Walking Alongside: Perspectives

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Time flies...or does it? A whole year has already passed and we once again celebrated our birthdays together, and we're still wading through and waiting out the immigration process...which makes time feel like it's not moving quickly enough. But life (and time) marches on, so we are doing our best to keep living and enjoying and celebrating. Her...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! There's a lot of stuff that can get you down. And it's not always big stuff. It can little niggling things, those little things that just get under your skin, or your collar like the little hairs after a haircut. But sweating the small stuff isn't usually the best choice, particularly, when there are ALSO a lot of little things that happen...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! At the risk of sounding like I have no idea what I'm doing or that I know what I should be doing, but have thus far not been able to actually do it, I may (finally) have had the reckoning that I needed. All the stars aligned (maybe) such that a series of stories, a podcast and a method recommended to help people dealing with trauma may have finally b...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We were in Paris as you may know, and so Todd and I had fun talking about our time there. It was great being able to relive our time there and talk about the highlights and surprises and things that we want to go back and explore some more. There are some "pro-tips" in there for those who have not necessarily been to France, and some recommendat...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! There are a lot of things that I can think of that would be worse than travelling on a plane - but if you want to get out of Dodge and you don't want to take your Dodge, chances are you'll have to fly. In this episode the trials and tribulations AND excellent examples of people who can make or break a trip - and thoughts to consider whether or h...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We all do it - compare ourselves to others...and we've all probably felt like a failure at some point. But what do those words mean? Really... What are the measuring sticks for failure? What is actually going on with the Joneses, and why does it all matter so darn much? All this and a guitar journey where mistakes are encouraged  - enjoy! Songs featu...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! I know I said there would be no more episodes about the Beatles, and it's not. It's actually about George Martin, who I think is amazing and I wanted to do a song by song review of how I think he did choosing different people to cover select songs. It may be controversial - but I had a lot of fun listening and thinking about each of the renditio...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Sometimes something happens that makes you realize that you need to change it up a bit...and that something was the realization that I had shifted without officially shifting the podcast. So that change starts now - introducing Walking the Walk where I still look at perspective but with an eye towards change for the better. Hope you enjoy the change in di...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! When you think about control, what do you think about? How much you control? How little you control? How you wish you had more control? Well, if that's the case, welcome to the club! In this episode I take a look at what control is in theory and how chasing it when we should or shouldn't will determine how stressed you feel, how satisfied you fe...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! First of all - Happy Canada Day and to our American friends, early, happy 4th of July! Second of all - how often do you think about time? All the time? Never? Well, here's my take on time and how while it isn't something we should obsess over, it is probably something that we should take as good care of as we do our investments or our pensions....

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Certain songs are just iconic and their messages timeless - and that was the impetus for this episode. I talk a lot about change and how it's inevitable, and not always what we want, but that we need to accept it. But we can also impact it - we can push for the right and good things and fight agains oppression or cruelty or yes - stupidity. I bring i...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We are back with part two and this is my (Charissa's) version of the episode. We are celebrating and describing the last couple of months of the process and some of the other fun (and not so fun) things that have happened along the way.  It's been a process and now we are in a different stage that will be equally stressful but in a different way...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We are back with part two and this is Todd's version of the episode - hope you listen to both for funnsies:) We are celebrating and describing the last couple of months of the process and some of the other fun (and not so fun) things that have happened along the way.  It's been a process and now we are in a different stage that will be equally s...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! My pal Jeremy is back to give us his takes (hot or otherwise) on the State of our Nation(s) and if that wasn't enough we're diving into AI and Daylight Savings Time as well, with a perspective that only Jeremy can provide. We have a flying insect situation and it's all just perfectly in keeping with what happens when I invite him onto the s...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Out with the old, in with the new. Everyone has heard that saying. And there are merits to it for sure. It's good to go through things, make sure that you have what you want and need and not a lot of extraneous stuff. But how do you get there? What's the process? Three boxes: keep, donate, toss? How often do you do it? And is there such a thing...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! If the next thing you thought was the second half of the lyric in the Billy Ocean song, which would be, "and into my car"...then your brain works like mine does. And I tried really hard to think of ways that I could incorporate that song into the episode. Alas...it was not meant be, and so this episode actually has no featured songs…at all...unc...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! This is going to be the first in a series that chronicles us getting Todd into the country (legally) as we literally run the gauntlet of the Canadian Immigration process. Not sure how many parts there will be in the series, but it will be a fun and raucous ride as I'm sure we will be encountering many barriers, challenges, impediments, and hopefully...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! Where you do stand on hugs? Are you a hugger? Or can you barely tolerate the non-lingering side-hug? Regardless of where on that spectrum of hugging you may fall, the reality is that we all (for the most part, with arguably few exceptions) need some human contact. From missing your special someone to accepting hugs from strangers we cover the gamut of why...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! I haven't thought of, or seen, pot pourri in a long time, but for whatever reason, that is the word that came to mind when I was contemplating what this episode was going to be about. As the title suggests, it's a mixed bag of things starting with some corrections courtesy friend of the pod Jeremy - who had some things to say and then moving on...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! It's not often that I get to talk to another podcaster...so this was such a great opportunity to hear from someone who has a completely different take, and yet shares much of the same philosophy. Tora Matys, as you will find out, is literally a woman on a mission - with a ton of education and varied experiences all inspired and motivated by her desir...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! We all have something to look forward to...right now for example there is a bar of soap that I bought as a fundraiser that has a dinosaur in it...I had totally forgotten about it but as I was cleaning out some bins and stuff I found it and now I can't wait to see the little guy emerge from its soapy home. There is something innately human about looki...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! With everything going on in the world right now, and a funny thing that happened one night, it seemed like taking a look at the term "perspective" might not be the worst idea. From whether we can see, to how we see, to what we should be looking for or at, perspective is something that seems to be sorely lacking right now. It's difficult to...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! How it's the beginning of another new year is anyone's guess. But here we are and so as is often the case, I'm taking a look at what I want to say goodbye to as 2025 fades into the past and what I want to say hello to as 2026 looms ahead, fresh, clean and full of hope and potential and promise.  I'd like to thank everyone who listens a...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! All the politicians are talking about it and it seems like it's the one thing on everyone's mind...money...finances...economics. No matter what you call it, it affects how you live, what you can do, the choices you can or have to make, and it adds a layer of stress at a time of year that is often already a little hard to take. So why is this the...

Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here! So realized that there were maybe some unanswered questions, or things that needed clarification so Daphne joined to help do just that. We fill in the blanks and take it to a few other levels. Because now that I have seen the light about birthdays, well, had to make sure we left no T's uncrossed or I's undotted :) Here's the songs that make...