A Deep Love for Disney, Reside Live shows and a Hidden Bilingual (English/French) Connection
A fast look via my social media accounts will reveal my deep love for Disney and all issues Mickey Mouse. My household and I really like vacationing there, and I attempt to go down as typically as I can. If you happen to comply with my IG tales, you’ll additionally see that one in all my favorite issues to do is go see my favorite artists, stay in live performance and I typically invite my purchasers to affix me. I do that after I’m at residence, and even whereas I’m travelling!
I shared a few of these passions and hobbies not too long ago in an interview (in French) on Radio-Canada, on the present, dans la mosaïque with Isabelle Ménard. The phase was a “get to know” fashion characteristic interview, and I had an exquisite time on the CBC studio in Toronto. You possibly can hearken to the French interview right here.
We have now the pleasure of listening to about jobseekers’ passions, hobbies and private experiences via job interviews day by day, and upon listening to this radio interview, my group thought it was time for me to share my passions right here too.
So right here it goes!
Q: Julie, we all know you like going to stay music live shows. What are a few of your favorite bands to see stay?
A: I really like all types of pop music, and my favourites embrace bands like Bon Jovi, Backstreet Boys, and New Children on the Block (NKOTB), and so on.
In actual fact, NKOTB was the very first stay live performance I had ever attended. My love of live shows was born proper there. I used to be simply 14 years outdated. Rising up in Quebec Metropolis, I all the time needed to be Bilingual in English and French, identical to a number of the media personalities I’d see on TV day by day. Although I had not had the prospect to totally be taught English, I simply beloved how these hosts would swap from French to English, and again effortlessly.
On the NKOTB live performance, I keep in mind eager to comply with and perceive the which means of the English music lyrics. I assume you can say the seeds for Bilingualism have been formally planted even again then. I nonetheless chuckle at the truth that I grew to become absolutely Bilingual, and that my life’s work now could be in recruitment, particularly for Bilingual expertise – how apropos!
Q: What would you say is the very best live performance you’ve seen?
A: So many have been improbable, however my favorite artist of all time is Celine Dion so I must say any of her live shows are the very best for me. She is spectacular and I’ve watched her carry out stay many occasions. The very first time was in Quebec Metropolis at Le Capitole in 1992. I used to be 16 years outdated. I keep in mind we needed to line up outdoors of a grocery retailer to buy the tickets!
In 2005, I went to see Celine in Las Vegas. Whereas I used to be visiting the Wynn, Celine’s musical conductor on the time, Claude Lemay “Mego”, was standing proper there. I ran to him and took an image. I have to confess, I used to be so excited!
Julie Labrie with Celine Dion’s musical conductor, Claude Lemay “Mego” in 2005 in Las Vegas.
Julie Labrie attending a Celine Dion live performance in December 2019 in Toronto.
Then, the latest Celine live performance I noticed was in December 2019 in Toronto. My coronary heart is along with her as she focuses on her well being proper now. I hope she will be able to make it again onto the stage once more sooner or later. She is actually one in all a sort.
Q: What’s your all-time favorite Celine Dion music?
A: Oh, that’s a tough query for me to reply! There are such a lot of of her songs that I really like, each in French and English. For English, let’s go together with “All on my own,” and for French, I’d say: “J’irais où tu iras.”
Q: Have you ever ever met an enormous movie star up entrance and shut?
A: I wouldn’t classify it as “met a star” however we have been in shut vary, for positive! Haha! After I went to see Bon Jovi in 2013, we have been on our method to dinner earlier than the live performance and we walked proper previous Bon Jovi’s media scrum. We needed to seize the second with an image. The power in that house was palpable! At the moment, Bon Jovi was the band who had probably the most live shows on the Air Canada Centre – it was 17 in whole.
Q: Such enjoyable recollections! Okay, let’s transfer onto Disney. We all know that is your completely satisfied place. However we heard in your CBC radio interview, that you simply introduced Mickey Mouse residence in a reasonably distinctive method. Are you able to inform us extra?
A: Positive. It’s true, Disney World is my favorite place on the earth, and I do love all issues Mickey Mouse (fortunately, so does my household!). So, once we purchased our home, I instantly knew I needed to carry some Mickey inspo into our residence. Immediately, I made a decision I used to be going to create a Mickey Mouse-themed rest room.
My labour of affection for Mickey may be seen in my customized window curtains that I had created from some particular Mickey-themed material I discovered on my design journey, together with some Mickey wall decals, that I’m proud to say, I made myself with my Circuit machine!
Now right here’s a enjoyable trivia level for you: Do you know? Over 3 million pairs of Mickey Mouse ears are bought yearly at Walt Disney world. In keeping with DisneyEnthusiast.com, in the event you positioned all of those ears end-to-end, they’d stretch greater than 281 kilometers! By the way, I personal just a few pair myself and my daughters do too! J
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Here’s a parting thought: In keeping with an article revealed on-line in Forbes this yr entitled, Why You Ought to Nourish Office Friendships, acclaimed psychologist, Robin Dunbar notes that friendships are based on a number of pillars which embrace pursuits and hobbies, sense of humour, musical tastes, and profession passions. And in response to his analysis, the extra individuals share in widespread, the extra doubtless they’re to construct significant friendships.
So I invite you to take this chance right now, to share a little bit extra about your self, your passions, and your pursuits together with your co-workers who could not know so much about you. You by no means know the place lasting friendships can blossom! And friendships as analysis reveals is vital to our well being and happiness.