Uncorking a Story Podcast

Uncorking a Story Podcast The Uncorking a Story podcast features fun and insightful interviews with bestselling authors, award

08/04/2026

Nikki Mammano stood at the bottom of the mountain and thought the top was a million miles away. She didn't look up — she just kept stepping. There is beauty in this world and it is there for all of us.

Her memoir Breaking Good is one of the most raw, honest books I've read. Full conversation on the podcast now.

🎧 https://youtu.be/yZ3h4HWVEqU

Follow Nikki: .mammano.3 | nikkimammano.com

07/28/2026

"Imagine who he can influence. Imagine the lives he can touch."

Jim Carlon spent 18 months writing *Keeping the Faith* — and he says if it reignites the spark in just one person, it was all worth it.

That's the kind of conviction that moves people. This clip hit me hard.

Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/Y78wvkzquPc
Get the book: https://amzn.to/4vR8Ba8

07/23/2026

The best love stories don't always start with someone else.

Julee Balko wrote Square Hearts as a second-chance romance with a twist — one where a woman falls back in love with herself as much as she falls in love with another person.

That hit different. New episode of Uncorking a Story is live now.

Listen/watch: https://uncorkingastory.com/episodes/julee-balko-2

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07/16/2026

It took Jenn Bouchard two and a half years to write her first novel. Her second took six months. Her third — also six months.

She didn't quit her day job. She didn't get an MFA. She just proved to herself she could finish — and everything opened up from there.

Jenn's new novel Palms on the Cape is a Cape Cod friends-to-lovers romance set in a beach bar near Mayflower Beach. It's out now from Black Rose Writing.

Watch the full episode of Uncorking a Story: https://youtu.be/R_ZeHfg0KQk

Jenn Bouchard

07/10/2026

What if the most important guardrail for AI isn't a line of code — but a history of cooperation?

"Every AI agent has to have a happy history of growing up and cooperating with humans. That has got to be the guardrail." — Dr. Peter Solomon

In our latest conversation, physicist and author Dr. Peter Solomon makes a compelling case: an AI that has never experienced positive collaboration with humans has no reason to protect us. It needs what he calls "happy history" — a database of cooperative, caring relationships — before we hand it the keys.

Peter's book, 12 Years to AI Singularity, imagines what happens when that guardrail fails. He now thinks we might have 1.2 years, not 12.

🎥 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/qLkQeRoe__Q

Connect with Peter: 🌐 100YearsToExtinction.com 📸 100 Years to Extinction

07/02/2026

Every memoir starts with a surrender. Not to a publisher or to an audience but the truth about yourself.

Marci Hopkins lived in her story for years before she was willing to actually tell it. The breakthrough wasn't finding the right words — it was deciding she was done hiding behind the old version.

That's the real work of memoir. Not the writing. The willingness.

If you're writing your story and you're comfortable on the page, you're probably not going deep enough yet.

Full conversation at https://uncorkingastory.com/episodes/marci-hopkins

Wake Up with Marci

07/02/2026

Every great man has a rock-bottom story.

That's what Ralph Brewer discovered after a decade of coaching thousands of men through divorce, job loss, and identity-shaking moments. Every single guy he admires? They all went through something catastrophic. They could have stayed down — but they didn't.

"You've been given a gift of starting over. And what a cool thing where the world is an empty slate of possibilities. The world's your oyster, my man."

Rock bottom isn't a dead end. It's a launchpad.

Ralph is the founder of Help for Men and author of Rebuild: The Complete Guide to Starting Over as a Man. Full conversation on Uncorking a Story: https://uncorkingastory.com/episodes/ralph-brewer

Dad Starting Over

06/30/2026

Todd Diamond spent 30 years writing ads. But when he sat down to write a Holocaust memoir about his 95-year-old father's survival story, he froze. Could an ad guy really pull this off?

He called his copywriter friends. Their answer: "You're the darkest person we know. Of course you can write this."

That vote of confidence became Pass the Trauma, Please — a comedy-drama memoir that uses humor as a Trojan horse to carry in the horrors.

Listen to the full conversation: https://uncorkingastory.com/episodes/todd-diamond

06/23/2026

Writing a book is hard. You need a reason to keep going that's bigger than the book itself.

For Sonia Daccarett, that reason was clear: she wanted to share what ordinary Colombians endured in the 1980s, beyond the Netflix version. She wanted people to know that Jews and Arabs have communities across Latin America. She wanted her kids to understand their roots.

That deeper purpose carried her through years of rewrites.

If you're working on a book, what's YOUR reason beyond the book?

Watch the full conversation on Uncorking a Story — link in bio.

06/09/2026

"I consider trauma to be a treasure. It's a place where you go for energy."

Lillian Eve Moore has spent over 20 years helping people face what they've been running from, and she says the payoff isn't just healing. It's power, wisdom, compassion, and a bigger life.

Her new book, Treasure Hunting in the Underworld, is a guide for navigating the hidden parts of the psyche where our patterns, pain, and repressed memories live.

The things we think are holding us down? They might be the keys to unlocking everything we want.

Watch the full conversation on Uncorking a Story .

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