Airdrie Inside
Airdrie Inside, with host and long time Airdrie resident, Chris Glass | Bringing light to our homegrown and hardworking heroes.
Episodes
67 episodes
Shamus Neeson: Arts Champion
Welcome to Airdrie Inside. We are the city’s narrative infrastructure—the platform for the builders, weavers, and warriors who form the fabric of Airdrie.In this episode, host Chris Glass sits down with S...
Dustin Horlacher: Carson and Friends
In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Dustin Horlacher, founder of Carson and Friends. Five years ago, Dustin’s son Carson sent out birthday invitations and received zero RSVPs. What started as ...
Kristy McConnell: Off the Beaten Path
In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Kristy McConnell, Registered Psychologist and founder of Off the Beaten Path Psychology & Wellness. Kristy isn't just offering counseling; she is the ar...
Miles Canyon: Burn It Down
In this episode, host Chris Glass sits down with Miles Canyon, a songwriter who traded the metal scene of Saskatoon for the "Wild West" opportunity of Airdrie, Alberta. Miles is a story weaver of the highest order—a man whose transition from me...
Chad Moore: Airdrie Thunder
Welcome to Airdrie Inside. We’re the city’s narrative infrastructure—the platform for the builders, weavers, and warriors who form the fabric of Airdrie.In this episode, host Chris Glass sits down with Ch...
Sienna MacDonald: Heptathlete
In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Team Canada heptathlete Sienna MacDonald. Sienna’s journey is a masterclass in the generalist mindset—competing in eight different disciplines where the margin for error is non-ex...
Bob Wilkie: Sideways
In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Bob Wilkie, President of I Got Mind. Bob isn't just a survivor of the Swift Current Broncos 1986 bus crash tragedy; he’s the architect of a new narrative in...
Rishav Sharma: Airdrie's Para-Badminton Star
In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Rishav Sharma—Team Canada para-badminton athlete, double gold medalist, and founder of the Rocky View Badminton Academy. Rishav’s story is a masterclass in moving from "doubt" to ...
Celine Simard: Purely Chemical
Celine Simard (Celin) grew up in Fahler, Alta., the "Honey Capital of Canada," but she found her voice in the isolation of a 28-day quarantine. From the Young Canadians to the King Eddie, Celin is part of the creative "explosion" that has tr...
Horacio Galanti: Death Zone CAO
What does it take to manage 100,000 people and a $500 Million budget? For Horacio Galanti, the answer was found at 8,000 meters in the "Death Zone."In this episode of Airdrie Inside, Chris Glass sits down with Horacio Galanti—C...
Kim Titus: Thumbs Up Foundation
"There comes a time when we need to stop pulling people out of the river and go upstream to find out why they're falling in." Kim Titus didn't just start a foundation to honour her son, Braden; she started a movement to dismantle a bro...
Tong Wang: Windwood Music Festival
She has performed at the Lincoln Center and toured the world, but Tong Wang’s most important stage is a cul-de-sac in Airdrie. As a concert pianist, educator, and co-founder of the Windwood Music Festival, Tong is on a mission to replace the...
Mo Shaukat: Boots on the Ground
"We are training people to survive the job physically, but we aren't training them to survive it mentally." Mo Shaukat has seen the worst of humanity as a hostage negotiator and correctional officer at the Edmonton Institution, a maxim...
Mandi Fusaro: Building Airdrie's Soul
The "Champion of the Arts" award isn't for the person who writes the biggest cheque. It's for the person who gives the most of themselves. For Mandi Fusaro—actor, director, playwright, and teacher—that has meant spending nearly a decade in t...
Kristen Shima: City Builder
Most politicians learn how cities work after they're elected. Kristen Shima spent a decade building them from the inside. With a Master's degree in sustainable community development and a resume that includes securing ...
David Barchard: Micro Acres
Most people think farming requires hundreds of acres and massive tractors. David Barchard proves you can feed a community with just a few hundred square feet and a lot of heart. After 15 years in the restaurant industry witnessing a broken s...
Corbie Dorner: Airdrie's Piano Man
Most musicians think they have to choose: the stability of a "real job" or the freedom of the stage. Corbie Dorner chose both. As a beloved band teacher at Bert Church High School and a dueling pianist at Aussie Rules, Corbie lives at the in...
Chad Stewart: City Councillor
Most politicians follow a standard path: Law school, business, public office. Chad Stewart took the scenic route. From a 26-year career on a manufacturing floor to becoming a firefighter in his 30s, and now pitching horror novels to Hollywoo...
Flaysher: One More Light
You can travel the world looking for your sound, but sometimes you have to come home to find it. Brad and Ryan Fleischer (Flaysher) grew up on 90s rock and construction sites. They went to Toronto to chase the music dream, only to realize th...
Jeremy Pollock: Dreadnaught Films
Jeremy had friends winning Oscars for Lord of the Rings... and they were miserable. They were just one of a thousand people who "worked on Legolas's cape." That realization sent filmmaker Jeremy Pollock on a different ...
Heather Spearman: Airdrie's New Mayor
Season 2 of Airdrie Inside kicks off with a bang ad we sit down with a true powerhouse: Airdrie's new Mayor, Heather Spearman.In this exclusive conversation, Chris dives into the questions many of us have been asking since election nigh...
Jo-Anne Yau: Mentor
What if your greatest failure was actually your biggest opportunity? Jo-Anne Yau's life was supposed to go one way: become a doctor. When that dream died, she discovered a more powerful path. From a shy kid in Airdrie's only Chinese family t...
Erin Belley: Tattoos and More
The "starving artist" is a story we tell ourselves. The "gatekept industry" is a wall waiting to be torn down. Erin Belley walked away from the toxic, old-school tattoo world only to come back and build a new one from the ground up—one that ...