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Zubin Thakkar is a platinum-selling producer, engineer, songwriter, musical director, and guitarist from Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. His list of credits includes Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Taylor Swift, Tyler Shaw, Kira Isabella, and many more.

Since 2015, Zubin has been the Musical Director and lead guitarist for Grammy-nominated artist, Shawn Mendes. In this role, he has put together performances for and played on Saturday Night Live, The Grammy Awards, The Tonight Show – Starring Jimmy Fallon, The American Music Awards, The Ellen Show, X-Factor, The Much Music Video Awards, The MTV Video Awards. He’s also played with the likes of John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, Miley Cyrus.

The Billboard Awards as well as sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, the Rogers Centre, the O2 and Wembley Stadium in London, and the Staples Center. Heʼs also toured the world with Shawn playing and musically directing his three sold-out, headlining tours, the most recent being “Shawn Mendes: The Tour”. 

In this episode, we talk about his childhood in Ontario, his love and passion for music, meeting Shawn, performing all over the world and we end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions. 

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Andrea Barber is the founder and creator of the online and on-demand movement platform A Few Fun Moves.

A Few Fun Moves is a collection of workouts, exercises, and lifestyle support to help you maintain a fun relationship with movement, your body, and yourself. 

Born and raised in Vancouver BC and Growing up competing in high-level competitive sport. Andrea has always had a curiosity for movement and sport-related injuries. 

As an introvert attempting to thrive in an extrovert's roll as a personal trainer and group fitness instructor for the past 8 years, the burnout was becoming pretty real. The shift to all online because of Covid couldn't have come at a better time and was a true blessing in disguise. From this, AFFM was born on October 1st 2020.

Starting AFFM was something she somewhat selfishly started for herself as means to hold herself accountable to always moving her body for herself, when and how it feels right. Hoping that along the way she could inspire others to do the same. Her relationship with exercise has been a complicated and complex one. But fast forward to today, she can confidently say it looks and feels a lot different than it has in the past. All thanks to the AFFM community.

Andrea and the AFFM community is on a mission to help people to reframe their relationship with movement and get more people having fun while moving their bodies. Because sometimes all it takes is just 'A Few Fun Moves'.

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Try it out: https://www.afewfunmoves.com/

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I am joined by the lovely Eman Osman! Eman's podcast "Twenty-Something" actually inspired me to start my own! I absolutely loved our convo and how genuine and open she was about all things post-grad, work, life, and confidence. We recorded the episode a while back when she was working as the Influencer Lead at Blume, but she recently switched roles to work in internal communication at Earls. 

We chat all about what did she post-grad, starting a podcast and then closing that chapter, working for a startup, what shes passionate about, what she does when she has down days and how she gets out of the funk, and of course, we end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions.

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I’m joined by the one and only, Drew Tarves - also known by his stage name Young Friend. Drew is from Vancouver and is an amazing singer & songwriter. I’m a huge fan of his music (seriously obsessed) and really enjoyed our chat. If you haven’t listened to his songs yet… what are you doing?!

In this episode, we chat about his journey with music and how it actually started off with dance, going into the industry a little “late”, his songwriting process, therapy & mental health, how he measures his success as a musician, and where he hopes to see his career in the future. We also end the episode with a few rapid fire questions like his current fav song, his ideal date AND skydiving lol! Can't wait to hear what you guys think!

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Listen to Young Friend here

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I am joined by the beautiful Natalie Ludwig! Natalie is many things, but she’s is mostly a fashion model and the co-founder of Conscious Co. The one-stop shop for the leading sustainable household and self-care products. Natalie has also modeled for so many incredible brands and magazines. I was so excited to chat with her because she’s also a fellow Vancouver gal. She also did her undergrad at Dartmouth and her Masters at USC. 

I absolutely loved chatting with her, she's so genuine and sweet. We talk about how she got discovered with modeling, traveling the world for work, burning out, and learning to take breaks and focus on her mental health, what sustainability means to her, and everything Conscious Co. Of course, we end the episode with some fun-rapid fire questions. 

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FUNNY DATE STORIES ARE BACK! I had so much fun reading your stories back on Valentine's Day that I had to do another episode with my lovely friend, Mac Ford.

In the first half of the episode, Mac and I catch up, we talk all about relationships, specifically relationships with friends, yourself, family, and dating. I had such an amazing time chatting with her. She gives really great advice on treating your relationship with friends as you would in a relationship, learning to set boundaries with yourself, dating after a bad breakup. 

The second half around 15 mins in, we read your funny date stories. Seriously, these are way too funny. 

Follow me on @wellnowpodcast and let me know which one of the stories was your fav! 

OK, WHAT! I got to interview the one and only, JP SAXE! This was definitely one of those pinch-me moments. I've loved listening to JP for as long as I can remember - so I'm a huge fan of his. You may have heard his Grammy-nominated song If The World Was Ending featuring his girlfriend, Julia Michaels. 

JP recently won the Juno award for breakthrough artist of the year - so incredible!!

As I've said before, I absolutely love interviewing musicians, I really find the industry so fascinating and I feel as though many people don't know too much about it.

In this episode, we chat about his childhood and the moment he found out he could actually sing, we go into detail about his singing career and how he started off playing shows in Toronto, tips he has for aspiring musicians, he also goes over his songwriting process and how he collaborates with other artists like Lennon Stella. We also chat about his upcoming album and tour! Finally, we end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions like his ideal date spot and what his intro song would be if he were in a movie. 

His newest album, Dangerous Levels of Introspection comes out June 25th! Check it out here.

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I am joined by Sam Wong, also known as Samantha City. Sam is a digital creator, mostly known for her relationship videos on TikTok. She is also the Content Product Specialist at Lululemon!

We chat about her life post grad and hustling to get her foot in the door for a Lululemon head office position, starting her TikTok career, how she found success in her relationship, advice she has for people struggling to be alone, and then we end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions. Sam was so lovely and I love supporting local Vancouver creators.

Make sure to check out her videos @samcity_  and @samcity_ on IG!

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I am joined by the wonderful Sophie Coleman. 

Sophie is the marketing director at 437 - a women's swim and apparel company founded in Toronto. 437 is founded by two female co-founders,  Hyla and Adrien They launched 437 after a summer of travelling across the Amalfi Coast and indulging in everything their hearts desired. The one issue they faced: finding swimwear that could keep up with their craving for adventure and carbs. The two set out to design a bikini that would accentuate their waist, elongate their legs and never stop them from grabbing that second serving of spaghetti bolognese. They launched the brand in the summer of 2017 out of the townhouse they lived in during their last year of university and the company has now grown to a multi-million dollar business. PLUS all it's an all-female team from the ages of 20-26 years old!

Some of her previous roles include working at Saje Natural Wellness and Aritzia, and she has worked on campaigns with people like Kendall Jenner, Megan thee Stallion, and Kaitlyn Bristowe. 

In this episode, we chat about her childhood and her super cool and talented family, graduating from school and feeling lost, changing roles and working at several really large companies and what her day to day looks like as a marketing director for a small team. Absolutely loved chatting with Sophie today and really enjoyed her enthusiasm and passion for helping other young females. 

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Omg! So excited for you all to listen! Joss is the BEST and is so cool.

Founder and CEO, Joss Richard is an Emmy Award-winning Producer who was born and raised in Toronto where she worked as a Television Producer before moving to Los Angeles. At the age of 28, Joss has won a Daytime Emmy Award and worked at Netflix, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Walt Disney Company creating digital content and managing their content strategy.

Joss has pivoted to the entrepreneurial world when she realized there was a gap in women’s access to mentorship and that women struggle with asking to be compensated for their time and knowledge. 

That's when she founded Margot. Margot is an inclusive online network that helps women and gender-marginalized individuals find mentors in all industries, provides 1:1 virtual time with them, and normalize women being compensated for their knowledge.

In this episode, we talk about her life in Toronto and moving to LA for work, working for large companies such as Ellen, Netflix and her current role at Walt Disney. We also dive into her entrepreneurial journey and starting Margot. We also end the episode with some fun rapid-fire questions like her current obsessions and what most people don't know about her.

Check out Margot and follow them on IG.

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