The Kook Jester Show

Welcome Persha to the show. She produces electronic dance music and has performed for 20,000 people, all after having released her first song at 36. There are some epic anthems in her catalogue. Check it out!

We chat about releasing something new to the world, the discipline you need in creative careeers, and why our dark and scary sides need to be set free.

Enjoy.

Persha | Spotify

Welcome leading fear expert, Kristen Ulmer, to the show. She wrote The Art of Fear, and in a former life spent 12 years as the top ranked big mountain, extreme skier. She has spent the better part of 4 decades understanding our primal and ancient emotion - Fear: where it comes from, how it flows through our bodies, and what happens when we ignore it or push it away. Great stuff!

Kristen Ulmer website

The Art of Fear

Kristen Ulmer - Extreme Skiing Clips

Math • Teacher • Author

Ben Orlin joins the podcast. He is a mathematician and teacher, and through his books - Math With Bad Drawings, Change is the Only Constant, and the upcoming Math for English Majors - he illuminates how math intersects with daily life. We chat about academic struggles, tutoring your kids, and even how the antics of one of sports' greatest duos - Henrik and Daniel Sedin - give insight into one of math's baffling logical quandries.

Math with Bad Drawings Blog

Ben Orlin's Author Page

Welcome Ameet Shukla to the show, Head of Content at

1 Community. Beyond discussions about the wonder that is Beyonce, we hit on making impactful movies, the magic and storytelling, and things the up and coming generations do incredibly well. Thanks for listening!

1 Community

RESPECT Trailer

Just Mercy Trailer

In the Works - Winner, King Leopold's Ghost, In the Shadow of the Mountain, Lewis Hamilton Doc

Welcome Simone Lovell, founder of Total Body Transformation in Vancouver, Canada. What began as a way to earn college beer money, has morphed into 25 years of helping people transform their lives through fitness, nutrition, and wellness.

Like starting your day right, any conversation that opens with breakfast is bound to be good. We also hit on strong modelling for our kids, quitting moments, curse words, figuring out who you are, and getting up on stage. Tons of energy and enthusiasm in this episode. Thanks Simone!

Instagram - Simone Lovell

Yasmin Gandham, reporter for CTV News in Vancouver, joins the show today. She chats about her journey into broadcasting, that began with weather forecast drops into her Mom's voicemail as a kid. We also look at how to find good people to learn from, graduating during a worldwide pandemic, and those experiences that only come from being a recognizable face in the community. So much good stuff in here. Thanks for listening.

Welcome, practicing radiologist and emtelligent founder, Dr. Tim O'Connell to the show. Based in Vancouver Canada, emtelligent directs advanced AI technologies to finding key insights buried in patient medical histories. We get into this, along with solving your own problems, the breakneck speed of change in the Artificial Intelligence space, and flipping the collective adage - Life is Short - to Life is Long. Have a listen!

emtelligent Medical NLP

Please welcome, ultrarunner and author of Perhaps Joy is the Reward, Randy Klassen to the show. Framed through hard fought victories and devastating heartbreaks out on the trails, he recounts the connected community of runners, his late start to the sport, and a solid instruction for life: just keep skating.

Perhaps Joy is the Reward (Amazon link)

Keep track of Randy's adventures and upcoming projects here

Instagram - @randy.k.77