Category Archives: podcast

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Episode #34: Sean O’Shea

Today’s guest is award-winning investigative and consumer reporter Sean O’Shea. Sean is regarded as one of the most tenacious reporters in television today.. He has exposed organized crime figures, scam artists and unscrupulous contractors – at frequent risk (he was once assaulted on air by biker gang members who had attacked him with a fire extinguisher.) I hope you enjoy my conversation with Global TV’s Sean O’Shea.

Music by Afraaz Mulji

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Episode #33: Huse Madhavji

Today’s guest is a graduate of Ryerson University’s Radio and Television Arts Program. He started his broadcasting career in Winnipeg, Manitoba before moving to Sacramento, California. Today he has a role on TV’s Saving Hope.

Music by Afraaz Mulji.

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Sportsnet Fan 590 Producer JD Bunkis

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Welcome! Episode #30: Sportsnet Radio The Fan 590 Producer and Host JD Bunkis

JD Bunkis is the Producer for The Andrew Walker Show on The Fan 590 in Toronto. He is also the host of Free Association, a podcast all about basketball.

In this episode we chat about JD’s young career, how he got his lucky break in sports radio, and his thoughts about the 2015-2016 Toronto Raptors season.

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Episode #31: Jon Sinden

Jon Sinden is the former Director of Marketing + Promotions for CFNY 102.1 The Edge, the former Director of Integrated Marketing for the Toronto’s Leafs, Raptors and TFC and is now VP Marketing for Toronto’s Festival of Beer.

Music by Afraaz Mulji.

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Storytelling with Global TV’s Liem Vu – Welcome! Episode #29

This post was originally published on June 7 2016 on Girth Radio.

Former Scarborough resident Liem Vu joins Karim Kanji to discuss:

  • Growing up in Scarborough to Vietnamese immigrants
  • The pressure that children of immigrants face in obtaining a professional designation
  • How Liem found his passion for storytelling
  • Liem’s newspaper career
  • Liem’s broadcast career starting with MTV Canada and now with Global TV’s The Morning Show.

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Welcome! Episode #28: Georgia Sapounas

Georgia Sapounas is a former Canadian and World Champion figure skater and current Senior Manager of Digital Marketing for Team Canada (Canadian Olympic Committee).

In this episode we talk about her journey from a child wanting to be in the Olympics to being on the women’s team figure skating team at the Canadian and World Championships. We also chatted about her retiring from elite athletics and getting into digital and social media.

Today, Georgia heads up strategy and planning for Team Canada’s digital and social team.

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Welcome! Episode #27: Arturo Marcano

This podcast was originally published on: May 31, 2016 on Girth Radio.

Arturo Marcano is a Toronto-based author who writes about the problems in Latin American countries caused by the globalization of baseball, specifically Major League Baseball (MLB).

In this hour-plus long conversation Marcano shares with us:
– how MLB has helped shape the cycle of poverty in the baseball-talent rich nations of Venezuela and the Dominican Republic
– why this same problem doesn’t exist in Mexico or Japan
– why there are not a lot of players in MLB from Mexico
– the upcoming battle between Cuban baseball and MLB
and much, much more!

Enjoy!

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Welcome! Episode #26: Sonya Gill

This podcast was originally published on: May 10 2016 on Girth Radio.

Sonya Gill is a serial entrepreneur, former ad agency owner and executive, author, social media and Pr professional, fitness model and Tim Hortons employee. Wait! What?! Yes!

You need to listen to this conversation!

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Sonya and I discuss dropping out of university, lying to her parents about grad school, moving to Toronto as a single South Asian woman with no job, her life in broadcast media, how women should deal with trolls (online and off), her agency Youzus, buyer’s remorse, her new app, what she’s doing with Tim Hortons, and SO MUCH MORE!

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My favourite podcasts (updated) (again)

With the popularity of the Serial podcast, the genre has indeed exploded. And because of that explosion my Stitcher app has become filled with more podcasts than I have time to listen to. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in my podcast playlist.

Somebody Knows Something by CBC.

Under The Influence by CBC.

CBC Radio 3 Podcast.

Spark from CBC.

Song Exploder.

The Digiday Podcast.

Canadaland by Jesse Brown.

Birds All Day.

Undisclosed: The State Vs. Adnan Syed.

Serial.

Freakonomics Radio.

This Week In Startups.

Stuff You Should Know.

This American Life.

Toronto Mike’d Podcast.

WTF with Marc Maron.

And don’t forget, for now, you can listen to my show, Welcome!, on Mixcloud.