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Ian started his career creating immersive installation art pieces to explore ways to bridge the divide between observer and artifact. These projects later led to experiments in virtual reality and cybercafés (including Calgary's first cybercafé in 1995). From studying the ergonomics of VR in the first virtual reality hype bubble to early video on demand and interactive TV experiments, Ian has long been focused on improving the user experience. Ian is currently working to humanize technology in his capacity as a UX Architect in the media & entertainment industry. 

A message from DR. SHAR

In my heart, I have always believed that the body has the ability to heal itself if the proper modalities, environment and support are in place. Over the years of practice, I saw the most amazing physical transformations take shape with chiropractic adjustments and witnessed the body’s natural ability to heal. Once I added coaching and energy healing to my list of modalities, the pieces of the puzzle started fitting together for me. I was able to tap into, emotional, mental and spiritual states that took “patient care” to a whole new level and helped me see the bigger picture. Understanding emotional, mental and physical trauma and their relationship to one another, has given me the ability to not only make patients feel better but to heal better.

Health is dynamic and multifaceted. Whether you choose to start your self-care practice on a physical, mental or emotional level, chiropractic, energy healing and mindset coaching allows me to meet you where you are and what you are ready for. These forms or treatments naturally bring out a deeper sense of self-awareness that allows you to continue your healing, your way.

MIKE SHOREMAN

Recently honored by the Prime Minister, the House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and celebrated by Canadians from coast to coast in this national achievement, Mike is the 2022 recipient of the Mental Health Leadership Award by the Mood Disorder Society of Canada.

A remarkable story of resilience and ‘the comeback’ following a devastating health crisis that left Mike immobile and unable to walk in 2019. Outside of making Canadian history and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Canadian youth mental health programming and services in what became the largest mental health awareness campaign led by an individual in Canadian history, this athlete and advocate is educating and motivating audiences to achieve their own excellence through his messaging of resilience, perseverance and drive.

Dan Richter is best known as Moonwatcher the man-ape in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” which he also choreographed.  Dan has had a long career as a mime, choreographer, actor, director, producer, memoirist, and for two decades a Hollywood executive.  His book “Moonwatcher’s Memoir” is about working on “2001.”  His memoir “The Dream is Over” describes the years he lived and worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1969 to 1973.

Dan currently lives in Sierra Madre outside of Los Angeles where he has been leading Sierra Club mountaineering trips since 1991 and teaches courses on rock climbing and mountaineering.  Dan is an AMGA Single Pitch Rock Climbing Instructor.

Jay Semko is known worldwide as the co-founder of multi-platinum Canadian rock icons the Northern Pikes, and as an award winning music composer for numerous film and TV productions, including Canada's most successful internationally syndicated series, "Due South". He is also a member of ACTRA - an accomplished voiceover actor and narrator, voicing numerous national and international radio & TV ads, PSAs, documentaries, and dramas. Jay has also instructed songwriting at the University of Saskatchewan, hosted the SOCAN Songwriters Series at Canadian Country Music Week, and participated in many panels and workshops in conjunction with such organizations as the Songwriters Association of Canada, SOCAN, and Breakout West. Jay has received 5 Juno Award nominations as a member of the Pikes, 2 Gemini Award nominations for Best Original Music Score in a Dramatic Series, a 2013 Canadian Screen Award (formerly Gemini Awards) nomination for Best Original Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series, among many others. Jay has written and recorded with many well-known songwriters in Canada and the USA. He received the 2012 SCMA Roots Album of the Year Award for "Force Of Horses" and in 2015 for "Flora Vista". Jay was nominated for Best Gospel Song in the 2012 Independent Music Awards and his album "Sending Love" was nominated in the 2012 Western Canadian Music Awards for Roots Solo Recording of the Year - the same year the Pikes were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. More recently, Jay was nominated for Spiritual Artist of the Year in the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards in regards to his latest release, "Never Sent". 

Jay's songs, music scores and legendary live concerts continue to garner him recognition as one of Canada's most prolific and versatile music, film, and television talents.

Jeanne Beker started her career as an actress, but moved into radio and then television as co-host of the ground-breaking series, The NewMusic, and entertainment anchor on CityPulse News. She went on to become the host of  the internationally syndicated Fashion Television (FT), which aired for 27 years and had viewers in more than 130 countries. Jeanne is the former editor-in-chief of FQ and SIR magazines, and author of five books, including her 2010 autobiography, Finding Myself in Fashion. Jeanne was a contributing editor of The Toronto Star, The Kit, and a columnist for Metro, and is currently a featured style columnist for The Globe and Mail and Post City magazine. She also writes for a number of lifestyle publications. Her fashion and editorial credits include her clothing line, Edit by Jeanne Beker, as well a number of product lines, including shoes, jewelry and sunglasses. Jeanne was recently named Style Editor of The Shopping Channel, and hosts a regular series for the channel entitled “Style Matters with Jeanne Beker”.   Her numerous awards include her recent appointment to the Order of Canada in 2014 for her support of the Canadian fashion industry; the 2012 Canadian Award of Distinction from the Banff World Media Festival; and being honoured with a Canadian Screen Achievement Award for the role she played in changing the way Canadians watch television.

 Tony Nugent is a Silicon Valley Inventor, Engineer and Executive. He was the VP Product Development, System Integration, Factory Automation at Theranos.

 Founded in 2003, Theranos promised to revolutionize blood testing by devising technology that could conduct wide-ranging blood tests and test for diseases using a mere pinprick of blood. At its peak, the company was valued at $10 billion (€8.85 billion).

He made his mark on numerous Bowie albums and has travelled thousands of miles on Bowie tours, including his 2003-04 “A Reality Tour,” Bowie’s first world tour in 20 years. In November 2006, Mike accompanied Bowie and Alicia Keys during a unique performance of “Changes” at an AIDS benefit in New York City which ended up being Bowie’s final public U.S. performance.

As Executive Vice Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, Daniel Lamarre is responsible for nurturing the delicate balance between the company’s global strategy (across five continents), its financial growth and stability, and the integrity of its culture and values. Among his greatest achievements include the execution of complex negotiations resulting in signed agreements with THE BEATLES and MICHAEL JACKSON’s estate.

Dan Hill (Daniel Grafton Hill IV) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charting singles in Canada and the United States

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Serena Ryder was born on December 8, 1983 in Millbrook, Ontario, Canada. A strikingly pretty brunette with a remarkably deep, soulful and powerful three-octave voice, Serena stems from strong musical roots: Her Canadian mother was a go-go dancer and touring back-up singer while her Trinidadian father was a guitarist and percussionist with the Carribean folk group the Tradewinds. Ryder began singing publicly when she was just a little girl and got her first guitar from her dad at age thirteen. She attended the Integrated Arts Program at Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational Institute and took music lessons from Terry Finn at Finn's House of Music. Serena started out performing solo as a teenager plus performed with the Christian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch and the hard rock alternative group Three Days Grace. Ryder released her first album "Falling Out" on the indie label Mime Radio in 1999. In 2002 she recorded a demo album which led to her playing on the air on CBC Radio. Fellow Canadian musician Hawksley Workman heard the broadcast and was sufficiently impressed enough to ask Serena to record an album on his Isadora record label. The album "Unlikely Emergency" was released in 2005 and received favorable reviews from music critics. Moreover, the poignant song "Just Another Day" got considerable airplay on various Canadian radio stations. Ryder's follow-up album "If Your Memory Serves You Well," a terrific collection of mostly inspired covers of notable songs by Canadian music artists that includes Leonard Cohen's "Sisters of Mercy," Galt MacDermot's "Good Morning Starshine," and Percy Faith's "My Heart Cries for You" as well as three excellent original compositions, was released in November, 2006 and once again garnered highly positive reviews from critics. Serena won the 2008 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year and released the EP CD "Told You in a Whispered Song" on June 19, 2007. This was followed by both the EP CD "Sweeping the Ashes" and the album "Is It O.K." in 2008.

Bob Rae is the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations.

Nick Laird Clowes of The Dream Academy.

Laird-Clowes was a member of Alfalpha and the Act before The Dream Academy. He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show, The Tube.

The Dream Academy were formed in the 1980s and released three albums.

His solo album, Mona Lisa Overdrive, was released under the name Trashmonk in 1999 under Alan McGee's Creation Records, and re-released a few years later with two extra tracks ("Mr Karma" and "Fur Hat") under the reinvented PopTones label, again by McGee.

Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 55-album body of work, and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.

Judy is as creatively vigorous as ever, writing, touring worldwide, and nurturing fresh talent. She is a modern-day Renaissance woman who is a filmmaker, record label head, musical mentor, and an in-demand keynote speaker for mental health and suicide prevention. She continues to create music of hope and healing that lights up the world and speaks to the heart.

Crimson Rose co-founder of BURNING MAN.

As a co-founder of Burning Man, the Black Rock Arts Foundation and Burning Man Project, Crimson Rose’s life passion and work have focused on the arts and artistic expression. She began participating in the Burning Man event in 1991, and developed the organization’s Art Department, including the infrastructure, financial and other support services that make possible the large-scale participatory art works that Burning Man is renowned for. With Crimson’s guidance, Burning Man serves as an inspirational limitless canvas, the works of which now find public placement in cities around the world and serve as catalytic sparks for community collaboration.

This is an audio capture from a past life regression session in 2014 conducted by hypno-therapist Debbie Papadakis on ZOOMER RADIO.

From the garage to the Grammys. This is the story of GRETA VAN FLEET as told from the POV of founding manager, Michael Barbee.

John West of Scimar.

SciMar Ltd. was founded in 2009 to advance the pioneering medical research of Dr. Wayne Lautt and his team as they work to unveil hepatalin* as the foundation of a new paradigm in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Based in Manitoba, Canada, SciMar is driven by a passion to change the course of human health as type 2 diabetes exacts a frightful toll on communities around the world. Rates of type 2 diabetes and the conditions that lead to it—especially obesity—are skyrocketing everywhere. The current paradigms for preventing and treating type 2 diabetes are not working.

Through rigorous science, deep passion, and significant investment, SciMar has made important progress in the lab; has moved through the early stages of regulatory approval in Canada and the United States; and has protected key elements of its intellectual property and product pipeline with patents in 10 countries.

Clinical trials are moving forward; a change in global health and well-being is on the horizon. Investors are invited to join the journey.

Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees.

He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of The National for thirty years. He has won dozens of awards for outstanding journalism, has thirteen honorary doctorates from universities in Canada and the United States, and received Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, in 2008. He is the former two-term Chancellor of Mount Allison University, now its Chancellor Emeritus, and is the President of Manscorp Media Services where his work includes documentary film production.

Raised in Whitby ON, K-Os (Kevin Brereton) is a globally known music recording artist. 

Bob Bryden on Yorkville.

Clayton Ruby, Civil Rights Lawyer.

Clayton C. Ruby is one of Canada’s leading lawyers, an outspoken proponent of freedom of the press, and a prominent member of the environmental community. Mr. Ruby obtained his undergraduate degree from York University and is currently a Member of the York University Founders’ Society. He received his LL.B. from the University of Toronto and his LL.M. from the University of California (Berkeley).

​Mr. Ruby, who specializes in criminal, constitutional, administrative and civil rights law, has devoted his professional career to ensuring that those who are underprivileged and those who face discrimination are given equal access to the legal system of this country.

Richard Klagsbrun on the state of media today.

Richard has given tv interviews and written articles on his blog condemning the TDSB's promotion of radical sex ed to children which is age-inappropriate and potentially harmful to them. Richard has also bravely written against teaching children the theories of Gender Identity and Transgenderism, both of which tell children at the earliest ages that their being a boy or a girl has nothing to do with their bodily reality. These flawed, unscientific theories teach kids that 'male' and 'female' are merely 'social constructs'. For instance, a little boy can decide for himself that he's a girl if he 'feels' that way in his mind.

To really know Richard, you have to buy him at least 4 tequila shots within the span of an hour.

However, he is a writer whose work has appeared in diverse and different venues including The Walrus and National Post.

Richard has been credited by its founder as the inspiration, in a manner of speaking, for the creation of the innovative motion picture company Participant Media, which has, in a relatively brief time, produced a vast number of Academy Award nominated and winning films, such as The Help, Lincoln, Spotlight, Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth, and Good Night, and Good Luck..

As one of the original group of executives at Participant, Richard was involved in the development of its first slate of films, which garnered a remarkable 11 Academy Award nominations in categories such as Best Picture and two for Best Screenplay. While at Participant, performing double duties as both a Creative Executive and Strategic Planning Executive, Richard conceived the organization's unique social action marketing model, which was used with tremendous success for its films, among which was An Inconvenient Truth, which became one of the most successful documentary films in history and was the catalyst for a huge social movement.

Subsequently, Richard finds all sorts of ways to get into mischief, including having co-founded a technological company, View2gether, along with former Sony Pictures President Jeff Sagansky, sometimes appearing in the media as a political and social commentator, occasional public speaking, and acting as a film, media, and political affairs consultant. He is on the Advisory Board of George Brown College's Screenwriting and Narrative Design Program. Now, Richard has turned his energy into writing a controversial play, AN UNSAFE SPACE, designed to stimulate conversations and to reiterate the need for the exchange of ideas, and for free speech and thought in public life and in the academy.

Vino is the CEO of Kabo, a Canadian company focused on helping dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives. Kabo is a dog food subscription service that delivers healthy, pre-portioned meals right to your door.

Special Guest Host: Lauren Crummey.

Dolf Dejong began in his role as CEO of the Toronto Zoo in September 2018.  His focus and leadership revolves around his commitment to raising the Zoo’s profile, including the development of a new Strategic Plan with a focus on saving wildlife, igniting passion, delivering exceptional guest experiences, connecting to the community and revolutionizing technology.  Previously, Dolf held senior positions at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Hamilton and with Ontario Parks. Dolf has a Masters of Environmental Studies from Wilfred Laurier University, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Brock University.

Couply has a simple mission; to use technology to help people have better relationships.

Rebecca Warfield is a top artist manager, entrepreneur & entertainment visionary on the cutting edge of technology. In 2012, she founded the Chicane Group, an artist management & consulting firm, where she is CEO, and in 2019, joined Looped as an early advisor & their loudest evangelist.

Jodi Kovitz is a Canadian lawyer and nonprofit executive. She is the founder and CEO of #MoveTheDial, an organization to advance the participation and leadership of women in tech.

Alan Frew is the lead singer of GLASS TIGER, author and public speaker. 

Stuart Coxe is a television producer and creative mind behind Dragons Den, Shark Tank, Munk Debates and The Secret Path.

Charlie Pachter is a Canadian artist. Today, along with his famous depictions of the maple leaf flag, they are regarded affectionately as Canadian pop art icons and the artist is broadly recognized as a northern Warhol. One of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Mr. Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, lecturer and all-around “witty intellectual, historian, entrepreneur and lovable bon vivant,” according to the Globe and Mail.

His paintings hang in the Toronto Stock Exchange and in the Canadian Embassy in Washington. His muralHockey Knights in Canada highlights a Toronto subway station. Retrospective Pachter exhibitions have toured France and Germany, and an illustrated biography on Pachter and his work has been published by McClelland & Stewart.

This episode was recorded at the Dnext Summit in 2019.

Bob Lefsetz is an American writer, past music industry executive and social disruptor and provocateur. 

Krista Kim is a Toronto-based digital artist and founder of the techism movement.