Heart in Motion Podcast: Celebrating Stories that Move Us

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Heart in Motion is a podcast celebrating the heartwarming stories that move us, inspire us and lift us up. Join me as I interview cast and crew from When Calls the Heart, When Hope Calls, and other beloved family-friendly shows and movies from Hallmark, Great American Family, and beyond. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering these stories for the first time, this is the place to connect with the people who bring them to life. Watch these full-length interviews on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@heartinmotionmedia. heartinmotionmedia.com

  1. 3d ago

    Eva Tavares (Hallmark's Love Finds You and Texas Two-Step - Director)

    Eva Tavares has directed three Hallmark films in about nine months — The Christmas Baby, Texas Two-Step, and Love Finds You — and just picked up a Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her feature directorial debut. In this conversation, she talks through her fast start behind the camera, working with the same actors twice, and what's next.We start with LOVE FINDS YOU. Eva talks about what made her want to direct a script then known as Return to Sender, opening the Fall Into Love event with a story that could've worked in any season, and what she had to nail in the first few minutes to sell the audience on Alex opening a stranger's package. She gets into directing Chris McNally opposite Aimee Teegarden — an actress she'd worked with before as a fellow performer on An Easter Bloom — finding the rhythm between two very different energies, and how her own background in opera and dance shaped the film's musicality. She also talks about encouraging the comedy of Chris McNally, who plays it much more buttoned-up on When Calls the Heart, and building the sibling bond between Chris and Natalie Sharp's Hayley in almost no prep time at all.Then TEXAS TWO-STEP. Eva talks about the dance rehearsals and her visual references for country music and dance-hall culture, directing Brendan and Heather Hemmens' pre-existing chemistry toward the specific relationship on the page, how the film's more grown-up spicy moments got approved and why they did plus what she wanted the story to celebrate beyond the romance.Plus: coming up through Hallmark's Make Her Mark program, shadowing Peter Benson on a Christmas movie, how directing has changed her as an actor, the musical she needs to pitch for When Calls the Heart, and her next film, Kitty Swipes Right — reuniting much of the production team behind Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper and A Reason for the Season.▶ More interviews: HeartInMotionMedia.com ▶ Instagram: @heartinmotionmedia#EvaTavares #LoveFindsYou #TexasTwoStep #HallmarkChannel #DirectorsGuildOfCanada💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Eva Tavares (Hallmark's Love Finds You and Texas Two-Step - Director)

  2. 6d ago

    Kim Coates (USA Network's Anna Pigeon - Actor)

    Kim Coates joins Heart in Motion to talk about his role as Jeremiah Paulson in USA Network’s Anna Pigeon — and there’s some big stuff ahead for Jeremiah in Episode 6 and the rest of the season.We get into how Lea Thompson and the team approached casting Jeremiah, why Kim didn’t want to play him as the stereotypical Montana rancher, and how he built a character who can be remarkably still while creating an unmistakable sense of danger.Kim also takes us inside one of Jeremiah’s most memorable moments so far: the $600,000 land offer to Geoff in Episode 2. How do you play a threat when it’s disguised as a favor?We talk about Jeremiah’s complicated relationship with Anna Pigeon, played by Tracy Spiridakos, the chemistry between their characters, and what Kim enjoys about playing someone the audience is constantly questioning.And with Jeremiah’s story heading into some major territory in Episode 6, Kim gives us a tease about how his relationship with Anna evolves in the back half of the season — without giving away the spoilers.Plus, we talk about filming in Alberta, the stunning landscapes around Bragg Creek and Kananaskis, and what Kim learned from Sons of Anarchy about the power of television and getting to live with a character week after week.Anna Pigeon airs Fridays at 10/9c on USA Network.🎙️ Heart in Motion Podcast — Celebrating Stories That Move Us💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Kim Coates (USA Network's Anna Pigeon - Actor)

  3. Sep 10

    Alvina Autumn and Nathan Witte (Hallmark's Falling Into Place - Actors)

    Hallmark’s Falling Into Place premieres Saturday night, September 12 at 8/7c on Hallmark, and stars Alvina August and Nathan Witte join Heart in Motion to talk about Kaia and James, two former best friends whose paths cross again at their hometown fall festival and high school reunion.The movie’s bucket list becomes the unexpected engine that brings Kaia and James back together, leading them through a series of adventures while forcing both of them to take a closer look at the choices they’ve made — and the choices still ahead.Alvina and Nathan share their favorite bucket-list adventures to film, talk about the movie’s sweet relationship with Mr. Winters, reveal the real-life things they’ve checked off their own bucket lists, and discuss the bigger message behind the story.And, of course, we have to settle the ultimate question: Team “they should have said something years ago” or Team “the timing had to be right”?Get ready for fall with Alvina August and Nathan Witte in this fun conversation about Falling Into Place.🎬 Falling Into Place premieres Saturday, September 12 at 8/7c on Hallmark.Also, catch Nathan in Hallmark's Texas Two-Step and Alvina in a Second Chance at Love🎙️ Heart in Motion Podcast — Celebrating Stories That Move Us💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Alvina Autumn and Nathan Witte (Hallmark's Falling Into Place - Actors)

  4. Sep 7

    Natalie Sharp (Love Finds You and My Life with the Walter Boys - Actor)

    Natalie Sharp is having a big stretch — a Hallmark premiere and a Netflix season landing about two weeks apart — and in this conversation she talks through both worlds, plus the dachshund with his own fan account.We start with LOVE FINDS YOU. Natalie plays Hayley, sister to Chris McNally's Jack, in a story built around something more unglamorous than a meet-cute: Jack picking up extra shifts to help her with student loans. Natalie talks about building that sibling history with Chris, the dinner scene that doubles as our introduction to the "real" Jack, how much of Hayley she had to invent that's nowhere on the page, and the comedy and freedom in this role. She also talks about being directed by Eva Tavares — an actor herself who came up through Hallmark's Make Her Mark program — watching Aimee Teegarden and Chris build their chemistry from the sidelines, and shooting a citywide rom-com in her own hometown of Vancouver.Then MY LIFE WITH THE WALTER BOYS and Blake, who rides in in Season 2 when Alex is expecting a rodeo coach and gets a woman instead. Natalie talks about how Blake was pitched to her, building a character with something to prove and being underestimated in a male-dominated sport, how much of the riding is actually her, what changes for Blake in Season 3, and how Blake reads that gutting scene with Alex over Wylder's pills.Plus: her first day on set, playing a CW villain, a rodeo champion, and a volleyball player in The Miracle Season, whether physical roles find her or she goes looking for them, her roots as a singer and lead vocalist on Hit the Road, what she's noticed being part of the Walter Boys ensemble, and — of course — the story behind Walter, her dachshund with his own Instagram, @mylifewithmywalterboy.#NatalieSharp #LoveFindsYou #MyLifeWithTheWalterBoys #HallmarkChannel #Netflix💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!00:08:45 - Love Finds You00:29:45 - My Life With the Walter Boys00:57:10 - Getting to Know NatalieInstagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Natalie Sharp (Love Finds You and My Life with the Walter Boys - Actor)

  5. Aug 31

    Jefferson Brown (The Way Home, Crossroad Springs, When Hope Calls, You're Killing Me, I Will Find You - Actor)

    There are interviews where you talk about the characters.And then there are interviews where you start to understand the person behind them.My conversation with Jefferson Brown is one of those.Jefferson Brown has had one of the busiest years of his career — four series and a Netflix thriller — and in this conversation he gets honest about all of it. This is one of my favorite interviews I've ever done.We start with CROSSROAD SPRINGS. Jackson Newman turned up in Season 1, Episode 7 with a lot more teeth than the good men Jefferson is known for playing, and he comes back in Season 2 with a wife and daughter nobody knew about. Jefferson talks about whether Jackson sees himself as the villain of that fight with Daniel or the only adult in the room, what it's like squaring off with Jesse Hutch, and how much of Jackson we get this season.Then WHEN HOPE CALLS and Joe Moody — the character Jefferson once said was written as the man he'd like to be. He looks back at three seasons of Joe and the near romance with Maggie, the show's arrival on Netflix on September 14, filming the lighter hotel scenes with Sam and Ronnie, and what he still wants for Joe when Season 4 arrives in spring 2027.And THE WAY HOME. Colton Landry is an unusual acting job — the audience meets him already knowing he's gone. Jefferson talks about playing a man who exists mostly as someone else's memory, Del's reunion with Colton in the final season and what that day was like with Andie MacDowell, the cast recording "Down By the Water," and where he is with the finale now that it's aired.Plus: Kevin and that Piña Colada duet opposite Brooke Shields in YOU'RE KILLING ME and a very interesting role as Dr. Jacob Heller in Netflix's I WILL FIND YOU.He gets vulnerable in this one. You come away knowing who Jefferson Brown is, not just the characters he plays.But the part of this conversation I'll remember most isn't necessarily a particular project. It's the moments when Jefferson let us see a bit of himself behind the characters he plays and the choices he makes in the profession.This is one of those interviews where I genuinely had goosebumps while recording.❤️ Crossroad Springs - premieres this week on Great American Family and Pureflix❤️ When Hope Calls - coming September 14th to Netflix (s1 and s2)❤️ The Way Home - Now on Hallmark Plus🔪 You're Killing Me - Now on AcornTV🔎 I Will Find You - Now on Netflix💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!00:02:-00 - Intro to the Projects and Getting to Know Jefferson00:11:33 - Crossroad Springs00:23:11 - When Hope Calls 00:37:48 - The Way Home 00:51:11 - You're Killing Me 00:56:30 - I Will Find You00:58:28 - Playing the different genres 01:01:41 - Bucket List Role01:04:30 - Project to go back and watch Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Jefferson Brown (The Way Home, Crossroad Springs, When Hope Calls, You're Killing Me, I Will Find You - Actor)

  6. Aug 31

    Niall Matter (Hallmark's Much About Love - Actor)

    Niall Matter sits down to talk Much About Love, Hallmark Channel's modern retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, premiering Saturday, August 29 at 8/7c.Niall plays Benny opposite Ashley Williams' Bea — a director who comes home to stage some Shakespeare and runs straight into an old flame. In this interview, Niall breaks down how Benny fits into Bea's return, what it's like reuniting with Ashley five years after Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater, and what changed between the two projects.He also gets into the pressure of telling a story written by Ashley and her husband Neal Dodson, how the film's now much-talked-about table scene came together on the day, the Easter eggs Ashley tucked into the movie, and whether the magic of Much About Love lives in the comedy, the romance, or the collision of the two.💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Niall Matter (Hallmark's Much About Love - Actor)

  7. Aug 27

    Ronnie Rowe & Cooper Levy (Anna Pigeon - Actors)

    Ronnie Rowe and Cooper Levy sit down to talk Anna Pigeon, USA Network's breakout new crime drama based on Nevada Barr's bestselling novels — and the two very different men orbiting Tracy Spiridakos' grieving park ranger.Fresh off the news that Anna Pigeon debuted as the highest-rated USA original scripted series premiere in nearly eight years, Ronnie and Cooper break down what makes Frederick Stanton and Jesse Garland tick. Ronnie digs into how Frederick — an FBI agent who is completely in control on a case — loses that composure the second Anna enters the equation, and where the line falls between pushing her and protecting her. Cooper talks about building Jesse from the ground up as a character who only partly exists in the original books, and what a bartender and environmentalist understands about Anna that a federal agent never could.They also get into the national park setting and what Alberta gave a show set in Montana's Glacier National Park, the moment this cast — pulling from Chicago P.D., Star Trek, Reservation Dogs and Wynonna Earp — clicked into place, and the question we made them answer directly: if you had to argue your character is the better match for Anna, what's the case?Anna Pigeon airs Fridays at 10/9c on USA Network.💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Ronnie Rowe & Cooper Levy (Anna Pigeon - Actors)

  8. Aug 27

    Lindura (Sullivan's Crossing & Hallmark's Much About Love)

    Lindura joins me to talk about her new Hallmark Channel movie Much About Love, premiering Saturday, August 29 at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel and streaming next day on Hallmark+.Lindura plays Hannah Michaels in this modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," starring Ashley Williams and Niall Matter, directed by Shamim Sarif. We get into what it's like working on a set where your scene partner also co-wrote the script and is an executive producer, shooting at the fairy-tale-themed Storybook Gardens in London, Ontario, the period costumes, the Ashley Williams/Niall Matter reunion after "Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater," and the tricky challenge of acting like you can't act.Then we go deep on Sullivan's Crossing Season 4, where Lindura plays Sydney Shandon. Season 4 landed in Netflix's global Top 10 and the series has been renewed for Season 5. We talk about Sydney and Rafe's split, why Sydney says she never wants to get married, the female friendships on the series, the arrival of Amir and what he stirs up in her restaurant and her life, that dance with Cooper, where the season leaves her, and what Sydney can do now that she couldn't in Season 1. Plus what four seasons of this character has taught her, and what she's wondering about Season 5.Much About Love — Saturday, August 29, 8/7c on Hallmark Channel. Streaming next day on Hallmark+.Sullivan's Crossing — The CW (US), CTV and Crave (Canada), streaming on Netflix.💛 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

    Lindura (Sullivan's Crossing & Hallmark's Much About Love)
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Heart in Motion is a podcast celebrating the heartwarming stories that move us, inspire us and lift us up. Join me as I interview cast and crew from When Calls the Heart, When Hope Calls, and other beloved family-friendly shows and movies from Hallmark, Great American Family, and beyond. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering these stories for the first time, this is the place to connect with the people who bring them to life. Watch these full-length interviews on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@heartinmotionmedia. heartinmotionmedia.com

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