Chatting with Casey

Sometimes words just aren't enough. Chatting with Casey takes the storytelling style many have come to love from Casey Palmer, Canadian Dad and brings it to the next level with solid monologues, killer conversations, and an energy that just won't quit no matter HOW hard you try! We chat family, food, travel, tech, fashion and faith—come check us out every Monday!

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 004: Get a Check Up from the Neck Up! 05/08/2019

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 004: Get a Check Up from the Neck Up! Our fourth episode in the Children's Mental Health Week podcast series is a conversation with Laurie McCann — mom, police officer, and anti-bullying advocate — on her experience with children's mental health and what we need to do to build a future that takes it seriously. /episode/index/show/casep/id/9788639

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 003: Toronto Isn't Everything: Mental Health Across the Province 05/07/2019

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 003: Toronto Isn't Everything: Mental Health Across the Province In the third podcast in the Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week Special, we chat with Patti Rantala from Thunder Bay who helps remind us that Ontario's more than just the Greater Toronto Area. Things can be very different in the north, and we need to understand where everyone's coming from if we want to find a solution. /episode/index/show/casep/id/9730346

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 002: Let's Not Take Mental Health for Granted! 05/06/2019

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 002: Let's Not Take Mental Health for Granted! For the second podcast in the Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week Special, I'm chatting with Irwin Elman—the former Ontario Child Advocate—about the state of children's mental health services in our province, what he learned in more than a decade of service in the role, and the things we can do to build a future that our children can feel safe in. /episode/index/show/casep/id/9697340

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 001: Why Children's Mental Health Matters 05/05/2019

Chatting with Casey Children's Mental Health Week 2019 Special — Episode 001: Why Children's Mental Health Matters It's Children's Mental Health Week, and I've partnered with Children's Mental Health Ontario to bring some additional exposure to some very real stories about children and the struggles they've endured in a world that's only growing more complicated. /episode/index/show/casep/id/9663731

Playing with People's Attention 03/05/2019

Playing with People's Attention In Chatting with Casey #17, I sit with Nelson Caetano, Toronto artist, husband and father to chat about our shared histories as comic book fans and creators and his upcoming project The Gathering Place! /episode/index/show/casep/id/8888105

"Where You From?" — Why 'Black Canadian' isn't JUST ONE THING. 02/03/2019

"Where You From?" — Why 'Black Canadian' isn't JUST ONE THING. In Live from the 3.5's third chapter for 2019, we examine the question "Where are you from?"—one that every Canadian person of colour's been asked at one point or another. Not what block, not what city—what country your roots trace back to. /episode/index/show/casep/id/8713535

Being Black in the Great White North 02/02/2019

Being Black in the Great White North In the midst of interviewing all these guests for Live from the 3.5, I get to bounce bits of my story off of theirs, but I never really get to dive into my story itself. /episode/index/show/casep/id/8752883

What IS Blackness, Exactly? 02/01/2019

What IS Blackness, Exactly? In 2019's Live from the 3.5 Episode 1, we chat with Asante Haughton, Dad, Black Canadian, and mental health advocate about his views on Blackness and some things we can do to better it. You can catch his work on Twitter or through one of his two TEDx Talks on YouTube. /episode/index/show/casep/id/8509433

Of Flour, Fables, and Fleeing to the North 12/20/2018

Of Flour, Fables, and Fleeing to the North It's Chatting with Casey episode 16, where we connect with traveller and story strategist Christine Tremoulet, who tells us about her adventures, why she's cut flour from her life, and why she secretly wants to be a Canadian! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7987886

I'm Where I Need to be Right Now. 12/14/2018

I'm Where I Need to be Right Now. In Chatting with Casey 15, we wrap up my conversation with Errol Elumir, covering things like One Piece, Studio Ghibli, and how Korean dramas pack so much into a mere sixteen episodes of content! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7917461

I Don't Want to Talk to Anyone; Just Give Me the Puzzles! 12/04/2018

I Don't Want to Talk to Anyone; Just Give Me the Puzzles! It may be our nerdiest episode yet, but I don't think I've laughed harder on any Chatting with Casey to date! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7799396

It Takes Two to Tango in Friendship 11/28/2018

It Takes Two to Tango in Friendship A great convo between Carlos Diaz, Rob Tinkler and myself on 8 Tiny Reindeer debuting Saturday, December 1st, their friendship of more than twenty years and fatherhood with all its foibles! 8 Tiny Reindeer will be released advent calendar style with episodes released every day from December 1st through 24th—I hope you're ready for it! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7710500

In a Nutshell, What Craft Chocolate's All About 11/19/2018

In a Nutshell, What Craft Chocolate's All About There's a lot going on that so many of us never even think about when it comes to chocolate, like the allegations of modern slavery in West Africa linked to 95% of the world's chocolate production. Or that Canada's making chocolate that competes on an international level, with brands like Hummingbird and Sirene taking awards from European companies who've been at this for hundreds of years. Richard wants you to learn about one of Canada's best-kept secrets! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7619420

Don't be Afraid of the Doula 11/13/2018

Don't be Afraid of the Doula In episode 11, I chat with Rhiannon Langford, the doula behind Birth Boss Maternity Care about the need for doulas and her devotion to Toronto's art scene. You can check out her site, and she's also active on Instagram and Pinterest! /episode/index/show/casep/id/7538969

Ain't No Parent Got Time for That! 11/06/2018

Ain't No Parent Got Time for That! What would it be like to take your six-person family and live in a 270-square foot school bus you converted into a mobile home? /episode/index/show/casep/id/7451249

The Life and Times of the Single Mom 10/30/2018

The Life and Times of the Single Mom For this episode, I teamed up with Jennifer Tammy of Sugar, Spice and Glitter fame, who'd called me out on my views back when this all started. With her life as a single Mom, Jennifer helped me see things I took for granted in my two-parent household and learn some of the stigmas that still exist against single parents to this day. /episode/index/show/casep/id/7362068

We Are the Sum of Our Experiences 07/17/2018

We Are the Sum of Our Experiences An interview with author, world traveller and fellow Dad Blogger Ricky Shetty as we discuss his life, his new book series Exploring the Continents: A Family's Journey to Visit Every Country in the World, and what it's like to live a life so unconventional! /episode/index/show/casep/id/6819790

SEE Each Other. 07/05/2018

SEE Each Other. It takes a while to switch my mind back on once it's gone into vacation mode, but I'm back (right before I'm out in the sticks again) with the second part of my conversation with the lovely Drekken Pownz! /episode/index/show/casep/id/6776589

Everybody Wants to be Fabulous 06/21/2018

Everybody Wants to be Fabulous In what are some of my favourite interviews to date on Chatting with Casey, I chat it up with Jemmie Robles, a colleague of mine who's co-parenting her two daughters not with their father, but with his wife; and Drekken Pownz, in the first part of his 90-minute interview on a story about being Black and gay that I can only call inspiring. /episode/index/show/casep/id/6728828

You Don't Want to be That Guy 06/12/2018

You Don't Want to be That Guy With Father's Day just around the corner, I had the privilege of speaking with a Wish Dad whose son made a wish through the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada to go see Mickey in Disney World! I also spoke with Gloria Chik of ROGUESTORIES fame about the Flight Pack—a carry-on sized travel case that any stylish Dad would love to have! /episode/index/show/casep/id/6694321

It's Hard Out Here for a Dad 06/04/2018

It's Hard Out Here for a Dad Fathers get a pretty bad rap. You don't hear too many stories of "Deadbeat Moms", and the idea that some women aren't meant to be mothers is one we've only recently started accepting. /episode/index/show/casep/id/6665632

Give Me Some Room to Fail 05/28/2018

Give Me Some Room to Fail The third Chatting with Casey episode is titled after an idea from a keynote I gave at the Parenting 101 conference called "The Dad Within". It's me asking for permission to learn and not be perfect so I can find my own answers my own way. It was a keynote covering my fatherhood journey, what I've learned from my Dad, and some of the things that helped others get a slightly better idea of what happens in the struggle as a Dad! /episode/index/show/casep/id/6640678

No Terrible People Allowed! 05/21/2018

No Terrible People Allowed! This episode features an interview with Tracy Molyneaux, who among the various other hats she wears, currently manages Coffee Public at Bay and College in downtown Toronto! /episode/index/show/casep/id/6612704

Am I Black Enough? 05/14/2018

Am I Black Enough? In this episode: /episode/index/show/casep/id/6589635

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