to run a dotcom startup (that involves Santa).To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

11/23 Janis Bell, author of the grammar book Clean, Well-LightedSentences. To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

11/16, Morrison & Foerster lawyer Eric Tate on how life will likely change for employers and employees in light of the election.Also, my ideas on how to be more time-effective.To hear ordownload the show,clickHERE.

11/9 Obama advisor, Jared Bernstein. He and I debated the wisdomof a liberal versus libertarian-leaning approach to fixing economy.This is one of my favorite shows, ever. I think you'll find that itfairly and interestingly presents both sides of this criticalissue.To hear or download theshow,clickHERE.

11/2 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate how to work a room.To hear or download the how,clickHERE.

10/26 Allison O’Kelly on stay-at-home moms trying to getback in the workplace.To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

10/19 Pat Choate, author of Dangerous Business: the risks of globalization for America.To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

10/12 Hot Jobs in a Depression.To hear or download the show,clickHERE.

10/5 Barbara Nemko and I debate how to hire wisely.To hear or download the show,clickHERE

9/28 A replay of a previous show--the interview with Carol Cassella, author of Oxygen, on what it's really like to be ananesthesiologist. To hear ordownload the show, clickHERE

9/21 Marty and Barbara Nemko debate the book,New Ideas fromDead CEOs.To hear ordownload the show, clickHERE

9/14 Michael Gurian, co-author of Leadership and the Sexes andKingsley Browne, author of Biology at Work.To hear or download theshow, clickHERE

9/7 Blake Taylor and Kathleen Nadeau on Adult A.D.D. To hear ordownload the show, click HERE

8/31 An hour of call-in 3-minute career makeovers plus an ode topeople who work 60+ hours a week, especially the women who do. Tohear or download the show, click HERE.

8/24 Race in the Workplace. To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

8.17 Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist, on Generation Xand Y in the workplace. (She's pretty outrageous.) To hear ordownload the show, click HERE.

8/10 My wife Barbara Nemko and I debate the book, "Why WomenShould Rule the World" To hear or download the show, click HERE.

8/3 Green Careers with Carol McClelland who runsgreencareercentral.com and Marie Kerpan, a career counselor whospecializes in green careers. To hear or download the show, clickHERE.

7/27 No Guest- Just me offering ideas on where the jobs are anddoing three-minute career makeovers on callers. To hear or downloadthe show, click HERE.

7/20 David Hodgson, author of Video Game Careers. To hear ordownload the show, click HERE.

7/13 Dr. Carol Cassella on what it's really like to be ananesthesiologist: the physical and emotional issues of facing lifeand death in the operating room. To hear or download the show,click HERE

7/6 Mary Ruwart, Libertarian presidential candidate, who arguesthat Libertarianism is best for American employees. To hear ordownload the show, click HERE

6/29 Barbara Nemko and I discuss the book, How to Get Anyone toDo Anything. To hear or download the show, click HERE

6/22 Lisa Spector: A musician’s beyond -out-of-the-box wayto make a living. To hear or download the show, click HERE

6/15 Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur AND A Father'sDay Ode to the Hard-working but family-uninvolved dad. To hear ordownload the show, click HERE

6/8 PART 2: Economist Jared Bernstein, author ofCrunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed and Other EconomicMysteries. To hear or download the show, click HERE

6/1 PART I: Economist Jared Bernstein, author ofCrunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed and Other EconomicMysteries. To hear or download the show, click HERE

5/25 Marty Nemko’s favorite new career ideas plus call-in3-minute career makeovers. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

5/18 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate the Gender Wars at Work:Should men do half the housework? Should parents get specialprivileges in the workplace? Do women really earn less for the samework? To hear or download the show, click HERE

5/11 John Izzo, author of The Five Secrets You Must DiscoverBefore You Die (and why Marty Nemko thinks two of them are deadwrong.) To hear or download the show, click HERE

5/4 Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is YourParachute. To hear or download the show, click HERE

4/27 Carnell Smith and Warren Farrell on paternity fraud: theleast-talked about career killer. To hear or download the show,click HERE

4/20 Marty Nemko on why the U.S. recession will be long anddeep...and on the life well-led in hard times.To hear or downloadthe show, click HERE

4/13 Barbara and Marty Nemko on being smart about retirement. Tohear or download the show, click HERE.

4/6 Attorney F. Lee Bailey on what it’s really like to bea lawyer, plus tips for people currently involved in a criminal orcivil case. To hear or download the show, click HERE.

3/30 Yavante Thomas-Guess and Maureen Nelson on transgendercareer issues. To hear or download the show, click HERE.

3/23 Toby Freedman on careers in biotech. To hear or downloadthe show, click HERE

3/16 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book, So You Want toJoin the Peace Corps. To hear or download the show, click HERE

3/9 Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion. To hear ordownload the show, click HERE

3/2 Jim Christian, a street entrepreneur. To hear or downloadthe show, click HERE

2/24 Jason Alba, author of I'm On LinkedIn: Now What? To hear ordownload the show, click HERE

2/17 John Ford on workplace mediation. To hear or download theshow, click HERE.

NOTE: All shows prior to 2/17/08 require RealPlayeron your computer. To download it free, click HERE.

2/10 My wife, Barbara Nemko and I debate your work orrelationship call-in questions. To hear the show, click HERE

2/3 Rebroadcast: My workplace predictions for 2008. To hear theshow, click HERE

1/27 Paul and Sarah Edwards, author of Middle ClassLifeboat: Career and Life Choices for Navigating a ChangingEconomy. To hear the show, click HERE

1/20 John Robison, author of Look Me in the Eye: My Lifewith Asperger's Syndrome. To hear the show, click HERE

1/13. No guest. I'll discuss ahead-of-the-curve careers. To hearthe show, click HERE

1/6 Kathyrn Troutman on How to Land a Federal Job and KenMandler on How to Land a State Job. Plus call-in questions forthose guests. To hear the show, click HERE

12/23 Marty Nemko. Workplace predictions for 2008. Plus call-in3-minute career makeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

12/16 David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World. Tohear the show, click HERE

12/9 No Guest. A warning against going back to school as a wayto boost your career, plus three-minute career makeovers. To hearthe show, click HERE

12/2 Clark Quinn, on using simulation games in the workplace. Tohear the show, click HERE

11/25 Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of America the Principled: 6Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. To hear theshow, click HERE

11/18 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the lack of honesty in theworkplace. Plus, career and relationship makeovers on callers.Tohear the show, click HERE

11/11 Craig Venter, decoder of the Human Genome. To hear theshow, click HERE

11/4 Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum and author ofOff-Mike. To hear the show, click HERE

10/28 Jim Whaley, president of the Siemens Foundation on what it's really like to work for a foundation.To hear the show, clickHERE

10/21 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book, CrucialConversations, plus three-minute call-in and relationshipmakeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

10/14 Robert Reich, Former Clinton Admin. Secretary of Labor. Tohear the show, click HERE

10/7 Ian Ayres, author of Supercrunchers, Why thinking by thenumbers is the new way to be smart.To hear the show, click HERE

9/30 David Meerman Scott, author of the New Rules for Marketingand PR To hear the show, click HERE

9/23 Robert Kunitz on what it's really like to work in a sewagetreatment plant To hear the show, click HERE

9/16 Career advice for people 40+. To hear the show, clickHERE

9/9 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the art of telling ananecdote.9/2 A Best of Work with Marty Nemko (a replay ofa favorite show.) To hear the show, click HERE

8/26 Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein. To hear the show,click HERE

8/19 Barb Schwarz, author of Building a Successful Home StagingBusiness. To hear the show, click HERE

8/12 Greg Fortner, Exec. Director of the San Francisco HousingAuthority, on what it's really like to be a government manager. Tohear the show, click HERE

8/5 Barbara and Marty Nemko show you how to learn yourworkplace's unspoken rules. Also, the implications for men of newstudies that find that women want to work part-time.To hear theshow, click HERE

7/29 Is single-payer health care a good idea? A debate betweenDr. Nancy Nielsen, president-elect of the American MedicalAssociation and Dr.Don McCanne, Senior Policy Fellow for Physiciansfor a National Health Program. To hear the show, click HERE

7/22 Anita Bruzzese, author of 45 Things You Do to Drive YourBoss Crazy, plus 3-minute call-in career makeovers To hear theshow, click HERE

7/15 Charlotte Jacobs on what it's really like to be anoncologist (cancer physician) at the same time as she is starringin the play I'm directing, Same Time Next Year.To hear the show,click HERE

7/8 What's it really like to be a firefighter? To hear the show,click HERE

7/1 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book, Blink. To hear theshow, click HERE

6/24 No guest. 3-minute call-in workovers plus cool careers.Tohear the show, click HERE

6/17 Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys and The Wonderof Girls. To hear the show, click HERE

6/10 Alan Morrison, author of Beyond the Big Firm: Profiles ofLawyers Who Want Something More To hear the show, click HERE

6/3 Anne Wilson, CEO of United Way of the Bay Area on what it'sreally like to manage a nonprofit?To hear the show, click HERE

5/27 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate: Is being a dabbler bad?Tohear the show, click HERE

5/20 Ben Casnocha, author of Lessons from a Very Young (19 yearsold) CEO.To hear the show, click HERE

5/13 McCall's Editor, Sally Koslow, on what's it really like tobe a magazine publisher. To hear the show, click HERE

5/6 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate the book, Not Buying It: AYear Without Shopping. To hear the show, click HERE

4/29 L.A. Dodgers' great Maury Wills on what it's really like tobe a baseball player? To hear the show, click HERE

4/22 Don't listen to the first half hour--it was bad. To hearthe show, click HERE

4/15 Just me doing three-minute career makeovers on callers,plus a new feature: "You're Hired/You're Fired" in which I do athree-minute mock job interview with callers. To here the show,click HERE

4/8 Just me doing three-minute career makeovers on callers. Tohear it, click HERE

4/1 Barbara and Marty Nemko on: You're already successful butyou're still not content. Now what? HERE

3/25 Two world-class experts, Bjorn Lomborg and Mike MacCrackendebate: Is it worth the major effort to attempt to slow globalwarming. To hear it, click HERE

3/18 How are people getting jobs today? To hear it, clickHERE

3/11 Can America Compete with China? James Kynge debates GordonChang. To hear it, click HERE

3/4 Marshall Goldsmith, career coach to 80 top CEOs. Pluscall-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hear it, click HERE

2/25 Fast Company's Alan Deutschman, author of Change or Die.Plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hear it, click HERE

2/18 The UnValentine's Day Show: Marty and Barbara Nemko ondivorce's dirtiest tricks. To hear it, click HERE

2/11 Janet Herschenson on what it's really like to be a moviecasting director. Plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. (Thisshow won't be available until approx. 2/27.)

2/4 Graziela Kenig on working successfully with Latinos. To hearit, click HERE

1/28 A Debate: Is Wal-Mart good for society? To hear it, clickHERE

1/21 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss how to survive the employeefrom hell. Plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hear it,click HERE

1/14 Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics: How mass collaborationchanges everything. Plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hearit, click HERE

1/7/07 Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is YourParachute. To hear it, click HERE

12/31 Scoring my 2006 predictions; new predictions for 2007.(With Barbara Nemko) To hear it, click HERE

12/17 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate: Is marriage obsolete? IsChristmas? To hear it, click HERE

12/10. Hosts of Philosophy Talk (Ken Taylor and John Perry)address the question, "Can you really make a living as aphilosopher? " Plus we'll kick around philosophers' top questions,including, "what is the life well led?" To hear it, click HERE

12/3 Lessons from CEO's first jobs. To hear it, click HERE

11/26 Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Leaving Church, on whatit's really like to be a minister. One of my best interviews.Tohear it, click HERE

11/19 Rick Segel, author of The Essental Online Solution: The5-step Plan for Small Business Success. Plus three-minute careermakeovers on callers. Plus three-minute career makeovers oncallers. To hear it, click HERE

11/12 Barbara Nemko on a new study on women and ambition. Plus3-minute career makeovers on callers.To hear it, click HERE

11/05 Marty Nemko does three-minute makeovers on callers.To hearit, click HERE

10/29 Harold Stolovitch, on the art of training people. Plusthree-minute career makeovers on callers. To hear it, clickHERE

10/22 Frank Fitzpatrick, author of The Lion in Autumn:a season with Joe Paterno. Plusthree-minute career makeovers oncallers. To hear it, click HERE

10/15 A short but advanced course in time management. Also, whatit's really like to be an actor. Plus three-minute career makeoverson callers.To hear it, click HERE

10/8 I read excerpts from and critique the book, Mavericks atWork. Plus call-in three-minute career makeovers.To hear it, clickHERE

10/1 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate the book, The Power ofNice. (Can nice guys really finish first?) To hear it, clickHERE

9/24 Ferdinand Protzman author and photographer of the NationalGeographic Guide to Work To hear it, click HERE

9/17 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss Daniel Goleman's new book,Social Intelligence.To hear it, click HERE

9/10 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss, debate, and perhapsdeflate the book, Joy at Work.To hear it, click HERE

9/3 Jill Duffy, Editor of Computer Game Developermagazine, on careers in computer games. To hear it, click HERE

8/27 Liberal and conservative perspectives on the working poor.Plus advice for low-income job seekers.To hear it, click HERE

8/20 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss new research on male bossesand female bosses. To hear it, click HERE

8/13 Walter Block and Jared Bernstein debate: Should the minimumwage be raised? To hear it, click HERE

8/6 An hour of my doing three-minute career makeovers oncallers. To hear it, click HERE

7/30 What it's really like to be a minister? To hear it, clickHERE. (If it doesn't work, try again tomorrow.)

7/23 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate the validity of FastCompany's favorite worklife tips. To hear it, click HERE

7/16 Ilana DeBare, small business columnist for the SanFrancisco Chronicle. To hear it, click HERE

7/9 Moira Gunn, host of TechNation and BiotechNation. To hearit, click HERE

6/25 Mark Mackler on what it's really like to be a librarian.Tohear it, click HERE

6/18 Adina Sara, author of 100 Words Per Minute: Tales FromBehind Law Office Doors. To hear it, click HERE.

6/11 Anthony Iaquinto, author of Never Bet the Farm: HowSuccessful Enterpreneurs Make Decisions. (To hear it, clickHERE)

6/4 Barbara and Marty Nemko offer career advice for thephysically unattractive. (To hear it, click HERE)

5/28 Carol Christen, co-author of What Color is YourParachute for Teens. (To hear it, click HERE)

5/21 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the devolution of character inthe U.S. (To hear it, click HERE)

5/14 David Kelley, Chair of Stanford's Design School and CEO ofIDEO on the present and future of design. (To hear it, clickHERE)

5/7 Immigration Debate: Flavia Jimenez of La Raza vs. MarkKrikorian of the National Center for Immigration Studies. (To hearit, click HERE)

4/30 Lessons in chutzpah: How an enterprising college kid got tointerview a half dozen top celebrities and land a gig at CNN. (Tohear it, click HERE)

4/16 The effects of illegal immigration on America and on yourworklife, and life, in general. (I thought this was an excellentshow.) To hear it, click HERE.

4/9 Mary Pope Osborne on what it really takes to be a successfulchildren's book author. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

4/2 Barbara and Marty Nemko: From midcareer to retirement. Whatyou need to know. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

3/26 U.S. News and World Report writer and editor, Rick Newman,on the implications of globalization for the U.S. job market. (Tohear the show, click HERE.)

3/19 Mark Quinn and Dave Mendelsohn on how the Small BusinessAdministration helps small businesses. Plus three-minute careermakeovers.(To hear the show, click HERE.)

3/12 Barbara and Marty Nemko on managing your career. PlusMarty's projections for changes ahead for US workers.(To hear theshow, click HERE.)

3/5 Gabriel Harrison, Senior Exhibit Designer for the San JoseTech Museum, on what it's really like to be a museum exhibitdesigner.(To hear the show, click HERE.)

2/26 Gene Hansen on what's it really like to be a middle managerfor a Fortune 50 company.(To hear the show, click HERE.)

2/19 John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.(To hear the show, click HERE.)

2/12 Secrets to Successful Internet Dating. (Valentine's DayFeature). Plus three-minute career makeovers. (To hear the show,click HERE.)

2/5 - Doug Lipman, on the art of storytelling at work. Plusthree-minute career makeovers. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

1/29 - Drs. Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book Lessonsin Loyalty and debate callers' worklife questions. (To hearthe show, click HERE.)

1/22 Heller Ehrman attorney, Ray Hixson, on what employees andemployers should know about their rights in the workplace. Pluscall-in three-minute career makeovers. (To hear the show, clickHERE.)

1/15 Marty and Barbara Nemko debate their predictions for 2006.Plus, Dr. Michael Edelstein, aformer president of the Associationfor Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, and author of Three-MinuteTherapy. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

1/8/06 Doug Hardy, author of the Monster Guides to Networkingand Interviewing. (To hear the show, click HERE)

1/1/06 Replay of an earlier show.

2005

12/25/05 I'm taking off Christmas Day. There will be specialHoliday programming on KALW.

12/18 Deborah Ruf: author of Losing Our Minds: Gifted ChildrenBehind. Plus Barbara and Marty Nemko debate your call-in worklifeissues. To hear the show, click HERE

12/11 Studs Terkel, author of Working. And his new book: AndThey All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic DJ. This show should beavailable by 12/13 or 12/14. To hear the show, click HERE

12/4 Mark Goulston. author of Get out of Your Own Way atWork.Plus listeners call in forthree-minute career makeovers.Tohear the show, click HERE

11/27 John DeGraaf, author of Affluenza and Take Back Your Time.Plus listeners call in forthree-minute career makeovers.To hear theshow, click HERE

11/20 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate worklife issues. Pluslisteners call in forthree-minute career makeovers. To hear theshow, click HERE

11/13 David Heenan, author of Flight Capital: The AlarmingExodus of America's Best and Brightest. Plus listeners call inforthree-minute career makeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

11/6 M2 founder Marion McGovern on making the most of life as acontract or temp employee.To hear the show, click HERE

10/30 Marsha Collier, author of EBay Business for Dummies. Tohear the show, click HERE

10/23 Jim Daly, Editor of Edutopia, George Lucas' EducationFoundation magazine, on the present and future of education.To hearthe show, click HERE

10/16 Barbara Nemko and Marty Nemko debate work-relatedissues.To hear the show, click HERE

10/9 Ed Mgrdechian, author of 3000: What California will looklike in 2055. To hear the show, click HERE.

10/2 Ed Gordon, author of the 2010 Meltdown: Solving theImpending Jobs Crisis To hear the show, click HERE.

9/25 Kaiser Permanente Chief Executive, Dr. Robbie Pearl on thepresent and future of health care. To hear the show, click HERE

9/18 Barbara and Marty Nemko. Career lessons we've learned fromour own lives. To hear the show, click HERE.

9/11 Former US Presidential Advisor, Clyde Prestowitz on theimplications of China's boom for Americans..To hear the show, clickHERE

9/4 The show was preempted for NPR coverage of HurricaneKatrina.

8/28 David Plotz, author of The Genius Factory (about thepromise and perils of sperm donation and more futuristic approachesto creating designer babies) To hear the show, click HERE

8/21 Dan Sperling and Dan Sturges on the future oftransportation and of energy. To hear the show, click HERE.

8/14 Barbara and Marty Nemko on retirement careers, To hear theshow, click HERE.

8/7 Futurists Clement Bezold and John Smart. To hear the show,click HERE

7/31 Barbara and Marty Nemko: On making meetings better. To hearthe show, click HERE.

7/24 Human Resources: Corporate Hero or Corporate Joke? To hearthe show, click HERE.

7/17 Beverly Langford, author of the Etiquette Edge: Secrets toBusiness Success. To hear the show, click HERE.

7/10 Overcoming Inertia. When you KNOW you should do something,but can't make yourself do it. To hear the show, click HERE.

7/3 I give my wife a quiz on where the jobs are. Plus, we debateis it ethical for the San Francisco Giants to run ads encouragingpeople to take sick days and go to the Giants game. To hear theshow, click HERE.

6/26 The older worker: dilemmas for employees and employers Tohear the show, click HERE.

6/19 Ask Annie, Fortune Magzine career columnist on: severance,offshoring, when to quit, and why business school is rarely worthattending. To hear the show, click HERE.

6/12 Martin Kihn, author of House of Lies: How ManagementConsultants Steal Your Watch to Tell You the Time. To hear theshow, click HERE

6/5 Roberta Temes, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide toHypnosis on the use of hypnosis to conquer bad habits. To hear theshow, click HERE.

5/29/05 The 5 O' Clock Club's Richartd Bayer on the art of usingthe phone in your career. To hear the show, click HERE

5/22/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko on keys to looking good afterage 40. (Good show.) To hear the show, click HERE

5/15/05 Futurist and author of A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink, Tohear the show, click HERE

5/8/05 Dennis Damp, author of the books Post Office Jobs and USGovernment Jobs. To hear the show, click HERE.

5/1/05 Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic magazine, on becominga clearer thinker. To hear the show, click HERE.

4/24/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate work and relationshipissues. To hear the show, click HERE.

4/17/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate work and relationshipissues. To hear the show, click HERE.

4/10/05 Hazel Henderson on socially responsible businesses.

4/3/05 Bruce Judson, author of Go It Alone and Andrew Sherman,author of Raising Capital. To hear the show, click HERE

3/27/05 Marty and Barbara Nemko debate work issues and do3-minute career and relationship makeovers on callers.To hear theshow, click HERE.

3/20/05 Suze Orman on getting control of your personal finances.To hear the show, click HERE.

3/13/05 Barbara Sher, author of Wishcraft, on figuring out whatyou really want...and getting it. To hear the show, click HERE.

3/6/05 Jim Citron, author of "You're in Charge: Now What?" Plus3-minute career makeovers on callers.To hear the show, clickHERE.

2/27/05 Warren Farrell, author of "Why Men Earn More" To hearthe show, click HERE.

2/20/05 Marty and Barbara Nemko discuss Harvard's LawrenceSummers' hypothesis about women in math and science careers. Also,a discussion of the book, How to Get Anyone to do Anything. To hearthe show, click HERE

2/13/05 The Valentine's Day Show: Barbara and Marty Nemko debateromance in the workplace. To hear the show, click HERE

2/6/05 Bob Herbold, former COO of Microsoft. To hear the show,click HERE

1/30/05 Julie Morgenstern on the art of time management. To hearthe show, click HERE

1/23/05 Guy Kawasaki on the Art of the Start: The battle-testedguide for anyone starting anything. To hear the show, clickHERE

1/16/05 Noam Chomsky. To hear the show, click HERE.. For further insight, consider reading one or both ofthese books: The Chomsky Reader and The Anti-ChomskyReader. The latter paints Chomsky as an intellectual fraud, anassertion made by the likes of Alan Dershowitz, and eminenthistorian Arthur Schlesinger.

1/9/05 Eric Liu on how to find, be, and make the most of amentor. To hear the show, click HERE.

1/2/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko help you create New Year'sresolutions you might actually keep. To hear the show, clickHERE.

2004

12/26/04 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book, The MythsAbout Rich and Poor. To hear the show, click HERE.

12/19 Pilar Sanchez on what it's really like to run arestaurant. To hear the show, click HERE

12/12 Barbara and Marty Nemko doing career, relationship, andattitude makeovers on callers.To hear the show, click HERE:

12/5 Noam Chomsky. To hear the show, click HERE:

11/28 Howard Cutler, co-author with the Dalai Lama of the Art ofHappiness at Work. To hear the show, click HERE:

11/21 Sir Harold Evans, author of They Made America: From theSteam Engine to the Search Engine. To hear the show, click HERE.

11/14 Paul and Sarah Edwards, author of The Best Home Businessesfor People 50+. To hear the show, click HERE.

11/7 Barbara Nemko. The art of giving a good talk. To hear theshow, click HERE.

10/31 Sheila Ross on getting health insurance when you're notcovered by your employer and, have a preexisting condition. To hearthe show, click HERE.

10/24 Steven Rhoads, author of Taking Sex Differences Seriously.To hear the show, click HERE.

10/17 Jeff Taylor, founder and CEO of monster.com on the presentand future of job seeking. To hear the show, click HERE

10/10 Barbara and I argue about whether it's better to have amale or female boss. You can call in to weigh-in. To hear the show,click HERE.

10/3 Guy Kawasaki, early Apple evangelist, founder and presidentof Garage.com and author of The Art of the Start. To hear the show,click HERE.

9/26 Improving websites' seach engine placement: your own or asa career doing it for others.

9/19 Barbara and Marty Nemko: Reinventing High SchoolEducation

9/12 Barbara and Marty Nemko annoy each other.

9/5 The 48 Laws of Power

8/29 It was supposed to be Jeff Taylor, CEO of Monster.com buthe no-showed so I had to tap dance. I proposed my ideas for how toget rid of tolls and how to satisfy the Indians without theirgetting casinos in the Bay Area.

8/22 Craig Newmark, founder of Craig's List

8/15 Reid Hoffman, CEO of linkedin,.com and Bob Karr CEO oflinksv on the art of online networking.

8/8 Karen Leland, author of Customer Service for Dummies

8/1 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate callers' worklifequestions

7/25 Marty Nemko answers callers' worklife questions

7/18 Replay of Ed Conlon, author of Blue Blood: My life as a NewYork City cop

7/11 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the art of persuasion

7/4 Michael Scriven on the art and science of programevaluation

6/27 Ed Craine on what it's really like to be a mortgagebroker

6/20 Warren Farrell on men in the workplace

6/13 Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Now What? 90 Days to a NewLife

6/6 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the art of tact

5/30: David Hahklotubbe on running an eldercare facility

5/23 Ed Conlon, author of Blue Blood: My life as a New York Citycop

5/16 No guest. I answer callers' worklife questions.

5/9 Jim Rasenberger, author of High Steel: The daring men whobuilt the world's greatest skyline

5/2 Jim Camp, author of Start with No: The Negotiating tools thepros don't want you to know

4/25 Barbara Nemko will argue with me about somethingwork-related.

4/18 Beth Morris on what it's really like to be a nursepractitioner

4/11 Christine Peterson, president of the Foresight Institute,on the present and future of nanotechnology.

4/4 Replay of 3/21 show. It was good. Really.

3/28 Barbara Nemko and I offer solutions to career conundrumsthrough the lifespan: from 16 to 60+.

3/21 No guest. I answer callers' worklife questions.

3/14 Bob Rosner, author of Gray Matters

3/7 Martin Yate, author of Knock 'Em Dead.

2/29 Amy Hyams on what's it really like to be a doula?

2/22 TBA

2/15 Tim Johnston, author of Diary of a Job Search

2/8 Nancy Cherney on the case for and against work/lifebalance

2/1 Barbara Nemko on The First 90 Days: Starting a new jobright.

1/25 Elaine Aron, Author of The Highly Sensitive Person

1/18 Charles Murray, author of Human Accomplishment: The Pursuitof Excellence in Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950.

1/11 Debate on Bush's Guest Worker Legalization Plan. Plus,David Lipsky: Author of Absolutely American: Four Years at WestPoint

1/4/2004 Psychologist Tara Fields on getting unstuck

2003

12/28 A rerun: How to give a great talk.

12/21 My.wife Dr. Barbara Nemko and I debate work issues.

12/14 Winners of a contest to find San Francisco's mostinnovative small businesses.

12/7 Ted Newill, author of "Sales Careers."

11/30 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss (occasionally argue about)work issues.

11/23 Bernard Goldberg, author of "Bias" and his new book,"Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite."

11/16 My wife, Dr. Barbara Nemko, and I discuss (snipe at eachother?) about work issues.

11/9 Stanley Bing, author of "You Look Nice" on officepolitics.

11/2 Ben Braun, on what it's really like to be the basketballcoach for the University of California, Berkeley.

10/26 Rosalind Gardner on Affiliate Marketing on the Internet(or "How to Make Money While You Sleep")

10/19 Alan Dershowitz on the present and future of rights in theworkplace.

10/12 Overweight at work.

10/5 Carol Queen, co-founder, Good Vibrations, on what it's liketo run a sex toy store.

9/28/03 My wife, Dr. Barbara Nemko and I discuss (argue?) aboutthe book 50 Plus: Critical Career Decisions for the Rest of YourLife.

9/21/03 Jose Campos on what it's really like to be a cityplanner in San Francisco.

9/14/03 Bruce Schnier: Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly AboutSecurity in an Insecure World. (Wired Magazine called Schnier, "oneof the world's foremost security experts."

9/07/03 Barbara Nemko on 50+: Critical Career Decisions for theRest of Your Life.

8/31/03 David Lipsky, author of Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point

8/24/03 Matthew Lesko, author of Free GovernmentGrants.

8/17/03 Ron Lieber, author of Taking Time Off.

8/10/03 Nick Curtis, author of Working the Room, on how to give a great talk.

8/3/03 Napa County Superintendent of Schools (and my wife)Barbara Nemko on what it's really like to be a teacher.

7/27/03 Joe Anastazi, author of The New Forensics

7/20/03 What's It Really Like to be a Dentist, with top-ratedSan Francisco dentist, John Noren.

7/13/03 Jane Stern, author of Ambulance Girl

7/6/03 We were on vacation. Replay: Barbara and Marty argueabout a book, "From Good to Great."

6/29/03 Barbara and Marty Nemko on Advice We'd Give to NewGraduates.

6/22/03 Jim Griffith, author of The EBay Bible

6/15/03 Warren Farrell, author of Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. (Highlyrecommended book!)

6/8/03 Sustainable Businesses That Actually Make Money

6/1/03 Barbara and Marty Nemko argue.

5/25/03 Harold Bloom, author of Genius.

5/18/03 (Replay) Barbara and Marty Nemko on From Good to Great: How Some Organizations Make the Leap andOthers Don't.

5/11/03 What's it really ike to be an electrician?

5/4/03 Sharon Hays, author of Flat Broke With Children

4/27/03 What it's really like to be a physician: An interviewwith a panel of top-rated Bay Area doctors

4/20/03 (Replay): Anneli Rufus, author of A Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto.

4/13/03 Mike Marriner, author of Roadtrip Nation.

4/6/03 Barbara and Marty Nemko: Why work for corporateAmerica?

3/30/03 Michael Krasny, host of KQED-FM's Forum.

3/9/03 Anneli Rufus, author of A Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto.

3/2/03 Barbara and Marty Nemko on From Good to Great: How Some Organizations Make the Leap and OthersDon't.

2/23/03 Robert Dobrin on Selling on EBay

2/16/03 Roberta Johnson, author of Whistleblowing.

2/9/03 Diane Tracy, author of Take This Job and Love It. (a better book than thehokey title implies.)

2/2/03 Les Rosen on what employees and employers should knowabout background checks.

1/26/03 The India Syndrome: The Pros and Cons of shippng jobsoverseas.

1/19/03 Kathryn Troutman, author of Ten Steps to a Federal Job.

1/12/03 Fun part-time jobs

1/5/03 Making New Year's Resolutions You'll Actually Keep. Plushighly-suspect workplace predictions for 2003.

2002

Sundays, 11 am to noon on KALW, 91.7 FM, a National PublicRadio affiliate in San Francisco.

Here is a list of past topics, guests, and their books from theradio show. You can click on a book title to see more informationon that publication at Amazon.com.

12/22/02 Peadar Dalton: An Interesting Ex-Priest

12/15/02 Fran Quittel on What's Up in Silicon Valley?

12/8/02 UCLA Screenwriting Chair, Richard Walter: Straight TalkAbout Screenwriting

12/1/02 Anger at Work

11/24/02 Rob Palleschi, on what it's like to run a hotel?

11/17/02 Linda Chavez, author of An Unlikely Conservative.

11/03/02 Paidar Dalton, an unusual ex-priest

10/27/02 Drs. Brunno Ristow and Tim Marten on what's it reallylike to be a plastic surgeon?

10/20/02 A debate on the dockworkers dispute

10/13/92 Conquering procrastination

10/6/02 MacArthur Genius Award winner, Brian Tucker

9/29/02 What's it really like to be a chauffeur?

9/22/02 Free career help from the government

9/15/02 William McGowan, author of Coloring the News

9/8/02 Dr. Robert Markison on repetitive strain injury

9/1/02 Unsung workers, and Sheldon Michaels on what to do if youare about to be terminated.

8/25/02 William Bridges, author of The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most DifficultMoments

8/18/02 Paul and Sarah Edwards, authors of The Entrepreneurial Parent

8/11/02 George Koo on career opportunities in China.

8/4/02 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate work issue.

7/28/02 What's it really like to be a chauffeur?

7/21/02 Linda Mabry: on Race and Gender in the Workplace

7/14/02 Jeff Adams, author of Job Surfing in Media and Entertainment.

7/7/02 Barbara and Marty Nemko argue about work issues.

6/23\02 Jim Cramer, CNBC commentator and author of Confessionsof a Street Addict.

6/16/02 Father's Day Show: Eulogy to my Dad.

6/9/02 Kenn Wells, author of Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall StreetJournal's Middle Column.

6/2/02 Our kids don't know history. Should we care?

5/26/02 What's it really like to be an auto mechanic?

5/19/02 How to fix the schools. (Transcript is atwww.martynemko.com/pub/articles/commwealth2.shtm.)

5/12/02 Dennis Damp, author of The Book of US Government Jobs.

5/5/02 (Replay): Higher Education: America's Most OverratedProduct, and a Blueprint for its Reinvention

4/28/02 Jason Pahlmeyer on what it's really like to own a Napawinery.

4/21/02 Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute.

4/14/02 Gerry Crispin & Mark Mehler, authors of Career XRoads: The Directory to Job, Resume, andCareer Management Sites on the Web..

4/7/02 Tim Sanders, Yahoo! Vice President of Solutions andauthor of Love is the Killer App.

3/31/02 Should it be harder to fire older employees?

3/24/02 Four non-starving artists and how they did it.

3/17/02 What it's really like to be in retail

3/10 Lew Hunter, author of Screenwriting 434, on writing the Great AmericanScreenplay

2/24 Steven Strauss, author of The Big Idea: How Business Innovators Get Great Ideas toMarket

2/17 Dr. Howard Leibgold on overcoming fears

2/10/02 Romance in the Workplace

2/3/02 Chip Bell, author of Managers as Mentors.

1/27/01 Miriam Weinstein: One woman's struggle to "make adifference" while affording to live in the Bay Area, and author ofthe book, Making a Difference College and Graduate Guide

1/20/02 TheWorld's Shortest Management Course. (The link takes you toan article I wrote with that title.)

1/13/02 KRON and KCBS film critic, Jan Wahl on what it's reallylike to be a film critic

1/6/02 Sharon Ellison, author of " Don't Be So Defensive: Taking the War Out of Our Words WithPowerful Non-Defensive Communication", and Marty discuss 3little-known keys to effective communication

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