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Hosted by Jeff Humphreys · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 231 episodes
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The Calgary Sessions is a podcast about the people who make Calgary interesting. Hosted by Jeff Humphreys, each episode is an honest conversation with artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, and community builders about where they came from, what they have learned, what they are building, and what life has taught them along the way. It is a way to get to know the city through the people who live here.
Jeff Humphreys hosts The Calgary Sessions, a society show with 231 episodes published.
Mandy Balak has spent more than a decade building businesses, communities, and experiences across Calgary. Behind that work was a much less visible story about pressure, grief, survival mode, and the belief that more wor
Evan Birch spent nearly 20 years in emergency dispatch, including roles with STARS and Calgary 911. He became the person who could stay calm, carry pressure, and help people through some of the worst moments of their liv
Louis-Julien Roy moved west from Quebec in 1996 to climb and guide. What started with construction work, long days in the mountains, and a small sales territory eventually became Mountain Exposure, a Calgary-based busine
Matt Gillespie is the President, CEO, and Executive Producer behind Joe Media Group, but his path into production started long before the company did. In this episode, Matt talks about growing up in Wetaskiwin, finding v
Colby Delorme is a Métis entrepreneur, President of Imagination Group of Companies, and co-founder of Influence Mentoring Society. In this episode, Colby talks about growing up in Winnipeg, moving to Calgary, and figurin
Danijel Slisko has been self-employed for almost 30 years, starting in commercial painting before building a wider path through Calgary construction, marketing, technology, and publishing. In this episode, Danijel talks
Andrew Ferguson is the owner of Kensington Wine Market, but his story started long before he owned the shop. He began as the delivery driver. It was supposed to be a short-term job over Christmas, but he liked the people
Chris Cederstrand is a former hockey player, firefighter, Team Canada sledge hockey player, public speaker, and founder of AMP Hockey in Calgary. In this episode, Chris shares the story of growing up in Saskatchewan hock
Ann Zee is the founder and director of the Holistic Institute of Health and Fertility in Calgary, a clinic focused on fertility, acupuncture, women’s health, pregnancy, postnatal care, and perimenopause. In this episode,
Dan Owen owns Owen Construction and OCL Studios, whichsounds like two completely different worlds until you hear the story. Dan started out playing drums in Calgary, then spent yearson the road with his band, playing bar
In this episode of The Calgary Sessions, Alex talks about growing up in Buenos Aires, finding theatre as a young person, moving to New York, studying arts education, working at Lincoln Center, and eventually making his w
Kim Shore is a safe sport advocate, former gymnast, speaker, writer, and mother. In this episode, Kim shares her story of growing up in gymnastics, moving to Calgary as a young athlete, competing at a high level, and lat
Paul Boucher is a Calgary-based bilingual voice actor andnarrator whose career has moved through radio, corporate narration, eLearning, commercials, and voiceover work for clients around the world. In this episode, Paul
Karly Jacobsen went from working hospital shifts to helping build a beverage company with her brother. After a hiking accident pulled her out of nursing, she stepped into the early days of Rviita, a Calgary-based better-
Rob Sawchuk returns to The Calgary Sessions as the first repeat guest on the show, and this conversation carries a lot more than the episode 200 milestone. Jeff and Rob talk about what changed over the past six years, fr
Lana Rogers is the founder of Gentle Lion Communications, but this conversation is about a lot more than marketing. We talk about burnout, self-awareness, hospitality, accidental entrepreneurship, and what it looks like
April Brown is the founder of Rootbar, but this conversation is about more than building a salon brand. We talk about the discipline that shaped her early, from competitive soccer to starting in the hair industry at a yo
Jill Dewes spent years in the high-stakes world of advertising,eventually becoming a partner at Daughter Creative. But long before the big brand launches and the 80-hour work weeks, she was a student with a degree in Anc
What makes a person walk away from a decade of stability in tribal politics to start over as a "starving student" at 40? In this episode of The Calgary Sessions, Adrian Stimson shares the grit it takes to move from a pos
What does it actually take to go "all in" on a vision? Tommy Wheeldon Jr., the Head Coach and GM of Cavalry FC, joins the show to share the story behind the "Burn the Boats" mentality that helped him build a professional
April Brown
Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Services · Therapist in Sarasota
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Morgan
Carroll County Board of Commissioners Chairman · Sharpen Partners
1 appearance on this show
Colby Delorme
Imagination Group of Companies
1 appearance on this show
Alex Sarian
Werklund Centre
1 appearance on this show
Karly Jacobsen
Rviita
1 appearance on this show
Lana Rogers
Gentle Lion Communications
1 appearance on this show
Tommy Wheeldon Jr.
Cavalry FC
1 appearance on this show
Peter Izzo
CappuccinoKing
1 appearance on this show
Dane Thorogood
Templ Brewing
1 appearance on this show
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