by Mike Carlon | Jan 31, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 27, 2023 | Authors, The Longs
Listen 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...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 24, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch We are often told to always look on the bright side of life—at least those of us who grew up watching Monty Python movies were told that. But how can we look on the bright side when the world around us appears to be so incredibly dark? Throughout her...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 20, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Melissa Payne is the bestselling, award-winning author of The Secrets of Lost Stones, Memories in the Drift and The Night of Many Endings. She joined me on Uncorking a Story to discuss her career and latest book, A Light in the Forest. Set in the hills of...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 17, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch New York Times, USAToday, and Wall St. Journal bestseller, M.J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park, and reading her mother’s favorite books...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 13, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch S.E. Boyd is the creation of veteran journalists Kevin Alexander and Joe Keohane, and editor Alessandra Lusardi. All lightly damaged Catholics prone to extensive over-analysis, Alexander, Keohane, and Lusardi have, between them, authored four books,...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 10, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch When I was a kid, I had dreams of joining the PGA tour; the only problem was, I really didn’t show a tremendous aptitude for the game of golf, which is kind of a precursor for playing professionally. In this way, I couldn’t be any more different than...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 6, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Susan Combs is President of Combs & Company, a full-service insurance brokerage firm based in New York City. She started the company at twenty-six years old with a drive to “Do more, better.” This internal mantra has resulted in numerous successes and...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 3, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Nick is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations. He built a caring community that provides hundreds of executives a safe haven to share their challenges, and receive support and learn from each other. He...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 1, 2023 | Podcast, Self Awareness, The Longs
Today, we are doing something a little different on Uncorking a Story. It’s a new year and, for our first episode, there is no guest. I’m using this first episode to thank all of the wonderful publicists I’ve worked with and authors I’ve interviewed over the course of...
by Mike Carlon | Jan 1, 2023 | Open Mike, Self Awareness
We have a tradition in my house on Christmas Eve where the five of us head to the family room after dinner and watch The Polar Express. Even though the kids are now twenty, they still want to gather together and watch this uniquely animated film with their parents—if...
by Mike Carlon | Dec 30, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch K.K. Weakley was born and reared in Wexford Ireland. She has written 11 books and plays for stage. K.K. loves to read historical fiction and a good love story kind of book and writes tales of castles, warriors, hell demons, witches and whatever else...
