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Check out Canadian Grit's First-Ever Official Interview! Also available on our BRAND NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH VIDEO! 🏴‍☠️

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All audio episodes now there, too-- animated editions to come later. ❤️‍🔥

Here's an ingenius *FREE* grassroots mission YOU CAN HELP in under 15 seconds if you have Amazon Prime: $3 "sub" to Richard's charity.

• Richard is a local hero
• From our time together at RMC to community engagement
• LIVE LINKS: WHERE FUNDS ARE GOING TO HELP PEOPLE AND CATS NOW!!!
• Innovative fundraising: "Primed for Charity": the power of tech for charity: Indigenous youth programs; street missions; no-kill cat shelters, biospheres, environment
• Trust within community: essential for success
• Richard's personal struggles: finding purpose in helping others
• Stream for charity: significant impact & awareness
• Understanding platforms like Twitch can empower individuals to contribute to causes
• Donation transparency fosters trust; encourages more contributions
• Connecting with Indigenous communities is vital for cultural understanding and & support
• Leadership involves recognizing value of community & role of elders.

In this engaging conversation, Jamie interviews Richard Desaluniers, a local hero in Edmonton dedicated to community service & innovative fundraising. His unique approach using "Twitch" for fundraising emphasizes the power of technology in making real change. The discussion touches personal struggles, the significance of Indigenous communities, & the role of elders in leadership. To inspire listeners to take action and contribute to their communities.

🫵KEY Takeaways:

• Every action is heroic.
• Community is the heart of change.
• We can change the world together.

Keywords: Agency, Power, Individual empowerment, fundraising, Canada, mental health, Indigenous youth; Indigenous ways of kno

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All the very best.

Your good pal,

-Jamie

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🎧 Episode 3.2 – The Boy in the Smoke

🔥 Champlain, Brouage, and the Fire Before the Flame

Before he was a mapmaker, a mediator, or a founder of nations, Samuel de Champlain was a boy — born in smoke, salt, and fire.

In Episode 3.2 of Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary, we return to 16th-century France, where the fortified Atlantic port of Brouage churned with war, ambition, and the scent of cannon smoke. Here, in a village gripped by the Wars of Religion and shaped by the crashing tides of empire, a young Champlain grew up watching his world burn... and quietly dreaming of another way.

This episode pulls back the veil on the early life of a boy who would one day change the course of history. Raised in the chaos of civil war, surrounded by butchers, fromagiers, and soldiers marching to opposing gods, Champlain was forged in a crucible of violence and uncertainty.

But rather than becoming hardened, he grew curious.

Observant.

Strategic.

And ultimately, hopeful.

Part immersive history, part poetic meditation on place and becoming, Episode 3.2 explores how the boy became the man, and how the man would someday offer a radically different vision for what a “New World” could be.

Champlain wasn’t an accident. He was an outcome.
And his origin story matters now more than ever.

🎧 Listener Prompt:
What did the world you were born into teach you — and what have you chosen to carry forward anyway?

🔍 Keywords:
Samuel de Champlain, Brouage, Religious Wars, French History, Turtle Island, Colonialism, Continuity and Change, Popular History Podcast, Identity, Place, Explorer Mindset, Canadian Grit, Resilience, Adam Shoalts, Hybrid Reality Theory (Jackson, 2025)

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If this story moved you — or reminded you of your own grit — I’d love to hear from you.

Know someone with an untold story? Reach out. Let’s give it voice.

Thank you for being here. It means more than you know.

— Jamie

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Remember, my friends: We're in this thing together. It means more than you know. We're just getting started!

If you know of anyone-- or if YOU have an amazing story of grit, or even something to share with the world, why not reach out and let me know?

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All the very best.

Your good pal,

-Jamie

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Episode 3.1 – Turtle Island, Interrupted (Redux): Director Champlain’s Cut
🔥 The Dawn of Modern Canada

Before there was Canada, there was Turtle Island — a name, a memory, a map of stories passed from one generation to the next. But what happens when those stories are interrupted?

In this cinematic redux of Episode 3.1, host Jamie Jackson pulls back the curtain on the director’s cut of Canada’s founding — with no colonial filter. From the origin stories of Sky Woman and the Haudenosaunee to Samuel de Champlain’s dream of something more than empire, we voyage deep into the human spirit behind our nation’s founding myths.

This isn’t just history. It’s a confrontation. A reckoning.

A remix.

From Adam Shoalts’ wild solitude—including passages from his brand new book, Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Journey from my Doorstep to the Arctic, to daredevils launching off Niagara Falls — this episode explores what drives explorers, rebels, and revolutionaries to risk everything for something unseen. Featuring reflections on Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle, the erasure of Indigenous languages, and the tension between old world ambition and new world connection, this is an episode that doesn’t just teach — it challenges.

If Episode 1 was the spark, and Episode 2 was the tinder, this is the moment the fire catches. Grab a log, and have a seat.

You'll be happy you did.

🚨 Listener Prompt:
When was the last time you believed in something so much… you were willing to leap into the unknown?

Keywords: Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Colonialism; Immersive; History; Continuity and Change; Challenge; Popular History; Culture; Community; Leadership; Martin Luther King Jr.; Reality TV; Hybrid Reality Theory (Jackson, 2025).

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Remember, my friends: We're in this thing together. It means more than you know. We're just getting started!

If you know of anyone-- or if YOU have an amazing story of grit, or even something to share with the world, why not reach out and let me know?

I'd love to give voice to your stories.

All the very best.

Your good pal,

-Jamie