Listen with Sheryl MacKay

05/07/2023

This week's podcast!

Dianna Coumont has loved fabric and sewing for as long as she can remember. She's always designed and made her own clothes and for a few years she had a very successful international equestrian-wear line. These days she's realising a dream with her home based couture and bespoke studio business call...

27/06/2023

A wonderful conversation with chef and cook book author Pailin Chongchitnant who is host of the very popular Pailin's Kitchen on YouTube and author of Hot Thai Kitchen and her most recent book Sabai.

26/05/2023

Sandhu Singh is an award winning water colour artist in Victoria. He has a show on at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria until May 27. You can see his work on his website anytime! In this episode we talk about his life and how he finds a respite in art from anxiety.

06/05/2023

Rachel Poliquin's research interests are wide and varied and include 17th century medicine, beaver, eels, kidneys, wisdom teeth and taxidermy (just to mention a very few). These days Rachel is pouring all those fascinations into her children's books. The latest is titled The Museum of Odd Body Lefto...

24/04/2023

Founder of EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)

14/04/2023

Sally Thorne may have chosen to go into nursing almost by accident, but it turned out to be a perfect fit! Over her years as a nurse, a Phd student, a Director and Associate Dean she's worked on changing things for the better in cancer care and now with MAID.
She's my guest this week on the podcast.

Sally Thorne studied nursing almost by chance but it turned out to be a perfect choice for her. She has worked, written, researched and taught in the realm of nursing and health care for her long and successful career. In this conversation we talk about her interest in communication in health care a...

30/03/2023

I didn't grow up with hot sauce on the table but these days it's there for most meals! I love finding new flavours and styles to try out. Some of my favourites in recent years come from Vancouver's Sriracha Revolver! Founder and maker Jordan Hocking finds delicious flavours and varied ingredients to...

23/03/2023

The gorgeous guitar music that opens and closes my podcast is composed and performed by Adam Dobres. He played guitar in bands for years, all over the world, and then decided to challenge himself to learn to play solo guitar and record instrumentals. It was quite a learning curve but it's great that...

17/03/2023

Pianist Vicky Chow is devoted to contemporary music! Since she first encountered and performed (by surprise) a new music composition when she was a student at Julliard she has worked with dozens of the top new music composers and collaborated with ensembles and other artists, performing in more than...

10/03/2023

Deb Perelman threw bags of cookies from her apartment balcony during the pandemic! I wish I had been there to catch some. That is just one of the anecdotes in this lovely conversation with best selling cookbook author and blogger Deb Perelman about her latest book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers.