The Shaun Proulx Show: Recent Episodes
Shaun Proulx
The Shaun Proulx Show is where stars come to shine. Whether interviewing A-list celebrities or the every-person, Shaun uses their stories of success, happiness, overcoming adversity, and personal achievement to uplift and inspire listeners across North America. Come have a #ThoughtRevolution about what’s possible for you and your life!
- Nicollette Pace debunks 5 big food myths.
- Controversial filmmaker Bruce La Bruce's new film Saint-Narcisse explores narcissism and (tw)incest.
- Theatre legend Brad Fraser opens up his life's journey from growing up dirt poor to becoming a global theatre sensation in his new memoir, All The Rage.
- Jason C. and his partner launched a lawsuit against their gay son's school that actively participated in the cruel bullying against him.
- Fashion lecturer and entrepreneur Mic Carter shares his non-binary clothing line - is this the future of fashion?
- Simon Rayek on new support for people 2-3x more likely to experience mental health issues.
- Jann Coppen introduces us to something magical: The Lumispa, a facial cleansing device that's making skin better for countless people around the world.
- Kass Falvo on how you can help your local pub win $25,000.
- Dr. Carole Leiberman on the friendship recession for men.
- Comic Yaw Attuah brings his experiences working as a black man in advertising and the arts to the stage.
- Dating expert Sammi Wunder talks about how "rotational dating" is empowering women everywhere.
- Love, Inc. superstar Simone Denny joins Shaun to share on their new weekly Instagram Live show, The Take!
- Alarming new data on conversion therapy suggests more Canadians have been put through conversion therapy than we knew.
- Special guest Priyanka, the winner of Canada's Drag Race, talks about her new single, and life after her big win.
- Are those who BS us smarter than us?
- 9,000 Canadians don't know they are HIV-positive.
- Viral Ted Talks legend Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on PTSD and how to manage it.
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1 Bestselling Author Vex King shares simple techniques to help with mental health during Covid times
- The new Audible podcast that shares the journeys of several people using positive psychology
- Elder abuse reports have soared during the pandemic
- We go behind the scenes of the making of Stephen King's, The Stand
The new summer read that takes you behind the scenes of broadcasting (yikes!) circa the 1980s (double-yikes!)
Meet the 17-year old behind the hot streetwear brand Oofii!
Legend Norma Kamali shares the wisdom of 75 years of living in her new book, "I Am Invincible."
#SummerOfYes is back!
- If You're Not Drinking Georgian Bay Spirits - You're Missing Out!
- A 12-Year Old Chef From TV's "Junior Chef Showdown" Shares His Cheese Secrets!
- One Of Canada's Top Mixologists Teaches How To Make The Perfect Caesar - Canada's National Drink!
- House music performer and label boss Melleny Melody looks back at 25 years helming Play Records, who first signed Deadmau5.
- What happens to our mental health when Instagram and Facebook stop showing "likes" on posts?
- America is the only country to hyphenate citizens by ethnicity before nationality - and there's a cost to that.
- A #ThoughtRevolution about success and failure can change your life.
- The new breaking news site explores everything from cryptocurrencies to UFO secrets.
- Musical guest Melanie Durrant gives us a listen to her hot new single, "Listen."
- How Canadians can get free tech training
- Meet the first black female owner of a nationally recognized sports leave
- The 2021 Sex Now Survey now includes rapid HIV testing
- Singer / songwriter Satya is back with a brand new single
- How to rise when you've hit rock bottom
- Why vaccinating developing nations will save our economy
- k.d. lang is getting an INSPIRE Award
- Carole Pope is back with new music from lockdown
- Can you speak up safely at the office?
- A Tao Grandmaster on how to create more love, peace and healing in the world
- We feed our collective obsession with all things real estate with two local pros.
- Get a better understanding of autism
- A brave share about trauma and its aftermath
- Singer-songwriter Maggie Szabo reaches for the top
- Why we want to keep our noses clean during Covid
- The app that rids negativity from your feed (and pays you money)
- An expert's wellness tips on how to get up when life pulls you down
- Why we're cleaning our noses
- The new social app you can tailor for your mental wellbeing
- Pro tips for when life is hitting you hard
- Juno winner Billy Newton-Davis drops a new jazz EP!
- Ivana Santilli beautifully cover's Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now.'
- Alan Frew does The Beatles 'Hey Jude.'
- And we make space for emerging rock band Chance Of Reign.
- Learn how women in the workplace can bust out of catering to the boy's club and let their authentic selves shine
- The app that lets you visit renowned crime scenes like the Gianni Versace murder
- A transformational coach teaches us about letting go of things in life that no longer serve us
- Revolution Capital's Loren Shiffrin shares how he's outperformed during the Covid crisis
- Employees: humans or numbers — what's the modern answer?
- You may not be able to travel, but your taste buds can.
- Cocktails that keep you awake.
- And what is a god-shaped hole?
- A Black Lives Matter photographer's work lands in Time magazine.
- Learn about conscious economics - is this the future?
- And hear the story of one many who survived conversion therapy.
- How to organize your life now for when you’re not around later;
- Why men love bad girls and what good girls can learn from them;
- Eight foods that fight wrinkles;
- And we take you to Nairobi for an intimate look at a man in love in a country where you can be beaten to death for it.
We celebrate one woman's story of achieving wellbeing following years of mental health and addiction challenges.
How can you feel motivated during Covid10? Tips from an expert.
And how is Sean Cribbin now? As a new documentary emerges on the man who escaped death at the hands of serial killer Bruce McArthur, Shaun and Arlene Bynon — who first broke the Cribbin story — catch up with Cribbin and find out what happened as he began his life anew.
With guests, Tracy Armstrong, Dr. Wayne Pernell, and Sean Cribbin. Also appearing: Arlene Bynon.
What is the role of faith and prayer as the world struggles through a pandemic?
What role does gut health play in Covid-19?
Also: Meet a community of substance users and learn of their challenges during pandemic times and find out what true leadership style looks like thanks to Covid. Hint: It's called "Human Leadership."
Guests: Reverend Michael Coen, Dr. Sapna Makhija, Jordan Bond-Gorr, and Leslie Strong.
What's the secret ingredient (hint: it's from the kitchen) in Yellow Beauty that is changing skin and lives around the world?
We catch up with Canadian songstress Maggie Szabo as she continues to take the music world by storm
And, Dr. Lynda Ulrich shares wisdom from her new book to help make your online experience negativity free. It's easier than you think!
In this Shaun Proulx Show, we ask: What is transformation? There's no one who wouldn’t like to grow, improve, and transform. So sit down with Shaun's transformational coach, Alison Crosthwait, and learn about what transformation is exactly. Alison shares her personal transformation journey from Wall Street trader to changing people’s lives in a frank, one-on-one. Learn more at AlisonCrosthwait.com.
It’s not that often that LGBTQ people are counted but here’s a time when that’s happening. We talk with Dr. Nathan Lachowsky about the study currently underway looking at the effects of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ community in Canada; this is fascinating stuff.
This episode's special guest is the remarkable and inspiring activist, Chong Kim, author of the book, Broken Silence (IamChongKim.com). Chong has spent the last twenty years working to put an end to sexual exploitation and human trafficking, a passion that emerged from her experience surviving child rape and human trafficking as a young adult.
A top chef and top bartender mix and match their creations using Woodford Reserve bourbon; get inspired with this sexy spirit!
Plus a podcast about the problems of people richer than you and a bonus: What does what you wore this Halloween say about your personality and mental health?
The Shaun Proulx Show takes you higher as we learn about terpenes and dab rigs as a young chemist takes us through the cannabis equivalent to a wine or scotch tasting.
Then, transformational expert Suzan Galluzzo shares her inspiring personal transformation story with advice for you if you’re looking to butterfly it out of your cocoon.
And Shaun gets called “Shady Shaun” by the delightful Tanya Sam of The Real Housewives of Atlanta when she hits the studio all impeccable and finds him bearing the gift of cookies. RHOA fans will get the joke, and everyone will love this chat about how the Canadian born Housewife is representing Canada in America.
On this episode of The Shaun Proulx Show, Shaun spills all the (psychedelic) tea, taking you along for the ride on his journey to personal transformation, with the transformational coach, Alison Crosthwait.
Besides shamanic energy clearing and other rituals, things get trippy as Shaun goes under the loving influence of the teaching plant known as mushrooms to open himself up to allow the next level of his dreams and goals. Think 'Law of Attraction' but on shrooms! It begs the question, "What can you do if you like the idea of transformation?"
Shaun is transforming and he’s enlisted the expertise of Alison Crosthwait to do it.
Alison is a transformational coach who uses physical emotional mental and spiritual release techniques such as breathwork and bioenergetics to help people eliminate stuckness and stress (this is the big one for Shaun!), to expand their dreams (yes!), to connect to their vitality, and make things happen.
This episode features Alison’s deep dive into Shaun’s life and where he wants to take it. Alison asked him questions on topics ranging from physical and mental health to goals and sexuality. Find out why that last one is so important!
Shaun has committed to six months of working with Alison and will share his journey on this Shaun Proulx Show podcast with the intention that it will perhaps inspire you on your journey.
After all, who doesn’t want to transform in some way?
Topics covered include:
- The Racism and Oppression Awareness Month is the initiative of a group of Black, Indigenous and People of Color involved with InterPride.
- The project will be implemented to express their support to the Black Lives Matter movement, but also to the whole Pride organizations and LGBTQI+ globally.
- Carlos discusses how, although over years, InterPride managed to bring together the LGBTQI+ communities around the world to celebrate our Pride, issues related to racism, oppression, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, unconscious biases have always been relevant. The organization has not been successful in addressing them.
- Carlos also shares why he feels the Covid-19 pandemic played a role in the global protests following the killing of George Floyd.
Cupcakes! Now that we have your attention, we spread the sweetness on thick on The Shaun Proulx Show when we find out what guest Langdon Logie learned about joy, baking free cupcakes for strangers, a random act of kindness during COVID-19.
Then it’s Sister Act time, when two of my favourites, Sarah and Charlotte Command of The Command Sisters share a sneak peek of their new single "I Like It" (I love it) and agree to disagree in a most sisterly fashion about living and working together in quarantine.
And special guest Douglas Vemeeren, producer and director of the new film When Thoughts Become Things, shares how your thoughts do become just that. This is a Law Of Attraction segment you won’t want to miss! Grab a cupcake and tune in!
Coming to your airwaves from glorious Ontarian cottage country this weekend, where, just south of where I am staying, a war is brewing on Pigeon Lake between cottage goers and Indigenous people.
Meet Drew Hayden Taylor, the filmmaker behind “Cottagers & Indians” the upcoming CBC POV documentary that explores the ongoing battle over — of all things — wild rice.
Then, meet one of the co-founders of one of my favourite apps: Every Widening Circles — I start my morning with it. Lisel Ulrich is changing the media landscape with a commitment to sharing the countless good news and positive stories that exist in the world. We are what we consume and if you’re on a steady diet of bad news, you’ll want to widen your media circle after hearing this story.
PS: This is NOT looking at life through rose-coloured glasses!
At last we get back into the studio and back to reality radio as emerging rock band Pterodactyl Problems take us behind the scenes of what it’s been like for the musicians in these COVID-times and how they managed to produce a new track, which we get an advance listen to.
Then: Long-term survivors, Shari Margolese and Ron Rosenes, two legends in the HIV/AIDS world, share the chilling comparisons between the AIDS pandemic and COVID-19, plus the lessons we can learn and apply to COVID-19 from what we know from AIDS. It’s a COVID-19 conversation you’ve not heard before.
Let’s confront our demons and then talk LOVE! We share a classic episode of The Shaun Proulx Show - curated especially for these Covid19 times, where isolation is tricky for some. Isolating means so much more than just staying inside. It’s going inside. And that can get fugly.
Guest Paul Desbaillets is a man who goes inside regularly; he confronts a demon daily. Hear how coming eye to eye with your shadow means owning it with Paul’s inspiring story.
And then we welcome Wendy Williams Watt, who wrote the word LOVE on a ball one day and ended up creating a powerful, beautiful global movement. Her story is a perfect complement to the outpouring of love we’ve seen since the pandemic began, towards each other, towards frontline workers, and, I hope, towards ourselves.
A classic episode of The Shaun Proulx Show - #ThoughtRevolution radio reframed for these Covid-19 times.
This week I want to share with you an episode from two summers ago we called “These Things Are Not Who You Are.” It’s about the labels we choose to accept from others and self-assign and features Darren Stehle, a life coach who refuses to be defined by his bank balance, his past, or his current circumstances, as well as Allysa Bertram, a proudly sober CEO who refuses the label “alcoholic”.
As the pandemic continues to keep most of us in isolation it means that most of us have a lot of time to think. Why not consider the labels you’ve let yourself and others associate you with? When we return to normal, will you bring all these labels with you? Or can you leave some of them behind, to let a new you emerge?
It’s so easy to take the freedoms we have for granted, or it was, wasn’t it, until the Covid-19 pandemic came along? We are cut off from our family, our friends, our lovers, and urged to even keep going out for groceries to a once a week affair. Something Germans knew the feeling of, for four decades, when a wall divided East and West until finally coming down three decades ago last fall.
I had the opportunity to visit Germany on the eve of this remarkable world-changing event’s 30th Anniversary celebration, and in this classic episode of the Shaun Proulx Show we’ll hear from a former spy, an escapee, Germans who were but young kids at the time, and the Canadian grad student who accidentally stumbled upon the celebrations 30 years ago, long before something called a Coronavirus created invisible walls globally for us all to cope with, cut off now as we are.
As Covid-19 builds walls that cuts societies around the globe off from family and loved ones and simple things like running errands, we re-share this classic episode of the SPS about a country that 30 years ago was divided in half, its citizens separated from their loved ones as we are today.
Shaun recalls the time he visited a women’s shelter in Patterson, New Jersey with Real Housewife Dolores Catania. He shares the stories of the magnificent women there, struggling to see themselves in any kind of light.
It’s a must-listen for dog lovers, especially if you’re like me and had dog sledding on your bucket list. SledDogs director Fern Levitt guests and reveals the shocking truths in her documentary about this inhumane tourist activity that will make the animal-lover-in-you want to rise and take action.
The show then takes a brighter turn as transformational expert Suzan Galluzzo shares her inspiring personal transformation with advice for you if you’re looking to butterfly it out of your cocoon. Next, I get called “Shady Shaun” by the delightful Tanya Sam of Real Housewives of Atlanta when she hits the studio all impeccable and finds me bearing the gift of …. cookies. RHOA fans will get the joke, and everyone will love this chat about how the Canadian born Housewife is representing Canada in America.
Aboriginal medium Shawn Leonard stars in “Spirit Talker” on ATVN and brings my late father onto the show this weekend. Pass the Kleenex. (If you miss this episode, watch Shawn bring my dad forward on my new YouTube channel - link in bio; like share subscribe please!).
We get to meet Ciaran Neely, the Pterodactyl Problems band member (“the smart one”) not introduced in our first Reality Radio episode last month. This second episode sees at least one band member on the verge of losing his mind. Find out who and why, and join us as we track four people in pursuit of their dream.
Are Canadians really that nice? Debatable, but our ignorance is off the charts where HIV and AIDS are concerned; you’d think it was the 1980’s, not 2020.
Surveys done by Toronto's HIV Hospital and hospice, CaseyHouse show that 50% of Canadians would be nervous to come in contact with someone with HIV; 50% would not eat food an HIV-positive person touched or was near; many incorrectly believe HIV could be transmitted through skin-to-skin touch, saliva, or by sharing glasses or cutlery.
On this episode of The Shaun Proulx Show we #SmashStigma as Joanne Simons, CEO of Casey House, joins me, along with HIV-positive chef Greg Robinson to talk truth about HIV and AIDS ahead of their upcoming event, June’s HIV+ Eatery, where the meals are all prepared by chefs just like Greg.
We’ll also learn about the incredible stories awaiting in the new podcast by Casey House, Positively Speaking, with host, social worker Liz Creal.
Plus, a flashback to the time a not-so-nice Canadian made Joanne and I want to hit her with a car. One way to smash stigma.
In this episode, Shaun Proulx has a conversation with Allegra Wiesenfeld about a candle that “smells like my penis” that confronts the gender pay gap and is hijacking the conversation Gwyneth Paltrow started with her “smells like my vagina” bougie offering.
Then we explore one person’s long journey from mental health issues that controlled their life to making their dreams a reality.
Supermodel, Paul “Fashion Santa” Mason comes to talk to us fresh from his Paris Fashion Week triumph where he closed iconic French designer Jean-Paul Gauthier’s final show ever, his late mother with him all the way down the runway.
Reality radio! For the next year, each month we go behind the scenes to see what it’s really like when you decide you want to be a rockstar. Emerging rock band Pterodactyl Problems are going for their dreams and sharing their reality – first summer tour! In this exclusive radio first, meet 3 of the band’s members this weekend in a riotous intro episode that includes a preview of their cover of Adele’s Hello.
Last, but never least, I’m back in flirty, dirty and real conversation with a legend. Michelle DuBarry, queericon and focus of the #GetHerOnEllen campaign, shares her truth about loneliness, and the time she fell down the stairs in a fox stole.
Reinvention, solutions for trauma, and how YOU can help from up here as the Australian wildfires continue to rage Down Under – all this weekend on a super new Shaun Proulx.
You loved Brian Falduto in School Of Rock. Now, “the gay kid” opens up about the years of bullying and abuse he suffered after the hit movie was released, and how he turned that trauma into empowerment and reinvented himself as a life coach. He also talks about his soon-to-debut new single.
JP Michaels was handed a full menu of challenges and trauma and in his healing from within became a style icon on the outside. He shares his wisdom with us this episode.
Katrina Cavanaugh is a change architect in Australia and her “Kindness On Purpose” empathy movement is creating a massive impact in schools across the country. But, as the wildfires there continue to devastate, she is taking her therapist tools to social media to share how and why something so simple as water can have massive impact on ANYONE who suffering PTSD.
She also shares how we here in North America can help aid those who have and are suffering because of the ongoing fires. This is for schools, parents, teachers and kids, so share this one widely – you won’t believe how simple it is to help.
We kick off Season 7 with a bang of a show.
How you can help end the dog meat trade in South Korea; a new podcast I am triple-loving launches Monday that explores counterculture versus pop culture; and how the epidemic of trans murders is seen and affects an every day trans woman – her point of view after losing a third trans friend this tragic way.
Imbibe and savour the flavours of this weekend’s Shaun Proulx Show, I do; awkwardly on air all to help YOU make better entertaining, hosting and toasting happen this holiday season.
An army of food and bevy pros take over the studio - Woodford Reserve ambassador I wish would marry me Taylor Corrigan; Chef Jason Rees ,and lifestyle expert Sherri Zillinski - ready to do holiday battle with easy cocktails (pina colada with a twist; bourbon and apple cider) and delicious treats inspired by the poem “Twas The Night Before Christmas.) Even your bored cheese board gets a clever makeover to dazzling status.
But before all that, we taste $1600 rum with the delightful Billy Killin, the drinks expert extraordinaire returns (wearing a special shirt just for photos ‘cause he didn’t like last visit’s pics.) An episode so good you’ll want to eat it and have seconds.
Light - Heavy - Light. That is the theme of this week’s Shaun Proulx Show. Life may seem all light sometimes, like a “who cares, throw your hands up in the air” popsong, but then, inevitably, the heavy comes along; the “real life." And when that happens, there are those people who get sucked down into the vortex of heavy and never climb out - and then there are those who push through until Friday and live to see light at the other side when the weekend comes.
We explore that idea this weekend on The Shaun Proulx Show when choreographer, Melissa JJ Moore explains how it was an email from strangers who found her dance show, “Light Heavy Light” to be life changing. That caused her to bring it back to the stage next month.
And then, special guest Kim Wheatley joins us. She is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe Grandmother from Shawanaga FirstNation Reserve who carries the spirit name Head or Leader of the Fireflower and is TurtleClan shares her Indigenous knowledge with us about perspective, hope, and conscious living in trying times.
Renowned plant medicine expert Dr. Cass Ingram returns just in time for the cold and flu season - now’s the time to prevent getting sick this winter. He’s an original - tune in!
We’re also organized for the holidays - at least where stress is concerned. The vivacious Taylor Kaye joins us, complete with a necklace straight off a Real Housewives aside - with her tips on how to not stress out this upcoming season of merry.
And then – I love this woman so much! Special guest Lorraine Segato joins us right on time for the induction into Canada’s Singer Songwriter Hall of Fame of “Rise Up” , the classic empowerment anthem from Segato’s Parachute Club days. The sexy songstress shares memories of making that song on the fly, how she got over the feeling of “do I have to sing this again?” and the time the Parachute Club got booked for a gig in a strip club. You won’t believe what she wore!
Shaun Proulx comes to you from Germany for this special episode marking the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
Shaun shares incredible stories from a dark time in global history that offer hope for dark times now:
- The man who swam Berlin’s River Spree to escape in the middle of the night;
- The young, world-class athlete who became an informant, and;
- The Canadian who, as a young man, stumbled by happenstance into the reunification celebrations shares his memories of one of history’s most important times among them.
Enjoy this special edition of #ThoughtRevolution Radio about the pursuit of freedom and what that truly means to humanity.
Shaun Proulx speaks with guest Darrell Schuurman of the Canadian Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Next, we learn about TD’s leadership partnership with the Chamber. Darrell also shares the good word about CGLCC’s young entrepreneurship program and why it’s important to support queer businesses.
Opera great, Constantine Meglis stars in “Frankenstein The Opera” in Ottawa October 31 & November 1. We talk about being of enormous stature a la Dr. Frank this weekend on the happiest radio show in the world.
If you are suffering loss and hardship, get inspired, as guest Stevvan Anderson shares how it was a personal tragedy that actually led him to his calling as an artist. As Melissa Etheridge once said to me: “Life happens for you, not to you.”
And if your past still weighs heavy on you, hear how Martine Roy took hers and made something great from it. Discharged from the Canadian military because she is a lesbian, she co-led the successful bid for restitution and recognition for herself and all the other LGBT members of the army who had experienced the same shameful treatment.
Meet the man who has turned Montreal Black & Blue for 29 years in order to save and heal lives.
Meet the woman I KNEW WAS GOING TO BE AMAZING TO CHAT WITH and get down with us for some beauty duty!
Then: This doctor tells us that we may be closer than we know to cure heroin/opioid addiction and helping those suffering from acute anxiety.
And I love this one - full disclosure, I used to mentor him under the Big Brothers program 25+ years ago: Meet the jeweller giving away 100 pieces of his hand made creations in his #100DaysOfKindness initiative.
Fall in love this autumn with getting #FinanciallyFit! I am (I still haven’t bought those LV boots I saw this week.)
TD Bank’s Al Ramsay’s LGBTQ+ leadership has led him to Thailand - what he knows for sure since the experience. And holiday spending pressure starts early - why not your $$ planning? TD wealth advisor Nishaa Agarwal shares why and how to budget today for upcoming months of spend-spend-spend will keep you #FinanciallyFit into 2020.
Then, from Berlin: political journalist Eric Hamus on how he recalibrated his Trump-filled life by walking away … for hundreds of miles along the legendary Appalachian Trail.
And meet the actor playing a woman in love with … a health food store? Don’t blink - you never know what to expect when ThoughtRevolution radio takes over.
Samantha Brookes faced a cash flow crunch once too often as an entrepreneur and has written a new book of tips and tricks called, “Cash is Queen”.
Remember my fast friend from my Facebook Live from a TIFF party last weekend? No? Hit my Official Shaun Proulx Facebook page and you’ll find out why I instantly loved her! Kathryn Aboya is a local actress who does more than just rock a hat and veil (okay, you just saved yourself watching that FB Live) and I have her on to talk about divine timing, giving up big careers and also try and get cast in her new movie.
Then, Bill Bissett is one of my favourite people in the world: renowned Canadian poet, storyteller, musician and pretty much a real-life Peter Pan. We talk about his new book “Breth” and his unique outlook on life on Planet Earth.
Montreal! Bonne Fierté! Happy #Pride!
The Shaun Proulx Show comes to you from sexy, smart Montreal this weekend.
Local luminary Richard Burnett gives us Montreal 101; singer Satya (#gaycrush alert!) shares her #SummerOfYes and we get #FinanciallyFit Montreal Pride style, talking diversity, inclusion, Pride dreams and big-vision with TD Bank’s Al Ramsay, Martine Roy, and the great and glorious Steve Yan.
And yeah, a few tears are shed somewhere in the middle of it all. Good thing it’s radio so you can’t see the ugly-cry!
In this edition of #SummerOfYes we take you to Chicago (I love you Chicago!) and the hotel that stunned me in such a big, great way that I just had to share. Think “lobby porn”.
Then, meet the derring-dos behind the blow-your-mind wallpaper company, Fine & Dandy, and hear their inspiring story about making their design dreams real.
We’re also joined by the painter Karen Klucowicz who will inspire the artist in you to do more of what you love as she shares how she said YES to her passion.
It’s been a long journey for Eric DeCou. This story is for anyone who has faced a health challenge. Find out how saying YES, despite the ups and downs he faced after being gripped by a mysterious illness, has seen him coming out a happy and healthier winner.
A super new Shaun Proulx Show this weekend takes YOUR questions and a big one I have as we get #FinanciallyFit with TD Bank’s Al Ramsay and Nishaa Aggarwal.
And meet the 19-year old aspiring rapper who has more emotional intelligence, understanding of how the Universe works who not only a #SummerOfYes kind of guy but a #LifeYes guy too. He’ll knock your socks off, I guarantee it.
Get inspired to make your #SummerOfYes the hottest one ever this weekend on The Shaun Proulx Show on SiriusXM 167.
My three Yes Guests include Céline Peterson, who said YES to never living in the shadow of her legendary father, jazz great Oscar Peterson.
The jazziness continues with broadcaster Garvia Bailey, who said yes to being captain of her own ship, co-founding JazzCast.ca.
Not sure if Laura Tucker is a jazz gal or not, but the leadership coach is back for a third summer, with her #SummerOfSelfCare - who would say no to loving yourself?
These gentlemen bring you Pride and #SummerOfYes cocktails that are easy, a step away from the usual, and may cause you to think you are funnier than you actually are after you’ve had a couple.
Everybody loves to hear me drink on the radio and you get to once more on this weekend’s super new Shaun Proulx Show.
Get these refreshing summer recipes here.
“Fashion fades. Only style remains the same.” - Coco Chanel
In this episode, Shaun talks with Stylist, Soneca Guadara and bespoke clothier, Marlon Durant about,
- What IS style?
- Are style and fashion the same things?
- Is style something you have or can you learn it?
- What YOU can do to dial up the style you’ve got!
Dave Long join Shaun for a sexy, smart and sometimes silly chat about the power of style in your life, and get actionable style wisdom from three people who reek of it.
“You can have anything you want. If you dress for it.”
Edith Head
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Paul Desbaillets is managing his demons by looking them square in the end and giving them a one-two-punch in the head – metaphorically speaking – we don’t condone violence. Find out how he is using this experience to help others, along with me, in Montreal next weekend. Salut!
I fell in love with our next guest, Wendy Williams Watts, and her accidental big love offering that has become an Oprah-endorsed global movement right when the world needs it most. This woman is perfection. Come feel the LOVE.
Learn how fashion and design were brilliantly used to help educate and create awareness about something we all need to know about: osteoporosis. It can or will affect you or someone you know.
Then: I just love Drea Kelly. The dancer, choreographer and mother opens her heart and spirit with me. She shares with us how she went from surviving to thriving after nearly ending her life by suicide, after the emotional, physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of the sad, headline-making fallen R&B star, RKelly.
Conversations for the mind and heart – have a #ThoughtRevolution.
Men aren’t always welcome or permitted in a women’s shelter. Just before Christmas last year, my friend Dolores Catania, a force of nature with a big heart and a strong sense of service (you may know her from The Real Housewives of New Jersey), was able to bring me inside a shelter she supports in Paterson, New Jersey, that houses women and their children who have fled domestic violence.
I met several women, long-term devoted leaders of the shelter, and current residents, some with young ones, and I was honoured and humbled that the residents I spoke to shared their powerful stories with me around the shelter’s kitchen table.
I hope this episode of The Shaun Proulx Show helps keep our awareness of domestic violence on high so that we can break cycles, help one another, and not be ashamed if violence in the home happens to me or you. And not stigmatize others when we learn of their circumstances.
I left the shelter that cold night aware of how lucky I am. You will probably feel renewed appreciation for your life as well when you listen to this episode. I also felt renewed knowing that very little separates us. Superficial things do, but we all want to feel loved, safe, cared for, appreciated and seen. To feel that we matter.
We are all stars just wanting to shine.
Special thanks to Dolores (xo) and to the extraordinary women you’ll meet on this very special Shaun Proulx Show. May each of your stories have a happy ending.
Shaun celebrates Canadian music and talks with talented Canadian musicians for the entire hour.
Pop/R&B singer Satya (from Montreal) tells us about her start being adopted from across the world to her journey with alcoholism, and what it means to her that her single, “Maybe We Should”, has hit the US charts too. Click here for the sublime video.
Newfoundland folk/pop duo, Quote the Raven (Jordan Coaker & Kirsten Rodden-Clarke) are a “Mary Chapin Carpenter” with a Maritime vibe and a man who chucked it all to pursue this dream.
The Command Sisters: Charlotte, Sarah and Shaun (honorary.) I dressed to match their red/black/white brand – I love these two that much. They shared what it’s like to work together as sisters, and being bullied for not assimilating. Such a soft spot for these two!
Simone Denny wraps up the show. She talks about her career, making an impact outside of Canada, and about her new single, “Twilight For Some”, available everywhere.
Executive producer and friend of the show Devon Franklin discusses the Easter weekend opening of his new movie about miracles, Breakthrough. Franklin also authored this year’s tome, “The Truth About Men”.
Gay leadership coach, Darren Stehle, host of the Living OUT Podcast, and editor of my magazine, TheGayGuideNetwork.com, says one truth he knows about gay men is that many don’t know how to be men. Find out what he means.
Deborah Cox is the person I have interviewed most in my nearly 20-year media career. We tête-a-tête one more time on The Shaun Proulx Show. Find out what brings her back to Toronto, what it's like for her living in Trump's America, on being inspired and mentored by Whitney Houston, receiving awards, and more!
My pal, Canadian Optician Zahra Lavji also joins me in the studio for a Kleenex-clenching-tale that you could not make up – from her bold, first solo-travel trip, to where she was born when her parents fled Idi Amin's Uganda in the 1970s.
YOUR questions answered on an all-new Shaun Proulx Show where we get #FinanciallyFit with TD Bank’s Al Ramsay and Nishaa Agarwal. Nishaa tackles audience questions as Al shares his inspiring #ForeverProud moments.
Then things get sticky when I chat with the feisty Aussie co-creators of the international theatre movement, Hot Brown Honey. And back by popular demand, my chat with James Geary, author of the wonderful, much-needed tome, Wit’s End. Funny ha-ha and funny peculiar!
It’s RSP Season and the deadline Is March 1st!
In this month’s edition of #FinanciallyFit, TD Bank’s, Al Ramsay, National Manager of LGBTQ2+ Business Development shares why he and his team have been so active attending events in Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, and promoting upcoming events in Calgary and Toronto.
Orlando Lopez, Financial Planner, discusses some of the misconceptions about RSPs that make some people nervous at this time of the year, because they’re "forced" to take a deeper dive into their finances.
Almost time for my Mid-Day Squares snack – stolen, given, purchased – this is my new favourite snack to attack these days, and these three beautiful people hit The Shaun Proulx Show studio from Montreal to serve not just the super fun story of their superfood chocolate business, but shiny bright radio gold.
47 laughs, one marriage proposal, 2 headset throw-downs, and one answer before the question was asked. PLUS how the deaths of two fathers helped two of us in the room soar. Oh yeah, and one of them dressed Lady Gaga! The year is young, but this is one of my favourite things in 2019.
Humour is the antidote! When you can laugh at things that have caused you great pain, you have power over them. We talk about humour and wit with author, James Geary and his latest book, "Wit's End".
Valentine's Day is almost here!
Do you live life heart-first? Our guests are changing the world for the better, because for them, it starts with the heart. Katherine and John Vellinga, the Canadian husband and wife team behind Zirkova Vodka, talk about the quality they put in to their vodka and how their “spirit” brings a new kind of love to the global equality table.
Then, Casey House CEO Joanne Simons shares why acts of the heart ripple beyond what anyone is able to see. Come have a #ThoughtRevolution with us on this #ShaunProulxLovesYou edition of the acclaimed Shaun Proulx Show. 💜
Entrepreneur, Garrett Swann talks about vision boards, success, and more.
Matchmaker Aviva Reimer has some tips to help the single folks out there find their special match.
Filmmaker Mani Nasry talks about his years-long journey to complete his passion project, the film “We” about Canada, culture clashes, love, and more.
Let's get #FinanciallyFit! How was your holiday season? Did you stay within your budget or overspend?
I may have failed grade 10 math but I sure love numbers now! And I give credit where credit is due: The Shaun Proulx Show and TD Bank’s monthly #FinanciallyFit segment brings joy, laughs, fun and wise financial talk that all of us can relate to.
Al Ramsay, Nishaa Agarwal, and Orlando Lopez join me in this episode to discuss how to mend any damage done to your finances post-holidays. I also chat with entrepreneur, Garrett Swann about why a vision board is also a kind of financial plan.
An Unsafe Space is a new play by writer and director Richard Klagsbrun that premiered at the Tranzac Club in Toronto. Shaun Proulx speaks with Klagsbrun and co-stars Precious Chong and Craig Lauzon
An Unsafe Space is a comedic play about free speech, censorship, and the ideologically-based suppression of ideas, as well as the stereotyping of people and their opinions based on their racial and ethnic identities.
Inspired by an actual event at a major North American university, the play addresses these concepts in a biting, irreverent way that entertains while acting as a stimulus for people to think about and confront their preconceptions.
Let's take a holiday… in Chernobyl? 10 ways that social media might be making you fat! And how to beat the winter blues using plant-based medicines.
Sing along with me now! “We are going on a summer holiday / If you want to go, yo, Sven / We're going to London and New York City / And we take a little piece of #Chernobyl”
CUT! Who in tarnation holidays at the site of the world’s biggest, worst nuclear disaster ever? Shaun Proulx Show Travel Expert, Sabrina Pirillo, that’s who!
Get your glow on with Joey Dwek, weight-loss expert, and Dr Cass Ingram, Nutritional Physician, as #ThoughtRevolution radio begins a brand new year of fun, funny and entertaining thought-provocation.
Your favourite #FinanciallyFit folks are looking back on the very awesome 2018 they had together. You aren’t going to get money talk that includes laughs, tears, and a melatonin accident anywhere else but The Shaun Proulx Show!
Then: we’re helping you be a bigger star than you already are with help from a New Jersey cop, Louis Spagnola and Toronto mixologist, Billy Killin!
I suddenly needed to dance, to bust a move, to trip the light fandango (but catch the light fandango before it hit the ground.) Why? It’s just how good Billy Killin is at his job as one of the top mixologists in my city. He proved it yet again when he upped the ante (auntie?) on the classic Canadian Caesar with a special ingredient.
FashionSanta! One year after his annus horribilis, supermodel Paul Mason has the last ho-ho-ho.
I have never seen supermodel Paul Mason not impeccably dressed. #FashionSanta is back on The Shaun Proulx Show following a year of #ThoughtRevolutions and he’s raising money for sick kids this holiday season. How? Hotel rooms and not so silent nights! Yes, we are still flirty and no, he still has not moved on that dinner he invited me to. There, Paul, now our dirty laundry is airing publicly!
And Why Does Cheese Scare You? Chef Kendall Collingridge melts our fears in time for the 12 Days Of Cheesemas. Plus! Serve The Best Turkey In The World This Holiday Season!
It is World AIDS Day and this year we are at Healing House in Toronto, Casey House’s pop-up spa with 100% HIV+ healers. Would you book a treatment? #SmashStigma
Shaun Proulx speaks with Tammy C Yates, Executive Director of Realize Canada (Proux is also a member of the board) and Valerie M Jones about the challenges that charities face with fundraising. Soprano, Maureen Batt gives Shaun a lesson in Opera.
Reality doesn't bite! Shaun Proulx's #ThoughtRevolution radio continues as he's joined in conversation by two smart and open-hearted guests.
Freelance journalist Sarah Hanlon won Big Brother Canada 3, was my 24 Hours co-columnist, and is a smart, sassy, opinionated marijuana activist. Was Canada making pot legal a non-starter? What’s with “not showing the flower” in advertising? Can we smoke on-air? We get her ideas in this post-pot legalization world Canada is now part of.
And what's it like to be a Real Housewife? Say what you want, you gotta be en pointe to do this job. Real Housewife of New Jersey star, Dolores Catania shares what's ahead on Season 9. We learn more about her life that many haven’t seen on screen.
Mentorship makes the world grow and improve. This week we talk to Matthew Chater, CEO of Big Brothers and Big Sisters Canada, about how they stay modern in ever-changing times. We surprise him with a blast from my past: my “Little Brother” Vinash, from the 1990s when I volunteered as a Big Brother for four years.
Then, we get #FinanciallyFit with TD Bank’s Al Ramsay, learning about the mentoring of LGBT entrepreneurs. October is smallbusiness month and Niisha Aggarwal gives us tips and advice all small business owners can use, right now.
This Thanksgiving weekend I'd like to say a special thanks to YOU! Thank you for supporting my work and my message.
This episode of The Shaun Proulx Show featuring one of my heroes: trans icon, Mandy Goodhandy, and the soon-to-be "Taylor Swift of rock", Jessica Speziale – you know I'm rooting for her!
TheseThingsAreNotWhoYouAre is the theme this weekend on The Shaun Proulx Show. CEO Allysa Bertram does not identify with the term alcoholic but is proud to be sober.
Life Coach, Darren Stehle joins us to discuss how it is a huge detriment when you live your life thinking that you are your problems, for example, your past, your bank account balance, your circumstances, and so on.
Do you know how sometimes you wake up in the morning with a real genius idea? Hear the story of how Andy Burns' book, "This Dark Chest of Wonders: 40 Years of Stephen King's The Stand" came to be with just such a beginning (and be inspired to pay more attention to YOUR genius).
We'll also learn how we can be even more beautiful with New You Spa's Jeff Nourse – he's even got a health treatment for your dog!
And special guest, Canadian Olympian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis shares what it was like to come out as a lesbian before competing in the Sochi Games, and takes us into the minds and hearts of her fellow Olympians with her new podcast, Players Own Voice.
Gotstyle owner and founder, Melissa Austria will inspire you to make your burning dreams come true by sharing what she did to celebrate a big birthday and then shares the lessons she’s learned after over a decade running one of Toronto’s most popular men’s wear stores and fields questions about fall fashion and style.
Then it’s #FinanciallyFit time! Let the success of Al Ramsay’s #ForeverProud rainbow tour motivate YOU to make great things happen at your work and let financial planner Orlando Lopez help you get back on track if your summer spending has knocked your 2018 financialgoals too far off path.
The incomparable Molly Johnson joins us to talk about her best album ever (I say), embracing the gray, and is it time for another Kumbaya? Legend alert indeed.
Then, a legend in the making Maggie Szabo is making waves with her powerful video for her single “Don’t Give Up” featuring the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. I'm talking success, authenticity and pursuing passion with a young woman I admire so much and bet you do too by the time show’s over.
We go back, Molly Johnson and I, and I can’t tell you with mere words how much I love this national treasure and Order Of Canada recipient. Her new album, I’ve Been Meaning To Tell Ya, is – no exaggeration – her best work ever. We catch up and talk making music, raising boys in a #MeToo world, whatever became of “Julien,” her Kensington Market Jazz Festival, and why I think another Kumbaya (her early AIDS-crisis concert fundraising response) should happen.
Read more about Molly Johnson in, Maggie Szabo – Don’t Give Up (On Love).
The Super Big, Super Fun, Annual Pride Edition Of The Shaun Proulx Show!
Our fearless #FinanciallyFit leader, Al Ramsay gets all emotional (it’s so good) and Rupert Hon of TD Bank shares from his unique position of having worked at the epicentre of gay Canada for seven years: what he witnessed, what he learned, and people stripping in broad daylight.
TD Bank sponsors an astonishing 83 Pride festivals across North America. I ask TD’s Al Ramsay what his response is to the long-uttered complaint that Pride has become too corporate. Wealth Advisor, Nishaa Agarwal gets us #FinanciallyFit because patio season is also break-the-bank season and her tips can help you avoid that.
Straight-acting versus being your authentic gay self. Darren Stehle is the editor of my digital magazine, TheGayGuideNetwork, and we discuss his article, Straight-Acting Gay Men And Internalized Homophobia.
Real Housewives-a-go-go! Don't miss noted Housewivesologist, Social Columnist, and author Shinan Govani’s first-ever in-depth rollicking analysis of the pop culture phenomenon you pretend to hate.
AIDSageism – Find out why our overall ageing population is at risk for HIV and AIDS, but meanwhile, a great number of people who have HIV and AIDS now are becoming the first generation to see old age.
The stigma, the invisibility, and what's being done so that long-term survivors are seen and heard and to prevent it all from growing into future reality. My guests Tammy C. Yates and Kate Murzin from Realize join us to inform, educate and share shocking stories from their frontline work.
Plus: Following the passing of Jeff Rustia, we revisit our last interview with the visionary founder of TOM (Toronto Men's Fashion Week).
The Opioid Crisis: A new initiative shares shocking stats and fights stigma. PLUS: A Long Day At Work: Millennials and loneliness and depression at the office.
Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, and Neil Patrick Harris are my guests as The Shaun Proulx Show comes to you from Vancouver and Los Angeles today.
What does my friend Scott McCracken know for sure about the pursuit of your dreams after managing acts like The Black Eyed Peas and The Fugees?
How my lovely pal, Garrett Swann, overcame The Gay Man's Curse (seeking validation from the outside) to become the person he wanted to be.
It's a #WisdomForYourLife episode of The Shaun Proulx Show and I thank these two fine men for their open-hearted sharing. This is some sexy, silly, and smart #ThoughtRevolution radio folks.
Today on The Shaun Proulx Show, we salute the people in this world who love something artistic or pop cultural so much they make it a part of their lives. Walls of coffee table books, six figures spent on artist memorabilia, and the Dynasty mansion… in your bedroom?
Join Al Ramsay and Nishaa Agarwal of TD Bank for this month's episode of #FinanciallyFit. Hear from Amber Gotzmester, a cosmetic tattoo artist who helps people regain their lives.
Irish food guru Clodagh McKenna says this was one of her favourite interviews ever and US porn star Chris Harder says his wasn't so bad, either! Join me for a super new Shaun Proulx Show - The Food and Sex Episode!
Canadian supergroup Glass Tiger never stopped and you can credit frontman Alan Frew’s passion, resilience, wisdom, and ability to find free parking for that.
As their new release, 31 (has it been that long since grade 12?), sees their major hits reimagined and a tour unfolds (got your tickets to Massey Hall June 23 yet?), I catch up with a man I love more than Joan Collins!
We break down what cryptocurrencies are with financier, Bonnie Hughes. Sabrina Pirillo talks S.Travel and eating live scorpions. Then Degrassi TV star, Ana Golja talks about becoming a recording artist.
How to make a killer first impression, the boy who brought down a bathhouse, and getting rid of toxic people!
In this episode we are speaking with speaker, author and coach Dr John Asher, writer Rolyn Chambers, and contributor to TheGayGuideNetwork.com Raquel Richards.
Why we are choosing to spend more time with our dogs over time with humans? Dr John Huber shares his tale-wagging insight.
The boy who shot the boy who asked him to be his Valentine – a conversation with playwright, Dave Deveau.
It's never too late! We talk to Coach Darren Stehle who just reinvented his coaching business with tips for you on how you can reinvent your life and business anytime.
We celebrate bold choices, entrepreneurship, beautiful living, and herstory in the making this weekend on The Shaun Proulx Show.
Join Stacey Broder, an expert on female and male energy, and the women behind Fine & Dandy Co, a design company that will change your life.
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Bo Derek, Rosie Perez, Suzanne Somers, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Molly Johnson, Jully Black, Jann Arden, Betty DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Jill Hennessy, and Kevin Stea.
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