The Empire Equation: Talent Team Funding — The Three Forces That Build Every LegacyEvery dream has a formula.After more than two decades in the trenches of music, media, and business, award-winning executive producer Wally Lockard III, J.D.—known as Mr. Music, TV & Sports Is My Business—discovered one undeniable truth: every success story, every thriving brand, and every lasting legacy comes down to three forces working in perfect balance—Talent, Team, and Funding.In The Empire Equation, Wally breaks down the laws that drive real success—the Law of Mastery, Repetition, Consistency, Chemistry, Alignment, Leadership, Sacrifice, Momentum, and Integrity. From freezing studio nights above a Chicago body shop to building Urban Grind TV, OGs of Hip Hop, and Legends in Session with Horace Grant, he shows...

What if the most important border you ever cross isn't on a map, but the one drawn around your own life?This is not just a novel; it is a map for the soul. It is the story of a border crosser—someone who didn't traverse a physical line, but the invisible, suffocating boundaries of a prescribed existence. The journey was the hardest thing they would ever do, and the rules they learned became the only wealth they would ever need.This story shows you how to ensure it never atrophies again.This profound journey leads to a single, life-altering revelation: the border was not a place, but a choice. It is the choice to stop being a guest in your own life, apologizing for your space and your needs, and to finally become its sovereign.For anyone who feels trapped by circumstance, silenced by expectation, or yearning for a life that truly feels like their own, this book is your invitation to cross over. It is a testament to the courage it takes to redraw the map of...

“A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics . . . Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of Empire of Pain and Say NothingEpic, shocking, and deeply reported, The Elements of Power tells the story of the war for the global supply of battery metals—essential for the decarbonization of our economies—and the terrible, bloody human cost of this badly misunderstood industryCongo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of...

Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, You with the Sad Eyes unveils a side of Christina Applegate we’ve never seen, forever cementing her formidable and iconoclastic legacy.  Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. What started as a financial necessity soon became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life in the infamous Laurel Canyon scene of the 70s and 80s. She rocketed to stardom on the sitcom Married...with Children and went on to captivate audiences in classics like Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead…, Anchorman, and Dead to Me in her five-decade long career.   Then it all stopped. A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked...

Sophie Bayles was devastated by grief when her beloved brother, a soldier, had been killed in action when she was a teenager. Guarding her heart, she left Baytown and the boy she had loved…her brother's best friend. Callan Ward lucked out when he was assigned to the Coast Guard station in his hometown of Baytown. Back with the Baytown Boys and his family, the desire to leave again was no longer what he wanted. There was only one thing missing…Sophie. The girl who left, finding the memories in Baytown too painful.Ten years after she left, Sophie is older, wiser, missing home, and jumps at the chance to return to Baytown for a temporary job. Reconnecting with the man she rejected after her brother's funeral was not on her agenda, but she discovered that in trying to guard her heart, she had only cut herself off from true love.As she and Callan grow closer, discovering their feelings had not changed, she stumbles into suspicious activity near...