Well, Now What?!

I am joined by Willie Mitchell. Willie is the owner of Tofino Resort + Marina, a high-end boutique hotel with adventure in its DNA. He spent 16 years playing hockey as an NHL defenseman and his career peak came with the LA Kings, where he was part of the club’s two Stanley Cup-winning rosters in 2012 and 2014 , he retired in 2016 and took on an entirely different challenge when he and two partners purchased a motel and marina in the small Vancouver Island resort municipality of Tofino.

In this episode Willie talks about his safe haven and his connection with nature, finding his identity, the realities of being in the NHL, learning about business as he went, being known as “Willie Mitchell the hockey player” and feeling like he was more than that, insecurities of not being a great student, and reaching that “high” with the Stanley cup. He also talks about his business and what he learned from being in the hospitality industry. 

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In 2013, two friends set out to create a company that celebrated grain and bean farmers, while providing a much needed connection to higher quality, fresher flour and dry goods. Flourist was co-founded by Janna Bishop and Shira McDermott, a clothing designer and food industry pro respectively, to fill what they saw as a gap in the growing farm-to-table movement, and to provide transparency in a whole new, untouched food category.

In this episode, we chat about how the two came together and started the business, working with your best friend, how to delegate and lean on your partner, their relationship with food, some of their favourite Flourist items, and whose the better chef. ;)

Loved chatting with these ladies.

I am joined by Jessica Opon. Jess has been working in post production for several years now. Starting out as an assistant editor for Defy Media in LA, she worked her way up to being an editor at Vice Media in New York, where she was a piece of the group of “Charlottesville: Race and Terror”, which won an Emmy. She also became an integral part of the production process as a shooter and producer.

Now working as a freelancer, her main focus is editing, but brings her knowledge of producing and shooting to her work. She is an editor for the incredible cooking channel, Binging with Babish, starring Andrew Rae, her partner.

​She was also a fellow dancer, and you can tell that her background as a professional dancer becomes immediately apparent in the delicate, expertly choreographed stories she weaves behind both the camera and the editing desk.

Absolutely loved chatting with Jess. She's such a wise and beautiful person. We talked about the dance world and not so great relationships with food and image, switching industries and going into production and editing, working on YouTube, how editing and dance is more connected than you might think, advice she has for going into the production/entertainment industry, learning to trust yourself, and end with some fun rapid fires like some of the projects she's most proud of!

Hope you enjoy <3

Back with another episode with Jordan! We talk about the book *heist* that led us to reading "All About Love: New Visions" by the incredible bell hooks. 

We absolutely loved the book and found that we were continuously having conversations about love and how to love not only with each other but with others around us and had to share our perspectives on it. Do note that this is not an extensive review of bell hooks' book or her literature just us touching on some points that she mentions in the book. We also go over some of the poll results that you guys answered on the @wellnowwhatpodcast Instagram. 

Hope you enjoy <3 

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I am joined by Emily Kosichek! Emily is a 23 year-old fashion content creator from Vancouver, BC. She grew up in North Vancouver (also dancing) and eventually did her undergrad in Business at Queen’s University. Apart from content creation, she also works in the fashion industry, specifically in Product Development. Her Tiktok account has grown to nearly 160k followers and 4 million views. Her videos often show her day-to-day outfits and vlogs. I absolutely love her style. I’ve had a few different TikTok people on, but none in the fashion industry.

Emily provides amazing insight into what it's like to be in the fashion industry, how saturated it is and how to stand out, how to approach brands, and how TikTok helped grow her social media presence. She also mentions that the two things she believed helped her grow is one, her daily casual outfits, and two, her body type. She finds that a lot of her followers appreciate her style but also feel grateful that there is more diversity in terms of body types on the platform.

Loved our chat!

I am joined by Kelsea. She is half-Chinese and lives in Toronto. With a BFA from OCAD and a lifetime of work in hospitality she currently works in film production but has recently made the big career leap after working for celebrity chef Susur Lee for 10 years as Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant. Whom I interviewed on the podcast earlier! 

She’s currently working on a podcast called Mixed Feelings which is set to air this May, The podcast will cover interviews about representation in film, colourism, food rituals and other topics mixed people sometimes have mixed feelings about growing up in a globalized modern world.

Her big interests are food, hospitality, and media. She is happiest when watching TV or trying new restaurants or recipes. She recently took an online graduate-level course with Boston University in Food Studies on Gender Studies where she specifically focused on Chinese birth and death rituals relating to food and deferred (due to COVID) a 6-month culinary position in France at Ecole Ducasse with Chef Alaine Ducasse. She’s looking forward to what her 30s look like for her and how she’ll be able to blend all of her skills and interests together to create an interesting and exciting future!

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100 EPISODES?!

Holy shit! Who would have thought that I would have gone this far with the podcast? Haha, not me. I'm so grateful and amazed by the community that this little ting has built. I've had such invaluable conversations with so many incredible and wise guests. It's making me even a bit emotional posting this. Thank you thank you to everyone who listened, shared, commented, and subscribed, I appreciate you!

In this episode, I'm joined by my partner, Jordan once again.

Relationships with food can be complicated -- both Jordan and I had rocky relationships with food as we both suffered from disordered eating. Rebuilding a relationship with food was hard for both of us -- but being able to find joy within the processes and experiences food can bring. In this episode, we explore the great and not-so-great culture of the food industry while diving into my cultural heritage through food experiences!  

PSA: We are not licensed professionals, all opinions are our own. Please reach out to a professional for help :) TW: Eating Disorders 

Ro is the 29-year-old Founder of The Wilds Skincare — a clean, genderless, and step-simplified skincare line that launched earlier this year.

In just 3 months, The Wilds has achieved some exciting milestones including a social media launch campaign that reached just over 5M Instagram users, upcoming features in Coveteur, Goop, Forbes, PopSugar (to name a few), and most notably, being named a finalist in the Pure Beauty Global Awards for Best New Clean Skincare.

Beyond ethical skincare, The Wilds aims is to cultivate a community that fosters unapologetic confidence, self-acceptance and the permission to be happily wild.

We chat about her upbringing and middle eastern background, her skin journey and why she created The Wilds, starting a business, leaning into her fear compass, marketing herself and manifesting her business, and why she doesn't compare herself to others. 

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I am joined by the incredibly driven, Indra. A listener actually sent me over her profile and I absolutely loved her page and also found that she was a BC gal! Indra is the proud founder of Incluskivity, an organization that provides avalanche safety training to minorities in coastal British Columbia. She is an icon in the local snowsports world, where she consistently advocates for inclusion and diversity in the field.

We chat about the culture of the snowsports world and how the ski community was built upon wealth and money, gender and race power dynamics in sports industries, balancing life and work, merging diversity and inclusion work in her personal life, and self-censorship. We end the ep with some fun rapid-fire questions, including Bridgerton, her fav breweries in Vancouver, and the most influential people in her life.

Such an amazing convo!

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I am joined by the amazing - Maddie Laver! Yet another dance friend! Maddie and I danced together for several years back in the day. She’s now doing all the things. She is a producer and creative, currently working in Art Direction for Apple. She has 6 years of international production experience, with work ranging from direct-response ads to a 10-episode series on Amazon Prime Video. Maddie approaches her work from a human-first point of view and establishes seamless partnerships with her teams and contractors to create world-class content. Maddie was born in the US but lived, and was educated in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada before moving back to the US. She currently lives and works in LA. I know a lot of my listeners are really interested in the producing role, as am I, so I’m super excited for everyone to hear Maddie's journey. 

We chat about growing up in the US then moving to Canada, how College wasn't really for her, feeling lost and unsure what to do career-wise, stepping into the entertainment industry, what 16-year old Maddie would think of herself today, and her best advice for getting into the producing/entertainment scene. 

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