Creating Consciousness

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What's up, beautiful people. I'm Jesse Singh — comedian, 12-year youth worker, and your host of Creating Consciousness. This is the show where me and my co-host Danté Williams push back on the easy answers the wellness industry sells us, dig into what mental health and creativity actually look like for working artists, and bring on comedians, musicians, and creators across the city to talk about the real journey — the bombing, the breakthroughs, the breakdowns, and what's saved us. New episodes weekly. Peace and love, y'all.

  1. 6d ago

    Deep Dive into Psychotherapy | Julie Marquis | Marquis Counseling | Ep. 14

    98% of her clients are men. Julie Marquis is a licensed psychotherapist, has been in practice for almost fifteen years, trains other therapists in EMDR, and runs Marquis Counseling and Consulting here in Toronto Welcome back to Creating Consciousness. This week's guest is doing some of the most interesting mental health work in the city, and we spend the episode on the frameworks she actually uses — EMDR and what the eye movement part is really doing in your brain, somatic experiencing and why standing on a balance board can shut down your racing thoughts in a way talk therapy can't, the identity crisis that destroys first responders and military members when they retire and lose their tribe. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Why Julie Works Almost Exclusively With Men 00:05:23 If Men Can Heal The World Can Heal 00:07:40 EMDR — How It Actually Works 00:11:49 The Filing Cabinet In Your Brain 00:16:56 Why Movement Is The Most Underutilized Therapy Tool 00:21:00 Walk And Talk, Paddle Boarding, Going To The Gym 00:23:00 First Responders, Military, Veterans, And CEOs 00:26:19 The Identity Crisis Of Leaving The Uniform 00:29:21 Why Boys And Girls Need Different Parenting 00:31:09 Just Because You Have A Diagnosis Doesn't Mean You Get To Be An A*****e 00:34:44 Denial Land Is Like Candyland 00:38:14 Has The Younger Generation Gotten Soft 00:45:00 Enabling Vs Empowering Your People 00:46:48 Being Nice Vs Being Kind 00:52:04 When Should You Actually Go To Therapy 00:57:51 Multiple Choice Game Segment Connect: Jesse: @PunjabiTimbit (canonical spelling confirmed — Timbit) Show: @CreatingConsciousness905 New episodes every week Production by Person1 Productions #therapy #men #creatingconsiousnesspod

  2. Sep 28

    Hitting Rock Bottom At The Royal York Hotel | Recovering Outloud | Creating Consciousness Ep.13

    What happens when your only friend is your dealer? Welcome back to Creating Consciousness. This week's guest is Anthony, host of the Recovering Outloud podcast, and this is easily the most vulnerable conversation I've had on the show. This week's guest is Anthony, host of the Recovering Outloud podcast, and this is easily the most vulnerable conversation I've had on the show. Anthony walks me through the whole arc — what an addict's brain actually feels like, why the same wiring that made him spiral gets channeled into podcasting today, the difference between physical sobriety and emotional sobriety, why steroids and body dysmorphia were the gateway back into his relapse after almost a decade of recovery, why harm reduction saved his life even though he's ultimately an abstinence guy, and what actually happened in that Royal York lobby that got him to call his wife and say "I'm ready." TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 The Podcast Origin — Counselor Vince And Pink Cloud Sobriety 00:06:15 6 Garbage Cans And 5 Lids — The Addict Brain 00:07:51 Cross-Addictions — Golf, Jordans, Shopping, Gambling 00:12:56 The Lengths I Would Go To Get Cocaine 00:16:22 Harm Reduction Vs Abstinence — When Each One Works 00:21:12 Food Addiction, Body Dysmorphia, And Male Vanity 00:24:01 The Steroids That Led Me Back Into Relapse 00:28:15 What Rock Bottom Actually Means 00:29:53 The Royal York Hotel Story — January 2025 00:34:35 Cocaine Psychosis And The Only Friend I Had 00:37:52 The Security Guard Who Let Me Clean My Room 00:44:35 I Called My Wife And Said I'm Ready 00:45:16 What To Do When Someone You Love Is Using 00:49:14 The Photos My Wife Kept Sending Me 00:53:27 Spirituality, Higher Power, And A Shift In Perception 01:00:05 Multiple Choice Game Segment If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction or substance use, please know that help is available and recovery is possible. Anthony's podcast Recovering Outloud is one place to start. Additional resources: ConnexOntario — 1-866-531-2600 — free 24/7 mental health, addictions, and problem gambling information and referrals in Ontario Al-Anon — meeting information at al-anon.org — for loved ones of people struggling with addiction Talk Suicide Canada — 1-833-456-4566 — 24/7 support if you or someone you know is in crisis Kids Help Phone — 1-800-668-6868 — for young people needing support If you or a loved one is in immediate danger, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. #creatingconsiousness #addictionrecovery #podcast

  3. Sep 21

    How I Turned A $1000 Grant Into 500 Pairs of Shoes For Kids | Delux | Creating Consciousness Ep.12

    Delux turned a $1000 microgrant into 500 pairs of free Air Force 1s given out to kids in Jane and Finch, Rexdale, Malvern, Regent Park, and MaltonWelcome back to Creating Consciousness. Delux is a Jane and Finch–raised community leader, student psychotherapist studying Gestalt, founder of the Finding Your Heart initiative, and now runs his own production company after starting from an iPhone and borrowed cameras. We spend the whole episode on how someone with no roadmap actually builds something from the ground up: how he stumbled into community work through a court case that required volunteer hours. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Non-Profit Is Still A Business Model 00:00:56 The $1000 Grant That Started Everything 00:05:35 What Finding Your Heart Actually Is 00:09:23 The Halal Pizza Mistake That Taught Me Everything 00:12:19 The Court Case That Got Me Into Community Work 00:14:52 The Airwalks My Mom Got Me From Alibaba's At Yorkgate 00:17:14 Batman, Bruce Wayne, And How Heroes Process Pain 00:21:57 The Shoe As A Blank Canvas 00:23:55 Two Full-Time Jobs And One Hour Of Sleep For 7 Months 00:26:01 Don't Sell Your Ideas For Peanuts 00:29:37 Finding Your Heart Was My Get Out Of Jail Free Card 00:31:22 More Grants In Ottawa Than I Ever Got In Jane And Finch 00:34:12 Why Hyper-Independence Is A Symptom, Not A Strength 00:41:58 Why I Started A Production Company Without Being A Filmmaker 00:44:04 What The Older Generation Owes The Youth 00:51:35 Multiple Choice Game Segment #creatingconsiousness #nonprofit #podcast

  4. Sep 14

    From Rexdale To Living With Russell Peters In Malibu | Nitish Sakuja | Creating Consciousness Ep.11

    Russell Peters offered him a room in his Malibu mansion for a month. That month turned into three months. Three months turned into a month long tour of India together. Nitish is one of my OGs from the Toronto scene, a comic I came up watching, and he flew back to town for two weeks so we got him in the studio the moment we could. We spend the whole episode on the arc: the sixteen years of stand-up, the dropped-out year at Waterloo where he realized his Rexdale math couldn't compete with the Chinese kids spinning their pens, the Russell Peters story that everyone knows the highlights of but nobody knows the actual sequence of events. Nitish also opens up about his fitness journey, about the philosophy of the middle path, about what it took to add real detail to his material after Russell's brother Clayton pulled him aside in India and told him to imagine the audience knows nothing about him, and about what sixteen years of stand-up has actually taught him about himself.TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Welcome Back And Why LA Over New York00:03:00 Are Americans And Canadians The Same Amount Of Assholes00:06:34 Manifesting Success Means Manifesting The Hardship Too00:09:32 Stop Crying On Instagram — The Full Rant00:11:04 The Middle Path And Krishna's Answer To Arjuna00:13:41 7 Grams Of Mushrooms At 17 Broke My Whole Universe00:19:04 Anger, Pushing Buttons, And The Temple Laughing Fit00:24:29 How Just For Laughs Gags Turned Me Into A Comedian00:28:11 Dropping Out Of Waterloo And Rexdale Math00:30:38 The Visa Deal That Got Me To LA In 3 Months00:33:32 The Russell Peters Story — From Getting Punched To Malibu00:42:36 3.5 Weeks Touring India And Bombing Hard00:47:11 LA Stage Time Vs The Toronto Grind00:57:11 What 16 Years Of Stand-Up Actually Taught Me About Myself01:00:37 Multiple Choice Game Segment#creatingconsiousness #russellpeters #podcast

  5. Sep 7

    My Mom Hid My Stand-Up Career From My Dad For 5 Months | Rasha Elfeky | Creating Consciousness Ep.10

    Rasha Elfeky's mom kept her stand-up career a secret from her dad for five months. When he finally found out, he gave her mom the silent treatment for two weeks — and her mom told her it was the best two weeks of her life.Welcome to episode ten of Creating Consciousness, This week I had on Rasha Elfeky — Toronto comedian, actress, flight attendant, content creator, and a comic who's toured with Jerry D, opened for Zainab Johnson twice, been personally recommended for Just For Laughs New Faces, and built her whole career on being able to work any room clean or dirty. Rasha and I get into the whole arc: how her mom told her to drop out of her University of Toronto criminology degree and become a flight attendant, how Air Canada rejected her because of her blood and Air Transit hired her the next morning, the three years she spent traveling the world before she ever took a comedy stage. And she opens up about being diagnosed with ADHD at twenty-nine — two years after she'd already become a comedian and what comedy taught her about herself that no diagnosis ever could. I got emotional on-mic during this one. I'm leaving that in. Peace and love, y'all.TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Reputation Matters and Sterling's Bomb Is Coming Ego Check00:06:00 Why Versatility Beats Being Locked Into One Voice00:11:00 My First US Show at Soho House Los Angeles00:15:00 Feeling Outcasted By My Own Arab Community00:18:00 Post-COVID Comedy and Why Bad Shows Hurt Everyone00:22:00 Perform Like There Are 5000 People In The Room00:25:00 Sterling Scott Put His Ass On The Line To Get Me Booked00:28:00 Watching Headliners Is The Unwritten Rule00:32:00 Why Actors Are More Politically Correct Than Comedians00:37:00 My Mom Told Me To Drop Out And Become A Flight Attendant00:42:00 West Africa Named Me Gazelle. My Real Name Means Baby Gazelle.00:45:00 When Is An Accent Racism And When Is It Storytelling?00:47:00 My Mom Hid My Comedy Career From My Dad For 5 Months00:57:00 My Mom Working At KFC And Suing Them Now01:00:00 My Dad's Lore — Shotokan Sensei At 75 Years Old01:10:00 Diagnosed With ADHD At 29 After I'd Already Started Comedy01:13:00 Levels To Me Game Segment#creatingconsiousness #versatility #podcast

  6. Aug 31

    16 Years of Hockey, Panic Attacks, To Doing Stand-Up Comedy | Creating Consciousness Ep.9

    Robert Orlando started travel hockey at five years old. By eighteen he was having panic attacks driving home from games and dealing with night terrors and sleep paralysis caused by the sport he loved.This week I sit down with my friend Robert Orlando, a Brampton-raised comedian, former junior hockey player, and one of the sharpest storytellers I've had the pleasure of building this show with. We spend the whole episode on the arc — how a five-year-old ends up recruited into travel hockey, what it costs to spend your entire childhood inside one identity, what it feels like when your family's mood every Sunday hinges on how you played that weekend, and what it takes to walk away from the thing you've been told your whole life you're supposed to be.TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Catching Up on the Old Podcast Days00:03:30 The Bakery Where My Dad Lost His Mind00:06:00 The India Trip That Turned Me Into a Rage-9-Year-Old00:09:30 Falling Off a Bike Into a Basement Beam00:13:00 The COVID Generation Will Recognize What's Broken00:15:30 Being Honest About My Relationship With Alcohol00:19:00 Why Bartending Feels Like Work and Stand-Up Feels Like the Outlet00:21:00 Trying Stand-Up In High School Because A Rapper Friend00:25:00 Travel Hockey at 5 Years Old and What It Costs00:29:00 Panic Attacks, Sleep Paralysis, and When You Know It's Time00:35:00 Learning How to Adapt When You Keep Getting Traded00:42:00 My First Stand-Up Set at the Ossington00:47:00 What the Comedy Scene Was Like Before COVID00:51:00 Content Creators Changed the Landscape After the Pandemic00:58:00 Levels To Me Game Segment#Creatingconsciousness #hockey #podcast

  7. Aug 24

    Open Heart Surgery to WINNING His Pro Card | Damien Schelborn | Creating Consciousness Ep.8

    In 2017, Damien had open heart surgery, double valve replacement, and was back in the gym by week five. A year later he won his pro card. Welcome back to Creating Consciousness. This week I sit down with a friend, a mentor, a personal trainer, and one of the realest competitors in Canadian natural bodybuilding.From Trinidad to Brooklyn to Brampton, from building his first gym out of cinder blocks and a garden hose at fourteen to becoming head personal trainer at the Y in his first month, from being one of the first guys in Canada's men's physique category when it launched in 2012 to learning what it actually takes to keep competing when the industry shifted around him.TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Trinidad to Brooklyn to Toronto — The Whole Journey00:08:30 Why I Don't Want to Go Back to New York00:13:00 Moving to Milton Was Too Quiet for a Brooklyn Guy00:18:00 How I Built My First Gym With Cinder Blocks at 1400:24:00 The Day the Gym Community Taught Me Everything00:28:30 Why I Became Head Personal Trainer in a Month00:32:30 The Real Truth About Passion vs Chasing Money00:38:00 Being a Natural Athlete in a Steroid Era00:43:00 What Bodybuilding Nutrition Actually Looks Like00:49:00 How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Food00:55:00 Leading By Example When Teaching Your Kids00:58:30 The Heart Murmur I Lived With for 20 Years01:03:00 Open Heart Surgery and a Double Valve Replacement01:07:30 The Doctor's Visit That Changed Everything About Recovery01:09:30 Speaking Things Into Existence Through Faith01:13:00 Levels To Me Game Segment#creatingconsiousness #mindset #podcast

  8. Aug 17

    The Question That Proves "Making It" Is a Lie | Joe Tuccitto — Creating Consciousness Ep. 7

    "What do you actually want from making it?" Welcome back to Creating Consciousness. This week I sit down with Joe, the owner and founder of The Corner Comedy Club, a mentor, a friend, and one of the realest minds I know in the Toronto comedy scene. We get into the full origin story of The Corner — how a Joe Rogan podcast monologue about being the hero of your own story struck Joe at the lowest point of his life and put him on the path from construction worker to comedy club owner, how he ran his own podcast for years just to secretly pick comedians' brains about how the industry actually works, and how Queen and John's old Speaker's Corner — the free-speech booth that ran on city TV before YouTube existed — gave the club its name and its DNA. TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 The Joe Rogan Podcast That Started It All00:05:00 How He Secretly Researched the Comedy Industry00:08:00 Why The Corner Comedy Club Is Named After a Soapbox in England00:13:00 A Safe Place for Dangerous Ideas — Opening Year of MeToo00:18:00 How the Hungriest Comedians Built the Club Organically00:22:00 Why He Tried Stand-Up for a Year Then Quit00:28:00 What He Looks For When Curating Comedy Lineups00:36:00 Why a Handshake Beats Every Credit on Your Resume00:40:00 Why You Don't Have to Leave Toronto to Make It00:50:00 The Question That Proves Making It Is Already Yours00:56:00 The Year He Decided to Have No Goals01:03:00 The War of Art and Why Resistance Will Try to Stop You01:08:00 How Hitting Bottom Made Him Finally Ask for Help01:11:00 Why Anger and Forgiveness Are the Real Roots of Addiction01:17:00 Levels To Me: Mafia Movies and Modern Day Kingpins#creatingconsiousness #makingit #podcast

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What's up, beautiful people. I'm Jesse Singh — comedian, 12-year youth worker, and your host of Creating Consciousness. This is the show where me and my co-host Danté Williams push back on the easy answers the wellness industry sells us, dig into what mental health and creativity actually look like for working artists, and bring on comedians, musicians, and creators across the city to talk about the real journey — the bombing, the breakthroughs, the breakdowns, and what's saved us. New episodes weekly. Peace and love, y'all.

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  • Creator
    Jesse Singh
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jesse Singh
  • Show Website
    Creating Consciousness