On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by actor, writer, and half of the acclaimed comedy duo Baram and Snieckus, the very talented Naomi Snieckus.
An actor / writer / improviser / producer/director Naomi was a regular for 8 seasons on CBC’s hit comedy, ‘Mr. D’ (two time ACTRA nominated, four time CSA nominated and Canadian Comedy Award winner). She is an alumnus of 'The Second City Toronto' where she wrote and performed in five hit shows. She is a producer and founder of the new podcast Firecracker Department and half of the award winning duo Baram & Snieckus. Her TV and film credits include Designated Survivor, I Martin Short Go Home, ‘Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour’ (co-starring the cast of 'Trailer Park Boys'), ‘The Listener’, ‘Degrassi’, ‘Being Erica’, ‘Wingin’ It’, and ‘Dino Dan’. She is the voice of ‘Aunt Turtle’ on the cartoon ‘Franklin the Turtle’ and ‘June’ on Monsters. She co-created the digital show ‘Doing it With Brian and Darla’ for CBC Comedy and ‘The Casting Room’ Web Series (LA WebFest and CCA winner). Naomi has also won a Canadian Comedy Award in the category of Best Female Improviser. She was a regular on ‘George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight’ on CBC, and is the host of the popular podcast Firecracker Department. She is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of the five-time Canadian Comedy Award winning troupe ‘The National Theatre of the World. You can see her in the feature films such as : “Disney Zombies”, “Kiss and Cry” , ‘Happily Ever After’ with Alex Kingston and Peter Firth and ‘Two for One’ with Gavin Crawford, “SAW 3D”, “The Swap”, and most recently in ‘Canadian Strain’ with Colin Mochrie. She currently has a show in development with the CBC called “Charlie & Flo”. You can catch her and her comedy partner/husband Matt Baram on their comedy podcast “Baram & Snieckus” @baramsnieckus as well as the engaging and inspiring discussions on her podcast the Firecracker Department.
Also on the program is the amazing singer/songwriter Joe DaCosta performing his song “God Lives Here.”
Joe DaCosta is a dreamer who, up until the past 7 years, never believed enough in himself to live his dream. Joe always wanted people to hear his songs, but he always had an excuse to not make it happen. For a time, he let his age get in the way, and what he thought were his mediocre guitar playing, disqualified him from even trying. Now, Joe is living his dream and sharing his original music with the world. Joe is a self taught musician who writes from the heart. He plays guitar, harmonica and sings. He’s written over one hundred songs. To Joe, music is his passion, and he’ll be playing and sharing his gift for the rest of his life.
You can find more of Joe’s music by visiting his YouTube Channel and Facebook page here:
https://www.youtube.com/@j.f.dacosta3207
https://www.facebook.com/jfdacosta912/
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On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by actor, writer, and half of the acclaimed comedy duo Baram and Snieckus, the very talented Naomi Snieckus.
An actor / writer / improviser / producer/director Naomi was a regular for 8 seasons on CBC’s hit comedy, ‘Mr. D’ (two time ACTRA nominated, four time CSA nominated and Canadian Comedy Award winner). She is an alumnus of 'The Second City Toronto' where she wrote and performed in five hit shows. She is a producer and founder of the new podcast Firecracker Department and half of the award winning duo Baram & Snieckus. Her TV and film credits include Designated Survivor, I Martin Short Go Home, ‘Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour’ (co-starring the cast of 'Trailer Park Boys'), ‘The Listener’, ‘Degrassi’, ‘Being Erica’, ‘Wingin’ It’, and ‘Dino Dan’. She is the voice of ‘Aunt Turtle’ on the cartoon ‘Franklin the Turtle’ and ‘June’ on Monsters. She co-created the digital show ‘Doing it With Brian and Darla’ for CBC Comedy and ‘The Casting Room’ Web Series (LA WebFest and CCA winner). Naomi has also won a Canadian Comedy Award in the category of Best Female Improviser. She was a regular on ‘George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight’ on CBC, and is the host of the popular podcast Firecracker Department. She is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of the five-time Canadian Comedy Award winning troupe ‘The National Theatre of the World. You can see her in the feature films such as : “Disney Zombies”, “Kiss and Cry” , ‘Happily Ever After’ with Alex Kingston and Peter Firth and ‘Two for One’ with Gavin Crawford, “SAW 3D”, “The Swap”, and most recently in ‘Canadian Strain’ with Colin Mochrie. She currently has a show in development with the CBC called “Charlie & Flo”. You can catch her and her comedy partner/husband Matt Baram on their comedy podcast “Baram & Snieckus” @baramsnieckus as well as the engaging and inspiring discussions on her podcast the Firecracker Department.
Also on the program is the amazing singer/songwriter Joe DaCosta performing his song “God Lives Here.”
Joe DaCosta is a dreamer who, up until the past 7 years, never believed enough in himself to live his dream. Joe always wanted people to hear his songs, but he always had an excuse to not make it happen. For a time, he let his age get in the way, and what he thought were his mediocre guitar playing, disqualified him from even trying. Now, Joe is living his dream and sharing his original music with the world. Joe is a self taught musician who writes from the heart. He plays guitar, harmonica and sings. He’s written over one hundred songs. To Joe, music is his passion, and he’ll be playing and sharing his gift for the rest of his life.
You can find more of Joe’s music by visiting his YouTube Channel and Facebook page here:
https://www.youtube.com/@j.f.dacosta3207
https://www.facebook.com/jfdacosta912/
Join us every Saturday at 1 PM on Finding Your Bliss. You can follow us @theblissminute on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Or you can visit our online magazine at findingyourbliss.com and take one step closer to finding your bliss.
Listen live every Saturday at 1pm on Zoomer Radio
On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by award-winning Canadian investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and the bestselling author of "The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom From Her Secret Past."
Roxana Spicer grew up in Netherhill, Saskatchewan, population 80. As a documentary filmmaker and former CBC investigative journalist, her award-winning work across Canada helped lead to real change including a BC government apology to Russian Doukhobor children forcibly removed from their homes in the 1950s. She has pursued stories in remotest Ecuador, the Arabian Desert, and the North Sea; she has reported from a high-tech ocean dive ship, a nomadic Kyrgyz yurt, and made multiple trips to Russia during the “wild west” years following the fall of the Soviet Union. The most elusive interview subject over her forty-year career remained her own mother.
As a child, Roxana would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder....
Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name.
Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession. Throughout her career as a journalist and documentarian, between investigations across Canada and around the world, she always went home to ask her mother more questions, often while filming.
Roxana also took every chance to visit the few places that she did know played a role in her mother's story: Bad Salzuflen, Germany, home to POW slave labourers during the war; notorious concentration camps; and Russia. Under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the early years of Putin, she was able to find people, places, and documents that are now—perhaps forever—lost again.
The Traitor's Daughter is intimate and exhaustively researched, vividly conversational, and shot through with Agnes Spicer's irrepressible, fiery personality. It is a true labour of love as well as a triumph of blending personal biography with sweeping history.
The conversation was fascinating, eye opening, and truly riveting.
Join us every Saturday at 1 PM on Finding Your Bliss. You can follow us @theblissminute on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Or you can visit our online magazine at findingyourbliss.com and take one step closer to finding your bliss.
Finding Your Bliss
On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by actor, writer, and half of the acclaimed comedy duo Baram and Snieckus, the very talented Naomi Snieckus.
An actor / writer / improviser / producer/director Naomi was a regular for 8 seasons on CBC’s hit comedy, ‘Mr. D’ (two time ACTRA nominated, four time CSA nominated and Canadian Comedy Award winner). She is an alumnus of 'The Second City Toronto' where she wrote and performed in five hit shows. She is a producer and founder of the new podcast Firecracker Department and half of the award winning duo Baram & Snieckus. Her TV and film credits include Designated Survivor, I Martin Short Go Home, ‘Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour’ (co-starring the cast of 'Trailer Park Boys'), ‘The Listener’, ‘Degrassi’, ‘Being Erica’, ‘Wingin’ It’, and ‘Dino Dan’. She is the voice of ‘Aunt Turtle’ on the cartoon ‘Franklin the Turtle’ and ‘June’ on Monsters. She co-created the digital show ‘Doing it With Brian and Darla’ for CBC Comedy and ‘The Casting Room’ Web Series (LA WebFest and CCA winner). Naomi has also won a Canadian Comedy Award in the category of Best Female Improviser. She was a regular on ‘George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight’ on CBC, and is the host of the popular podcast Firecracker Department. She is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of the five-time Canadian Comedy Award winning troupe ‘The National Theatre of the World. You can see her in the feature films such as : “Disney Zombies”, “Kiss and Cry” , ‘Happily Ever After’ with Alex Kingston and Peter Firth and ‘Two for One’ with Gavin Crawford, “SAW 3D”, “The Swap”, and most recently in ‘Canadian Strain’ with Colin Mochrie. She currently has a show in development with the CBC called “Charlie & Flo”. You can catch her and her comedy partner/husband Matt Baram on their comedy podcast “Baram & Snieckus” @baramsnieckus as well as the engaging and inspiring discussions on her podcast the Firecracker Department.
Also on the program is the amazing singer/songwriter Joe DaCosta performing his song “God Lives Here.”
Joe DaCosta is a dreamer who, up until the past 7 years, never believed enough in himself to live his dream. Joe always wanted people to hear his songs, but he always had an excuse to not make it happen. For a time, he let his age get in the way, and what he thought were his mediocre guitar playing, disqualified him from even trying. Now, Joe is living his dream and sharing his original music with the world. Joe is a self taught musician who writes from the heart. He plays guitar, harmonica and sings. He’s written over one hundred songs. To Joe, music is his passion, and he’ll be playing and sharing his gift for the rest of his life.
You can find more of Joe’s music by visiting his YouTube Channel and Facebook page here:
https://www.youtube.com/@j.f.dacosta3207
https://www.facebook.com/jfdacosta912/
Join us every Saturday at 1 PM on Finding Your Bliss. You can follow us @theblissminute on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. Or you can visit our online magazine at findingyourbliss.com and take one step closer to finding your bliss.
Listen live every Saturday at 1pm on Zoomer Radio
