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Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroParalyzed by a Bullet | Driven by PurposeAt 21 years old, Gerard Marrone was shot while protecting his sister—an act that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors told him he’d never walk again. But that moment didn’t break him—it built him.
In this gripping episode, Gerard shares his unbelievable journey from a hospital bed to the courtroom as a high-profile criminal defense attorney. He opens up about the dark days of recovery, the role faith played in his healing, and how a single nurse’s compassion sparked a fire inside him that never went out.
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2025-07-151h 16
Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching PodcastLive from the LTC: Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching ConferenceIn this special edition of Podagogies, Chelsea and Curtis sit down with faculty, contract lecturers, and staff attending Toronto Metropolitan University’s 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference has been a tradition every May at TMU for over thirty years. From considering the impacts of GenAI, to imagining more collaborative, caring, and inclusive learning spaces, members of TMU’s teaching community share their thoughts and insights from this year’s event.
Many thanks to James Loney and Rachel Tekabo from TMU Libraries’ Digital Media Experience (DME) Lab for providing equipment and support for this recording. Photo credits: Nick Duarte and Robyn Jo...
2025-06-0934 min
Podagogies: A Learning and Teaching PodcastLive from the LTC: Conversations from TMU's 2025 Learning and Teaching ConferenceIn this special edition of Podagogies, Chelsea and Curtis sit down with faculty, contract lecturers, and staff attending Toronto Metropolitan University’s 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference. The conference has been a tradition every May at TMU for over thirty years. From considering the impacts of GenAI, to imagining more collaborative, caring, and inclusive learning spaces, members of TMU’s teaching community share their thoughts and insights from this year’s event. Many thanks to James Loney and Rachel Tekabo from TMU Libraries’ Digital Media Experience (DME) Lab for providing equipment and support for this recording. Photo credits: Nick Duarte and Robyn Jo...
2025-06-0934 min
ConstraintsDirector/Co-Producer Tom McHaleGuest: Tom McHaleIndustry: TheatreProject: Outliers Theatre CollectiveIn this, the final episode of Constraints, Tom McHale of the Outliers Theatre Collective and I talk about the creative drive needed for the project of independent theatre and the post-project-blues that is common to all creative activities - this podcast included. Theatre was a fitting industry to end this series with, as every interview felt like a live performance. Stay subscribed to this podcast for announcements about future podcast projects from Hi-Fi Handiwork Inc. related to project management and creativity. Learn more about...
2025-06-0935 min
ConstraintsDevelopment Manager Rebecca RogersGuest: Rebecca RogersIndustry: FilmProject: Financing an Independent FilmWell, we’re almost at the end of Constraints - just one more episode left after this one. So it’s fitting we get a guest from a repeat sector to allow a bit of a deeper dive into a particular creative industry. Rebecca Rogers shares the details and challenges of the development and finance phases, and describes how creativity is as much a part of those as in the production and post-production phases. Learn more about the expansive producing chops Rebecca has at w...
2025-05-2637 min
ConstraintsReverend Joe HopkinsGuest: Reverend Joe HopkinsIndustry: Streetsville United ChurchProject: Expanding the CircleWhen each generation is so different and geographical distance creates varied cultures that then intermingle through immigration, how do religions communicate in a way to appeal to everyone? Reverend Joe Hopkins faces that challenge in just one region of the Greater Toronto Area, and shares his navigation of a new vision statement, enlarging his circle of followers, and preparing for the United Church of Canada’s 100-year celebrations.https://streetsvilleunited.ca/ https://youtube.com/@streetsvilleunitedchurch8286
2025-05-1234 min
ConstraintsStand-up Comic Jesse SinghGuest: Jesse SinghIndustry: Stand-up ComedyProject: Making it in CanadaWhat obstacles could there possibly be to making it in stand-up comedy? Interestingly, being Canadian doesn’t actually help. Jesse Singh discusses this further, and describes what ‘making it’ actually means. Follow Jesse on Instagram and TikTok @punjabitimbit and listen to his comedy special Baby Goat on most streaming platforms.
2025-04-2831 min
ConstraintsAcademic Cheryl ThompsonGuest: Cheryl ThompsonIndustry: AcademiaProject: Writing an Academic BookDr. Cheryl Thompson’s new book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom 1812-1897 comes out this month, and we discuss the creativity inherent in finding the story that ties together facts in an authentic and truthful way. Find out more about Dr. Thompson’s work at: www.mobaprojects.ca www.drcherylthompson.com@theblackcreativelabwww.linkedin.com/company/mobaprojects
2025-04-1733 min
ConstraintsConceptual Artist Serkan ÖzkayaGuest: Serkan ÖzkayaIndustry: Conceptual ArtProject: David Inspired by MichelangeloWhat is a conversation about constraints when it comes to creating art? Well, like the advice you get if you don’t like the weather in the Maritimes, just wait five minutes. From time, to cost, to scope, it’s not a matter of whether Serkan Ozkaya’s artistic vision will be realized. No matter the how, when, or how much, it will happen. https://serkanozkaya.com/
2025-03-3135 min
ConstraintsChef Jagger GordonGuest: Jagger GordonIndustry: Culinary ArtsProject: Feed It ForwardChef Jagger Gordon has dedicated his life and career to saving food from being needlessly wasted and is building an empire that includes restaurants, markets, programs, books, and whatever other tool he can use to spread the message about the inordinate amount of food that is thrown away each day. And it’s working. Combining a clear vision, dedication, and energy he is proving that when it comes to food rescue, if you build it, they will come. Visit these links to...
2025-03-1733 min
ConstraintsChange Participant Edison ChungGuest: Edison ChungIndustry: ProtestProject: 2019 Hong Kong ProtestsDon’t think protest movements fit in a podcast about project obstacles in the creative industries? Well, challenging our understanding of what a creative industry is, is one of the mandates of Constraints. In the wake of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party’s decision to disband, participant of change Edison Chung describes the “shared emotion” that brought 2 million people out to the streets of Hong Kong to protest in 2019.
2025-03-0334 min
ConstraintsCostume Designer Gillian SteinhardtGuest: Gillian SteinhardtIndustry: Film & TelevisionProject: Music Videos Sometimes you just aren’t given the freedom of creativity on a particular job that you would prefer; but when you love the process of dressing an actor to help them realize their character, you learn to advocate for your vision no matter the circumstances. And when the freedom is there? Well, that’s why Gillian does what she does.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826062/https://gilliansteinhardtjewelry.com/
2025-02-1728 min
ConstraintsProfessional Astrologer Nick Dagan BestGuest: Nick Dagan Best
Industry: Astrology
Project: Following His Passion
Do historians work in a creative industry? Their product is the narrative of historical events told through their unique perspective, and in as much as there is creativity required to produce each unique explanation, so too can we say that the output is creative. For Nick Dagan Best, his calendar mind has always viewed Astrology as a way to narrate history, and over the last thirty years, has made a career out of his passion for viewing the world through the lens of...
2025-02-0333 min
ConstraintsNewspaper Publisher Dave BidiniGuest: Dave BidiniIndustry: Newspaper PublishingProject: Creating the West End PhoenixOn this, the inauguration day of President Trump, I speak with Dave Bidini, founder of the West End Phoenix- a Toronto local print newspaper- about the constraints of funding and promotion in an age when the importance of alternate news outlets from reliable sources is more important than ever. Recorded on site at the WEP headquarters, I could feel the sense of community that is the foundation of all that WEP represents...
2025-01-2028 min
ConstraintsClothing Designer Karuna ScheinfeldGuest: Karuna Scheinfeld
Industry: Fashion
Project: Clothing Brand
Sometimes the drive for creativity is bigger than the satisfaction of attaining great heights and accolades in your creative industry. For Karuna Scheinfeld, this meant leaving her role of Chief Product Officer at Roots to pursue not only her own unique line of clothing, but a business model that challenges the way the fashion industry operates.
https://fourobjects.com/
https://www.instagram.com/fourobjects/p/C12qgIQMZnK/
2025-01-0631 min
ConstraintsProject Manager Jenn DoanGuest: Jenn Doan
Industry: Gaming
Project: Fall Cry 6 Stranger Things Extension
For a podcast about project management, we don’t actually have a lot of project managers on the program. That’s why it is a pleasure to have Jenn on, who is not only a PMP (project management professional), but works in a newer sector that had to determine its own optimal project management approach. Part story-telling, part software development, part movie-making, the gaming production process is fascinating not only from a project management perspective, but for anyone wondering how this multi-billion doll...
2024-12-2330 min
ConstraintsPerformer Pierre AlexandreGuest: Pierre Alexandre
Industry: Performance
Project: Self-Identity
Whether he’s on stage with legends like Gloria Estefan and Cher, performing across Europe in various Broadway Musicals, or on RuPaul’s Drag Race Holland as Love Masisi, Pierre Alexandre, known as Pierry as a child, has always looked for the play in his performance career. On this episode of Constraints, he shares an exclusive, inspired by an epiphany that unites him with his authentic self and marks a new trajectory in an already impressive career.
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2024-12-0930 min
Movimento Estensione VitaVIDEO-Il pane tostato, la carne alla griglia, fanno bene, fanno male, cosa è meglio fare?Ci sono una serie di alimenti, come il pane, che cambiano colore quando sono sottoposti ad alte temperature; il pane, per esempio, contiene amido e con il calore l'amido si decompone.
Questo produce una cosa che si chiama "Reazione di Maillard"; questa reazione è una reazione chimica tra aminoacidi e zuccheri riducenti che crea melanoidine.
Questo tipo di reazione prende il nome da un chimico francese, Louis Camille Maillard, che la descrisse per primo nel 1912 mentre tentava di riprodurre la sintesi proteica biologica.
Molte ricette r...
2024-11-2912 min
Movimento Estensione VitaSCIENZA:Il pane tostato, la carne alla griglia, fanno bene, fanno male, cosa è meglio fare?Ci sono una serie di alimenti, come il pane, che cambiano colore quando sono sottoposti ad alte temperature; il pane, per esempio, contiene amido e con il calore l'amido si decompone.
Questo produce una cosa che si chiama "Reazione di Maillard"; questa reazione è una reazione chimica tra aminoacidi e zuccheri riducenti che crea melanoidine.
Questo tipo di reazione prende il nome da un chimico francese, Louis Camille Maillard, che la descrisse per primo nel 1912 mentre tentava di riprodurre la sintesi proteica biologica.
Molte ricette r...
2024-11-2912 min
ConstraintsAgile Wrangler Jon KernCreative Industry: Software Development
Project: A Software Project with a Hard Deadline
It was very cool to speak with one of the co-authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Jon Kern. As I argue in this episode, he is a true rock star of project management and he proves it as he explains how agile project management is a true art of balancing the constraints of scope, time and budget by understanding the client’s vision - sometimes better than them. He is based in the U.S. and we spoke th...
2024-11-2532 min
ConstraintsFashion Designers Jennifer Halchuk and Richard LyleCreative Industry: Fashion
Project: Entrepreneurship
To kick off Toronto Fashion Week, we present Toronto fashion pioneers, Jennifer Halchuk and Richard Lyle. Constraints have constantly shifted over the more than three decades that these two have been partners, but they have successfully navigated the landscape of the Toronto fashion scene by keeping various pies in the air from starting their own label, to opening an iconic boutique shop, to working in the film & television sector. They carved their own unique path from their days at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, and they’re...
2024-11-1130 min
ConstraintsExecutive Director Maxine BaileyCreative Industry: Charitable Organization - Film
Project: Implementing a Vision
At its November 13 to 15 meeting, Toronto City Council will vote on whether to adopt Culture Connects: An Action Plan for Culture in Toronto (2025-2035). This episode’s guest, Maxine Bailey, was on the city’s external advisory panel for the action plan’s development. She also co-founded the Black Artists Network in Dialogue (BAND), which showcases Black cultural contributions nationally and internationally, and is on the advisory board for the Luminato Festival Toronto. She shares with Louis her many insights on the challenges she faced establ...
2024-10-2832 min
ConstraintsDocumentarian Adrienne AmatoCreative Industry: Documentary Filmmaking
Project: Mbira Talks
It’s no secret that time constraints can help motivate the creative process - a deadline is often a great motivator. But as Adrienne Amato learned, sometimes value can come out of time extensions. In her case, set-backs allowed aspects of her documentary about the Zimbabwean traditional musical instrument, the Mbira, to reveal themselves and enrich the film in ways that wouldn’t have been possible if everything had gone to plan. Also, since working as a therapist gave Adrienne the freedom and flexibility to pursue her love of f...
2024-10-1432 min
ConstraintsArts & Culture Advocate and Placemaker Joe SellorsCreative Industry: Outdoor Public Art Festivals
Project: Ai Weiwei Installation at Nuit Blanche
How do you stay true to an artist’s vision when tasked with rebuilding one of their works? Well, that’s a tricky question given the best of circumstances. What about when the art piece is a sculpture made up of thirty-two hundred bicycles assembled outdoors? Let’s also make it thirty feet tall, about twice the height it’s ever been. And let’s say the artist is under house arrest on the other side of the world and you don’t speak the...
2024-09-3029 min
ConstraintsAuthor Claire HumphreyCreative Industry: Publishing
Project: Book Tour
In a changing society where self-promotion through social media is the norm, some of the responsibilities typically taken on by the publisher have been shifted to the author. Claire Humphrey shares how she had to redirect her creative energy to tackle all three project constraints. She shares her experience working with a small support staff for finding the right venues at the right stages of the book launch, finding her own affordable travel and accommodation solutions, carving out time for touring while maintaining an income...
2024-09-1629 min
ConstraintsPromo ClipLouis Marrone has been a PMI certified project manager since 2009 and managed large-scale events and installations in the sports entertainment and museum industry for fifteen years. He is currently pursuing a master’s in Communication & Culture at TMU/York with a focus on project studies and creativity. He teaches project management in the Creative Industries program at TMU and has hosted and produced campus radio shows, various podcasts, and multiple pieces in arts and culture for CBC Radio1.
2024-07-0200 min
Route 66 Il Mito Americano#5 MISSOURI e KANSAS, i due stati centrali della Route 66Da St. Louis a Joplin, da Galena a Baxter Srings, Missouri e Kansas si dividono una parte molto importante della Route 66; il primo con le sue 316 miglia, è uno dei più significativi del percorso, mentre il secondo è lo stato con meno miglia di tutta la mother road, soltanto 13. Il Missouri, è uno degli Stati più belli, dove la Route 66 si inserisce sinuosa all’interno dei fitti boschi che caratterizzano gran parte del percorso. Ci sono molti ponti lungo il tragitto, uno dei più famosi di tutta la Mother Road è proprio qui, si tratta del Devil’s Elbow Bridge. Lungo le 316 miglia, potrete inc...
2021-08-1603 min
Gangland WireThe Utica New York Crime FamilyCam and I discuss a little-known mafia family in upstate New York. From 1970 to 1992, Salvatore and Joseph Falcone led organized crime in Utica, NY. This family went back to the late 1930s. They were a powerful crew of the Buffalo, NY Maggadino Family, also known as The Arm. The New York State troopers arrested both men at the Apalachin Meeting in 1957. This crew was made up of approximately 15-20 “made” members. the famous witness, Joseph Valachi, claimed they were a separate family but it is more likely they were a powerful autonomous crew under Stefano Magaddino.
In 1972 the older...
2020-03-1600 min
Gangland WireThe Utica New York Crime FamilyCam and I discuss a little-known mafia family in upstate New York. From 1970 to 1992, Salvatore and Joseph Falcone led organized crime in Utica, NY. This family went back to the late 1930s. They were a powerful crew of the Buffalo, NY Maggadino Family, also known as The Arm. The New York State troopers arrested both men at the Apalachin Meeting in 1957. This crew was made up of approximately 15-20 “made” members. the famous witness, Joseph Valachi, claimed they were a separate family but it is more likely they were a powerful autonomous crew under Stefano Magaddino.
In 1972 the older...
2020-03-1631 min
The REal and Raw Show with John MarroneDrop the Ego and Start Living in the State of Resourcefulness!- With Emily FrisellaDropping her ego & leveraging her resourcefulness to save her first business and take it from $42.86 to $647,000 in 7 months at the age of 21 Emily Frisella has created massive success. She is a twice published author of The Fresh Farmhouse Kitchen with her second book releasing Fall 2019, Clean Eating Chef, Creator of Fit Home & Health, Co-host of the Food in Session Nutrition Podcast, Founder of The Women in Business Workshop and COO of 44Seven Media, Business Coach & Public Speaker. Named third in the Top 5 Female Entrepreneurs in St Louis."
2019-08-0742 min
Football Garbage Time: The Podcast!Football Garbage Time NFL Podcast - New Head Coaches & Super Bowl XXXVI Edition!Ha Kung Wong and Ryan Whitfield of Football Garbage Time discuss:
New Head Coaches in the NFL including:
Doug Marrone at the Jacksonville Jaguars,Vance Joseph at the Denver Broncos,Sean McDemott at the Buffalo Bills,Sean McVay at the Los Angeles Rams,Anthony Lynn at the Los Angeles Chargers, &Kyle Shanahan at the San Francisco 49ers,A Special Look Back at Super Bowl XXXVI between the New England Patriots and the St. Louis Rams,AND MUCH MORE!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-02-1632 min
Next Fan Up NFL News & ReactionNFL Divisional Round Playoff Preview - 1/12/17Another SUPER-sized playoff preview from PodVader and the SuperFans including Neil (Redskins), James (Eagles), Rob (Bills), Patrick (Patriots) and Kevin (Cowboys). This week we kick off with the Playoff games:5:30ish - Seahawks vs Falcons25:30ish - Texans vs Patriots47:30ish - Steelers vs Chiefs1:13:20ish - Packers vs CowboysAfter the game previews, around the 1hour 43minute mark, the guys jump in on the news that the Los Angeles Chargers of San Diego are now a thing. What a generic looking logo? And what is the deal w...
2017-01-122h 06