532: Meet Charlie Price: Disney Writer, Author, and Park Insider
Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising
Konstantina Irving
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What does it really take to build a creative career inside Disney?
In this episode of Unlocking the Magic, we sit down with Charlie Price — writer of Me & Mickey, author of Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks, and contributor to multiple Disney Publishing projects — to talk about persistence, pitching ideas, working behind the scenes at the parks, and what it’s actually like navigating Disney’s creative machine.
From working security during the opening of Disney California Adventure to writing 130+ episodes of Mickey content, Charlie shares the real story behind building a creative career inside one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Please stand clear of the doors. |
| 0:02.7 | For favor, maintainse alejado de las puyntas. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to Unlocking the Magic. |
| 0:15.7 | I am really excited today because we have a special guest on this episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Charlie Price is on the show today, |
| 0:30.2 | and he is the writer of the popular me and Mickey series. He's the author of Holiday Magic at Disney Parks and so much more. I'm super excited for you guys to hear this interview that we've done. |
| 0:35.1 | I think I don't think. I enjoyed this episode quite a bit. |
| 0:38.8 | I enjoyed talking to Charlie. |
| 0:39.9 | What I loved about talking to Charlie was the insider information that you get from |
| 0:44.7 | behind the scenes of working at Disney. |
| 0:46.6 | You never really hear that too much. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.0 | You get to have firsthand experience. |
| 0:51.0 | I love his, well, I mean, you'll hear more on the episode, and I think you're really going to like it. It's more about kind of his passion and what led him to his career with Disney, and just kind of keep moving forward. He's an example of that. And also just the amount of projects that he's worked on. And you know, the tenacity. I don't know if he's going to say that, |
| 1:10.8 | but I felt like he was very tenacious when it comes to you. He wanted to do this and he didn't |
| 1:16.6 | stop. And he talks about that on the podcast of if you are interested in getting into a company or doing |
| 1:21.9 | something in the arts or field like that, how to do that and how he did it and how to keep going. I thought |
| 1:27.3 | that was super awesome. |
| 1:29.2 | All right. |
| 1:29.7 | Well. |
| 1:30.9 | All right. |
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