What She Said!

Lisa Selin Davis talks about her new book Tomboy, The Surprising History and Future of Girls who Dare to be Different. Anne Brodie joins me with this week’s new releases and an interview with Enuka Okuma from Netflix’s The Sleepover as well as her thoughts on the emotional and beautiful Summerland and Amazon Prime’s new teen romantic series Chemical Hearts. The future of food is definitely interesting, and Lauren Keegan, CEO of Entomo Farms which specializes in the farming of crickets thinks you might love the protein benefits of crickets. Apryl Munro, who is half of the duo that makes up This Kinda Life, joins me to share some of her best tips for taking care of yourself with New Roots Herbal. Dwania Peele from Canadian Small Business Women (CSBW)joins me now to discuss how they are helping women stay in business. Canadians having been planking the curve and spreading a contagion of kindness helping each other. Heather Down started collecting kindness stories from across Canada and compiled them all in her book Not Cancelled which she talks about with me today.

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Of all the things that 2020 has brought forth, who possibly could have predicted that we would have seen one’s of Canada’s brightest stars, WE Charity, under a microscope. My next guest had a pretty good idea back in 2012 when she wrote her Masters thesis "Pomp and Circumstance: Communication Strategy, Charitainment and the Media Event in the Humanitarian Context" focusing on the communication strategies of WE Day, which won the Best Civil Society Thesis award in 2012 in Sweden. When WE Charity became a headline for all the wrong reasons this summer after the Liberal party awarded WE the administration of a payment program for the Canada Student Service Grant Program, a $900 million volunteer program, the opposition quickly raised questions about ties to the Trudeau family,. My next guest tweeted out her thesis and it instantly went viral. Meet June Findlay, a social media creative strategist based in Toronto and tipper of sacred cows.

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I interview Elizabeth May, the parliamentary leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament representing the southern Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. One of Canada’s most respected environmentalists and with over a decade of experience navigating politics, she is also a model for women who want to jump into a life of public service. Anne Brodie joins me with reviews of Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run and Unhinged. Carolyn Ray from JourneyWoman joins me to share the results of a recent survey she conducted and some thoughts on travel in our own backyard. Hilary Bergsieker, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo discusses the resistance to mask wearing and how to change minds without shaming. Finally Brian Warren and Michelle Wray from Start2Finish join me to share the impact of this incredible non-profit for kids at risk.

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I think about being single a lot. I constantly weigh the pros and cons of being in a relationship in a way I never even considered before. In retrospect it’s also made me question why I ever wanted to be married in the first place. Looking back, it never occurred to me that I could have a full life unless was half of a couple, half of a whole. That type of existence never seemed like a viable option. We live in a couple-oriented culture and I knew no different. Would I have chose differently if being single was modeled or accepted in society? Would you? My next guest has always been single, by choice, and when she was diagnosed with cancer and felt that the health care system tried to kill her because of her marital status she started to research and write about being single in a society that tells us being in a relationship is the only way to be truly fulfilled. Meet Joan DelFattore, who is single by choice, not chance.

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How often do you think about your privacy? Do you think about it every time you login to Facebook? Post an instagram picture? Send an email? Do you regularly ask Google or Siri to help with a task? Do you worry about data breaches or have you just resigned yourself to accept there is no such thing as privacy anymore? Personally, I know that I was at that point, and I emphasize was because in this next podcast I speak with Cat Coode, who is on a mission to help safeguard our data and protect our digital identities. Backed by two decades of experience in mobile development and software architecture, as well as a certification in data privacy law, Cat helps individuals and corporations better understand cybersecurity and data privacy. She also thinks you may want to reconsider TikTok.

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Women20 AKA the, (W20) is an official G20 engagement group forming a transnational network of women's organizations, female entrepreneurs associations and think tanks. The main goal of Women20 is to promote women's economic empowerment as an integral part of the G20 process. At the beginning of this year, my next guest assumed her role as the W20 Sherpa for the year of Saudi Arabia’s Presidency. Little did she know of course that she was was stepping into this role in the Mother of all years. In this next interview, we discuss the policy focus areas the W20 is actively seeking to change, whether or not women’s rights are at risk of being rolled back, how this pandemic is impacting women around the globe and what we can expect to see in the second half of 2020. Meet Salma Al-Rashid, who joins me from Rihad, Saudi Arabia on What She Said.

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Some have called 2020 a dumpster fire, but my next guest says is more like a forest fire actually. She is an awarding futurist and a Senior Associate at the Future Today Institute. She combines research with unhindered creativity and grounded organizational practice to

imagine and realize new worlds. She’s joins me to share some insights into what our future might hold and it’s not necessarily all bleak, it really depend on if we’re willing to listen to the experts or not. But based on how well we’ve listened in the past, maybe it is bleak. I regrettably also asked her to share her biggest fear, and now that I’ve heard of a cyberpunk dystopian society, I can’t unhear it, so I might as well have some company for my latest anxiety inducing obsession. Meet Leah Zaidi, who shares some of her predictions with us.

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This week I interview Salma Al-Rashid, the Women 20 Sherpa for the year of Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of the G20 and the effects of this pandemic on women globally and why we need to be at the table for a our economic recovery. On a lighter note, Lisa Selin Davis shares her thoughts on Zoom wearing down women's self-confidence. Anne Brodie shares an interview with Lesley Chilcott, the producer of Helter Skelter: An American Myth and why the story you might know is not accurate. Getting girls BEFORE their confidence is shaken with societal expectations is We are Girl Strong's mission. I speak with founder Yollanda Zhang about the importance of her non-profit in young girls lives. Are you managing time or energy? Dr. Andrea Dinardo, a psychology professor and TEDX speaker, shares a way to effectively manage your whole life by knowing what depletes you. And incredible science coming out of Ottawa, shares findings on the birth control pill and brain development in adolescence. I interview Nafissa Ismail from OttawaU on this study.

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I first heard of my next guest when I read a Huffington Post article about his fears raising black sons during this time. It became quickly apparent thought that it’s not just the systemic racism of being black that Avi deals with on a daily basis but the that he is living with ALL the isms, seriously, almost every one. Trans, black, Jewish, in an interracial relationship to a gay woman, adoptive parent to two children with developmental hurdles in the form of fetal alcohol syndrome and autism. Honestly, some days my day can be derailed if it’s raining. Reading this story I just had to know more about him and how he gets through the day with so much external pressure and sadly hatred thrown his way. As it turns out with a great deal of empathy and a calling to teach others how to treat LGBTQ kids with kindness and equality. Meet Avi Magdisohn.

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Raising teenagers to paraphrase Charles Dickens, “is the best of times and the worst of times”. It’s been this way for time immemorial, but in 2020 we added a plot twist. We have taken teens who are hardwired to be seeking independence and pushing boundaries and locked them in a house, often with parents who are going through their own developmental stage at mid-life and then we soaked the fuse on this powder keg in fuel that comes in the form of school closures, non-stop social media, cabin fever, and mental health crisises. It’s a lot mama. My next guest is a straight shooter who is here to neither coddle the parent or the teen, but with empathy and a clear voice is helping to bridge the gap between parents and teenagers in a time of great crisis. Meet Aly Pain, from alypain.com, certified life coach and relationship systems expert, and viral TikToker. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.

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