WorthPlace Collective Podcast: Books for Coaches, C-Suite Leaders, Clergy, Colleagues, and Other Collaborators

Turn the Ship Around!

Author: L. David Marquet

Description: A leadership model built on giving control rather than taking it, developed from Marquet’s experience turning around a struggling submarine crew. It emphasizes leader-leader structures over leader-follower systems. The result is stronger ownership, competence, and clarity at every level.

How to Fight a Hydra

Author: Josh Porter

Description: A reflection on complexity, meaning, and navigating a world where problems multiply like a hydra. Porter explores how modern life erodes coherence and calls for deeper awareness and intentionality. It’s philosophical, poetic, and culturally observant.

Who Do We Choose to Be?

Author: Margaret J. Wheatley

Description: A call to remain human, present, and grounded in the midst of increasing chaos. Wheatley invites leaders to act with integrity and courage even as systems break down. It’s less about fixing the world and more about choosing how we show up within it.

The E-Myth Revisited

Author: Michael E. Gerber

Description: Challenges the myth that technical skill alone makes a successful business owner. Gerber explains the need to work on your business, not just in it. It introduces systems thinking as the foundation for scalable, sustainable work.

The War of Art

Author: Steven Pressfield

Description: Identifies “Resistance” as the invisible force that prevents creative work. Pressfield calls for discipline, professionalism, and showing up daily to overcome it. It’s direct, blunt, and highly motivating.

The Sacred Enneagram

Author: Christopher L. Heuertz

Description: Uses the Enneagram as a tool for spiritual transformation rather than personality labeling. Heuertz focuses on contemplation, inner work, and uncovering the “true self.” It bridges psychology and spiritual practice.

Surrounded by Idiots

Author: Thomas Erikson

Description: Introduces a simple, color-based framework for understanding personality differences and communication styles. Erikson breaks people into four types—Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue—each with distinct tendencies, motivations, and ways of interacting. The book helps readers recognize their own style, better understand others, and adapt communication to reduce conflict and build stronger relationships.

Link to INTO the Forge: https://www.shepherdsforge.com/about-4

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In this episode, Kevin Parido explores what life coaching is, what coaches actually do, and the idea that both lives and knives are not made by accident—they are shaped with intention. Drawing from his experience as a coach and a knife maker, Kevin reflects on the process of forging a meaningful life. He closes the episode by offering a few questions that may have significant implications for where you are right now.

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In this podcast we meet Carvel Norman. I love getting to hear people's stories and their life experiences. Carvel has a great story to tell and tells that story well. Give this a listen and you will not regret it.

If you want to see Carvel's work - check out his website: dirtysouthpottery.com

Or go and visit him in person at 38 North Main Street in Winchester, Kentucky.

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