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This week, Shohana sits down with writer and musician Robbie Ahmen to discuss navigating grief, queerness, and a radical manifesto for healing.   Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About Robbie Ahmed:  Robbie is a musician and a writer whose work covers topics of immigration, spirituality, trans rights, mental health, and healing.  He has played at Toronto’s Storyteller’s Festival, Naked Heart Festival, Pride Toronto, Gladstone hotel, Soulpepper Theatre, Sellers & Newell & Queer Collective Tiny Desk series,  California State University & the Handlebar. Robbie has also contributed to various publications such as Nuance, Yohomo, These Pills Don’t Come in My Skin Tone, The Living Hyphen, Elephant Journal, Rest for Resistance, and upcoming The Brown Book (2022).  In 2018, his portrait was featured in a 10×10 photography project depicting 100 LGBTQ Canadians in the arts and was the recipient of 2020’s Buddies at Bad Times Queer Emerging Artist Awards. Outside of the art world, he is an avid mental health advocate and has served 3 years on the board of directors of Across Boundaries, an ethnoracial mental health organization in Toronto for the start of their first LGBTQ progamming. Robbie is also an art educator striving to bring representation of immigrant and trans voices in writing and music.   Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: Robbie Ahmed Instagram: @run_robbie_run Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

We’re back! A whole new season of Finders Grievers starts today.  Catch up on Season 1, and subscribe (and even leave a review if your heart so desires)  Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected] Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

It’s the season finale of this happy-ish sad first season of Finders Grievers! We will be back with an all new season in January 2022. Until then, take good care of yourselves and we’ll see you soon. Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected] Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana sits down with writer, poet, and occasional rapper Mugabi Byenkya to discuss lessons in manhood, health insurance, and the unlikely possibility of keeping your loved ones around forever.   Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About Mugabi Byenkya:  Mugabi Byenkya is an award-winning writer, poet and occasional rapper. He was born in Nigeria, to Ugandan parents and is currently based in Kampala. Mugabi was longlisted for the Babishai Niwe Poetry Award in 2015. His essays and poetry have been published in The Good Men Project, The Mighty, and Skin Deep, along over 25 other publications. He has been interviewed on Voice of America, NTV Uganda, and Brittle Paper, along over 40 other media outlets. Mugabi’s writing is used to teach High School English in Kampala and GTA schools. His award-nominated debut, ‘Dear Philomena,’ was published in 2017 and he went on a 43 city, 5 country North America/East Africa tour in support of this. In 2018, Mugabi was named one of 56 writers who has contributed to his native Uganda’s literary heritage in the 56 years since independence by Writivism (East Africa’s largest literary festival). Dear Philomena, was named a Ugandan bestseller in the same year. In 2019, Mugabi was selected as one of ten emerging theater artists in bcHUB’s Emerging Artists Ensemble 2019/2020. In the same year, he was named a finalist for Realwheels Playwright-In-Residence and the recipient of an inagaural Realwheels Encouragement Award. In 2020, Mugabi’s poem “If I Die Bury Me Next To My Father” was selected by Marilyn Dumont to be anthologized in “Best Canadian Poetry 2020” published by Biblioasis. In the same year, his debut ‘Dear Philomena,’ was nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards For Speculative Fiction By Africans. Mugabi wants to be Jaden Smith when he grows up.    Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: Mugabi Byenkya Instagram: @mugabs Twitter: @mugabsb Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, we’re talking about… Green Day? Rock on and tune in. 🎧   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findersgrievers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleahm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleahm Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana chats with writer and creator Trevor Poelman to discuss Bible college, sad shopping trips, and finding hope in unlikely places.   Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About Trevor Poelman:  Trevor Poelman is a writer, video essay creator, and podcaster. He created the Belief it or Not Podcast in 2018 and started doing video essays on YouTube in 2020. Trevor wrote and directed two critically acclaimed plays at the Toronto Fringe Festival. He also created a couple less well-received web series’.   Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: Trevor Poelman Belief It Or Not Instagram: @trevor.poelman  @beliefitornotpodcast Twitter: @TrevorPoelman @beliefitornot  Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, we drew a blank. What did we fill it with? Listen to find out. 😶   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findersgrievers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleahm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleahm Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana sits down with writer and comedian Guled Abdi and they chat about Groot vs. Baby Yoda and grieving during a pandemic.   Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About Guled Abdi:  Guled Abdi is a comedian, writer and 1/4 of the multi award-winning sketch troupe TallBoyz II Men. He’s performed at OFF-JFL, Montreal Sketchfest and the Toronto Fringe Festival. You can catch Guled on TallBoyz on CBC Gem or at random bars you didn’t know had a comedy show.   Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: Guled Abdi Instagram: @gul3d Twitter: @guuuuuuuulead   Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, we’re talking dates dates dates. Not the cute and flirty kind, just the calendar kind. 📅   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findersgrievers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleahm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleahm   Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana sits down with musician and comedian Ayaka Kinugawa and they chat about sad Mardi Gras, Drake lyrics, and the meaning of life.     Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About Ayaka Kinugawa:  Ayaka is a Japanese musician based in Toronto and is actively involved in the comedy scene. She is a musical director at the Second City Toronto and has toured across the US, including sold out performances at the Kennedy Centre. She also composes music for multiple live and film productions and the hip-hop project, Kokophonix. She is a member of The Sketchersons as well as Bad Dog Theatre Featured Players. Ayaka also likes blueberries. You can find her on instagram @ayaka.kinugawa and you can watch her weekly cooking show Ayaka’s Kitchen on Bad Dog Comedy TV on YouTube.    Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: Ayaka Kinugawa Instagram: @ayaka.kinugawa YouTube: Ayaka’s Kitchen on @BadDogComedyTV     Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week’s minisode is all about tomatoes. That’s it, that’s the minisode. 🤷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findersgrievers/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soleahm/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/soleahm Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

This week, Shohana sits down with David Richman, author of “Cycle of Lives,” to discuss what he learned about grief and loss while cycling 4700 miles across the US.    Follow Finders Grievers on Instagram & Twitter @findersgrievers and write to us at [email protected]   About David Richman:  David is an author, public speaker, philanthropist, and endurance athlete whose mission is to form more meaningful human connections through storytelling. In his first book, Winning in the Middle of the Pack, he discussed how to get more out of ourselves than ever imagined. With Cycle of Lives, David shares the interconnected stories of people overcoming trauma and delves deeply into their emotional journeys with cancer.   He continues to do Ironman triathlons and a wide range of endurance athletic events, having recently completed a solo 4,700-mile bike ride. He is married, lives in Southern Nevada, and has twins who are in college.   Instagram: @findersgrievers Twitter: @findersgrievers Email: [email protected] Hosted by: Shohana Sharmin Instagram: @soleahm Twitter: @soleahm Guest: David Richman Instagram: @davidrichman_cycleoflives Twitter: @cycleoflives Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cycleoflives/    Brought to you By: The Sonar Network