Uncorking a Story

Hosted ByMike Carlon

Stories influence, teach and inspire us, but what about the storytellers who create them? Uncorking a Story profiles storytellers to uncover how their background and life experiences influence the stories they create. We learn what motivates them, their path to success, and what fuels them to keep creating. It all starts by asking one simple question, where does your story begin? Welcome to uncorking a story. All of the books promoted on Uncorking a Story can be viewed and purchased here: https://bookshop.org/shop/UncorkingaStory

Mindset is a Muscle, with Carrington Smith

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About Carrington Smith: Carrington Smith is a single mom, attorney, business owner, and executive search professional. Despite being born with a silver spoon in her mouth, life gave her a hard kick in the tail. She has survived sexual assault, two divorces, piles of debt, abuse, religious mind games, the death of loved ones, and the loss of close friends.

In her debut memoir, Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life, Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset, into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose. A graduate of UT Austin and Tulane Law School, Carrington resides in Austin, Texas, with her two teenage boys.

In this episode, Mike and Carrington discuss: 

  • How changing your mindset can change your life
  • Why it’s better to stand out than to fit in
  • How sometimes we don’t really discover who we are until later in life
  • Why being given everything isn’t necessarily a blessing

“I like to say that we spend most of our life trying to fit in, and what God really intended us to do was to stand out. And so it’s really our differences that we need to celebrate, not our similarities.” — Carrington Smith

Buy Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life

Amazon:https://amzn.to/3CQ0T8v

Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/54587/9781544523781

Connect with Carrington Smith

Website: https://www.carrington-smith.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carringtonatx/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarringtonATX

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriesmithtrabue/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5HWX6jTM_F-nZAaShyx8SQ

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