This week’s guest on the pod is actor JESS SALGUEIRO! Jess is everywhere lately - Letterkenny, The Expanse, The Boys, Workin’ Moms, Canadian Strain. Later this year you’ll see her starring in Tiny Pretty Things and in Jupiter’s Legacy on Netflix. We got to chat in LA a few weeks ago, and TODAY, the film we worked together on, CANADIAN STRAIN, is available on iTunes in Canada!

This week’s guest on the pod is comic, writer, host, OPHIRA EISENBERG!

Every first Sunday of the month, I talk to a past guest about what’s going on with them now! For the January Spark Chat, I caught up with actor ASTRID VAN WIEREN, currently of Come From Away on Broadway! We talk about how you can do anything for 6 weeks, being a friend to yourself, being terrified of the gym, accountability, dodging people as a sport, fitbits, falling off a routine, and more.

Look out for February’s Spark Chat with Kat Barrell to be released as a podcast episode soon!

This week’s guest is actor, writer, producer, director, JENNA RICKER! Meeting Jenna (Ben’s Plan, The American Side) was such a lucky catch with both our schedules - but we had our share of struggles to get to the start, let alone the finish line. We met up in NYC at a restaurant, and by the time we finally found a quiet spot... the restaurant staff decided to have their meal right next to us! So plug in your headphones and pull up a seat at the table, we’re ready for you to join!

Our guest this week is actor, writer, brilliant human and dog mom, SARAH MCVIE! You know Sarah from her hilarious role as Val on Workin' Moms and in the latest season of The Handmaid's Tale. She's also an award-winning theatre actor and writer. For this chat, she stopped by my place while she was in LA, but we're actually neighbours in Toronto!

Workin' Moms Season 4 airs on CBC this month, and TBC on Netflix!

Our guests (plural!) on the podcast this week are coming to you LIVE from the launch of our LA chapter!  We hosted a fierce panel of LA comedians led by Naomi @snieckus, including Alana Johnston, Madi Goff and Katie Thomas!

This hilarious panel of ladies talk candidly about building your own reputation, Mary Tyler Moore, complaining vs self deprecation, feminism, elbows and more! AND we promise it doesn’t start with "What's it like to be a WOOOMAN in COOOMEDY?!?" ...because NO! MORE! OF! THAT!

Our guest this week is producer, writer, director AISLING CHIN-YEE! Her directorial feature film debut, THE REST OF US, premiered at TIFF in 2019, and now is coming out in U.S. theatres and on V-O-D on February 14th. She also co-founded the #AfterMeToo movement. We talked about synesthesia, directing, laughing at funerals, her personal journey, tending to your “brain garden,” dealing with grief and the pursuit of human nature.

This episode includes core team members Naomi @snieckus Emily @emchurchill AJ @atotheje and Sydney @sydney_neilson as we talk about the Chantal Kreviazuk episode!

Let us know what resonated with you too! Reach out anytime @firecrackerdept, and find this awesome Aftershow in video form over on our YouTube channel! Come say hey!

This week’s BONUS guest is Lorraine D’Alessio! She’s an international immigration lawyer and we spoke at TIFF! We talk about her journey through sports, modeling, advocacy, becoming a lawyer, surviving cancer, running her own law firm, what inclusivity means, and of course, corsets and Joan of Arc! We talked about so much, because this firecrackr has done SO! MANY! THINGS! We cannot wait for you to hear this one!

This week's guest is songstress Chantal Kreviazuk! This fierce ball of fire has been making music for herself and the world for decades, and she's so authentically herself... I've been waiting to share this with you for so long! She has a new Christmas album (tisn't it always the season?!) and documentary with her husband Raine Maida of 20 years (!!!), directed by firecracker Annie Bradley called I'm Going to Break Your Heart. She's written for Drake, Pitbull, Kendrick Lamar, Britney Spears, Christina Aguil