TWO NOBODYS: Recent Episodes
Kyle and Rupesh
Join the Two Nobodys, Kyle and Rupesh, as they curiously and mindfully explore fatherhood, masculinity, leadership, health, and the environment.
In this episode of the Two Nobodys Podcast, Dr. Gregor Reid, the #1 expert in probiotics, joins Rupesh to discuss the surprising benefits of probiotics, even if they don’t colonize your gut. They explore topics like fermented foods, the role of antibiotics versus probiotics, and how to choose the most effective strains. Dr. Reid also tackles common questions, including whether probiotics can help with bad breath, acne, bacterial vaginosis, and more.
Learn about the incredible journey of former Nelson Mandela bodyguard, Etienne Van Eck, who protected Mandela's life and now carries on his legacy. Celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day with untold stories of the many ways Mandela looked to unite South Africa, exercise incredible leadership skills, and found ways to connect with all South Africans.
Join Eastern Zone Director David Munkley, an expert in leading and managing humanitarian crises at World Vision International, as he shares valuable insights and strategies for navigating and leading during challenging times. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the field!
David is currently in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda area has had to lead through different crises involving natural disasters and conflicts. David shares what it's like to raise a family as a humanitarian leader, particularly in a conflict zone!
Keywords: humanitarian, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian work, world vision international
Can improving the gut health of honey bees improve bee populations and aid in their survival? What about saving the honey bees with probiotics?
Discover how Brendan Daisley is on a mission to save the honey bees by using probiotics! Learn how he aims to address microbial imbalances in bees to promote ecosystem health and sustainable agriculture. Join Brendan and Rupesh on this Two Nobodys Podcast episode as they discuss this critical research!
Keywords: probiotics honey bees, saving the honey bees, probiotics, bee gut health, Brendan Daisley
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Dr. Brendan Daisley is a distinguished Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph and serves as the current SFA Vice President of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP). He earned his PhD in Microbiology & Immunology from Western University in 2021, where he was honored with several prestigious awards, including the Armand Frappier Outstanding Student Award from The Canadian Society of Microbiologists. Brendan has a broad range of experience in environmental application of probiotics to honey bees and, notably, he was the first to introduce the theory of ‘missing microbes’ within the field of honey bee microbiome research. During his doctoral work, he coordinated several large field trials across North America (including Ontario and California) showing that supplementation of probiotic lactobacilli strains to honey bees could improve colony-level health outcomes. During his postdoc, he has since developed a microbiome database tool (BEExact) for improved detection of uncultivated ‘microbial dark matter’ using Illumina next-generation sequencing technologies, established a bioreactor model of the honey bee gut microbiome (the RoBEEgut), and co-founded the Canadian Bee Gut Project (https://beegutproject.uoguelph.ca) – a nationwide crowdsourcing initiative that aims to deeply characterize thousands of bee microbiome samples to increase our knowledge on the multifactorial drivers of honey bee mortality. Ultimately, his research goals are to improve beekeeping practices through the management of both beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms associated with honey bees. Ultimately, Brendan’s research is dedicated to improving the health and survival of bee populations as well as development of microbial management techniques in agroecosystems. His contributions are paving the way for innovative solutions in the field of microbiome research and environmental sustainability.
Get the scoop on the 2024 BC wildfire season outlook in this Two Nobodys podcast episode with Neal McLoughlin. Learn about the potential risks and what to expect in Alberta's 2024 wildfire season as well.
Rupesh and Neal discuss learnings from 2023, whether or not there are enough resources to fight wildfires, the use of AI in wildfire management, wildfire predictions, climate change and wildfires, greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires, and the causes of wildfires.
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Neal McLoughlin is the Superintendent of Predictive Services for the BC Wildfire Service. Neal works with a team of fire behaviour specialists, weather forecasters, data scientists, researchers, and software developers to deliver wildfire predictions, scientific analyses, technology, and expertise to enhance operational decision making. Neal was first introduced to wildfire management as an Alberta Junior Forest Ranger in 1999. Throughout his career in wildfire Neal has provided predictive services to planners and incident management teams, coordinated regional wildfire management planning, co-authored scientific papers on wildfire hazard and risk, instructed national and international fire simulation modelling courses, and led development of wildfire prediction software. Outside of work Neal is a musician and outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, biking, and skiing with his wife and three children.
Keywords: 2024 BC wildfire season, BC wildfire 2024, Alberta wildfire 2024
Interested in learning more about the Yanomami Peoples? Join Rupesh Patel as he explores the extraordinary journey and life of David Good and his Yanomami family. David is an emerging microbiome researcher and has spent time living with his Yanomami family in the Amazon rainforest in hopes of understanding their way of life and researching their microbiome. Learn about the Yanomami culture, their unique way of life, and how David Good is working to protect their rights and preserve their traditional knowledge.
Yanomami Foundation: www.yanomamifoundation.org
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David Good was born on November 2, 1986 at the Bryn Mawr hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania where he received his undergraduate and master’s degree in biology. He is a member of the Explorers Club, a visiting scholar at Rutgers University, and teaches at Northampton Community College of Pennsylvania. As a Yanomami-Venezuelan-American, his ambitions lie in establishing dialogue, service, and cultural interchange for the Yanomami and the rest of the world.
Janet Davidson discusses ways to fix Canada's health care crisis and improve the healthcare system. Learn about the challenges and potential solutions in this insightful episode of the Two Nobodys Podcast.
Keywords: Canada's health care crisis, Canada's healthcare crisis, doctor shortage, loneliness, how to get a health care job in Canada
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Janet Davidson works in health care consulting with a focus on strategy, organization management and design, and governance. Formerly, she served as Deputy Minister of Health for Alberta. Janet has over 40 years of experience in healthcare in the government, voluntary and hospital/community sectors in a number of Canadian jurisdictions and internationally.
Janet currently holds the position of Administrator of the Nova Scotia Health Authority. She is a Board member of Bayshore Healthcare and the Hospital for Sick Children and immediate past chair of the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. She is the inaugural Johnson Fellow with the CD Howe Institute and co-chairs their health policy council.
Janet received a Bachelor of Nursing Science from the University of Windsor and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from the University of Alberta. She is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors’ Education program at Rotman, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s Global Health Leadership program and has an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Windsor. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been named twice to the list of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Women.
Ed Whittingham, former Executive Director of the Pembina Institute and a prime target for former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney discusses Alberta's energy transition. Ed dives into the key challenges facing Alberta in any sort of energy transition, especially with challenging new rules facing Alberta's renewables industry. Tune in to learn more about the future of energy in Alberta!
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Ed is a public policy professional focused on climate change, clean energy and industrial decarbonization. He is also the co-host of Canada's most popular climate-themed podcast, Energy vs Climate. Ed is the former executive director of the Pembina Institute, a past director of the Alberta Energy Regulator, and a past member of the World Economic Forum's Future of Oil and Gas council. His op-eds have been published in newspapers and magazines across Canada and internationally.
In this fascinating interview, Stewart Beck, former High Commissioner of Canada to India, discusses the current state of Canada India relations between these two nations and shares insights on how to rebuild and enhance diplomatic ties.
With recent tensions between Canada and India, it's important to understand the history and complexities of their relationship. From trade to cultural exchange, Stewart Beck provides valuable perspectives on how to strengthen collaboration and cooperation between these two countries. Don't miss this insightful discussion on Canada-India diplomacy.
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Stewart Beck is a seasoned diplomat, trade commissioner, and policy expert with over four decades of experience in promoting Canada's interests in Asia and the United States. He retired from his diplomatic career as Canada's High Commissioner to India and for seven years thereafter he was the President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He currently sits on a number of not-for-profit boards and is a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency's Nomination Committee.
Is Democracy Dying? Is Democracy Dying in India in particular? In this Two Nobodys Podcast episode, Dr. Maya Tudor from the University of Oxford discusses the current state of democracy in India and what factors are contributing to its decline including the rise of Hindu nationalism, shrinking freedom of press, and the inabilities of India's democratic institutions (e.g. India's Supreme Court) to criticize the government.
Younger generations are caring less about democracy, why is this the case? Is democracy at stake in the 2024 US election? What's performed better autocratic or democratic governments?
Subscribe to enjoy more thought-provoking conversations!
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Dr. Maya Tudor is an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Dr. Tudor researches the origins of effective and democratic states with a regional focus on South Asia.
She is the author of two books, The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan (2013) and Varieties of Nationalism (with Harris Mylonas, 2023 ). She writes for the media on a regular basis, including in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, New Statesman, The Hindu, India Express, and The Scotsman.
In this podcast, we sit down with Cpt. Gary Russell to learn about the insider secrets of aviation safety management. From the recent Alaska Airlines blowout to the current 2024 pilot shortage and the use of diversity hiring. We also cover important topics like the controversial 737 MAX and the rigorous training that's required to be a commercial pilot. Stay informed and improve your aviation knowledge with this insightful conversation.
Twitter: @garybrussell
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Captain Gary Russell is a Boeing 737 pilot based in Vancouver, and is a former union executive for the Air Canada Pilots Association. Prior to his appointment as the Association’s Chairman, he served two terms as a national board member and has been actively involved in the Association over the past decade, including as a local pilot representative, magazine editor, trustee and Chair of the External Affairs Committee.
Like many pilots in Canada, Captain Russell began his flying career as a flight instructor and later a pilot in Northern Canada and overseas before being hired by Air Canada in 2007.
As Chairman, Captain Russell presided over board meetings and acted as the pilots' principal representative to Air Canada on employment matters, including negotiation and administration of their collective agreement and was the official spokesperson for ACPA.
The Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) currently represents approximately 4,200 commercial pilots, with 600 previously furloughed during the COVID crisis all of whom have now returned to active status. These highly skilled professional pilots fly passengers and cargo across Canada and around the world on Air Canada and Air Canada rouge.
Gary resides on a farm in Comox, BC with his wife, Chantal, and son, Ben.
Dr. Coen van der Kroon, author of “The Golden Fountain” and Program Director of the Ayurveda Academy in the Netherlands shares his approach to using urine as a therapy both topically and drinking pee.
We start off by focusing on Ayurveda and how there’s been this refocus in India to incorporate this ancient healing practice. You will get understand how an Ayurvedic consultation works, Ayurvedic treatments, and the challenges of it being accepted by Western medicine.
We then turn our focus to urine therapy and Coen shares his thoughts on where urine is and isn’t practical, what urine taste says about your health, along with his cautions that drinking your own pee isn’t a life hack.
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DISCLAIMER:
The information herein is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for the advice of an appropriately qualified licensed physician or other health care provider.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and Coen’s travels to India
03:39 Is India losing its connection to traditional medicines?
06:15 Evidence based Ayurveda
08:25 Bringing Ayurveda to the Netherlands
13:50 India government’s support for Ayurveda
15:05 Common Ayurvedic treatments
16:45 Initial Ayurvedic consultation
20:25 Traditional Ayurvedic surgery
23:00 Nutrigenomics Ayurgenomics
26:15 Typical Ayurvedic patients
28:25 Renewed interest in India in Ayurveda
32:00 Ayurvedic response to COVID-19
35:00 Rise in zoonotic viruses
38:00 Coen’s reaction to Ayurvedic is not scientific
40:00 Coen’s introduction into urine therapy
50:00 Looping effect and self-healing
52:10 Urine as a waste product
56:30 Why can’t you eat fecal matter?
57:25 What your urine says about your health and diet
59:00 Change your diet before drinking urine
01:01:10 Is drinking urine a life hack?
01:03:50 Using urine for acute and chronic issues?
01:06:15 Does Coen currently use urine therapy?
01:08:30 Ideal urine (midstream, morning)
01:11:30 Athletic benefits from urine
01:13:35 Is drinking urine hard on your kidneys?
01:14:30 Coen’s takeaways
01:15:00 Five for dinner
01:24:10 What do you know for sure?
01:25:25 Wrap-up
Are you someone who is having trouble managing through the personal, emotional, and social aspects of a chronic illness? Joelle Prevost, a registered Counsellor from British Columbia, Canada discusses strategies and her new workbook of how to deal with these factors. We also discuss how families and friends of those surrounding someone with a chronic illness can support their loved ones.
Workbook: https://a.co/d/1kjOC5H
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Joelle Prevost holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology, is a registered clinical counselor (British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors), has a teaching degree, and has her own personal experience with chronic illness as she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2011. In private practice, Prevost works with individuals experiencing communication challenges, anxiety, trauma, and, of course, chronic illness. In her spare time, she writes music, makes cold-process soap, plays pool, and enjoys hanging out with her cat and dog in her native British Columbia, Canada.
For more information, visit www.JLPrevost.com.
Chapters:
00:00-Intro
02:16-Managing Personal, Emotional and Social Aspects of Chronic Illness
09:45-Setting boundaries - Joelle’s 3rd book
14:45-Setting boundaries at work versus personal life
18:00-3 aspects of chronic illness
24:50-Relationship challenges and chronic illness
30:15-Being forced to deal with personal, emotional, and social aspects
32:00-Having a balanced attitude
34:00-Joelle’s YouTube channel
35:00-What is chronic illness?
37:40-People who don’t have chronic illness want it to have a finish line
41:32-Coaching family members on how to support those with chronic illness
44:18-Supporting children with chronic illness
47:35-Don’t you want to get better?
51:10-Loneliness and chronic illness
57:08-Social media comments to create connection
01:00:20-Adult bullying
01:06:15-How to talk to an adult bully?
01:08:20-Joelle’s curiosities
01:10:20-Are there things about people that get you frustrated?
01:12:45-Online counselling
01:18:40-Inside Out 2
01:19:30-Wrap-up
World renowned spine expert Dr. Stuart McGill shares his observations on what makes world class athletes 'world class'. From how he got into working with the elites, to developing skills at a world class level like strength, speed, and elasticity.
Whether you're a strength coach, personal trainer, an elite level athlete, or just curious about these group of high performing humans, there's something in this episode for you!
Prakash Diar talks about systemic racism, what's going on in Canada, racism facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, diversity and inclusion training, his time during South Africa's apartheid, and the South African case against Israel in the International Court of Justice.
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Prakash Diar was born in South Africa to 3rd generation indentured labourers of Indian descent. He is the first in his family to attend university and the first lawyer in his community, having to serve in all areas of the law, especially in human rights given the unjust and evil system of apartheid.
He was arrested at court and detained in solitary confinement for a month (without charge). His life was thereafter threatened by the state. Canadians helped him and his family come to Canada 34 years ago.
In Canada, Prakash has won major human rights cases including a systemic racial discrimination case for racial minorities. He then worked on the Indian Residential Schools class action, settlement and its implementation. He has trained over 2,000 DOJ lawyers and paralegals on Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. He designed, developed and leads the training for federal public prosecutors on systemic discrimination and the over-representation of Indigenous (and Black) peoples in the criminal legal system. Prakash is a published author, an Anti-Discrimination and an EDI consultant.
What is Canada’s housing crisis? How did we get here? How do we solve this problem? Does Pierre Poilievre have a common sense plan?
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Dr. Alexandra Flynn is an Associate Professor at Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia where she teaches and researches in the areas of law and cities. Her work focuses on the constitutional role of cities and urban governance, and she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, reports, and media articles in leading publications. She is currently leading CMHC and SSHRC-funded projects focused on Canada’s housing crisis: the Housing Assessment Resource Tools project, which redefines and helps to measure housing need; and the Balanced Supply of Housing Node, which brings together academic and non-profit community organizations to research responsive land use practices and the financialization of housing. She is also working on several projects related to precariously housed people in Canadian cities, including the governance of personal property of precariously housed people, and human rights and tent encampments.
Wyatt Tessari L'Allié, Executive Director and Founder of Artificial Intelligence Safety & Governance in Canada chats about how to make AI safe. Wyatt discusses how national and global conversations are needed to ensure AI doesn’t evolve into something that will result in significant and existential impacts to humanity. Wyatt discusses the various players, big tech, governments, and citizens and their roles in how to make AI safe.
AIGS White Paper: https://aigs.ca/white-paper.pdf
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Wyatt Tessari L'Allié is the founder and executive director of AI Governance & Safety Canada, a leading civil society voice on the governance of advanced AI. A former engineer, filmmaker and climate advocate, he has spent the last 8 years researching and writing about the risks and opportunities of AI, and is the author of the book "A Path Forward This Century".
Michael Barnard describes why it's more efficient, environmentally beneficial, and follows where things are headed to just electrify everything. Michael walks through how many sectors will electrify, how hydrogen won't have a place in an energy future, and the consequences for countries like Canada.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barnard-42446
https://cleantechnica.com/author/mikebarnard/
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Michael spends his time projecting scenarios for decarbonization 40-80 years into the future, and assisting executives, Boards and investors to pick wisely today. Whether it's refueling aviation, grid storage, vehicle-to-grid, or hydrogen demand, his work is based on fundamentals of physics, economics and human nature, and informed by the decarbonization requirements and innovations of multiple domains. His leadership positions in North America, Asia and Latin America enhanced his global point of view. He publishes regularly in multiple outlets on innovation, business, technology and policy.
Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe is back for a second episode and we chat about the influence of probiotics and antibiotics on the gut microbiome. Could there be missing microbes contributing to food intolerances? And why researching the microbiomes of honey bees is helping our understanding of their survivability and social behaviors.
Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe obtained her BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of London, and her PhD in Molecular Microbiology through an industrial partnership with Public Health England. Emma started her faculty career at the University of Calgary in 2005, with a Fellow-to-Faculty transition award through CAG/AstraZeneca and CIHR, to study the normal microbes of the human gut. In particular, she was among the few that focused on trying to culture these ‘unculturable’ microbes in order to better understand their biology. To do this, she developed a model gut system - the Robogut - to emulate the conditions of the human gut and allow communities of microbes to grow together, as they do naturally. Emma moved her lab to the University of Guelph in late 2007, and has been a recipient of several Canadian Foundation for Innovation Awards that have allowed her to develop her specialist anaerobic fermentation laboratory further. This has been boosted by the award of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Human Gut Microbiome Function and Host Interactions. Emma's research focuses are very broad, although they are all united under the banner of microbial culture and the microbiome. She has current projects focused on the human gut microbiome, on colorectal cancer, diabetes, xenobiotic metabolism, and 'missing microbes'. More recently Emma has entered the fascinating realm of the insect gut microbiome - specifically the microbes that colonize bees!
From China to Ukraine to Cuba, Professor Gordon Houlden of the University of Alberta’s China Institute shares his insights on these areas as a former member of Canada’s Foreign Service.
https://www.ualberta.ca/china-institute/about/people/director-emeritus.html
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Professor Gordon Houlden is Director Emeritus of the China Institute, Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta.
Professor Houlden joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1976, serving in Ottawa and abroad. Twenty-two of his thirty-two years in the Canadian Foreign Service were spent working on Chinese economic, trade and political affairs for the Government of Canada including five postings in China. He also served at Canadian Embassy in Havana and Warsaw, and at Canada National Defence College. His last assignment before joining the University of Alberta in 2008 was as Director General of the East Asian Bureau of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responsible for Greater China, Japan, the Koreas and Mongolia.
Under Professor Houlden’s leadership, the China Institute focused on contemporary China studies, with an emphasis on Canada’s trade, investment and bilateral relations with the PRC, and Asian security issues. His third co- edited book on the South China Sea was published in the summer of 2021 by Bristol University Press.
Chet Galaska discusses everything you need to know about diabetes from the perspective of those who have it. It’s not as well understood by the general public as you’d think and this can lead to stigmas being placed on those who have the disease.
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Chet Galaska graduated from the University of Hartford with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. After working in several industrial operations, he co-founded and was president of a company that produces stainless steel castings for heavy industry.
He has had type 1 diabetes since 1981 and has managed it well. Because of this he was asked to participate in a long term study by the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard University.
Chet isn’t a health care professional. He is simply a person who understands diabetes and sees the disease from the perspective of those who have it. It became clear to him that messaging about the disease underlies misperceptions that have damaging consequences. This is a huge problem in the world of diabetes that doesn’t get recognized, let alone addressed. He realized that people need to know the facts if we’re to motivate diabetics to do the hard things the disease demands. As a first step, he wrote The Diabetes Book: What Everyone Should Know and spoke to many groups about it. He then developed the Challenge Diabetes Program which was presented in participation with college, medical, civic, business, church and other organizations.
In recognition of this work he was presented the Heroes Walking Among Us Award by the Massachusetts Foot and Ankle Society. These are doctors who deal first-hand with the consequences of diabetes ignorance. His purpose is to create an informed and supportive social environment that respects diabetics who fight the beast and encourages those who don’t to take it seriously.
He appears on podcasts to reach as many people as possible.
Canadian Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend Matt Jeneroux chats about the mental health of dads, the life of a travelling MP, and the 2023 Alberta election.
IG: @mattjeneroux
Twitter: @jeneroux
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Matt is the Member of Parliament representing Edmonton Riverbend and currently the Shadow Minister for Supply Chains.
He has been a strong advocate for both compassionate care and mental health supports, even launching a foundation in 2022, Hi Dad Foundation, in support of raising awareness for mental health in young men and dads. This was an extension of his work as founder of Father’s Day on the Hill, an annual event on Parliament Hill.
Matt is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly and the youngest government provincial politician prior to May 2015.
Ever wonder whether our genes can affect the way we digest certain foods or vice versa? This is the field of nutrigenomics and Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy a Professor at the University of Toronto and Founder of Nutrigenomix Inc discusses this exciting field!
Twitter: @elsohemy
IG: @nutrigenomix
https://nutrigenomix.com/
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Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy is a Professor and Associate Chair and held a Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics at the University of Toronto. He is also the founder of Nutrigenomix Inc., and serves as the company’s Chief Science Officer. Dr. El-Sohemy obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. He has published over 200 peer reviewed publications and has given more than 300 invited talks around the world. Dr. El-Sohemy is the recipient of several awards for excellence in research by the American College of Nutrition, the Canadian Society for Nutrition and the American Nutrition Association.
Captain Gary Russell, an Air Canada Pilot with over 25 years of flying experiences chats about the current labour issues within the airline industry, the mystery of MH370, what’s going on airports, the airline’s response to climate change, and the labour/union movement.
Twitter: @garybrussell
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Captain Gary Russell is a Boeing 737 pilot based in Vancouver, and is a former union executive for the Air Canada Pilots Association. Prior to his appointment as the Association’s Chairman, he served two terms as a national board member and has been actively involved in the Association over the past decade, including as a local pilot representative, magazine editor, trustee and Chair of the External Affairs Committee.
Like many pilots in Canada, Captain Russell began his flying career as a flight instructor and later a pilot in Northern Canada and overseas before being hired by Air Canada in 2007.
As Chairman, Captain Russell presided over board meetings and acted as the pilots' principal representative to Air Canada on employment matters, including negotiation and administration of their collective agreement and was the official spokesperson for ACPA.
The Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) currently represents approximately 4,200 commercial pilots, with 600 previously furloughed during the COVID crisis all of whom have now returned to active status. These highly skilled professional pilots fly passengers and cargo across Canada and around the world on Air Canada and Air Canada rouge.
Gary resides on a farm in Comox, BC with his wife, Chantal, and son, Ben.
Shame and guilt are such primitive human emotions, and Lois Hollis discusses how shame guilt and its associate behavior can be so damaging.
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Lois Hollis shifts our opinion on the taboo subject, shame guilt. She is a shame guilt educator, counselor, filmmaker, author who coined the word shame guilt. Lois has always been a trailblazer as she helped develop one of the first Kidney
Hemodialysis Units in the USA at Thomas Jefferson University in 1966.
Today Lois not only shows us why shame guilt has led us to believe we are victims
incapable of stellar lives but also HOW to make friends with our inner critic and
kick shame guilt out of our lives.
What are the impacts of deforestation in the Amazon on climate, Indigenous Peoples, and overall quality of the rainforest? How can the Amazon be restored?
Dr. Patricia Pinho, Deputy Science Director of IPAM Amazonia, and an IPCC Author is here to discuss what is happening on the ground of the Amazon. What’s the political situation like in Brazil and are things feeling more optimistic?
Email: patricia.pinho@ipam.org.br
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Dr. Patricia Pinho is interested in understanding the ways people's lives are affected by the impacts of climate change and how they respond to these challenges through adaptation. She investigates under what ways some people (of color, indigenous, women, children, elderly, and across geographies) are more vulnerable, addressing inequalities and loss and damage (residual risks) through justice.
Patricia also has experience in researching the relationship on ecosystem services, human wellbeing and livelihoods sustainability with special focus on Amazonia. I’m passionate about the critical role of Amazonia Ecosystem(s) in delivering services for local livelihoods, regional economy, and climate resilience in Brazil, South America, and the world.
Sheri Doyle is the owner of Digital Owl Communications—a consulting business that works with boards, non-profits, crown corporations, elected officials and businesses on award-winning, cross-platform communications and storytelling.
With over 15 years of experience in the public sector, she has developed communications strategies for wildfire response, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Premier of Alberta, provincial budgets, and national marketing campaigns.
She is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for her communications work and has perviously served as Director of Marketing and Communications for LitFest, Associate Producer of YEGPodfest, and as board director for Digital Alberta.
https://digitalowl.ca/ IG: @digital_owl
Dr. Nita Farahany, a foremost scholar in the social, legal, and ethical implications of emerging technologies, discusses her critically acclaimed book The Battle For Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. Nita believes this is a critical moment for the global society to act for the right to ‘cognitive liberty’, which is the right to self-determination, the right to mental privacy, and the right to freedom of thought.
Twitter: @NitaFarahany
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitafarahany
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Dr. Nita Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar on the ethics of emerging technologies and frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide. From 2010-2017, she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
She currently serves on the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, immediate past President of the International Neuroethics Society, ELSI advisor to the NIH Brain Initiative and to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, member of the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders and the Standing Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities and National Security Needs for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Global Future Council on Frontier Risks for the World Economic Forum. She is the Reporter for the Drafting Committee on updating the Uniform Determination of Death Committee for the Uniform Law Commission (ULC), as well as a ULC Commissioner. Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.
Brendan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of SiTration Inc., chats about his company’s focus on improving the battery recycling process, starting a clean tech company, being a student athlete, and the influence of where he grew up.
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Brendan Smith is the Co-Founder & CEO of SiTration, Inc., an advanced materials startup that aims to drastically reduce cost and resource consumption of important industrial separations on a global scale. Spun out of MIT in 2020, the company is developing their core technology, a patented ultra-durable filtration membrane, to impact societally critical applications such as recovering lithium from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Brendan earned a Ph.D. in materials science & engineering from MIT and a B.S. in nanotechnology engineering from the University of Waterloo, where he was also a captain of the varsity basketball team. He is generally passionate about developing new materials to address big societal challenges. Outside of work Brendan loves spending time with his family and being outdoors in the ocean or the mountains.
Cathy Nesbitt (aka 'The Worm Woman') is a Health and Wellness Advocate. Founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters (est 2002), Cathy’s Sprouters and Cathy’s Laughter Club. She is a multi award-winning environmental innovator who uses workshops and inspirational speaking to motivate people to live a more sustainable life. Cathy is a certified Laughter Yoga Teacher. Appointed Laughter Ambassador in 2017 by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga.
http://www.cathyscomposters.com/
http://www.cathysclub.com/
http://www.cathyssprouters.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cathyscomposters/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathynesbitt/
https://twitter.com/Squirm
What’s happening in the Amazon rainforest as a result of climate change and deforestation? Dr. Chris Boulton, a Research Fellow from the Global Systems Institute within the University of Exeter, explains how the Amazon rainforest is losing its resilience.
Twitter: @caboulton
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since early 2000s (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01287-8)
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Chris is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK where he works in the Global Systems Institute. His main research focus is looking for early warning signals of tipping points in, and the monitoring of resilience of climate systems. Recently, he has considered whether these same signals can be found in other systems. For example, measuring individual countries resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. More generally he considers himself a data scientist who enjoys playing with large datasets, providing he can somehow make it a part of the work he’s employed to do!
Brian Kates is back for Part Two of his conversation with Rupesh to discuss the meaning of success, his journey from a top Engineering student to finding meaning in what he does.
Brian is the founder of Root 2 Engineering and Motobrix.
Chat with Dr. Jesse Rogerson of York University about the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) technology and recent discoveries, the purpose of the Artemis 1 mission to the moon, and promising future space propulsion.
https://www.yorku.ca/science/profiles/faculty/jesse-rogerson/ Twitter: @jesserogerson Instagram: @jesserogerson
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Jesse Rogerson is an Assistant Professor at York University. He teaches astronomy and space sciences courses to students from a variety of faculties throughout the university. He also works to communicate science and engage the broader society with scientific topics, including exoplanets, space junk, humans on the Moon, and more. Through his work in the classroom and in the public sphere, Jesse is working to build a more scientifically engaged society.
Brian Kates joins Rupesh to discuss his journey from being the #1 mechanical engineer at Waterloo to finding a love for metal fabrication. Brian discuses his health (physical and mental) challenges along the way. https://www.root2eng.com/ IG: root2eng https://www.motobrix.com/ IG: motobrix -- Brian Kates is a custom metal fabricator focused on architectural metal projects and motorcycles. After years of experience as a mechanical engineer in nuclear power and biomedical industries, he switched gears and has spent the last 8 years dedicated to TIG welding and metal fabrication. He builds everything from custom railings, to modified and restored vintage motorcycles, and has been featured for his work in some notable online magazines.
May joins Rupesh for another episode of Two Nobodys Talk.
They discuss: • Stanley Park • Raptors in Edmonton • Dream trip in Canada • Black Friday • Fatherhood • Being out of touch • ADHD • Gaming • Metaverse • Crypto • Central Bank conspiracies • Moneymaking in health care • Artemis 1 • Harvesting solar in space • Bringing nurses from the Philippines • Foreign Aid • Donald Trump
Did you know there is a network of global citizens living in China creating meaningful connections?
Fabiola Benitez, talks about what inspired her to create this network called Global Friendship out of Guangzhou, China. This inspiring connector and social entrepreneur is helping people from all walks of life make meaningful connections.
www.globalfriendship.net
WeChat: GFCommunity
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Fabiola was born in Canada to immigrant parents from a small country in Latin America, El Salvador. She has always been fascinated by other cultures, languages, and people. Fabiola grew up in Ottawa, and graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in Criminology and Criminal Justice,
with a concentration in Sociology, from Carleton University. Education and growth have always been an important part for her life journey.
In 2012, she decided to take the plunge and try living and working in another country. She decided to go come to China to experience work and travel life as an ESL teacher, but soon discovered that there was something more going on in China. There were many opportunities to explore and create new values for herself. She was lucky to have her high school best friend with her and together started their own organization, Global Friendship. As the Co-founder of Global Friendship, she now works to strengthen the GF community by creating diverse and meaningful events and services.
May MacDougall joins Rupesh to chat about massage therapy, Filipino funerals and cockroaches, living on an acreage, and what keeps her up at night.
Naturopathic Doctor Jane Levesque discusses naturopathic medicine, how conventional medicine is failing people looking to get pregnant, and the approach women and men need to consider to prepare for pregnancy.
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Information on Dr. Jane’s Fertility 101 program: https://drjanelevesque.com/fertility-101-program/
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Dr. Jane Levesque is a Naturopathic Doctor, who specializes in fertility. Her mission is to help high-achieving women feel confident and in control of their fertility journeys.
In her 6+ years of industry experience, Dr. Jane has helped 100’s of couples optimize their health and prepare their bodies for pregnancy, which allowed them to get pregnant naturally, have complication free pregnancies and give birth to healthy babies.
Dr. Joel Lexchin talks about how big pharmaceutical companies influence the health care system through their relationship with medical doctors – a relationship that begins early. Joel discusses the impact this is having on patient care and drug prices.
Twitter: @joel_lexchin
https://www.dfcm.utoronto.ca/faculty/joel-lexchin
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Dr. Joel Lexchin received his MD from the University of Toronto in 1977. He is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto, Canada where he taught health policy until 2016. In addition, he worked in the emergency department at the University Health Network also in Toronto for over 33 years. He has published two books since 2016: Private Profits vs Public Policy: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and Doctors in Denial: Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession Are Too Close for Comfort (Lorimer, 2017). He is a member of the Foundation Board of Health Action International. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and is among the top 2% of the world’s most highly cited researchers.
Colin Guldimann, an economist with RBC talks about the current energy security and climate tension, Canada’s $2 trillion climate opportunity, the carbon tax, carbon trading markets, and exciting opportunities in greening agriculture.
Twitter: @cguldimann
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-guldimann-952330122/
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Colin is an economist at RBC, having joined the bank in 2019. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ottawa, and Master of Arts in Economics from the University of British Columbia. His work focusses on analysis and forecasts about Canada’s transition to a net-zero economy, and the investment, skills, technologies and policies needed to accelerate climate action. Prior to joining RBC, Colin worked on mortgage, housing, and economic policy at the Department of Finance Canada. He is a member of the City of Toronto’s Climate Advisory Group.
Dr. Ed Cambridge, Master Clinician and Lead Instructor for Backfitpro discusses his journey of becoming a Chiropractor to working on a daily basis with Dr. Stuart McGill. Ed goes into fitness and therapeutics myths, and his thoughts on the interplay between the spine, hip, and knees.
www.cambridgesportandspine.com
www.backfitpro.com
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Ed Cambridge is a spine geek! He has studied spines at CMCC and during his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo under the tutelage of Dr. Stuart McGill. He continues to work on academic projects and research as well as teach courses on back pain for clinicians around the world. All while keeping a private practice seeing patients from across North America at his clinic in Brampton, ON.
Ed is an avid skier and consults on technical aspects of the sport as an export consultant in biomechanics for the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance. When not on the ski hills with his family, Ed also enjoys golf and waterskiing in the summer.
Bob Watts, VP of Indigenous Relations at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization and Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University joins Rupesh for a timely conversation about Pope Francis’ visit to Canada, the state of Indigenous Relations, and some historic events for Indigenous Peoples that he was a part of including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Residential School Settlement Agreement.
Twitter: @BobWatts15
https://firstpeoplesgroup.com/team-member/bob-watts/
https://www.queensu.ca/sps/bob-watts
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Bob Watts is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and fellow at the Harvard Law School, Bob Watts has been involved in Indigenous issues for more than 30 years. He is the Vice President of Indigenous Relations at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. He is an Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Fellow at Queens University in the School of Policy Studies. Previously, he was Chief of Staff and Chief Executive Officer for the Assembly of First Nations and Interim Executive Director of the Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Sunandini Verma, Founder of Amrev Media joins Rupesh of Two Nobodys for a discussion about her roots in entrepreneurship, leaving the 9 to 5 grind, her spiritual drive, approach to leadership, and her innovative businesses.
https://amrevmedia.com/
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Sunandini Verma is the founder of Amrev Media Inc – a Tech Agency focused on development and tech product launches. She studied Communications and Broadcast Journalism and did the whole TV / movie world thing for a bit. That journey allowed Sunandini to travel and gain experiences in different corners of the world. Post broadcasting, Sunandini decided to transition into her own business as business came naturally to her. Since Amrev Media, she has launched multiple apps under the umbrella and continues to roll out development projects for her clients.
Mariska Nell joins the Two Nobodys for a conversation about her journey towards becoming passionate about zero waste and sustainability and using art to translate her passion. Mariska highlights how easy it can be to live sustainably, and the impact one can have.
www.mamaearthtalk.com
IG: @zerowastemariska
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A few years ago, Mariska started to experiment with trash️ in her artwork. In 2018 she decided to take the trash to the streets of the UAE and wore all the trash she generated for everyone to see. 30 days and 65 kg of waste later she had the country buzzing with questions about waste and wanting to know how they can reduce it. Mariska is on a mission to create more awareness on the environmental issues we are facing and to provide people with doable tips that they can use to make a difference right where they are.
Tim McCarthy joins the Two Nobodys about to talk about his latest book that highlights the importance of the four dimensions – emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual – in raising children.
https://4d-2d.com
Twitter: @4Dparents
IG: @4dparents
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Tim McCarthy has a Master’s Degree in Education and a Grandmaster rank in the martial arts. He has combined his years of experience as a classroom teacher and administrator (in both public and private schools) with even more years of experience teaching and developing martial arts programs to create a simple plan for the education of children. He has spent years researching developmental child psychology, chosen the best studies, and distilled them into simple, understandable language. He then drew on his vast knowledge of activities that help children become stronger physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and arranged them according to the capabilities of children at each age.
His unique perspective combining Eastern and Western educational philosophy creates a powerful road map for raising balanced children in an increasingly unbalanced world.
Kit Webster joins the Two Nobodys for a discussion about capitalism and how it’s outlived its value and the need for change.
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Past-Sell-Date-Unsustainability-ebook/dp/B09HL25973
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Kit has spent his professional life as a Chief Executive Officer, President or Chief Financial Officer of privately- and publicly-held companies. He has a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rice University and is a Certified Public Accountant. This unlikely combination summarizes his broad interests, including a deep love of history and of the theater, and a fascination with religion and with humanity’s relationships with reality.
He enjoys teaching and has occasionally been a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, including teaching courses on finance and on information technology management in its MBA school, and on entrepreneurship and on corporate change in its undergraduate business school.
Suzanne Yatim Aslam joins the Two Nobodys to discuss how she navigated through postpartum and perinatal depression. what a supportive father looks like, the cultural pressures of being a mom, and so much more.
IG: @suzyatimaslam
www.SuzanneYatimAslam.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Postpardon-Me-postpartum-depression-anxiety/dp/0578999102/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3I5RWNMNS74E&keywords=post+pardon+me&qid=1645739635&sprefix=post+pardon+me%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1&pldnSite=1
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Suzanne Yatim Aslam is a former actress, activist and Miss Arab USA. After becoming a mother she took to writing and now writes full time in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Her debut book is called Post Pardon Me- a fickle woman's spiral into postpartum depression and anxiety and how the hell she found her way out of it. (Sort of.)
Tom Paladino is a scalar energy researcher and joins the Two Nobodys show to showcase how working with scalar light can be used to heal others. Tom is based in Florida. Scalar energy is the fundamental life force found everywhere in the world, space and universe. It originates from the sun and stars. Chi, prana, OM, mana, life force, pyramid energy or zero-point energy are synonymous terms for scalar energy.
https://www.scalarlight.com/
IG: @scalarlight
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Tom theorized that all energy in the universe initiates as scalar energy; and that the sun of our solar system and the stars of the universe are the points of origin, “the storehouses,” for scalar energy. He further theorized that scalar energy is instructive energy, as the entire universe is instructed by this Divine Essence. Subsequently, all spiritual, cognitive, emotional and physical action in the universe is initiated and maintained by scalar energy instructions. Scalar energy provides order in the universe.
Kelsey Walker, Founder of From the Green Desk joins the Two Nobodys to talk about her own journey of losing her daughter Hope in 2017, the lack of support for women who have suffered similar losses, and attention that reproductive rights is receiving on both sides of the political spectrum.
Website: fromthegreendesk.com
Instagram: @from_the_green_desk
FB: From The Green Desk & Kelsey Walker
Pinterest: From The Green Desk
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Kelsey Walker started out her life in Kansas City before moving to Chicago with her family. The city formed her passion for reproductive rights and nonprofit missions. She has since worked for nonprofits for the last 11 years, making her start doing search and rescue in New Mexico and climbing her way to becoming a Founder and CEO.
Kelsey is married to her husband, Christopher, who rescued her literally and figuratively. They have two living children, Cayden and Ember, and their baby in the clouds, Hope.
They lost Hope in 2017, and after several years of healing, and seeing the injustice surging in Texas, Kansas, and Mississippi, Kelsey finally wrote her memoir. Face Everything And Rise is a memoir on abortion, child loss, PTSD, and finding the strength to rise and become a women's rights advocate. From the book, she formed From The Green Desk, an up-and-coming nonprofit that focuses on coaching, group therapy, and narrative meditation for people who have had abortions, lost pregnancies, or children.
Callen McGibbon (Founder and CEO of REPerformance) joins the Two Nobodys for a conversation that highlights resilience, the importance of breathing, developing an entrepreneurial mindset, and what it takes to coach elite level athletes.
Twitter: @_reperformance IG: @_reperformance Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/REPerformanceinc Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18107015/ --
Callen McGibbon is a serial entrepreneur, with a track record of success in the health and fitness industry. Like most entrepreneurs Callen’s story starts by having a dream and starting with nothing. Callen founded 3 companies in the health and fitness industry in, retail, paramedical services, mobile apps and fitness software.
Callen is purpose driven with a passion for learning more about the human body and helping everyone and anyone achieve health for life. He views the world as a encyclopedia of knowledge and positions himself in a path to effectively and efficiently learn as much as possible each and every day.
Callen builds his companies by focusing intensely on company culture developing his team professionally and holistically.
Gramps Jeffrey (Marc Joseph) joins the Two Nobodys to discuss his latest book “I Don’t Want to Turn 3”. Gramps shares the critical role grandparents have in a child’s development, how parenting has evolved over generations, and how to support a child when they’re a toddler.
www.grampsjeffrey.com
https://idontwanttoturn3.com/
Email: grampsjeffrey@gmail.com
IG: @authorgrampsjeffrey
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Gramps Jeffrey’s children’s book, “I Don’t Want to Turn 3”, explores what goes through a toddler’s mind that parents are so desperate to understand. It is based on the true experiences he has had with his 6 grandchildren that were born 2 each to his 3 Millennial daughters.
Gramps Jeffrey is the pen name for Marc Joseph whose first book “The Secrets of Retailing…How to Beat Wal-Mart” was written to help entrepreneurs and small businesses compete against the big guys. Arianna Huffington read his book and asked him to contribute to the Huffington Post. He has written over 100 articles about small businesses, education, the homeless and several other nonprofit topics dear to all of us.
Gramps and his lovely wife Cathy live in Scottsdale, Arizona where 2 of his grandchildren live. 2 more live in Austin, Texas and 2 in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. James Cahill an experimental plant ecologist from the University of Alberta joins the Two Nobodys to discuss the field of plant behavior. Understand how plants coexist, work, and communicate with one another to thrive and defend against predators in the natural environment. Dr. Cahill describes how natural plant behavior can have implications for food production and humans.
https://cahilllab.ca/
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Dr. James Cahill is a Professor of ecology at the University of Alberta, Canada. His work attempts to integrate how plant decision making alters species coexistence and patterns in biodiversity. This line of research has highlighted how behavioral ecological theory, developed primarily for mobile animals, is a very good starting point for understanding the social lives of plants. Over the last 20+ years, he has trained numerous graduate and undergraduate students in experimental plant ecology, and offered a different perspective than expressed by the common ecological paradigms. He is also actively engaged in science communication, with a focus on using a data-driven approach to enhance public understanding. He may be most well known for his work as the lead scientist on a widely viewed documentary about plant behavior (What plants talk about, PBS Nature and Smarty plants, CBC Nature of things). To date, those films have been viewed more than 2,000,000 times indicating a public fascination with the biology of plants.
Adwoa (Didee) Alorse, Founder and CEO of GirlTable joins the Two Nobodys for a wholesome discussion about her journey and the drivers for starting GirlTable.
GirlTable is a community platform that enables women and girls to ask and answer questions, engage in deeper conversations, unlock valuable opportunities for collaboration, and find fresh new ideas and practices to take into their daily lives.
www.girltable.com
Facebook: facebook.com/girltable
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/girltable
IG: @girltable
Twitter: @thegirltable
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Adwoa Alorse is a social entrepreneur who enjoys creating solutions for vulnerable populations such as children, youth, and women. Through her company GirlTable, Adwoa is using web-technology to inspire and empower women and girls across the globe. Though a Canadian by birth, Adwoa lived outside Canada for several years in countries like Ghana (also her heritage), The Gambia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, where she picked up an appreciation for the differences and similarities in the global human experience. She holds a Master of Public Service degree and a Bachelor of Arts and Business (Political Science major) degree from the University of Waterloo, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Public Management and Governance from the University of Ottawa. She believes in the power of community and collaboration, and is committed to the socio-economic empowerment of children, women, and youth across the globe.
Kyle and Rupesh discuss whether the remakes of some classic Disney films into live-action versions was worth it, and how it will be strange to come back to society that will have to live with COVID. The Trucker Convoy in Canada is occupying much of the news and the Two Nobodys discuss the original intent and what seems to be their purpose. Waning trust in our institutions becomes a cause for concern, and how there's a shift to decentralized everything, with the use of blockchains.
The Two Nobodys get together to start off their second year of the podcast discussing how their first year went, that we live in a world that easily discounts people's views, the inability of progressives to band together to get things done, taxation of billionaires, what's cooler space or the ocean, and the world of conspiracies.
Joelle Prevost (Author and Counsellor) joins the Two Nobodys to discuss her new book The Conversation Guide. Joelle walks through what led her to writing the book, the process of publishing, and her story.
IG: j.l.prevost
www.theconversationguide.com
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Joelle L. Prevost holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is a registered clinical counselor (British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors), a licensed teacher (British Columbia Teachers’ Federation), and a passionate communication-skills coach. She has worked in high school, group, and one-on-one settings. In private practice, Joelle works with individuals and couples experiencing communication challenges, anxiety, trauma, and chronic illness. In her spare time, she writes music, makes cold-process soap, plays pool, and enjoys hanging out with her cat and her dog in her native British Columbia, Canada.
Can seaweed help reduce methane emissions? Dr. Wade Abbott, a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada thinks there is potential! He also shares the struggles he encountered in raising a family of three while working to get his PhD and figuring out his path.
Research page: https://profils-profiles.science.gc.ca/en/profile/d-wade-abbott-phd
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Dr. Wade Abbott received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry under the supervision of Professor Juan Ausió at the University of Victoria in 2005. His thesis was awarded the UVic Lieutenant Governor’s Gold Medal in 2005. His first postdoctoral research fellowship was with Professor Alisdair Boraston at the University of Victoria in the molecular basis of carbohydrate interactions (2005-2008). He completed a second postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Harry Gilbert at the University of Georgia Complex Carbohydrate Research Centre in metabolic pathways from intestinal bacteria involved in the utilization of dietary glycans (2008-2010). In 2011, Dr. Abbott began his career with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at the Lethbridge Research Centre as a Research Scientist. Group research themes include the discovery of carbohydrate active enzymes and metabolic pathways, agricultural glycomics, and carbohydrate-based innovations for the production of food animals.
Dr. Lenore Newman, Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at University of Fraser Valley joins the Two Nobodys for a fascinating conversation on the future of food. Lenore shares her thoughts on the potential of vertical farming and lab grown meat and how these ways of agriculture can have profound economic and environmental benefits.
https://www.ufv.ca/food-agriculture-institute/meet-the-team/lenore-newman.htm
Twitter: @DrLenoreNewman
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Dr. Lenore Newman's love affair with food began on her family's fishing boats, where she gained an early introduction into the world of direct marketing of local products. Dr. Newman is an expert in agricultural technology, and she holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley. Dr. Newman is also the Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at UFV, and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's New College. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University. She has written two books, Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey, and Lost Feast.
Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, a foremost researcher on the human microbiome joins the Two Nobodys for a fascinating conversation. Emma shares what we do and do not know about the microbiome, some of the characteristics of a healthy microbiome, how it may have changed over history, the effects of COVID, and what foods may be beneficial.
Dr. Emma Allen Vercoe’s research page: https://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/people/dr-emma-allen-vercoe
Twitter: @EmmaAllenVercoe
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Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe obtained her BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of London, and her PhD in Molecular Microbiology through an industrial partnership with Public Health England. Dr. Allen-Vercoe started her faculty career at the University of Calgary in 2005, with a Fellow-to-Faculty transition award through CAG/AstraZeneca and CIHR, to study the normal microbes of the human gut. In particular, she was among the few that focused on trying to culture these ‘unculturable’ microbes in order to better understand their biology. To do this, she developed a model gut system to emulate the conditions of the human gut and allow communities of microbes to grow together, as they do naturally.
Dr. Allen-Vercoe moved her lab to the University of Guelph in late 2007, and has been a recipient of several Canadian Foundation for Innovation Awards that has allowed her to develop her specialist anaerobic fermentation laboratory further. This has been recently boosted by the award of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Human Gut Microbiome Function and Host Interactions .
In 2013, Dr. Allen-Vercoe co-founded NuBiyota, a research spin-off company that aims to create therapeutic ecosystems as biologic drugs, on a commercial scale. The research enterprise for this company is also based in Guelph.
Adam McInroy joins Two Nobodys for a conversation about financial planning, the challenging job of consulting on other people's wealth especially when equity markets dropped in March 2020. This is a wide ranging conversation covering, health, fitness, investing, and financial planning.
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Website: https://advisor.investorsgroup.com/en/adam_mcinroy
Adam McInroy, CFP, CLU is an Executive Financial Consultant with one of the largest asset managers in Canada. He and his family live in Peterborough, Ontario. After attending the University of Waterloo and obtaining his BSc in Kinesiology, Adam began working for a large US based company in downtown Toronto. After a year with that employer Adam moved to Peterborough to work for a large international company in their Health and Safety department. After several years and upon the birth of his son, Adam realized that his career, although great, was not one which he took pride in and was excited about doing for the next 30 years. After a lot of research and after further education, Adam changed careers into the work of Financial Planning.
Adam chose to build his practice with one of the largest asset managers in Canada and is ranked in the top 10 asset managers globally. Due to the ability to focus beyond a portfolio and truly look at a comprehensive financial picture to maximize a clients return on life.
He has continued to further his education and achieved the internationally recognized designation as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU).
Outside of the office, Adam is actively involved in his community, whether coaching his daughters soccer team, volunteering with multiple charities, doing canoe trips with his son or training at his local BJJ club, Adam is constantly seeking to improve himself, his family and the community in which Adam serves.
Kyle and Rupesh return to talk about about the Canadian Federal election, the lack of free time, the Toronto Blue Jays, democracy and North Korea, British Columbia's wildfires, and investing in collectibles.
Dr. Jason Anastasopoulos from the University of Georgia joins the Two Nobodys to discuss the impact on western liberal democracy from the fourth industrial revolution. From voting, the use of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and deep learning, hear what Dr. Anastasopoulos has to say.
https://spia.uga.edu/faculty-member/jason-anastasopoulos/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonanastasopoulos
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Dr. Jason Anastasopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on how technological innovations shape politics and society for better and for worse. His current work focuses on understanding how artificial intelligence, biotechnology and blockchain technologies are rapidly ushering in social and political changes and how to ensure that these technologies do not interfere with things that we hold dear such as human rights, individual rights and basic civil liberties. He is currently working on a book exploring how technological innovations shape international relations and a book on the influence of central banking on American politics.
Kyle and Rupesh discuss Rupesh's 36 hour water fast along with GMOs vs organics, the need for labelling and informing consumers, and the disruption of 3D printing.
Jesse Tipping, President and Co-Founder of the Athlete Institute joins the Two Nobodys for a talk about the Raptors prospects in 2021-22, the start of the Athlete Institute, Orangeville Prep, the influence of his father, addressing fundamental flaws in Canada’s high school basketball system, raising good men, and collegiate sports.
www.athleteinstitute.ca
IG: @jessetipping | @athleteinstitute
Twitter: @Jesse_AI
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The Athlete Institute was founded in September 2010 by colleagues Jesse Tipping and Adam Hoffman. Jesse followed the dreams of his father, James, who wanted to create the best basketball facility in Canada, mixed with his own of developing Canada’s best talent. The Athlete Institute is home to Orangeville Prep who competes in the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association (OSBA) and the Grindsession USA. The Athlete Institute attracts global talent, with players from across Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Athlete Institute has seen 6 players make an NBA roster since 2016.
The Institute is a part of the Pretty River Sports and Entertainment umbrella, along with CrossFit Orangeville, Core5 Fitness & Lifestyle, Purple Owl Pilates, BioSteel All Canadian Games, Bear Cub Coffee and the Athlete Institute Football Club.
Jesse Tipping graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BA in Liberal Studies, he played 5 years of Varsity basketball. Jesse has been written about as one of the Top 5 most influential people in basketball for Canada.
Jesse is husband to Shantelle Tipping of 14 years and father to their 2 kids Nash 7yo and Summer 2yo.
Kyle and Rupesh get together to chat about their respective Father's Days. They get into their childhoods, being mindful of the little things, and the development of children's long-term memories.
functionalchocolate #fairtrade #bigchocolate
Tiz Ienna, Co-Founder of Zazubean Chocolate joins the Two Nobodys for a conversation about all things chocolate: functional chocolate, fair trade, big chocolate and the power dynamics, getting into the food industry, and the mindset required to be an entrepreneur.
www.zazubean.com
IG: @zazubean
Twitter: @zazubean
fourthindustrialrevolution #wellbeingeconomy
Amanda Janoo, Knowledge and Policy Lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL) joins the Two Nobodys for an in-depth conversation about how the first industrial revolution influenced our economic model and what we need to really be focusing on to get our economy to work for us.
Twitter: @JanooAmanda
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL): https://wellbeingeconomy.org/
WEALL Policy Design Guide: https://wellbeingeconomy.org/policyguide
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Amanda Janoo is the Knowledge and Policy Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL). Amanda is an economic policy expert with over a decade of experience working with governments and international development institutions around the world. Her work aims to build just and sustainable economies through goal-oriented and participatory policy design processes.
Prior to joining WEAll, Amanda worked for the United Nations and the African Development Bank as an industrial policy and structural transformation expert. As a Fulbright researcher, she explored the relationship between international trade and informal employment. She graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Development Studies and heralds from the green mountain state of Vermont, in the USA.
Kyle and Rupesh discuss the "Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. We discuss how this relates to our own parenting and the issues happening at university and college campuses.
humanrights #JAYU #NorthKorea #leadership
Gilad Cohen, Founder and Executive Director of JAYU, joins the Two Nobodys to talk about his work in telling human rights stories through the arts. From Gilad’s own story, to his visit to North Korea, to his obsessive roots, to JAYU’s 4-day work week, to his leadership style, this was a very dynamic conversation. Gilad’s stories pull on the heart strings, and you don’t want to miss this episode.
To learn more about Gilad and the work of JAYU, visit:
www.jayu.ca
www.mrgiladcohen.com
https://www.thehumpodcast.com/
IG: @mrgiladcohen
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Gilad Cohen is an Israeli-Canadian Toronto-based artist, photographer, podcaster, public speaker, and advocate for human rights.
Since 2008, Gilad has worked as a community mobilizer with a focus on connecting audiences to urgent and compelling stories through multimedia arts.
In 2012, Gilad founded JAYU, an award-winning Toronto-based charity that serves the arts community through the annual Human Rights Film Festival, The Hum, a human rights podcast which he produces and co-hosts, as well as the iAM Program, an initiative that provides arts and social justice mentorship to more than 200 equity-seeking youth from across the GTA each year.
He is an alumna of the Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab and the Rothschild Fellowship at Cambridge University in the UK.
Ron Hamilton, Co-Owner of Sunworks Farm joins the Two Nobodys for an in-depth discussion about regenerative organic farming. We get into his family’s story, how they started their farm, the importance of quality top soil, raising farm animals humanely, and the downsides of conventional farming.
regenerativefarming #organicfarming #certifiedhumane
www.sunworksfarm.com
IG: sunworks_farm
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Sunworks Farm operates out of Armena, Alberta. Since 1997 Sunworks Farm provides has proudly raised some of Alberta’s finest organic livestock including Certified Organic, Certified Humane meats.
The Two Nobodys set up a series of discussions that will focus on possibly the most disruptive industrial revolution to date. Enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence via deep learning, robotics, autonomous transportation, the internet of things, nanotechnology, and quantum computing could turn each economic sector on its head. It’s already happening – so join Kyle and Rupesh for this primer!
Joshua (Teen Jesus Barbie) engages with Rupesh of the Two Nobodys in a human-to-human conversation about being a drag performer, the community and culture surrounding it, and the personal journey Joshua goes through with himself and his family. The space is safe and there is plenty to learn and understand – join us!
drag #dragqueen #dragculture #dragart #dragperforming
Find Joshua Carter:
Instagram: @teenjesusbarbie
Website: https://www.healing-connections.ca/ or https://www.partyqueens.ca/talent
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Joshua Carter (aka Teen Jesus Barbie) is a local business owner, adjunctive health practitioner and Drag Queen, all rolled into one. Joshua has been a practicing RMT for 14 years, and currently combines body work with other trainings he has studied, such as CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, and Algonquin Energy Medicine. He is currently part of a practitioner owned and operated clinic in Downtown Edmonton, Healing Connections Wellness Centre. Joshua's curiosity in the unseen, energetic and spiritual aspects of life continue to inspire his exploration of the physical manifestation of wellness.
The art and expression of Drag and gender fluidity has always been a part of his life. Joshua believes that, like Spirit, no one is confined by their body's assigned gender but in fact a perfect blend of both and neither. Drag is a platform to explore and express the dynamic human experience. To play with boundaries, to make light of limitations and to raise the energy of life through laughter and fun. There is no higher vibration than Love.
Dr. Scarlett Cooper joins the Two Nobodys for an insightful and fun conversation about all things nutrition. From the essential nutrition considerations for brain and gut health at different stages of a child’s development to omega-3 fatty acids to the top five do’s and don’ts – this episode has it all! There are even some nuggets in here for the adults!
For more information visit: http://www.drscarlettcooper.com/
nutrition #kids #teens #essentialfattyacids #caffeine
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Dr. Scarlett Cooper is a licensed naturopathic doctor in the province of British Columbia. With a strong background in nutrition, Dr. Cooper works with patients to build a foundation for health, complementing dietary and lifestyle approaches with additional naturopathic treatments. Dr. Cooper enjoys working with all patients who are interested in improving their health; in her clinical practice she has particular interest in digestive, thyroid, and skin conditions, hormone balancing, stress and weight management, and children's health.
Dr. Stuart McGill (renowned spine expert) has a conversation with Rupesh like no other. Understand how this master of the spine thinks and approaches his craft. He talks about his identity after retirement, the attack on science, mastery, having a clinical eye, standing desks, and the role of tech in low-back pain.
Have back pain? Visit www.backfitpro.com
backpain #lowbackdisorders #stuartmcgill #mastery #highperformance #clinician #trainer
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Stuart McGill is Professor Emeritus (Spine Biomechanics, University of Waterloo) who authored over 240 scientific journal papers, 5 books, and mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. Investigations in the laboratory, training centre and research clinic probed back injury and pain mechanisms, rehabilitation approaches, and performance training. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on low back injury to various government agencies, many corporations and legal firms and hundreds of professional/international athletes and teams worldwide. He is regularly referred special patient cases from the international medical community for opinion.
Listen to this incredible discussion with Tim Grant as he reflects upon his decorated service with the Canadian Armed Forces and current leadership role within the Alberta Public Service. Tim opens up with the Two Nobodys to talk about service, leadership, masculinity, and fatherhood.
Watch the episode on Youtube!
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Tim Grant is a graduate of the University of Guelph. He enrolled in the Canadian Forces on graduation, retiring in 2008 as a Major-General. He has planned and led operations at home and abroad. He commanded the army in western Canada and Canadian troops in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
Tim has a strong background in policy development and program implementation. During his career, he interacted with all levels of government, from municipal to federal, both domestically and internationally. He is an Officer in the Order of Military Merit and was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General for his leadership in Afghanistan.
Tim joined the Alberta Public Service in August 2008 as an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Energy. He was responsible for electricity, alternative energy, and carbon capture and storage policies and programs. He led the Government’s response to the Slave Lake fires in May 2011. Tim was the Deputy Minister of Alberta Transportation from October 2011 to November 2012. He was appointed Deputy Solicitor General in December 2012 and on September 6, 2013, appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Solicitor General. On July 6, 2015, Tim was appointed Deputy Minister of Service Alberta. In May 2017, he was appointed Executive in Residence at the Alberta School of Business.
Tim returned to the Alberta Public Service in 2019 as the Public Service Commissioner.
From the basics of what hormones are, to the issues that arise when they're out of balance, to the phases of a woman's monthly cycle. Dr. Michelle Mackay Patel is with the Two Nobodys to talk all things hormonal health.
hormones #hormonalimbalance #naturopathicdoctor #endocrine
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Dr. Michelle Mackay Patel is Naturopathic Doctor who practices in Edmonton, Alberta. She completed her Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2013. Prior to that she received a Masters and Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo.
In practice she uses a variety of methods including nutrition, nutraceuticals, botanical medicine, lifestyle counselling, vitamin injections and IV therapy to help bring her patient's health into balance. She treats a variety of health concerns but has an interest in women's health, hormones, and digestion.
Sometimes you come across someone you heard of, who was controversial, that you end up making assumptions on, and never think to learn more about. Well we did have assumptions, and Heff definitely surprised us.
A discussion about Kyle's anxieties as him and his wife prepare for their second child - oh and it's happening soon!
We understand one another's top 3 reads that influenced us thus far as men, fathers, and leaders in our own regard.
Kyle's Reads
- Rocking Fatherhood: The Dad-to-Be's Guide to Staying Cool - Chris Kornelis
- Millionaire Teacher - Andrew Hallam
- The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Rupesh's Reads
- The Leader Who Had No Title - Robin Sharma
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts - Gary Chapman
- Oh Crap! Potty Training - Jamie Glowacki
Was Hygge just a fad from 2016 or is this Danish way of living needed more than ever with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? We explore what Hygge is and what it means to us as parents in navigating this unusual period in history.
Hygge #cozy #togetherness #presence #joyinsimplethings
COVID-19 is threatening the progress of including more women in the workforce, particularly at the formal leadership levels. We leverage some interesting research and our own upbringings to explore the challenges that women already face, but that are being compounded by this pandemic.
womeninleadership
As parents we are looking at team sports a bit differently... But are these new views enough to outweigh the benefits we know of, and those that are emerging as essential for our kids and as they mature into adults? The TWO NOBODYS weigh in. #sports #teamwork #groupthink #bodyimage #mistakes #leadership
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
The fears we have and risks we take seem to have changed our behaviour after becoming parents. We explore what's behind that and if there's anything we can do to support ourselves and our kids.
COVID has destroyed any ability for many of us to share a meal with people, so instead we dream about who our top five people would be to have dinner with - learning about each other in the process. Dream with us!
We focus on presence and how our fathers were always there - shaping us as as men and young dads.