Intelligent Think, hosted by Verity Craft and Christina Wedgwood, explores what makes ideas great, how we can make our thinking better, and why it’s so important to share your ideas with the world. Plus we’ll talk to thought leaders and authors about their own ideas and experiences, so you can mine them for gold nuggets that will help you on your own journey. Brought to you by Intelligent Ink
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Grant Baker and Stanley Henry on becoming an author, ghostwriting, and building businesses
What does it take to write a business memoir? And how did Grant Baker's book become an instant bestseller in New Zealand?Two of our authors join Christina for a talk about what goes into the book process and how ghostwriting and editing fit in. This is an honest conversation about what it's really like to work with a ghostwriter, and how it feels to sit on the other side of a bestseller.Find out more about the panellists:Christina Wedgwood:Check out Intelligent Ink: https://www.intelligent.ink/Free Book Topic Test resource to discover how to choose the right topic for your book: https://intelligentink.systeme.io/boo...Grant Baker:Check out 'No Pit Stops: The Business of Going All In': https://bookhub.co.nz/p/no-pit-stopsStanley Henry:Check out The Attention Seeker: https://www.attnseeker.com/Stay in touch about his upcoming book: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanleychenry/
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12 Aug 2026
Episode 23: AI Fireside Chat
Welcome to Intelligent Think, the podcast in which we explore what makes ideas great, how we can make our thinking better, and why it’s so important to share your ideas with the world.
In this episode, Christina (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-wedgwood/) and Verity (https://www.linkedin.com/in/verity-craft/) chat with panelists Bill Sherman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-sherman-aha-moments/) (COO of Thought Leadership Leverage (https://thoughtleadershipleverage.com/)) and Ana del Valle (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anadistasio/) (Founder of Storygroove.ai (http://Storygroove.ai)) about:
* Whether AI belongs in the book journey and writing process
* How to ethically bring AI into your creative practise
* The risks and challenges AI is bringing to both authors and the publishing industry as a whole
We couldn’t have these incredible conversations on our own (no really, we couldn’t!), so massive thanks to:
* Bill Sherman (https://thoughtleadershipleverage.com/) - read his book The Thought Leadership Handbook here (https://thoughtleadershiphandbook.com/).
* Ana del Valle (https://www.thenoveliststudio.com/podcasts/the-novelist-studio) - download her free ebook AI-Assist for Creative Writers here (https://www.thenoveliststudio.com/eBook).
* Our team at Intelligent Ink (https://www.intelligent.ink/) - download The Book Topic Test here (https://intelligentink.systeme.io/book-topic-test).
* And you, for listening!
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16 Dec 2025
Episode 22: What A Book Can (And Can't) Do
Christina and Verity discuss the realities of publishing, explaining how a book accelerates thought leadership and strategically connects to business endeavors, while differentiating between sales and sparking change.
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