The Shaun Proulx Show

In this episode, Shaun Proulx has a conversation with Allegra Wiesenfeld about a candle that “smells like my penis” that confronts the gender pay gap and is hijacking the conversation Gwyneth Paltrow started with her “smells like my vagina” bougie offering. Then we explore one person's long journey from mental health issues that controlled their life to making their dreams a reality. Supermodel, Paul “Fashion Santa” Mason comes to talk to us fresh from his Paris Fashion Week triumph where he...

Shaun Proulx comes to you from Germany for this special episode marking the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Shaun shares incredible stories from a dark time in global history that offer hope for dark times now: The man who swam Berlin's River Spree to escape in the middle of the night; The young, world-class athlete who became an informant, and;The Canadian who, as a young man, stumbled by happenstance into the reunification celebrations shares his memories of one of...

Samantha Brookes faced a cash flow crunch once too often as an entrepreneur and has written a new book of tips and tricks called, "Cash is Queen". Remember my fast friend from my Facebook Live from a TIFF party last weekend? No? Hit my Official Shaun Proulx Facebook page and you’ll find out why I instantly loved her! Kathryn Aboya is a local actress who does more than just rock a hat and veil (okay, you just saved yourself watching that FB Live) and I have her on to talk about divine timing,...

In this edition of #SummerOfYes we take you to Chicago (I love you Chicago!) and the hotel that stunned me in such a big, great way that I just had to share. Think “lobby porn”. Then, meet the derring-dos behind the blow-your-mind wallpaper company, Fine & Dandy, and hear their inspiring story about making their design dreams real. We’re also joined by the painter Karen Klucowicz who will inspire the artist in you to do more of what you love as she shares how she said YES to her passion....

Paul Desbaillets is managing his demons by looking them square in the end and giving them a one-two-punch in the head – metaphorically speaking – we don’t condone violence. Find out how he is using this experience to help others, along with me, in Montreal next weekend. Salut! I fell in love with our next guest, Wendy Williams Watts, and her accidental big love offering that has become an Oprah-endorsed global movement right when the world needs it most. This woman is perfection. Come feel...

“Fashion fades. Only style remains the same.”Coco Chanel In this episode, Shaun talks with Stylist, Soneca Guadara and bespoke clothier, Marlon Durant about, What IS style?Are style and fashion the same things?Is style something you have or can you learn it?What YOU can do to dial up the style you’ve got! Dave Long join Shaun for a sexy, smart and sometimes silly chat about the power of style in your life, and get actionable style wisdom from three people who reek of it. “You can have...

Learn how fashion and design were brilliantly used to help educate and create awareness about something we all need to know about: osteoporosis. It can or will affect you or someone you know. Then: I just love Drea Kelly. The dancer, choreographer and mother opens her heart and spirit with me. She shares with us how she went from surviving to thriving after nearly ending her life by suicide, after the emotional, physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of the sad, headline-making...

Men aren’t always welcome or permitted in a women’s shelter. Just before Christmas last year, my friend Dolores Catania, a force of nature with a big heart and a strong sense of service (you may know her from The Real Housewives of New Jersey), was able to bring me inside a shelter she supports in Paterson, New Jersey, that houses women and their children who have fled domestic violence. I met several women, long-term devoted leaders of the shelter, and current residents, some with young...

Shaun celebrates Canadian music and talks with talented Canadian musicians for the entire hour. Pop/R&B singer Satya (from Montreal) tells us about her start being adopted from across the world to her journey with alcoholism, and what it means to her that her single, “Maybe We Should”, has hit the US charts too. Click here for the sublime video. Newfoundland folk/pop duo, Quote the Raven (Jordan Coaker & Kirsten Rodden-Clarke) are a “Mary Chapin Carpenter” with a Maritime vibe and a man who...

Executive producer and friend of the show Devon Franklin discusses the Easter weekend opening of his new movie about miracles, Breakthrough. Franklin also authored this year's tome, "The Truth About Men". Gay leadership coach, Darren Stehle, host of the Living OUT Podcast, and editor of my magazine, TheGayGuideNetwork.com, says one truth he knows about gay men is that many don't know how to be men. Find out what he means.

Deborah Cox is the person I have interviewed most in my nearly 20-year media career. We tête-a-tête one more time on The Shaun Proulx Show. Find out what brings her back to Toronto, what it's like for her living in Trump's America, on being inspired and mentored by Whitney Houston, receiving awards, and more! My pal, Canadian Optician Zahra Lavji also joins me in the studio for a Kleenex-clenching-tale that you could not make up – from her bold, first solo-travel trip, to where she was born...

YOUR questions answered on an all-new Shaun Proulx Show where we get #FinanciallyFit with TD Bank’s Al Ramsay and Nishaa Agarwal. Nishaa tackles audience questions as Al shares his inspiring #ForeverProud moments. Then things get sticky when I chat with the feisty Aussie co-creators of the international theatre movement, Hot Brown Honey. And back by popular demand, my chat with James Geary, author of the wonderful, much-needed tome, Wit’s End. Funny ha-ha and funny peculiar!

It’s RSP Season and the deadline Is March 1st! In this month’s edition of #FinanciallyFit, TD Bank’s, Al Ramsay, National Manager of LGBTQ2+ Business Development shares why he and his team have been so active attending events in Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, and promoting upcoming events in Calgary and Toronto. Orlando Lopez, Financial Planner, discusses some of the misconceptions about RSPs that make some people nervous at this time of the year, because they’re "forced" to take a deeper...

Almost time for my Mid-Day Squares snack – stolen, given, purchased – this is my new favourite snack to attack these days, and these three beautiful people hit The Shaun Proulx Show studio from Montreal to serve not just the super fun story of their superfood chocolate business, but shiny bright radio gold. 47 laughs, one marriage proposal, 2 headset throw-downs, and one answer before the question was asked. PLUS how the deaths of two fathers helped two of us in the room soar. Oh yeah, and...

Valentine's Day is almost here! Do you live life heart-first? Our guests are changing the world for the better, because for them, it starts with the heart. Katherine and John Vellinga, the Canadian husband and wife team behind Zirkova Vodka, talk about the quality they put in to their vodka and how their “spirit” brings a new kind of love to the global equality table. Then, Casey House CEO Joanne Simons shares why acts of the heart ripple beyond what anyone is able to see. Come have a...

Entrepreneur, Garrett Swann talks about vision boards, success, and more. Matchmaker Aviva Reimer has some tips to help the single folks out there find their special match. Filmmaker Mani Nasry talks about his years-long journey to complete his passion project, the film “We” about Canada, culture clashes, love, and more.

Let's get #FinanciallyFit! How was your holiday season? Did you stay within your budget or overspend? I may have failed grade 10 math but I sure love numbers now! And I give credit where credit is due: The Shaun Proulx Show and TD Bank’s monthly #FinanciallyFit segment brings joy, laughs, fun and wise financial talk that all of us can relate to. Al Ramsay, Nishaa Agarwal, and Orlando Lopez join me in this episode to discuss how to mend any damage done to your finances post-holidays. I also...

An Unsafe Space is a new play by writer and director Richard Klagsbrun that premiered at the Tranzac Club in Toronto. Shaun Proulx speaks with Klagsbrun and co-stars Precious Chong and Craig Lauzon An Unsafe Space is a comedic play about free speech, censorship, and the ideologically-based suppression of ideas, as well as the stereotyping of people and their opinions based on their racial and ethnic identities. Inspired by an actual event at a major North American university, the play...

Let's take a holiday… in Chernobyl? 10 ways that social media might be making you fat! And how to beat the winter blues using plant based medicines. Sing along with me now! “We are going on a summer holiday / If you want to go, yo, Sven / We're going to London and New York City / And we take a little piece of #Chernobyl” CUT! Who in tarnation holidays at the site of the world’s biggest, worst nuclear disaster ever? Shaun Proulx Show Travel Expert, Sabrina Pirillo, that’s who! Get your glow...

Your favourite #FinanciallyFit folks are looking back on the very awesome 2018 they had together. You aren’t going to get money talk that includes laughs, tears, and a melatonin accident anywhere else but The Shaun Proulx Show! Then: we’re helping you be a bigger star than you already are with help from a New Jersey cop, Louis Spagnola and Toronto mixologist, Billy Killin! I suddenly needed to dance, to bust a move, to trip the light fandango (but catch the light fandango before it hit the...