Compressing my book into a 7½ minute TEDx talk forced me to find the single core message of what I teach. That point turned out to be a single chapter in my book, The Power of 16, and how the rest of the book supports teaching that mindset shift with money. The Money Conversation For The Next Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5LWABsP2_M Let me know what you think of this message after it's been distilled down. Have you been using your book to do talks?

Hey, @Julie Broad I haven't been keeping up in Skool, but I think you mentioned Sinai.ai in a post or stream a little while back. I must've signed up for their list because I just got the notification that they're launched. I signed up and was considering contacting them to get my book (Be a Nerd That Talks Good) on there, since I also published the earlier this year. I noticed Self-Publish and Succeed was listed. 1) Did you work directly with them on getting it listed? 2) How was the process? 3) Worth it? ;) Inquiring minds want to know.

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I am working on the audiobook for my next book. My last two I did in a studio, which was great because it was recorded and then I got to finish product. So easy. The thing which I didn’t like is that we would do hours a day and by the end of a session, I’d be pretty tired. Four hours at a time is pretty tough on the vocal cords. I have a nice set up at home with a Rode PodMic and a RodeCasterPro. The room is carpeted so the sound is quiet. I am not overly concerned about the recording quality as I’ve had audio engineers say that it was good and better than many studio recordings. I can hire an editor an audio engineer who creates all of the files for under $200 for a 2 hours book. This is significantly less expensive than the studio which wants $1500 for the studio and post production. And I get to do it at home at my own pace. I saw Julie’s YouTube video on home recording. I think I have everything covered from a home studio perspective. But is there something I’m missing? Is there a downside to recording it at home that I am missing? Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Okay, @Julie Broad , your recent video on Eleven Labs got me thinking about doing my audiobook. :) Since I have a professional podcast setup and am a former radio guy myself, I decided to record it. I'm using Descript for the recording and editing and it's going pretty smoothly. Since my book uses a lot (like a LOT a LOT) or footnotes, I went through my book and pulled the more important ones up as in-line asides where I'm pausing and voicing "footnote." I rewrote some of the straight research reference ones so I could read them aloud. For figures, I'm mentioning the figure number and providing a good "alt-text" like description of the diagram. One part of my book has DOZENS of diagrams because I'm using examples of my card deck, like the one attached. I'm still reading each card. But I'm wondering if it might be a neat idea to create a hidden page on my website that contains all of the figures so people could flip through them or pull them up as a reference. It would also make for a great call to action to direct traffic to my site. Has anyone done this? Did you just set up like a media gallery with all of the images? How do you "protect" or provide access to audiobook listeners? Am I overthinking this?