Well, Now What?!

Yoooo. Back with my lovely gal pal Nik. We chat about being in the fitness industry, recovering from an ED, finding a healthy relationship with exercise, freelancing, getting more clients, content fatigue, what to charge, putting yourself out there and any tips she has to freelancing. :) 

Sorry for such a long hiatus. I'm back!! We shared a quick story on our engagement and what's been new in our lives. Feels so good to be back : ' )

Noam is a full-time content creator, podcaster, business owner and she is a first-year family medicine resident... all at the age of 24. This gal literally does it all and I had to sit down with her and chat about how she balances her passions, personal life and mental health. 

I am joined by Laura Renstad! Laura and I connected through a few mutual friends from F45 (sorry I can't shut up about it :p).  Laura grew up dancing in North Van and went to the Laine Theatre Arts School in London with honors in dance and musical theatre. She now dances professionally at the prestigious Moulin Rouge in Paris! We chat all about her history with dance, the struggles she faced with body image, moving to Paris by herself, what it's really like at the Moulin Rouge, dancing pretty much 24/7, dating Parisien men vs Canadian mans, and any advice she has for dancers hoping to do it professionally! 

If you know me IRL, you know I love the Twilight series... I've seen it at least 30-40 times. Jordan on the other hand, has never seen it. So obviously I had to make him sit through all 5 movies and then record his predictions and review of the series.

Hope you enjoy how inaccurate his predictions were hahaha.

I first met Andres as he was our dog trainer for Tahfi! Literally did god's work with her. 

We then watched a show on Apple TV that Jordan's parents recommended called Surface (produced by Reese Witherspoon) and guess who we saw on the big screen? Andres Joseph.

I dug more into his story and found out he's also the founder and owner of a pottery studio in Vancouver, Mud Lab. What doesn't this man do?

Loved our chat and really enjoyed digging deeper into building relationships in all areas of his life, what it's like to be an actor in Vancouver, all his passions and trying to balance his personal life, how he got into dog training, and the process of opening up a studio!

You read that right. 

I interview people about online dating and you'll get some variety, single ladies and mans, heterosexual and homosexual relationships. 

This episode is definitely so chaotic and all over the place, but who doesn't love a little bit of *chaos*. 

@Hinge @Tinder @Bumble @Grindr sponsor this episode. thanks!! 

Let me know if you guys enjoy the on-the-street interviews!

Happy first day of Fall! It's a beautiful crispy day out here in Vancouver PLUS it's Jordan's and I's 1st year anni so of course, I had to record a pod. 

Fall is such a cozy and moooody time of year. I share some of my favorite fall activities, I also share my experience with seasonal depression and some things I do to try to combat it. But I also love just staying home and watching tv shows and movies

Hope you enjoy :)

I've had several influencers on the pod, but have yet to have one that does content creation full time AND is on her way to becoming a lawyer. She does it all!

Gabby is a full-time fashion influencer and going into her final year of law school.  She did her undergrad at UBC,  Masters at TRU, and now law school at TRU. Unexpectedly content creation has become a full-time job and she has been trying to balance both law and being an influencer. She never really expected content creation to become a huge component of her life, but it started to take off in her first year of law school, so she decided to keep going (versus stopping it).

We chat about if she ever sees both careers merging together or if she'll keep it separate, how she grew her page, learning that she had hearing loss at the age of 25 and dealing with that big life change, how she does long-distance and finding the love of her life! Loved chatting with Gabby! What an angel. 

If you’re like me and you’ve seen one too many movies or TV shows where the main characters have a cute little neighborhood cafe to chill at (Central Perk or @Luke's Diner from Gilmore Girls, I'm looking at you), then you'll want to listen to this episode. 

I absolutely love having a main character moment at a coffee shop. 

What's a main character moment?

According to the New Yorker: Main-character moments are those in which you feel ineffably in charge, as if the world were there for your personal satisfaction.

To end the 10-episode podcast challenge I set myself 2 weeks ago, I go into why I love coffee shops, the intimacy of coffee shops, and some of my favorite coffee shops in the city. (Take a shot everytime I say the word "coffee shop".

Hope you enjoy!

Networking... nerve-wracking or exciting? 

We all have to do it in some way or another whether professionally or in our personal time. 

I personally love networking and share some of my insights on how to network successfully, how to build your LinkedIn profile, and how to meet new people/friends as an adult! :)

Hope these tips helped! 

Who doesn't love Subway? You know we do.

So of course, we are going to judge and roast people's Subway orders and share some of the more popular Subway orders in each country. We end the episode with a cute silly little Buzzfeed quiz on what our orders say about us and lastly, we do a quiz that tells us how kinky we are based on our Subway order.

Hope you enjoy :)

ALL About Miss Eileen Gu. She is 19 years old and is the face of 30 campaigns in the US AND China. She was the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and half pipe and a silver medal in Slopestyle at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

Eileen Gu is the poster child for a new type of Chinese athlete. But one wrong move could send her tumbling. We dive into why brands absolutely love her, her dual identity (Chinese/American), the amount of pressure she has on her shoulders, what happens next with her future? 

If you're a Gen Z chances are that you've heard of Emma Chamberlain. If you haven't heard of her, this is your time to educate yourself on one of the most powerful Gen Z influencers. 

Emma Chamberlain is a 21-year-old content creator who has 16 million followers on Instagram and 12 million subscribers on YouTube. Her videos reach millions of views and she's got this charm and appeal that no one else has. She's been on Vogue, partnered with Louis Vuitton, Levi's & Artizia, and was

DRAMAAA. We love the Hollywood drama. Today we dig into what's going on with the cast of Don't Worry Darling. The love triangle, Harry Styles being unable to act and spitting on Chris Pine?!

It's a spicy one. 

Hope you enjoy!

Yes, yes, I know. Some of you may think Crocs are extremely ugly or incredibly cute. But, there is no denying that they are the most comfortable shoe. I'm a Croc wearer myself, sporting a neon blue during the day, and a black during the night. If you've seen me sprinting down 4th in Kitsilano, chances are that I'm in sport mode in my Crocs. 

I dig into how Crocs made the biggest comeback and went from ugly poo poo shoe to a household staple. Let's dive in. Also, Crocs sponsor me xoxo

Yes, you read the title correctly... we dive into Mark Ruffalo's or Hulk Mans tragic life story. I also make Jordan rate the avengers from 0-Zaddy.

Hope you enjoy :) 

I have to admit... I've been in a little bit of a creative rut when it comes to the podcast. Obviously, I love interviewing people but it can certainly be difficult in terms of scheduling. So, I've set myself a goal to upload 10 short podcast episodes in the next 2 weeks. I'm thinking Monday-Friday, short little episodes on random things that I find interesting. To start off this mini-series, we are doing an episode all about bagels. 

First, we talk about the best bagels in Vancouver, what exactly is a bagel, and how bagels originated in the 16th century?! 

Bagels, it turns out, are very much a bread thread that pulls through hard times, dreams, visions, organizational development, good luck, and good food. 

PS: send us your fav kind of bagel also is a bagel a sandwich? 

This one's got to be up there on one of my favorite interviews. 

I am joined by the remarkable and inspiring Cory Richards. Cory is an internationally renowned photographer, filmmaker/director, and writer. His work for National Geographic Magazine began with adventure features, exploring the most remote corners of the globe from Antarctica to the Russian Arctic. In 2011, Cory became the first and only American to climb one of the world’s 8000 m peaks in winter, summiting Gasherbrum II in the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan. His documentation of the climb and aftermath of the experience was made into the award-winning documentary, COLD and appeared on the cover of the 125th-anniversary issue of National Geographic Magazine. 

Much of Cory’s life has been defined by his journey with Mental Health to which he speaks openly and honestly, laying bare the hidden struggles that so many face in silence and solitude. As a high school dropout at 14, his life has followed an irregular arch that has lent itself well to exploring the balance of high achievement and struggles with mental health. His advocacy work has garnered millions of views online through his social media platforms as well as through his speaking career.

I’m a huge fan of his work and really admire his courage and resilience with all the obstacles he’s faced in his life.

We chat about finding people in his personal life and supporting him on his journey and evolvement, what identity means to him, writing a book about his life and the hardest chapters to write, and the importance of community (finding a group of men at his gym), as well as internal and external goals he has. We also end the episode with some rapid-fires such as his least favorite photograph that he's taken and the 3 most influential people in life right now (the answer may surprise you). 

I am joined by the incredible Nitsan Raiter. I’ve been a long-time follower of hers(back to when she was Beauty Rewritten) She was a marketing professional turned content creator, turned business owner. After 3 years of leading influencer strategy for a top beauty brand while doing content creation on the side, she decided to risk it all and make it her full-time career.

5 years later, she’s grown her personal brand and built an amazing community. 

Inspired to change this and put power into the hands of creators, Nitsan launched Mind Your Business, professional development & education start-up dedicated to giving emerging and established content creators the tools and information they need to run their social media businesses.

Since its launch in January 2021, Mind Your Business by Nitsan Raiter has debuted a creator crash course and day planner and has grown to a community of over 14k creators I absolutely love her online presence and how much she's grown over the last few years.

We chat about growing up in Israel, what her friends would describe her as back in high school, leaving the corporate world, making it her full-time job, the #1 creators struggle with in regards to brand partnerships, collaboration vs competition in the space and not comparing herself to other beauty influencers, why she created the course. We end the ep with some fun rapid fires like who she would let choose to dress her to meet the queen: Momma Raiter or The Husband. 

Hiii guys! Jordan and I adopted a rescue pup named Tahfi! We love her so much and we had to share our adoption journey with you all.

She's a year old, originally from Iran, she was nearly strangled to death at a couple of months old and then later on almost poisoned as a young pup. She's been through so much, but I'm so grateful for her and how much love she's brought into our lives. For those curious about her mix, she's a mix of GSP/Greyhound.

Hope you enjoy this week's episode. :) 

Rescue: Loved at Last

I am joined by the LinkedIn queen herself, Sophie Miller. She is the founder of Pretty Little Marketer. 

Pretty Little Marketer is an online community to inform and empower you to find your feet in the world of marketing. From 1:1s and webinars, to resources and daily content across socials - if you love marketing, PLM is the place for you. It has seen huge success on the platform since starting her business during the pandemic. The IG has grown over 40,000 followers and the LinkedIn page has nearly 90,000. Her personal page has 68,000 connections. If you haven’t yet seen Sophie’s LinkedIn posts then where have you been?!

She's built such an amazing community of marketers, she gives insight on what brands/influencers should do to increase their community engagement, using your content to become a solution, creating advocates for your brand, the key to growing on LinkedIn and what do most people need help with on social. 

Truly such a beneficial convo - highly recommend if you're looking to grow engagement! 

In 2013, two friends set out to create a company that celebrated grain and bean farmers, while providing a much needed connection to higher quality, fresher flour and dry goods. Flourist was co-founded by Janna Bishop and Shira McDermott, a clothing designer and food industry pro respectively, to fill what they saw as a gap in the growing farm-to-table movement, and to provide transparency in a whole new, untouched food category.

In this episode, we chat about how the two came together and started the business, working with your best friend, how to delegate and lean on your partner, their relationship with food, some of their favourite Flourist items, and whose the better chef. ;)

Loved chatting with these ladies.

I am joined by Jessica Opon. Jess has been working in post production for several years now. Starting out as an assistant editor for Defy Media in LA, she worked her way up to being an editor at Vice Media in New York, where she was a piece of the group of “Charlottesville: Race and Terror”, which won an Emmy. She also became an integral part of the production process as a shooter and producer.

Now working as a freelancer, her main focus is editing, but brings her knowledge of producing and shooting to her work. She is an editor for the incredible cooking channel, Binging with Babish, starring Andrew Rae, her partner.

​She was also a fellow dancer, and you can tell that her background as a professional dancer becomes immediately apparent in the delicate, expertly choreographed stories she weaves behind both the camera and the editing desk.

Absolutely loved chatting with Jess. She's such a wise and beautiful person. We talked about the dance world and not so great relationships with food and image, switching industries and going into production and editing, working on YouTube, how editing and dance is more connected than you might think, advice she has for going into the production/entertainment industry, learning to trust yourself, and end with some fun rapid fires like some of the projects she's most proud of!

Hope you enjoy

Back with another episode with Jordan! We talk about the book *heist* that led us to reading "All About Love: New Visions" by the incredible bell hooks. 

We absolutely loved the book and found that we were continuously having conversations about love and how to love not only with each other but with others around us and had to share our perspectives on it. Do note that this is not an extensive review of bell hooks' book or her literature just us touching on some points that she mentions in the book. We also go over some of the poll results that you guys answered on the @wellnowwhatpodcast Instagram. 

Hope you enjoy

Sponsored by Nature's Path!

I am joined by Emily Kosichek! Emily is a 23 year-old fashion content creator from Vancouver, BC. She grew up in North Vancouver (also dancing) and eventually did her undergrad in Business at Queen’s University. Apart from content creation, she also works in the fashion industry, specifically in Product Development. Her Tiktok account has grown to nearly 160k followers and 4 million views. Her videos often show her day-to-day outfits and vlogs. I absolutely love her style. I’ve had a few different TikTok people on, but none in the fashion industry.

Emily provides amazing insight into what it's like to be in the fashion industry, how saturated it is and how to stand out, how to approach brands, and how TikTok helped grow her social media presence. She also mentions that the two things she believed helped her grow is one, her daily casual outfits, and two, her body type. She finds that a lot of her followers appreciate her style but also feel grateful that there is more diversity in terms of body types on the platform.

Loved our chat!

I am joined by Kelsea. She is half-Chinese and lives in Toronto. With a BFA from OCAD and a lifetime of work in hospitality she currently works in film production but has recently made the big career leap after working for celebrity chef Susur Lee for 10 years as Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant. Whom I interviewed on the podcast earlier! 

She’s currently working on a podcast called Mixed Feelings which is set to air this May, The podcast will cover interviews about representation in film, colourism, food rituals and other topics mixed people sometimes have mixed feelings about growing up in a globalized modern world.

Her big interests are food, hospitality, and media. She is happiest when watching TV or trying new restaurants or recipes. She recently took an online graduate-level course with Boston University in Food Studies on Gender Studies where she specifically focused on Chinese birth and death rituals relating to food and deferred (due to COVID) a 6-month culinary position in France at Ecole Ducasse with Chef Alaine Ducasse. She’s looking forward to what her 30s look like for her and how she’ll be able to blend all of her skills and interests together to create an interesting and exciting future!

Follow @mixedfeelingsradio 

100 EPISODES?!

Holy shit! Who would have thought that I would have gone this far with the podcast? Haha, not me. I'm so grateful and amazed by the community that this little ting has built. I've had such invaluable conversations with so many incredible and wise guests. It's making me even a bit emotional posting this. Thank you thank you to everyone who listened, shared, commented, and subscribed, I appreciate you!

In this episode, I'm joined by my partner, Jordan once again.

Relationships with food can be complicated -- both Jordan and I had rocky relationships with food as we both suffered from disordered eating. Rebuilding a relationship with food was hard for both of us -- but being able to find joy within the processes and experiences food can bring. In this episode, we explore the great and not-so-great culture of the food industry while diving into my cultural heritage through food experiences!  

PSA: We are not licensed professionals, all opinions are our own. Please reach out to a professional for help :) TW: Eating Disorders 

Ro is the 29-year-old Founder of The Wilds Skincare — a clean, genderless, and step-simplified skincare line that launched earlier this year.

In just 3 months, The Wilds has achieved some exciting milestones including a social media launch campaign that reached just over 5M Instagram users, upcoming features in Coveteur, Goop, Forbes, PopSugar (to name a few), and most notably, being named a finalist in the Pure Beauty Global Awards for Best New Clean Skincare.

Beyond ethical skincare, The Wilds aims is to cultivate a community that fosters unapologetic confidence, self-acceptance and the permission to be happily wild.

We chat about her upbringing and middle eastern background, her skin journey and why she created The Wilds, starting a business, leaning into her fear compass, marketing herself and manifesting her business, and why she doesn't compare herself to others. 

Follow @thewildsskincare 

I am joined by the amazing - Maddie Laver! Yet another dance friend! Maddie and I danced together for several years back in the day. She’s now doing all the things. She is a producer and creative, currently working in Art Direction for Apple. She has 6 years of international production experience, with work ranging from direct-response ads to a 10-episode series on Amazon Prime Video. Maddie approaches her work from a human-first point of view and establishes seamless partnerships with her teams and contractors to create world-class content. Maddie was born in the US but lived, and was educated in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada before moving back to the US. She currently lives and works in LA. I know a lot of my listeners are really interested in the producing role, as am I, so I’m super excited for everyone to hear Maddie's journey. 

We chat about growing up in the US then moving to Canada, how College wasn't really for her, feeling lost and unsure what to do career-wise, stepping into the entertainment industry, what 16-year old Maddie would think of herself today, and her best advice for getting into the producing/entertainment scene. 

Follow @madzlaver 

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Hi friends!! It's my birthdaaaaay! Blessing you all with a short but sweet episode about 25 things I learned by 25 years old. Hopefully I can spread a little wisdom. ;) 

Hope everyone had a great New Year! New interviews to come :) xo

Sav

I came across his Instagram page from a friend of mines, and I loved his approach and the natural feel his images had. The images didn't try too hard and felt really authentic. Each image truly tells a story.

In this episode, we chat about how he started as a plumber to now a professional photographer, gaining a large number of followers, losing inspiration, finding tranquility & appreciating the importance of slowing down (especially during COVID), most memorable travel experiences, what he enjoys the most about photography and what most people don't know about him.

Taylor actually has an online course/workshop on landscape photography. He was kind enough to give my listeners 35% off! Use code "OHCANADATMB" at checkout. Check it out at taylorburk.com