Rabbi Elyse Goldstein leads City Shul - a progressive Reform Synagogue in downtown Toronto -  and honours Isolation Station with a visit and a chat!  Rabbi Goldstein is an absolute dynamo - she’s an educator, a public speaker, an activist, and a prolific writer...and has a lot to say on the topic of keeping your perspective during challenging times like we are currently experiencing!  We talk a lot about community, and gratitude, and resilience, and paying it forward, and how at the core of her perspective stands the powerful saying,  This Too Shall Pass.  Check out Rabbi Goldstein and City Shul at their website, cityshul.com!  Enjoy!

Celebrated chanteuse, Julie Michels, stops by the Station and shares her upbeat Covid-era perspective while delighting us with stories from her fascinating life as a world-class jazz singer!  Julie chats with J. Sean about a cornucopia of topics - from wanting to be an astronaut as a girl to being an AIDS-era counsellor in a hospital; from singing on a mountaintop with a First Nation shaman, to paying it forward for the lineup behind her at a highway tollbooth; and always the lesson circles back to  giving compassion, giving kindness, and giving of oneself without expectation.  Julie also shares how a terminal cancer diagnosis she received (and beat) as a 20-year-old majorly influenced her life perspective.  Take in some of Julie’s fabulous vocal stylings at www.juliemichels.com!  Enjoy the chat!

Reverend Jeff Rock is the Senior Pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in Toronto, and Isolation Station is honoured by his lively and loving visit! The MCC, whose roots are deep in the LGBTQ2+ community, has been serving up inclusion and community realness since 1973. Reverend Jeff and J. Sean chat about how community, self-love and the golden rule can be beautiful tools to help us through the challenges of pandemic life, and how it’s okay to be a hot mess right now! Check out all the fabulous online goings-on at the MCC at mcctoronto.com, on their Youtube channel, via Facebook or Instagram! Enjoy!