Heart in Motion Podcast: Celebrating Stories that Move Us

Heart in Motion is a podcast celebrating the heartwarming stories that move us, inspire us and lift us up. Join me as I interview cast and crew from When Calls the Heart, When Hope Calls, and other beloved family-friendly shows and movies from Hallmark, Great American Family, and beyond. Whether you're a longtime fan or discovering these stories for the first time, this is the place to connect with the people who bring them to life. Watch these full-length interviews on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@heartinmotionmedia.heartinmotionmedia.com

Heart in Motion Podcast: Celebrating Stories that Move Us is a tv podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 169 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Julie Gonazlo & James Trevena (Hallmark's A Knight to Remember - Actors)

  Oct 1, 202610 min

  What happens when a museum conservator who has given up on love shares one unexpected kiss with a centuries-old statue… and the knight inside wakes up?Julie Gonzalo (Emily Porter) and James Trevena (Sir Griffin de Beauford) join me to talk about Hallmark Channel's A Knight to Remember, based on Bryn Donovan's novel Her Knight at the Museum. Julie takes us inside where Emily is emotionally when we first meet her, and James shares how the team pulled off Griffin's life as a statue and what went into building a believable medieval knight. They talk about what made each of them right for their roles, why this set had them laughing until it hurt, the moments they couldn't hold it together, a cameo fans will want to watch for, and Griffin's fish-out-of-water adventures in modern Chicago — from pumpkin spice lattes to Halloween.Plus, James teases his role as James, the suitor Aunt Maysilee has picked out for Elizabeth, in A Grand Biltmore Christmas, premiering Saturday, December 5 on Hallmark Channel.A Knight to Remember premieres Saturday, October 3 at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel and streams the next day on Hallmark+. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

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  Vivian Lin (Netflix's Crew Girl - Showrunner)

  Oct 1, 202627 min

  Vivian Lin, showrunner and creator of Netflix’s Crew Girl, joins Heart in Motion to talk about the making of the coming-of-age series, its breakout success on Netflix, and what’s ahead following its Season 2 renewal.The series follows teenage rowing prodigy Teagan Tao, who is forced to relocate after a family scandal. Determined to keep her Olympic dreams alive, she takes on the impossible task of coxswaining a boat of hyper-competitive prep school boys — while navigating friendship, family, romance, privilege and everything that comes with being a teenager.In its second week on Netflix, Crew Girl surged to #2 on the Global Top 10 English TV list with 11.3 million views.Vivian takes us back to the beginning of the series, her path from Killjoys and Hudson & Rex to becoming a showrunner, developing Crew Girl with Morwyn Brebner, creating a teenage love triangle, tapping into the world of rowing and building the relationships and storylines that have connected with audiences well beyond the show's teenage demographic.And there are a couple of familiar faces for Heart in Motion viewers: Niall Matter, who plays a very different kind of character than many fans may be used to seeing him portray, and Alysse Leite-Rogers, who directed Episode 5 and is already very familiar to my When Calls the Heart audience.Finally, with Season 2 officially renewed, Vivian gives us a glimpse at what she's excited to explore more now that the story has another season to grow.Watch Crew Girl on Netflix.Gala Photo by Audrey Persaud #CrewGirl #Netflix #VivianLin #NiallMatter #AlysseLeiteRogers Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

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  10 Hallmark Christmas Movie On-Screen Couples I'm Most Excited to See This Year

  Sep 25, 202611 min

  These aren't necessarily the Hallmark Christmas movies I'm most eager to see this year. This list is about the PAIRINGS: the duos whose chemistry I'm betting on, and how I think it'll play with each premise. In air-date order, plus a bonus pair I already know works.Which pairing are you most excited about? Tell me in the comments! 00:00:23 - Intro 00:01:00 - Lyndsy Fonseca & Robert Buckley: Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story 00:01:46 - Brendan Penny & Pascale Hutton: Mr. & Mrs. Christmas 00:02:30 - Lori Loughlin & Tom Cavanagh: What If Christmas 00:03:34 - Tyler Hynes & Laci J Mailey: The Nights Before Christmas 00:04:19 - Erin Cahill & Andrew Walker: Christmas in Blue Dog Valley 00:05:10 - Autumn Reeser & Wes Brown: Christmas Delivered 00:06:12 - Daniella Monet & Kevin McGarry: The Christmas Eve Feast 00:07:35 - Hunter King & Dan Jeannotte: Eight Nights for Love 00:08:25 - Holland Roden & Niall Matter: A Grand Biltmore Christmas 00:09:18 - Jessy Schram & Will Kemp: Christmas in Canterbury 00:10:04 - BONUS: Sarah Drew & Peter Mooney: Mistletoe Murders Season 3 0:00 Your turn! Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

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  Steve Bacic (Hallmark's Garage Sale Mysteries: Murder Takes the Stage - Actor)

  Sep 20, 202611 min

  Sixteen films in, and getting the whole GARAGE SALE MYSTERIES cast back in a room still matters to Steve Bacic. In this conversation, he talks about that reunion — and why the goal, this many films in, is still simple: give the fans a good movie.We start there: MURDER TAKES THE STAGE brought the entire team back together, and Steve talks about walking into the Shannon house again with everyone in the cast — what that first day felt like after all this time playing Jason Shannon.Then the premise: Jennifer's true-crime book club stages a reenactment of the Lizzie Borden case — and a real murder follows. Steve talks about what that mystery-inside-a-mystery setup let this story do that a standard case wouldn't.Being the supportive husband isn't quite enough this time around, either. Steve talks about the extra duties Jason takes on to help crack the case, and how quickly he and Lori Loughlin found their rhythm again as Jason and Jennifer.Sixteen films is a rare run for any actor with one character, and Steve reflects on what's changed in Jason — or in how he plays him — since 2014. And there's a moment late in the film that plays like a wink to longtime fans, the group coming back together for another mystery. Steve talks about whether that was written in as a nod to viewers, or just landed that way once the whole cast was back in the room.Plus: before any of this, Steve was headed for a career in sports. He talks about what he's actually watching these days.Subscribe for new actor, writer, and director interviews every week. #SteveBacic #GarageSaleMysteries #MurderTakesTheStage #HallmarkChannel #LoriLoughlin Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

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  Eva Tavares (Hallmark's Love Finds You and Texas Two-Step - Director)

  Sep 14, 202652 min

  Eva Tavares has directed three Hallmark films in about nine months — The Christmas Baby, Texas Two-Step, and Love Finds You — and just picked up a Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for her feature directorial debut. In this conversation, she talks through her fast start behind the camera, working with the same actors twice, and what's next.We start with LOVE FINDS YOU. Eva talks about what made her want to direct a script then known as Return to Sender, opening the Fall Into Love event with a story that could've worked in any season, and what she had to nail in the first few minutes to sell the audience on Alex opening a stranger's package. She gets into directing Chris McNally opposite Aimee Teegarden — an actress she'd worked with before as a fellow performer on An Easter Bloom — finding the rhythm between two very different energies, and how her own background in opera and dance shaped the film's musicality. She also talks about encouraging the comedy of Chris McNally, who plays it much more buttoned-up on When Calls the Heart, and building the sibling bond between Chris and Natalie Sharp's Hayley in almost no prep time at all.Then TEXAS TWO-STEP. Eva talks about the dance rehearsals and her visual references for country music and dance-hall culture, directing Brendan and Heather Hemmens' pre-existing chemistry toward the specific relationship on the page, how the film's more grown-up spicy moments got approved and why they did plus what she wanted the story to celebrate beyond the romance.Plus: coming up through Hallmark's Make Her Mark program, shadowing Peter Benson on a Christmas movie, how directing has changed her as an actor, the musical she needs to pitch for When Calls the Heart, and her next film, Kitty Swipes Right — reuniting much of the production team behind Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper and A Reason for the Season.▶ More interviews: HeartInMotionMedia.com ▶ Instagram: @heartinmotionmedia#EvaTavares #LoveFindsYou #TexasTwoStep #HallmarkChannel #DirectorsGuildOfCanada Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more interviews and content that are coming soon!Instagram: / heartinmotionmediaWebsite: heartinmotionmedia.comX: https://x.com/StephHeartnm

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