Filipino Fridays

Filipino Fridays


Latest Episodes

Community Cultivator Series featuring KASAMA Chocolate's Vince Garcia
June 07, 2021

Hey y'all! We're back with another episode - in honor of Filipino Heritage Month in Canada, we will be featuring some of the notable Filipino-Canadian entrepreneurs who are putting Filipino products on the world map. Kicking off our 'Community Cultivator'

EP. 22 - Navigating Filipino Storytelling and Filmmaking with Care featuring Joella Cabalu
June 03, 2021

In celebration of Filipino Heritage Month in Canada, we are back with another episode featuring Filipino-Canadian filmmaker Joella Cabalu. The award winning director and producer joins us to talk about her new short film, 'Ode to a Seafaring People' featu

EP.21 - Family Feuds (The Filipino Fridays Fallout) featuring RJ Galea & Byron Cadano
June 01, 2021

**Producer's Note: this episode has been published with consent from former host of Filipino Fridays - OJ**Hey y'all - this is our most personal and most vulnerable episode yet. We address going off-air for over a month with the outcome of one of our main

EP.20 - Hacking the Filipino Frugal Flex featuring Geobreeze Travel's Julia Menez
May 21, 2021

We are back with an episode y'all! Our special guest is Julia Menez who is a travel hacking coach, speaker, and host of the Geobreeze Travel podcast. She takes us through what travel hacking is and how to take advantage of points and miles to travel for f

EP.17 - Elevating the Filipino featuring Paul Bacera (The Asian Theory)
March 27, 2021

We're back with another fun episode y'all! Our special guest is Paul Bacera who released his new book, Isdaman: The Little Filipino Hero. He is also behind the hit YouTube channel, The Asian Theory. We talk to Paul about how he breaks down the concepts in

EP.16 - Dealing with Grief featuring Cynthia Siadat, LCSW
March 05, 2021

Welcome back to Filipino Fridays – we are back with our special guest, Cynthia Siadat. So many of you enjoyed our mental health episode and we invited our favorite therapist to discuss the topic of grief. When you heard the news about Angelo Quinto or eve

EP.15 - The Struggle is Real: Filipinos and Mental Health
February 26, 2021

Filipinos are the type of people who feel deeply, but yet have a difficult time talking about it. This episode is an eye-opening discussion about mental health and the Filipino community (which is very rare). How our cultural upbringing affects our attitu

EP.14 - Love & Basketball featuring Ben Gacrama aka DailyBBaller
February 14, 2021

For all of you basketball fans, this episode is for you! As many of us know, Basketball is a Filipino's love language. Whether it's in the courts of Tondo, barangays in the Philippines, to community centre courts all over the world, you are bound to see a

EP.13 - Frustrated and Fed Up: Can Filipinos Get Along?
January 29, 2021

We're back with an eye-opening episode digging deep on what keeps Filipinos divided. Whether its a difference in mindset, attitudes, language barrier and experience, we ask the question - Can Filipinos Get Along? We tackle the honest conversation on if Fi

EP.12 - The Fifth Element: Beatbox
January 22, 2021

Welcome back to Filipino Fridays -It's a banger y'all! We're still in COVID times and some of us miss the club, live music events and music at the bar, so we're bringing the club to you! Our special guest this episode is the 2019 Canadian Beatboxing Champ