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Jandals in JapanCrossing Swords: Kendo, Culture, and Commerce in Japan with Graham SayerWe cross swords/minds with Graham Sayer, a 7th dan Kyoshi kendo practitioner, former president of the New Zealand Kendo Federation and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun. Graham has been a huge supporter of Jandals in Japan Podcast from its early days and we are thrilled that he agreed to join us to share his wealth of experience in both kendo and business between Japan and New Zealand. Listen to hear more about this fascinating martial art that changed the trajectory of Graham’s life. Subscribe to our list so you never miss...2025-05-1850 min
You Are Your Business51. Healing, Energy, and Conscious Relationships with Catherine GrahamIn this episode of You Are Your Business, I sit down with Catherine Graham, a gifted intuitive psychic medium and energy healer, to explore the power of intuition, energy healing, and conscious relationships. Catherine shares her journey into the spiritual realm, how she helps people recognize and release energetic blocks, and why self-awareness is the key to transformation.We discuss the importance of listening to subtle signs, trusting your inner wisdom, and making small shifts that lead to profound healing. Catherine also introduces The Light Seekers Collective2025-03-1242 min
Your Career JourneyHow Marketers Can Thrive with AI | Career Strategies with Catherine TomsIn this value-packed episode of Your Career Journey, Emma speaks with Marketers Catherine Toms, Co-Founder of Marketing Growth Academy, about staying competitive in a marketing world being reshaped by AI.With 20+ years of experience helping global brands and marketing teams evolve through digital transformation, Catherine shares exactly how AI is impacting the marketing profession—and how to skill up without getting overwhelmed.💬 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:✨ What AI really means for marketers today🧭 How to upskill, even when your company isn’t on board🔥 Why human creativity still...2025-02-0351 min
How to Feel AliveMeet Yondr founder & CEO, Graham DugoniYou know those lockable phone bags that are being used to create phone-free spaces in schools and at concerts? Those are Yondr pouches. Join Catherine Price as she talks with Graham Dugoni, founder and CEO of Yondr, about what inspired him to create Yondr pouches, and his broader thoughts about how our interactions with technology affect how we experience the world. Warning: it's about to get philosophical.More about Yondr: https://www.overyondr.com/Subscribe to the How to Feel Alive newsletter and podcast, from Catherine Price (author of How to Break Up Wtih Your...2024-10-0155 min
The Catherine B. Roy ShowFrom War Zones to Peace Builder: John Graham's Extraordinary JourneyDive into the extraordinary life of John Graham on The Catherine B. Roy Show. From shipping out on a freighter at 16 to hitchhiking through revolutions and scaling Denali’s North Wall, John’s adventures are nothing short of epic. As a US Foreign Service Officer, he was at the forefront of historical events like the 1969 revolution in Libya and the Vietnam War. Hear how his daring quests transformed into a lifelong mission for peace and leadership, culminating in his work with the Giraffe Heroes Project. Explore profound insights on the meaning of life, risk, and the quest for purpose in t...2024-07-2544 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaSandwich: A Novel by Catherine NewmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sandwich: A Novel Author: Catherine Newman Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.45 of Total 11 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.''—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake “If you like my novels...2024-06-1805 min
The Hummingbird PodcastThe Spark between Intuition and Sensory InformationNoticing. Moving out of autopilot. Actively making decisions to notice. We chat about Anne Truitt’s book Daybook: The Journal of an Artist. Jessica reads a recent sensory inspired piece. Catherine shares the story behind her poem “Sleep Patterns for Seamus Heaney.” And we have fun with the word “colloquium.” Join us for the last episode of Season Five!2024-06-0929 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaSandwich by Catherine NewmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709524 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sandwich Author: Catherine Newman Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS (Richard & Judy Book Club 2023) 'Oh, honey,' I say. 'I'm sorry. Don't worry about me! I'm totally good. I'm so, so happy to be here with you.' This is how it is to love somebody. You tell them the truth. You lie a little. And sometimes...2024-06-0605 min
The Hummingbird PodcastArt & WritingWe “sink in” to the role perception plays with art and writing. Catherine reads two excerpts from her novels (Quarry and The Most Cunning Heart) as examples. Jessica shares her poem “The Works,” a commissioned piece written when she was Poet Laureate of Cobourg. Plus we talk about portals, paying attention and writing through to see.2024-05-2631 min
The Hummingbird PodcastArt & InspirationWe talk about art as inspiration and connection. We share stories about visiting art galleries and our powerful one-on-one experiences with art. Catherine shares two poems that connect to two book covers “Troll Was No Monster” (Winterkill) and “Cancer in the Celery Forest” (The Celery Forest). Jessica shares her poem “Windblown Group of Seven,” inspired by a sketch by Tom Thompson of a landscape she knows and loves dearly.2024-04-2829 min
Really Interesting WomenCatherine Branson AC KCReally Interesting Women - the PodcastEp. 124Catherine Branson AC KCIn 1984 Catherine Branson made history when a dual appointment saw her became the first woman in Australia to be appointed Crown Solicitor and the first woman to be appointed as permanent head of a government department in South Australia. She went to the bar in Adelaide and then took silk in 1992. An appointment as a judge to the Federal Court of Australia followed in 1994. In 2008 she was appointed President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. The following year she w...2024-04-2429 min
The Hummingbird PodcastCraftWe explore what this word means to us as creators, from the silly to the serious. Plus the role of intuition, practice and inner knowing. Jessica shares her poem “On Deciding on Learning to Write” and talks about her experience with writing workshops. Catherine shares two poems that bookend her writing journey: “Pupa” the title poem from her first book and “Part of the Song Where the Dead Come From” from her latest book, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems.2024-04-1436 min
The Hummingbird PodcastIdeasBeginning ideas, sustaining ideas, consuming ideas—how as creators do we relate to this word? Jessica shares her poem “The Crossing of Candle Eyes” and Catherine shares three short poems inspired by her mother: “The Red Element” “It’s Only Her Piano Face” and “ My Suburban Forest.”2024-03-3131 min
The Hummingbird PodcastHolding On & Letting GoWhile staying in to rest and heal what occupies our mind and imagination? What does it mean to “clean house”? How do we know what to hold on to and when to let go? We explore these things in dialogue and in poetry. Jessica shares two poems: “Leaving Home” and “Shine Firefly” and Catherine shares her poems “Freckle” and “Father’s Tattoo.”2024-03-1729 min
The Hummingbird PodcastWinter & Self CareWriting, resting, going inward, the importance of self-care. Letting go. Balance. Writing through dark times. Balancing our creative life with teaching. Valuing our own rhythm. Catherine reads an excerpt from her memoir Aether: An Out-of-Body Lyric and Jessica reads an excerpt from a book about Métis beadwork.2024-02-1330 min
Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories by the FireCreepy Fingers with Director & Actor Catherine Mary StewartEpisode #6 “Creepy Fingers” with director & actress Catherine Mary StewartWhat would you do if you woke up in the middle of the night to a strange creature peering around your bedroom door? Do the departed leave their energy behind? Is artificial intelligence the new ghostly encounter?If you were a 70’s or 80’s kid, chances are you were raised by tv and movies and you know exactly who today’s guest is Catherine Mary Stewart taught me and millions of teenagers how to stand up for ourselves and fight our way through a zombie apoc...2024-01-2848 min
The Hummingbird PodcastWinter, Dreams and SleepWhat might our dreams teach us? Catherine shares her poem from the Niagara Falls Poetry Project “The Water Draws.” Jessica shares her poem “When.” Plus sleep habits, reading habits and Raymond Carver’s poem “Late Fragment.”2024-01-2831 min
The Hummingbird PodcastContent, Craft, & CommunicationHow do you know you are a writer? Is it possible to find poetry in the everyday? What’s it like to share raw work? What might we do with our dream lines? Catherine shares her poem “Last Shadow” and Jessica shares a new poem “Robin Takes a Break.”2024-01-1427 min
The Hummingbird PodcastLearning is ChangeWhat assists us when we’re learning? What happens when we’re open and curious? Learning isn’t always easy and the unknown is our biggest teacher. Yet, how as writers do we share what we’ve learned? And what does the Medicine Wheel teach us? Catherine shares her poem “The Girl without Birds at the Top of the Stairs” and Jessica shares her poem “To Begin Again.”2023-12-3132 min
The Hummingbird PodcastWhat is it to be inspired?This question leads us to talk about many things including P.K. Page, what it’s like to be a highly sensitive child, whether we’d like the gift of invisibility or mind control, the power of dreams, when dreams turn to visions and when visions turn to poems. Catherine shares her poem “The Bullied” and Jessica shares her poem “How Old Is Your Spirit.”2023-12-1730 min
The Hummingbird PodcastTry EverythingWhat happens when we move from word to image? Catherine talks about her experience leading a creative problem-solving workshop and how the images that appear know more than we do. What happens when we let go of control? Jessica talks about what her books have to say to her (yes, they do know where they want to be in her new home!). She also shares her experience braiding sweetgrass and the poem it inspired. We end our chat with Catherine’s poem on metamorphosis: “Imago.”2023-12-0330 min
The Hummingbird PodcastThe Circle and The Creative ActWe talk about Rick Rubin’s book The Creative Act: A Way of Being and what it awakens in us as creators. What does it mean to lead a creative life? How do we get into a creative space? Catherine shares what recently happened on a walk to circle her back to her poem “Wind Tricks.” Jessica shares some insights about her intuitive painting journey as well as her poem “Lost Lesson.” And yes, the forest has eyes.2023-11-1930 min
The Hummingbird PodcastFull-Circle MomentsAs we kick off season five, we explore full circle moments and how with aging we carry more questions than answers. Catherine shares the story behind her poem “The Rain Barrel” and Jessica talks about writing her first picture book Bernice and the Ancestors. Plus “The Red Poppy” by Louise Glück, the link between silent and listen, and how listening leads to seeing and being seen.2023-11-0527 min
The Hummingbird PodcastCreative Life, Creative Journey, Creative ConversationWe explore looking back to look ahead. Catherine talks about her just published book, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems, the micro journey and the macro, the role of attentiveness and what it’s like putting a New and Selected book together. We also share quotes by Mary Oliver, Albert Einstein and a mourning dove visits us too.2023-05-0728 min
Happy Go FabulousReconnecting to who you are after major life changes with Jessica Graham...Life after divorce can be hard, let alone in the middle of a global pandemic! That's exactly what Jessica Graham chats to us about in the latest episode of the Happiness Hive Podcast. Listen as she vulnerably shares her globe trotting teacher life and how she journaled her way back home to reconnect with the essence of who she truly is. Jessica is a copywriter and brand strategist helping impact-driven brands highlight their brand personality with messaging that’s rooted in human connection, compassion, and storytelling. In this episode you'll also hear:- the mid...2023-04-2457 min
The Hummingbird PodcastHeartbeat of the GroundWe talk about the heartbeat of the ground (a line from Catherine's poem "A Leash of Deer"), the pulse of everything, plus the current that connects us. Jessica shares her poem "A River Flows" and its origin story. We discover how a poem can hold a poem beneath it. Catherine reads her poem "Chthonic" and takes us to the underground. We see how imagery can lure us to slip beneath.2023-04-2329 min
The Hummingbird PodcastAnimal EncountersCatherine shares her poem “A Leash of Deer” and the story behind it. (Yes, it started with a coaster purchased in Edinburgh.) We talk about how poems and encounters with animals open us up and bring us closer at the same time, how they expand and contract. Jessica reads an excerpt from her latest book Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold that includes an encounter with a crow. When we lean into the energies around us, we feel the connections. When we pay attention, the gifts come.2023-04-0929 min
The Hummingbird PodcastThe Shake and Shimmer LoopWe explore how art shapes our lives and our lives shape art. We talk about what shakes and shimmers, negative capability, and chance encounters with animals. Catherine reads an excerpt from her novel Quarry. We move from the ‘ice-cream realm’ to the weight of grief. We realize if we can let go of control and let the body guide us—that’s when the magic appears.2023-03-2629 min
The Hummingbird PodcastAncestors and FamilyWe explore how ancestors and family impact our writing. Catherine reads a passage from her novel Quarry that links silence with trust and creativity. She also shares some excerpts from Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric. Jessica and Catherine talk about the darker side of silence and how the act of writing can lead us to truths.2023-02-2629 min
The Hummingbird PodcastSnow and Going InwardCatherine reads one of her all-time favourite poems “Snow” by Louis MacNeice. Catherine and Jessica explore the poem’s abundance, beauty, complexity and mystery. Jessica reads her poem “Was Grandmother Lonely Too?” and we see how snippets of family stories come together to make a poem.2023-02-1232 min
The Hummingbird PodcastPoems That Find Us Part TwoWhat happens when we put loss and hunger on the page? Catherine reads the poem "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop and talks about how this poem opened up new pathways in her writing journey. Jessica shares the story behind her recent discovery of the poem "The Hummingbirds" by Mary Oliver. All this and more. Plus hummingbird cake!2023-01-2230 min
Gobsmacked!12. Gary 'Machine' McKee & Gary 'Mankini' GrahamGary 'Machine' McKee & Gary 'Mankini' Graham. Two of West Cumbria's finest fellows. Gary '365 consecutive marathons' updates us on the last year and the after feels of raising £1.3 million for Cancer Charities. Gary Graham - Ex Met Officer - gives us a most extraordinary Gobsmacked moment helping to avert a massive terrorist attack, as well as illuminating us on his alter ego as a Mankini Wearing Poet Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-01-0639 min
The Hummingbird PodcastLooking Out & Looking InWe talk about ways we move between the inner and outer world and share a quote by Pearl S. Buck. Catherine reads her poem “Doll’s Eyes” and discusses the role dolls played in her childhood to muscle her imagination. Jessica talks about the need to better understand the language of feelings and shares her poem “Begin Again.”2023-01-0130 min
The Hummingbird PodcastBeing an HSPAs two HSPs (Highly Sensitive Person) we talk about the impact this trait has on our creative lives. Jessica reads the Emily Dickinson poem, “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” and shares a story about the unexpected gift that arrives when letting go. Catherine reads her poem “The Bullied” and we explore the power of the inner life. Plus Orchid and Dandelion Children, intuition and trust.2022-12-0429 min
The Hummingbird PodcastWrite What You KnowWe talk about how this widely known writing rule both serves and doesn’t serve our creative journeys and explore variations such as: write to know. Catherine reads her poem “MRI” from The Celery Forest and discusses the relationship between the real and the imagined. Jessica shares her poem “This Morning a Mirror” and talks about presence and absence, the “welcome” and the “worrisome” in a landscape she loves.2022-11-2731 min
The Hummingbird PodcastPoems & SongsWe explore how songs make their way into our poetry. Jessica and Catherine read Jessica’s poem “Act 3” and talk about the balance of passion. letting go, and how with every blackout there’s always hope. Catherine reads her poem “I Thank You Burt Bacharach” and we explore how songs transport us and what it means to “live in the poem.”2022-11-1330 min
The Hummingbird PodcastShivers & BlackoutsWe explore the blackout in the creative process—as pause, as gap, as moving deeper into surrender. Catherine shares her poem “For A Lost Stepdaughter” and how it came to be. Jessica and Catherine read Jessica’s poem “Act Two” and we explore what it evokes. We talk about what leads to worries and fears plus the never ending flux of the creative process.2022-11-0630 min
The Hummingbird PodcastCreative Space & VoiceWe step into another creative portal by exploring voice. Catherine shares her poem “The Queen Is Not Welcome Here” and the story behind it. Jessica and Catherine read Jessica’s poem “Act One” and Jessica shares why the image of the jar continues to capture her imagination and work its way into her poems. We talk about the exchanges between the external and internal, beginnings and endings, and after each “blackout” the importance of hope.2022-10-3029 min
The Hummingbird PodcastHow to Get into a Creative Space: The TiltWhat do we do as creators to tilt our journey towards a creative space? We discuss various ways to enter in. Catherine shares the story behind her poem “The Red Element” and Jessica shares her work-in-progress poem “Being Poetica.” We ‘ache and soak’ our way into the creative journey.2022-10-2331 min
The Hummingbird PodcastKeep the Channel OpenWe kick off the season’s first episode by sharing a quote by Martha Graham about what it means to “keep the channel open.” We discuss our hummingbird vision through identity, signs and synchronicities. We also explore two poems: “Hummingbirds” by Patrick Lane and “Sketch in October” by Tomas Tranströmer. We are happy to be back!
We had some technical difficulties with sound in this episode as we get used to new equipment. By the next episode we will have sorted things out and they will be much improved. Thanks for your patience!2022-10-1630 min
Strategic Families36 - Cultivating Joy & Wonder in Our Parenting (with Catherine Claire Larson)In this episode, Graham interviews author and mom of 6 boys, Catherine Claire Larson, about her new & upcoming books and excellent thoughts on parenting. Catherine reminds us that parenting is both a responsibility and a joy and that the discipleship of our kids is absolutely critical work for the kingdom. Catherine is the author of two books, Waiting in Wonder: Growing in Faith While You're Expecting and As We Forgive. Her upcoming books will be Watching in Wonder (for moms of babies) and Walking in Wonder (for moms of toddlers). In this episode, we cover:Feeding on Jesus whenever and however...2022-08-1435 min
Eh Poetry Podcast - Canadian poems read 3 times, each with a slight difference.Wave by Catherine GrahamCatherine Graham's book Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric *Finalist for the Trillium Book Award* *Finalist for the Toronto Book Awards* now out with Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books.
The Most Cunning Heart (novel), Spring 2022, Palimpsest Press.
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected appears Spring 2023, Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books.
Graham now lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches creative writing, mentors privately, leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors Book Club, is an interviewer for Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts / Toronto International Festival of Authors By the Lake Boo...2022-05-2403 min
The Hummingbird PodcastWhat Branches Above Us and Spreads BelowWhat branches above us and spreads below: How two poets connect with the oak tree.
Catherine shares the story behind her poem “Oak” from The Celery Forest and Jessica shares the story behind her poem “On Being a Tree” from The Thing with Feathers. We talk about the thin line between the living and dead, dreams, ancestors, mothers, air-dancing and what it is to be inside a song.2022-05-0830 min
The Hummingbird PodcastHidden Passages & the Energizing Spin of SpringCircles, beginnings, awakenings and bursts. Catherine reads her poem “Chthonic” from Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects. We explore a poem’s soundscape and how poems communicate with each other. Catherine talks about how the colour red is key to her work and Jessica talks about how ideas move towards us or away from us to find a home. We explore cycles and season and what thoughts are with us when we’re writing. Also process as art and writing by hand.2022-05-0129 min
THE TMR PODCASTGuest: Catherine Graham, S2, E12: April 25, 2022A most enjoyable chat with Toronto poet and author Catherine Graham about high school English class, our mutual experiences with rock quarries, and the importance of chapbooks for poets. Catherine also does a reading from her new novel "The Most Cunning Heart", and finally we talk about writing spaces.
The Most Cunning Heart - Palimpsest Press
The Hummingbird Podcast – with Catherine Graham and Jessica Outram
Wolsak & Wynn (wolsakandwynn.ca)
Catherine Graham – Catherine Graham's website
2022-04-2540 min
The Hummingbird PodcastThe OtherworldlyThe Otherworldly: The ease and unease embedded in transformation. We explore fairy trees, the wee folk, thorns, blooms and portals. Also, secret gardens, hums and hummingbirds and the real estate of the poet. Catherine reads an excerpt from her second novel, The Most Cunning Heart, and Jessica reads her poem “If She Had a Secret Garden” from The Thing with Feathers. What is it to travel further into the self? Plus connections, relationships and how stories help us to see and be seen.2022-04-2432 min
The Hummingbird PodcastThe BetweenThe Between: from writing to publishing to letting the book go. We talk about good questions to ask an author, energetic tendrils and the intimacy of the first person. Catherine reads an excerpt from her second novel, The Most Cunning Heart and Jessica talks about her first poetry book, The Thing with Feathers.2022-04-1730 min
The Hummingbird PodcastLooping Back to BeginCelery trees, human-watchers—we start with Catherine’s poem “What Birds They Were” and explore other eerie things. Then we explore about how it is we find our way through poetry to link the real and the unreal. We chat about the impact art galleries have had on our creative process— where life and art intersect—and how what inspires us has its own time line to surface. This was the case for Jessica’s forthcoming book, Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold.2022-04-0329 min
The Hummingbird PodcastHow Birds Inspire Us and Fly Into Our WorkWe talk about the connection between birds and poetic process. Catherine shares her poem “The Lifting” along with its backstory. Jessica shares the Christi Belcourt poem “In Neither Hope Nor Despair, Birds Fly.” We talk about how poetry invites us into a pause and takes us to profound places. We finish with Catherine’s bird poem “What Birds They Were” from The Celery Forest. Through air and motion, we take flight!2022-03-2728 min
The Hummingbird PodcastCalled Into a Crowd of Feathers: Omen/GiftIn this episode we talk about the challenges of balancing work and life and creative projects, the value of signs and what seeps into our skin. Catherine shares an excerpt from Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric and Jessica shares a powerful dream. We explore synchronicity, mystery and the energy in the unexplainable.2022-03-1331 min
The Hummingbird PodcastSeason Change and Worry Dollls“As if the top of my head were taken off,” writes Emily Dickinson when it comes to knowing poetry. In this episode we talk about how poetry is tied to the body. Jessica reads her poem “Season Change” and Catherine reads her poem “Worry Dolls.” We talk about perception, alignment of energies and how inanimate objects “speak” to us if we listen.2022-03-0632 min
The Hummingbird PodcastContinuing the Conversation: Poems that Inspire Other PoemsWe talk about Catherine’s poem “Peas & Barbies” from Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects and the impact of Dorothy Molloy. We also discuss the glosa, deconstructed glosa, peas, rules and breaking rules and how we naturally link our own lived experience when reading poems. All this and we talk about “choir peas” too.2022-02-2731 min