Who Should I be Talking To?

Dr. Nikole MacLellan a.k.a Dr. Kokes (nicknames always stick) was fortunate enough to have the opportunity at a young age to play many sports. She found herself leading national ringette teams to gold medals, playing provincial soccer for New Brunswick, and her amazing hockey career lead her to play for the Dalhousie University women’s varsity team. She has been extremely fortunate to take invalua...

Todays Episode features Brandon Kelvey a BJJ Black Belt, Yoga Instructor, and Practicing Physiotherapist.  Taken from Brandons bio at ProPerformance: Brandon is a Physiotherapist from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Dalhousie University, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and a Masters of Science degree in Physiotherapy. He is also certified in Biomedical Dry needling. Duri...

What a fantastic episode today...a chat with CCMA Hall of Fame Member ... Patricia Conroy.  To start with,...I am a big fan of Patricia's music prior to any of my own involvement in the industry so was a thrill to chat with her in this episode.  Here is a bit of a bio from Patricias site and I will include a few links to some of the great things we chatted about below.   Throughout her musica...

In this episode I get to speak with Tom Eagles, who was the Dominion President of the Royal Canadian Legion from 2014 to 2016. Tom is a life member of the Marble Arch Branch in his hometown of Plaster Rock, N.B., and has served as branch president, district commander and provincial command president. In 2003, Eagles joined Dominion Executive Council and since then has served at the national level...

Todays episode features the brilliant Brian Allen.  Brian was referred as someone that I should be talking to by one of the first guests on the podcast, Jason Barry.  Jason certainly was not wrong about this one.  I thoroughly enjoyed our chat in this podcast.  Some of the highlights from the conversation were discussing his band house when he moved from home at the age of 17 and how he cut his te...

Terry Kelly is an east coast musician who has seven full-length recordings to his credit.  He has gained international recognition as an athlete, award-winning singer, songwriter, and entertainer, speaker and lover of life. Terry is a recipient of the King Clancy Award, and Honorary Doctorates in Civil Laws and in Fine Arts.  He has received the Canadian Country Music Awards Humanitarian Award and...

This conversation is directly linked to the Conversation with Jimmie Inch.  Jimmie recommended James as someone I should be talking to, and he was right.  James and I chatted at length on how he became a National level sponsored snowboarder that presented many opportunities that he said yes to that led him to where he is today. We chatted about his BJJ practice in which he competed Internationally...

LCol (Ret'd) Brad White is the follow up guest to Episode 2 Guest Col (Ret'd) Randy Price.  In this episode Brad and I discuss his involvement with the Royal Canadian Legion as the Dominion Secretary National Executive Director.  We chat about his role in bringing the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier to Canada and the ceremony of the internment of the remains at the site. Along the way we dis...

This was the first edition of the podcast where the initial guest was linked to the next guest and it worked out famously.  Big THANK YOU to Wally "The Shearwater Swatter" Buckoski from episode 3 who recommended that Paul was someone that I should be talking to.      Paul Kennedy was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and started his radio career at CJLS Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1968. For...

Jason Barry is an award winning producer, songwriter, post audio engineer, and musician who has collected dozens of Canada's largest music accolades including Juno's, CCMA Awards, Canadian Music Awards, SOCAN Awards, and countless others.  In this podcast we talk about him overcoming adversity as a he beat being completely hearing impaired from birth to the age of 5; and once again in hi...

Todays guest is Col (Ret.) Randy Price, a former Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue Pilot who incidentally is my Dad.  We chat about his upbringing in the Alberta Prairies in the Neutral Hills, and the lessons that my Grandparent gave him doing their best to raise a family on land that was reported as uninhabitable as farm land. We talk about his time in Tactical Helicopters flying for the Ar...

Have you ever wondered how Kramer from Seinfeld finds himself in all of the scenarios that he gets himself into? Meet Wally "The Shearwater Swatter" Buckoski...Canada's real life version of the affable character. Wally is a sports stores technician at 12 Wing Shearwater and takes immense pride in the fact that he is the longest serving member to ever work there.  Should he stick aro...

Jimmie Inch is the fourth and final of my initial episode guests that are the starting point of all future guests on the show. I cannot think of an individual that approaches life quite like Jimmie.  A native of Glace Bay, Cape Breton (kind of), Jimmie weaves a tale over our chat about his start in music, ditching University to tour and coming full circle back to the same university to open for Gr...