Uncorking a Story

In-depth conversations with storytellers including authors, filmmakers, comedians, and podcasters.

A Journey Through Grief, with Natasha Daniels

A Journey Through Grief, with Natasha Daniels

Natasha Daniels is an anxiety and OCD child therapist and has published multiple books including How to Parent your Anxious Toddler, Anxiety Sucks: A Teen Survival Guide, Social Skills Activities for Kids and It is Brave to Be Kind. She also hosts the AT Parenting...

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Snakes, Society, and Storytelling, with Ginger Pinholster

Snakes, Society, and Storytelling, with Ginger Pinholster

Ginger Pinholster’s first novel, “City in a Forest,” won a Gold Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2020. She is a volunteer member of Florida’s Volusia Turtle Patrol and resident of Ponce Inlet, near Daytona Beach. She joined me on...

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A Blank Canvas, with Lynne Golodner

A Blank Canvas, with Lynne Golodner

Lynne Golodner is the author of eight books and thousands of articles as well as a marketing entrepreneur, writing coach and host of the Make Meaning Podcast. She joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about her first novel, Woman of Valor.  Key Takeaways Lynne's...

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There’s Always a Way, with Christina Henry

There’s Always a Way, with Christina Henry

Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include Horseman, Near the Bone, The Ghost Tree, Looking Glass, The Girl in Red, The Mermaid, Lost Boy, Alice, Red Queen, and the seven-book urban fantasy Black Wings series. She joined me on Uncorking a...

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You Matter! With Ellen Yashinsky Chute

You Matter! With Ellen Yashinsky Chute

Ellen Yashinsky Chute is a clinical social worker, consultant and educator who has dedicated her life to helping individuals, families and teams unlock their potential. She joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about her latest book, What Drives You?: How Our Family...

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Cat Scratch Fever, with Audrey Gale

Cat Scratch Fever, with Audrey Gale

Audrey Gale long dreamed of being a writer, but never anticipated the circuitous road she’d take to get there. After twenty-plus years in the banking industry, she grew tired of corporate gamesmanship and pursued her master’s in fiction writing at the University of...

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A Spiritual Forgiveness, with Diane Danvers-Simmons

A Spiritual Forgiveness, with Diane Danvers-Simmons

Diane Danvers Simmons is a born-and-raised Brit who moved to America in her late twenties for business and success. After an accomplished career as a senior vice president at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and then Omnicom Media in London, New York, and LA, she...

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A Bold Faced Lie, with Carissa Orlando

A Bold Faced Lie, with Carissa Orlando

Carissa Orlando has a doctorate in clinical-community psychology and specializes in work with children and adolescents. Prior to her career in psychology, she studied creative writing in college and has written creatively in some form since she was a child. An avid...

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Crumbs of Love, with Donna Marie Hayes

Crumbs of Love, with Donna Marie Hayes

Donna Marie Hayes is a SAG-AFTRA actress and cabaret singer who can be found on a stage or in front of a camera and has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show, Orange Is The New Black, Black Girls Rock, Celebrity Ghost Stories, as well as in several other New York City...

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Be Bold, with Edward Carey

Be Bold, with Edward Carey

Edward Carey is a novelist, visual artist, and playwright. His previous novels include The Swallowed Man, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Little, Alva & Irva, and Observatory Mansions. He joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about his...

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Turning Pain into Purpose, with Bill C. Potts

Turning Pain into Purpose, with Bill C. Potts

Bill C. Potts is a motivational speaker, business leader, and community builder who has held executive roles at IRONMAN Group and Clearwater Marine Aquarium. He is co-founder and managing director of marketing agency Remedy 365 and a lecturer at Tulane University. An...

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A Light Bulb Moment, with Will Harris

A Light Bulb Moment, with Will Harris

Will Harris is on a mission to help save the world. He inherited a highly profitable, conventionally run farm from his ancestors. After many years, he found himself disgusted with the excess, cruelty, and small-town devastation. He decided to make a change to the land...

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Building Bravery, with Kimberly Behre Kenna

Building Bravery, with Kimberly Behre Kenna

Authors often tap into their past experiences and memories and plant them in our stories. Speaking from experiences, anecdotes that my parents shared with me decades ago will wind up in a story, not in a self-indulgent way, but more as a way of bringing some added...

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Into the Groove, with Zaida Alfaro

Into the Groove, with Zaida Alfaro

Sometimes I interview someone and we just don’t click. There are those interviews where we just fail to find a groove and I think to myself, that could have been better. I am happy to report that today’s interview is not one of those! Maybe it’s because I’ve...

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Unleashing the Muse, with Lauren, J.A. Bear

Unleashing the Muse, with Lauren, J.A. Bear

When I was a kid, my brother Jimmy and I would watch the original Clash of the Titans over and over and over. It had everything a young boy would love; heroes, Gods, magical weapons, and a young Maggie Smith. When offered the chance to interview the author of a book...

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Why Not? With Mark Schiff

Why Not? With Mark Schiff

This episode is the result of mistaken identity. Somehow I got it in my head that comedian Mark Schiff was in the room next to my brother’s at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Not only does Mark live in LA and not New York, but he doesn’t have cancer—which would make a...

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Fake it Till you Learn it, with Marilyn Moss Rockefeller

Fake it Till you Learn it, with Marilyn Moss Rockefeller

What do Andy Warhol and Julia Child have in common? They were both in Marilyn Moss Rockefeller’s life! Listen in as I uncork Marilyn’s unexpected journey into business, her resilience in facing challenges, her transformation from a mountain girl to CEO, and her...

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An Unlikely Felon, with Will Young

An Unlikely Felon, with Will Young

Everything I know about the criminal justice system I learned from Law and Order. Seriously, I’ve watched so much of it I feel as if I have a JD from L&O University! Well, what do you do when the police show up at your door with a search warrant when you know you...

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