Seen and Heard in Edmonton
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A weekly conversation with independent media producers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Episode 82: Elizabeth Spencer
Meet the creator and co-host of That's a Thing?!, a podcast in which a teen explains her media culture to her mom (that's me).
In addition to a mother-daughter conversation about our new podcast, this episode is also a swan song for Seen and Heard in Edmonton.
Brought to you by Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (https://bit.ly/AWELearningDay) and ATB (https://atb.com/listen), founding sponsor of the Alberta Podcast Network (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com).
Episode 81: Kat Griffiths
Meet Kat Griffiths, a fangirl of the highest order who shines a light on the artists who make the songs she loves with a podcast called Start the Music.
Find the full show notes at https://seenandheardyeg.com
Seen and Heard in Edmonton is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com)
Brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://ecfoundation.org) and ATB's The Branch for Arts and Culture (https://atb.com/thebranch).
Episode 80: Dan Shessel
Meet the co-host and co-creator of the Northern Nerdcast, a showcase for the geeky, nerdy people, groups and events in and around the Edmonton area.
Seen and Heard in Edmonton is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com). This episode is brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://ecfoundation.org) and ATB (https://atb.com).
Episode 79: Press Start to Join
Meet Josh Shenfield and Alan Techsmith, two prolific nerds who talk about video games, movies, TV, comics and "more geekery than you can shake a joystick at" on Press Start to Join.
Full show notes at https://seenandheardyeg.com
Brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://ecfoundation.org) and ATB's Branch for Arts and Culture (https://atb.com/thebranch) and a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com)
Episode 78: Meredith Bratland
Hear how a writer and traveller who has turned her curiosity about people from elsewhere into a podcast called Migration Patterns. She makes lots of great recommendations, too.
This podcast is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com), and is sponsored by ATB (https://atb.com) and the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://thewellendowedpodcast.com)
Episode 77: Meetup with Doug Hoyer
Doug Hoyer has written more Edmonton podcast music than anyone I know, even though he doesn't live here any more. So when he came back to Edmonton for a few days in October, I grabbed the opportunity to ask him about that work at the Edmonton Podcasting Meetup.
See the full show notes at https://seenandheardyeg.com/2017/11/06/episode-77-meetup-with-doug-hoyer/
Seen and Heard in Edmonton is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com).
Interlude: Episode 1 of That's a Thing?!
In the pilot episode of That's a Thing?! — a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20 —Elizabeth explains the deliciously disturbing literary phenomenon known as creepypasta.
This is a departure from the usual Seen and Heard in Edmonton. We'll return to interviews with local podcasters and bloggers, as well as audio from podcasting meetups, in a couple of weeks.
Episode 76: Sandra Sperounes and Agnes DeMarco
Hear how an interview and a dirty martini led a music writer and a rock-n-roll mom to start Agnes + Sandra's Three-Way, a podcast to shine a light on creative people.
Brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://ecfoundation.org) and ATB (https://atb.com), founding sponsor of the Alberta Podcast Network (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com).
Episode 75: Caleb Caswell
The host of The Tear Down talks about getting to the heart of Edmonton's music scene through frank discussions with local musicians.
Brought to you by ATB (https://atb.com/listen) and by the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com)
Episode 74: Sylvia Schneider
Meet Sylvia Schneider, co-host of the Equinely-Inclined podcast for Canada's horse community, and a pioneer of Alberta podcasting.
Seen and Heard in Edmonton is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB (https://albertapodcastnetwork.com)
Brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation (https://thewellendowedpodcast) and ATB (https://atb.com/listen)
Episode 73: Jeff MacCallum
Meet Jeff MacCallum, one-half of the team behind two Edmonton podcasts that focus on independent music on the prairies: Cups N Cakes and Inside the Artist's Studio.
Brought to you by ATB, founding sponsor of the Alberta Podcast Network.
Episode 72: Meetup with Erika Ensign
One of the voices behind Verity! and many other podcasts shares what she knows about growing a fandom.
Episode 71: Sydney Lancaster
An interview with a visual artist and advocate about making connections online, helping artists make money, and supporting local independent media.
Episode 70: Taproot Live
I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion about urban planning wishes at a live event put on by Taproot Edmonton, my other adventure in building a future for local media, which I've been working on for the past year with Mack Male. It was an interesting discussion on a profoundly local topic, so I figured it might also be of interest to listeners of Seen and Heard in Edmonton. Here you go. This episode is also available in Apple Podcasts, on Google Play, on SoundCloud or on Stitcher. For mor
Episode 69: Amy and Scott Fralick
Meet Scott and Amy Fralick, the smart and creative couple who are chronicling their adventure with pregnancy later in life on their new podcast, 40 & Knocked Up! You may know them as two-thirds of The Frolics, a surf-punk band that started in Nashville and is now part of Edmonton's music scene. You may also know Scott as a broadcast journalist who is now at CITY-TV. But they are also parents who decided after 40 that they wanted to have another child. It has not been easy, and they had trou
Episode 68: Meetup with Michael Short
For our June podcasting meetup, we had a chat with Michael Short of Let's Go Outdoors about how to make a living in new media. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Michael is a man ahead of his time. Long before the Internet made it a whole lot easier to be an independent media producer, Michael was doing it with Let's Go Outdoors, where he covers all kinds of stories to do with land, air and water, and distributed them on radio, TV and now online. His business model on Let's Go Outdoors is
Episode 67: Andrew Paul
Meet Andrew Paul, who uses his journalistic chops to tell stories about philanthropy and good works in Edmonton as part of the team that produces The Well-Endowed Podcast. Andrew came up through alt-weeklies and magazines after he graduated from the journalism program at MacEwan. He shifted into doing public relations for arts and non-profit organizations with his now-wife, Fawnda Mithrush, and ended up at the Edmonton Community Foundation, which encourages philanthropy and funds charitable acti
Episode 66: Cultivating a community
I had the great pleasure of talking to Ben Yendall of Tales from the Hydian Way and Trina Shessel from the Northern Nerdcast on stage at the Needle on May 12 during NorthwestFest's LunchPods series. Both Ben and Trina have cultivated a community around their podcasts, and are members of Edmonton's growing and increasingly connected podcasting community. They shared a lot of excellent insights about how and why they got into podcasting, and what they have learned about "community" in all (or at l
Episode 65: Meetup with Fawnda Mithrush
Our April meetup gave us a chance to talk about the power of cross-promotion by engaging in some cross-promotion — I love me some meta. We had a chance to talk Fawnda Mithrush, who is managing director of NorthwestFest, Edmonton's international festival of nonfiction film, art and music. Fawnda is the brain behind LunchPods, a series of live podcast shows on at The Needle Vinyl Tavern throughout this week in conjunction with the film festival. Fawnda also hosted I Don't Get It, an award-winning
Episode 64: Michael Vecchio and Elliott Tanti
Meet Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, two friends who started sparring about politics for fun and decided to turn their frequent debates into the Highlevel Showdown podcast. Highlevel Showdown started in the Tory Building at the University of Alberta, where Elliott and Michael found themselves engaging in political discussions that spilled over onto the LRT on the way home. Elliott had done a podcast called What's Up UAlberta, and it felt natural to capture the conversations they were already
Episode 63: Building local listenership
Our March podcasting meetup offered a local spin on #trypod, a campaign that started in the U.S. to encourage more people to listen to podcasts. I am, of course, strongly in favour of more people listening to podcasts of all kinds, but I am particularly interested in carving out some mindshare for locally produced shows. That's why I invited Chris Chang-Yen Phillips, creator of Let's Find Out, and Katrina Ingram, interim CEO of CKUA, to give their perspectives on how to do that. Chris's podcast
Episode 62: Getting started with The Broadcast
Our February meetup was kind of a sequel to an earlier meetup on how to get started. Among the aspiring podcasters in that audience were journalists Trisha Estabrooks and Alex Zabjek. At that point, they knew they wanted to do a podcast, but they had so many questions. They got some answers at that meetup, and found a lot more on their own on their way to launching The Broadcast, a show about women and politics in Alberta. So I decided to have them back to share what it took to pull the trigger.
Episode 61: Lauren Dary
Meet Lauren Dary, an Edmonton photographer and one-half of the team behind That’s So Maven, a podcast by, for and about female entrepreneurs. Lauren and her co-host, Andrea Beça, discovered in a series of texts that they had both been thinking about starting a podcast. Then they discovered they were both interested in focusing on women in business. Kismet. Off they went. At first they thought it would be bi-weekly, but when they started building their list of potential guests, it was quickly mor
Episode 60: Keep it tight or let it run?
Our January meetup was billed as a debate between Taylor Chadwick of What It Is against Andrea Beça of That's So Maven on how long a podcast should be. "Debate" turned out to be a bit of a strong term. As Taylor says at one point, "it sounds like we're just going to agree the whole time." I accept responsibility. Everyone's just so nice. They do come from different points of view on what works for the length of their own shows. The sweet spot for What It Is — an arts interview show that Taylor d
Episode 59: Tyler Butler
Meet Tyler Butler, the always-learning digital marketing strategist and musician who explores social media on the new podcast Don’t Call Me A Guru. Don't Call Me A Guru is a monthly conversation about social media strategy between Tyler, who works at MacEwan University, and Linda Hoang, who used to work at NAIT and now works at Calder Bateman. They met kibbitzing with each other online, and now we get to listen in on their "conversations we would have had anyway," and learn a lot about social me
Episode 58: Nick McQuik
Meet Nick McQuik, the always hustling comic who co-hosts The Quik and Slow Comedy Show, a long-running podcast featuring "comedians interviewing comedians about comedy in a basement." Nick started podcasting in part to learn more about his craft, a good trick I may have adopted myself a time or two. He also jumped in with both feet by buying a lot of equipment, so he kind of had to make it happen after that. I suspect I am too old and square for some of the comedy on Nick's show, which he co-hos
Episode 57: Meetup on how to find your podcasting niche
We kick off 2017 with the audio from our November meetup with Haley Radke of Adoptees On and Wang Yip of The Dip on how to find your niche. In a way, these two podcasts couldn't be more different, in format, audience and tone. Haley's podcast is an interview show that gives a voice to people who were adopted, and Wang's is a conversation with co-host Shawn Kanungo riffing on interesting things they've heard other podcasts about business, entrepreneurship, creativity and the like. But they have
Episode 56: Meetup on how to reach your audience
This week’s podcast features the audio from our October meetup with Kelly Froese of the Edmonton Nerd List and Jeff Williams of Guerrilla Radio. Kelly and Jeff have each devised ways to shine a spotlight on local creators and ventures. As you know, that is pretty much my favourite thing, so I brought them together and called it "how to reach your audience," because one of the ways to do that is to get noticed by one of these cross-promotion sites. You can also derive some lessons for how they ha
Episode 55: Dave Rae
Meet Dave Rae, the comic, sketch comedian and improviser who takes any side of any debate and always wins on The Devil's Advocate. I first learned of Dave and his podcast through the Northern Content Network, a collection of primarily (but not exclusively) comedian-produced podcasts gathered by Dan Clarke and Dan Taylor. The Devil's Advocate quickly caught my attention as a smart, funny exercise that was unlike anything else I had heard. Dave has made me laugh out loud so many times. He did it a
Episode 54: Robyn Wilson
Meet Robyn Wilson, the fearless and empathetic interviewer behind The One, a podcast featuring everyday people and the love stories that make them unique. The One was "spurred out of jealousy," Robyn says. She had been helping her husband, Phil Wilson, with his podcast (more about that below), and decided that she wanted something of her own. Hearing other people's love stories made her happy, so she decided to go with that. In this conversation, you'll learn more about how Robyn approaches her
Episode 53: Meetup on how to get started
This week's podcast features the audio from our meetup on how to start a podcast, which we recorded way back in September. This was a departure from our usual format. We had veteran podcasters on one side of the room and aspiring podcasters on the other, and we invited the rookies to pepper the vets with questions. You'll hear questions such as these: Which sound editing program should I use? What would you do differently if you started again, especially for business? How frequently should podc
Episode 52: Tema Frank
Meet Tema Frank, an author, an Internet pioneer, and the creator of Frank Reactions, where she explores customer experience and customer service in the digital era. Tema has long been a woman ahead of her time, putting up her first website in 1995 to promote her first book, Canada's Best Employers for Women. Most people around her didn't even know what a website was, but the experience taught her things she would use later on, which is a theme, as you'll hear. Credit perhaps is due to the Univer
Episode 51: Jeremy Bibaud
Meet Jeremy Bibaud, the gaming aficionado who co-hosts The Clickbait Podcast, and the enterprising writer behind a story-mapping project called YEG Storyhood. Jeremy is a guy who sees an opportunity and grabs it. He'd been writing for the online magazine PlayStation LifeStyle. When its previous podcast stopped, Jeremy and co-hosts Jeffrey Gordon and Brandon Hoover stepped in to make a podcast that, in part, addresses the community's reactions to stories. "Most people say, 'Don't read the comment
Episode 50: David Rauch
Meet David Rauch, the strategic planner, open-data enthusiast and onetime journalist who makes connections through Beta City YEG, Edmonton's civic technology meetup. David is the kind of guy who radiates enthusiasm. It's that energy that has animated and incited all kinds of interesting projects, such as the Open Piano project that brought music to city streets; ArtTourYEG, a guide to Edmonton's public art; the LinkYEG app to connect Edmontonians in need with services; and a map of historical Ed
Episode 49: Jim Bilodeau
Meet Jim Bilodeau, a NAIT instructor with a passion to help artists make money online, and the man behind The Museum Project, an interesting idea to help make that happen. Jim was one of the people who came in for an interview on 100 in 1 Day back in June, when I took over a studio at the Edmonton Public Library's Makerspace to talk to Edmontonians about what they are making. Unlike most of my interviewees, Jim doesn't write a blog or make a podcast or have a YouTube channel. But he wants to hel
Episode 48: Ben Yendall
Meet Ben Yendall, the storytelling, community-building co-host of Tales from the Hydian Way, a podcast about a role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe. As Ben says, Tales from the Hydian Way is about as niche as you can get, but podcasting is a great medium for serving your particular pack of people. He followed the advice we've often heard here and elsewhere: Make the podcast you want to listen to. I don't play the game and I stopped watching Star Wars at Return of the Jedi, and yet I t
Episode 47: German Villegas
Meet German Villegas, a youth worker who conducts interviews about healthy masculinity on The Modern Manhood Podcast and jaws about hockey with his buddies on Your Team Sucks. German has been interested in podcasting for awhile, and had a music one that didn't go anywhere. Hockey turned out to be more fruitful terrain for a lively debate, hence Your Team Sucks, where fans of three different teams chirp each other and discuss various hockey-related happenings. That's where I first became aware o
Episode 46: Meetup with Ryan Jackson and Chris Sikkenga
This week's podcast features the audio from our meetup on how to get good sound, featuring multimedia photojournalist Ryan Jackson of Full Circle Visuals and podcaster and video editor Chris Sikkenga. We gathered at Variant Edition Comics and Culture in June to learn more about why sound is so important, how to control the room to improve the conditions for recording, how to work the microphone to avoid common errors, how to monitor your sound along the way, and what, if anything, you can do aft
Episode 45: Jessica and Katie of For Kicks
Meet Jessica Cooreman and Katie Woodfine, the hardcore footy fans behind For Kicks, a podcast that follows the Canadian national women's team on the road to Rio, as well as women's soccer in general. I hope some day to love something as much as Katie and Jessica love soccer. Their passion for the game is infectious and so fun to listen to. And I was thrilled to hear in our conversation that even though the podcast was born to follow the team's progress towards the Olympics this August, they plan
Episode 44: Marcia J. Hamm
Meet Marcia J. Hamm, the wine lover who explores her passion and makes educated but accessible recommendations on her blog, Joy of Wine. Marcia wasn't always into wine, but an encounter with a pinot gris made her want to learn more about it. As she started studying, her husband told her she should really start writing down what she was experiencing, and that's where her blog began. She has pursued a lot of wine education over the years, including earning her WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust
Episode 43: Matt Mercer-Slingsby
Meet Matt Mercer-Slingsby, one of the hosts of Drink This Podcast, a celebration of pub culture that lets you eavesdrop on smart people talking about everything from restaurant life to Disney, over beers, of course. Drink This Podcast started as a review show four years ago, but that had some limitations, Matt says, and it got complicated when he got a job in the beer industry. So they shifted their focus to great conversations over tasty libations. Matt and his co-host Paul recently brought on
Episode 42: Meetup with Jeff Samsonow
This week’s podcast features the audio from our meetup with Jeff Samsonow of the edmontonian media co. on the subject of how to ask good questions. Jeff first started asking questions in a professional capacity when he got into journalism in high school, which put him on a path that led him to radio and then Accessible Media. Along the way, he and his partner Sally Poulsen founded the edmontonian, a blog that gave many other bloggers and podcasters their start. Jeff now runs Capital Ideas in Edm
Episode 41: Jess Holt
Meet Jess Holt, the wry wit and graphic designer by trade who offers a raw, insightful look at life as the mother of twins on Grace and Champ. Jess started the blog as a way to connect with adults after emerging from the first-year fog of somewhat unexpected parenthood, multiplied by 2. “I didn’t want it to be just about parenting, but it turns out that’s all I do,” she says. You don’t get tips from Jess, nor do you get a candy-coated celebration of the joys of motherhood. You get candour, which
Episode 40: Alyssa Lau
Meet Alyssa Lau, the blogger who shares her unique and striking approach to style at Ordinary People, and the proprietor of New Classics Studios, an online shop for sustainable fashion.… More Episode 40: Alyssa Lau
Episode 39: Nathan Terlesky
Meet Nathan Terlesky, one half of the soccer-loving duo that chats about FC Edmonton and other football-related matters on the Loyal Company of the River Valley podcast.… More Episode 39: Nathan Terlesky
Episode 38: Trent Wilkie
Meet Trent Wilkie, the writer, performer and blogger behind The Undad, where he tries to "make sense of being a father, a husband and a malcontent."… More Episode 38: Trent Wilkie
Episode 37: Jeanshorts and Baggedmilk
Meet Jeanshorts and Baggedmilk, two hockey fans who parlayed their passion for communicating about the game into paying jobs at OilersNation and the Nation Network.… More Episode 37: Jeanshorts and Baggedmilk
Episode 36: Troy Pavlek
Meet Troy Pavlek, a close observer of civic affairs and the man behind Basket of YEGs and yegvotes.info.… More Episode 36: Troy Pavlek
Episode 35: Don Iveson
Mayor Don Iveson discusses why he blogs, the good and bad of social media, and the changes happening in media in general.… More Episode 35: Don Iveson
Episode 34: Paul Matwychuk
Meet Paul Matwychuk, a writer, editor and film aficionado who compares and contrasts movies in the most erudite way on Trash, Art, and the Movies.… More Episode 34: Paul Matwychuk
Episode 33: The Movie Jerks
Meet JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak, aka The Movie Jerks, two comedians who make people love the movies they hate, or hate them more.… More Episode 33: The Movie Jerks
Episode 32: Meetup with Steven Schapansky
Hear Steven Schapansky of Radio Free Skaro discuss monetizing your podcast at a recent Edmonton Podcasting Meetup.… More Episode 32: Meetup with Steven Schapansky
Episode 31: Sarah Hoyles
Meet Sarah Hoyles, the passionate storyteller who talks to people about their animals on Pet Sounds, and who nerds out about history on the Edmonton City as Museum Project's podcast.… More Episode 31: Sarah Hoyles
Episode 30: David Dodge
Meet David Dodge, the man behind Green Energy Futures, a multimedia storytelling project that documents the clean energy revolution.… More Episode 30: David Dodge
Episode 29: Lori Godin
Meet Lori Godin, the smart cookie behind Frugal Edmonton Mama, Raising Edmonton and YEG Date Night.… More Episode 29: Lori Godin
Episode 28: Dan Taylor and Ben Proulx
Meet Ben Proulx and Dan Taylor, the comedians behind the 30 Minute Week podcast.… More Episode 28: Dan Taylor and Ben Proulx
Episode 27: Podcast promotion meetup
Hear Dan Clarke, Erika Ensign and Kevin Horek discuss how to promote your podcast.… More Episode 27: Podcast promotion meetup
Episode 26: TJ Jans and Salena Kitteringham
Meet TJ Jans and Salena Kitteringham, the team behind the Curious Arts blog.… More Episode 26: TJ Jans and Salena Kitteringham
Episode 25: Stacey Knopp
Meet Stacey Knopp, who connects awesome couples and great local vendors on yegwed.com.… More Episode 25: Stacey Knopp
Episode 24: Podcasting tech meetup, Part 2
Adam Rozenhart, Scott Winder and Mack Male discuss podcasting tech in Part 2 from our meetup.… More Episode 24: Podcasting tech meetup, Part 2
Episode 23: Podcasting tech meetup
Hear about podcasting tech in the past, present and future from Mack Male, Adam Rozenhart and Scott Francis Winder.… More Episode 23: Podcasting tech meetup
Episode 22: Colin MacIntyre
Meet Colin MacIntyre, creator of the vital and hilarious Long John Index, a service he runs during Canada's colder months to suggest how we should dress for the weather.… More Episode 22: Colin MacIntyre
Episode 21: Linda Hoang
Meet Linda Hoang, the self-described "social media lady" behind linda-hoang.com and the online identity @lindork. Oh my goodness, did we ever laugh a lot in this interview.… More Episode 21: Linda Hoang
Episode 20: Lillian Tse
Meet Lillian Tse, whose quest to master the art of making macarons led her to create her food blog, Beyond Umami.… More Episode 20: Lillian Tse
Episode 19: Kat Griffiths
Meet Kat Griffiths, one of six smart women who discuss Doctor Who on the podcast Verity!… More Episode 19: Kat Griffiths
Episode 18: Phil Wilson
Meet Phil Wilson, the food-loving man behind the Baconhound blog and the Off Menu podcast. Truth be told, there’s a good chance you have met Phil, at least virtually, because he is a fixture on the Edmonton blogging scene. He’s a good talker, too, as we used to say in the newsroom, which accounts for his… More Episode 18: Phil Wilson
Episode 17: Ryan Batty
Meet Ryan Batty, managing editor of Oilers blog The Copper & Blue and an engineer who blogs about transportation from time to time on All Roads Lead to Ryan. Like many hockey bloggers, Ryan got his start on the message boards and comment threads of the storied Oilogosphere. That and his work on his own site, Spilled Oil, caught the eye of… More Episode 17: Ryan Batty
Episode 16: Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz
Meet Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz, avid podcasters who love Doctor Who, sell comics and cultivate an inclusive, creative community around whatever they do. Danica and Brandon were both guests and hosts at our first ever Edmonton podcasting meetup at their store, Variant Edition, which has become a hub for intelligent conversations about pop culture. Since… More Episode 16: Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz
Episode 15: Chris Tse
Meet Chris Tse, a scientist-turned-personal-trainer who has turned his business’s blog and his social media presence into an important community-builder and creative outlet. Chris started blogging on the Blitz Conditioning site in 2011 (I might have said 2012 in the podcast). At first, he said, he and co-founder Brett Kirkland were largely motivated by a desire… More Episode 15: Chris Tse
Episode 14: Taylor Chadwick and Brian Bergum
Meet Taylor Chadwick and Brian Bergum, two-thirds of the core team that brings you What It Is, a podcast that has become a vital and highly entertaining archive of Edmonton’s arts scene. What It Is was born out of creative friends riffing and realizing their intelligent silliness was so good that other people should hear it, too. (Well, that’s my… More Episode 14: Taylor Chadwick and Brian Bergum
Episode 13: Dave Cournoyer
Meet Dave Cournoyer, the man behind the well-known, well-read, well-written political blog Daveberta. Dave has been at this for 10 years, and is definitely one of the deans of the Edmonton blogosphere — so much so that he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Yeggies at the still tender age of 31. A… More Episode 13: Dave Cournoyer
Episode 12: Natasha Chiam
Meet Natasha Chiam, the woman behind The Stay At Home Feminist, a blog that makes me laugh, cry and think. As we learn in this episode, Natasha started as a reluctant blogger on her online baby boutique’s website in 2008. And then she had an experience that got her hooked on writing, and away she went. The story… More Episode 12: Natasha Chiam
Episode 11: Erin E. Fraser
Meet Erin E. Fraser, co-host of two podcasts about film: Trash, Art and the Movies and Bollywood is for Lovers. Erin joined Paul Matwychuk and Heather Noel on Trash, Art and the Movies in 2012, and has been pitting highbrow cinema again brainless entertainment and declaring a victor ever since. The format of the podcast has… More Episode 11: Erin E. Fraser
Episode 10: Jenna Marynowski
Meet Jenna Marynowski, the woman behind After the House Lights, an outlet for her profound passion for local theatre. Jenna caught the writing-about-theatre bug at Sound + Noise, which led her to start own place to shine a spotlight on the dramatic arts. In addition to reviews, she also pays exceptionally close attention to theatre festivals,… More Episode 10: Jenna Marynowski
Episode 9: Nicole Rowan
Meet Nicole Rowan, the woman behind The Spirited Thrifter, a blog about secondhand shopping and everyday style. Nicole is now in her fourth year of blogging, and she says it has been a life-changing experience. She tells us how a bout of retail therapy at Value Village led to her blog, and why her blog… More Episode 9: Nicole Rowan
Interlude 1: The tables are turned
It’s the Labour Day long weekend, and it feels like I’ve been on a dead run for weeks, notwithstanding (or maybe including) the little family vacation we just took. Anyway, this seemed like a good time to take a breath. I don’t want to leave you empty-eared, however. Thanks to my Episode 8 guest, Andy… More Interlude 1: The tables are turned
Episode 8: Andy Grabia
Meet Andy Grabia, the blogger behind Yegball, a look at baseball in Edmonton, and a veteran of the original Oilogosphere, the community of hardcore hockey bloggers who helped change the way the game was written about in the early 2000s. Andy explores his blogging history, all the way back to a personal blog called The Cosby… More Episode 8: Andy Grabia
Episode 7: Sharon Yeo
Meet Sharon Yeo, the woman behind Only Here for the Food, one of Edmonton’s great food blogs, and the co-founder of What the Truck?!, the food-truck festival that has had a huge impact on the food scene and on the city’s sense of community. Like many bloggers, Sharon started because she liked to write and… More Episode 7: Sharon Yeo
Episode 6: Jay Runham
Meet Jay Runham, the YouTuber, movie geek and basketball fan behind The Jay Runham Show. Jay is one of several independent media producers who got his start at The Edmontonian, the news and events site founded by Jeff Samsonow and Sally Poulsen that spawned a diaspora of talent. He went on to do an entertainment podcast… More Episode 6: Jay Runham
Episode 5: Laura Frey
A conversation with Laura Frey, the book blogger behind Reading in Bed, who offers solid advice on blogging and suggests many other blogs, podcasts and YouTubers to follow. Check out her wonderful list in the show notes. Music credits: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, played by Daniel Veesey, from… More Episode 5: Laura Frey
Episode 4: Andrea Beça
A conversation with Andrea Beça, who loves to set challenges for herself and do them out loud on the Internet. Her latest project is a series of ukulele videos, and she’s got more ideas in the hopper. Check out the full show notes to see all the links she mentioned, and tons of recommendations for local… More Episode 4: Andrea Beça
Episode 3: Adam Rozenhart
A conversation with Adam Rozenhart, a nonstop creator of interesting things on the Internet, including his latest podcast, The Expats. He is both prolific and eclectic, and his taste in other people’s blogs and podcasts is equally so. Check out more about Adam’s projects and his many recommendations here. This week’s episode is brought to you… More Episode 3: Adam Rozenhart
Episode 2: Rev Recluse
A conversation with Kelly McConkey, better known as Rev Recluse, the ardent archivist who compiles a daily trip through history via newspapers, old broadcast clips and other ephemera on Vintage Edmonton. He’s podcasting old Edmonton music now, too. Learn more about this and his recommendations here.
Episode 1: Michelle Peters-Jones
A conversation with Michelle-Peters Jones, whose blog The Tiffin Box was nominated for a 2015 Taste Canada food-writing award. Learn more about Michelle and the blogs she recommends here.
Episode 0: Intro and Mack Male
An introduction to Seen and Heard in Edmonton, a podcast about bloggers and podcasters in Edmonton. In this episode, host Karen Unland gets her feet wet, sort of, with the assistance of Mack Male, aka mastermaq, creator of ShareEdmonton.