This Happened to Me Season 2
CBC Radio | Posted: November 7, 2019 7:34 PM | Last Updated: April 21, 2020
This Happened to Me is a video series from CBC Radio that explores the turning points in our lives — the moments that changed everything.
The second season features new stories about discovering and learning to love your unique qualities, persevering through abusive relationships and finding inner strength, and bridging divides through food and friendship.
You can watch season one on Youtube or on CBC Radio.
A voice in my head told me start a spiritual revolution in California
Everything was going well for Mathieu Arsenault — until the day a voice in his head told him to leave his family behind in Montreal, travel to San Francisco to start a spiritual revolution.
I was a teenage bride that escaped an abusive arranged marriage
Samra Zafar was your average teenager living in Abu Dhabi when her mother came to her with a proposal to marry a man she had never met.
How meeting my idol Kurt Browning helped me become a better drag queen
When Shauna Fay discovered a passion for performing drag, she looked to her childhood figure skating idol for inspiration, and her drag persona Skirt Browning was born.
After being taught to hate and fear each other, food brought us together
Haitham El Khatib is a Palestinian Muslim who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Itamar Shani is a Jew who grew up on an Israeli settlement. Each of them was raised believing the other was the enemy.
Because of aphantasia, I'm not able to picture things in my mind
It wasn't until his twenties that Tom Ebeyer realized that his brain worked differently than others: he has aphantasia, a rare condition where people are unable to visualize things in their mind.
This Happened to Me is a video series from CBC Radio that explores the turning points in our lives — the moments that changed everything.