Chris Guillebeau with Michael Gervais

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Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 8pm

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Chris Guillebeau
in conversation with Michael Gervais
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discussing his book,
Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(Free Parking available at the venue)
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Face masks recommended
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 8pm
$48  General Admission + signed book
$25  General Admission ticket 

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on June 24 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
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A powerful antidote to deadline dread, time guilt, and chronic rushing—from the New York Timesbestselling author of The $100 Startup
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Chris Guillebeau is the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle, and The Happiness of Pursuit, which have sold over one million copies worldwide. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his thirty-fifth birthday.
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Michael Gervais is a sport and performance psychologist. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance. He founded  Finding Mastery, powered by a world-class team of Olympians, PhDs, psychologists and changemakers, to bring insights from the frontier of sport and performance into the business world.  He is the host of the popular Finding Mastery podcast that explores the psychology of the world’s most extraordinary thinkers and doers. He is the author of The First Rule of Mastery, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
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“Our relationship with time is one of the most important aspects of our lives. In Time Anxiety, Chris Guillebeau brilliantly investigates why it is so persistently vexing, offering concrete steps to deal with common challenges like deadline dread and chronic rushing while reassuring us that, amid all our angst, there is indeed time for a life well-lived. An invaluable, insightful book.”Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
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In a world obsessed with squeezing the most out of every moment, the fear of falling behind can trap us in a paralyzing stress cycle. Incomplete to-do lists, unanswered emails, and unmet life goals haunt our thoughts, leaving us overstimulated and exhausted.
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In Time Anxiety, Chris Guillebeau, author of the popular newsletter A Year of Mental Health, reveals that this pervasive sense of time scarcity stems not from a lack of hours in the day but from unrealistic expectations and misaligned priorities. Weaving together eye-opening research on time perception, executive functioning challenges, and the psychological roots of avoidance, he offers a bold path for redefining our relationship with the clock.

The first step is to build a tolerance for incomplete to-do lists and the inevitability of disappointing people, abandoning the goal of “catching up.” We have to set our own limits because no one else will.
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Ultimately, Time Anxiety is a call to wake up from the trance of busyness and reclaim our most precious resource. By breaking the habits of overstressing, overdoing, and underliving, we can start savoring our limited time on earth.
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Sahil Bloom 

Join us for an in-person & virtual
Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, June 16, 2025, 8pm
 

An Evening with
Sahil Bloom 
discussing his book, 
The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Monday, June 16, 2025, 8pm
$25  General Admission 
$50  General Admission + signed book 
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Monday, June 23, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on June 23 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
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Reject the default path, define your priorities, and achieve lasting happiness with this transformative guide to your dream life—a life centered around the five types of wealth–Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth
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Sahil Bloom is an inspirational writer and content creator, captivating millions of people every week through his insights and biweekly newsletter, The Curiosity Chronicle. His debut book The 5 Types of Wealth (out February 4) was a  New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Bloom is a successful entrepreneur, owner of SRB Holdings, and the managing partner of SRB Ventures, an early-stage investment fund. Bloom graduated from Stanford University with an MA in public policy and a BA in economics and sociology. He was a four-year member of the Stanford baseball team.
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After three years of research, personal experimentation, and thousands of interviews across the globe, Sahil Bloom has created a groundbreaking blueprint to build your life around five types of wealth: Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth. A life of true fulfillment engages all five types—working dynamically, in concert across the seasons of your journey.
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No matter where you are on your path—a recent graduate, new parent, midlife warrior, retiree, or anything in between—The 5 Types of Wealth will help you act on your priorities to create an instant positive impact in your daily life, make better decisions, and design the life you’ve always dreamed of.

Jacinda Ardern

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6:30pm
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An Evening with
Jacinda Ardern
Former prime minister of New Zealand

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discussing her memoir,
A Different Kind of Power
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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6:30pm
$73  Two General Admission tickets + one signed book
$48  General Admission ticket + signed book.
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Monday, June 16, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on June 16 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..
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From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.
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The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand at the age of thirty-seven, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years. Since leaving office, Ardern has established the Field Fellowship on empathetic leadership. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University, continues to work on climate action, and is the Patron of the Christchurch Call to Action to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. Ardern also works on a number of projects that support women and girls, but considers her greatest roles to be those she will hold for life, including that of mum and proud New Zealander.
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A Different Kind of Power is the story of the forces that have shaped Jacinda Ardern and the intentional effort she has put into creating a new template for the next generation of leaders to follow. Ardern’s insightful and inspiring memoir challenges old definitions of strength and power by emphasizing the urgency of compassion and kindness. World leaders have a lot to learn from her timely and important perspective.”Melinda Gates, author of The Moment of Lift
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What if we could redefine leadership? What if kindness came first? Jacinda Ardern grew up the daughter of a police officer in small-town New Zealand, but as the 40th Prime Minister of her country, she commanded global respect for her empathetic leadership that put people first. This is the remarkable story of how a Mormon girl plagued by self-doubt made political history and changed our assumptions of what a global leader can be.

When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister at age thirty-seven, the world took notice. But it was her compassionate yet powerful response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, resulting in swift and sweeping gun control laws, that demonstrated her remarkable leadership. She guided her country through unprecedented challenges—a volcanic eruption, a major biosecurity breach, and a global pandemic—while advancing visionary new policies to address climate change, reduce child poverty, and secure historic international trade deals. She did all this while juggling first-time motherhood in the public eye.

Ardern exemplifies a new kind of leadership—proving that leaders can be caring, empathetic, and effective. She has become a global icon, and now she is ready to share her story, from the struggles to the surprises, including for the first time the full details of her decision to step down during her sixth year as Prime Minister.

Through her personal experiences and reflections, Jacinda is a model for anyone who has ever doubted themselves, or has aspired to lead with compassion, conviction, and courage. A Different Kind of Power is more than a political memoir; it’s an insight into how it feelsto lead, ultimately asking: What if you, too, are capable of more than you ever imagined?

Dave Barry

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Thursday, May 22, 2025, 8pm
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An Evening with
Dave Barry


discussing his memoir,
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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Thursday, May 22, 2025, 8pm
$50  General Admission ticket + signed book
$25 General Admission ticket
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Monday, May 27, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on May 27 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..
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America’s most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you’d expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything.
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Dave Barry is the author of more bestsellers than you can count on two hands, including Swamp StoryLessons from LucyDave Barry’s Complete Guide to GuysDave Barry Turns Forty, and Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. A wildly popular syndicated columnist best known for his booger jokes, Barry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He lives in Miami.
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How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate newspaper column read by millions of people? In Class Clown, Dave takes us on a hilarious ride, detailing his non-linear ascent to fame. Come laugh as he tells us how, during his long tenure as a syndicated humor columnist, he alienated a vast army of Neil Diamond fans and the entire state of Indiana.
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Class Clown isn’t just a memoir; it’s a vibrant celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness. Dave says the most important wisdom imparted by his Midwestern parents was never to take anything too seriously. This laughter-filled book is proof that he learned that lesson well. Long-time fans of Live Talks know Dave has a special place in our hearts: We launched our series many moons ago with Dave (interviewed by none other than Jane Smiley.) 

Carl Hiaasen

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Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 8pm
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An Evening with
Carl Hiaasen


discussing the writing life and his new novel,
Fever Beach

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Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(Free Parking available at the venue)

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Face masks recommended
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 8pm
$50  General Admission ticket + signed book
$25 General Admission ticket
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Monday, May 26, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on May 26 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..
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Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes
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Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the bestsellers Squeeze Me, Razor Girl, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and seven bestselling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His novel, Bad Monkey, was recently adapted into a hit series on Apple TV+ starring Vince Vaughn.
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Carl Hiaasen has made quite a career as a best-selling novelist by lampooning his native Sunshine State. His latest, Fever Beach, begins with an errand that leads—in pure Hiaasen-style—into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption.  

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A hapless hate-monger. Billionaire philanthropists with too much plastic surgery. A wildly ambitious (and corrupt) politician. An environmentalist with an anger management problem. In his wildest and most entertaining novel to date, Hiaasen plunges these outrageous (fictitious?) goons into a mystery involving dark money and darker motives and delivers them to their appropriate fates.

Lili Taylor

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Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 8pm

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An Evening with
Lili Taylor
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discussing her book,
Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center
at Vista Del Mar
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(Free Parking available at the venue)
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Face masks recommended
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 8pm
$25  General Admission 
$48  General Admission + signed book 

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET

$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on May 14 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
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Eye-opening essays about searching for peace in the cacophony of birds and discovering a world of meaning in small moments—from award-winning actor Lili Taylor.
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Lili Taylor is an award-winning movie, television, and theater actor. Some of her credits include: Mystic Pizza, Dogfight, Short Cuts, I shot Andy Warhol, High Fidelity and Say Anything. In the birding world, Lili is a board member of the National Audubon Society, the American Birding Association, and the New York City Bird Alliance. Lili nests in Brooklyn and upstate New York with her husband, the memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, and their daughter.
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“Lili Taylor is an actor I’ve long been in awe of, and now I know why her work has always been soulful and painfully honest. Turning to Birds is a treasure map to Lili’s inner life and a scripture in how to be truly mindful.”Griffin Dunne, actor, director, and author of The Friday Afternoon Club
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“What can an actor—even a consummate one like Lili Taylor—tell us about birding? Plenty, as she brings her profession’s keen observation skills to Turning to Birds, exploring what our feathered marvels can mean to us people. You couldn’t ask for a more personal, accessible approach to the pastime we all love (or will, by the end of this book).”Christian Cooper, author of Better Living Through Birding
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Most people don’t really know birds—or rather, they aren’t aware of them. Lili Taylor used to be one of those people. She knew birds existed. She thought about them, maybe even more than the average person. But she didn’t know them. And then something happened.

During a much-needed break from her work as an actor, Lili sought silence and instead found the bustling, symphonic world of birds that had always existed around her. Since then, she has kept a keen eye pressed to her binoculars in search of vivid stories that elevate the everyday, if only one pays attention.

Through a series of beautifully crafted essays, Taylor shares her intimate encounters with the birds that have captured her heart and imagination—from tracking flitting woodpeckers through oak trees to spotting majestic blue jays perched on a Manhattan fire escape; from the exhilaration of witnessing a migratory flock from the top of the Empire State Building to the quiet joy of observing a nest of hatchlings in her own backyard. Through simply paying attention to birds, Lili has been shown a parallel world that is wider and deeper, one of constant change and movement, full of life and the will to survive.

Throughout Turning to Birds, Taylor encourages mindfulness, inviting readers to be present and fully engaged with the world around them. Taylor’s lyrical prose and thoughtful meditations on both the art we make and the art we discover around us create a sense of intimacy and wonder, inviting readers to see the world through new eyes and to find joy in the most unexpected places.