Can't Sell This

SOOTSOAP Supply Co. co-founder, K. Dee Howard chats with Hugh about starting a new venture. From deciding to help firefigters' with the toxins they end up carrying around to launching a full-fledged soap company.

Natalie Zina Walschots discusses her novel Hench. From the inception of the idea to writing the novel to knowing its release date, Natalie chats with Hugh about villains and heroes and the costs of heroic interventions.

Director, director, experience-maker, Gmunk, chats with Hugh on a chill Friday evening. They talk about 20 years of innovating and inspiration AND inspiration for Gmunk.

Creator of Cinema Redux and Produced for Use, Brendan Dawes chats with Hugh about his career path from Flash to installations for Price Waterhouse Cooper.

Libs Elliott and Hugh sit down to talk about how she went from advertising to being a full-time textile artist and quilter.

NASA software engineer, Ben Feist, chats with Stefan and Hugh about his career path from the world of advertising to working for NASA. All thanks to a side project, Apollo 17 in real time.

Mario Klingemann in conversation with Hugh about his art, AI auctions, the process of creation using GANs (Generative Adversersial Neural Networks).

Laurie Petrou speaks with Hugh about her new novel, Love, Heather. In addition, they discuss the writing process and publishing and how to make it work.

Creators of the weekly Twitter meetup #womenwork, Meg Button and Shannon Hunter, join Stefan and Hugh in the studio to discuss freelance, running a business and women helping women succeed.

Hardware-maker and developer, Eugene Andruszczenko, sits with Hugh and Stefan to talk about product development. From a successful Kickstarter to a Retro ESP32

Anthea Foyer, Project Lead for the City of Mississauga's Smart City, speaks with Hugh and Stef. We discuss art, collaboration, creating a single-home music festival and being a lifelong creative.

Stef and Hugh sit down for a chat with John Rooney to talk about his career programming animation and kid’s content for some of the biggest channels in Canada, his insights into what to do—and what to avoid—when pitching ideas, and the crazy world of cartoon creators!

Scott Wilk, of Wilk Watchworks, talks about the life of a craftsperson. From a graduate of NSCAD to gemology to now watchmaking

Hugh and Stef take a call from Jason White, co-founder and executive creative director at Leviathan. Jason shares his experiences with being a super-talented artist, the pressures faced by those in leadership roles, imposter syndrome, and learning how to power through all that to get to success!

Hugh tells Stefan the story of a consultation for a new product launch. The consultation was to come up with ideas to support the launch. In keeping with the original theme of this podcast, those ideas went nowhere.

Hugh and Stef are joined by Kim Alpert, creative strategist and founder/director at Make Amazing. In a conversation that spans everything from risk aversion to ice sculptures, they’ll explore the highs and lows of being a modern creative professional.

Natalie Ramtahal, along with Nick and Kim Wong-Kwo of The 3 Spoons, partake in the “foodies” episode. Hosted by Nick and Kim in their lovely condo.

Natalie Ramtahal, along with Nick and Kim Wong-Kwo of The 3 Spoons, partake in the “foodies” episode. Hosted by Nick and Kim in their lovely condo.

Stefan and Hugh welcome guest Mike Heneghan. Mike shares his story idea about life in the IP ghetto. He also has some questions and suggestions concerning the A.R.K. idea from episode 18!

Hugh's attempt at a documentary, Influential: The Age of Digital, failed. Why? What insight does Stefan have that could possibly resurrect this idea?

Jon Friedman, creator and host of The Rejection Show, chats with Hugh and Stefan. The show was a monthly comedy show in New York City that ran for 10 years and the Can't Sell This podcast's initial concept bears similarities without knowing it!

Stefan gets an earful concerning Hugh's idea for a mockumentary. The subject of the film is Linda, a highway sign-wrtier. Her poetic signage has been tapped as great works. This makes her Canada's next Poet Laureate.

As the Research Writing Assistant in the Catalyst for Ryerson University FCAD, Natalie is well-positioned to give advice and knowledge related to grant applications and funding in general.

Hugh writes the short story he discussed in the Halloween episode. Read the book on Apple Books or find it on BookFunnel. Check out the show notes.

Jennifer Shiman, animator and creator, shares stories of her long-running 30 Second Bunnies Theatre and her "can't sell this" project Baldwin P. Leninforth, Ombudsman. Check out the show notes.