Dear Friends, It’s been a while since we sent out a newsletter, and there are so many updates to share. In the past few months, we’ve lost two luminaries. Neuroscientist and compassion expert Dr. James R. Doty passed away in July after complications with his surgery and a long hospitalization. His books Into the Magic Shop and Mind Magic showed me and hundreds of thousands around the world about the power of the mind to manifest and create the lives we want. Into the Magic Shop even inspired a...

Hi Friends, I know we just sent a note at the beginning of the year, but we’ve got two exciting updates to share. First, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Ethan Kross’ new book Shift today! Ethan is an Award-winning University of Michigan psychologist and neuroscientist, one of the world’s leading experts on emotion regulation, and author of the National Bestseller Chatter. In Shift, Ethan shatters deeply entrenched myths about emotion regulation and reveals a revolutionary integrative...

Dear Friends, As we step into 2025, we want to take a moment to reflect on the incredible year that was and share some exciting things ahead. It’s been a year full of growth, collaboration, and impactful books—and we couldn’t have done it without your support for our authors and our mission to create a wiser, healthier, more just world. Publishing This Month Defy by Sunita Sah M.D., Ph.D, released January 14th —In a book perfectly calibrated for our times, one of the...

Dear Friends, Following up on the worldwide impact of The Book of Joy and the Mission: Joy movie, I have been invited to work on a new book with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist teacher Jinpa Langri, and we'd love your help! This book is envisioned as a travelogue to the mind and a universal introduction to mental training and meditation. It is meant for people of all faiths or no faith at all, secular, spiritual or religious, for anyone who wants to live with more joy and meaning. In addition to...

Dear Friends,  Like so many around the world, I was moved and inspired by the Academy-Award-winning film, My Octopus Teacher.  I am delighted that we have had a chance to work with Craig Foster on his powerful new book,  Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World, which releases today, May 14th.In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth—from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta—Craig reveals how we can...

Dear Friends, We usually only send you one email a month, but this is too exciting to wait.  I'm thrilled to let you know that Oprah announced today that she has chosen our dear friend and colleague Lara Love Hardin's Many Lives of Mama Love as her new Oprah Book Club Pick!!!! Many of you know that Lara came to work at our agency shortly after she was released from jail.  Lara had a harrowing story of going from a soccer mom living in a cul-de-sac to a heroin addict and almost losing custody...

Dear Friends,   I wanted to share three new books from our agency that we hope will be as fascinating and helpful for you as they have been for us to work on.   WHY WE REMEMBER: We wanted to work with Charan Ranganath, one of the world's leading memory researchers, because, well, sometimes we forget things, and honestly who isn't fascinated by the ever-shifting sands of memory?  I will never forget when Charan explained to me that memory evolved to help us prepare for the future, not to...

Hi Friends, As the year draws to a close, we want to thank you for being part of the Idea Architects community. In a time of challenges and suffering, as well as possibility, we are more committed than ever to amplifying urgently needed voices and developing authors and stories that inspire, challenge, and transform our world. In that spirit, here are seven lessons we are taking forward from this last year: The Idea Architects team takes a real break from December 16th through the end of the...

Dear Friends,  In this time of so much division, we must trouble the waters and widen the circle of human concern. Visionary leader of radical belonging and co-founder of the Empower Initiative Ben McBride invites us to question our biases, speak hard truths, and engage in the process of creating a space where everyone belongs. His debut book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging is out everywhere today.What would it take to truly belong to each other? McBride answers that...