podcasts

Tai Asks why

I first met Tai Poole when he was a guest on another show I produced called Sleepover, with Sook-Yin Lee for CBC Podcasts. Tai was only 9 years old at the time but he really blew us all away with his sensitivity and surprisingly deep love of math. After his appearance we kept thinking about him, so invited him in for a meeting to see if he would want a show of his own. Turns out he did!

I worked together with Tai and his family to come up with a show that they would want to listen to. Tai talks to everyone from NASA scientists to his kid brother to get to the bottom of questions like “What is love?”. I am the show’s creator and have worked on it as lead producer, editor and sound designer. The show has won two New York Festival Awards as well as a Webby. We hope it connects with kids ranging from age 9-13 but we like to think that anyone would be interested in Tai’s questions and the wild adventures he has answering them.

My favourite episode is “What happens after you die?”

ALone: A love Story

Michelle Parise started writing Alone: A Love Story in January 2013. She has nearly a hundred journals, where she writes everything, as soon as it happens. In these journals she documented the stories and reflections of the end of her marriage, her husband’s betrayal and her winding journey to find the courage to live alone.

Originally, Michelle thought Alone was going to be a book, but at a party one night I said, "Why don't you stop thinking of it as a book, and just think of it as your story that you can tell with your own voice?" That freed her up to think beyond the written word and then we started experimenting with ways to lift her story off the page and into a podcast for CBC. I worked as her story editor and co-producer for the first two seasons of the show which has been heard now by millions of listeners and has won gold and silver at the New York Festivals Awards.

Start listening at the beginning of the show here

Sleepover

Sleepover was a beautifully bizarre 24 hour performance art piece, radio show and podcast I produced for CBC. It all started with a feeling that brilliant artist and host Sook-Yin Lee had watching so much discord on social media and how people were so quick to unfollow or block each other instead of taking a conversation deeper. So the idea developed to bring three complete strangers together to talk about the tough stuff and try to make it better, at a sleepover. The question was: Will they come together or fall apart?

“...the most interesting podcast of the year.” – A.V. CLUB

“It’s tough to beat the magic of hearing friendships form in real time.”  
– INDIEWIRE

I recommend starting with Episode 1: Charlie’s Conundrum