The Story King Podcast

Season 6: Episode 4 With a repertoire that includes over 100 “celebrity” impressions - along with an endless variety of cartoon, character, dialect and narrator voices – Joel Gibbs’ award-winning work has been heard in more than 40,000 projects worldwide including broadcast, digital audio, corporate & educational narration, medical & compliance tutorials, audio-books, IVR prompts, animation, e-Lea...

Season 6: Episode 3   Today's episode is with Police Officer Rashod Coleman. Rashod started his career in Law Enforcement with the Philadelphia Police Department in 2014. He’s recently written a memoir called Fatherless Son, about how the justice system tore his family apart and brought them back together. Rashod has a powerful story about how when he was just three years old, his father was sente...

Season 6: Episode 2   Today's conversation is with the Blind Blogger Maxwell Ivey! Maxwell Ivey is an author and podcast host, as well as an inspirational and motivational personal coach, who also runs a business buying and selling carnival equipment and amusement park rides. He helps clients build their personal brands through a comprehensive podcast guesting strategy.    Support and follow Maxwe...

Season 6: Episode 1   Today's interview is with award-winning Brazilian author and corporate lawyer Adriana Gavazzoni! Enjoy Adriana's candid spirit as she talks about creating characters based on people she doesn't like in real life, just so she can kill them off in her fiction. She discusses following your passion in life and how she balances her lawyer and creative sides. Follow, Support and Pu...

Season 5: Episode 10   Today's conversation and final episode for the season is with the young and talented actor/writer/filmmaker David Chamberlain. He’s a recent university graduate with a degree in theatre and he’s host of the podcast  From My Mom’s Basement where he reads his own short stories. Enjoy this discussion about finding acting work, improving your writing, making films and the value...

Season 5: Episode 9   Ashley Fontes is an author and kids yoga instructor. She has her own podcast and tons of resources on her site https://www.readandyoga.com I encourage you all to check that out. In today's episode, Ashley talks about her battle with postpartum depression and the value of doing yoga with children, as well as her overall philosophical approach to yoga.   Don’t forget to sign up...

Season 5: Episode8   Today's interview is with Children and Young Adult author, Judy Laufer!  Judy Laufer is the author of 7 books, including books for children, and 2 award-winning young adult true stories: Hidden Pearl and Choices. She is the child of holocaust survivors. I really think you will enjoy today’s episode, as we discuss what it was like for Judy's family to escape Nazi Germany as wel...

Season 5: Episode 7   Today's conversation is with filmmaker Gino Payne.   Gino Payne started his film career working in commercial and promotional advertisement. His first projects were in the music video business. Then in 2010, he directed his first feature film, We Was HomeBoyz, starring Pastor Troy and Sean Low. Gino has worked on projects such as HBO's Hard Knocks, Walking Dead, and even Game...

Season 5: Episode 6   Today's conversation is with father, husband, veteran paratrooper, marketer and writer Gary Phipps. You can follow Gary on social media @garybear86 and check out his writings at: https://gary-phipps.com     Don’t forget to sign up on storykingbooks.com to get your free copy of my latest novella Cain’s Confession.   Remember, if you’re interested in starting your own podcast,...

Season 5: Episode 5   Today's conversation is with author of Secrets in the Shadows, Heige Boehm. Heige's writing is influenced by the stories of her parents who grew up in Nazi Germany, and who at the end of the war found themselves in East Germany. They escaped with their first two children to West Berlin in 1961, where Heige was born in 1964. She spent 10 years researching and writing Secrets i...

Season 5: Episode 4   Today's conversation is with author, illustrator and copywriter, Eva Sandor! She recently published Fool’s Proof, a comic fantasy novel that the BookLife Prize called “A cleverly plotted, twisty novel with a gratifying conclusion." In the interview, she discusses everything from copywriting, illustration and self-publishing to storytelling and marketing. I encourage all of my...

Season 5: Episode 3   Today's conversation is with public speech coach and communication expert Brenden Kumarasamy. Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a Youtube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He helps purpose driven entrepreneurs communicate their ideas to the world. Be sure to follow Brenden for tons of great tips to help you become a...

Season 5: Episode 2   Today's discussion is about monetizing your art with career coach Melissa Llarena.   Melissa Llarena is the host of An Interview With Melissa Llarena, a podcast featuring weekly interviews with creative down-to-Earth experts (including Gary Vaynerchuk, James Altucher, and many other professionals at the top of their game, who openly reveal their tough career decisions, and wh...

Season 5: Episode 1   Today's conversation is with Daniel B. Levin. Levin is rare blend of businessman and mystic who sees what others do not see. It has been this one quality more than any other that has thrown him into some of the most exclusive boardrooms to help companies innovate new ways of finding solutions when the old ways stop working.   He is the author of The Mosaic, a life changing fa...

Season 4: Episode 8 I interviewed Deborah earlier in the season, but today she is interviewing me. Learn a little bit about my background and what makes me tick as a writer. I encourage everyone to check out Deborah's Amazon page and buy one of her books: https://www.amazon.com/D-Ghedini/e/B07769B5KG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1     As always, if you have a story you would like me to read on th...

Season 4: Episode 7 Justen Renyer is the Associate Professor of Graphic Design as well as the Graphic Design BFA Program Coordinator. He teaches many facets of Graphic Design but specializes in developing as well as teaching the Motion Design curriculum for over 13 years at Oklahoma State University. Graduates of this program are working at some of the best studios in the country. Their works have...

Season 4: Episode 6 Glenn McBride Jr. is a director, actor, and writer based in Long Island, NY. He recently won Best Acting Award for the 2019  72-Hour Long Island Film Festival. He will be featured in the upcoming film comedies, Stir it up Crazy and Good Friday. And he’ll be playing the role of Dippy Lovesnatch in the comedy series Guinea Pigs. He’ll be working behind the camera in the upcoming...

Season 4: Episode 5 Tom Rizzuto is an educator. He has a masters in musicology and currently working towards a doctorate. He’s been an arts and culture blogger. He’s had nonfiction pieces featured in History Magazine and Discover Magazine. He’s written plays that have been produced and film shorts that have featured at film festivals. You can follow Tom Rizzuto at: https://twitter.com/TomRizzuto  ...

Season 4: Episode 4   As writers, we all know how important the setting of the story is. After all, every story has to take place somewhere. And that somewhere matters. The same scene shot in different places will end up being different scenes at the end of the day. Most of us are familiar with the idea of location scouts in the film industry. These mysterious individuals who hunt for good locatio...

Season 4: Episode 3 Now if my listeners recall, I read a couple of short stories by Deborah Ghedini in episode 9 of the first season. You'll learn a lot more about Deborah in today's interview. I encourage everyone to check out Deborah's Amazon page and buy one of her books: https://www.amazon.com/D-Ghedini/e/B07769B5KG/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1     As always, if you have a story you would l...

Season 4: Episode 2 Today we have a conversation with lead singer from the band Diolosa and the Boys. Joshua Diolosa is a singer/songwriter and musician, but he’s also an actor and writer and currently working on a screenplay. So I thought he’d be the perfect guest to sort of walk us through how you tell a story through song, as he’s able to directly compare it to other forms of writing. If you wa...

Season 4: Episode 1 Welcome to another season of The Story King Podcast! This season will be mostly comprised of interviews. In store for you, I have conversations with fellow writers, people in the film industry, a songwriter and actor, professors and more.  But we kick off the season with a conversation about character development with my 6-year-old son Christopher. You'll hear from his two olde...

Season 3: Episode 10 Hi everyone, this episode completes Season 3. I hope you enjoyed going through some of the fairytales of the great Hans Christian Andersen As always, if you do happen to write a story based on the prompt and would like the chance for it to be read on the show, I’d love to check it out. You can email it to storykingpodcast@gmail.com . Just include your name and where you’re fro...

Season 3: Episode 9 Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do. Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often...

Season 3: Episode 8 Hi everyone out there! I hope this podcast finds you in good health. In light of the coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through right now, I’ve decided to dedicate Season 3 to all the kids and parents at home with each other, looking for things and activities to do. Though I try to keep everything clean, language-wise, normally the show is not exclusive to children. I often...