by Mike Carlon | Nov 9, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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,...
by Mike Carlon | Nov 7, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Nov 5, 2023 | Open Mike
Today we were given the gift of an extra hour in our day. If today were yesterday, I’d be writing this at 1:05 in the afternoon. Instead, my fingers are touching the keyboard at 12:05. Last night I jokingly said to my kids, “We gain an extra hour tonight, but we...
by Mike Carlon | Nov 2, 2023 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 31, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 26, 2023 | Athletes, Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 24, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 19, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 17, 2023 | Authors, Entertainers, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 14, 2023 | Open Mike
So I got me a pen and a paper And I made up my own little sign I said, “Thank you, Lord, for thinkin’ ’bout me I’m alive and doin’ fine” The lyrics above are from a song called Signs, written by Les Emmerson of The Five Man...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 12, 2023 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 10, 2023 | Authors, Comics, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch 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...
