What’s Your Idea
Featured interviews
Artists, business owners, and generally interesting people discuss the ideas that inspired the product or project of their choice in long-form conversations that are then edited from the transcription. These conversations are intended to be informative, honest, and hopefully inspiring.
“Can I do that? You can do whatever you want”: My conversation with Hollay Ghadery on her poetry collection “Rebellion Box”
An interview with author and poet Hollay Ghadery about poetry collection Rebellion Box (2023). We discuss the book’s development, writing, and editing process and her favourite poets and poems from the collection.
Serving the Venn diagram of Canadian movie lovers and collectors: My conversation with Pascal Fortin from Rough Cut Video
An interview with Pascal Fortin, the owner of Rough Cut Video, Canada’s boutique Blu-ray retail store.
The stories we tell ourselves, the stories we are told, and those too often untold: A conversation with Hollay Ghadery about her memoir “Fuse”
An interview with author and poet Holaly Ghadery about her memoir Fuse (2021). We discuss the book’s development, writing, and editing process and her approach to honesty and truth.
The unusual vulnerability of washing a stranger’s feet: Our conversation with author Catherine Bush
Our conversation with Catherine Bush, the Canadian author of the story story collection Skin and five other novels.
Uplifting young voices to create change through “A Thousand Tiny Awakenings”: Our conversation with co-editors Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew
Our conversation with Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew, the co-editors of their anthology A Thousand Tiny Awakenings, which collects the voices of young artists in the pursuit of advocacy and activism.
Integrity, flexibility, and diverse funding: Iryna Baturevych’s insight on persevering for success
A conversation with Iryna Baturevych, co-founder of Chytomo, the Ukrainian arts and culture platform dedicated to promoting Ukrainian literature.
Patricia MacDonald’s essential advice on building a freelance editing business by choosing a niche
Our conversation with Patricia MacDonald, a Canadian editor who specializes in editing books about sports and athletes. We discuss how she built her business and the key factors that drove her success.
“Woman, Life, Freedom”: How Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom developed their feminist poetry anthology
Our conversation with Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom, the co-editors of the poetry anthology “Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution”
Gael Spivak’s transformation of the communications plan for the ISO plain language standard
Our interview with Gael Spivak, with a focus on her idea to establish communication guidelines during the process of publishing the ISO plain language standards.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part three of three)
Part three of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part two of three)
Part two of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.
Victoria Narizhna from Kovyla Publishing on the inspiration for “Stories from Ukraine” (Part one of three)
Part one of our interview with Victoria Narizhna, the founder and editor in chief of Kovyla Publishing. Kovyla Publishing is a a new Ukrainian publishing house focused on new Ukrainian voices.