Alberta Podcast Network
‘For Kicks’ feeds your need for women’s soccer talk
Now that Canada has qualified for the Women’s World Cup in France in 2019, For Kicks is here to get you ready to cheer for our country’s most successful soccer team!
The podcast is hosted by Jessica Cooreman and Katie Woodfine, two soccer-mad fans who cover the women’s national team closely, as well as uplifting the women’s game at all levels in Canada.
“We strongly believe this team and the sport in general are sorely under-covered in traditional media, despite being one of the best teams in the world,” they say. “Fans are starved for content. We think this is a way we can make a positive contribution to the community.”
Their passion for the game is infectious, and listening in on their conversation will both inform you about the players, and invest you in their remarkable story.
Let’s learn a little more about the team behind For Kicks:
Q.Why should people listen to your show?
A. We prepare well for episodes, so we have real information to share, but our format is also super casual — we go off script, and we share opinions, predictions and have even been known to make bets. We’re also longtime friends, and we think we have pretty good chemistry. So, if you care about women’s soccer but also want to be kinda entertained by two goofy ladies, our show might be for you.
Q. What is the most interesting comment you’ve ever received from a listener?
A. “It’s always nice to listen to you, not just that you know so much, but you also talk about the sport as it should be done, with joy, happiness, and love. Too many soccer podcasts and studio shows are so dead serious that they may as well be from the UN headquarters.”
Q.If you could have any guest on your show, who would you choose and why?
A. Christine Sinclair. She epitomizes soccer in Canada and is overall the most humble, lovely human. We have so much admiration for her.
Q. What podcasts do you listen to?
A. Katie: Stuff Mom Never Told You when it was hosted by Cristen Conger and Caroline Irvine, who now host Unladylike. Also Serial, Reply All, The Content Strategy Podcast, StartUp, Freakonomics, The Habitat, Sleepover, This American Life.
Jessica: Burn It All Down, Punch Up The Jam, In The Dark, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, NPR’s Embedded, Queery, Nancy, Loyal Company of the River Valley, Real Crime Profile, Walkcast.
Q. How did you meet?
A. We met through mutual friends at a gay bar in 2005 and have been best buds nearly ever since. We didn’t know we both liked soccer till the 2015 Women’s World Cup — more proof women’s soccer is not part of our culture’s conversation.
Q. What has been your favourite episode so far and why?
A. We’ve got so much better at this since, but a favourite has to be the episode where we interviewed Karina LeBlanc. Karina is practically a national hero. She’s an Olympic medalist and one of the best keepers in the women’s game, so the fact that she agreed to talk to us, and was so lovely and gracious, was huge for us and an experience that set the stage for us to take on other big interviews.
Be sure to connect with For Kicks on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Over the next several weeks, Todayville will introduce you to members of the Alberta Podcast Network, so you can invite even more Alberta-made podcasts into your ears! Find For Kicks and dozens of other shows at albertapodcastnetwork.com.
About Alberta Podcast Network
The Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, is on a mission to:
- Help Alberta-based podcasters create podcasts of high quality and reach larger audiences;
- Foster connections among Alberta-based podcasters;
- Provide a powerful marketing opportunity for local businesses and organizations.
Alberta Podcast Network Ltd. is pursuing this mission with funding from ATB Financial and support from other sponsors.
If you’re interested in looking after yourself a little better — and who isn’t? — Healthy Lifestyle Design provides an easy and pleasant step in the right direction.
This is a podcast featuring Janet and Pamella Heikel, a mother and daughter who believe “it takes only a single step to make a positive change in your life: body, mind, and soul.”
Every two weeks, they have frank, intergenerational conversations about health and wellness, grounded in their own experiences. They also offer tips and suggestions, and the episodes often end with a few minutes of guided meditation, to send you into the rest of your day in a more relaxed frame of mind.
Each episode features not only useful insights, but also just the pleasure of hearing two people with a deep love and respect for each other.
Let’s learn a little more about the women of Healthy Lifestyle Design:
Q. What will people get out of listening to your podcast?
A. Perhaps inspiration, feeling connected to a community, solutions to their health and wellness challenges, a different point of view.
Q. If you could have any guest on your show, who would you want?
A. Janet would want Oprah for sure, just to have the chance to talk to her about how they both are very determined women who don’t let anything hold them back! Pamella would want Peter Rollins. He is a co-host of The Fundamentalists podcast and a modern-day philosopher from Ireland. We would talk about God, religion, and the human condition, while sipping gin.
Q.What podcasts do you listen to?
A. Rob Bell’s The RobCast; You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes; The Fundamentalists; Armchair Expert; Bliss and Grit; Conversation with Alanis Morissette; SuperSoul Conversations; Serial; Under the Skin with Russell Brand; Move Your DNA; The Living Experiment.
Q. Do you have any unusual hobbies or talents?
A. Pamella is a poet (something she doesn’t always talk about but would define herself as solely). Janet is ambidextrous.
Q. Write your own epitaph — what would it say?
A. Pamella: I loved and lived deeply and died passionately.
Janet: I came. I saw. And lived it ALL my way.
Q. What has been your favourite episode and why?
A. Episode 75, Samskara: We got a lot of traction with this topic from listeners. We talked about what this word/idea is and how it shows up in our life. It finds its way into almost all of our episodes. The idea of repeating habits and patterns; stored energy; clinging to life that is always changing. It was a great conversation.
Click to listen to ‘Samskara’
Be sure to connect with the show through Pamella on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook, and Janet on Instagram.
Over the next several weeks, Todayville will introduce you to members of the Alberta Podcast Network, so you can invite even more Alberta-made podcasts into your ears! You can find Healthy Lifestyle Design and dozens of other shows at albertapodcastnetwork.com.
About Alberta Podcast Network
The Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, is on a mission to:
- Help Alberta-based podcasters create podcasts of high quality and reach larger audiences;
- Foster connections among Alberta-based podcasters;
- Provide a powerful marketing opportunity for local businesses and organizations.
Alberta Podcast Network Ltd. is pursuing this mission with funding from ATB Financial and support from other sponsors.
If you’re looking for advice and inspiration from someone who walks her talk, look no further than Girl Tries Life.
Host Victoria Smith provides women with “the tools, strategies and inspiration to live their best lives.” And she knows whereof she speaks.
Her podcast recently passed the 100-episode mark, which is all the more impressive when you know she had a toddler son when she started, and gave birth to her daughter last year. Plus she has spun her work off into a business, called Stress Less Ladies, which has been accepted into the ATB X incubator.
Girl Tries Life alternates between interviews with women who are living incredible lives and continue to strive for more, and coaching episodes to tackle specific challenges that Smith has observed and sometimes lived through herself.
Let’s learn a little more about empathetic, knowledgeable host of this show:
Q. What will people get out of listening to your podcast?
A. Inspiration from the badass women that I interview. And every coaching episode provides a tangible tool, skill or mindset shift to help them with their daily challenges.
Q. If you could have any guest on your show, who would you want and why?
A. Catherine Reitman, the creator of Working Moms. It’s an incredibly funny show, she’s whip-smart, and I think her perspective on how women can move up in the workforce even when their resumes don’t reflect it would be incredible.
Q. What podcasts do you listen to?
A. Pod Save America, HPX, Rise Podcast, Rise Together, Rise Without Compromise, Armchair Expert, Here to Make Friends
Q. Do you have any unusual hobbies or talents?
A. Does podcasting count? Also, avoiding piles of Lego and other small sharp toys my son leaves on the floor.
Q. Write your own epitaph — what would it say?
A. It’s not about the achievements, it’s about putting in the effort and enjoying the journey.
Q. What has been your favourite episode and why?
A. So hard to choose! Probably one of my favourites would have been when I interviewed Bryony Gordon to talk about mental health. She is someone who I have so respected, and is so well known in her field. I’d say she was my “big fish” of interviewees.
Be sure to connect with Smith on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Over the next several weeks, Todayville will introduce you to members of the Alberta Podcast Network, so you can invite even more Alberta-made podcasts into your ears! You can find Girl Tries Life and dozens of other shows at albertapodcastnetwork.com.
About Alberta Podcast Network
The Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, is on a mission to:
- Help Alberta-based podcasters create podcasts of high quality and reach larger audiences;
- Foster connections among Alberta-based podcasters;
- Provide a powerful marketing opportunity for local businesses and organizations.
Alberta Podcast Network Ltd. is pursuing this mission with funding from ATB Financial and support from other sponsors.
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