Let's Talk With Coach Che Marville

In today's show, Che had a deep dive conversation with Chef Sang Kim.

Sang is an award-winning fiction writer, public speaker, playwright, chef and restaurateur. He has launched some of the best-known modern Japanese and Korean restaurant brands in Toronto. He covers Asian cuisine on two popular on CTV's national daytime shows, YOUR MORNING and THE SOCIAL. His company SUSHI MAKING FOR THE SOUL, a hands-on team-building sushi training program has expanded since the lockdown but Che had a chance to catch up with him and talk about writing, grief, internalized racism, racism, white consciousness, anti-Asian abuse and the global need for self-love. Take a listen, share the show and tell us what you think. 

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In today's show, Che spoke to the mom of six and co-founder of Mabel’s Labels Julie Cole. She has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, HLN’s Raising America, Breakfast Television, The Marilyn Denis Show, CP24, among many others. As a blogger and writer, her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, Today’s Parent, The Globe and Mail, Profit Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Chicken Soup For the Soul - Power Moms and numerous websites. Julie shares how she grew into an Entrepreneur and how it was not a straight line for her, it was a mindset that evolved over time and because of necessity and relationships. Julie candidly shares her experience raising a large family and her son's autism. Julie and Che had a conversation about pregnancy, C-sections, recovery and mommy bonding myths. Julie was very driven by a need for flexibility and building a business with others became a catalyst to become an Entrepreneur. For Julie Cole, the key to growing a strong business and caring for her family was having co-founders, who could share the burden and the opportunity for growth. Take a listen to Julie's secret sauce for success, growth and managing expectations.

Che spoke to Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and cultural commentator Brad Fraser. He has just released his first memoir, All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue. He had resisted writing a memoir for a long time. Still, he seemed to be doing the work of compiling a memoir organically as he told the story of friends lost to the AIDS crisis of the early nineteen nineties on world Aid's Day in social media every year. He had files and files of pictures and stories of a generation of forgotten people and the friends that looked after each other. Brad also shared his early love for reading and how writing became a refuge from his life of rejection, poverty and abuse. He spoke of his experience of boredom and the benefit monotony offers our imagination.

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Che had an opportunity to speak to Fashion Designer, activist, journalist, researcher, educator and now Dr. Sass Brown. Sass was the Founding Dean of the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation. Before joining DIDI, she was the Interim Dean for the Fashion Institute of Technology's School of Art and Design in New York.

Che and Sass met in the 1990s while working on the controversial exhibition A Question of Truth at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto. Sass shares some of her memories: how a lost love forced her to explore her consciousness as a white woman. And her motivation for decolonizing fashion culture,  body expectation and exploring natural materials.  Her activism has evolved in different countries and cultures. They covered a great deal in their conversation, even Pierce Morgan's obsession with Megan Markle. Please take a listen, share the show and let us know what you think about this conversation. 

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Che spoke to Alpine Speed Racer Benjamin Alexander; after a successful ten-year career as an international DJ and stints in finance and tech,  this Engineer followed curiosity. He is the happiest when he can feel material progress and material improvement in complex, challenging things. Now, Benjamin Alexander is training to become Jamaica's first-ever Olympic Alpine ski racer. He shares his goals and excitement on his audacious new goal and how he started speed skiing for the first time at age thirty-two. He has lived worldwide, travelled to thirty counties, and checked off much of his bucket list until he discovered skiing and a love for competition. Now he races people almost half his age who have been speed skiing 10×15 times longer than he had been. Benji has never allowed race or culture to define his goals and ambition. And indeed, age was not going to either; when the opportunity to represent Jamaica came up, he thought of his grandmother and said YES!

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Most recently, Che had the privilege to speak to Conflict Resolution Master Coach and Mediator Matt Thorpe. This episode contains explicit language and content that may be painful for some listeners regarding addiction, childhood sexual abuse and violence. Matt has lived an extraordinary life, and he shares some of his deepest struggles from childhood abandonment, abuse, neglect, addiction, a near-death experience and his commitment to service. He describes how an overdose and his journey through recovery and service took him to Harvard University. And why he is so dedicated to using his experience to sit with the pain of others and listen deeply to their stories. His work in federal prison helped him see his purpose and vocation. He has developed a process for facing conflict, healing, and building a capacity for forgiveness for the most vulnerable amongst us. This conversation was a rollercoaster of raw vulnerability and fearlessness. 

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In today's episode, Chef Colline Goodine shares his experience of pivoting during the pandemic and how and why he became a  culinary coach after decades of building restaurants and a successful catering company. In the process, he closed his catering business, lost twenty pounds, invested in learning about nutrition, and reinvented himself.  Although the restaurant and catering business has been hit hard by the pandemic, it caused a physical and professional revolution for this chef; he was always passionate. The last year made him think about what was truly meaningful to him. And now he is creating learning experiences with food experiences online directly with people in their homes.  He created an online culinary coaching business dedicated to plant-based eating, wheat, dairy and sugar-free, and created a new culinary platform.  He can work from anywhere in the world, and if you had told him this would have happened fourteen months ago, he would have said, "NO WAY!"

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In today's episode of Let's Talk, Che had the incredible privilege of speaking to daredevil, actor, stunt performer, the first black woman in Canada to be a stunt coordinator Angelica Lisk- Hann. Che and Angelica discuss diversity, race and stunting amid a global pandemic. Angelica has over 200 T.V and films to her credit, and most recently, she joined the Gold Bond campaign alongside Grammy-award-winning singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige and fellow stuntwoman and founder of Diamond in the Raw, La Faye Baker, in a virtual event to promote awareness and diversity in the stunt industry. Currently, she is the stunt coordinator of the T.V thriller "Clarice" born out of the movie Silence of the Lambs. Talk about limitless; Angelica shares her insights into an industry that is often invisible to our eye.

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In today's episode, Che spoke to Broadcaster Jasse McDonald; Known for his deep voice around the world, he grew up on the Island of Trinidad and became fascinated at an early age by the power of radio and sound. Inspired by his mother's love of language and his older brother, Journalist and Broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald, he developed an early interest in crystal radio and broadcast communication. He learned every aspect of the radio media Business. From close circuit networks, writing scripts to a national platform in the Caribbean to the space channel in Canada, he used his voice to share news, music and stories from the Caribbean and African Diaspora. He dedicated most of his life to the love of radio, raising his children and sharing the Caribbean culture in Canada.

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Driving Culture Through Stories, Relationships and Sponsorship

In today's episode, Che has a conversation with trail-blazing CEO Bonnie Hillman about what drives her, the difference between philanthropy and sponsorship and how she got into the sponsorship ecosystem. She is driven by curiosity and a deep commitment to building diverse and dynamic cultural experiences. She shares her observations on how the pandemic has increased the need for authentic and accountable relationships between the private and public sectors in ways that we have never seen before; cultural and social accountability matter now to CEO's in a way that measurably impacts their survival.  She also shares her mini hacks and the value of building an internal culture of gratitude, connection, and abundance with her team.

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