Jeremie Saunders
Jeremie is a multi award winning professional actor and yoga instructor who happens to live with a genetic lung disease called Cystic Fibrosis. He is also the producer and host of the award winning comedy podcast Sickboy which he founded with his two best friends Taylor and Brian. Together they explore conversations surrounding what it’s like to live with terminal or chronic illness in order to tear down the walls of stigma and find levity in an otherwise dark situation. In another life prior to this he hosted the CBC Television show Artzooka and travelled the world, from Kazakhstan to New Mexico and many places in between, with Col. Chris Hadfield as he hosted a documentary about Hadfield’s training to become an astronaut. He is based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia where he lives with his wife Bryde and their oversized muffin of a dog Bigby.
Adam Shoalts
Named one of Canada’s greatest living explorers, Adam Shoalts is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a professional adventurer who recently completed a nearly 4,000 km journey alone across Canada’s Arctic. He is also a historian, archaeologist, geographer, and best-selling author of Alone Against the North and A History of Canada in 10 Maps. He graduated from Brock University in 2009 and went on to McMaster University, where he is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation in history.