This week we sit down with Paul Bauman who has been involved for 30+ years in the professional audio and globe touring industry, holding key positions at leading international concert sound rental firms and respected loud speaker system manufacturers. He's currently the Director of Engineering at Firehouse Productions. He started off his sound career in Hamilton, ON with a BSC in Physics at McMaster University. After completing a masters at U of Waterloo he moved over to Europe at University of Technology in Sweden then working in the field and living in Paris and then in Maryland as he was drawn back and forth between Europe and the States, with the States winning him in the end. We talk his early days, living around the world, his involvement in the NBA Restart and how the industry has adapted in the face of adversity.

We talk with Shaun Bowring about how he and his venues have traversed the difficulty of the pandemic and how it has brought the community together through advocacy. Shaun has been in the music scene for 30+ years. He is the owner of Transmit Presents and Toronto venues, The Garrison and The Baby G. Shaun is a board member of Little Portugal BIA, the co-founder and director of Dundas West Fest, member of the Canadian Independent Venue Coalition, and the Toronto Music Advisory Committee.

We talk with marketing guru Sam Holdridge about his online retail hub for local businesses, as well as his video based marketing company, Hamilton Rising. We explore the origins of Hamilton Hub, the truly revolutionary digital shopfront and explore the pandemic impacts and adaptions on local business.

Dahlia Ishak shares her story of rolling with the gut-punch of this prolonged emergency. Her cafe Salty had to shutter, forcing her to radically adapt. Hear her reveal some of the creative ways she not only adapted but rose up as a leader with a radical and exhausting rescue plan involving selling merch to raise funds for companies in the food biz.

Welcome to the HowNow Podcast, the brand new series brought to you by Yvonne Woodley and Matt Carson. HowNow is where we hear stories of rapid and radical adaptation told first-hand by prominent figures near and far.