The Warren Weeks Show

For the 50th episode, I'm pleased to introduce you to my dad. It's taken a while to convince him to do a podcast episode but once we got rolling, he filled up nearly two hours of stories with ease. And there are still so many stories we didn't get to...so I'm already planning a Part 2 for sometime in 2022. Hope you enjoy this episode!

This week I got to chat with Ken Connors, a longtime radio announcer from Montreal, Canada. We talked about how he got his start in radio, some of his most memorable interviews and much more.

Mohamad Fakih came to Canada from war-torn Lebanon in 1999. He came to the country with next to nothing. More than two decades later, he has built several successful businesses but it's his prolific charitable work that has changed the lives of so many and set an example for even more. We spoke about his early days in Canada, how he responded when his restaurant chain lost 90% of its business overnight when the pandemic hit, his ongoing public battle with hate, what drives his community work and much more.

Jen Hartmann is the Director of Strategic Public Relations and Enterprise Social Media for the iconic John Deere brand. We chatted about her career in communications, the state of media relations, her advice for young communicators, her life-threatening experience with a brain tumour 10 years ago, raising a child with autism and how all of that has shaped her view of work and life.

Erin Davis spent nearly three decades with Toronto radio station CHFI, building an incredibly loyal audience as half of the Erin and Mike Morning Show. We chatted about her career, the devastating loss of her only child Lauren in 2015, what she's up to these days and more.

This is Terry's second appearance on the podcast. We chatted about how government and corporate leaders have fared over the past year from a communications standpoint, the state of journalism, some great stories from his decade working in Memphis and more.

Very pleased to introduce a new podcast I have created with longtime friend and communications expert John Perenack. Each week, we riff about stories in the news that have a reputation management angle to them. We also throw in a little off-topic banter to mix things up a bit. I'm just posting this first episode here, so if you like what you hear, you can subscribe to it wherever you get your podcasts. It's called Reputation Town. Thanks for listening!

Michelle Hoad is the CEO of the Medical Laboratory Professionals' Association of Ontario. We chatted about what it's been like for these key health care workers this past year, the 100+ media interviews Michelle has done in the past 12 months, her recent health scare that ended in some good news and much more.

Noel Mack is the Chief Brand Officer for Gymshark, one of the fastest-growing fitness apparel companies in the world. This is a company whose execs don't really do many podcasts so it was a tremendous honour to be able to speak with him for this one. We talked about how he got into the business, leadership, the value of hard work, some inside stories from the rocket ship of a company he works for and much more.

One minute, Mark Opauszky was a high-flying Toronto tech CEO. Founder of a successful company. Great home life. Perfect Health. The next minute, he was fighting for his life in a New York hospital with an advanced case of flesh-eating disease. This was a great conversation with a man who's very lucky to be alive today. We talked about his brush with death, his long road to recovery and much more.