Quality Coffee Podcast

What could we possibly have to say about love languages? Tonia and Vanessa have put a lot of work into understanding their own love languages and talk a lot in this episode about meeting others' love language needs also. Which love language speaks to you? Do you know the love languages of your spouse? Do you know the love languages of your kids? Do you know the love languages of your friends?...

Tonia and Vanessa discuss ways we can support up-and-coming generations, setting them up in ways where healing is basic decency. Instilling a standard level of being treated and accepting the treatment of other people means teaching our kids to say, "that’s not ok that you said that to me" or "that's strange that you said that out loud". Dehumanizing conversations, as the g...

Tonia and Vanessa deep dive into what regret means as 40-something women and how to view life through the lens of aging as a privilege and opportunity. They believe authenticity plays a huge role in making sure the decisions you make align with your core values. If you're always making decisions from a place of clarity you might find a deeply rooted sense of peace about how your life unfolds....

This conversation is an extension of so many we've had in previous episodes where we deep dive into how women process information and emotions. We recognize in our forties so many of the things we're scorned for or made fun of about.. is a function with great purpose. Women talk to work out their thoughts (get it? Thought process....) and often it takes a few runs through to finally find t...

Listen as Tonia and Vanessa talk through the lessons they’ve learned as midlife unravels the intricacies of relationships. Throughout this transformative time in our lives we begin to understand how to have healthy adult relationships with the friends and family in our lives. We stop strangling out of fear and anxiety because we are no longer living in survival mode. We can see things more clearly...

As forty-something women entering our midlife era, it's time to get real about our expectations. For ourselves, for our people and for our careers. Do we constantly raise the bar? Is the bar high enough? When we think about our standards, our core values and our beliefs about our own capabilities, are we gracious? Are we raising ourselves up? Or are we skipping the celebration of transformatio...

One of our strategies to stay ahead of your own self-doubt is to put other successful people’s voices in our ears when we’re striving for more in our lives or careers. Who has what we want? Who can we learn from? Who has set a very high standard example we can follow as a roadmap? We’ve all met Imposter Syndrome in our lives if you’ve ever pushed yourself out of your comfort zone. Tonia & Vane...

The most important thing you need to remember about life is everything is made up! All of it! Tonia is an author and wrote a book about wine because she couldn’t find literature that actually helped to bridge the gap between wine drinker and wine expert. Now it exists because she made it up! Vanessa couldn’t find the quality skin care she needed so she did the research and made her own! It didn’t...

Just a couple of sisters sharing real life stories and laughs about midlife maturity, self love and acceptance. Loving yourself after life's experiences is what the Quality Coffee Podcast is all about. Honest millennial talks. It's a life upgrade podcast. Join us for weekly taboo subjects women have been apprehensive to talk about... until now. Tonia and Vanessa are conversation starters,...

Plenty of our conversations have been rooted in change and this episode is no different. We are moving from an old idea where we're over the hill and looking in the rearview mirror staring back at 'the good old days'. We're forty-something women bringing truth to old sayings and ways of life that were meant to make us feel small, insignificant or as though there wasn't much of...

What does healthy communication mean and how is it achieved? When we think about the approaches we have in conversation, especially when it’s a heated chat, we are getting curious and asking more questions. “When I said _____, what did you hear?" There is a lot of instances where we find ourselves feeling attacked when conversations get a bit heated but the truth is... It’s about the god damn...

A topic of the times! You can’t un-see healthy relationships so let’s join the conversation and share what those are and why they’re so important to the 40-something woman! Mid-life doesn’t have to be a crisis when you’re emotionally in tune with yourself and your circle. Are you ready? Let’s go!

"This movement, I suppose that this new 'aha' realization, has created open space for our marriages to grow and expand where we were once taking up all of the space with our unmet needs." If you've ever felt tension in your marriage in any way shape or form when trying to express your thoughts and feelings about your day... maybe what you need is a solid group of 40-something...

Somewhere along the way we recognized you have to love all of the parts of you without judgement. Tonia and Vanessa share a lot of humorous stories we hope you all get a kick out of, especially when one of Tonia’s daughters threatens to find a new family. We veer off-topic and take you on a journey but stick with us and you’ll be sure to find your funny bone. Mid life clarity is all about acceptin...

Optimal health in our forties means doing the deep dive with the right doctors to find out where the deficiencies or problems are so we know exactly what to fix with exactly the right tools. The only regret we have is not taking this kind of control over our health sooner… like twenty years ago sooner. But who has a naturopath at 21?!  From every day life to pain management, join in on the convers...

There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to being healthy. Luckily, we are living in a time where accessing information and resources is at our fingertips... and today, in your ears! We deep dive into how one person's strategy with food or even supplements could make the next person really sick. We also discuss our experiences with specific testing through our Naturopaths and how that impac...

As 40-something women never has the relationships with our women friends been more valuable than now. As we evolve during our mid-life era we know so much more about who we are as women, what our needs are and who helps us to meet those different requirements. Women empower each other when we are raising each other up. Women love unconditionally when we are completely safe to be ourselves. Women s...

Imagine a world where women are in charge of the finances and the ones investing for retirement. We live in the world we create for ourselves and nothing is off limits. The only way to learn how to do something is to take action and get involved. Now we do know what to do and we're having a blast doing it. Move the needle with us and join the conversation! To open up your own Wealthsimple acco...

Every ten episodes we delve into uncharted territory and invite to you to learn more about who Vanessa and Tonia are. Do we always fight the system? Nah. Are we always incredibly serious? Nope. Do we always need to right wrong? Ok that one is a for sure yes but you get it. We are human. Existing takes up space in all ways and we share some silly and insightful things about ourselves through compas...

Why do I feel this way if It’s healthy? What does “healthy” even mean? No two bodies are alike and neither are their needs. Emotionally, physically ad psychologically we all thrive differently from on another and that’s fascinating! Come and find out what makes food healthy or unhealthy to each of us and how they relate directly to our upbringing both literally and metaphorically. Many of us grew...

40-something women know our value and our worth - but in case you don't you have come to the right podcast. Today we talk about how we fill our own cups and what our supporting cast looks like when things are calm and when life is chaos. The basis of the conversation really comes down to us setting ourselves up for as much success as possible. Being clear about how our needs can be met means b...

Being certain of ourselves stems from a place of knowing exactly who we are. When we are sure footed it is because we have established and live by our core values. On today's episode of Quality Coffee Podcast we check in with our core values and discuss how we maintain alignment within our day to day lives, our working environment and our relationships with ourselves, our friends, our family and o...

Today's discussion stems from some of the shame we experienced as children unable to talk to our parents about specific topics. Often we were dismissed or punished for merely growing up and wondering about the world. Our world. We know now as adults much of this reaction comes from a place of discomfort and projection so we are doing the work of starting conversations about some of those confusing...

One of the reasons we communicate so well is because we offer intricately different viewpoints of the world. And although we do life a bit differently, we are in-step with one another in many shared goals and some important core values.  We are sisters-in-law walking through this life together as best friends; a united front as family for each other and for Tonia’s daughters, who of course are Van...

The definition of mental load for us is the anticipation of everyone else’s needs and making sure everything is taken care of so your household runs smoothly. The effort and execution it takes for a woman to do that is far more than meets the eye, even if you’re really paying attention. It’s the size of a massive sombrero - breaking our backs and putting us off balance. Have you seen that reel goi...