by Mike Carlon | Mar 10, 2023 | Authors, Local Heroes, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Mar 7, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Mar 3, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Mar 1, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 28, 2023 | Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 24, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 21, 2023 | Business Leaders, Podcast, podcasters, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 17, 2023 | Authors, Entertainers, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 14, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 10, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast
Listen Watch Have you ever experienced a little voice inside your head trying to tell you something? Did you ever wonder where that voice was coming from? Have you ever listened to it? Well, today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Suzanne Roske, ignored that voice for a...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 7, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Feb 3, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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,...
