The weekly show for people who put good ideas to work
One book. One big idea. Yours to use.
Every week the author of a brand-new book sits down with Mike and hands over the most practical ideas inside it — so you can use them in your business, your career, or your life without reading all 300 pages.
Think your expertise belongs on a shelf? Dictate turns your knowledge into a published book — and a seat on this show.
Hear What the Show Is About
Ninety seconds from your host, Mike Giannulis.
Mike Giannulis
Founder of Dictate · Host of A Word from the Author
Mike Giannulis is the founder of Dictate, the AI-powered book writing company that turns an expert's hard-won knowledge into a published book.
He has built and scaled multiple businesses of his own, which is why he asks the questions most interviewers skip.
He hosts A Word from the Author to do one thing: get each author to hand over their book's most useful ideas, in plain language, so you can put them to work.
What you'll walk away with
Whatever the book is about, every episode is built to send you away with something you can use. Six promises, kept weekly.
The one big idea
Every book gets written because its author knows something the rest of us don't. Each episode digs that idea out, holds it up to the light, and makes it plain.
Playbooks you can steal
Not theory — the frameworks and moves the author actually uses, broken down until you can run them yourself this week.
Advice that travels
A surgeon's lesson about checklists lands just as hard in an agency. Whatever world the book comes from, we translate its best thinking into yours.
How to apply it
Every conversation ends the same way: here's the lesson, and here's exactly where it fits in your business, your career, or your life.
Straight from the source
No summaries, no secondhand takes. The person who spent years thinking about this explains it better than any blurb ever will.
For people who build things
Founders, coaches, consultants, service pros, experts of every stripe — and anyone who'd rather learn from someone else's decade than repeat it.
Books by Dictate authors
Real books, real covers — written with Dictate and live on Amazon. This is the shelf the show is built from.
First episodes drop soon
We're in the studio with our first authors right now. Check back shortly — a new expert sits down the week their book comes out.
Questions about the show
What is A Word from the Author?
A weekly show hosted by Mike Giannulis, founder of Dictate. Each episode sits down with the author of a brand-new book and condenses its most useful ideas into one practical conversation — the big idea, the playbook behind it, and exactly how to put it to work.
Who is the show for?
Business people, experts, coaches, consultants, service professionals — and anyone who likes walking away from thirty minutes with something they can actually use. You don't need to be a big reader; you just need a problem worth solving.
What will I actually learn?
One big idea per episode, with the practical steps to apply it. Guests come from every field — medicine, finance, coaching, agencies, tech, ministry — so the lessons range wide, but every episode lands in the same place: here's how to use this in your business, your career, or your life. Each one is published here with show notes, key takeaways, and a full searchable transcript.
How do I get on the podcast?
Write your book with Dictate. Every Dictate author is invited on as a guest the week their book launches — that's the whole guest list. Start with a discovery call and we'll show you how the process works and what your book would cover.
Want to be a guest? Start with how Dictate works and what a book costs.