Bombshell Brunches Podcast
Bombshell Brunches
Bombshell Brunches is the place where you can access real people doing big things, making changes in their lives and taking strides in this complex world. Join us in this space for like-minded people: ambitious, entrepreneurial, and creative, with a penchant for social betterment. A community without barriers to entry, we get real and we aren't afraid to disagree. We believe in representation, social impact, and internal revolution. We LIVE to highlight, normalize and glamourize the many different ways to live a brave and full life.
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063. Abundance Mindset for Collective Growth w/ Ian Cromwell
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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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031. Dignity, Humanising and Social Justice System, w/ Lauren Segal, GiveABeat
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05/04/21 • 44 min
Today we sat down with Lauren, a social justice warrior and passionate activist who founded Give a Beat. A jaw-dropping 45% percent of Americans have had an immediate family member who has been in the correction system (sagepub). That’s almost HALF the population. The stigma surrounding people who have been through the system not only impacts those who have been incarcerated but their friends and family members. The system is broken, with high numbers of juveniles being sentenced to life in prison at ages as young as 15. Through this inspiring talk we learn how art can rehabilitate and heal even in the darkest hours. Lauren is a perfect example that we can all be the change that we want to see. It starts with us, babeses!
About Lauren Segal:
Lauren is the co-founder of Give a Beat. A passionate activist, Lauren spent 10 years addressing the AIDS orphan epidemic in Africa with her first nonprofit, before switching her focus to the enormous domestic injustice of incarceration. A longtime member of the dance music community, Lauren launched Give a Beat in 2014 and has since engaged DJs, music technology companies, festivals, and event promoters in the fight against mass incarceration. In addition to Give a Beat, (can leave this in our take out: Lauren also owns and operates a souvenir shop and custom printing business in Laguna Beach, which her family established 40 years ago. The store is tagged "the t-shirt shop with a conscience” through it’s social good initiatives and the supporting non-profits as well as local artists and craftspeople.
About Give A Beat
Give a Beat’s mission is to reduce the harmful effects of incarceration through music production, DJing and other education programs that transform individuals and inspire communities to take action. Through music education and mentoring programs in juvenile halls, schools, our Prison Electronic Music Program, and in our new reentry program, we engage the music industry to help widen the pathways for people to thrive, tackle systemic racism, and contribute to the transformation of the US criminal justice system. To learn more, please visit https://www.giveabeat.org.
REFERENCES
- Give A Beat
- Prose of a Con: Laws of Correspondence, by Russell Wardlow (poem read at the end of the podcast)
- 45% of Americans statistic
- The Justice Arts Coalition
- Trench Art
- Equal Justice Initiative
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
To connect with GiveABeat: click HERE
042. Joy Hunting - Unconditional Happiness Hacks w/ Raquelle and Kristina
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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!!
094. Crafting your future w/ Emma Davison
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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
067. Play the Game to Win It w/ Vick Bain
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01/11/22 • 55 min
From an industrial working class town to the BBC’s Powerlist, Vick Bain teaches us how to play career chess (and WIN). From a love of performing to generating social capital in a man’s world, Vick shares how she raised twins as a single mother, found her career strengths, and rose to a position of one of the most influential people in the UK’s music industry. We’re so inspired by this lifelong learner, and know you will be too. Vick, through her own journey, reminds us that tenacity, perseverance, and solutions-based thinking are key ingredients to breaking free of the stereotypes that can try to hold us down. So get your game hat on, and prepare for a powerhouse episode!
Vick has worked in the music industry for twenty-five years. For six years she was Chief Executive Officer of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors (the Ivors Academy) and is a Sheffield University BA (Music and Performing Arts) and Henley Business School MBA graduate. She is the author of an influential industry report Counting the Music Industry, and founder of The F-List directory of UK female musicians: a not-for-profit organisation aimed at facilitating professional opportunities for women in music. Vick was enrolled into the Music Week Women in Music Awards Roll Of Honour and the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Music Industry Powerlist. Vick is also a director of the board of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, a music tech start-up called Delic and is a trustee of Parents & Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA).
RESOURCES:
The F-List Directory: click HERETo connect with Vick Bain: click HERETo 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)
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
095. Finding Your Fitness w/ Ocean Bloom
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
07/26/22 • 25 min
Today we sat down with one of our fav's Ocean Bloom!
We've talked about spirituality and healing and how stress is held in the body with Ocean in the past. If you missed it make sure you scroll back to episode 58 (it's AH-Mazing). TODAY we talked all things FITNESS. As a past world fitness champion and a current world traveller we couldn't think of anyone else who would be better suited to talk about getting that fitness routine back during the endemic. It's a weird, transitional time and we need to give ourselves grace as we tippy toe into the new world in a way that is healthy for all of us.
If you're interested in Ocean Bloom's conscious movement therapy and incredible healing modalities you should absolutely check out the livestream we did HERE for a behind-the-scenes look at my now favourite healing modality.
About Ocean Bloom:
Ocean Bloom is an internationally renowned bodywork therapist, wellness coach and retreat leader. She has over 25 years’ experience as a Fitness World Champion, Celebrity Personal Trainer and Certified Yoga Teacher. Ocean has worked and studied extensively in South East Asia and Europe. Her pioneering approach combines fitness modalities with the ancient elements of Yoga, Chinese and Thai Medicine to facilitate the return to health not just physically but also in the mind and spirit. Ocean is the founder and facilitator\ of “Conscious Movement Therapy”. From high profile celebrities and athletes to first responders and trauma survivors, she has helped individuals release emotional blockages and reset their thinking process.
To connect with Ocean, 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
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)
020. Trauma Release Therapy: What Your Body is Trying to Tell You
Bombshell Brunches Podcast
02/16/21 • 55 min
Episode 20 - Body Talk!
Today we dig deep into how the body holds trauma. We sit with Ocean Bloom, a one-of-a-kind conscious movement therapist who has managed to intersect a combination of mental, physical and emotional therapies, creating a transformative experience for her clients. From pro-athlete to film star to personal fitness coach, Ocean has studied alternative and traditional healing therapies around the world, uncovering the most effective treatments for clients with extreme PTSD, unaddressed and unknown trauma, and physical and emotional ailments of all kinds. For people who are looking to perform, process and exist at their best level, this is a must-listen episode.
About Ocean Bloom:
A World Fitness Champion, originally from Vancouver, BC. Ocean travels throughout Canada, Europe and Asia where she offers Conscious Movement Therapy sessions, leads wellness retreats, and teaches fitness and yoga classes. Ocean’s desire to find the balance between physical fitness and nurturing the spirit inspired her to travel to Asia to study Yoga, Ayurveda, Martial Arts, Meditation and Thai Yoga Massage. Her interest in transformational healing through ancient forms of therapeutic yoga massage and meditation brought her to Chiang Mai, Thailand for ongoing studies at the Sunshine Thai Massage School as well as training in the South of Thailand with the Mudita Thai Massage School.
Ocean’s passion, devotion and inspiration come from 25 years of experience in theatre, film, dance, yoga, gymnastics, martial arts, and over 14 years as a fitness competitor, fitness model, actress, life coach, teacher, international author and speaker.
REFERENCES:
Ocean's Website: Click HERE
To connect with Bombshell Brunches: click HERE
To connect with Kristina Lao: click HERE
To connect with Raquelle Roodenburg: click HERE
To connect with Ocean Bloom: click HERE
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How many episodes does Bombshell Brunches Podcast have?
Bombshell Brunches Podcast currently has 109 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Wealth, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Health, 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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