Uncorking a Story

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

Finding the Fun, with Lina Chern

Finding the Fun, with Lina Chern

There is one thing that Lina Chern and I can wholeheartedly agree on and that’s the importance of having fun during the writing process. If what you are writing isn’t bringing you joy then, chances are, you aren’t going to want to see it through. It took Lina a long...

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Getting Curious, with Jill Santopolo

Getting Curious, with Jill Santopolo

Sometimes, beauty comes from tragedy, which is the backstory to Jill Santopolo’s debut novel The Light We Lost, which she penned after going through a traumatic breakup. Well, life has come full circle for Jill as her latest book, Stars in an Italian Sky, was inspired...

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Give it All You Got! With Lyn Liao Butler

Give it All You Got! With Lyn Liao Butler

Today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Lyn Liao Butler, is the type of person who likes to have many irons in the fire. While working as a professional ballet and modern dancer in New York City, she ran her own gym. After retiring from dancing, she started a family,...

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Letting Go, with Christopher Rice

Letting Go, with Christopher Rice

One of the expressions my father is very fond of saying is, “Everything happens for a reason.” He’s also fond of saying, “If a problem can be solved with money, it’s not really a problem,” which is easy to say when one has money, but I digress. Over time, I have come...

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Flashpoints, with Cheryl A. Head

Flashpoints, with Cheryl A. Head

The sparks that ignite story ideas are almost always rooted in experience, emotion, and curiosity. Today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, award winning author Cheryl A. Head, discusses how the murder of George Floyd served as the flashpoint for her latest novel, Time’s...

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Finding the Love Within

Finding the Love Within

If you are like me, when you hear the term lunch lady you immediately think of Adam Sandler and Chris Farley, but today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Vanessa David, smashes that stereotype. But this episode really isn’t about lunch ladies—it’s the story of a woman who...

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The Story of the Case, with William Landay

The Story of the Case, with William Landay

We can add today’s guest, William Landay, to the growing list of former lawyers turned authors who have come on Uncorking a Story to promote their work. While digging into this dynamic with William, it became clear to me why so many lawyers, especially trial...

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Hang in There, with Cort Casady

Hang in There, with Cort Casady

Long-time listeners know that I’m the proud father of triplets and anyone who has seen me perform stand-up knows that I lean on my experiences raising them heavily when I perform. Well, today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Cort Casady is also a father of triplets and...

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Ticket to Ride, with Meg Stafford

Ticket to Ride, with Meg Stafford

Some may believe that an author’s superpower is in the ability to string the right words together, in the right order, and use correct punctuation. While all of that is important, I believe that their real superpower is in their ability to experience an everyday event...

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Increasing Revenue, with Anthony Iannarino

Increasing Revenue, with Anthony Iannarino

As a small business owner, I’m always interested in how I can get better at sales, which is why I was so excited to speak with today’s guest, Anthony Iannarino. We had a fun conversation about how a daily blog turned into a book, his writing journey, and our mutual...

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Lessons from the Other Side, with Vincent Tolman

Lessons from the Other Side, with Vincent Tolman

Today’s episode will leave you questioning whether or not the events that my guest Vincent (Vinnie) Tolman discusses actually happened. I’m okay with that (and so is he). When his publicist reached out with the opportunity to interview someone who was clinically dead...

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Take That, Professor! With Donna Loughlin

Take That, Professor! With Donna Loughlin

Today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Donna Loughlin, and I were both involved in the early days of the 90s dot.com bubble, in similar roles. I was working to understand what consumers wanted in digital technologies and she was tasked with uncorking stories from the...

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Reaching Performance Potential, with Elma Linz Kanefield

Reaching Performance Potential, with Elma Linz Kanefield

For anyone out there who feels crippling stage fright before having to perform in front of an audience, this episode is for you! Today’s guest, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and author Elma Linz Kanefield, not only opens up about her own history with stage fright...

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Ending Scarcity, with Kristen Ragusin

Ending Scarcity, with Kristen Ragusin

What if it was easy to stop living for money? To have the health, wealth, and life you dream of? And the solution had nothing to do with politics or outside forces? Well, these are some of the questions today’s guest on Uncorking a Story,, Kristen Ragusin, poses in...

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Getting Ambitious, with Glenn Kaplan

Getting Ambitious, with Glenn Kaplan

I share a few things in common with today’s esteemed guest on Uncorking a Story. Glenn Kaplan and I both worked at Foote, Cone, and Belding and we both live in Connecticut, but only one of us has made the New York Times Bestseller List (hint, it’s not me). He recently...

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The Greatest Gift, with Edward Di Gangi

The Greatest Gift, with Edward Di Gangi

I love stories that involve cemeteries and libraries and today’s guest on Uncorking a Story has a one that involves both. Meet Ed Di Gangi Ed was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 69, a visit to a...

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Challenging Conventions, with Jessica Weaver

Challenging Conventions, with Jessica Weaver

I love a good story about people who break conventions and today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Jessica Weaver, does just that. Shortly after getting started in the financial planning business, Jessica felt a calling to focus her efforts on women, and wow has that paid...

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Declassified, with Sewall Menzel, Ph.D.

Declassified, with Sewall Menzel, Ph.D.

Today, we have a real treat for fans of US History. Today’s guest, Sewall Menzel, Ph.D., drops a bombshell about how President Roosevelt, playing the role of the Fox, provoked the Japanese to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor. More importantly, he also explains...

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