Lady Hayes is a multi-faceted artist: She’s a social media influencer, she makes flowers crowns, she created a perfume, she’s a photographer and she’s a singer-songwriter. We talk about how she integrates her artistic approach into her life as a mother of two young daughters and how she’s been expressing herself through clothing since she was a child. She also shares simple wisdom for taking photographs and some fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into the ingredients in her perfume. “I have a...
Sep 16, 2020•50 min
Ryan Hennessey is Environmental Support Lead on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and has worked in environmental compliance in the oil & gas industry for over 20 years. He shares his firsthand experience of oil spill clean up and life in the oil patch. We also talk about his alter ego as a musician, his compulsion to build community through music and how being recognized as a pillar of the Fort St. John, BC musical community is deeply satisfying. (We also talk about his love of the hard ...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 3 min
I'm off. I'm camping. I'll be back next Wednesday with another great guest. Thanks for giving a shit. Rob --- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod...
Aug 26, 2020•2 min
Matthew De Zoete is an internationally touring singer-songwriter. We talk about his masterful lyrics, his writing process, growing up in a strict dutch community and his life living and working on his family farm. “I grew up in like a pop-culture vacuum, like there was no … it was only either CBC Radio 1 or 2 or it was some other classical or choral or organ music that my parents were listening to. There are certainly lots of those time where I feel like I should write a song, or I have this mus...
Aug 19, 2020•46 min
Jacob King does incredible custom wood work. We chat about his history as a musician, web + e-learning designer, recording studio owner and yoga instructor. We hear about his evolution from doing home renos to custom woodwork & furniture. He schools us on the term for the absurd urge we’ve all had to hurl ourselves off a balcony, and how that urge translates to a woodworking shop with deadly machines (“The Call Of The Void”). He also tells us why he hates sanding and uses a hand plane instea...
Aug 12, 2020•51 min
Milo Axelrod is a user experience designer, artist, creator & podcaster. They explain how so much of our technology does not respect us as users and how talking to strangers about sensitive topics can teach us a lot, especially if we focus on listening. We talk about their (incredible) podcast Describing A Rock and their propensity for precision and excruciating detail. We discuss both of us identifying as "on the spectrum" and how they were baffled by neurotypical people as a kid. We also d...
Aug 05, 2020•55 min
Beverly Kreller is owner of Speak Music Publicity, Artistic Director of the Speak Music Be Kind Festival and one half of the dustbowl duo Hotcha! We reminisce about her experience as an actor and wig maker at the Stratford & Shaw festivals and talk about her many roles in music: songwriter, musician, publicist and festival director. She also shares her thoughts on the healing power of music. “Many people say this, but it’s very true to me: The fact that it’s a healing thing. Whether it’s the...
Jul 29, 2020•56 min
Cal Brunker is the director & co-writer of Escape From Planet Earth and the upcoming Paw Patrol: The Movie among several others. We talk about his life making animated films, not mythologizing the creative process or waiting on inspiration, focusing on individual strengths in a co-writing team and two very different opening weekends he’s lived. “Being able to not mythologize the creative process is really helpful for younger people to be able to hear. It’s not that it’s a bolt from the blue ...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 7 min
The tables get turned as And Sometime Why host Rob Szabo takes the guest seat in this conversation from The Todd Donald Show. We delve into Rob’s motivation to get involved in podcasting and how podcast conversations subvert social conventions around intimacy. Todd also asks Rob if he’s happy about his life.(!) “Why I do the podcast is because in regular life there are certain social conventions that prevent you from really continually digging deeper and asking certain kinds of questions without...
Jul 15, 2020•39 min
And Sometimes Why celebrates its first half-year Podiversary by playing clips of every guest since episode #1. --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI --- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod...
Jul 08, 2020•28 min
Charlena Russell is founder of Russell Music School, vocalist, multi instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and artist. She shares her experience of teaching and learning life lessons from her students. We talk about her travels and how she infuses parts of her cultural backgrounds into her art including her sound activated light suit. She also shares her perspective on Black Lives Matter and her realization that she’s got more work and unlearning to do around systemic racism even as a self describe...
Jul 01, 2020•58 min
Howard Druckman is a music writer, editor of the SOCAN Words + Music magazine and one half of the dustbowl duo Hotcha! We talk about his history writing about music, his experience as Polaris Prize juror, how championing music he cares about energizes him and the time Madonna called him out onstage because of a piece he’d written about her. “I’ve been very, very lucky that I get to earn a living by listening to music and by talking to people who make it because that keeps me invested and excited...
Jun 24, 2020•49 min
Kerri Ough is a musician, writer, photographer, artist & self proclaimed archivist. She is 1/3 of the Juno-winning band The Good Lovelies. We talk about her life in music, how she’s been writing morning pages every day for over 20 years (to “get the goo out”) and how she’s been connecting with people through her group colouring project over the lockdown. We bond over mutual love of Derek Sivers’ ideas & discuss how journaling helps her discover meaningful change she wants in her life. “I...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 10 min
This week And Sometimes … Why? is observing the Podcast Blackout in support of The Black Lives Matter Movement. We’d like to direct you to the Scene On Radio Podcast Series “Seeing White” that explores what it means to be white. LINK: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white
Jun 10, 2020•5 min
Glodeane Brown writes the Culture Fancier blog and is programming & operations coordinator at CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area). We chat about her life being “arts adjacent” as she calls it, she extols the virtues of seeing art solo and shares insights about the power of art to change the way people see the world. “One of my favourite stories: I was at a panel and the director of the Aga Khan museum was there and she told a story about a firefighter that was there on a public...
Jun 03, 2020•40 min
Lobelia Lawson is a singer-songwriter, advocate of sustainable touring, curator of the positive songs project & head of programme implementation at the Better Points app. We talk about her life in music, grassroots touring as a new mother, how her husband helped her make & promote their breakup(which never happened) album, and how the lockdown has helped her write positive songs. “That’s the thing of art. We’re reaching for something. I have a compulsion to create. I never understand why...
May 27, 2020•59 min
Rebecca Black is founder and chief communicator at Black Current Marketing and co-founder of Women In Renewable Energy(WIRE). We talk about gender, feminism and sustainability. She explains how her values have evolved since her punk-rock roots and how the silver linings she sees in the COVID-19 experience make her feel hopeful. “I’m trying to use this time to reflect on what might be next. From a climate change perspective, there are silver linings in this really terrible scenario and one of the...
May 20, 2020•51 min
Peter Katz is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter and an in-demand public speaker. We talk about our shared history touring & making records, his compulsive focus and heroic work ethic. We also relive key moments in his last few years - including falling 100 feet off the edge of a cliff after which he was told he might never be able to walk again - and other adversity which he has funneled into inspiration. He also shares some great insights on public speaking, mindfulness and hold...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 37 min
Greg Oliver is a sports writer and pro wrestling aficionado. We talk about his evolution from distributing a homemade wrestling newsletter in high school to co-founding & producing the influential SLAM! Wrestling website to writing over a dozen books on wrestling & hockey. He also shares some great tips on interviewing & insights on being a stay at home Dad. “If I’m interviewing somebody, my goal is to have it done in 20 minutes. If I can’t get what I need out of somebody in 20 minut...
May 06, 2020•49 min
Kyle Bassett works on the bleeding edge as a partner in tech firm Arctiq. We talk about how he was an early adopter of the information superhighway as a teen in the mid 90s, Arctiq’s partnering with Google on Anthos, his PEI roots and how getting over our initial fear of talking to new people is such a big step. “When I learned how to walk up to people and go, ‘Hey, I’m Kyle! What’s your name? What are you doing here?’ It’s like a superpower, right? Because the person you’re talking to just want...
Apr 29, 2020•49 min
In this special episode, And Sometimes Why …? listeners share their Covid-19 Quarantine Stories. --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI --- For A Chuckle ... Cat & Rob Fun Quarantine video - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rob.szabo1/videos/10163323923560364 --- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitt...
Apr 15, 2020•32 min
Catherine Wallace is Vice President of Operations & Assistant to the CEO of Stifel Canada. She’s also my partner of almost 20 years and the love of my life. I’ve been fascinated by her since we met, and anyone who’s ever met her will testify to her charisma and … did I mention I’m her biggest fan? We chat about her career in hotels & finance. We discuss her Zen-like ability to clear her mind and explore her duality as one of the most footloose & fancy-free people you’ll ever meet who...
Apr 08, 2020•58 min
Steve Strongman is a Juno-winning blues guitar wizard and dear life-long friend. We chat about our shared musical history, his career in music and art vs business concerns. We nerd-out about guitar playing and reminisce about making records together and our yearly holiday show. “You don’t choose music. Music chooses you … It touches you in a way that nothing else really can.” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI --- STEVE STRONGMAN WEB: https://stevestrongman.com INSTA: https://www....
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 30 min
Shadow Girl (a.k.a. Jamie Gabbani) is an opera trained rock dynamo. We talk about growing up in the small town of New Liskeard, her transition from child opera prodigy to teen country singer to Shadow Girl, her thoughts on women in hard rock music & we play some of her music. Q: ”Why is music important to you?" A: “It's not just important to me, it IS me. I feel like I don't really have a choice. It's who I am and I couldn't see myself surviving without it." --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https:/...
Mar 25, 2020•50 min
Tim Fairweather is a partner at Toronto-based tech consulting company Arctiq. We discuss the company's genesis and how they're changing the way business is done by empowering both their customers and employees using an ultra-collaborative mindset, a commitment to open and honest communication and a non-hierarchical business structure. "There isn't a hierarchy, which for us was super important because none of us wanted to be the boss. It wasn't in our DNA, it's not something we endeavoured to do....
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Adam Warner is a nationally renowned drummer who has played with countless acts and toured extensively playing everywhere from the smallest clubs to the biggest stages at theatres & festivals throughout Europe & North America. We discuss life as a sideman, his commitment to lifelong learning and fundamentals and we play some of his songs and tracks he has played drums on. “At the end of the night this woman came up to me and she said: ‘I haven’t wanted to live, and after hearing your son...
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 11 min
Amanda Mabro is a voice coach & acclaimed singer-songwriter. She teaches at Carleton University's performance studies program & coaches pro musicians internationally. We discuss how she balances teaching the mechanics of voice with attending to her students needs as whole human beings. We talk about her life in music, the lessons learned and how they apply to the rest of life. “I think the best singers also know about the importance of enjoying the feeling of the sound. And when you do, ...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Todd Donald is a podcast pioneer, musician & he edits the conversations for THIS podcast! We get into the nitty gritty of editing this show, his music, his love of Elvis Costello and how working in factory brought about an existential crisis that ushered a profound change in his life. “The existential crisis of: What? Is there a point to this? I get that we’re all impermanent insects in the grand scheme of things ...” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI --- TODD DONALD WEB http...
Feb 26, 2020•54 min
Beth Moore is a nationally acclaimed singer/songwriter & the most gifted stream-of-consciousness lyricist I’ve ever worked with. We discuss gender politics, faith and how she feels that she has had a guiding hand on her life, her ups and downs in the music biz and we play some of her songs. “You have to learn to be comfortable in the quiet … As soon as I get quiet, all I hear is music. It’s so much a part of me. This was never my choice … It was just inside and it will continue to eat me ali...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Sean Pinchin is a Juno-nominated slide guitar hero & veteran of thousands of live shows. We talk about his musical education from Weird Al to Cobain to Jimi Hendrix & Chris Whitley. We play his records & discuss his semi-public struggles with anxiety & depression & how music is the thing that gets him out of bed. “As soon as something starts to feel painful, I don’t react. I stop … and then I search for a song or a sound or an image of a guitar, and I can always find somethin...
Feb 12, 2020•59 min
