Articles by Clay Burton

Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity by Ora Nadrich is a comprehensive but never long winded book. My interest in mindfulness philosophy predisposes me to find a lot of virtues recommending this book, but a single reading of Nadrich’s new work convinces […]

Judith Orloff’s Thriving as an Empath: 365 Days of Self-Care for Sensitive People is a wide ranging and lengthy work setting forth a day by day guide for empaths about how to care for and protect themselves. […]

Joseph Michelli’s The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth Through Loyalty, Community, and Belonging provides such a comprehensive overview of its chosen subject that this review can hardly do it justice. Michelli’s extensive bibliography on similar […]

Bands take many circuitous routes through their musical journey. Some are overnight sensations; they write an inspired track propelling them to notoriety, land in the right place at the right time, or else occupy a gap that music listeners, […]

Cincinnati, Ohio born Darian has led a challenging life resulting in ultimate victory. His birth father, onetime James Brown guitarist Calvin Goshade, returned to touring during his mother’s pregnancy and had no idea he had […]

Chris Mardini has a lot on his mind, and he’s hashing it all out in the song “Retrospective Outlook,” In what amounts to some of the smartest alternative poetry I’ve heard in a while, Mardini […]

With nothing more than a brooding harmony, Milquetoast & Co. dispense one of the most powerful slices of modern balladry to see widespread release this year in “No Speak So Good,” but as anyone who […]

With a confident strum and a vibrant vocal to lead the way, “This Moment On” gets Dave Vargo’s Spaces in Between in motion on a high note and leaves a trail of glistening harmonies in its […]

Lumbering grooves led by a heavyset bassline crater through anything and everything that gets in their way as The Lost Millions get us lost in the thick instrumental forestry of “Wisdom of the Mad Priest,” […]

Golden-toned guitars and a soft, humble voice come together to form a harmony that is unlike any other I’ve reviewed this season in Sam Levin’s incredible new single “Dairy Queen Queen.” From the moment that […]

Agency might seem, to some, as another of those buzzwords in the world of social sciences and human psychology with an open-ended meaning. Paul Napper and Anthony Rao’s book The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles […]

The Arbinger Institute has produced a number of important self-help books over the course of its existence and the new edition of their 2016 volume The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations is one […]

Julie Evans’ Joy Road: My Journey from Addiction to Recovery is an entry in the growing library of memoirs covering an individual’s path through the hell of substance abuse and out again, but limiting the text to such […]