A show about power & love. Things you whisper. Things you do in the dark — or in the light. Things you feel, but you don’t know how to name.
This is a show about all of those things.
"A love story about a dad and his daughter, my dad and me" -
GP: It’s all Truth and I have no problem with Truth.
KP: This is how I’m invented.
Original Artwork by Kaitlin Prest
DAD Series Design by Jen Ng
ALL EPISODES ARE OUT NOW! Binge this special heartfelt mini- season of THE HEART wherever you get your podcasts.
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Photo evidence that Kaitlin records everything. Kaitlin and Greg in their family home in Ottawa preparing to listen to the first interview that started the series.
In Episode 3 Kaitlin realizes this process is going to be more difficult than she thought.
In collaboration with & brings you DAD. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
In DAD the latest mini-series on The Heart Prest brings you heartfelt and deeply personal episodes exploring the greatest love story of all: the one we were born into. Featuring archival audio that spans an entire lifetime, original music performed by classical guitarist Greg Prest, Kaitlin’s Dad.
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“always wanted to have kids. From the time I was … 15 or something ” - Greg Prest
Kaitlin's father, Greg, proudly claims the title of mister mom in 1986 . When the apple of his eye enters her tween years and starts hating him he struggles to be the kind of dad he thought he should be.
Listen to DAD wherever you get your podcasts. Brought to you in partnership with &
Photo/Video Archive of audio clips heard in Forgive & Forget Episode 1 of DAD
“When I moved back to new york but refused to cross the border ever again until I figured out how to have a visa and was forlorn about being alone at christmas … who brought the entire family to an airbnb in brooklyn?… DAD”
Photo: Kaitlin and Greg with Santa Hat. Unconventional Christmas Brooklyn Airbnb
“By age 30 I've ended up in a career I'd built for myself of Analyzing abuses of power as they show up in intimate relationships.”
Photo: The Heart Website Silent Evidence Not The Right Time, Released 2016
Photo: ADVANCE: Episode 1 NO series released on The Heart 2017
DAD episode 2 is out now! In collaboration with &
Listen Now & stay tuned for Episode 3 dropping in the feed next Tuesday July 4th 2023
A father daughter love story about forgiveness. What does it give, and what does it take?
Featuring archival audio that spans an entire lifetime, original music performed by classical guitarist Greg Prest, DAD brings you into an audio world that is both dreamlike and nakedly raw.
DAD: episode 1 is in The Heart Feed now! This all new mini - series is a production of CBC Podcasts, Radiotopia and Mermaid Palace.
is coming to and she's bringing her sister for a very special Live Performance about the story she never thought she'd tell.
She'll be hitting the stage with more of your favourite hosts for a special night of storytelling at the Podcast Festival Showcase.
Tickets are available now, at the link in bio.
See you Thursday May 4th at 6:30pm!
See you at Hot Docs May 4th!
Award-winning podcast artist Kaitlin Prest and her newest collaborator, her sister Natalie Prest, talk about the process of working together for the newest season of the critically acclaimed series, The Heart.
Love is funny, or it's sad, or its quiet, or its mad. It’s a good thing or its bad. But Beautiful.
Listen to the Final Episode of SISTERS: But Beautiful then send us a voice memo with your questions/thoughts/feelings that it brought up for you. How could these sisters go even deeper in DEBREIF-ISODE?
We still get in sisters fights. But this is only the beginning.
Image 1: close up of Kaitlin and Natalie smiling at each other wearing red flower crowns in bed of roses with a gold curtain in the background showered in red light.
Image 2: Moment of Joy captured by during SISTERS photoshoot. both wearing all black dancing joyfully Natalie is wearing a red flower crown
Image 3: Kaitlin and Natalie wearing matching red wigs and blue eyebrows laughing as the princess and the singer from Jem and the holograms Jemcon 2016
Image 4: Kaitlin and Natalie posing with hand made electric guitars. Natalie wearing a neon green wig and Kaitlin wearing the white wavy wig dressed in truly outrageous Jem and the holograms style for Jemcon 2019
Image 5: selfie of sisters at a Mermaid Ball pearls and gems adorn their faces with a large seashell displayed in the background and two wavy white matching wigs are worn by Kaitlin and Natalie
Image 4 matching sister mermaids in the bathroom of the mermaid ball dancing to a beat coming from the hallway
Outtakes from our photoshoot with Tharanga Ramanayake for the sisters series artwork created by JenNg
Kaitlin and Natalie decided to play system of a down and headbang to the music they used to listen to in the car on the way to highschool.
Listen to the final episode of SISTERS! And send us a voicememo with your thoughts and any questions the series brought up for you!
Photos 1-5 Various angles of Kaitlin and Natalie jumping their wild curls suspended mid air, dancing arms up in the air revealing feminist armpits and childlike joy captured across several photos
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"It's Natalie’s birthday we’re dressed up like butterflies from space
It's a cloudy windy day. It's kinda beautiful. and the waves are lapping on the shore. she's looking out at the horizon, her wings blowing in the wind. I walk up to her and put my arm around her."
Hear more in SISTERS: But Beautiful. The Final episode of the series Out Now!
Documentation of space butterfly fairies from Natalie's birthday 2021.
Image 1: Natalie in the background adjusts her skirt as Kaitlins sneakers come into view as she walks towards her sister through the sand.
Image 2: Selfie of Natalie wearing butterfly wings as Kaitlin poses with their bikes and an elephant statue celebrating Natalie's birthday
Image 3: Selfie of Natalie with heart shaped glasses as Kaitlin poses with her space butterfly outfit ready to hop on a pirate taxi to Toronto islands
Image 4: Kaitlin slowly transitioning into a yoga pose as the wind softly blows her butterfly wings with the Toronto skyline on the horizon.
Image 5 : two space butterfly sisters are seen laying on the beach through a bramble of branches looking up at the cloudy grey sky
It didn't feel like it was something I was choosing—it didn't feel like I was living my life. it felt like my life was living me.
How does it feel to need the support of your loved ones as you are working to transform behaviors—knowing that you are going to falter and fail? Does it feel hopelessly precarious? Lonely? Like they are one day away from abandoning you forever?
SISTERS: What's Wrong-isode. Listen Now.
Kaitlin tries to tell her sister that she doesn’t have to stick around to take care of her if her healing is taking too long and the process is too painful.
“Is there hope for things to change? Or is the change happening too slowly?”
Listen to Episode 4 of SISTERS - What's Wrong-isode wherever you get podcasts.
Image 1: Two shadowy silhouettes white wavy wigs and crowns. from Mermaid Palace Launch Party Nov 2019.
Image 2: Natalie and Kaitlin hot and sweaty exercising with Shaun-T as part of their mental health routine they do together every morning.
“It felt a little bit like a horrible end was inevitable. I was in a race to figure out what was wrong with me.”
- Kaitlin, SISTERS Ep4 What's Wrong-isode
Video 1: Kaitlin infront of a gold curtain painted gold wearing a white wig. Red Tulle artistically draped over her body.
How do we escape the expectations we have towards our family? In Episode 3 as Kaitlin and Natalie set out to make art together, attempting to do it in a way that doesn’t reinforce old childhood patterns Natalie finally sees who Kaitlin is on a day to day basis.
Pictured Slide 1: a blue light is shown shining from the top right of the photo a red light shining from the right hand side. A woman ( Natalie) is sitting on a bench with her foot up and knee held close to her chest. Her face is illuminated by the blue and red lights as she stares off to the right.
Pictured Slide 2: The silhouette of a woman in a bay window.The seated woman is looking off into the distance out the window
Pictured Slide 3: Photo captured by .jpg Kaitlin Prest sitting in a dark room in front of a soundboard and a laptop which illuminates her face with the glow. A neuman mic on a table stand in front of her. Shes looking to the left wearing a black dress and long brown curly hair.
“I was nervous but I was also excited. I was excited to be a part of all the beautiful things she was creating. Mermaid Palace, A company of artists making audio-centric work. “
Natalie - Episode 3 Work-isode
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Pictured in Slide 1 : A black and white photo of Kaitlin and Natalie staring at each other. Natalie on the left in a white wavy wig with a crown. Kaitlin on the right in a matching white wavy wig with a crown. The corner of two mirrors is in the space between them along with a bouquet of flowers atop a tall shelf. Photo taken at Mermaid Palace Launch Party Nov 20 2019
Pictured Slide 2: A Blue light shines revealing two silhouettes crowned Shadows with long wavy hair in synchronized opposite poses leaning back with a curved arm in the air faces pointed up to the sky. Photo taken at Mermaid Palace Launch Party Live Performance Nov 20 2019
Pictured Slide 3: Selfie captured by Natalie with Kaitlin in the foreground. Both sisters are illuminated with purple/magenta/blue lighting. Natalie is smiling with white crimped wig with shadow of the phone over her mouth. Kaitlin is wearing a matching wavey white wig with a shy smile clutching her hair towards her chin like a blanket
Pictured Slide 4: A photo of a bar chair with various boxes and books holding up a laptop. a wooden circle table with a monitor is behind the table. On the laptop screen is an image of a figure with a black top and a white wavy wig in front of a burnt orange sheet suspended behind them.
Pictured Slide 5: A Photo of the two sisters natalie on the left Kaitlin on the right both wearing matching black tops with black hats atop their wavy white wigs. Both have dark eyeliner and are slyly smiling at the camera a similar grin. A burnt orange sheet in the far background and a silver sparkle sheet is the primary backdrop.
“The plan was for it to be a 3 month admin contract helping out with emails, and scheduling and organizing files. But i knew in my heart that what i really hoped to do was to make art together. “
- Kaitlin
In Episode 3 of SISTERS, the sisters decide to risk it all and start working together. Will they fall into the troubling groove of their old childhood dynamic?
Listen to Episode 3 at the link in our bio or wherever you find your podcasts to Find Out.
Pictured in Slide 1 : Video of Natalie Prest sitting at a wooden desk in a black spaghetti strap dress with pink roses on it. Her blond streaked hair is blowing from an off-camera fan as she sits crosslegged in front of a macbook a monitor and a pair of headphones sitting on the desk.
Pictured Slide 2: An overhead photo of the back of Natalie’s head sitting at a wooden desk with a mac book and monitor ahead of her. Her natural brunette hair with outgrown blond has been pulled into two pigtails on each side as she sits with a large set of black headphones. A zoom recorder is visible sitting on the left hand side of the desk and on her back you can see black spaghetti straps and a pastel coloured halter bikini top around her neck.
Pictured Slide 3: Natalie is shown sitting with an excited face. She has natural roots shifting to teal then magenta hair as she holds three notepads in her hands fanned like a hand of cards. The notepads read: TO DO , MAKE A DECISION, and THIS WEEK. A corkboard painted with a tree and paint strokes in dark similar colour tones to her hair is visible in the background
Pictured Slide 4: A video that begins with Kaitlin Prest on the left hand side, she motions to Natalie to join her on camera as she joins her sister she says “there is no bad side” at which point Kaitlin pulls her chin back revealing a double chin. Both sisters simultaneously pull their chins back and forth revealing double chins in synchronized movements.
Pictured Slide 5: A video of Kaitlin Prest wearing headphones sitting at her workspace a wooden circle table with reaper sessions open on a mac laptop and monitor. The video is taken from behind Kaitlin and he back is centred with a hard-drive and dongles visible on the right hand side of the table top.
This is the epic costume that caused so much drama.
Natalie’s “bad Kimber” outfit is from the episode: SCANDAL of Jem and the Holograms. Ironic. Find out why in ep 2 of SISTERS on the heart.
Can You Spot the difference? Photos are from DAY 2 at JEMCON 2014
Pictured in Image 1: Natalie & Kaitlin dressed as Kimber and Stormer bright coloured red and blue wigs on a background of a grey brick wall
Pictured in Image 2: Natalie's Bad Kimber Cosplay modeled by Kaitlin Prest
Pictured in image 3: A woman with a bright red 80's styled spikey wig and a black spikey choker. Blue and red facepaint across her cheeks and eyelids.
Picutred in image 4: A woman with electric blue curly wig and a red flower
Pictured in image 5: Woman with Bright red hair and red and blue 80s makeup black choker and tiger print tube top. Jem logo on a black and pink box can be seen in the background.
# KIMBER
After their meet-cute at kareoke, Kaitlin finally realizes — there’s no one else she’d rather spend all their time with. So much so, that she decides to buy Natalie an extravagant present: a trip to the Jem and the Holograms Convention. KP unknowingly enters Natalie’s universe: the art of cosplay. She has never been to a con before. She has no idea what to expect. She didn’t even know people wore costumes at a con.
Go to Jem Con with Kaitlin and Natalie in episode 2 of SISTERS.
Click the link in our bio to start listening now and check out for more details about the next con!
Pictured in Image 1: Kaitlin and Natalie with bright coloured 80s cartoon makeup making Rocker fingers and faces at the camera. Natalie has red hair and Kaitlin has short brown curly hair with a blond streak
Pictured in Image 2: Kaitlin and Natalie with bright coloured 80s cartoon makeup holding a card that says Kimber & Stormer to be exact
Pictured in Image 3: Close up of Kaitlin and Natalie's Jem Cosplay makeup.
Pictured in Image 4 : Kaitlin holding up a piece of paper that reads HOLY S**T. with a camera man in a sea of pink costumes and wigs with 6 Jemfans in full cosplay. A neon green wig pizzaz cosplay on the far left
Pictured in image 5: Kaitlin and Natalie in full cosplay with their handmade keytars in gold and blue
Pictured in image 6: a paper that read APPRECIATION OF ALL THINGS JEM with various Jem and the Holograms Hasbro dolls with bright coloured swim suits in various prints.
Pictured in image 7: Natalie in Kimber cosplay posing being pulled by a Jem cosplayer ( lead singer of Jem and the Holgrams) dressed in pink purple and silver holding onto her sister Kaitlin dressed in Stormer cosplay posing being pulled by a Pizzazz cosplayer ( Lead singer of the Misfits).
“I see that she is a priestess of my long time religion. It’s about…believing in magic. It’s about…making a spectacle, and for a moment people are lifted out of the dreary reality of their own day to day.”
—Kaitlin, being floored by Natalie’s costume magic at age 24
In Episode 2 of the SISTERS series, KP in rom com fashion is utterly floored by how cool Natalie is when she paints herself green for an under the sea themed karaoke night.
EPISODE 2 AVAILABLE NOW! Wherever you find your podcasts!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-heart/id595892633
Pictured in Photo 1: Kaitlin Prest in pearls and gloves, curly brown hair tied up holding a teacup. Smiling at her sister Natalie. Natalie has blond wavey hair and a blue floral necklace
Pictured in Photo 2: Two women laughing. One is painted green with wavy blond hair a pearl headband and necklace and has her painted green arm around the other woman who has painted green lipstick and eyeshadow, Curly brown hair. She is wearing a seagreen scarf and black fishnets as a top.
Pictured in Photo 3: Natalie smiling painted full green on the dance floor with blurry lighting looking enchanted
Natalie and Kaitlin are those kind of sisters: they dress up in matching outfits. They sing duets. They hold hands walking down the street. They play piano together. One elbows the other when they make a mistake.
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Pictured: Photograph of Sisters Kaitlin and Natalie Prest sitting at the shiny black grand piano hands posed to play a duet. Natalie wearing a roots sweater with short dirty blond hair and Kaitlin wearing a pastel pink shirt and white button up a heart written in pen on her hand with her hair half pulled back with blond highlights and long brown wavy curls.
The Infamous Trophy Photo.
From rivals to best friends, Kaitlin & Natalie's childhood sets the stage — and the parameters — for a relationship of a lifetime.
Listen to the all new series SISTERS: Chapter One-isode in your feed NOW! Wherever you find podcasts.
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A new season of The Heart is here!
Creator Kaitlin Prest returns with an exploration of the greatest love story of all: the one we were born into.
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Listen to the first episode of SISTERS: CHAPTER ONE-ISODE NOW! Wherever you get your podcasts.
Pictured: Kaitlin Prest age 8 sticking out her tongue at the camera
Natalie Prest Age 6 Smiling with Disney's The Little Mermaid sweater circa 1990's
The Heart is coming to life at the first–ever Podcast Experience.
Kaitlin Prest is teaming up with spatial sound expert and artist Brendan Baker (formerly known on the show as: Beautiful Boyfriend. BB) to design an audio world in room 704 at Wythe hotel.
Brendan Baker is an artist and founder of Phenomephon, a craft-driven studio and consultancy with a specialty in “3D” spatial audio. He directed Marvel’s first scripted podcast series and was a longtime producer/sound designer for the critically-acclaimed podcast, Love + Radio.is a talented artist with …
Don’t miss out! Get your tickets now! February 23-26 at the iconic Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn
A note from KP: This book beautifully unravels the experience of having c-ptsd. It is a game changer. Stephanie Foo describes things I have never heard described that are so effing validating: the confusing and frustrating journey through mental health professional land…the shame and weight of a diagnosis…the way trauma shows up in interpersonal relationships….and on top of all that it is gripping, funny and heartwarming.
READ THIS BOOK! Or do like I did and LISTEN TO HER READ IT TO YOU VIA AUDIOBOOK (plus there is some audio of her therapy seshes in there! Audio treat!) thank you For being such a badass.
Axel Kacoutié brings you into his mind and his heart through rich sonic universe building. In this audio journey, he conjures sensations: warmth, light, and the feeling of waking up after having a disturbing dream.
This is the first of a three part series featuring this audio artist and poet’s inner world.
Originally produced on the Constellations podcast.
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"It's Natalie’s birthday we’re dressed up like butterflies from space It's a cloudy windy day. It's kinda beautiful. and the waves are lapping on the shore. she's looking out at the horizon, her wings blowing in the wind. I walk up to her and put my arm around her." Hear more in SISTERS: But Beautiful. The Final episode of the series Out Now! Documentation of space butterfly fairies from Natalie's birthday 2021. Image 1: Natalie in the background adjusts her skirt as Kaitlins sneakers come into view as she walks towards her sister through the sand. Image 2: Selfie of Natalie wearing butterfly wings as Kaitlin poses with their bikes and an elephant statue celebrating Natalie's birthday Image 3: Selfie of Natalie with heart shaped glasses as Kaitlin poses with her space butterfly outfit ready to hop on a pirate taxi to Toronto islands Image 4: Kaitlin slowly transitioning into a yoga pose as the wind softly blows her butterfly wings with the Toronto skyline on the horizon. Image 5 : two space butterfly sisters are seen laying on the beach through a bramble of branches looking up at the cloudy grey sky
“It felt a little bit like a horrible end was inevitable. I was in a race to figure out what was wrong with me.” - Kaitlin, SISTERS Ep4 What's Wrong-isode Video 1: Kaitlin infront of a gold curtain painted gold wearing a white wig. Red Tulle artistically draped over her body.
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