Bombshell Brunches Podcast
Bombshell Brunches
We’ve saved you a seat at the Bombshell Brunches table. Join us - a community who knows they were put here for more as we chat with awe-inspiring guests. We’ll spill the tea, serve up success stories and leave you with bite-sized take-aways you can use to build the world you want to see. Kristina’s creativity, combined with Raquelle’s curiosity, make for dynamic, engaging, and empowering episodes. We believe we can create meaningful change, love our work, and maintain our well-being. Let’s do this!
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063. Abundance Mindset for Collective Growth w/ Ian Cromwell
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
12/14/21 • 69 min
Dr. Ian Cromwell has his hands in so many baskets. Ian is a Health Economist, highly sought-after multi-instrumentalist, and community champion with his collective Locals Lounge, which aims to elevate musicians across all genres and curate exceptional experiences for audiences all over the city. From hustle culture to abundance mindset, we start in science, and move into facilitative leadership models that embrace a collaborative, values-based and mutually beneficial mindset. A perfect partner to your morning beverage, this episode will inspire you to be vulnerable, build trust, and find the overlap in your skillset. We’re walking through the tastiest ingredients to a more sustainable, fulfilling career, and we’re here to help you get your next initiative going.
So let’s all sit down, find each other, and get to making some stone soup.
About Ian Cromwell
Ian Cromwell is a musician, scientist, and community organizer in Vancouver, BC. Ian spends his days conducting reviews of health economic evidence on behalf of the Canadian health care system. By night, you can find Ian at the helm of Locals Lounge, a local music community incubator. Locals Lounge has recently launched the far-reaching 'Constellation' project - a collaboration between local music event organizers designed to welcome people back into Vancouver's music scene in the wake of COVID. Ian can also be found on stages around Vancouver, performing live with the help of his electric violin, guitar, and loop pedal.
RESOURCES
To connect with Ian Cromwell: click HERE
To connect with Locals Lounge: click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)
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092. How To Vote Well w/ Ian Cromwell
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
07/05/22 • 18 min
If you’re like us, right now the world feels heavy. Burnout is a recurring theme, pandemic isolation and social justice fights have permeated our daily lives. Many of our friends, peers, colleagues and family, including you wonderful listeners, have voiced an inability to make strong decisions, to know where to start to help. So, Kristina sits down with local City Council Candidate Ian Cromwell to help outline, define, and un-blur some of the lines of Vancouver’s upcoming Municipal Election.
We cannot change everything, and nor should we. This is about us taking the steps that we can, making decisions that we’re able to make, to really participate in the change that we want to see.
We acknowledge that this is one political opinion - please take a little time regularly to do your own research, in all areas - we will too. Systemic change is not easy, but it IS worth it!
About Our Guest:
Ian Cromwell (he/him) is a health economist at the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, where he provides advice to healthcare decision-makers to ensure the best use of public resources. Cromwell is a classically-trained violinist and founder of Locals Lounge, a grassroots incubator for Vancouver’s music community. Ian is currently a candidate for Vancouver City Council with OneCity Vancouver.
To connect with Ian : click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!
With special thanks to:
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner
066. Creative Magnetic Influence w/ Nimkish
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
01/04/22 • 58 min
What an inspiring, incredible episode to ring in the New Year! From a long love of the English language, through competitive hockey, to billboards and chart-topping tunes, Nimkish (she/they) embodies every part of the art form in order to inspire the world with socially conscious stories. We talk about the investment made into learning the language of your career, building your blue sky, and taking control of your workflow. Nimkish avidly believes that when you put what you want out into the universe, based on what you believe in, you attract your team. Every entrepreneur, creative, and life designer is a project manager of our own careers. So get your vision board out, put in the work, and don’t settle for the status quo, because you, BBs, are worth your biggest dreams.
About Nimkish:
To fully immerse in the multitudes of Indigenous rising star Nimkish is to honour the past, look ahead to the future, and bask in the resplendent present all at once. The Vancouver-based marvel-in-the-making is fearless in her lyricism, confronting anti-Indigenous racism and colonial violence alongside other hard subjects like anxiety, grief and heartache. To the great tradition of singer-songwriters healing through their music, Nimkish brings a bright-eyed aim to flourish in all she has experienced. Stylistically, Nimkish exists in a realm between Kehlani and King Princess, softly orbiting Sabrina Claudio. Her lyrics give affirmation to past pain while living in the moment. To some it may sound like escapism, to others it may sound like moxie-driven R&B-pop pulsing through the club. What’s certain is her fortitude — she’s an it-girl on a mission.
RESOURCES:
Nimkish’s Team:
To connect with Nimkish: click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)
056. Do Good, Be Good, Bake Good w/ Craig Taylor
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
10/26/21 • 63 min
The Bake Daddy is in the house!
Today we were joined by one of the most nurturing humans, Craig Taylor aka @thebakedaddy_.
Craig talks about the incredible time he had on the Food Network's show Great Chocolate Showdown where contestants compete for a $50,000 prize. We break down how one cake changed the trajectory of his career and one quote changed the dynamics of a fierce competition into a family of competitors who encouraged growth instead of breaking someone down.
Get ready - because next time Raquelle's in town we're hitting up the kitchen to get our own bake off!
About Craig:
Craig Taylor has been a professional cake curator since March 2017, the day after his father died. Having worked over 20 years in the casino world, his world upended with his father’s passing. He set himself a mission the very next day: to make a peppermint bark cheesecake for his girlfriend’s birthday. He quickly learned peppermint bark was out of season and nowhere to be found in stores, so he spent the day running from store to store in search of all the ingredients he’d need to make it from scratch – before he even got started on the cheesecake.
Craig has since been selected as one of the ten contestants on the Food Network’s Great Chocolate Showdown, and continues to make highly customised baked goods, with an unparalleled attention to detail.
To connect with Craig: click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)
054. Social Impact Through Story w/ Dr. Javeria Khadija Shah
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10/12/21 • 70 min
Dr. Javeria Shah is, in short, a scholarly activist with a hilarious sense of humour, and a deep, kind intelligence surrounding decolonisation practice. We laughed from the get-go about her impeccable Robert DeNiro impersonation, murder hornets (which are still at large, I’ll have you know), and poo emojis (flashback to toilet roll scarcity, anyone?). We wrapped it all up in the world of social justice, and Dr. Javeria’s academic-led impact on deconstructing social norms. Dr. Javeria glamorizes geekdom, and is the perfect example of being the change you want to see.
About Dr. Javeria Khadija Shah
A cultural sociologist and interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in policy, media education, sociology, and the visual arts. I specialise in person-centred research that interrogates and re-conceptualises societal positioning(s) of the individual and their self-identity formation - and my current research is strongly focused on the conceptualisation of socialisation as ‘social performance’.
RESOURCES:
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” - Toni Cade Bambara
To connect with Dr. Javeria click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)
019: Chinese New Years Myths, Rituals and Superstitions w/ Judy Lam Maxwell
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
02/09/21 • 48 min
Episode 19: CHINESE NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year!! We’re celebrating abundance, wealth, good fortune and getting superstitious with you for Chinese New Year. Judy Lam Maxwell is a historian, a connoisseur of dumplings, Chinese history and traditions. For this episode, we dive into the history and lore surrounding the Lunar New Year, celebratory rituals, meanings and honouring our past as we walk into our future.
Join us for a special celebration of Kristina’s childhood, one of Raquelle’s favourite holidays, and our joint love of food. And money.
Enjoy!
**EDIT: Kristina's apologies: in the episode, she says the word for gold is 'BAAT', but it's NOT!! BAAT (the number eight) sounds like the word for prosperity in Cantonese. OOPS!
About Judy Lam Maxwell
Judy Lam Maxwell specializes in Chinatowns around the world, the history of the Chinese in Canada, and the Chinese Diaspora. Judy is third-generation European Canadian on her dad’s side and first-generation Chinese Canadian on her mother’s side. She has deep roots in the foundation of the city of Vancouver.
She completed an M.A. in History from the University of British Columbia, and a Certificate through the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness at UBC’s Faculty of Education. She is currently a board member of numerous organizations in Vancouver’s Chinatown: the Vancouver Chinatown Revitalization Committee, the Chinatown Society Heritage Buildings Association, and the Vancouver Chinatown Heritage Committee. She is a past board member of the Organization of Chinese Americans and the BC Historical Federation. Judy enjoys teaching, research and writing, cooking, and people.
In addition to giving tours in Chinatown, Gastown, Granville Island, the University of British Columbia, and Judy also teaches people how to make dumplings and Hakka cooking lessons. Her businesses are Historical Chinatown Tours and Masterclass Dumplings.
RESOURCES
Judy’s Chinatown History and Dumpling Tours: click HERECONNECT
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
To connect with Judy Lam Maxwell: click HERE
042. Joy Hunting - Unconditional Happiness Hacks w/ Raquelle and Kristina
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
07/20/21 • 52 min
Not unlike every other human in this (almost) post-pandemic world, Kristina and Raquelle have dedicated themselves to finding JOY this summer. But what is joy? What does it look like and how on green earth do you find it?
Join Kristina and Raquelle as they boozy brunch chat their way through hunting for joy, releasing schedules (ahem - Kristina), expecting and learning to love imperfection (Raquelle) and all the other things that come with that elusive feeling. We talk about epic joy-hunting fails, tips and tricks learned along the way and get real about how it’s STILL hard. Listen along and let us know what your Joy hunting tips are. Happy UNscheduling, babes xo
REFERENCES:
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: click HERE
Jay Shetty, On Purpose: Adam Grant Interview: click HERE
Kinnie Starr Episode: click HERE
Ted Talk on Boredom, by Manoush Zomorodi: click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team:
Kristie Chan: Lead Audio Engineer (to connect with Kristie, click HERE)
Bosco Li: Audio Engineer (to connect with Bosco, click HERE)
Hannah Gorton: Production Coordinator (to connect with Hannah, click HERE)
And WELCOME to our new team members Nicole, Glen, Grace and Elvin!!
050. The Transformative Power of People w/ Alysha Osborne
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
09/14/21 • 58 min
Alysha is a force of nature, and of nurture - humanising stigmatised people and exercising values-led leadership is something that we can all learn from. We sat down with Alysha to talk through her love of transformative interaction, starting with her own experiences with bad bosses and through a serendipitous series of exchanges within her neighbourhood, that led her to run this incredible charity. The saying goes that many of us are just two paycheques away from poverty. Alysha and her team actively reduce the stigma surrounding the Downtown Eastside’s population, and remind us that every single person has a unique and important story. This episode will leave your heart full, your mind changed, and your life fuller. The next time you walk by someone on the street, you’ll see a person first.
About Alysha:
Alysha has been in the hair industry for 11 years. After starting her career in salons she found a passion for barbering and switched lanes in 2011. While living in Gastown (an area of Vancouver’s downtown east side for non-Vancouverites) she befriended some downtown eastsiders. After seeing the way they were being treated and having experienced addiction in her family, she decided to start 2 Paycheques Away as a way to change the stigma around addiction, homelessness and mental health on the DTES.
2 Paycheques Away, unlocks new perceptions of spirited and resilient individuals from the DTES by sharing their stories as told during their visit to the barber.
REFERENCES:
To connect with Alysha: click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Elvin and Nicole!
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Support (to connect with Levels Music Pro, click HERE)
026. Holistic Health w/ Brain Cancer Survivor and Integrated Nutritionist Gillian Bertram
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
03/30/21 • 56 min
Episode 26: Holistic Health!
From a picture perfect partying life, Gillian Bertram looked like she had it all. One of the directors of a modelling agency in Paris, with all the glamour that goes with the Sex & The City Life, Gilly’s “It Girl” lifestyle started crumbling, and she started paying attention. After a huge family loss, Gilly was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015. Five years later, Gilly is a Nutritional Therapist, Functional Medicine practitioner and Integrative Cancer Coach, helping others thrive through adversity, providing support to cancer patients as well as those looking to incorporate preventative practices and healthy processes. Gilly’s story is inspiring, informative, and reminds us to listen better to our beautiful bodies. So, get ready to switch your fears into curiosities, as we take on the big C word and crush it.
About Gillian:
Gillian is a registered Nutritional Therapist, Functional Medicine practitioner and Integrative Cancer Coach, and is passionate about supporting people with cancer integrate nutrition and lifestyle medicine alongside standard cancer care. Gillian was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2015 and integrated radical diet and lifestyle change alongside surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Gillian’s personal experience overcoming cancer gives her a unique perspective rooted in experience and practical understanding of life as a long term patient. Her clinical practise recognises the body as an interconnected system and focuses on finding the root cause of illness and disease whilst optimising a person’s health and well-being. The core of Gillian’s approach uses nutrition and lifestyle medicine to identify and remove risk factors for cancer, while creating an inhospitable environment for cancer to grow and ultimately to restore the body’s innate ability to heal.
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
To connect with Gillian Bertram: click HERE
094. Crafting your future w/ Emma Davison
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
07/19/22 • 42 min
Today we sat down with Golden Ears Cheesecrafters co-founder, Emma Davison.
We talk about life as an entrepreneur, the cardinal rules of founding a business with your sister, how to communicate bad news and how to build a team that has as much excitement about your product as you do!
ANND if you're as in love with cheese as I am, you MUST check out the livestream HERE for a behind-the-scenes look at some seriously delicious cheese and to learn the art of the cheese board.
About Our Guest:
Two Maple Ridge sisters Emma and Jenna Davison decided to continue their family’s century-old farming traditions and start a business that produces artisan cheeses, cheddar curds and cultured butter using local ingredients. As much as they can, Golden Ears Cheesecrafters uses the high-fat milk produced by their uncle’s jersey cows.
“We want to be a part of the centuries to come and what there used to be here from the land we originally started with.”
Golden Ears Cheesecrafters has a retail store and bistro alongside producing cheese for some of Vancouver's hottest culinary spots, including Cartems Donuts, Elements, Araxi, Grouse Mountain and many more.
To connect with Golden Ears Cheese Crafters : click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
Thank you to our incredible BB Team: Glen, Bosco, Hannah, Grace, Rowan, and Chris!
With special thanks to:
Levels Music Production: Audio Career Pathway Partner
Roodenburg Design Consultants: Branding Partner
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Bombshell Brunches Podcast currently has 112 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Podcasts, Business and Careers.
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The episode title '063. Abundance Mindset for Collective Growth w/ Ian Cromwell' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Bombshell Brunches Podcast is 54 minutes.
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Episodes of Bombshell Brunches Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Bombshell Brunches Podcast was released on Aug 31, 2020.
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