Daniel Lamarre is the past CEO and Vice Chairman of Cirque Du Soleil and author of the new business book, BALACING ACTS. This interview was conducted in cooperation with the Entrepreneurship Academy, Canadore College.
Jonathan Taplin is a writer, film producer and scholar. He is the Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California and was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016 in the field of international communication management and digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times.
In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore.
Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Author’s Guild Council and the Board of the American Music Association. Mr. Taplin was appointed to the California Broadband Task Force and the City of Los Angles Technology and Innovation Council. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte’s Edge Institute.
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Steven Hayward has published four books of fiction, including The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke (winner of the Premio Grinzane Cavour prize), and the Canadian national bestseller Don’t Be Afraid. A founding member of the Critical Karaoke Radio Project, he is also Editor-At-Large of Springs Magazine and is the Director of the Colorado College Journalism Institute. The creator of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Colorado Cold Case Podcast, he was the writer, host, and executive producer of the show’s first two seasons. A confessed Block Plan enthusiast and founding member of IBILTA (the International Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching Association), he co-directed a documentary feature film about the Block Plan’s past and present and produced a podcast series about the history of its founding.
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Ian started his career creating immersive installation art pieces to explore ways to bridge the divide between observer and artifact. These projects later led to experiments in virtual reality and cybercafés (including Calgary's first cybercafé in 1995). From studying the ergonomics of VR in the first virtual reality hype bubble to early video on demand and interactive TV experiments, Ian has long been focused on improving the user experience. Ian is currently working to humanize technology in his capacity as a UX Architect in the media & entertainment industry.
Professor Loeb received a PhD in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986) and was subsequently a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-1993), where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University where he was tenured three years later. He is now the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and former chair of the department.
He also holds a visiting professorship at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a Senior Professorship by special appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.
After spending years studying the night skies for signs of extraterrestrial life, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes he has found proof of their existence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Professor Loeb has just completed a $1.5m expedition searching for signs of a mysterious meteor dubbed IM1 that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014 and is believed to have come from interstellar space.
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In my heart, I have always believed that the body has the ability to heal itself if the proper modalities, environment and support are in place. Over the years of practice, I saw the most amazing physical transformations take shape with chiropractic adjustments and witnessed the body’s natural ability to heal. Once I added coaching and energy healing to my list of modalities, the pieces of the puzzle started fitting together for me. I was able to tap into, emotional, mental and spiritual states that took “patient care” to a whole new level and helped me see the bigger picture. Understanding emotional, mental and physical trauma and their relationship to one another, has given me the ability to not only make patients feel better but to heal better.
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MIKE SHOREMAN
Recently honored by the Prime Minister, the House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and celebrated by Canadians from coast to coast in this national achievement, Mike is the 2022 recipient of the Mental Health Leadership Award by the Mood Disorder Society of Canada.
A remarkable story of resilience and ‘the comeback’ following a devastating health crisis that left Mike immobile and unable to walk in 2019. Outside of making Canadian history and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Canadian youth mental health programming and services in what became the largest mental health awareness campaign led by an individual in Canadian history, this athlete and advocate is educating and motivating audiences to achieve their own excellence through his messaging of resilience, perseverance and drive.
Ben Haab is the director of a new documentary called UNACCEPTABLE? chronicling the 2022 FREEDOM CONVOY that captured the attention, hearts and minds of Canadians and the world.
"We are living Canadian history in real-time which is sure to go down in the books; the story is still being written. Our crew went to Ottawa to see first hand what was happening at the “Freedom Convoy to Ottawa 2022”. We started with the intention of gathering footage for a short five-minute summary of what was happening on the ground in Ottawa… we had no idea what this would become." - From the UNACCEPTABLE? website
Rick Alan Ross is the founder and Executive Director of The Cult Education Institute. He is an internationally known expert regarding destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and author of the book "Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out." Since 1982 he has been studying, researching and responding to the problems often posed by controversial authoritarian groups and movements.
Ross has been qualified and accepted and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings across the United States including US Federal Court. He has also frequently assisted local and national law enforcement and government agencies.
He has personally assisted thousands of families in an effort to help the victims of destructive cults, groups and movements.
Ross is one of the most readily recognized experts offering analysis about destructive cults, controversial groups and movements in the world today. GQ Magazine identified "Rick Alan Ross [as] America’s leading cult expert." And Britain's FHM Magazine named him "America's number one cult buster."
He has been a paid consultant for the television networks CBS, CBC and Nippon of Japan. And also was retained as a technical consultant by Miramax/Disney.
Ross' commentary has been quoted within publications such as Time Magazine, People, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and the Washington Post.
His appearances on national television have included a wide range of venues from news programs such as the "Today Show, "CNN World News," "Dateline", ABC 20/20 and "48 Hours" to popular interview shows such as "Oprah," "Dr. Phil" and "Inside Edition."
Ross has lectured at such prestigious institutions as Dickinson College, the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, Baylor University, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Wuhan University, China, Zhengzhou University, China, GuangXi International University, China, Heilongjiang University, China, Shandong University, China and Assumption University, Thailand.
Ross' analysis has been sought on virtually every major cult story for decades.
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Dan Richter is best known as Moonwatcher the man-ape in the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” which he also choreographed. Dan has had a long career as a mime, choreographer, actor, director, producer, memoirist, and for two decades a Hollywood executive. His book “Moonwatcher’s Memoir” is about working on “2001.” His memoir “The Dream is Over” describes the years he lived and worked with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1969 to 1973.
Dan currently lives in Sierra Madre outside of Los Angeles where he has been leading Sierra Club mountaineering trips since 1991 and teaches courses on rock climbing and mountaineering. Dan is an AMGA Single Pitch Rock Climbing Instructor.
Jay Semko is known worldwide as the co-founder of multi-platinum Canadian rock icons the Northern Pikes, and as an award winning music composer for numerous film and TV productions, including Canada's most successful internationally syndicated series, "Due South". He is also a member of ACTRA - an accomplished voiceover actor and narrator, voicing numerous national and international radio & TV ads, PSAs, documentaries, and dramas. Jay has also instructed songwriting at the University of Saskatchewan, hosted the SOCAN Songwriters Series at Canadian Country Music Week, and participated in many panels and workshops in conjunction with such organizations as the Songwriters Association of Canada, SOCAN, and Breakout West. Jay has received 5 Juno Award nominations as a member of the Pikes, 2 Gemini Award nominations for Best Original Music Score in a Dramatic Series, a 2013 Canadian Screen Award (formerly Gemini Awards) nomination for Best Original Music for a Non-Fiction Program or Series, among many others. Jay has written and recorded with many well-known songwriters in Canada and the USA. He received the 2012 SCMA Roots Album of the Year Award for "Force Of Horses" and in 2015 for "Flora Vista". Jay was nominated for Best Gospel Song in the 2012 Independent Music Awards and his album "Sending Love" was nominated in the 2012 Western Canadian Music Awards for Roots Solo Recording of the Year - the same year the Pikes were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. More recently, Jay was nominated for Spiritual Artist of the Year in the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards in regards to his latest release, "Never Sent".
Jay's songs, music scores and legendary live concerts continue to garner him recognition as one of Canada's most prolific and versatile music, film, and television talents.
Ivan Eugene Doroschuk (/ˈdɒrəstʃʌk, ˈdɒrəʃʌk/, French pronunciation: [ivɑ̃ øʒɛ̃ dɔʁɔʃyk]), born 9 October 1957, is an American-born Canadian musician. He is the lead vocalist and founding member of Men Without Hats, best known for the hit song "The Safety Dance".
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Dean Radin, MS, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over three decades he has been engaged in research on the frontiers of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, SRI International, and other academic and industrial facilities.
X-Mas A.F. is a special new holiday podcast featuring new and / or un-released music from artists from around this big beautiful world. It is a gift of music, and its power to unite, inspire and heal us all.
Special thanks to the following generous souls who have shared their art and heart with us, including:
Ozark Henry - from Belgium
BUSM - from Oshawa
Anjani Thomas - from Hawaii
Mercury Messiah - from Montreal + Greece
Luke McMaster - from Hamilton
Cathy Young - from Toronto
Liona Boyd - from Palm Beach
Aaron Tyson - Somewhere in the USA *ask jairek
Mike Garson - from Los Angeles
Mike Wekerle - from The El Mocambo
Santa Claus - from NORTH POLE
and Chris Koppin
ps: You can find Liona Boyd's new children's book classic THE CAT WHO PLAYED GUITAR, Here!
Jeanne Beker started her career as an actress, but moved into radio and then television as co-host of the ground-breaking series, The NewMusic, and entertainment anchor on CityPulse News. She went on to become the host of the internationally syndicated Fashion Television (FT), which aired for 27 years and had viewers in more than 130 countries. Jeanne is the former editor-in-chief of FQ and SIR magazines, and author of five books, including her 2010 autobiography, Finding Myself in Fashion. Jeanne was a contributing editor of The Toronto Star, The Kit, and a columnist for Metro, and is currently a featured style columnist for The Globe and Mail and Post City magazine. She also writes for a number of lifestyle publications. Her fashion and editorial credits include her clothing line, Edit by Jeanne Beker, as well a number of product lines, including shoes, jewelry and sunglasses. Jeanne was recently named Style Editor of The Shopping Channel, and hosts a regular series for the channel entitled “Style Matters with Jeanne Beker”. Her numerous awards include her recent appointment to the Order of Canada in 2014 for her support of the Canadian fashion industry; the 2012 Canadian Award of Distinction from the Banff World Media Festival; and being honoured with a Canadian Screen Achievement Award for the role she played in changing the way Canadians watch television.
Tony Nugent is a Silicon Valley Inventor, Engineer and Executive. He was the VP Product Development, System Integration, Factory Automation at Theranos.
Founded in 2003, Theranos promised to revolutionize blood testing by devising technology that could conduct wide-ranging blood tests and test for diseases using a mere pinprick of blood. At its peak, the company was valued at $10 billion (€8.85 billion).
He made his mark on numerous Bowie albums and has travelled thousands of miles on Bowie tours, including his 2003-04 “A Reality Tour,” Bowie’s first world tour in 20 years. In November 2006, Mike accompanied Bowie and Alicia Keys during a unique performance of “Changes” at an AIDS benefit in New York City which ended up being Bowie’s final public U.S. performance.
As Executive Vice Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, Daniel Lamarre is responsible for nurturing the delicate balance between the company’s global strategy (across five continents), its financial growth and stability, and the integrity of its culture and values. Among his greatest achievements include the execution of complex negotiations resulting in signed agreements with THE BEATLES and MICHAEL JACKSON’s estate.
Dan Hill (Daniel Grafton Hill IV) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major international hits with his songs "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try", a duet with Vonda Shepard, as well as a number of other charting singles in Canada and the United States
Life in Our Minds is one of the most collaborative, technologically innovative NFT projects to date. It opens up an interplay between collective ownership and individual mark-making, re-staging art within a new (meta)-universe that has its own rules and, in so doing, represents a new form of public sculpture.
This multi-dimensional artwork consists of two major parts: an NFT collection and an interactive generative virtual sculpture, entitled ‘The Mother Flock.’ Both the collection and The Mother Flock are made from the same basic matter — 3D origami objects called Boids. During the development of the project, all the elements — Boids, NFTs and The Mother Flock — will go through a complex evolutionary process that depends on the NFT collectors’ behaviours. The evolution mechanics of the project offer collectors the opportunity to actively participate in the creation of the artwork as it shapeshifts, incentivizing long-term retention of the NFT. By encouraging purchasers to retain their Life in Our Minds NFTs for extended periods, the artists and project partners aim to upend typical behaviors in the crypto market—including speculation and flipping—and, in the process, introduce a new generation of crypto collectors to the space.
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