
In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Elizabeth Uviebinené about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on her to date, including one that shaped how her twenties evolved and one that inspired the hugely successful, 'Slay In Your Lane', which went onto become a global movement. Elizabeth also shares why we should all be WhatsApp-ing ourselves and her take on why personal stories in nonfiction matter so much. Enjoy!
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Elizabeth Uviebinené is a multi-award-winning author, speaker, and columnist at the Financial Times. She is the author of 'The Reset: Ideas to Change How We Work and Live', and the co-author of 'Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible', the critically acclaimed bestseller which won the Groucho Maverick Award, the Marie Claire Future Shapers Award and was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Award. She is also co-editor of the anthology Loud Black Girls. Elizabeth began her career in marketing and is now a brand strategist, working on campaigns for businesses such as Nike and Bumble. She grew up in South London where she still lives and studied Politics and International studies at the University of Warwick.
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Elizabeth's choices were:
1. 'The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now' by Meg Jay
2. 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' by Sheryl Sandberg
3. 'Manifesto: On Never Giving Up' by Bernadine Everisto
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Jan 18, 2023
31 min

In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Nir Eyal about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on him to date, including some inspiring titles on both addiction and habit-forming that inspired his best-selling books, Indistractable and Hooked. Nir also shares with us why basic assumptions that 'tech is bad' lacks the necessary nuance, plus some key insights into his processes as an author + investor. Enjoy!
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Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, “the best business book of 2019.”
In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Bloomberg Business week wrote, “Nir Eyal is the habits guy. Want to understand how to get app users to come back again and again? Then Eyal is your man. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.
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Nir's choices were:
1. 'Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties' by Beth Kobliner
2. 'Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs' by Marc Lewis
3. 'The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change' by Charles Duhigg
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Dec 22, 2022
32 min

In this episode of 'The Books That Made Me', Ben Keene (Co-founder of Rebel Book Club) talks to Jamie Bartlett about 3 nonfiction books that have had a massive impact on him to date, including how they informed his research on massive projects like 'The Missing Cryptoqueen' and the kind of writer he has become over the years. Jamie also discusses his feelings of 'imposter syndrome' when it comes to reading and how John Ronson became one of his nonfiction heroes. Enjoy!
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Jamie Bartlett is the creator and host of the popular BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen and is a bestselling author with his books: The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net, and Radicals. He has explored everything from online subcultures and hackers to blockchain and cryptocurrencies to the threat social media has on democracy. Jamie Bartlett is a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos.
Jamie frequently writes for The Spectator and is a feature writer for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Telegraph. His BBC Two documentary, The Secrets of Silicon Valley, explored the false promises that technology has brought for global economies, and how it has weakened many aspects of politics and society.
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Jamie's choices were:
1. 'The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11' by Lawrence Wright
2. 'Them: Adventures with Extremists' by Jon Ronson
3. 'The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Dec 22, 2022
39 min