Join Irene and her gift for gab for a heartwarming and joy-filled chat with the unstoppable Gerri Torres, live from the vibrant heart of the Massey Theatre in New Westminster! A radiant soul with a heart of gold, Gerri has lived a life full of purpose, passion, and sparkle. Like Irene, she has the gift of gab and brings her wonderful personality and vibrant energy to everyone she meets! A retired Air Canada professional, Gerri brought her signature grace and warmth from her role as a customer se...
Jun 04, 2025•43 min•Season 4Ep. 47
Join Irene for an inspiring conversation with the remarkable Barbara Deutsch, live from her home in Los Angeles! Barbara is a powerhouse in life and career coaching with over 30 years of experience. She’s worked across North America, helping clients in film, TV, and beyond unlock their potential and advance their careers. Barbara’s journey began in true Hollywood fashion—after performing for her colleagues at Epic Records, she caught the attention of music mogul Clive Davis. This led to a record...
Apr 09, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Join Irene as she sits down for an amazing and fabulous conversation with the remarkable and multi talented Moe Brody, live from her beautiful home in Arbutus! Moe has been thriving in her career, she is a powerhouse dancer, choreographer, and entrepreneur who has danced her way to success and joy! A true A-list Queen, and one of Irene's oldest besties from childhood these two gals picked up just like it was yesterday on the school playground! Moe Brody is a true force in the entertainment indus...
Mar 12, 2025•37 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Join Irene and her gift for gab as she sits down for an engaging and fabulous conversation with the remarkable Stevie Mitchell, live from her beautiful home in Kerrisdale! A true A-list Queen, Stevie has been thriving and embracing life to the fullest well into her vibrant senior years. As a retired journalist, she spent her career telling meaningful stories and sharing fashion fabulousness, and as the former Executive Director of Endeavour Society, she dedicated herself to giving back to the co...
Feb 13, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 44
SEASON 04 who's ready for more!! #ilo_onlocation the podcast is back and bringing the heat! Get ready for MORE excitement, MORE fun, and tons of inspiration as we kick off the brand-new #ilo_wellnessseries, going LIVE in February 2025! This season, we are sitting down with an incredible group of WOMEN, each with a wealth of experience and ready to share their amazing insights. From lifelong adventurers living their best lives to experts making waves in their fields, you won't want to miss their ...
Jan 29, 2025•5 min
That's a Season 3 Wrap!!! Thank you so much to all my AMAZING guests who joined me on Season 3 #ilo_onlocation the podcast for my #ilo_artistseries and thank you to all my listeners who tuned in!! I had an absolute ball gabbing away and celebrating my fabulous friends artistic careers and accomplishments!! They are all so inspiring and their contribution to the Arts in Canada and all over the world is incredible!! Thank you Christina Sicoli , Gillian Hurtig , Barbara Tomasic , Lisa Stevens , Cai...
Oct 18, 2023•1 min
Irene gabs away with the multi-talented Tracey Power, live from her current Directing contract in Alberta, BC! Tracey has incredible career all over Canada working as an Actress, a Director, a Choreographer, a Producer and she is a published Writer and Creator of multiple published Plays! She is an award winner and a multi nominee from the Jessie Richardson Awards , the Ovation Awards and the Sterling Haynes Awards . Her last name says it all, POWER!! Her Plays have been produced and performed i...
Sep 27, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Irene gabs away with the fabulous Sharon Crandall, live from her home in Port Moody! Sharon is an amazing woman who has an incredible career all over Canada both on the stage and the screen! She is an Actress, Mother of two, Singer, Educator, and a multi nominated and award recipient for multiple Theatre awards and nominations from the Jesse Richardson Awards the Ovation Awards , and this year she received her first nomination from the Canadian Screen Awards for the television series "Pillow Tal...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Irene gabs away with the amazing Sarah Rodgers, live from her current Directing contract in North Carolina! Sarah has an incredible career all over Canada and the US! She is a multi nominated and award winning Actress, Director as well as a Coach and adjunct Professor and she currently holds the legendary position of the Artistic Director for United Players of Vancouver Theatre Company . She received her BFA (Acting) and MFA (Directing) from The University of British Columbia. Sarah has performe...
Aug 08, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Irene gabs away with the multi talented Meghan Gardiner, live from her home in Olympic Village! Meghan is an incredible artist who has contributed to the Canadian Arts Industry with her amazing career as an Actress, a Singer and a Professional Writer creating her own work to showcase her acting talents as well as work for so many others artists being commissioned to write and produce plays for many of Canada's top theatre companies! Her plays are Award Nominated and Award Winning and share impor...
Jun 07, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and talented Ladyboss Katrina Reynolds, live from her home in East Vancouver! Katrina is an amazing woman who has an incredible acting career all over Canada and she has performed on BROADWAY not to mention The Tony Awards , The Juno Awards and the TV show The View ! She is the recipient of multiple theatre nominations and awards and has performed on all the A-list stages across Canada including The Arts Club Theatre Company, The Stratford Festival, and The Shaw...
May 10, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 39
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and multi talented Jennie Neumann, live from her home in North Vancouver! Jennie is SO talented! She's an actress, singer, producer dancer, voice over artist AND she holds a Masters Degree in Musical Theatre Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London! She has been nominated and received multiple theatre awards for her performances all across Canada for shows like Seussical: The Musical , Gypsy, Next to Normal, Les Miserable s and Hairspray where she p...
Apr 19, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and multi talented Caitriona Murphy, live from her home in East Vancouver! Caitriona is an amazing woman who has an incredible acting career all over Canada. She's a multi nominated and award winning Actress for her performances on stage dominating Musical Theatre. She's starred and shined in such hit Musicals as Cabaret, Next to Normal, Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot, Les Miserable, and Mary Poppins in both leading lady roles and supporting roles. She is an accomplish...
Mar 29, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and talented Lisa Stevens, live on zoom because she's EVERYwhere doing everything all at once! Lisa's an International Emmy and Tony Award nominated Director and Choreographer. She's an A-list woman in the Arts who is in demand all over the world working non stop in New York, Los Angeles, London, Vancouver, and Toronto, not to mention all the National and International tours she's a part of. Lisa is a celebrated Performer working in all mediums on stage and in f...
Mar 15, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and talented lady boss Barbara Tomasic, live from Irene's childhood home in Dunbar! Barb is an amazing woman who has an incredible career all across Canada as a Director, an Actor, a Collaborator, a Musician, a Producer, and an Educator. She has been recognized for multiple Awards and Nominations for her work in all mediums. She is also the Director of Artistic Programs for the Gateway Theatre being part of their team bringing the Performing Arts to Richmond, B....
Mar 01, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and talented Gillian Hurtig, live from her home in Kitsilano! Gillian is an amazing woman who is rocking her career as an actress in film and tv while dominating the commercial industry. She's an audition coach and with her own home studio, she's a production queen with years of experience in the theatre, events world, film ,tv, commercials, and lifestyle television industry, she's the creator and star of her own upcoming production “The Gillian Joy Show” and in...
Feb 15, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Irene gabs away with the fabulous and talented Quad Artist Christina Sicoli, live from her home in Sogo! Christina is an award winning actress, writer and producer known for her character driven comedienne and improv skills, her successful one woman show and multiple film and television roles, many she wrote and produced through her own production company she manages with her husband. She is also an incredible visual artist known for her colorful and imaginative canvas work and resin designs cre...
Feb 01, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Irene is back!!! Gabbing away with her fabulous friends about everything and anything!! Share some laughs, be inspired, or just take a break in your day with Irene!! Amazing women with the gift of gab, and a whole lot more!! #ilo_onlocation Season Three coming February 2023 to your favourite Podcast platforms!! Wahoo let's have some fun!!! - photo by jamiethephotographer.com | - theme song by connor wilkinson @cbuddy_ #ilo_artistseries
Jan 06, 2023•2 min
It's a "DIVA DUETS!" Christmas!!! Live from Canada Irene sings with her friends to spread a little Holiday Cheer and close out Season Two of #ilo_onlocation the podcast Christmas style with "The Christmas Song"! Irene is joined by the beautiful and talented Janet Gigliotti-Nieuwenhuis, Stephanie Roth, and Seana-Lee Wood, live from their homes in BC and Ontario!!! And if you would like to SEE the ladies sing it up visit Irene's YOUTUBE ( youtube.com/user/IreneKaras99 ) channel for their full Holi...
Dec 23, 2021•10 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Are you ready for it?!! Live from her home in the Country it's "Karasoke Volume 01" with Irene!! Do you love to Karaoke?! Do you love to harmonize?! Well I sure do!!! Join me as I sing along to a few of my favourite songs!!!! Who doesn't love a little soft rock, movie soundtrack, love ballad or Broadway diddy!!! Epi 31 let's have some FUN!! Join me, Babs, Fame, Dixie and a whole lot more!!! #ilo_karasokeseries
Oct 08, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Irene talks to the incredible Teneka Moore of TaylorMade Bling Embellishments, live from her home in St. Louis! Do you LOVE BLING? Who doesn't!! A little Sparkle goes a long way!!! Teneka shares her amazing journey of how she turned her passion of sparkle inspired by her beautiful daughter, into a worldwide business as a Celebrity Bling Artist!! I'm sure you've all heard of the Diva Queen herself, JLO?!! Well that's right!! TaylorMade Bling IS the Jlo Bling Cup! Okay?! Looking to shop? Just visi...
Sep 02, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Irene talks to the amazing Andréa Fehsenfeld, live from her home in Vancouver! They discuss her incredible Ladyboss career from the Finance Industry, to Film, TV and Commercial Production, to an Award Winning Published (twice!!) Novelist!!! Join us as we gab away on her most recent award winning novel “A Rainbow Like You”, that can be purchased by visiting her website at www.andreafehsenfeld.com/a-rainbow-like-you/, how she navigated her passions and goals creating her dream career path, her fut...
Aug 09, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Irene talks to the fabulous and talented Julia Harnett, live from her home in Connecticut! They discuss her incredible career from Ballroom Dancing to Broadway and how her triple threat skills as an actress, singer and dancer landed her one of her dream gigs as a cast member in the "In The Heights" movie musical!!! Join us as we gab away on her amazing career, being a mom, working hard at your craft for success, her upcoming projects, and a whole lot more!! #ilo_summerseries
Jun 28, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Irene is back!!! Gabbing away with her fabulous friends about everything and anything!! Share some laughs, be inspired, or just take a break in your day with Irene!! Amazing women with the gift of gab, and a whole lot more!! #ilo_onlocation Season Two!! Coming this Summer 2021 to your favourite Podcast platforms!! Wahoo let's have some fun!!! #ilo_summerseries
May 30, 2021•1 min•Season 2Ep. 28
It's a "DIVA DUETS!" Christmas!!! Live from across Canada to the USA Irene sings with some of her podcast guests to spread a little Holiday cheer and close out Season One of #ilo_onlocation the podcast Christmas style with "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"! Irene is joined by the beautiful and talented Janet Gigliotti Nieuwenhuis, Terra C Macleod, Seana-Lee Wood, Regina Levert and Stephanie Roth live from their homes in Montreal, Stratford, Los Angeles, Vancouver and the country aka Langl...
Dec 23, 2020•11 min•Season 1Ep. 27
It's "DIVA DUETS!" from the original musical comedy "Talking Sex On Sunday!" Irene sings with her pink ladies cast mates Janet Gigliotti Nieuwenhuis, Caitriona Murphy, Sara Vickruck, Katrina Reynolds, Seanna-Lee Wood, and the creators of the show, Sara-Jeane Hosie and Nico Rhodes live from their home's across Canada!! Afterwards, listen to the gals gab away about how they have managed to stay creative and positive during this very challenging year, their upcoming projects as the entertainment in...
Dec 06, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Irene has her first blind-date-style-interview with Anna Maria, live from her home in Italy! They discuss her inspirational blog www.ladolcevitadiaries.com where she shares her adventures and journeys of self-discovery for the midlife soul Italian style! Join us as we talk about her experiences during covid in Italy, how making a life change with her husband relocating to a medieval town in Umbria enabled them to follow their passions of writing, restoration, photography, and travel, harvesting ...
Nov 16, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Irene talks to the fabulous and talented Sara Vickruck, live from her home in Vancouver! They discuss her incredible career and how her musician skills helped land her break out performance in the original musical " Love Bomb " an award winning production on sex trafficking, how sharing personal stories as a queer artist co-creating the original award winning show " Poly Queer Love Ballad " contributed to her artistry, how she kept herself inspired during the pandemic joining local artist to for...
Oct 28, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 24
It's "DIVA DUETS!" from the Musical "Mamma Mia!" Irene sings with her DYNAMOS, Cathy Wilmot and Stephanie Roth, live from their home's in Vancouver and Stratford!! Donna and The Dynamos bring you "Dancing Queen"!! Afterwards, listen to the gals gab away about Stephanie's new Album "Fresh Tracks", Theatre in Canada and a whole lot more!! And if you want to SEE the ladies sing it up visit Irene's YOUTUBE ( youtube.com/user/IreneKaras99 ) channel for some fun!! #ilo_covidseries #ilo_divaduetsseries...
Oct 14, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 23
It's "DIVA DUETS!" from the Musical "Chicago"! Irene sings with her Broadway Star, Terra C Macleod, live from her home in Montreal!! They play Roxy and Velma in "My Own Best Friend"!! Afterwards, Irene and Terra gab away about the song, theatre and a whole lot more! And if you want to see them sing it up visit Irene's YOUTUBE channel (youtube.com/user/IreneKaras99) for some fun!! #ilo_covidseries #ilo_divaduetsseries
Sep 25, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 22
