Brandon Gonez: “You have to get uncomfortable to get comfortable”

“Initially, my dream was to make it on to a national show, on tv. Because when I had the dream, tv was the biggest thing you can do as a broadcaster, as a journalist,” he recalls. As one of Canada’s most beloved broadcasters, Brandon Gonez is, along with other broadcasters at his former workplace, CP24, one whose career has been encompassing the media industry. He has worked across the country for some of Canada’s most extensive legacy networks, rethinking the sector by creating must-watch content for audiences. In 2021, he launched his own media company, redefining storytelling in Toronto: “we are disrupting an industry that needed to be disrupted,” Gonez says. Today he is kicking it with his ‘The Brandon Gonez Show’ – "a platform for real authentic conversation", as he says, where the biggest names come for sit-down interviews”. From Les Twins to Justin Trudeau: almost everybody in front of the camera did a little of just about everything, no matter the name in the hot seat. And with that, a versatile star was (re)born: he is newsier than other entertainment reporters and more showbiz than other news reporters.

It’s this kind of résumé which, in part, explains why Gonez has never been hemmed in by the conventions of journalistic conduct. As a rising media mogul, who recently topped The Peak’s 2022 Emerging Leaders list, Gonez worked hard, never stopping, never settling.

Watch the interview below, where Brandon Gonez is the one in the hot seat.