Experimental pie baker Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin is spicing up the pastry world with her intricate masterpieces.
Her boundary-pushing pies range from detailed celebrity pie-traits and sci-fi characters to towering three-dimensional pie-scrapers. All this from someone who could barely crack an egg!
You can find meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal wherever there is dangerous weather—she chases storms for a living.
She has reported from seven hurricanes, including hurricane Michael, the strongest she had ever encountered, a category 4 hurricane in the Florida Panhandle.
She has reported from thunderstorms, earthquakes, and extreme weather all around the world for the Weather Network, with her co-host and fellow meteorologist Mark Robinson. “It’s so fascinating, and the best way to learn about it is to put yourself in it.”
Caroline Szwed was once an athlete—representing Canada at the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup—until she lost her soccer career to three devastating knee surgeries. Now, she is a producer and on-air host of Sportsnet’s Plays of the Month / Misplays of the Month and Aftermath, and is blazing her way through sports broadcasting.
“If you would have told me three years ago, that’d be sitting here right now. I wouldn’t believe you. You trust the process and and go with it. Believe in yourself.”
Jana Webb is an entrepreneur who started JOGA, a.k.a. yoga for jocks. While her business has thrived and she has helped it grow brick by brick, Jana has had a tumultuous personal journey that includes two car crashes that almost took her life.
Robyn Coquelle started volunteering at Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA). Little did she know that she would end up quitting her job to study to become a veterinary technician—through volunteering, she had found the one thing she truly wants to do.
Roya picked up a part-time job as a receptionist at an auto body shop to help support herself while she was in school, but it wasn’t long until she realized that she was already where she wanted to be.