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It’s Never too Late, with Iris Yamashita

It’s Never too Late, with Iris Yamashita

by Mike Carlon | Feb 13, 2024 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for the movie Letters from Iwo Jima. She has been working in Hollywood for fifteen years developing material for both film and streaming, has taught screenwriting at UCLA, and is an advocate of...
Trauma as a Catalyst, with Carrie Rickert

Trauma as a Catalyst, with Carrie Rickert

by Mike Carlon | Feb 6, 2024 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Carrie Rickert’ life-threatening accident and related complications started her down a  path of examining what was, what is, and what could be. Her’s  is a story of hope, of possibility, and of embracing the fight to become something new. She joins me...
The Healing Power of Writing, with Kendra Petty

The Healing Power of Writing, with Kendra Petty

by Mike Carlon | Jan 30, 2024 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Kendra Petty is a woman who has succeeded in an all-male industry, becoming an executive vice president at two firms. She is a dynamic public speaker, powerful negotiator and dealmaker. She loves bouldering and scrambling in the mountains of California,...
Fashion vs. Family, with Diane Gilman

Fashion vs. Family, with Diane Gilman

by Mike Carlon | Jan 23, 2024 | Authors, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Diane Gilman found her greatest success at age sixty, when she sparked a denim revolution by designing blue jeans for real women with real bodies. She’s sold nearly nineteen million pairs of her DG2 jeans on HSN and created a sisterhood of seven hundred...
Channeling Harper Lee, with Allen Mendenhall

Channeling Harper Lee, with Allen Mendenhall

by Mike Carlon | Jan 16, 2024 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Allen Mendenhall is a lawyer and university administrator in Alabama who edited Southern Literary Review for over a decade. He joined me on Uncorking a Story to discuss his latest book, A Glooming Peace this Morning. Key Themes Allen’s experiences writing...
Stay on the Road, with Florence Reiss Kraut

Stay on the Road, with Florence Reiss Kraut

by Mike Carlon | Jan 2, 2024 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs

Listen Watch Florence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker, raised and educated in New York City. She holds a BA in English and a Master’s in Social Work and worked for thirty years as a clinician, a family therapist, and CEO of a family service agency while writing...
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