Hey! This is b and i’m here to share with you what’s coming up on Season 4 of Tiny Conversations.

I am so excited about this next season! Season 4 is filled with short conversations on big ideas, all with people under 18 years old. You’ll hear guests like:

• Ivy, 3
• Grey, 13
• Zoe, 8
• Aaron, 11
• Pascal, 14

Each episode will feature a conversation with one young person on a topic that is personal to them. And the topics covered are as unique as the guests.

Topics covered in Season 4 include:

• Being transgender
• Bullying
• The difficulty of making friends
• Over-thinking and feeling pressured
• What it’s like to live the life of a 3 year-old

Season 4 of Tiny Conversations is coming soon and will be available to listen wherever you get your podcasts. Click here to subscribe.

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On this episode of Tiny Conversations theatre performer Michelle Polak discusses creating connection and hope with her latest peace “Leaving Still”.

Michelle is a multiple award winning interdisciplinary actor, creator, teacher and mother. She has performed nationally and internationally, and is also the first woman in Canada to receive the Patrick Crean Award.

Michelle is using her art to create positive change, inspire others and create hope in the world. Host Brian Cauley invited Michelle to be on this show after seeing a performance of “Leaving Still” at Nuit Blanche. The play starts with Michelle offering to make someone a sandwich. It ends up with people squished inside a freight elevator that is intentionally reminiscent of the trains that took Jewish people to Auschwitz. On the walls were pieces of brown kraft paper with words written on them. Things like: “from nothing to something” “addiction” “home” and more.

Listen to the episode as host Brian Cauley asks Michelle about:

• How she created this piece.
• How she is moving past her demons and to a place of “survivor”
• The emotional toll it took to perform this piece and create the hope she describes.

If you’re in New Brunswick you can see Michelle perform as The Snow Queen in “The Snow Queen” at Theatre New Brunswick.

What is the most moving piece of theatre you’ve seen? Did it change your life? Comment below, send Brian an email, or tweet @briancauley.

Below you can listen to the full conversation between Brian and Michelle, where they parenthood, what Michelle’s dad thought about a first reading of the play (he tore it down) and her thoughts on Donald Trump and how the US Election is similar to 1940s Germany and the Holocaust.

http://briancauley.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Episode_33-FULL_INTERVIEW-Michelle-Polak-Creating-Hope.mp3

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On this episode of Tiny Conversations Wendy Zukerman, Host of Science Vs, discusses pitting facts against popular opinion.

Wendy is the host of the very popular podcast, Science Vs. Each episode tackles an issue like Gun Control, Fracking, Attachment Parenting and the G-Spot only using science.

Wendy says the goal of the show is to pit science against something she calls “The Opinionated Mob”. In this episode host Brian Cauley asks Wendy:

• Why science is so important to her
• Some of the difficulties of hosting a show that often will contradict many people’s opinions
• What she hopes for the future

You can get all episodes of Science Vs here and you can reach Wendy on Twitter @WendyZuk. If you live in or near Toronto, you can watch Wendy do a live episode of Science Vs at the Hot Docs Podcast Festival on Saturday November 19 in Toronto.

What do you think about the current state of science in North America? Has science changed your opinion on a popular topic? Comment below, send Brian an email, or tweet @briancauley.

Below you can listen to the full conversation between Brian and Wendy, where they talk about the opinionated mob, the various kinds of guests of Science Vs and Wendy’s thoughts on the Patriarchy.

http://briancauley.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Episode_32-FULL_INTERVIEW-Science-Vs-Others-Wendy-Zukerman.mp3

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