Kerrie Penney makes her way in the world by following her heart and staying curious. An avid reader, she’s fascinated by the power of words to transport and transform. Kerrie’s worked in media for many years. At twenty, with unstoppable energy and a Diploma of Applied Arts, she landed a job in rock and roll radio, where she read news, produced a daily talk show and wrote a weekly arts column for a local newspaper.

Her first job in television was co-hosting a nationally syndicated weekly film review program. For half a decade she travelled to interview the hottest stars (Sylvester Stallone, Meg Ryan, Kevin Costner, Frances McDormand, Margaret Atwood, Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis for example). Building on her radio skills, she quickly learned to trust her heart, and the importance of earnest questions.

She also learned that successful women straightened their hair and were not overly opinionated. After five years she was fired, and left Canada for a two-year adventure in the Caribbean. She rented Jeeps and travelled the world in the off season.

Returning to Canada, she worked at a start-up computer magazine in Ottawa, where she learned to speak DOS and some French and started her first company, refocusing her career as a writer, producer and director.

At the dawn of the new millennium, she wrote for, directed and co-hosted another national TV show on Canada’s LIFE Network. Later, as co-producer and host of Global TV’s B2B TV, she interviewed some of Canada’s brightest business leaders and thinkers. She co-founded the boutique communication firms Brainstorm cgp inc. and Freshwater Creative and excelled at telling stories.

In 2002 she became a mother, easily the highlight of her life. She raised her daughter, grew her business, and married in 2011. (putting the cart before the horse as her mother would say.)

In 2015 she sold her shares in Freshwater and set out to create a book and podcast called Creative Retirement. That project was shelved when Kerrie began the work of becoming a truly compassionate daughter, caring for her ailing mother. She wrote about the small miracles experienced in emergency room corridors and rehabilitation centres where she spent many hours steeped in the complexity of mothers, daughters and mortality. For years she was her mom’s ardent advocate and biggest fan. Kerrie wrote a book length manuscript about this chapter of their lives after her mother’s death.

As a writer, her words have appeared in The New Quarterly, Funny Pearls UK, the YYC Poet Laureate project This Might Help, blue buffalo, Pinhole Poetry and The Globe and Mail. Her first chapbook My Garden Alphabet was released in 2022. She wrote and directed the documentary Cat Call: The Other C Word, which premiered at CIFF in 2008, penned and narrated a short film for Burning Man’s Ursa Mater installation, and attended the Banff Centre Literary Arts Residency in 2018 and 2019.

On the edge of sixty & what she called The Year of No Fear, Kerrie was visited by an idea that longed to be brought into the world, Secret Heart Broadcasting. This podcast was seeded by the extraordinary conversations she had while walking with wise women during the collective memory of COVID.

With the podcast, Kerrie is amplifying the frequency of love on earth. Conversations are wisdom rich and wide ranging as guests explore the intersecting desire lines of body and soul, and how they learned to navigate by heart.

The Secret Heart Broadcasting podcast is offered as a gift.