The books
More: How to Live a Magnificent Life
You've done the work. You've got the career, the house, the mortgage that's nearly paid off, and more or less the life you planned for. So why does it feel like something's missing?
More is for the people who are outwardly successful but privately asking: is this it? Not in crisis. Not falling apart. Just quietly aware that the trophies are starting to look a little plastic, and that the second half of life deserves something better than a comfortable coast to the finish.
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, behaviour science, and a generous amount of honesty about what midlife actually feels like, Dr Brad Hodge takes you on a practical journey through the territories of your life that most need attention. Your work, your body, your emotions, your beliefs, your relationships, and the parts of yourself you've been quietly editing out to fit in.
This is not a goal-setting book. It is not a self-help program with a seven-step plan. It is an invitation to look clearly at your life, what's been driving it, what's been shrinking it, and what's possible now that you know what you know.
You're not done. You're just getting started.
Humaning: How to Create a Magnificent Work Culture
Your team carries over 200,000 years of evolutionary history in their bodies. And most leadership advice was written as if they don't.
Humaning is for leaders of capable people who are quietly puzzled by why those people don't do the things they need them to do. Not because something is broken. Because something isn't working the way it should, and the answer lies somewhere most leadership books haven't looked.
Dr Brad Hodge argues that when things go wrong at work, we look at performance when we should be looking at psychology. We adjust incentives when we should be examining conditions. We tell people to be more resilient when we should be asking what the environment is demanding of a nervous system that was never designed for it.
Drawing on evolutionary psychology and behavioural science, Humaning moves inside-out. It starts with the leader, moves outward to the people they lead, through the conditions they create and the growth they enable, and arrives at something remarkable: a team that doesn't just perform well, but genuinely revels in the work.
Humaning sits alongside More: How to Live a Magnificent Life as two parts of a complete philosophy. One asks how you lead yourself magnificently. The other asks how you create that for the people around you.