Author. Publisher. Changemaker.

Ingenium Books Podcast

Ingenium Books Podcast

Author.
Publisher.
Changemaker.

Your podcast hosts are
Boni and John Wagner-Stafford of Ingenium Books.

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Join us as we talk about everything from writing craft to publishing processes, from book marketing to the business of publishing, from connecting your passion to your publishing journey, and from where you are now to where you become a changemaker. 

 

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Publishing

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About the Hosts

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Boni Wagner-Stafford

Publisher/Cofounder/Author

Boni Wagner-Stafford is co-host of the Ingenium Books Podcast, as well as co-founder and publisher at Ingenium Books. 
As a publisher, Boni leads strategy and editorial. 
As an award-winning former Canadian journalist, Boni covered politics, government, social and economic policy, health care, organized crime, and more. She later held senior management roles in government where she led teams responsible for media relations, issues management, and strategic communications planning. She has lived in more than seventeen different cities/towns in Canada, Mexico and France, lived for three years full-time on her sailboat, also named Ingenium, and now calls La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, home.

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John Wagner-Stafford

CFO/Cofounder

John is cofounder and CFO at Ingenium Books. Creating a better world is John’s personal purpose. John’s creative entrepreneur accomplishments include professional musician (saxophone, vocals); recording engineer with artists like Peter Frampton, Celine Dion, Pat Metheny, and Leonard Cohen; soundtrack producer for film and television. As video game producer for Ubisoft in Montreal John led a team of 160 and managed a budget of $12 million. He held real estate licenses in two Canadian provinces. He’s a master canoeist and ASA-certified sailor. He's also trilingual, speaking English, French, and Spanish.