This week Heather and Amy are wrapping up October with some reflections. Heather is back from touring on the road with her man. Amy is getting vulnerable about her worst nightmare coming true and they are sharing some of the Fall traditions that are getting them into cozy season.

Grab a warm cup of something and join us.

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Beatrice Deer is an award-winning Inuk and Mohawk singer-songwriter, designer, and seamstress who grew up in the tiny village of Quaqtaq, Nunavik, and moved to Montreal in her twenties. She calls her sound "Inuindie," a mix of indie rock, folk, and throat singing, sung mostly in Inuktitut with flashes of English and French. She's also been sewing her own clothes since she was 13, and in 2023 her work was seen around the world when Governor General Mary Simon wore an annuraaq Beatrice made for her to the coronation of King Charles III.

It's a conversation about culture, craft, and what it means to carry stories forward, whether in a song or a garment.

Find Beatrice:

🌐 Website: https://beatricedeerband.com 📷 Instagram: https://instagram.com/beatricedeerband 🎵 Bandcamp: https://beatricedeer.bandcamp.com

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Ben Viapiana is a one-man denim brand, a fount of knowledge about all things jeans, one of our favourite makers to follow on IG, and a fellow Canadian. Ben started making his own jeans at sixteen after asking his dad, an Italian-trained tailor, to teach him; "It's too late," his dad said, but he spent the next few years teaching himself as much as he could through trial and error and dogged determination.

What began as a teenage curiosity turned into a decade in Thailand building an entirely self-taught custom denim operation, and now a one-man shop in Toronto producing everything from small batch in-house releases to big production runs for clothing shops, using his collection of over two hundred industrial sewing machines.

Heather sits down with Ben in his studio to talk about how he taught himself denim construction from scratch, why finishing every project (even the ugly ones) matters more than getting it perfect, the difference between sewing jeans on a domestic machine versus a full industrial lineup, and the wild story of how a chance conversation with a customer turned into an amazing trip through Japan's denim mills. Fair warning: they nerd out hard on jean construction and industrial sewing machines, so this one's a great listen if you love getting into the weeds, and also just a genuinely fun conversation if you don't.

Find Ben on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/viapiana_custom_denim/ or check out his work at https://benviapiana.com/.

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