Grown Up: Recent Episodes
Avery Moore Kloss
Still don’t know what you want to be when you grow up? Host Avery Moore Kloss brings you conversations with professionals in every field -- think clown, midwife, camp director -- to learn more about the “How?” and the “Why?” of the careers we choose.
The Social Stuff:
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Gajan Balan is an ambitious individual with a thirst for creative and unique solutions. His time is divided between building success for retail environments, developing personal creative projects, and striving to be the best brother, husband, and father.
His specialities include content creation, talent development, public speaking, data analysis, branding, sales strategies, time management, web design, photography, personal coaching, and more.
Find out more about Gajan at here.
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Shop his photography prints from Bokeh Blink here.
Click here for links to Gajan's podcasts, YouTube Channel, Twitch account and more.
The Social Stuff
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information. For more episodes of the podcast visit www.grownuppod.com.
Sounds You Heard
Ma Perkins: Episode 2 from Oxydol - Archive.org
Clip from Gajan's YouTube video "Roaming Ep. 1" - on YouTube
Intro to Episode 12 of Gajan's podcast Controlled Chaos - here.
Theme Music is by Coop courtesy of Marmoset Music.
Facts You Heard (aka useful links for History of the Job)
The History of Content Marketing by Michael Walton on Copypress.com
The History of Content Marketing: An Essential Guide by Rebecca Lee White on TrackMaven.com
About Our Guest
Erica Wernick is Hollywood's leading success coach. She empowers and motivates others to live their wildest dreams and share their gifts with the world. Find out more about Erica at http://www.hollywoodsuccesscoach.com/.
Follow Erica on Instagram and Facebook.
Click here to add yourself to the waiting list for news about Erica's forthcoming book.
The Social Stuff
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sheryl Puckering’s passion for empowering children spans decades. She is a qualified teacher with a B.Ed. and a B.A.Sc, specializing in Child Studies. She has taught Kindergarten through to Grade 3, along with Special Ed and currently provides enrichment programs for gifted students from Grades 4 though 8. Sheryl is a graduate of the DevaTree School of Yoga with certification in the HeartRise Yoga for Children Training program.
She is an instructor and mentor for Roots of Empathy and spends time in local schools working with students, families and teachers. Bhava Tree combines Sheryl’s experience, dedication and love for working with children, helping to ensure their success in school and life. She strives to provide tools and programs to help children live happy, healthy, balanced and joy-filled lives. Visit her website at: www.bhavatree.com
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:05:05
Interview Begins - 00:06:43
The Social Stuff:
Follow Sheryl Puckering on Instagram and Facebook.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Facts You Heard:
Information on the history of kids yoga:
https://kids.kiddle.co/Yoga
https://www.kidsandyoga.com/historyofyoga.html
Steve Meulemeester has spent 20 years working to remove bugs and rodents from businesses and homes. After spending 16 years with a large pest control company he broke out on his own and started First Defence Pest Control. It’s truly a family business now that his wife Carrie has come on as the handler for their bed bug sniffing dog.
Visit his website here:https://firstdefence.ca/
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:04:22
Interview Begins - 00:07:28
The Social Stuff:
Follow Steve’s company on Instagram and Facebook.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visitwww.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Facts You Heard:
Ameritech History (written by the “Pest Control Poet”)
Information on the history of pest control:
Cornell Timeline of Pest Control Advances
This Book and This Book on bugs being taken to court
General History after the 12th century
About Our Guest:
Sarah Graham has served as a paramedic for 13 years in a rural community one county over from her hometown. She attended York University in Toronto for Kinesiology and ran track and field. In her late 20’s she left the beginnings of a career in kinesiology to pursue her dream of becoming a paramedic. She lives in Paris, Ontario with her husband and two kids.
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:04:59
Interview Begins - 00:07:19
The Social Stuff:
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Facts You Heard:
Information on the history of paramedics:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292612762_Historical_Perspectives_in_the_Ambulance_Service
https://www.ottawaparamedics.ca/before-9-1-1/history-of-paramedicine
https://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/ambulances1.htm
https://www.jems.com/2013/10/08/birth-ems-history-paramedic/
About Our Guest:
Chris Carrow is a full-time clown and beekeeper in Christchurch, New Zealand. He and his wife Lisa have been performing as the duo ‘Carrot and Pickle’ for over 30 years. The pair also run a circus school through the Christchurch Circus Trust that offers Circus lessons and workshops for kids and adults (more info here: http://chchcircus.co.nz/).
To see a photo documentary done recently on Chris and Lisa and how the Christchurch Earthquake affected their lives and their work click here.
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:05:30
Interview Begins - 00:08:38
The Social Stuff:
Like Carrot & Pickle on Facebook.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Audio of Carrot & Pickle performing at this link.
Sound of birds singing in the foothills in Governor’s Bay, New Zealand, recorded by Avery.
Facts You Heard:
Information on the history of clowns:
General History -
https://mckinleysclowncorner.com/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown#Origin
History of Joseph Grimaldi -
http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/joseph-grimaldi/
History of Ronald McDonald -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald
About Our Guest:
Tom Brain owns and operates a boutique mushroom farm from his backyard outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. After spending seven years with the New Zealand Air Force and another five with Auckland City Police, Tom moved to Christchurch and opened Oak & Spore. He sells his oyster and shiitake mushrooms at the Lyttelton Farmers’ Market on Saturdays. “Oak and Spore mushrooms aren’t just food,” Tom says. “They are a combination of science and art, which creates something truly delicious.”
Visit the Oak and Spore website for more information, and to view his online store which provides mushroom growing supplies for New Zealand hobbyists.
Tom also hosts a YouTube channel with great information how to grow mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAb4KY7PfwoWV0OzoJ8bWkQ
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:05:55
Interview Begins - 00:08:17
The Social Stuff:
Tom’s Reddit post titled “I quit 12 years of government work to start a mushroom farm” can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/e8mtcr/i_quit_12_years_of_government_work_to_start_a/
Subscribe to Tom’s YouTube Channel. Follow Oak & Spore on Facebook too.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
New Zealand National Anthem performed by the United States Navy Band | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_national_anthem,_performed_by_the_United_States_Navy_Band.wav#filelinks
Audio from Tom’s YouTube channel (from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3jSMDh4xw&t=12s)
Facts You Heard:
Information on the history of cultivating mushrooms from:
GroCycle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt-_MmdKAVA
The Department of Botany at the University of Hawaii | http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect16.pdf
Information on an existing mushroom cave in Paris, France: https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-03-03/gourmet-mushroom-cave-loire-valley-france-vacation
About Our Guest:
Kristy Kirkup is a political reporter who has worked for Canada’s largest media companies over the past decade. She began her career at CTV News in Ottawa followed by stints with Sun Media, CBC News and The Canadian Press before joining The Globe and Mail. She has travelled internationally with two prime ministers and across Canada for multiple election campaigns. In 2017, she was part of a CP team that won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism for a series about sexual trauma in Indigenous communities. She was also nominated for a National Newspaper Award for the same project. She is passionate about using the power of journalism to shine a light in dark places and to lift up the voices of the silenced and forgotten. (courtesy of The Globe and Mail)
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:05:14
Interview Begins - 00:08:10
The Social Stuff:
Follow Kristy Kirkup on Twitter.
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Facts You Heard:
Info on the history of journalism in the Roman Empire
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/journalism#History_of_journalism
Info on early newspaper publications
britannica.com/topic/newspaper
Info on Gutenberg’s printing press
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_4
Info on first newspapers around the globe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1998/02/11/a-history-of-newspaper-gutenbergs-press-started-a-revolution/2e95875c-313e-4b5c-9807-8bcb031257ad/
Info on the history of Canadian Newspaper
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-newspapers-in-canada
Info on history of The Globe and Mail
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/globe-and-mail
Video on the pronunciation of Flodden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo6miqL71YI
About Our Guest:
Heather Taylor is a midwife in Brantford, Ontario at the Brantford Community Midwives - https://www.communitymidwivesofbrantford.ca/. Heather joined the Community Midwives of Brantford in 2005 after completing her midwifery training through Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. Originally from Northern B.C. and more recently from Western Quebec, Heather now calls Paris, Ontario home.
The Time Stamps:
History of the Job - 00:03:24
Interview Begins - 00:05:35
The Social Stuff:
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter andInstagram.
The Business Details:
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Theme Music by Coop
Additional sounds in the episode:
A thank you to Laura for letting us record sound of her newborn Isobel during one of her first home visits with Heather.
Facts You Heard:
Information on the History of Midwives
https://people.howstuffworks.com/midwife2.htm
Biblical passages that reference Midwives
http://www.ccbirthcenter.com/midwifery-bible-i/?doing_wp_cron=1575433473.8874320983886718750000#:~:targetText=Mention%20in%20the%20Bible&targetText=The%20Hebrew%20term%20translated%20%E2%80%9Cthe,and%20in%20Exodus%201%3A16.
History of Women Healers (including witchcraft claims in the Middle Ages)
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.82.2.288
History of Midwives in Ontario
https://www.jogc.com/article/S0849-5831(98)80058-X/pdf
Birth Statistics from the Canadian Association of Midwives
https://canadianmidwives.org/midwifery-across-canada/#1467634074483-f50b550d-db87
Statistics on Midwifery-led births in the US
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642827/
Etymology of the Word Midwife
https://www.etymonline.com/word/midwife
About Our Guest
Derek Botten is a voice over artist based in Ontario, Canada. Learn more about his business on his website www.derekbotten.com. Make sure you follow him on Twitter.
The Social Stuff
Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.
Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.
Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.
More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com
Sounds You Heard:
Au Clair de la Lune recording from 1860
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The Jack Benny Show archival tape
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Five Minute Mysteries archival tape
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Theme Music by Coop
Addition music in the episode:
reCreation - airtone featuring mwic
http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721
Facts You Heard
Information on Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden
https://www.ieee.ca/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.html
Voices.com Survey on the Voice Over Business (2015)
https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/article.htm?id=757PPBXJ