Uncorking a Story
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Yes, And, with Kelly Leonard of Second City
Kelly Leonard is the Executive Director of Insights and Applied Improvisation at The Second City. He began his Second City career in 1988, eventually becoming producer of Second City in 1992 and Executive Vice President through 2015. He has produced...
60 min
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Telling Lies, with E. Lockhart
E Lockhart is the author of We Were Liars, Genuine Fraud, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and a number of other novels. She joins me today to talk about her latest book, Family of Liars. What is the importance of community when it...
39 min
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American Blues, with Polly Hamilton Hilsabeck
Polly was in the second wave of women ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. Her book, American Blues, is available wherever books are sold. Why did she become a priest? What obstacles did she have to climb on her path to ordination? What...
51 min
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In the Moment, with Merle Saferstein
About As the director of educational outreach at the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center for twenty-six years, Merle Saferstein worked closely with hundreds of Holocaust survivors helping them pass along their Legacy of Remembrance to...
38 min
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Nouns and Verbs with Marilyn Simon Rothstein
About Marilyn Simon Rothstein: Marilyn is the author of Lift and Separate and Husbands and Other Sharp Objects. She is the winner of the Star Award presented by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association for Outstanding Debut. She joins me today to...
33 min
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Now it's Your Turn, with Kristan Higgins
About Kristan Higgins has sold 4.5 million books worldwide, scored nine New York Times bestsellers, and is published in more than two dozen languages. Her novels have received rave reviews from the New York Times and NPR and regularly receive...
41 min
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Keeping the Faith, with Shaun Phillips
About Shaun Phillips is a Christian author, speaker, coach, and pioneer. His first book, Flappy and Whiskers go to the Park, was published August 2021, ten after writing it for his two young daughters. Through the experience of getting that book...
40 min
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Road Tripping, with P. David Ebersole
About P. David Ebersole: He is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television director working in both narrative and documentary. His credits include the documentary HIT SO HARD (2012) about drummer Patty Schemel of the seminal grunge...
40 min
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Coming of Age with Kurt and Ellie Johnson
About Kurt and Ellie: Kurt and Ellie are a father daughter combo team who have authored the book The Barrens: A novel of love and death in the canadian arctic. In this episode, Mike, Kurt, and Ellie discuss: Ellie's trip in subarctic...
31 min
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Night Swimming with Farhoud Meybodi
About Farhoud: Farhoud is an award-winning writer, director, and executive producer focused on storytelling projects that inspire mass culture change. In this episode, Mike and Farhoud discuss: Near death experiences Not wanting to...
37 min
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Love Wins with Lauren McBrayer
In life, we often have to pivot to become the person we are meant to be. This insight hit me like a slap in the face when I spoke with Lauren McBrayer about her debut novel. About Lauren: Lauren McBrayer is a graduate of Yale with a law degree...
32 min
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Monkeying Around with Carleton Eastlake
About Carleton Eastlake: Carleton graduated from UCLA with degrees in political science and psychology and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a concentration in law and the social sciences. After a career in public policy and consumer...
28 min
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Come Together, with Kathleen Glasgow and Liz La...
About Kathleen and Liz: Kathleen is the author of the New York Times Bestselling novel Girl in Pieces, How to Make friends with the dark, and You’d Be Home Now. Her books have been published in more than 24 countries. Liz Lawson is the author of The...
29 min
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What If, with Sascha Rothchild
About Sascha: Sascha is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, who has written and produced lauded shows such as GLOW, The Bold Type, The Baby-Sitters Club, and The Carrie Diaries. In 2015, she was named one of Variety's “10 TV Writers to Watch.”...
23 min
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Write Until The End with Tess Gerritsen
About Tess: With over forty million copies sold, New York Times bestselling thriller writer Tess Gerritsen is widely known for her Rizzoli & Isles novels, which inspired the hit TNT television series that aired for seven seasons. The iconic...
28 min
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Hitting Flow with Michelle Huneven
About Michelle: Michelle Huneven is the author of four novels: Round Rock, Jamesland, Blame, and Off Course. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle...
28 min
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Happy Endings with RaeAnne Thayne
About RaeAnne: RaeAnne Thayne is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly's bestselling author of more than 70 novels. She graduated from college with a degree in journalism and quickly rose through the ranks of the local newspaper,...
25 min
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Taking Small Steps with Colleen Hubbard
About Colleen: A native of New England, Colleen Hubbard now lives in the U.K. with her family. She wrote her debut novel, Housebreaking, while on maternity leave from her job with the NHS. She graduated from the University of East Anglia’s MA...
37 min
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Choosing Happiness, with James Crews
I seriously thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered the show Small Wonder, but today’s guest proved me wrong! As part of getting to the story behind the story, I ask my guests a series of questions about what they were into as...
34 min
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Believe in Yourself, with Moshe Mikanovsky
When I worked at the consumer products giant Unilever, I got an insider’s view into how products go from the idea stage all the way to being available for sale on the store shelf. It’s a long and comprehensive process characterized by different...
41 min
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Don't Waste It, with Laura Trujillo
I have another confession to make, I hated reading newspapers when I was younger. They were always in black and white and just seemed so boring. Then I discovered the USA Today. It had pictures in color, and was much easier to read than other...
47 min
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So, How do we Begin? With Steve Fretzin
When I was early in my career, I had this recurring anxiety dream where all my teeth would fall out, one at a time. Later in my life, that dream morphed into being thrust back into high school unprepared for a test while naked (Freud would have a...
55 min
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Igniting Empathy, with Rob Volpe
When I was a kid, I used to dread gym class. My Physical Education teacher was fond of picking two captains for opposing teams, typically the most athletic kids in the grade, and then they’d hand select their team members. I was typically picked at...
48 min
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Lightning Strikes, with Chandler Bolt
I remember being in business school and learning about successful founders who left college to start their businesses without a degree—people like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Steve Jobs. There’s another name to add to the list—Chandler Bolt,...
33 min
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Mother and Child Reunion, with Laura Engel
All families have secrets. The big one in my family, at least for me anyway, was the fact that my older brother Greg was adopted. When I was in high school, I was sitting in room with extended family and my auntie Joan, who really wasn’t my aunt but...
42 min