Changing the world, one mind at a time, For What it's Worth...“For What it’s Worth” is an interview-based podcast series which focuses on exploring innovative ideas for a changing world; ideas related to people, culture, business, education, science and more. The show features well-known guests from across a variety of industries and disciplines, each presenting their views, theories, and predictions about issues related to new ways of thinking, working, and learning. From education to techn ...
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Send us a text Tony Marra joins us in an inspiring discussion on the convergence of running, mental health, and film making. Tony's latest project, "Billy Runs Boston," beautifully captures the emotional and mental aspects of the sport. Drawing from his own experiences, he explores how running interweaves with personal struggles and triumphs, enric…
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Another Modest Proposal ...with a nod to Jonathan Swift
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Send us a text Prepare to light up your imagination as we take you on a whimsically satirical journey back to the smoke-filled rooms of yore. Remember when a cloud of tobacco was synonymous with deep thought in university halls and spirited camaraderie in our favorite bars? We'll entertain the fantastical notion of reviving this golden era, complet…
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Lucky Time Part 2 with Tracy Jones & Douglas Cameron
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Send us a text When the chords of life strike a dissonant note, it's the art of music that can guide us back to harmony. The latest instalment of Pass the Jam, Part 2 of 'Lucky Time' , I'm joined by Douglas Cameron for the inaugural "passing of the jam" to our next artist in residence, Tracy Jones. This episode offers a masterclass in dedication, f…
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Lucky Time - with Tracy Jones - Pass the Jam
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Send us a text When Tracy Jones strums his guitar, it's not just about the notes—it's his life's story in the strings. Tracy doesn't just play music; he lives it, breathing life into his songs while fostering thoughtful , personal reflection and a community spirit. This week's episode takes you on a sonic journey through the heart of Tracy's artist…
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The Man of a Thousand Faces - The Playlist
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Send us a text Well Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2024, we turn our attention to our music series #passthejam Over the past several months, the music of our current artist in residence,# DouglasCameron's has been a cornerstone of the show. Songs, like the soul-stirring "Doctor," underscored our episodes. We were drawn into his tales wher…
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A.L.M.A - Journey into the AI Frontier with Eric Monteiro - Part 2
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Send us a text Embark on a thought-provoking journey, as we continue our fascinating conversation with Eric Monteiro. We attempt to unravel the complex tapestry of AI, free will, and the human condition, offering insights that promise to challenge your perspectives on a future with generative AI. Our discussion spans the ethical quandaries of AI's …
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A.L.M.A - Journey into the AI Frontier with Eric Monteiro - Part 1
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Send us a text What if our future was not just shaped by human intelligence but also artificial intelligence? This week on "For What It's Worth", we explore one possible future in a world dependent on Generative AI as we sit down with Eric Monteiro, analytics expert, robotics engineer, and author, through the lens of his science-based novel ALMA. W…
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The Power of Mathematics, Innovation & Optimal Learning, with John Mighton -Part 2
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Send us a text Have you ever considered how intellectual inequality in education might be a root cause of socioeconomic disparity? Join us as we dive deep into this thought-provoking issue with our guest, John Mighton, the founder of Jump Math. We take a hard look at intellectual inequality, a hidden yet pervasive issue in our society, and discuss …
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The Power of Mathematics, Innovation & Optimal Learning, with John Mighton
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Send us a text Ever wondered why some people are naturally good at math while others struggle ? Get ready to debunk the myth of the 'math gene' as we chat with one of Canada's most distinguished innovators, John Mighton. A self-taught mathematician, John takes us on a fascinating journey from his diverse background in mathematics, literature and th…
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Exploring Mathematics, Innovation, AI Futures, Affordable Housing, and the Power of Music: A New Season Kickoff
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Send us a text Welcome to a new season of For What It's Worth that promises to be a whirlwind journey through the world of innovation, music, and social issues. Our first guest is John Mighton, whose contributions to the fields of Mathematics, Literature, Drama, Education and Social Entrepreneurship are nothing short of extraordinary. His charity o…
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Send us a text As we are set to begin Season 5 of #ForWhatitsworthwithBlakeMelnick, we figured it's time to update the show trailer for the benefit of our new listeners prior to the launch of the new season. The show began in June 2020 and oh what changes have occurred since that time ... The storming of the U.S. capitol; The impeachment of Preside…
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, called #TakeFive, the final episode of Season 4 of the show. Thanks to all the wonderful guests we've had on the show this season - #DrTomCarey #DrTerrySoleas #StephenCohos, #DrRuthBackstrom, #TomPowers and #SueSiri . And my special thanks to you, our listeners. I've…
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The Space [inbetween] - What We're Watching, Reading & Listening to
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Send us a text This Week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, our next instalment of #WhatWereWatchingReadingandListeningto on #TheSpaceinbetween. As in the past, I'm joined by my co-host, #CameronBrown to discuss our recommendations for what to watch; what to read, and what to listen to as the Summer draws to a close. We have some great picks for …
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Eyes Wide Open with guest, Sue Siri
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the next installment in our series #ManyFacesofInnovation, #EyesWideOpen - my interview with #SueSiri, Founder and CEO of #IrisBooth. Often times good ideas "die on the vine" so to speak, because at the time the idea was conceived, there was no context to which it could be applied. In so…
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the trailer for our up and coming episode, the next instalment in our series #TheManyFacesofInnovation, called #EyesWideOpen with my guest #SueSiri, Founder of #IrisBooth. Sometimes the opportunity for innovation is right in front of us. It's not necessarily an idea that's new to the wor…
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Power of Ideas Part 2 with Dr. Ruth Backstrom
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick , part two of my interview with Dr. #RuthBackstrom author of #IgnitingaBoldNewDemocracy . In part one, Dr. Backstrom and I discussed the context for change; the eroding belief that our democracy can provide for the needs of all our citizens. In part two, we pick up from where we left off …
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The Power of Ideas Part 1 with Guest Dr. Ruth Backstrom
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorhwithBlakeMelnick, Part 1 of my interview with Dr. #RuthBackstrom, author of the recently published book #IGNITINGABOLDNEWDEMOCRACY: Empowering Citizens Through Game-Changing Reforms. In Part 1 of our interview, Dr. Backstrom discusses her background and the motivation for wanting to write her book; The roo…
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Send us a text We are all acutely aware of the stark polarization in our world; We have begun to lose faith In our political, social and economic systems. Our belief that our democracy can provide adequately for our citizens, is fraying at the edges. We have lost the art of open minded discourse and it would seem that we no longer value perspective…
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Entrainment & The Power of Sound - Part 2 with Tom Powers
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and our #ManyFacesofInnovation series, is part 2 of #EntrainmentandPowerofSound, with my guest @TomPowers. In part one, Tom explained the Theory of Entrainment and his “aha!” moment when he realized that something in music had changed post 1995. We had inadvertently lost the natural inter…
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Entrainment & the Power of Sound - Part 1 with Tom Powers
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the next instalment of our #TheManyFacesofInnovation series, called #EntrainmentandthePowerofSound with my guest @TomPowers. In this episode, Tom explains the concept of #Entrainment - the natural synchronization that occurs in the mechanical world; the biological world; the social world…
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Entuitive Ennovation - Part 2 with guest Stephen Cohos
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part of our Many Faces of Innovation series with my guest, Stephen Cohos from #EntuitiveEngineering in Calgary, Alberta. In part one of our interview, Stephen and I discussed Entuitive's innovation ecosystem, their goals and objectives for trying to create a culture of innovation in thei…
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Entuitive Ennovation - Part 1 with guest Stephen Cohos
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the next instalment in our series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation, we focus on innovation at the organizational level. For those of you new to the series, here's a bit of a recap. #TheManyFacesofInnovation Series is designed to make innovation more understandable, accessible, and actionable t…
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Understanding the Motivations to Innovate Part 2 with guest Dr. Terry Soleas
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Send us a text Well, Happy New Year and welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatIt'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is part two of our episode, #UnderstandingthMotivationtoInnovate with my guest, #Dr.TerrySoleas from #QueensUniversity. Dr. Soleas's seminal research on the factors which motivate people to innovate is key to making innovation more unde…
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Understanding the Motivations to Innovate - Part 1- with guest Dr. Terry Soleas
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Send us a text In this episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the #MotivationstoInnovate, my guest is #DrTerrySoleas from #QueensUniversity in Kingston Ontario. Terry and I discuss #Innovation, Invention and the difference between the two. We share stories and insights about innovation with the collective goal of making innovation more unders…
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Employee-led Innovation and the Quality of Work - Trailer
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the season 4 trailer for our series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation, #EmployeeLedWorkplaceInnovationand theQualityofWork, where we speak with innovators from across multiple fields of endeavour to hear about their innovation journey and through their stories, seek to better understand how to …
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Little Feat A.G. - Playlist Episode
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick an episode of #TheSpaceinBetween called #LittleFeatAG. As our listeners know, we've been doing a fairly deep dive into the music of Little Feat. I had a great interview with Mr. Bill Payne, co-founder and pianist for the band, and during that interview we discussed the need to encourage n…
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Straight from the Heart - Part 2 - With Bill Payne of Little Feat
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatItsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part 2 of my interview, #StraightfromtheHeart with my guest, the great #BillPayne from #LittleFeet. In part one, Bill and I discussed the recent tour, his early musical influences, the renewed power of music in our tumultuous times, and his short lived career as a dr…
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Straight from the Heart Part 1 - With Bill Payne of Little Feat
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Send us a text This week on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick, part 1 of #Straightfromthe Heart, my interview with the great #BillPayne, keyboardist and co-founder of #LittleFeat. I spent a lot of time listening to interviews given by Bill over the years , looking for a different angle, something that we could talk about that perhaps nobody has talk…
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Season 4 Trailer & Night On The Town with Little Feat
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Send us a text We're Back! Welcome to season 4 of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and #TheSpaceinBetween. We have a great season in store for you and we're kicking it off where we left off at the end of season 3 - our multipart episode featuring #LittleFeat and their 45th anniversary tour of #WaitingforColumbus. In this episode we also celebrate t…
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Feats Don't Fail Me Now - The Trailer
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Send us a text We have an exciting announcement for y’all! We are going to be having #BillPayne, Co-Founder and Pianist extraordinaire of #LittleFeat as a guest on #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and #TheSpaceinbetween! This will be a multipart experience encompassing the journey from #VictoriaBC to #SeattleWa to see #LittleFeats 45 Anniversary To…
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The Space [inbetween] What we're listening to; What we're Watching, and What we're Reading
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Send us a text This week's episode of #thespaceinbetween, #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick,#WhatwerelisteningtoWhatwereWatchingandWhatwereReading. This is the second last episode of season three of the show. We're going to be taking a bit of a hiatus to recharge our batteries and prep for next season. But for this episode, I'm bringing back my old …
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The Space [inbetween] Answering the Stones
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Send us a text This week on #TheSpaceInbetween, #AnsweringTheStones another moment in time from Tom Locke's great new book by the same name In the late fifties and early sixties, music fans were introduced to answer records, songs that were sometimes a parody or a sequel to established hits. A few that come to mind are Jeanie Black's, "He'll have t…
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Man of a Thousand Faces - Part 2 - Pass the Jam
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of # forwhatitsworthwithBlakeMelnick, #AManofaThousandFaces part of our #PasstheJam series. This is part two of our interviewwith our new #ArtistinResidence #DouglasCameron. In part one Douglas, and I discussed his motivation for music, his career, his stories, and the bands he fronts and has played wit…
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Man of a Thousand Faces - Part 1- Pass the Jam
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Send us a text This week on #forwhatit'sworthwithBlakeMelnick. is the next instalment in our #PasstheJam series, called #ManofaThousandFaces. #PasstheJam, highlights the work of both experienced and emerging musicians. For the past month or so. We've been featuring the music of our current artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell for all the intros and…
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The Set List - Long Haired Country Girl
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #thespaceinbetween. As we mentioned in our last episode, it's now getting time to pass the jam. For the past month or so, we’ve been playing songs from our current artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell for all the intros and outros to our episodes. Now we'll be playing all of these songs in their enti…
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Truth, Regeneration & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick called #TruthRegeneration&IndigenousWaysofKnowing with my guest Lee Jay Bamberry of the #YOUTheatreMovement My guest on #forwhatitsworth is a member of the #Micmac Band His recent desire to probe more deeply into his #indigenousheritage has resulted in a remarkable pe…
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Send us a text This week on #TheSpaceinBetween, another #MomentinTime from #TomLocke's new book by the same name. In this episode Tom pays tribute to Bubble Gum music with a 1969 hit single. According to an early 1969 article in #Cashbox Magazine, a Welsh newspaper called #MiningNews had mentioned the hard rock music of a group of coal miners who w…
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Music Man - Part 2 with guest Tom Locke
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is part two of my interview with #TomLocke, author of a fantastic new book called #MomentsinTime, an interactive musical Odyssey that traces the history of rock and roll from the forties, right through to the end of the seventies. In our last episode, Tom discus…
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Music Man Part 1 with guest Tom Locke
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatIt'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick, called #MusicMan part 1, with my guest, @TomLocke, music fan, and author of an amazing new book called #MomentsinTime #MIT. Click HERE for the blog post for this episode. Click HERE to purchase a signed copy of Moments in Time at a special price We have been featuri…
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Baby Come Back -The Space [inbetween]
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Send us a text Welcome this week's episode of #TheSpaceinbetween, another rock 'n roll memory from #TomLocke 's new book, #MomentsinTime. The time is 1968. Today's featured artist was born in British Guyana and moved to London in 1960. He formed a Jamaican / British rock/reggae quartet and had a massive hit in 1983 with #ElectricAvenue which made i…
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Chapter 3 - The Old Guitar - The Interview Part 2 - In The Company of Readers and Writers
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Send us a text This week on #forwhatitsworthwithBlakeMelnick we return to our story called#TheOldGuitar with guest #DouglasCameron, part of our new series #InTheCompanyofReadersandWriters. This is chapter three #TheInterview, Part Two . If you haven't done so already, please check out The Preface, Prologue, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the story. In …
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Clear as Mud - The Space [in between]
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #Thespaceinbetween I'm your host #BlakeMelnick, and I'm really excited to announce that in a few weeks time, we will have #TomLocke author of a new book called #MomentsinTime - stories about artists and songs from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, on our show. In #MomentsinTime, Tom will take us o…
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Chapter 2 - The Old Guitar - The Interview Part 1 - In The Company of Readers and Writers
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of For What It's Worth, and our new series called #IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters. I'm your host, Blake Melnick, and this is Chapter Two of our story, #The Old Guitar, The Interview, Part One… with my guest, the multi-talented #DouglasCameron ... singer, songwriter and the author of "Old Guitar"...for …
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Chapter 1 -The Old Guitar - In the Company of Readers and Writers
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters and Chapter 1 of #TheOldGuitar. Today's episode was inspired by the short story, old guitar written and read by Canadian singer-songwriter, Douglas Cameron. Some say guitars remember. The wood retains the memory of every note, of every song that is played through them…
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In the Co. of Readers & Writers - The Old Guitar - The Prologue
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick, the prologue to #TheOldGuitar, the first story in our new series called #IntheCompanyofReadersandWriters. How does a man become a story? How does that story become a myth? passed down from one generation to another. What do we add or change, forget or remember, embe…
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In the Co. of Readers & Writers - The Old Guitar - The Preface
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick and the launch of our new series called #IntheCompanyofReaders&Writers. We are really jazzed about this series cause who doesn't love a good story? Over the past number of months we have been collecting some great ones and we are excited to be able to share them with …
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Long Haired Country Girl Part 2 with guests Heather Gemmell & Blair Packham
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Send us a text Well Happy New Year and welcome to 2022. and this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. It is the conclusion of our two part interview with our new artist in residence, #HeatherGemmell This episode is the official passing of the jam. Blair Packham, our artist in residence for the past month or so, joins me as my co-host…
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Long Haired Country Girl Part 1 - Pass the Jam Series
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Send us a text Well, welcome to this week's two-part episode of #ForWhatit'sWorthwithBlakeMelnick called #LongHairedCountryGirl . This episode is the next installment in our #PasttheJam music series, where our current artist in residence #BlairPackham a will join me to help pass the jam to an amazing new artist. Rooted in the heart of the Kootenay …
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Song Food - A musical Interlude with guest Blair Packham
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #TheSpaceinBetween called #SongFood. I'm your host #BlakeMelnick. And this episode is a lead into our popular music series called #PasstheJam. For those of you that are new to the show and unfamiliar with this series, here's the skinny. What began as an idea, born from our frustration, with the inabi…
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Many Faces of Innovation Part 3 - Conclusion of "Bridging the Gap" with Dr. Tom Carey
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Send us a text Welcome to this week's episode of #ForWhatitsWorthwithBlakeMelnick. This is the conclusion of our three part interview with #DrTomCarey, part of our #innovation series, #TheManyFacesofInnovation called #BridgingtheGap". In our last episode, Tom and I discussed the difference between #entrepreneurs and #intrepreneurs, the future of le…
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