The Social Stuff:Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by Coop

Grown Up

The Season 1 Finale

Gajan Balan is an ambitious individual with a thirst for creative and unique solutions. His time is divided between building success for retail environments, developing personal creative projects, and striving to be the best brother, husband, and father.His specialities include content creation, talent development, public speaking, data analysis, branding, sales strategies, time management, web design, photography, personal coaching, and more.Find out more about Gajan at here. Follow Gajan on Instagram and Facebook. Shop his photography prints from Bokeh Blink here.  The Social StuffFollow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.

The Content Creator | Gajan Balan

About Our GuestErica Wernick is Hollywood's leading success coach. She empowers and motivates others to live their wildest dreams and share their gifts with the world. Find out more about Erica at http://www.hollywoodsuccesscoach.com/.  Follow Erica on Instagram and Facebook. Click here to add yourself to the waiting list for news about Erica's forthcoming book. The Social StuffFollow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com

The Hollywood Success Coach | Erica Wernick

Sheryl Puckering’s passion for empowering children spans decades. She is a qualified teacher with a B.Ed. and a B.A.Sc, specializing in Child Studies. She has taught Kindergarten through to Grade 3, along with Special Ed and currently provides enrichment programs for gifted students from Grades 4 though 8. Sheryl is a graduate of the DevaTree School of Yoga with certification in the HeartRise Yoga for Children Training program.She is an instructor and mentor for Roots of Empathy and spends time in local schools working with students, families and teachers. Bhava Tree combines Sheryl’s experience, dedication and love for working with children, helping to ensure their success in school and life. She strives to provide tools and programs to help children live happy, healthy, balanced and joy-filled lives. Visit her website at: www.bhavatree.comThe Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:05:05Interview Begins - 00:06:43The Social Stuff:Follow Sheryl Puckering on Instagram and Facebook. Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopFacts You Heard:Information on the history of kids yoga:https://kids.kiddle.co/Yogahttps://www.kidsandyoga.com/historyofyoga.html

The Kids Yoga Teacher

Steve Meulemeester has spent 20 years working to remove bugs and rodents from businesses and homes. After spending 16 years with a large pest control company he broke out on his own and started First Defence Pest Control. It’s truly a family business now that his wife Carrie has come on as the handler for their bed bug sniffing dog. Visit his website here: https://firstdefence.ca/ The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:04:22Interview Begins - 00:07:28 The Social Stuff:Follow Steve’s company on Instagram and Facebook. Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.  The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com Sounds You Heard:Theme Music by Coop Facts You Heard:Ameritech History (written by the “Pest Control Poet”)Information on the history of pest control:Cornell Timeline of Pest Control AdvancesThis Book and This Book on bugs being taken to courtGeneral History after the 12th century

The Pest Control Expert

About Our Guest:Sarah Graham has served as a paramedic for 13 years in a rural community one county over from her hometown. She attended York University in Toronto for Kinesiology and ran track and field. In her late 20’s she left the beginnings of a career in kinesiology to pursue her dream of becoming a paramedic. She lives in Paris, Ontario with her husband and two kids.  The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:04:59Interview Begins - 00:07:19 The Social Stuff:Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.  The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com Sounds You Heard:Theme Music by Coop Facts You Heard:Information on the history of paramedics:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292612762_Historical_Perspectives_in_the_Ambulance_Servicehttps://www.ottawaparamedics.ca/before-9-1-1/history-of-paramedicinehttps://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/ambulances1.htmhttps://www.jems.com/2013/10/08/birth-ems-history-paramedic/

The Paramedic

About Our Guest:Chris Carrow is a full-time clown and beekeeper in Christchurch, New Zealand. He and his wife Lisa have been performing as the duo ‘Carrot and Pickle’ for over 30 years. The pair also run a circus school through the Christchurch Circus Trust that offers Circus lessons and workshops for kids and adults (more info here: http://chchcircus.co.nz/). To see a photo documentary done recently on Chris and Lisa and how the Christchurch Earthquake affected their lives and their work click here. The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:05:30Interview Begins - 00:08:38 The Social Stuff:Like Carrot & Pickle on Facebook. Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram.  The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com Sounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopAudio of Carrot & Pickle performing at this link. Sound of birds singing in the foothills in Governor’s Bay, New Zealand, recorded by Avery.  Facts You Heard:Information on the history of clowns:General History - https://mckinleysclowncorner.com/history.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown#OriginHistory of Joseph Grimaldi - http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/joseph-grimaldi/History of Ronald McDonald - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald

The Clown

About Our Guest:Tom Brain owns and operates a boutique mushroom farm from his backyard outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. After spending seven years with the New Zealand Air Force and another five with Auckland City Police, Tom moved to Christchurch and opened Oak & Spore. He sells his oyster and shiitake mushrooms at the Lyttelton Farmers’ Market on Saturdays. “Oak and Spore mushrooms aren’t just food,” Tom says. “They are a combination of science and art, which creates something truly delicious.”Visit the Oak and Spore website for more information, and to view his online store which provides mushroom growing supplies for New Zealand hobbyists.Tom also hosts a YouTube channel with great information how to grow mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAb4KY7PfwoWV0OzoJ8bWkQ The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:05:55Interview Begins - 00:08:17 The Social Stuff:Tom’s Reddit post titled “I quit 12 years of government work to start a mushroom farm” can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/e8mtcr/i_quit_12_years_of_government_work_to_start_a/Subscribe to Tom’s YouTube Channel. Follow Oak & Spore on Facebook too.Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram.Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.com Sounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopNew Zealand National Anthem performed by the United States Navy Band | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_national_anthem,_performed_by_the_United_States_Navy_Band.wav#filelinksAudio from Tom’s YouTube channel (from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3jSMDh4xw&t=12s) Facts You Heard:Information on the history of cultivating mushrooms from:GroCycle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt-_MmdKAVAThe Department of Botany at the University of Hawaii | http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect16.pdfInformation on an existing mushroom cave in Paris, France: https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2013-03-03/gourmet-mushroom-cave-loire-valley-france-vacation

The Mushroom Farmer

About Our Guest:Kristy Kirkup is a political reporter who has worked for Canada’s largest media companies over the past decade. She began her career at CTV News in Ottawa followed by stints with Sun Media, CBC News and The Canadian Press before joining The Globe and Mail. She has travelled internationally with two prime ministers and across Canada for multiple election campaigns. In 2017, she was part of a CP team that won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism for a series about sexual trauma in Indigenous communities. She was also nominated for a National Newspaper Award for the same project. She is passionate about using the power of journalism to shine a light in dark places and to lift up the voices of the silenced and forgotten. (courtesy of The Globe and Mail)The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:05:14Interview Begins - 00:08:10The Social Stuff:Follow Kristy Kirkup on Twitter. Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopFacts You Heard:Info on the history of journalism in the Roman Empirehttps://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/journalism#History_of_journalismInfo on early newspaper publicationsbritannica.com/topic/newspaperInfo on Gutenberg’s printing presshttps://www.history.com/topics/inventions/printing-press#section_4Info on first newspapers around the globehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1998/02/11/a-history-of-newspaper-gutenbergs-press-started-a-revolution/2e95875c-313e-4b5c-9807-8bcb031257ad/Info on the history of Canadian Newspaperhttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-newspapers-in-canadaInfo on history of The Globe and Mailhttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/globe-and-mailVideo on the pronunciation of Floddenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo6miqL71YI

The Political Reporter

About Our Guest:Heather Taylor is a midwife in Brantford, Ontario at the Brantford Community Midwives - https://www.communitymidwivesofbrantford.ca/. Heather joined the Community Midwives of Brantford in 2005 after completing her midwifery training through Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. Originally from Northern B.C. and more recently from Western Quebec, Heather now calls Paris, Ontario home.The Time Stamps:History of the Job - 00:03:24Interview Begins - 00:05:35The Social Stuff:Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. The Business Details:Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Theme Music by CoopAdditional sounds in the episode:A thank you to Laura for letting us record sound of her newborn Isobel during one of her first home visits with Heather. Facts You Heard:Information on the History of Midwiveshttps://people.howstuffworks.com/midwife2.htmBiblical passages that reference Midwiveshttp://www.ccbirthcenter.com/midwifery-bible-i/?doing_wp_cron=1575433473.8874320983886718750000#:~:targetText=Mention%20in%20the%20Bible&targetText=The%20Hebrew%20term%20translated%20%E2%80%9Cthe,and%20in%20Exodus%201%3A16.History of Women Healers (including witchcraft claims in the Middle Ages)https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.82.2.288History of Midwives in Ontariohttps://www.jogc.com/article/S0849-5831(98)80058-X/pdfBirth Statistics from the Canadian Association of Midwiveshttps://canadianmidwives.org/midwifery-across-canada/#1467634074483-f50b550d-db87Statistics on Midwifery-led births in the UShttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642827/Etymology of the Word Midwifehttps://www.etymonline.com/word/midwife

The Midwife

About Our GuestDerek Botten is a voice over artist based in Ontario, Canada. Learn more about his business on his website www.derekbotten.com. Make sure you follow him on Twitter.The Social StuffFollow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Follow host Avery Moore Kloss on Twitter and Instagram. Grown Up is produced by Folktale Studio. We help bring audio stories to life through podcasting and personal history projects. Visit www.folktalestudio.ca for more information.More on Grown Up at our website -- www.grownuppod.comSounds You Heard:Au Clair de la Lune recording from 1860Click HereThe Jack Benny Show archival tapeClick HereFive Minute Mysteries archival tapeClick HereTheme Music by CoopAddition music in the episode:reCreation - airtone featuring mwichttp://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721Facts You HeardInformation on Canadian inventor Reginald Fessendenhttps://www.ieee.ca/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.htmlVoices.com Survey on the Voice Over Business (2015)https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/article.htm?id=757PPBXJ

The Voice Over Artist

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