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Season 2 E19: BODY BALANCE

The body connects with the mind and spirit in ways beyond only the physical. Overall balance is often detectable in the quality of one’s physical fitness. Maria, with Fidgal, demonstrate where exercise gives clues to deeper meanings on what is going on in a person’s life. Get ready for a workout!

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

Visit: fidgal.com

“You have to have balance of breaking the rules and staying in between the lines.”

Date:20 July 2025 .

Jon Frolick attended Bawating High School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, during the 1970s. Under the tutelage of Mr. Frank Elliott, it was there that the power of music as a working life took root. Of local fame, Jon drove the backbeat for the horn band, Pegasus. With graduation behind him he soon after made his way to Winnipeg where he carved out a professional career start in the music industry. Four years later, he made a move further west to Calgary and the music and the work just kept coming.

Now, a long-time resident of Canmore, Alberta, Jon is the drummer and vocalist with his popular dance band Suzie Q, since 1994. He also drums in the Jazz Plus Trio, and when requested as is often the case to play without the band, it’s “Just Jon”, solo musician.

Jon has now been a professional in the music industry for over 40 years, working primarily as a drummer leading two music groups that perform in the corporate entertainment market throughout North America. As a musician, he has extensive recording experience, and also offers drum instruction both as a private teacher and clinician.

It is a very impressive list of artists that Jon has recorded and/or performed with. Some of the names include Randy Bachman, Kim Mitchell, Steven Bell, Amy Grant, George Fox, and the legendary Tony Bennett.

Jon is a proud member of the American Federation of Music and a past president of the Calgary Musicians Association. He also works as a professional audio technician and instructor, providing support for concerts, festivals, conventions and community events throughout Canada and the U.S.

Running time: 48 minutes.

Date:17 July 2025 .

S2.E17: MORE ANGER

Does it seem that there are more angry people today than at any other time in recent history? Maria, with Fidgal, look deeper into the situation and see undiscovered issues fueling emotions directly to destructive behaviour. Each person is capable of discovering those issues, challenging them, and changing anger around. Are we ready to have a personal conversation?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

Visit: fidgal.com

“The source of your anger… is you.”

Date:15 July 2025 .

Host Lisa Tucker has humour writer Elizabeth Creith on the show.

In Elizabeth’s own words: I’m an award-winning writer living and working in rural Northern Ontario with my husband, dog and cat.

I write fiction, poetry and non-fiction articles, with a special interest in the pet trade.

Writing services include proofreading, ghostwriting, manuscript evaluation and line editing. Do you need a proposal, a pitch, or just some proofreading? I can do that for you.

I had a long career freelancing for CBC radio, which taught me the importance of making deadlines. I’ve never missed a writing deadline yet!

The business of writing is a fascinating one. Every project is different, every client’s needs specific and separate from those of any other client. I love finding the right words for my clients, or helping them polish the text they already have with a comma here and a change in sentence structure there. Every time I deal with a new industry or a new subject, I learn something – sometimes quite a lot – about it, which is also part of the joy of this work.

Talk to me about what I can do for you and your project.

Sault Star district correspondent Elizabeth Creith writes about the lighter side of rural living.

Reach Elizabeth here: facebook.com/elizabeth.creith

Date:15 July 2025 .

S2.E16: ANGER

Displaying anger is as human as it gets. It is a completely normal emotion and often time all too unhealthy. Left unchecked anger leads the way down a dark path. Maria, with Fidgal, offer control by understanding the issue at its root. Could it be as simple as communicating with the power within?

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

Visit: fidgal.com

“Cries inside are heard by the anger displayed outside.”

Date:8 July 2025 .

Emma L.R. Hogg graduated from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and started the writing of her first novel, which eventually became Mercedes Mudd, published three years later. 

Following Mercedes Mudd (2006), Emma published Pitlin and Swoosh (2009), The Passenger’s Muse (2011), Portraits of Margot (2013), The Fourth Wall (2015), a non-fiction collection, 100: 1 Writer’s Journey, 100 Musings (2016), and Winona Rising (2018). (FINALIST Whistler Independent Book Awards Fiction, 2018 for ​Winona Rising.)

Both The Fourth Wall and Winona Rising were shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Award for Fiction (2017 and 2018), and Winona Rising was a Finalist (2018).

In addition, her poetry has been published in Carousel magazine.

Emma’s seventh novel, Picket Fences, was published by Tidewater Press in 2020.

She is currently working on her next novel. Emma is originally from Waterford, ON but has called Sault Ste. Marie her home for the past few years.

Visit: emmahogg.com

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Date:8 July 2025 .

The mandate of Cultural Industries Ontario North (CION) is to stimulate and promote Northern Ontario’s film, television and music industries, as well as provide educational programs to foster the advancement of our region’s emerging talent.

With a population of nearly 800,000, millions of hectares of forest and six major cities ready to host film productions, Northern Ontario is a thriving cultural destination that balances urban life with relaxing respite. We’re here to connect and support local and international creators who want to discover what the North has to offer.

If you’re a film producer looking to take advantage of the growing resources and financial benefits of Northern Ontario, our ‘Producer’s Guide’ is exactly what you’re looking for.

Similarly, CION’s music page provides northern musicians with resources to help develop their careers and bring their music to new stages.

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Lead, Film Sector Development
Michael Naphan

Michael Naphan is a videographer, animator, writer, advertising creative, and award-winning filmmaker who joined the CION team with the express desire to bring the world to Northern Ontario and North Ontario to the world. He brings 20 years of film sector experience to the position, from all three phases of production, on set and off, in front of the camera and behind. His career spans from CGI animation on high-end series and movies (What We Do in the Shadows, Watchmen, WandaVision, The Ice Road), to mega-viral internet videos (Solar Freakin’ Roadways), to music videos (SemiCircles) and animated shorts (XING). With an educational background in design (York University), computer animation (IADT), screenwriting (CFC), and a wide array of film industry skills and experience (Baroness Von Sketch Show, Operation: Avalanche, Dino Dana), Mike works with CION’s team to make the art of film and television production a sustainable success across the region. Mike’s work with CION includes film consultations with filmmakers and productions of all shapes and sizes to help meet their unique needs, leading CION’s film and television industry programming, leading the promotion of the Northern industry and its incentives to stakeholders from Canada and around the world, and leading the development of CION’s industry resources and infrastructure. Mike was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie and, after 20 years in Toronto, now makes his home in Sudbury.

Running time: 38 minutes.

Date:8 July 2025 .

Music of The Great Lakes: A Songbook for The Canadian Indigenous is a five-part suite supported and inspired by Canadian Indigenous history and the work of Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morriseau. This suite explores the music of each lake as it hosts tribes including the Ojibwe, Cree, Huron, and the Iroquois. Each tribe holds idiosyncrasies native to its geographical zone that make
for powerful rituals, ceremonies, and music.

Date:6 July 2025 .

S2.E15: ARTIFICIAL WORLD

Technological advancements over the past century have been astounding, and what the computer age of recent decades has done to alter day to day life, even more so. Maria, with Fidgal, explore the effects on what unnatural causes are doing to our spiritual well being.

THE NEW NORMAL PODCAST – Maria Iuliano with Fidgal

Maria guides a successful business called Fidgal, named after Maria’s guardian angel. They met when Maria was 5 years old.

Maria is a Peace Therapist, graduated with Honours in Peace and Conflict Studies from Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology. With this knowledge, along with her expertise in the afterlife and her ability to see auras, Maria helps others find and create peace in their lives.

Visit: fidgal.com

“If you can control the mind you can always have a placebo effect.”

Date:1 July 2025 .

MUSICOLOGY is powered by Long & McQuade, 647 MacDonald Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

MUSICOLOGY with dj Danny Mott

Musicology is a form of music analysis that emphasizes culture, sociology, and music history. When musicologists study music, they go beyond the notes on a page. Among other things, they track the history of music, the evolution of musical instruments, cultural contexts of various genres, and performance practices associated with certain types of musical ensembles.

About Your Host

DANNY MOTT was born in England and raised in Canada. Danny has been involved in myriad recordings and in various countries, most notably in Jamaica and Cuba.

Danny’s music is released under the moniker, “Mocombo” where he acts as composer, producer, engineer and musician. Mocombo is a versatile band project that shifts effortlessly between world music, traditional blues, Cuban jazz and blues rock.

Danny has a rich academic background in music that includes various diplomas, degrees and certificates. Danny’s studies include; Classical guitar from the Algoma Conservatory of Music; Composition, performance, music history, music business and retailing from Humber College of Applied Arts; North Indian Hindustani classical music at the Academy Of Eastern Fine Arts; Adult teaching techniques for music at Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology; Music education at the University of Victoria; Studio recording from the Institute of Recording and Arts; Music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music; Music and anthropology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Dean’s Honour List; Religious traditions of Islam at the University of Waterloo.

Danny’s music performance and work history are also impressive. As a tour promoter, acts like Gordon Lightfoot and Ravi Shankar; as a music teacher at Nelson Music in B.C.; Music Marketing Director and music technician at Saved By Technology in Toronto, with a client list including the Rolling Stones, Rush, Barenaked Ladies, Jane Siberry, and many more; Marketing and Sales Director for On Publications Inc., a national distribution of music print medium company; Marketing Director for Roy Creations International in Montreal, for the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

Danny has orchestrated several projects, including a film in the Cuban language, with the participation of Cuba’s National Dance Company.

Danny’s project, Mocombo, has issued seven outstanding CDs: Odyssey, Zubie Zubie, Dreamscape, Flophouse Daddy, Flophouse Daddy Returns (Boldly Going Nowhere), Global 360 and Mocombo in Habana Project (2 CD set).

Danny Mott

Date:30 June 2025 .