Radio Archive and Upcoming Shows

UPCOMING SHOWS

11/23 Janis Bell, author of the grammar book Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences.

11/30 Peter Imburg, CEO of Elfster: on what it’s really like to run a dotcom startup (that involves Santa)

12/7 Dave Demeter on what’s it’s really like to be an insurance agent

12/14 Charles Murray, author of Real Education.

12/21 A Best of Work with Marty Nemko show TBA

12/28 Barbara and Marty Nemko review Marty’s 2008 predictions and offer 2009’s.

PREVIOUS SHOWS

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 or download the show,clickHERE.

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

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

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

10/19 Pat Choate, author ofDangerous 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 an anesthesiologist. To hear or download the show, clickHERE

9/21 Marty and Barbara Nemko debate the book,New Ideas from Dead CEOs.To hear or download the show, clickHERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

8/3 Green Careers with Carol McClelland who runs greencareercentral.com and Marie Kerpan, a career counselor who specializes in green careers. To hear or download the show, click HERE.

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

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

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

7/6 Mary Ruwart, Libertarian presidential candidate, who argues that Libertarianism is best for American employees. To hear or download the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

5/25 Marty Nemko’s favorite new career ideas plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hear or download the show, click HERE

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

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

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

4/27 Carnell Smith and Warren Farrell on paternity fraud: the least-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 and deep...and on the life well-led in hard times.To hear or download the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12/23 Marty Nemko. Workplace predictions for 2008. Plus call-in 3-minute career makeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

11/4 Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum and author of Off-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, click HERE

10/21 Barbara and Marty Nemko discuss the book, Crucial Conversations, plus three-minute call-in and relationship makeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

9/9 Barbara and Marty Nemko on the art of telling an anecdote.9/2 A Best of Work with Marty Nemko (a replay of a 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 Staging Business. To hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

7/15 Charlotte Jacobs on what it's really like to be an oncologist (cancer physician) at the same time as she is starring in 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 the show, click HERE

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

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

6/10 Alan Morrison, author of Beyond the Big Firm: Profiles of Lawyers 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's really like to manage a nonprofit?To hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

4/22 Don't listen to the first half hour--it was bad. To hear the 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 a three-minute mock job interview with callers. To here the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

3/4 Marshall Goldsmith, career coach to 80 top CEOs. Plus call-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 on divorce's dirtiest tricks. To hear it, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

1/7/07 Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute. 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? Is Christmas? 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 a philosopher? " 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 what it's really like to be a minister. One of my best interviews.To hear it, click HERE

11/19 Rick Segel, author of The Essental Online Solution: The 5-step Plan for Small Business Success. Plus three-minute career makeovers on callers. Plus three-minute career makeovers on callers. To hear it, click HERE

11/12 Barbara Nemko on a new study on women and ambition. Plus 3-minute career makeovers on callers.To hear it, click HERE

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

10/29 Harold Stolovitch, on the art of training people. Plus three-minute career makeovers on callers. To hear it, click HERE

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

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

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

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

9/24 Ferdinand Protzman author and photographer of the National Geographic 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 perhaps deflate the book, Joy at Work.To hear it, click HERE

9/3 Jill Duffy, Editor of Computer Game Developer magazine, 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 bosses and female bosses. To hear it, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6/11 Anthony Iaquinto, author of Never Bet the Farm: How Successful Enterpreneurs Make Decisions. (To hear it, click HERE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2/26 Gene Hansen on what's it really like to be a middle manager for 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 Day Feature). Plus three-minute career makeovers. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

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

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

1/22 Heller Ehrman attorney, Ray Hixson, on what employees and employers should know about their rights in the workplace. Plus call-in three-minute career makeovers. (To hear the show, click HERE.)

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

1/8/06 Doug Hardy, author of the Monster Guides to Networking and 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 special Holiday programming on KALW.

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

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

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

11/20 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate worklife issues. Plus listeners call in forthree-minute career makeovers. To hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7/17 Beverly Langford, author of the Etiquette Edge: Secrets to Business 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 debate is it ethical for the San Francisco Giants to run ads encouraging people to take sick days and go to the Giants game. To hear the show, click HERE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4/17/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate work and relationship issues. 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 do 3-minute career and relationship makeovers on callers.To hear the show, 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 what you really want...and getting it. To hear the show, click HERE.

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

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

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

2/13/05 The Valentine's Day Show: Barbara and Marty Nemko debate romance 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 hear the show, click HERE

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

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

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

1/2/05 Barbara and Marty Nemko help you create New Year's resolutions you might actually keep. To hear the show, click HERE.

2004

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

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

12/12 Barbara and Marty Nemko doing career, relationship, and attitude 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 of Happiness at Work. To hear the show, click HERE:

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

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

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

10/31 Sheila Ross on getting health insurance when you're not covered by your employer and, have a preexisting condition. To hear the 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 present and future of job seeking. To hear the show, click HERE

10/10 Barbara and I argue about whether it's better to have a male 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 president of 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 as a career doing it for others.

9/19 Barbara and Marty Nemko: Reinventing High School Education

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 but he no-showed so I had to tap dance. I proposed my ideas for how to get rid of tolls and how to satisfy the Indians without their getting 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 of linksv on the art of online networking.

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

8/1 Barbara and Marty Nemko debate callers' worklife questions

7/25 Marty Nemko answers callers' worklife questions

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

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

7/4 Michael Scriven on the art and science of program evaluation

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

6/20 Warren Farrell on men in the workplace

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

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 City cop

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

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

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

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

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

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 conundrums through 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/life balance

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

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

1/18 Charles Murray, author of Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of 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 West Point

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 most innovative 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 each other?) about work issues.

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

11/2 Ben Braun, on what it's really like to be the basketball coach 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 the workplace.

10/12 Overweight at work.

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

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

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

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

9/07/03 Barbara Nemko on 50+: Critical Career Decisions for the Rest 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 Government Grants.

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-rated San Francisco dentist, John Noren.

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

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

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

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. (Highly recommended 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 and Others 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 interview with 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 corporate America?

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 Others Don'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 the hokey title implies.)

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

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

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. Plus highly-suspect workplace predictions for 2003.

2002

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

Here is a list of past topics, guests, and their books from the radio show. You can click on a book title to see more information on 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 Talk About 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 really like 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 you are about to be terminated.

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

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 Confessions of 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 Street Journal'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 at www.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 Overrated Product, and a Blueprint for its Reinvention

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

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, and Career Management Sites on the Web..

4/7/02 Tim Sanders, Yahoo! Vice President of Solutions and author 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 American Screenplay

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

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 a difference" while affording to live in the Bay Area, and author of the book, Making a Difference College and Graduate Guide

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

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

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