Uncorking a Story Podcast

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

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Hang in There, with Cort Casady

March 3, 2023 MPN Uncorking a Story 0 Comments
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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:

  1. Emotions experienced while having difficulty trying to start a family
  2. How a sense of humor helps your sanity (and marital relationship) when raising triplets.
  3. Sanity-saving advice given to him by a nurse before leaving the hospital.
  4. The importance of rasing multiples as individuals and not part of “a set.”
  5. Cort’s take on the changes taking place in the America his triplets are inheriting.

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/

Connect with Mike

Website: https://uncorkingastory.com/

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