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A Love Affair with the Unknown with Gill Deacon

Malt Bread Media

Society & Culture

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Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 21

Saying Yes to uncertainty. Finding humour, courage and community as we navigate the wild ride of modern life. This could be a love affair.

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Taking risks brings us closer to what really matters—with Anar Ali

Season 2 · Episode 5

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 • Duration 47:21

How do you go from a corporate job you don’t actually like to living your creative and professional dream? For Anar Ali the path involved a lot of leaps into the unknown. Anar is creator and producer of Allegiance, the top-rated show on CBC Television. Before that she was a respected author with a multi-book deal at a major publisher. But none of it would have happened without listening to her instincts and trusting in the possibility of uncertainty. Wise, reflective and bracingly candid, Anar shares her remarkable story—including the frightening chapter that changed how she views everything and made her feel most alive in the midst of the uncertainty.

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Hope is a muscle we can strengthen—with Andrea Curtis

Season 2 · Episode 4

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 • Duration 37:51

Waking up each morning to a relentless news cycle of fear and despair, sometimes being hopeful can seem naive. How can we possibly have hope for a future that often feels grim? As award-winning author Andrea Curtis shares in her newest book, hope and struggle actually go hand in hand. The Story and Science of Hope is written for middle-grade readers but the neuroscience behind it offers comfort to us all. In her warm and upbeat style, Andrea explains how hope differs from optimism, and lays out the evidence showing the power we have to develop our sense of hope. This conversation is like a mini-course in how to cultivate an essential, life-enhancing emotion.

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TIMOTHY CAULFIELD Certainty leaves us vulnerable to misinformation

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 • Duration 38:52

Living in a post-truth world is wildly destabilizing. With so much conflicting information, how can we trust what is real? Timothy Caulfield is Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy as well as a popular author. In his latest book The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters, Caulfield cuts through simplistic misinformation and reminds us why science, in all its complexity, is our best shot at navigating the way forward. As he discusses in this week’s thought-provoking episode, we must learn to get more comfortable with not always having clear answers and control; it is—ironically enough—actually a desire for certainty that has led to the havoc of disinformation and conspiracy theories.

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ALEX HUTCHINSON Bring on the uncertainty! We’re built to handle it

Season 2 · Episode 2

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 44:41

New York Times bestselling author Alex Hutchinson wants us to try new things. A science journalist with a focus on human performance, his new book The Explorer’s Gene is a fascinating dive into why humans are actually wired to not just handle uncertainty but to evolve and thrive because of it. Betting on the path we don’t know about will yield more rewarding results—even if it doesn’t work out the way we had hoped. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. This is a conversation that will buoy the spirits and boost our confidence to explore, in any part of life. With delightful passion, Alex lays out the research-based arguments showing why trying new foods, new music or a new route on our commute makes us more creative and more able to handle unknowns as they arise. The more we lean into the uncertainty the more the world opens up.

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ARLENE DICKINSON A powerful dragon who isn’t afraid to show weakness

Season 2 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • Duration 43:30

As Dragon’s Den kicks off its 20th season, how exciting to launch our second season with Arlene Dickinson—arguably the most iconic dragon of all. You know Arlene as a titan of business and venture capital, but as she reveals with remarkable warmth and candour as she talks with Gill, her secret weapon is her honesty about doubts, vulnerabilities and uncertainty. It’s what makes her YouTube show Arlene is Alone so popular. In this conversation she talks about the freedom she finds in being on her own, and about her passion for helping Canada through this critical moment of historic uncertainty. Arlene shares deeply personal stories of challenge, lays bare the raw courage it has taken her to keep going through hardship, and reminds us how much strength comes from being willing to accept what we might not know.

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BONUS-Thank you for the awesome feedback!

Season 1

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 07:07

Gill is loving her summer break!

Launching this podcast was itself a bit of a leap into the unknown, so it has been wonderfully rewarding to hear good things from so many of our listeners. Your stories, your responses and your appreciation of our guests this season have been great encouragement—just the fuel we needed to drive us forward to season 2. We wanted to share some highlights from listener letters. (We do read all your submissions, but we couldn’t read them all on the air…) Keep ‘em coming.

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BONUS -JEFFREY JENSEN ARNETT How to trust the uncertain future for young adults

Season 1

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 • Duration 37:27

The future can feel shaky, especially for young people starting out right now. Psychology professor and author Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D. changed society's understanding of human development when he coined the term “emerging adulthood.” When adult children are living at home—as many are in this economy— future uncertainty can feel oppressive for everyone in the house. Dr. Arnett gives reassuring context for anxious parents of older children, explaining the social and cultural forces that have changed expectations for young people. He argues that “30 is the new 20” and that parents must learn to be more comfortable with less control, and trust that the kids are, in fact, alright.

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BONUS- DR. KIERAN QUINN Medicine is a science of uncertainty

Season 1

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 • Duration 29:57

When our health feels uncertain, we turn to our physicians—doctors have all the answers, right? But what about when they don’t? Dr. Kieran Quinn has devoted much of his busy clinical and research time since 2020 to understanding post-Covid syndromes. Though he is considered a top long Covid specialist, it is a condition riddled with unknowns, for which he can offer no remedy, no treatment and very few answers. He talks candidly with Gill—his former patient—about navigating the unstable ground of the unknown, and about what we can all learn about finding purpose when the answers are anything but clear.

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BONUS-SUE HINCENBERGS Failure as fuel to keep going

Season 1

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 • Duration 26:12

If you’ve ever had a secret dream but been too afraid of failure to dare attempt it, Sue Hincenbergs would like a word. Her debut novel—a dark, funny crime story called “The Retirement Plan”—sparked a publishing bidding war and the film adaptation is already in development. (She’s got her fingers crossed for Brad Pitt in a lead role!) Sue makes the case for staying hopeful and working hard, even in the face of failure and uncertainty.

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JEN MCNEELY What are we getting wrong when we think about change?

Season 1 · Episode 11

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 • Duration 45:02

Super successful urban blogger Jen McNeely made a name for herself when she created the popular Toronto site “She Does the City”. But the toll that lifestyle took on her personal life became untenable and eventually led her to rehab. In sobriety, Jen has made one massive change after another, leaving her career and the city behind; rewriting her life in midlife. Jen is honest and inspiring as she explains the courage it took to lean into so much uncertainty, and the rewards that could only have come from being courageous and trusting herself to try new things.

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