Blackout Podcast

About Blackout Podcast

Blackout Podcast: Intimate Conversations With Amazing People Who Do Amazing Things. It is about unfiltered truth. A space to talk openly about life, art, mental health, family, beginnings and endings.

Publisher

Israel Ekanem

Category

arts · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Jan 2020

Latest episode

2 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

343 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Nov 2026

   Laura Rae - Songwriter / Producer/ Label Owner

   Blackout Podcast Episode 400: Laura Rae - Songwriter / Producer/ Label Owner Bilingual chanteuse, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and educator Laura Rae dances between languages and genres, sounding like Metric met Fleetwood Mac in a Folklore forest. Since releasing her first single, Laura has been nominated for Music Nova Scotia’s New Artist Recording of the Year 2022 for "Didn't Know", Prix de l'Acadie 2023 for Chansons pour ma grand-mère, and has taken home bronze for Halifax The Coast Best Folk Artist 2022. Her most recent project, Sad Songs, explores various genres, leaning into rock drums on songs like "Nothing Lasts Forever" and bowed stand-up bass on "House we called Home". Guest Room Records started out as a 450-square-foot, 2 room recording studio in Dartmouth that is owned and operated by Laura Rae. Laura has nearly 3 decades of musical training, including classical piano, guitar, and flute. She holds a B.A. with a Minor in Music, a B.Ed in Secondary Music Education and an M.Ed. focused in the Integration of Music in Second Language Instruction. In 2022, she was selected among hundreds of applicants to participate in SOCAN Foundation's Women Equity X Production Mentorship Program, and shortly thereafter produced her first French EP, Chansons pour ma grand-mère. In 2025, Kristen Martell's album, Allume mon courage, produced by Rae, won Music Nova Scotia's Prix de l'Acadie and was nominated for ECMA Acadian Recording of the Year 2026. Since her start in the music industry, she has noticed that something is missing: continued support for artists who are beyond 'emerging', but who haven't built a team or been signed to a label (aka most of the artists in Atlantic Canada). Provincial industry organisations are amazing resources, but their capacity is limited for 1-1 support for artists who just need to know how to set up their royalty collection and write a press release. Guest Room Records hopes to fill those gaps, supporting artists on an individual level to develop their careers to find success... whatever that might look like for them. Learn more @guestroomrecords (https://www.instagram.com/guestroomrecords/) @laura_raemusic (https://www.instagram.com/laura_raemusic/)

2. 

   26 Oct 2026

   Robert Howlett - Founder - Redefine Social Health Association

   Blackout Podcast Episode 399: Robert Howlett - Founder - Redefine Social Health Association Robert Howlett (he/him) is an accomplished non-profit leader with experience in strategic planning, program development, and community engagement. His career includes executive roles where he has been a leader in operational management, volunteer engagement, and community development. His work spans international, national, and regional projects, particularly focused on health, community and volunteer program development. Outside of work, Robert is actively involved in his community, serving as Vice Chair of the Landrace Community Garden Society, and is the founder of Redefine Social Health Association. As a creative himself, Robert has a passion for empowering people to find their “why” through community exploration and experience. Learn more @redefinesh (https://www.instagram.com/redefinesh/)

3. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Jule Rochelle - Certified Sexologist & Embodiment Coach

   Blackout Podcast Episode 398: Jule Rochelle - Certified Sexologist & Embodiment Coach Jule Rochelle is an artist of life, embodied intimacy coach, and trauma-informed Sexologist certified in the Somatica® Method. With a background spanning bodywork, somatics, coaching and sacred sexuality, she brings depth, intuition, playfulness and a healthy dose of magic to her work. Jule believes that living a life infused with Eros is a pathway home to ourselves. Through her work, Jule supports individuals and couples in releasing shame, becoming more deeply connected to their bodies and desires, and creating relationships rooted in authenticity, consent, vulnerability and emotional intelligence. She believes pleasure is our birthright and a worthy pursuit- and that healing doesn’t always have to be so damn serious. Sometimes it happens through laughter, curiosity, touch, play and the courage to be fully seen. At the heart of Jule’s work is a desire to help people move from living primarily in their heads into a more embodied relationship with their hearts, bodies and desires. She sees herself as a catalyst and creatress: someone who helps people gently unravel old patterns, soften their edges and weave new ways of relating- to themselves, to one another and to life itself. Learn more @onda_embodied_intimacy

Who has been a guest on Blackout Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Lyris Daye
• Thr33D
• Mario Rolle
• Francis Njoku
• Kuraaku

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

38,710

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

81