Bombshell Brunches Podcast

4 Months, 38 Livestreams, Countless new connections and local obsessions later and our summer livestream series is officially OVER!

As a special super wrap-up episode we  sat down with Liam Montgomery to discuss how to produce epic livestreams while fostering connections  with your audience. We got into how to  promote, produce and host a livestream. From top gear and equipment to  Kristina and Raquelle's biggest take-aways this is not an episode to miss as we all move forward in this hyper-digital world. 

About Liam : 

Liam is an event producer, content producer, and long time audio and video technician.  Liam has toured internationally with bands such as July Talk, the Proclaimers, and the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer.  In 2021 Liam created Showstream, a company determined to help make live-streaming and hybrid events better, easier, and more friendly. Liam actively works to educate and support organizations deliver their message and provides opportunities and sponsorship to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. 

Learn more at www.showstream.ca and on social @showstreamtechnology

To connect with Liam, click HERE

To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE

To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah and Grace!  

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)

Hold onto your hats, bombshells because we have an EPISODE for you!  Today Kristina and I get schooled on all things vagina and pelvic floor health. What we learned is CRAZY! Spoiler alert - no one should be afraid to laugh, sneeze, run or jump rope for fear of peeing. Not due to age. Not due to giving birth to one or more children. It just simply shouldn't be a thing. We've got THE tips on how to keep your body and pelvis healthy as well as some seriously kick a$$ baby shower ideas.

This episode busts some major myths and brings forth some potentially life-changing tips for anyone living with a vagina. Pelvic floor health plays a major roll in posture, strength, core, and so much more.

We get into EVEN more detail on the livestream so if you were like us and couldn't get enough - make sure to check out the livestream HERE. 

About Kim Vopni: 

Kim Vopni is a pelvic floor specialist, popularly known as The Vagina Coach. Kim became passionate about spreading information on pelvic health after the birth of her first child. She is a self-professed Kegel maven, a certified fitness trainer specializing in pre and post natal, perimenopause and menopause.  She is a women’s health educator and speaker, an author, and the founder of Pelvienne Wellness Inc. Kim is also the creator of Kegels & Cocktails™, health events designed to empower and educate women on the importance of pelvic health. Kim strives to normalize discussions about vaginas, Kegels and menopause, especially when her teenage sons are in ear shot.

Learn more at www.vaginacoach.com and on social @vaginacoach 

To connect with Kim, click HERE

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Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!  

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)

Today we sat down with one of our fav's Ocean Bloom!

We've talked about spirituality and healing  and how stress is held in the body with Ocean in the past. If you missed it make sure you scroll back to episode 58 (it's AH-Mazing). TODAY we talked all things FITNESS. As a past world fitness champion and a current world traveller we couldn't think of anyone else who would be better suited to talk about getting that fitness routine back during the endemic. It's a weird, transitional time and we need to give ourselves grace as we tippy toe into the new world in a way that is healthy for all of us.

If you're interested in Ocean Bloom's conscious movement therapy and incredible healing modalities you should absolutely check out the livestream we did HERE for a behind-the-scenes look at my now favourite healing modality. 

About Ocean Bloom: 

Ocean Bloom is an internationally renowned bodywork therapist, wellness coach and retreat leader. She has over 25 years’ experience as a Fitness World Champion, Celebrity Personal Trainer and Certified Yoga Teacher. Ocean has worked and studied extensively in South East Asia and Europe. Her pioneering approach combines fitness modalities with the ancient elements of Yoga, Chinese and Thai Medicine to facilitate the return to health not just physically but also in the mind and spirit. Ocean is the founder and facilitator\ of “Conscious Movement Therapy”. From high profile celebrities and athletes to first responders and trauma survivors, she has helped individuals release emotional blockages and reset their thinking process.

To connect with Ocean, click HERE

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To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

Today we sat down with Golden Ears Cheesecrafters co-founder, Emma Davison. 

We talk about life as an entrepreneur, the cardinal rules of founding a business with your sister, how to communicate bad news and how to build a team that has as much excitement about your product as you do!

ANND if you're as in love with cheese as I am, you MUST check out the livestream HERE for a behind-the-scenes look at some seriously delicious cheese and to learn the art of the cheese board. 

About Our Guest: 

Two Maple Ridge sisters Emma and Jenna Davison decided to continue their family’s century-old farming traditions and start a business that produces artisan cheeses, cheddar curds and cultured butter using local ingredients. As much as they can, Golden Ears Cheesecrafters uses the high-fat milk produced by their uncle’s jersey cows.

“We want to be a part of the centuries to come and what there used to be here from the land we originally started with.”

Golden Ears Cheesecrafters  has a retail store and bistro alongside producing cheese for some of Vancouver's hottest culinary spots, including Cartems Donuts, Elements, Araxi, Grouse Mountain and many more.

To connect with Golden Ears Cheese Crafters : click HERE

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Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

This week we got to chat with a modern day healer. After finishing a Living Full in Vancouver livestream with Chase where he guided us through breath work, meditation and sound bathing (find it here) we couldn't help but invite him onto Bombshell Brunches. We talked about his journey battling depression and self-identity, how he found the healing power of sound and how one can create the life of their dreams while doing what they love.

About Our Guest: 

Chase Trellert has traveled the world in search of different healing modalities to share with friends, family and those in his local community. His journeys have lead him as far as the Jungles of Peru to train with Shaman, to the Andes of Ecuador to learn ancient yogic practices and to South East Asia to Meditate with Monks. He combines many different modalities to weave a unique healing experience for all who attend his sessions. Chase’s Sound Healing Journey began while he was living in Australia, after hearing the didgeridoo for the first time. Since then he has collected all sorts of instruments with the singular goal of providing healing.

To connect with Chase : click HERE

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To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

If you’re like us, right now the world feels heavy. Burnout is a recurring theme, pandemic isolation and social justice fights have permeated our daily lives. Many of our friends, peers, colleagues and family, including you wonderful listeners, have voiced an inability to make strong decisions, to know where to start to help. So, Kristina sits down with local City Council Candidate Ian Cromwell to help outline, define, and un-blur some of the lines of Vancouver’s upcoming Municipal Election. 

We cannot change everything, and nor should we. This is about us taking the steps that we can, making decisions that we’re able to make, to really participate in the change that we want to see.

We acknowledge that this is one political opinion - please take a little time regularly to do your own research, in all areas - we will too. Systemic change is not easy, but it IS worth it! 

About Our Guest: 

Ian Cromwell (he/him) is a health economist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, where he provides advice to healthcare decision-makers to ensure the best use of public resources. Cromwell is a classically-trained violinist and founder of Locals Lounge, a grassroots incubator for Vancouver’s music community. Ian is currently a candidate for Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver.

To connect with Ian : click HERE

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To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

As someone who has worked in the Entertainment Industry for almost 15 years, Kristina has some knowledge of the myths and busts of the glamour of the music industry. 

She has been researching, working and advocating for sustainable careers in Entertainment, and is going to dispel some of the myths and misconceptions of working as an actor, songwriter, voice artist and creative. 

This week, sit down for some hard-hitting tea about the myths and misconceptions of our beloved entertainment industry, and how to be a supportive audience member, active participant in your own career trajectory, and overall creative champion!  

RESOURCES:

• Music BC
• A life in Parts
• Creative BC
• Jumpstart Consulting
• BC Alliance for Arts (jobs board)

To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE

To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

Big thanks to Telus Optik TV 

WE'RE 90 EPISODES DEEP! How did that even happen?! We wish we had a super epic celebratory episode for you but maybe we'll have to do that for our 100th episode. For today you get to join us in our delirious post-livestream state. We get silly, we fill you in, it's all authentic and stuff. Enjoy laughing at us and we can't wait to see you next week!

To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE

To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

Telus Optik TV 

You have a SOLO episode today with Raquelle. You can expect a different vibe as Raquelle pays tribute to her Oma after losing her last week and speaks on navigating the uncertain seas of grief. Never to be times or contained grief is the ultimate lesson in letting go of control - not that Raquelle will ever do that without a fight! If you've ever lost someone, lost a version of yourself, or ended a relationship - this episode is for you.

To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE

To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

Telus Optik TV 

Well, Raquelle is back, and we’re in a FOREST! We took a hike up with our livestream gear, and figured we’d use it on the way down, too. So, listen in to the hilarity and honesty of our next moves as we navigate the trail AND our lives, in serendipitous existential parallel.

To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE

To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE

To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE

Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!

With special thanks to: 

Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner

Telus Optik TV