Women In Media

iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ is, among many other things, an artist – a creator and communicator of music and of movement, of pictures, poetry and prose. And through it all, she’s a teller of stories that have impacted our past and will inform our future. You may know her best for her music, but she creates across many different mediums. iskwē is also co-host of the podcast The Chesterfield produced by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. ‘The Chesterfield’ is a place where your favourite Canadian artists talk about their favourite Canadian art,” says iskwē. “And we’re going to talk about the Canadian culture that inspires and unites us.” Find out more about The Chesterfield.   http://www.friends.ca/join Follow along with iskwē on her website, Facebook Page, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jax Irwin is Co-Host of Virgin Mornings on 99.9 Virgin Radio. She is an East Coaster who has been on air across Canada; from British Columbia to Nova Scotia, before calling Toronto home for the past 6 years. Using her platform on radio, television and social media, she is passionate about giving a voice to the LGBTQ+ community of Toronto and beyond.  One organization we discuss on this episode is The 519, find out more here: https://www.the519.org/ https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the519/ Follow along with Jax and her radio career: https://www.iheartradio.ca/virginradio/toronto/shows/virgin-mornings-with-adam-wylde-tj-jax-1.8619920 https://www.instagram.com/jaxonair https://twitter.com/jaxonair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’s modelling scene, Meredith is fiercely passionate about inspiring and motivating women of all sizes to embrace their power and feel sexy, confident, and fabulous in their own skin. She works closely with initiatives such as Girls Inc., Girl Talk, and Shoppers’ Drug Mart’s “Love You Run For Women,” and has graced numerous magazine covers and runways.  Meredith is also known as an inclusive style expert and she has an exciting new partnership with Canadian positivity brand Joyful Hearts Co. for the “Confident & Crushing It Affirmation Cards”. Shaw has coined this a ‘confidence practice’ because each affirmation comes with an action - putting intention into motion. A limited edition collaboration, Confident & Crushing It Affirmation Cards help us find joy and positivity within ourselves and spread it to those in need with reminders that we are worthy, lovable, and enough.  Find more about Meredith Shaw on her website: https://www.meredithshaw.com/ Follow her on social media: https://www.facebook.com/meredithshawtoronto https://twitter.com/meredithshaw https://Instagram.com/MeredithShaw Find more about her Confident & Crushing It Affirmation Cards here: https://joyfulheartsco.com/pages/about-us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 The Tragically Hip's Ahead By A Century here. Catch her hosting Full Circle on CKUA here and The Key of A on CBC here. Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Follow Sarah Burke on social media: Twitter: @Burketalks Instagram: @Burketalks Facebook.com/SarahBurkeRadio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 powerful celebrities in Hollywood including Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt and Oprah, Cheryl still finds the time to give back, working closely with SickKids Foundation and Plan International Canada. In 2019, Cheryl was named as host of HGTV Canada’s new feel-good renovation series Family Home Overhaul. Cheryl is also the founder of Cheryl’s Home and Family, a company she started to create a space that will support all types of families through connectivity, comfort, and practical solutions. Cheryl’s Home and Family focuses on creating innovative, safe, and exciting products that will benefit the whole family - from babies, young children, grandparents, pets and more. Cheryl Hickey is always sharing great moments behind the scenes of her life and television show on Instagram, too.  Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 co-manage singer/songwriter T. Thomason. They recently co-founded the first Canadian Music Industry LGBTQ2S+ advisory committee PRISM with support from MusicOntario. The committee, comprised of artists and music industry community leaders, looks to develop opportunities, safer spaces, and visibility for LGBTQ2S+ voices in music business. Here are some valuable resource links we discuss in the episode: A QUICK & EASY GUIDE TO THEY/THEM PRONOUNS By Archie Bongiovanni, Tristan Jimerson. Check out Queery by Cameron Esposito An inspiring Queer Artist: Vivek Shraya Read: Glitter Up The Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary  Register for the upcoming Trans Artists & Professionals in Music virtual event May 4th / 5th in partnership with CIMA, MusicOntario & Music Publishers Canada:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/trans-in-the-canadian-music-industry-where-to-start-tickets-148834723665 More info: https://music-ontario.ca/events/display,details/17784/musicontario-music-publishers-canada-cima-present-trans-artists-professionals-in-canadian-music Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 essentially meant driving our respective radio station vehicles around, blasting music, and reporting live from summer events. What we really couldn't see at the time was that we both had bright futures ahead of us, and there was room for BOTH OF US. As the LA Correspondent for Etalk on CTV, she is working from home, applying make-up and adding lights as necessary! Liz and her husband (Nathaniel Motte of 3OH!3) are waiting out the pandemic in Boulder, Colorado before returning to Los Angeles. Find out more about Liz: https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/tv/ctv/etalk/ http://www.liztrinnear.ca/ Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 dance festival appropriately called DisDance (socially distanced...get it?) https://blog.siriusxm.com/hear-siriusxms-virtual-disdance-festival-featuring-live-at-home-sets-by-the-biggest-djs/ She also produced a virtual festival called BPM Empowered featuring an entirely female line-up.  https://blog.siriusxm.com/bpm-empowered-virtual-festival-live-sets-from-women-in-dance-music/ Listen to Rida on SiriusXM's BPM: siriusxm.us/bpm Follow Rida on Instagram: @RidaNaser Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Her most recent position, prior to CCMA President, was at Corus Entertainment where she ran the content strategy for the W Network, OWN, Lifetime, Cosmo and Country Music Television, in addition to overseeing the launch of the CMT Music Festival.  Prior to her work at Corus, Martin was head of marketing for MuchMusic and MTV as well as the Vice President of Strategy at Pyramid Productions.  As CCMA President, Martin leads the association’s staff and Board through Country Music Week, and executive produces the CCMA Awards broadcast. Martin works alongside the CCMA Board to establish and execute long-range business plans that have seen the association evolve with current broadcast and content climates, develops strategic partnerships that elevate likeminded businesses and the CCMA, and evolve CCMA programming year-round. Martin has lead her team through the pandemic so far, adapting to the effects that Covid-19 has had on the entertainment industry. Country Music Week is planned for it's comeback November 27th-30th 2021 in London, ON. https://ccma.org/ Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Winters, JJ Johnston and the team at Indie88. Josie also touches on maternity leave and the challenges she faced in trying to become a morning show host. https://indie88.com/the-josie-dye-show/ Josie just launched a new podcast inspired by her son Cole called Love & Special Needs: https://josiedye.podbean.com  Follow the Women In Media Podcast on social media: Twitter: @WomenInMediaPod  Instagram: @WomenInMediaPod Facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices