In conversation with Gretchen Rubin (virtual event)

Join us for anvirtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
 
**An Evening with Gretchen Rubin
discussing her book, “Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives.”**

*This event is taped with an audience on April 9.*

PURCHASE VIRTUAL TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
$42 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on April 16 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

**New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before distills her key insights into simple truths for living with greater satisfaction, clarity, and happiness**

**Gretchen Rubin** is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project. Her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She hosts the top-ranking, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she explores practical solutions for living a happier life. 

The right idea, invoked at the right time, can change our lives. Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she’s faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the “Secrets of Adulthood” that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism—the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.

Perhaps you’re paralyzed by indecision, struggling to navigate a big change, fighting a temptation, or puzzled by the behavior of someone you love; whatever you face, the right aphorism can help. From procrastination to the pursuit of happiness, Secrets of Adulthood is filled with witty and thought-provoking reflections.

Ethan Kross in conversation with Michael Gervais (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, February 17, 2025, 8pm

**Ethan Kross in conversation with Michael Gervais
discussing his book, “Shift: Managing Your Emotions–So They Don’t Manage You.”**

(this event is taped with an audience on Feb 11)

PURCHASE VIRTUAL TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Monday, February 17, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (includes** shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on February 17 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

**A myth-busting, science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess—from the bestselling author of Chatter.**

**Ethan Kross**, PhD, is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. An award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top ranked Psychology Department and its Ross School of Business, he is the director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He has participated in policy discussion at the White House, and has been interviewed about his work on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and NPR’s Morning Edition. His pioneering research has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New England Journal of Medicine and Science.

**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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“A revolutionary guide to mastering your emotional life.”—**Charles Duhigg**, NYT bestselling author
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From the mundane nuisances we encounter each day to devastating & enormous losses so many people are experiencing in the Los Angeles area today, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. From psychologist Dr. Ethan Kross, the bestselling author of Chatter, comes a myth-busting, science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess. Kross writes that emotions, rather than being “good” or “bad,” can be our superpower.

When they’re activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kross about his new book, Shift, where he discusses to make emotions work for us rather than against us—and a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don’t take over our lives. 
 

In conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates (virtual event)

November 1, 2024 @ 6:00 pm

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Friday, November 1, 2024, 6pm PT/ 9pm ET

**An Afternoon with Ta-Nehisi Coates
discussing his book, “The Message”**

This event is taped with an audience on October 27.

TICKETS:
$46 Virtual Admission + book (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on November 1 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.

**The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.**

**Ta-Nehisi Coates** is the author of *The Beautiful Struggle*, *We Were Eight Years in Power*, *The Water Dancer* and *Between the World and Me*, for which he won the National Book Award in 2015. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, he is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair in English at Howard University.

Just as *Between the World and Me* took the form of a letter to his son, The Message is crafted as a letter to his writing students. He bears an urgent message for them: their “task is nothing less than doing their part to save the world.”

“[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology, humane in his judgments, respectful of facts, acutely aware of the difference between what is knowable and what is not.”—The New Yorker

Just as *Between the World and Me* took the form of a letter to his son, The Message is crafted as a letter to his writing students. He bears an urgent message for them: their “task is nothing less than doing their part to save the world.”

Coates’s call to action is in fact a diagnosis of the political and social polarization currently sweeping the globe: the world is riven by stories. He comes to this realization not as a geopolitical wonk or a statesman, but as a journalist who has seen firsthand how stories are more powerful tools of persuasion than the assemblage of interconnected facts.

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, The Message is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Next, he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning. In the book’s longest section, he travels to Palestine, where he sees the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.