Top Dog and Family Whispering

Kathryn interviews New York Times bestselling author Ashley Merryman on her book "Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing". The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat - testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes - Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags and it are in the briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Merryman's work is featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time. Kathryn also interviews award-winning journalist Melinda Blau, author of "Family Whispering: The Baby Whisperer's Commonsense Strategies for Communicating and Connecting With the People You Love and Making Your Whole Family Stronger". Blau is the blogger behind Consequential Strangers and has written more than ninety magazine pieces and a dozen books including the New York Times bestselling Baby Whisperer series