Our strengths are our favorite tools. Time and again they’ve served us well when we need them the most. They’ve gotten us through difficulties and helped us achieve our goals. So it’s natural when facing obstacles that we turn to these proven talents first. But what got us here, won’t necessarily get us to where we need to be or want to be next. New situations have different challenges and may require fresh techniques and strategies. We must be willing to adjust and adapt to what is required and not simply rely on that at which we are adept.
Doug sat down with Register reporter Tom Jackson at the Market Street Studio to discuss The Investment Club and Outside In.
Doug was recently a guest on the weekly TV show Vegas Talk at Inspire Theater in downtown Vegas. Host Bonnie Gore interviewed him about The Investment Club and his experiences researching for the novel. Have a look at the clip below or visit their YouTube channel to watch the full episode.
Vegas Talk is an exciting late night talk show filmed live in Downtown Las Vegas Thursday nights at 9 pm sponsored by Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, Rinse and Repeat, The Valley Center Opportunity Zone, and First Friday.
Thanks to San Francisco Book Review for rating The Investment Club five out of five stars! “Doug Cooper has created characters that readers can easily relate to, well-grounded, and oh so human. The chapters are short, and they are well-crafted to leave the reader wanting to learn what happens next to the characters. The tension builds as the reader begins to get interested in the group; the reader wants to know for how long the group can stick together before something rips it apart.”
San Francisco Book Review was launched in September 2009 originally as a bi-monthly printed magazine distributed in the SF Bay Area. Now, we focus only on the website, which provides nearly 300 book reviews a month, in addition to author-related articles, interviews, SF Bay Area book store events, and book store/library directories.
Our team reviews about 600 books each month in more than 30 categories, ranging from memoirs and biographies to science fiction and fantasy. SFBR also includes audio author interviews (Audible Authors), written interviews, a calendar of upcoming local SF author events, and whatever else catches our fancy.
In times of uncertainty and confusion, frustration usually creeps in. We’re not sure what we should do. We just know we need to do something; take some kind of action. Our first instinct is often to leave, to push away from the negative feelings. But it’s in these moments that we need to resist the urge for flight and to overanalyze and just lean into the chaos, letting the disquiet inside us settle. We can do this by tapping into our faith and believing in ourselves and trusting that life will offer the people and experiences we are meant to have.
In times of uncertainty and confusion, frustration usually creeps in. We’re not sure what we should do. We just know we need to do something; take some kind of action. Our first instinct is often to leave, to push away from the negative feelings. But it’s in these moments that we need to resist the urge for flight and to overanalyze and just lean into the chaos, letting the disquiet inside us settle. We can do this by tapping into our faith and believing in ourselves and trusting that life will offer the people and experiences we are meant to have.
