This post was originally published on June 7 2016 on Girth Radio.
Former Scarborough resident Liem Vu joins Karim Kanji to discuss:
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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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!
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I recently wrote an article for itbusiness about Instagram. As the title says, Canadian brands will be getting access to official brand pages before the end of the year.
I also mentioned that Instagram officially has 8.5 million monthly active Canadian users. Read more here.
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!
Then the dream ends when the phone rings,
You’re doing alright he said it’s out there most days and nights,
But only a fool would complain.
Anyway Susan, if you like,
Our conversation is as faint as a sound in my memory,
As those fingernails scratching on my hull.
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.
The Digiday Podcast.
Canadaland by Jesse Brown.
Undisclosed: The State Vs. Adnan Syed.
Freakonomics Radio.
WTF with Marc Maron.
And don’t forget, for now, you can listen to my show, Welcome!, on Mixcloud.
Today is Free Comic Book Day. I’ve always been a comic book fan. When I wasn’t able to afford comics I would go to my local library and borrow my comics. Then when I started working I would go to the comic book store in Bridlewood Mall and buy the latest comic book. My poison was Spider-Man comics. I’ve always been a Spider-Man fan. I even have a Spider-Man tattoo on my left forearm.
Even though I bought a bunch of comics I still don’t have a massive collection. In fact, I did buy a really cool Super-Man comic a few years ago when I was visiting New York City.
This blog entry was originally Published on: May 3 2016 on Girth Radio.
There is one person responsible for helping to grow the sport of MMA (and the UFC) more than any other person in Canada: Showdown Joe Ferraro. Showdown would host UFC Central on Sportsnet and The FAN radio network.
Today, his contribution to MMA is relegated to monthly duties hosting Titan FC shows in Florida.
In this episode, we discuss how Showdown got involved with in the fight business, his time covering the sport and what led to him leaving the airwaves in Canada. Showdown also reveals his thoughts on the GOAT MMA/UFC fighters; will GSP ever fight professionally again; the Conor McGregor issue and much much more!
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Originally Published on: April 26 2016
Darrell MacMullin is the CEO of one of Canada’s fastest growing public companies, BitGold. In this hour long conversation we talk about Darrell’s journey from Chapter’s in the early days of e-commerce in Canada to his roles with eBay Canada, PayPal Canada and now BitGold.
This is a must listen to conversation for all entrepreneurs and those interested in fintech.
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