Our Authors

Ana Gabriel Mann and John David Mann

Ana Gabriel Mann, M.A. earned her degree in clinical psychology before going on to serve as a celebrated educator, therapist, corporate trainer, speaker, and coach. She currently coaches Go-Giver Marriage clients and leads the Go-Giver Marriage Coaches Training Program, training coaches from around the globe.

John David Mann is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers; his classic 2008 parable The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg) earned the 2017 Living Now Book Award’s “Evergreen Medal” given for its “contribution to positive global change.”

Books by Ana Gabriel Mann and John David Mann

Serena Ball, MS, RD and Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD

Serena Ball, MS, RD, and Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD, each have over 25 years of culinary nutrition experience and have dedicated their careers to helping people make delicious and nutritious meals. Together, they are the authors of The 30-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, The Easy Everyday Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, and The Sustainable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. Deanna lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter and Serena lives outside St. Louis with her husband and five children. You can find them online at teaspoonofspice.com and doing weekly live-stream recipe demonstrations on their Facebook page, Teaspoon of Spice.

Books by Serena Ball, MS, RD and Deanna Segrave-Daly, RD

Janice Fraser and Jason Fraser

Janice Fraser is an investor, speaker, and expert in the management practices to support disruptive innovation at scale. A Silicon Valley veteran, she’s built a storied career as a product manager, founder, facilitator, and confidant for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. But her impact extends beyond the Valley with innovation and transformation projects at NASA, the Obama White House, Procter and Gamble, and many other companies in the Fortune 500. As an investor, she is particularly committed to championing and extending access to the brilliant entrepreneurs who are typically underrepresented in the world of venture-backed startups.

Jason Fraser co-founded the Innovation and Transformation Practice at Pivotal Software, establishing the values, practices, and strategic vision that would modernize software development within the Fortune 100 and the U.S. Military. He’s currently a director on the Federal team at VMWare, working with some of the largest organizations in the world to create high-functioning, rapid product development capabilities, and to break through the human barriers that block innovation.

Books by Janice Fraser and Jason Fraser

Amy Baldwin and April Lampert

Amy Baldwin is a sex and relationship coach, certified sex educator, and co-owner of a mother-daughter-owned online pleasure boutique called Pure Pleasure Shop.

April Lampert has been educating people about sexual pleasure, health and wellness, and pleasure products at a global scale since 2008, currently traveling the world as vice president of Hot Octopuss, an innovative pleasure product company.

Together, Amy and April combined forces to create the Shameless Sex podcast, inspiring radical self-love, sexual empowerment, and shame-free intimacy. Shameless Sex is unabashed real talk about sexuality with a playful twist.

Books by Amy Baldwin and April Lampert

Michele Matrisciani and Melissa Moore

Michele Matrisciani is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Bookchic LLC, where she offers an array of editorial services to authors, agents, and publishers. With more than twenty years in publishing, Michele has been featured in The Wall Street JournalSports Illustrated, and Publisher’s Weekly, to name a few. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, holds an MFA from Stony Brook University, and is the coauthor of the self-help book, Whole.

Melissa G. Moore is a New York Times bestselling author, executive producer, and the real-life subject of the Paramount+ series Happy Face. A true crime documentary filmmaker for Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, and Lifetime, she has been featured in ForbesTIME, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The daughter of the “Happy Face Killer,” Moore takes readers deep inside the hidden world of families bound by love, betrayal, and the dark legacy of a killer’s crimes.

Blayne Smith and Brandon Young

Blayne Smith and Brandon Young have successfully led the Green Berets, the US Army Rangers, corporate teams, small businesses, and social enterprises. Over the years, they’ve worked alongside many of the world’s most iconic brands including Starbucks, Nike, Apple, Walmart, and Microsoft. Their passion is to share with others hard earned wisdom from 50 years of leading people and winning in the most demanding situations.

Books by Blayne Smith and Brandon Young

Legs McNeil

Legs McNeil, the original punk, is the coauthor of the 2.5-million-copy global bestseller Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Grove Press, 1996), a book widely hailed as the Punk Bible. One of the cofounders of the seminal Punk magazine, which gave the movement its name and where he was known as the “resident punk,” Legs is a former editor at Spin and editor-in-chief of Nerve. He is also the coauthor of The Other Hollywood (Regan Books, 2005), cowrote I Slept With Joey Ramone with Mickey Leigh (Touchstone, 2010), and coedited Dear Nobody (Sourcebooks, 2014).

Legs is a filmmaker, directing and narrating Pusherman: Frank Lucas & the True Story of American Gangster (MVD Entertainment, 2025), a documentary that examines the life and influence of a notorious drug kingpin. His next film, Johnny in Wonderland (MVD Entertainment, 2026) tells the true story of porn star John Holmes’s involvement in the 1981 Wonderland Murders.

One of the foremost chroniclers of the punk movement, Legs’s writing has long been the go-to for on-the-ground accounts of those heady years of New York and London in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He has appeared in innumerable documentaries exploring the punk years, on networks as diverse as the History ChannelEpix, and VH1His journalism has appeared in the likes of Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, VICE, Details, High Times, AirMail, The Atavist, Cultured Mag, The Daily Beast, and many, many more.

Books by Legs McNeil