The VOW

Bethany Gettis is a highly dynamic Internationally known Certified Holistic Nutritional ConsultantTM and REAL Food Advocate. Bethany is focused on guiding busy, health-conscious parents to their optimum healthy lifestyle, through nutrition while creating a holistic balance. After all, she created her business Nutritious & Delicious because she believes a healthy family starts with a healthy pa...

Let's talk about sex, baby! Dr. Jordin is a Pleasure Expert, Naturopathic Doctor and Author. She is the CEO of the Pleasure Collective, a coaching community for CEOs and founders who want to be as badass in the bedroom as they are in the boardroom. She is the author of The Pink Canary, an investigation into the hidden secret to optimal women’s wellness and podcast host of The Pleasure Principles....

In this episode, Tanya gets vulnerable with her listeners about the time that a pulmonary embolism nearly took her life. While training for the Boston Marathon, Tanya began to experience severe chest pain that progressively got worse. It wasn't until she was admitted to the hospital that the doctors discovered she had blood clots throughout her chest due to the birth control pill. Tanya informs he...

Dr. Parul Dua Makkar completed her Bachelor of Science from University of Central Oklahoma in 1999, Magna Cum Laude and then obtained her Doctor of Dental Surgery from University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry in 2003. She practiced in Alberta, before moving to New York. Currently she is the owner of PDM Family Dental in Long Island, a place she resides in with her husband and 2 boys. Dr. Makkar...

In this mini episode, Tanya shares with her listeners about her passion for philanthropy and how it came to be.  She discusses the importance of seeking out a charity, person or organization that resonates with you and your values. If you do not have the financial resources, donating your time is a wonderful way to give back! 

Chelsea Squires is an extreme data generalist, collaborator, and storyteller with over five years of energy industry experience and a successful pivot into the tech industry. After suffering for many years with a love-hate relationship with her brain, Chelsea was diagnosed with extreme ADHD. Learning to navigate life with her diagnosis has had its ups and downs. Today, I have the privilege of sitt...

In the first mini episode of 2023, Tanya shares with her listeners as to her perspective on goal setting. While it has been a key component to her success, Tanya is more of the mindset in sharing your goals with others whether that is a business coach, a family member or friend. In speaking to the milestones that she wants to get done in each quarter, it works to keep her accountable. The episode...

In this mini episode, Tanya celebrates The VOW's 100th episode. She speaks to how the podcast has changed her outlook and allowed her to gain a deeper understanding and connection with women who have demonstrated resilience in the face of adversity. The VOW has been a platform that encourages women that it is a strength to be vulnerable and share their story with listeners. Connection is the found...

Dr. Alisha Rai is a mother and the co-founder of  Hope for Cerebral Palsy and the Author of Mighty Mr. Aiden. She shares her journey through infertility, multiple miscarriages and her pursuit of motherhood. Dr. Rai will lead our listeners down an unconventional way of finding her miracle rainbow baby. In this episode, Dr. Rai speaks to her experience through a traumatic delivery, NICU and bec...

Nina Purewal faced an unexpected childhood tragedy, which inspired her mindfulness and meditation journey over twenty years ago. After climbing the corporate ladder in sales and marketing for nearly a decade, she took a sabbatical and moved to California to unplug and live in an ashram for a year to further her learning of ancient wisdom and letting go. It’s been her greatest passion to help other...

Armed with multiple degrees in psychology, two decades of working one-on-one with individuals, and facilitating internationally, Gemma is laser focused on helping people build emotional intelligence. Gemma is a natural-born storyteller who inspires compassion, with every breath. Her fresh, accelerated and loving approach to healing is changing the psychology industry. I am so lucky to be basking i...

In this mini episode, Tanya discusses the importance of finding joy in your day. While every day may not go to plan, it is important to find gratitude for the moments that bring us a sense of joy. Later in the episode, Tanya gets vulnerable with her listeners and shares her own personal journey with practicing compassion for those who share a difference of opinion relating to all things religion,...

Born in Iran and raised in Tehran Atousa Sepehr received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and worked as an electrical engineer for almost 10 years in Tehran. In 2011, she made the decision to move to Canada with her husband with hopes of finding work as skilled worker immigrants. On this podcast, Atousa and Tanya discuss the current situation going on in Iran. Protest movements bega...

Eve Aboka is a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Advocate, and a Career and Academic Advisor with a restorative justice lens approach to informing organizational change, career development and social justice. She is the Founder and C.E.O at Capability Career Group (CCG) and an Executive Director at Immigrant Champions of Canada (ICC). Through the Working Workplaces Program at Capabil...

Beth Hoel began her career in criminal justice in 1998 at just eighteen years old when she began working in the Presentence Division of the Maricopa County Adult Probation Department while attending college at Arizona State University.  During this time, Beth went to the Maricopa County jails where she interviewed hundreds of inmates awaiting sentencing for felony offenses ranging from drug s...

In this solo episode, Tanya shares with her listeners of the importance of kissing a lot of frogs to truly find your prince. Her marriage with her husband, Chad is a reflection of the values and morals that have been instilled in her from her upbringing. The episode concludes with Tanya reading one of her favorite proverbs from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

Ashley is an author, recipe creator, and fitness enthusiast with a master’s degree in nutrition. After being awarded a tennis scholarship in her late teens, she moved from Kelowna to the United States to start her post-secondary studies. For over a decade, she’s worked as a nutritionist in the US and Canada – offering individualized guidance and meal prep services. She takes a compassionate approa...

Welcome to The VOW's first mini episode where Tanya discusses her experience and the residing trauma that she deals with from being bullied as a younger girl. It is through her vulnerability that she is able to find the blessings in the hurt. Tanya discusses the importance of identifying the triggers that spark the trauma response in the body based on past experiences. As a leader of love in her o...

The Voice of Women host, Tanya Eklund shares with her listeners about the triumphs, tribulations, and life lessons that she has learned throughout her life. In these mini episodes, Tanya dives more into her own personal story and opens up about her journey in life, love, business and everything in between.

Lisa Webb is a true global citizen, having lived on four different continents and travelled to over 60 countries with her husband and two kids. She’s spent over a decade of her adult life rebuilding her community, networking, and finding sisterhood all over the world. Lisa has chronicled her journey through writing as a Canadian Expat Mom , publishing six children’s books, two anthologie...

I owned a 6-figure digital marketing company for 9 years, working with brands to create digital 'spaces' that represented who they were through their websites and social media. After battling through another case of 'burnout' I decided to close it down, change course, and follow my own motto: 'Figure out what you love to do and find a way to make money doing it. Interior design and home...

Marci Warhaft is courageous & resilient, she is an author, a rebel, a couch and a body image advocate. Her book The Good Stripper: A Soccer Mom's Memoir of Lives is Marci's story of her earlier years in which she shares her destructive behaviours, a bank robber father, eating disorders, a struggling marriage, and her sexuality. Marci is a mother of 2 that was married for 22 years and has...

Jodie Tilley is an Aussie import and has now lived in Canada for 27 years! After graduating university on the sandy shores of the east coast of Oz, she set off on her mountain adventures to the Canadian Rockies. Staying long term in the great white north was never her intention, but serendipity played a part and many years later she met her now husband and is mum to very active twin 6 year old boy...

Jo Burston is one of Australia’s most successful female entrepreneurs. She has launched six businesses, the standout being Job Capital which went from $0 to $ 40 million turnover in five years and has kept her on the list of Australia’s top 30 female entrepreneurs since 2013. Jo has worked in partnership with the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) and Office For Women (OFW) as well as global br...

In 2015, Gloria Di Sabatino and her husband started trying for a family. After a few miscarriages later a series of unlikely diagnoses, including a rare balanced translocation found in less than 1% of the world's population leading to recurrent miscarriage and infertility, they soon found out that her husband carried this condition. After losing six babies in 4 years, and breaking clinic records,...