Rival & Queen

This week we're joined by Duane Jones, the designer and founder of Art Pays Me, a lifestyle clothing brand and podcast.

We talk about: 

• The Art Pays Me story
• Earning a living as an artist and valuing your creative gifts
• Taking on clients with aligned values
• Leaning into his own artistic abilities

Connect with Duane & Art Pays Me: 

@artpaysme

artpaysme.com

 

Check out Halifax Burger Bash April 28-May 7 burgerbash.ca

LUVO wines new Piquette + Peach & Piquette + Berry are now available. Get yours at luvolife.ca

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We are back from Spring Break! 

This week we get to know Lauryn and Madi, the podcasters behind The Weekend Roundup - part of the BNV Media family. Every Sunday they break down their best stories from the weekend - think dating, sex lives & funny encounters. 

We chat about: 

• How their podcast began
• Double standard for men and women when it comes to dating
• Their best dating stories
• Dating in your 20s vs. 30s

Listen to The Weekend Roundup!

Check out Halifax Burger Bash April 28-May 7 burgerbash.ca

LUVO wines new Piquette + Peach & Piquette + Berry are now available. Get yours at luvolife.ca

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ALL TALK MARCH! This month we dive into: 

• • Soul friendships & toxic friendships 
  • Protecting your energy - take care of those micro annoyances
    
  • Our monthly faves!

Ashley has been Nominated for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada's Woman of the Year Award.

Help Ashley raise money! Support her here

Have a mystical, magical March! We’re on Spring Break until April 16th. SEE YOU THEN!

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Thanks to Paradigm Orthodontics for sponsoring this episode. Book your consult: paradigmsmile.com

 

This week we're joined by Ceilidh Sutherland, Katie Tower, and Natalie Rosen, the creators behind Fawn - soon to be Halifax's newest restaurant. 

We chat about:

• How they each got into hospitality
• Field Guide and its beginnings, the restaurant where they all teamed up 
• The evolution of the hospitality scene in Halifax
• Drawing inspiration in the food community
• Doing work you love; and
• We get the scoop on their new restaurant coming soon to Halifax, Fawn!

Fawn opens Spring 2022 in Halifax.

Learn more about their membership program [email protected]

Connect: 

fieldguidehfx.com

@fieldguidehfx

@fawnresto

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Thank you to LUVO Wines for sponsoring this episode. LUVO is our FAVE wine in a can. Get your LUVO at luvolife.ca.

This week we have Max Emerson Taylor joining us. He’s one half of Murray + Taylor Digital. Max got started in the digital media through TikTok, as he quickly rose to TikTok fame.  

We talk about: 

• His experience of going viral on TikTok
• Becoming a ghostwriter for famous TikTokers in LA & the creator mansions
• Losing the fun behind creating videos, and starting his own digital media company instead
• How to get noticed on TikTok & the videos that made him go viral

 

Connect with Max:

@maxemersontaylor on TikTok, Instagram

murraytaylordigital.ca/

 

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This week we're joined by Dr. Meredith Ralston to talk about women's sexual empowerment and the unfinished sexual revolution. Meredith is a professor from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.  We get into:

• Sexual double-standards 
• How women police themselves to protect their image
• Sex education and its focus on abstinence
• The unfinished sexual revolution 
• The rise of women’s pleasure and orgasm equality

This episode times perfectly for International Women's Day next week!

Connect: 

@MeredithRalston on Twitter

http://www.meredithralston.com/

Get her book: Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution 

Notes: 

International Women's Day episode: 
74. The Power of Our Voices - Empowering Female Podcasters

The Goop Lab Episode: The Pleasure is Ours

 

This month's All Talk is extra fun. We get into our take on the Kanye, Pete, Kim situation (one of us is poorly informed); a round of questions from some of our listeners; our monthly faves & some dating advice; and guacamole talk. 

Notes: 

- JE Matchmaking

- Bar Sofia Restaurant in Halifax

- The Cure Skincare, Boosting Mist

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Ryan Williams, the founder of Unbound Media, is our guest this week. We recorded this episode after a fun day of taking photos & seeing Ryan in his element.   This episode is all about the drive and vision Ryan brings to his new business. We cover:

• Growing from Ryan Williams Photography to creating a business bigger than himself
• Being unbound
• Doing work you care about
• The energy Ryan brings to his work and his clients
• Our photoshoot experience
• His growth mindset, habits, and lessons learned

  Connect with Ryan: Online at unboundmedia.co Instagram at @unboundmedia.co @iamryanwilliams   Notes: JE Matchmaking by Jean-eva Dickie Astrology reading by Sacred Starlight Connect with Ryan

Online at unboundmedia.co

Instagram at @unboundmedia.co

@iamryanwilliams

This week we're joined by Johanna Galipeau (also known as Joey), the owner behind Sweet Pea Boutique - Halifax's sweetest dress shop. 

 

Celebrating 15 years of Sweet Pea, we look back on the personal experiences behind Joey's business. We talk about dropping out of university, opening Sweet Pea at the age of 19, periods of growth & downsizing, and the honest experience of navigating divorce alongside her business. 

 

This is a beautiful episode about being true to your personal desires, and designing a life and business around that. 

 

Connect with Joey: 

Shop online at sweetpeahalifax.com

@sweetpeahalifax 

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Our Astrology episode with Rebekah is 77. Sacred Starlight: Astrology with Rebekah

The episode everyone has been waiting for - who will be crowned the BEST chocolate chip cookie in Halifax? Listen to find out! We've brought in two special tasters to help us with this challenge: Nicole Cameron and Quake Matthews. Together we taste 12 cookies back to back to find the best of the best! This episode has it all; cookies, to convoys, to spirit animals. 

Enjoy the cookie commentary!

Here are the cookie contestants:

Luke's Small Baked Goods
Envie
Steve-O-Reno's
Jane's Next Door
Bliss Caffeine Bar
Local Jo
East Coast Bakery
Tea Time Treats
The Mellow Mug
Dilly Dally
Rousseau
Weird Harbour

Thanks to LUVO Wines for sponsoring this episode. LUVO is our fave wine in a can! Get yours at luvolife.ca

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