🎙️ NEW EPISODE — BACKSTORY SESSIONS
This week on Backstory Sessions: Conversations with Creatives, we’re joined by Michael Perzel and Rick Mowat, the writers behind the memoir Livin’ It: True Story of a Bad Kid from Philly Who Defies the Odds.
Michael’s story begins with a turbulent childhood in Philadelphia and follows a life filled with hard lessons, survival, risk, reinvention, and eventually success. After spending more than three decades in the insurance industry — including 26 years running his own brokerage — Michael entered an entirely new chapter as a writer and publisher.
Together with award-winning writer, director, and screenwriter Rick Mowat, those experiences became Livin’ It.
In this episode, Michael and Rick take us behind the memoir and talk about how a lifetime of memories becomes a book, what it means to tell difficult stories honestly, how they built trust as collaborators, and the challenge of deciding what stays in and what gets left out.
We also talk about the audiobook, the possibility of bringing the story to film or television, Michael’s second act as a writer, and what both men learned through the process of turning lived experience into storytelling.
It’s a conversation about survival, truth, second chances, creativity, and the reminder that sometimes the most compelling stories are the ones we actually lived.
🎧 Listen now to Backstory Sessions: Conversations with Creatives.
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