by Mike Carlon | Nov 4, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch How well do you remember high school? Chances are you are more likely to remember the big events that happened—prom, the homecoming dance where you spilled spiked fruit punch all over your crisp white shirt*, and graduation, but would you remember...
by Mike Carlon | Nov 1, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Parenting is supposed to come naturally to us, right? Especially moms! After the baby (or babies in my case) arrives, those motherhood instincts are supposed to kick in and you are supposed to know exactly what to do, right? Wrong! Postpartum depression...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 31, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch In my opinion, werewolves don’t get enough attention in the horror genre. Vampires are a bit higher on the food chain as are traditional slashers, but when was the last time you could point to a good werewolf character in a horror novel? Well, the wait is...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 28, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch After interviewing almost two hundred authors on Uncorking a Story I’ve come to believe that the real superpower authors wield isn’t their ability to string words together, but to find stories simply by paying attention to everyday occurrences and being...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 27, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Today’s guest, Clare Pooley, and I share a few things in common. We both have backgrounds in advertising, we were both bloggers before becoming authors, and we both appreciate the music of Abba, which my inner heavy metal loving teenager would never...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 26, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I remember being called home from school during my senior year in High School because my grandmother, who lived with us at the time, had slipped into a coma. When I got home, I wanted to see her but my cousin said not to get my hopes up as she had been...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 25, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch U2’s seminal album Achtung Baby was released during my senior year in high school. At the time, I was a huge fan and didn’t know what to make of this new release as it was so different from their earlier work. Once I heard the song Mysterious Ways,...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 24, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I spent most of my corporate career working in the area of market research. In short, I talk to consumers for a living and then turn their stories into narratives my clients can use for better decision making. When I think about it, Robert Kerbeck did...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 21, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch As writers, we are eager for feedback and validation that something we’ve birthed has value and waiting for it, to paraphrase the late Tom Petty, is sometimes the hardest part. Today’s guest, Ali Michael, Ph.D. echoed that in something she said during our...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 20, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I remember being a kid never rushing away after big holiday dinners as I enjoyed listening to the adults tell stories. My twin brother was always bored by such things, but I loved hearing the stories of my grandmother coming to America from Italy and what...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 19, 2022 | Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I love connecting with fellow marketers. I love it even more when those fellow marketers are also fellow podcasters! I’m not ashamed to admit it, when today’s guest, Sarah Panus, started talking about upper funnel content strategies and how data is one of...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 18, 2022 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Way back in 1985, my sister Mia took my twin brother Jimmy and me to see Back to the Future. Shortly after leaving the theater, her car ran out of gas and my brother started balling his eyes out as he thought we’d be left for dead on the side of the road....
