“I’m talking about these themes that can constitute discomfort, depending on what the listener looks like. My intention when giving the information is for there to be a dialogue based on the information.” [4:30]“When you say ‘I don’t see color,’ you’re dismissing all of the people that do… My approach is to open up minds so that the ignorance won’t be so wilful” [7:05]“I’m not DIY in the ‘I want to do everything myself way’; I’m DIY in the ‘I want my input to be considered way.” [10:19]“I was listening to the new Da Baby record…He has a cool energy.” [14:28]“You can pull inspiration from anywhere” [15:25]“I’m very into music. I have a great ear. I feel like I know enough about how things sound to know what notes I can’t hit…” [17:26]“I took one hip-hop class and I wasn’t even the best one! I just know that I don’t consider myself to be a dance so it’s funny when people are like, “You’re such a good dancer.” [18:55]“[My sisters] are just really talented people. Involving them just makes the most sense.” [20:00]“I don’t have to be as critical of being a good music because my standards are really high.” [25:08]“My competitiveness, my musicality? That’s kind of instilled.” [26:12]Haviah Mighty's 2019 tour is coming to Halifax (October 26), Mississauga (October 27), Edmonton (November 7), Calgary (November 8), and Brampton (November 30). Tour dates can be found on her site.  

Cavern of Secrets

Featuring Haviah Mighty

“Dad had Parkinson’s. He found that seal fat was very helpful. The cousins who hunted - in the beginning, they would bring us neat little packets of seal...but towards the end, they were just leaving, like, half a seal in a bucket.  [5:40]“He was always embarrassed that I wasn’t a lady. And I was always like, “You taught me to buck wood and change oil. I don’t remember any tea parties.”" [7:00]“I find [that] if I try to write to an outline or if I write to a plan, my muse gets inhibited.” [14:14]“I was realizing how few years I have left if I’m writing a book about every five years. Okay, there are books I won’t be able to write.” [21:30]"I also don’t have a lot of anxiety about what people think about me. I remember being very concerned about that. And them menopause just wipes that out.” [22:40]

Featuring Eden Robinson

“You should strive to be the person you needed when you were younger.” [3:27]“I had to learn how to feel safe in myself. And that was a hard-fought lesson.” [7:40]“It was also really important to me to be a strong loner.” [8:45]“Anytime I have made a platform for myself that is based on anger or taking up space to be vocal about sexual assault or harassment or anything like that, I have left that space feeling tremendously guilty.” [9:20]“I feel like everybody has a little invisible suitcase with them and in that suitcase is their anger.” [11:17] “Now that I’ve gotten more powerful just by virtue of getting older, I’m less angry. Even though there’s so much to be angry about, but I’m not walking around the world furious in the way that I kind of used to be.” [12:35]This is when I learned to ask for forgiveness, not permission: When I asked my mom if i could sleep over in an orchard in Grimsby Ontario with a bunch of boys and my mom was, like, absolutely-the-fuck-not.” [15:35]“I’ve stopped thinking about happiness as a state or a promised land or a quest. I’ve started thinking about it as a fog that just kind of comes or goes away…” [22:30]“Something out there does not want me to have a stable place to live...Something out there wants me to get used to be transient.” [26:45]

Featuring Carly Lewis

“If there’s something that calls for my voice to be raised at all in a really loud way, I can push it if I want to and I most of the time really want to. But it’s a bad idea.” [4:43]“I had always wanted to make comics but I didn’t feel like I was good enough to start. Which is a terrible trap to be caught in.” [5:34]I hit send. I woke up the next morning and I felt - god, I’m gonna sound like such an asshole right now - I felt the closest thing I can to enlightened.” [10:05]It’s much harder for us to accept something that changes constantly and it’s much harder for the wide broad us to accept complication” [14:55]“It’s also fascinating to collaborate with someone and have her voice at the centre of it but she can’t see what I’m doing. She’s exercising a massive amount of trust…” [17:00]“This idea of disability as a shift in health paradigm as the rest of the world to accept is something that I’m grappling with” [24:00]“I could see all the accommodations that were being made for people who had those different needs and being in that space and sharing it with them was not a detriment to my experience in any way” [28:05]

Featuring Georgia Webber

 “In a lot of ways, editors only hit me up when it’s like ‘ooh, we need a little spice here’ which is annoying.” [9:55]The thing about when you make something your brand. And I don’t know how it happened but I associated myself with Garfield but it happened somehow. And to this day, people are always sending me something to do with Garfield. Like, people who do not know me. And it feels great But again, I’m like, “Oh no is this why I’m single?” [10:50]“I was walking down Bloor with my friend and I was really sad and crying, then I was like “What’s Garfield doing on that storefront?” [11:59]“I spent my whole life thinking, “Julia Stiles? She’s got RHYTHM. Only to realize now that she cannot dance” [21:37]“I didn’t go to my prom. I went to Dairy Queen.” [23:51]

Featuring Sarah Hagi

“My friend Lindsey [Weber] who is a host of and creator of Who Weekly says the best dirt - the worst dirt - is in a little-known podcast before [someone] got super famous.” [3:12]“I’m not sure confidence is real. I think it’s something we’re projecting onto other people…” [6:01]“Everyone’s trying and not sure they’re doing it right” [9:18]“One thing that [divorce] gave me was: I was so sad, I was just very heartbroken that it didn’t work. It led to this wonderful freedom. These petty occupations that have taken up so much of my time ... I care a lot less about things but in a way that feels good.” [10:18]“In a way, the very difficult emotional things was...very good?” [12:54]“I’m doing a lot of developing [tv shows] right now and production companies will say, we don’t want to limit you, you’re the creative. And in theory, that’s nice. I feel like that episode where school closes and Lisa Simpson is jumping around in front of Marge and saying “Grade me! Please! Grade Me” [15:00]“It’s such a disaster to say you’re writing a second book because everyone believes you.” [16:15]“On LUSH products, there's a picture on the bottom of the person who made the product and it was this man named Brandon and he had big ear spacers. Every time I was putting my thigh chafe cream on, I just pictured Brandon saying "Good for you. You do whatever's good for you."” [18:57]“All my favourite shows are British comedies so I just want to go over there and [say] “Please please, here I am!” [25:12]“They have a list of awards that you can win “or equivalent”. And I had to say that the Canadian Screen Awards is the Emmys for Canada. Just put it on your list! It’s real!” [26:55]

Featuring Monica Heisey

The specific way men interview women (5:05), Rory Gilmore, journalist (17:17), and the Avril Lavigne riots of 2021 (48:27)

Featuring Vicky Mochama

Saving lives and fighting fires (13:58), protesting at Standing Rock (23:16), and riding in cars with cops (37:18)

Featuring Courtney Skye

The glamorous life of an intern (8:20),the incredible whiteness of CanLit (22:15), and playing video games for the story (44:40).

Featuring Léonicka Valcius

The O.C. at the height of its O.C.-ness (7:00), is this bolognese feminist? (19:00), and where were you when A Seat at the Table dropped? (39:38)

Featuring Kyrell Grant

Flossing to live (7:27), shining in a shiny room (21:44), and the blessed life of a comedy writer (33:52).

Featuring Dawn Whitwell

Embracing your accents (9:12), little voices yelling things (14:25), and the high cost of telling your story (17:47).

Featuring Namugenyi Kiwanuka

Branding yourself a feminist (06:37), defining care and ability (12:01), and pouring one out for Sum 41 (22:30)

Featuring Lauren McKeon

Terrible Calvin Klein ads (12:23), building safer raves (32:07) and how to get into Berghain (40:41)

Featuring Cindy Li

Does anyone need an MBA? (10:48) knowing what you want in your 30s (15:41) and slamming some kombucha and sinking into the ocean (34:02).

Featuring Anupa Mistry

A show about extraordinary women, hosted by Lauren Mitchell. From Vocal Fry Studios.

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Cavern of Secrets

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