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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 triplets and joined me to talk about his latest book Not Your Father's America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed.
Meet Cort Casady
Cort is a TV writer-producer, songwriter, playwright, and author. He has won two Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards for his work as a writer-producer in television. He began his TV writing career by creating the story and characters for a five-installment movie mini-series called Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. He went on to help format and launch the long-running talent competition, Star Search with Ed McMahon, the forerunner of American Idol. His credits include numerous other series, awards shows, and specials.
For the past 19 years, he has been supervising producer of the American Film Institute tributes to America's leading actors and filmmakers, including AFI's tributes to George Clooney in 2018, Denzel Washington in 2019, and Julie Andrews this year (after being delayed by COVID for two years).
His songs have been recorded by Crystal Gayle, Jessie Colter, and Marshall Chapman and commissioned for the films Electric Horseman and Honeysuckle Rose. His musical play, King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story, co-written with Mary Miller, had its world premiere at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach in 2017. His memoir, Not Your Father's America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed, was just published.
Key Topics:
Buy Not Your Father's America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3JlNqIQ
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9798985728804
Connect With Cort Casady
Website: https://cortcasady.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cortcasady/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cortcasadyentertainment
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortcasady/
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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 everyday event and feel compelled to reflect, write about it, and share it with others. Today’s guest on Uncorking a Story, Meg Stafford, has been doing that for a quarter of a century and joined me on Uncorking a Story to talk about her career and latest book Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart.
Meet Meg Stafford
Meg Stafford is a writer who loves exploration of all kinds, and this time she takes us along for the ride. For 25 years she has been observing how small, remarkable moments enrich our lives in her monthly newspaper column, "A Moment's Notice." As a social worker in private practice, she's been helping others negotiate the terrain of relationships and connections for over 35 years. Her 2011 memoir, Topic of Cancer: Riding the Waves of the Big C, won six literary awards for its engrossing and hilarious portrayal of surviving and thriving after a life-altering diagnosis of breast cancer.
Key Topics:
Buy Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3E4inh5
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781632994905
Connect With Meg
Personal Website: https://megstafford.com/
Book Website: https://megstafford.com/who-will-accompany-you/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megstafford2183/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-stafford-5568b714/
eMail: [email protected]
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
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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 our mutual love of 80’s hard rock and heavy metal.
Meet Anthony Iannarino
Anthony spent twenty years selling and leading a sales force in the highly-commoditized industry of staffing before becoming a writer and publishing daily at thesalesblog.com. During his time in sales, he recognized the strongest differentiation for a salesperson is their ability to create value for their prospective client within the sales conversation. Anthony spends much of his time drinking coffee, writing, speaking, facilitating workshops, and helping sales organizations transform their outdated, legacy approach with a modern, value-creating approach that buyers appreciate, and one that leads to revenue growth. He joined me on Uncorking a Story to discuss his career and latest book Leading Growth: The Proven Formula for Consistently Increasing Revenue.
Key Topics:
Buy Leading Growth: The Proven Formula for Consistently Increasing Revenue
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3H98kIl
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781119890331
Connect With Anthony
Website: https://www.thesalesblog.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iannarino/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesalesblog
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iannarino
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iannarino/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/iannarino
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
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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 clinically dead for over 45 minutes and in a coma for three days after his heart re-started, I jumped at the chance as I thought it would be a fascinating story to uncork. Whether believe in an afterlife or not I ask you to consider the insights that Vinnie brought had after rejoining the land of the living over twenty years ago and ponder whether or not what he has to say may make your life more complete and whole.
Meet Vincent Tolman
Vincent Todd Tolman was born in Arlington, Texas, and died over 20 years ago, on January 18th, 2003. Since coming back, he has traveled around the world, living in both Cambodia and Thailand. He has worked as a home builder, computer technician and producer for the television and film industry. He loves animals, meditating, and spending time in nature. His greatest priorities are his relationship to his Creator, his family, and the people he meets. He currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife, Andrea, and their two children. Vinnie joined me on Uncorking a Story to discuss his book The Light After Death: My Journey To Heaven and Back: Vincent Tolman's Near Death Experience and Journey to Heaven and Back.
Key Topics:
Buy The Light After Death:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3j2Yu2N
Connect Vincent Tolman
Website: https://thelightafterdeath.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinggodslight/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingGodsLight
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivingGodsLigh1
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncorkingastory
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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 from the tech leaders of the day. We take a walk down memory lane, and so much more, in this episode of Uncorking a Story.
Meet Donna Loughlin
Donna Loughlin is known for her work with futurists and innovators as the founder of LMGPR. She has launched more than 500 companies, taking them from stealth to market leaders since forming her agency in 2002. Donna is also the host of BeforeItHappened, a leading narrative podcast featuring visionaries and the moments, events, and realizations that inspired them to change our lives for the better. She excels in the realm of storytelling, and uses those skills to propel new companies into the mainstream.
Key Topics:
Connect with Donna
Website: https://www.beforeithappened.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beforeithappenedshow/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theBIHpodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnal2/
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncorkingastory
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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 stage fright but tells us what we can do about it! She recently joined me on Uncorking a Story to discuss her life and latest book, Hamlet's Mirror: Reaching Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off.
Meet Elma Linz Kanefield
Elma succumbed to debilitating stage fright as a young performer which left her voice… silent. However, rather than remain devastated and at the effect of her fear, she transformed her fright into her life’s calling and became a specialist in the psychology of the performing artist. She joins me today to talk about her life and new book
Welcome to Uncorking a Story Elma.
Key Topics:
Buy Hamlet's Mirror: Reaching Your Performance Potential Onstage and Off
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HpTcaU
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9798986260501
Connect with Elma Linz Kanefield
Website: https://www.elmalinzkanefield.com/
e-Mail: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elma.kanefield
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linzkanefield/
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncorkingastory
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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 Ragusin, poses in her new book, The End of Scarcity: The Dawn of the New Abundant World. Here today to talk about that book is author Kristen Ragusin.
Meet Kristen Ragusin
Kristen is a professional wealth management consultant with thirty years of experience. Investing over $150 million, she helps clients navigate markets and achieve financial goals. She is a certified digital currency professional and earned her Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Kristen holds certificates in FinTech from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Money and Society from the University of Cumbria, London. She loves the adventure of Life and everything it brings from the many kinds of people to the wonders of Nature. She has traveled throughout the world. Her many journeys include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, hiking through the Sahara desert and studying at a spiritual school located in the foothills of Southern India.
Key Topics:
Buy The End of Scarcity: The Dawn of the New Abundant World:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3IUNVJt
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9798986285801
Connect with Kristen Ragusin
Website: https://www.kristenragusin.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenragusin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristenragusin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KristenRagusin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-ragusin-1115825/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kristenragusin
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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 long time until it shouted at her. When she finally did listen, her world changed radically for the better.
Meet Suzanne Roske
Suzanne Roske is a leadership coach, taco and mezcal enthusiast, public speaker, and now an author. For 25 years, she was the picture of objective success, a partner at a global management consulting firm guiding Fortune 500 companies through business and team transformations. And then she embarked on her biggest transformation yet—her own. Roske stepped away from her corporate life and into an adult gap year in Mexico which she chronicled in her memoir, I'm Supposed to Be Doing This: An Adult Gap Year.
Key Topics:
“You have to be brave with your life so others can be brave with theirs.” — Suzanne Roske
Buy I'm Supposed to Be Doing This: An Adult Gap Year
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3kTA8Jq
Connect With Suzanne
Website: https://vamonoscoaching.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzanneroske/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suzanne.roske
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-roske-5616485/
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uncorkingastory
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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 me). He recently joined me to discuss his latest book Angel of Ambition.
Meet Glenn Kaplan
Glenn is the NY Times bestselling author of Evil Inc. and Poison Pill. He’s worked in the international art world and as creative director in global advertising agencies and a Fortune 500 company.
Key Topics:
Buy Angel of Ambition:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3IYKuSg
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781954907348
Connect with Glenn Kaplan
Website: https://www.glennkaplan.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkaplan/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glenn.kaplan.75
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@angelofambition9351/featured
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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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, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried stirred his interest. Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. Ed joined me on Uncorking a Story today to talk about his book,The Gift Best Given, which recounts the search for his family and tells the story of a young woman's courage as she overcame obstacles to achieve her dreams.
Key Topics:
Buy The Gift Best Given: A Memoir:
Website (for a signed copy): https://www.digangiauthor.com/copy-of-purchase-my-book
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3GQc4ym
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781734757200
Connect with Ed Di Gangi
Website: https://www.digangiauthor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digangiauthor/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100052046681375
Connect with Mike
Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvS4fuG3L1JMZeOyHvfk_g
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncorkingastory/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@uncorkingastory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncorkingastory
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uncorking-a-story/
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