The Fold Podcast - Episode 43: BREAKING CHARACTER - a conversation with friend of the show, Rachel Romu
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It’s been a while since I connected. I wanted to check in and bring you something special. On July 17, 2022, I had the opportunity to collaborate with my dear friend to put on an intimate celebration for our friend – you might remember Rachel from our December 2019 episode featuring their story – the last in-person conversation I conducted before the world in a dramatic way. You can call Rachel a musician, activist and model, yet they are so much more. They’re a friend, confidant and true trailblazer in every definition of the word. This summer, Accessible Media Inc. launched an...
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 42: a CommUNITY Catchup with The Depanneur's Len Senater + Ksenija Hotic
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What a true honour to be in The Fold and close out the CommUNITY Catchup series with Len Senater, Owner + Founder of Toronto's The Depanneur, and Photographer, Food Stylist and Chef, Ksenija Hotic, who has been involved with The Dep for 7 years. Len and Ksenija joined me for the last CommUNITY Catchup to discuss bringing people together through food, how small businesses can be a mode of activism, food security and support systems, and how compassion, empathy and dialogue really make for a great recipe.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 41: a CommUNITY Catchup with Liz Lokre
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A CommUNITY Catchup with Toronto Artist + Activist Liz Lokre about her new EP - FIRE - and how she has been using this element to fuel the EP and other facets of her life and career through heritage, community and collaboration.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 40: Mental health matters - a CommUNITY Catchup with Alfred Nomad
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Alfred Nomad is an innate poet that hails from Indianapolis, Indiana and is now based in LA, contributing to various communities through an array of initiatives. He also produces an annual festival as part of his culture brand LxVE – LxVE Fest – Alfred does a lot on stage and off. We discussed Alfred’s inspiration behind his latest album, Everything Will Be Alright, mental health in the arts, his podcast and more.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 39: CommUNITY Catchup with Anthony Simas
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Anthony Simas is a Spinal Cord Injury Survivor, Life Coach and Public Speaker. His MO, turning negatives into positives, is fueled by sharing his story with others, where he is able to be a voice for others who live with disabilities, eradicating stigmas that surround their lives to remove the dis and capitalize ABILITY. Anthony and I discuss disability awareness, wheelchair tips, mindfulness, the communities he has cultivated and those he thrives in through his big contributions.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 38: CommUNITY Catchup with SambaRanthony
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Rhandy Adolphe, Founder and lead Photographer of SambaRanthony, is an incredible purveyor of the arts and multimedia creative I met at a podcast program last year. Rhandy has his own podcast and media platform, Lupinore, which showcases Canadian lifestyle and social movements through art and music, and in discussion via the Just Facts Podcast, I brought him into The Fold to discuss what has been keeping him inspired + creative and how he has been adapting his platform model in a meaningful way.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 37: CommUNITY Catchup with Laylow Brewery
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Laylow Brewery Co-founder/Co-owner, Dan Boniferro, and Ola get into #TheFold to discuss Toronto’s smallest brewery with big impact. We chat Hip-Hop, merchandise with commUNITY in mind, being for the people, collaboration, brews, humble beginnings and creative adaptations.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 36: A Comeback Snacks Catchup with Emily O'Brien
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Comeback Snacks Founder, Emily O’Brien, and I delve into the company’s evolution since launching, what she has learned through community connection at this time more than ever, how she has grown as a person, why it’s important to listen to and work with the needs of underrepresented and marginalized communities and all of the good things in development.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 35: Danielle Griscti
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Danielle Griscti is the Founder and Creative Director of her own photography brand and company, Fixed In Silver, a talented writer and music journalist – which is where I met her via Hellbound.ca. With experience as an Outreach Coordinator, a Youth Worker, involved in serious roles in the Tech Industry, we discuss her current involvement of cycling it forward with The Bike Brigade to support communities across Toronto.
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The Fold Podcast - Episode 34: Nabeel Pervaiz
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In this episode of The Fold Podcast, Photographer and CommUNITY leader, Nabeel Pervaiz, unfolds to share insight about his life and career to date, the inspiration that drives his work, being rooted in many communities, and the inherent values and intention he has to shape them with conscious compassion and fresh ideas.
info_outlineWe discussed her approach of choosing love over fear 24/7, how this acts as a foundation in her work, a recent online collab for IsoLab, created by award-winning producer, Rainer, and sharing insight with other artists on how they can share their art and explore opportunities to build and create with others in a meaningful way.