Women In Media

The name Meredith Shaw is synonymous with curve fashion, body positivity, and female empowerment. A career that began as an award-winning singer-songwriter, has taken Meredith into radio & television, hosting Chum 104.5’s #1 Afternoon Drive Show and appearing regularly as a style expert and guest co-host on CTV’s The Social, Your Morning, eTalk and The Marilyn Denis Show. A firm fixture in Canada’...

Celeigh Cardinal is a bandleader, a frontwoman, a radio host and a mom. She recently won a Juno Award for her 2020 Album Stories From a Downtown Apartment. While Celeigh comes across as confident, she speaks openly about her ongoing journey to inner peace, the guilt surrounding her Juno win, and the sense of belonging she has found in the Canadian indigenous music community. Listen to her cover of...

Cheryl Hickey As host of Entertainment Tonight Canada, Cheryl Hickey delivers breaking news coverage, in-depth profiles and behind-the-scenes exclusives to viewers each night. Cheryl graduated from London's Fanshawe College with a Broadcast Journalism degree, working in a variety of radio and television roles before joining ET Canada for its launch in 2005. While busy interviewing the most powerfu...

Erin Carroll (they/them) has worked in the music industry for almost 10 years in marketing, PR, and management. Currently, Erin is the manager of Publicity Services at Cadence Music Group / Fontana North. They have managed several press campaigns for artists like Lido Pimienta, Sam Roberts Band, k-os, Trans Trenderz, Martha Wainwright, Brittany Howard and Black Pumas. Outside of Cadence, they also...

Liz Trinnear and I go WAY back and have so much in common. We graduated from the same University program (Media, Information & Technoculture at the University of Western Ontario), and we both took our first steps in the media industry at Corus Entertainment in London, Ontario, Canada. We were both hired as "summer cruiser" radio personalities one summer while finishing our studies. That essentiall...

Rida Naser is a Program Director and Host at SiriusXM in New York City. While we work for the same company, I've never actually met her and I discovered her on social media. Working for SiriusXM channels like Pop2k, BPM and Steve Aoki's Remix Radio, she'll talk about using the pandemic to her advantage on this episode.  In the last year, she launched Steve Aoki's channel and produced a virtual dan...

Tracy Martin was the President of the CCMA (Canadian Country Music Association at the time of this interview; she has since been announced as President of The Core Canada, founded by Kevin Zaruk and Simon Tikhman in partnership with Live Nation in 2019.  Martin is a media executive with 17 years of experience in marketing, production, TV programming, as well as digital, artist and event management...

Josie Dye is more than just, "a normal blonde girl," as she puts it. I invited her to be my first guest because she is the person who inspired me to become a radio host; I used to listen to her on CFNY in Toronto in the early 2000s where she was a host for fifteen years. Josie speaks about the women who have inspired her like her mother and Maie Pauts, and great advice from mentors like Ross Winte...