The Safe Room

Send us Fan Mail The first episode of many on the Roadto#100, and I'm delighted to have a special guest on my podcast. This week I'm joined by 80, an upcoming rapper with a distinguished sound and a grind like no other. However, when I first met him, I knew him as Axel, another Black King looking to make his way in his craft. This episode is split into two parts because I want you guys t...

Send us Fan Mail Another episode has come for The Safe room, but not just any episode; it's the 75th episode of the podcast. Not only did I need a banger of a topic, but I needed to get amazing guests for this milestone. That said, I got two phenomenal individuals who are the host of the Hustle Over Everything Podcast to discuss the recent incident of the Rogers outage, the status quo of mono...

Send us Fan Mail After dealing with an entire pandemic that resulted in lockdowns, vaccine mandates, restrictions to travel, and a short-term recession for businesses in the market, the rumor has come up that Canada may be experiencing a far more long-term recession shortly. However, we must ask ourselves if this possibility of a late 2022 recession will happen? This week on The Safe Room, I inves...

Send us Fan Mail We're approaching the midpoint of 2022, so I think it's time we look back at some of the music that has dropped this year. We've got a lot of good music, whether it was from our favorite artists, long-awaited returns, or new artists in the industry, but those albums had us listening to every day so far. Joining The Safe Room this week is another music lover, Duke, f...

Send us Fan Mail This is easily my biggest guest so far on The Safe Room Podcast! This week I'm so thrilled to be joined by the wonderful, talented, Juno award-winning, Montreal-born artist known as TOME. If there's anything you should know about TOME, she's a determined Black female independent artist who demonstrates confidence in her sound and production and understands the busin...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Safe Room, I'm delighted to have this fantastic and inspirational energy/mindset/fitness coach discuss the movement she has created for upcoming entrepreneurs and individuals wanting to boost their confidence. Nicole Hosang has done her passion for over 15 years, and in this episode, she shares the origins of Intuition and how you can unlock the door to finan...

Send us Fan Mail We have a bonus episode of The Safe Room Podcast this time around. This week, Brian Smeenk is the President of the Merit Award Bursary Program, which provides opportunities and resources to secondary and postsecondary students through their mentorship programs, bursaries, and other services. Brian shares his experience working with Merit Award and how it was launched in the first...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard these phrases: All Black Women can't get along with each other, Black Men don't know how to take pain or express their feelings, A Black Male/Female would never understand... If you have, it now becomes perceived notions on how Black Men and Women should think, act, and behave in social settings, whether around friends, family, relationships, etc. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail What do you get with two Black Male Podcasters passionate about their work, striving to be the best, and sharing a solid sentiment to address issues and share their perspectives? You get a special moment to hear these two gentlemen on the same podcast episode. This week on The Safe Room, I welcome Ibou, or most of you may know him as Mr. Activated, to talk about his Activated Podc...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a while since I've done a Playback episode on The Safe Room, last year to be exact. I'm so glad to be doing this late at night where I should be getting some rest, but sometimes the President doesn't sleep. Anyways, this conversation speaks on three main topics. First, I give my final verdict and review of Kendrick Lamar's latest album Mr. Morale...

Send us Fan Mail Can I ask an honest question? What is it about Canadian Politics? We understand that there are 3 levels of government: Federal, Provincial, and Municipal. However, as each election passes by, my enthusiasm to engage with the political parties, their platforms, and the entire feel of the Premier race has dropped every single time. To the point where I feel this sense of irrelevancy...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Safe Room, we have a surprise guest to join our conversation on Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter for $44 Billion dollars. Nyimka-Nichole is a Youtube Personality for Tea Talk Toronto, which covers the world of pop culture by sharing her opinions and all the top stories surrounding celebrity gossip. Nichole and I met a couple of days ago at a networking worksho...

Send us Fan Mail This is a video from my first ever in-person interview with Jeff Carpio a.k.a. Kamuni. The conversation was cut down because we mostly talk about random things at the time. If you want to hear the full conversation, then go listen to it on all streaming platforms.  Listen to the official soundtrack to The Safe Room Podcast "First Lady" by yours truly. Available on all st...

Send us Fan Mail After the success of the TSR March Madness Tournament, I thought it would be fun to make my own picks of my top Disney Channel Original Movies. This time, I created a tier list based on each movie's significance, characters, plot, and moments to create this list. This was an idea months prior to the introduction of the March Madness tournament, but it was still awesome to do...

Send us Fan Mail This episode has so much significance to it because, in the history of The Safe Room, this is the first in-person interview I've done for the podcast. This conversation was utterly open with no structure whatsoever, but it made it so much better to enjoy the moment for what it was. I'm finally back with another episode of The Safe Room Podcast with my special guest, an i...

Send us Fan Mail First things first, apologies for the hiatus. Anyways, this special edition episode of The Safe Room highlights Black History Month. I go over the value and significance of BHM within today's society from various perspectives. Has the structure of Black History Month run its course to questioning a change in a month or advocating for equality on a day-to-day basis? How can we...

Send us Fan Mail This is the most important episode of The Safe Room to this day. On January 14, 2022, my main Instagram Account: thesaferoompodcast was hacked. My email, password, and phone number were changed, and unfortunately, my two-step verification wasn't turned on. Ever since that day, I've sent emails with no responses, visited the Instagram Help Center with nothing to offer, sp...

Send us Fan Mail For most people in Toronto, we remember January 17, 2022, the insane Snow Storm that saw over 60cm poured down from the heavens for the entire day. It was just another Monday conversation for myself and my special guest: Arys Dejan - Artist/Creator/Podcast Host. In this week's episode on The Safe Room, I opened up to Arys my theory on what we could be reminiscing in music 10-...

Send us Fan Mail This week, let's appreciate women empowerment and self-worth as we invite one of the more vocal, self-driven, and community-based organizations to The Safe Room, Flaunt It. Joining this conversation on the movement's accomplishments, core values/mandate, and expanding on the importance of establishing safe spaces for Black, Indigenous, POC women is Programs Manager Shena...

Send us Fan Mail The first episode of 2022 kicks off how we ended 2021 for The Safe Room with the President and host, Shon Williams. Today, I wanted to share my experience and go over following your goals/interests in 2022 and establishing consistency, time management, and organization. There are different techniques we can use for assisting us to be focused on accomplishing our objectives: Settin...

Send us Fan Mail It's the final episode of 2021! We all have a New Year's resolution on what we want to improve or achieve going into the following year. But we must ask the question: Are these resolutions getting redundant in promising to do certain things, only to abandon them immediately at the beginning of the year? Or is it New Year Resolutions that should focus on what makes us hap...

Send us Fan Mail In the great words of Jason Derulo, "I'm Ridin' Solo." This week on The Safe Room, we discussed the one topic that brought some attention to me and how we may see plans to implement this proposal sooner than later, increasing the minimum wage. Andrea Horwath wants to raise the minimum wage to $20 by 2026 to provide equality in compensation for workers in Canada...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Safe Room, the excellent Chid Suzan, host of the But What Do I Know Podcast, and myself discuss the life of a content creator in 2021. What are the different types of content creators we designate in our spare time? The importance of financial literacy and compensation towards the creator as a reward and an end to the content we produce. Get to understand how soci...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I want to take a deep dive behind the music... the sound that you've heard recently in my podcast intro and outros. On October 24, I officially a soundtrack for the podcast called First Lady, but some may be curious about how this track came to be and what it meant creating this song in the first place? I invited the man behind the production and assisted me throughout...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we have a pillar in the Jane Finch Community who continues to make an impact in the Arts and now Business side of things with the launch of ArtWorxTO. We welcome Nathan Baya to The Safe Room Podcast. Nathan is an individual who holds many titles and positions including artist, facilitator, community advocate, father, etc. But one thing that’s for sure is Nathan’s love a...