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Today on HowNow, we recap season one. We get into some of our favourite interviews, talk takeaways and how the world has changed both in our own lives and in the greater world since we started on this journey. This season, HowNow has charted on iTunes and had over 1000 downloads in 22 countries spanning every continent. We've gained a lot from this experience and hope that you have too. We wanted to conclude this season with some of our own thoughts. Until next season, keep adapting!

Today on HowNow we are talking to Christoph Benfey who is the founder of Low Key Studios, an award winning full service production and film studio. Christoph is located in Hamilton, Canada where he moved 10 years ago to work as a carpenter on projects with Core Urban Inc. This is where Steve Kulakowsky introduced him to the arts scene. Since then he has been instrumental in various films such as 2018’s Chesterfield and has done commercial work for clients like BMW, Toyota and Canon. Most recently he has launched a new project called Evil Empire, which sees the conversion of a 122 year-old Hamilton landmark into a new space housing local filmmakers, content creators, and production companies.

Today on HowNow we’re talking to Maja Kasperczak. Back in February 2020, Maja was forced to move back to her native Poland from Canada. Since then she has had little time to readjust being thrown by the effects of a global pandemic and Poland’s largest protests since the fall of communism. We discuss the concept of 'home'. Maja had spent a few years living in Canada and had to return to Poland when her visa expired, only two months before the world shut down. She found herself living back home with her family in Warsaw after years of living independently abroad. Back in Poland, Maja has tried to kindle her own version of the open, welcoming Canadian culture she first found when she was a newcomer.

In this episode of HowNow it was our pleasure to talk with Jeff Neven, Director of the affordable housing charity Indwell and co-founder of New Hope Community Bikes. Jeff was inspired by reading the works of civil rights leader John Perkins, such as “Beyond Charity” and others. He talks us through Perkins’ concept of breaking the cycle of poverty through sharing our networks, and how that concept led to a renewed understanding of his personal and Indwell’s professional mandate of “hope and homes for all’.

Today on HowNow we’re chatting with Sue Carr. Sue is the current Executive Director of the social enterprise restaurant called 541 Eatery and Exchange. She is also a reluctant pastor at the Meeting Place: a messy church for non-churchy people. In addition to being a mother and grandma, she has a varied history in healthcare, with an undergrad in pharmacology and a masters in theology. Coming to Canada in 1984 from the UK, she has worked as a hospital Chaplain for Hamilton Health Sciences, Mission Services and Stonechurch Family Practice.

In this episode of HowNow, we talk with freelance journalist, Michael Rancic. Michael’s work focuses around emerging, experimental and DIY Canadian musicians. His fascination with the low-level social mobilization that happens in DIY communities led naturally to co-founding the multi-stakeholder cooperative, New Feeling Coop. The cooperative’s membership is made up of Canadian music writers and community members, and publishes a monthly selection of writing and criticism. We caught Michael for a chat back in November, when they were very much in development stages.