August Resource Roundup 📚
What to read, listen to, and watch, in one place.
Here’s the next monthly Resource Roundup — the best of what I’ve been listening to, reading, and watching in August.
Enjoy the long weekend! 🍒
In case you missed it.
We’re all busy and there’s a lot to read, so…
Here’s a roundup of what I shared on Business/Women on Wednesdays in August:
📚 Three books currently on deck.
”Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” — by Robert M. Pirsig
“The Safekeep” — by Yael van der Wouden
“I’ll Have What She’s Having” — audiobook narrated by author Chelsea Handler
📝 Worth reading.
“10-Minute Challenge: Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights” — by Larry Buchanan “Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. This one is a 500-year-old, three-paneled triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.” (gift link)
“21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work” — by Larry Buchanan and Francesca Paris via The New York Times (gift link)
🎧 Worth listening to.
“Human Design, Uncertainty, and Strategic Evolution with Katherine Danesi” - my wide-ranging conversation with host Jacki Hayes on her Here’s What I Learned podcast. We explored how human design, agency, and pricing all play into the shift from freelancer to CEO. And why learning to trust yourself is often the hardest—and most necessary—part of entrepreneurship.
🎙️ Four podcast episodes to check out.
🎥 One video to watch.
🎧 Some music lately…
“One for You, One for Me" by La Bionda — I heard this at the end of The Brutalist, and it was so unexpected that it had me rethinking the entire movie
“Human” by Lenny Kravitz — apparently there is no “song of the summer” this summer, so I made this one mine
“Always on My Mind” by Pet Shop Boys — another late 80’s guilty pleasure that is highly danceable
“Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae — sunshine in a bottle whenever I need a pick-me-up
”Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby” by Counting Crows — love the entire album with this song at the top of the list
“Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel — ❤️
📷 Three Instagram posts that hit home.
You’ll notice a theme this month…
From @jordanflesher:
From @wordsofwomen:
From @knk_actinginstitute:
And this from James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter:
Saving you days (and days) of reading Ulysses…
🍿 Three movies.
“Billy Joel: And So It Goes” — a two-part, five-hour documentary that feels so much less than that and is so much more — streaming on HBO Max (2025)
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” — a non-typical romantic comedy that’s smart and tender and thoughtful in it’s French (with English subtitles) British (in English) way — available to rent for $5.99 on most other major platforms (2024)
”A Most Wanted Man” — a spy thriller based on the novel by John le Carre with an insanely good cast headed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last performances (a re-watch) — streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi (2014)
📺 Thirteen series I wish I could watch again for the first time.
It’s been a bit of a long, dry summer when it comes to “must-see tv.”
Instead, here are thirteen series I wish were as-yet undiscovered and ready to be viewed for the first time (in no particular order).
“The Americans” “The Bear” “The Leftovers” “Fleabag” “Succession”
“The Crown” “Slow Horses” “The Queen’s Gambit” “Ted Lasso” “Mrs. America”
“Shōgun” “Catastrophe” “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”
And that’s a wrap. Enjoy!
Until next month.
Katherine
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