2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Joyce is a Massage Therapist in Toronto who is the “breadwinner” for her family of four. She says her family has broken the mold of what people view as a traditional family structure. At the end of 2019, Joyce and her family had their world shaken up when Joyce made a discovery that led to a diagnosis she never would have imagined she would hear. Joyce feels like often people don’t speak about wha...

Kelly is a Reiki Master from Orlando Florida and has a story about her first experience feeling energy through massage which is how she realized she may just be a Michael Jordan in this field (you have to listen to understand). We learned that Kelly was organizing a fundraiser for Prevent Child Abuse Florida and wanted to give her a platform to talk about it. She had a virtual lip sync battle, “Pu...

Nicki is a regular guest, turned friend and wine drinking buddy here and she has returned for a third episode to share some of her most unpopular opinions with us. The three of us discuss topics such as money and how society feels about the “super rich”, discrimination and when it may be justified, Massage Therapists as a business, and many more opinions that may or may not be shared by the majori...

Alyssa sent us a message to express some of her thoughts about being a Massage Therapist in California. She’s a new therapist and is also still in school to become a Neuromuscular Massage Therapist. We invited her to talk about being a new therapist while still studying and we ended up going down a path that of course we didn’t set out to go down. Alyssa recalled a time when she had a major emotio...

Alex, the founder of Neurofit , describes this virtual reality tool as the Fitbit for your brain. After his father suffered a stroke, Alex realized there were limitations with brain injury rehabilitation and knew there had to be a better way. The entrepreneurial spark became a fire and Neurofit VR was born. The mission is to allow patients to receive personalized rehabilitation and allow the healt...

Montana is a LMT in New York who has experience working in both New York and Florida. She has recently become a listener of ours and wanted to have a chat about the differences she encountered both with how the spas were run and the clients she met working in these two states. She was also interested in breaking down the differences between being registered and being licensed. It’s always fun to c...

Check out this sit down we had with a Massage Therapist after she caught our eye with a Facebook post that sparked some interesting conversation about issue that she was having with the Governing Body, and apparently she's not the only one... ConEdInstitute.com 2rmtsandamic.com

Brad is an exercise physiologist, educator, soon to be Registered Massage Therapist, and one of the people you have likely encountered if you have ever taken courses with Rock Tape. Brad explains to us the philosophy behind this company which despite its name is not just a tape company. Rock Tape has created a company culture surrounding movement and their mission statement really says it’s all- t...

Alana had a career as a nurse, was married for 10 years and has 4 children. After her divorce, she decided to make a career shift to have more flexibility to allow for time for her kids and their sports. She is now part of the weird world of Massage Therapy. Since becoming a RMT, Alana has been told what RMTs can and cannot do, such as make money, open multidisciplinary clinics, or be taken seriou...

Quite a few people joined the discussion about how the world views Massage Therapy after our discussion on a previous episode with guest Daniel, a Myotherapist in Australia. Massage Therapists are often viewed as the relaxation people, the muscle kneaders, the ones who you go see to relax your muscles, decrease stress, and part of a “self-care” routine. While we do have those skills, many therapis...

Jenn is a former director that sat on the board with the RMTAO until recently so she’s still feeling some withdrawal symptoms. While holding her position on the board, Jenn would often get questions that were outside of her role from RMTs which made her realize that there exists some confusion in our industry about who is responsible for what, how decisions are made within the association, and why...

Cleopatra connected with us via LinkedIn because she specializes in supplemental insurance and works with manual therapists like us to be sure we have the policies we need to protect ourselves and our livelihoods. After hearing her presentation, we invited her to talk about insurance on the podcast to break down what some of the options are, why they are important, who could benefit from the produ...

Are you up to date with current research regarding pain? Do you understand the science of pain? Do you know how the current science of pain is relevant to your practice as a RMT? We had a conversation with Eric Purves who is one of the awesome presenters at our upcoming B3 conference supporting Food Banks Canada. He is a RMT in BC, and teaches courses on chronic pain management. His graduate studi...

Sarah has been a Registered Massage Therapist for 22 years and has had a Paediatric focus for 10 years. She is also an educator who has taught at two different Massage Colleges. A few years ago, Sarah began working with a friend who runs a gymnastics program for children with neurodevelopmental differences. She became a coach herself and uses her knowledge and skill as a RMT to observe how the chi...

Marie is a Registered Massage therapist who has been practicing her entire career here in Ontario where she obtained her Massage Therapy diploma. After living and working here for years, Marie decided to move back home to British Columbia. We originally invited Marie to speak about the process of going from one regulated province to another and about her decision to move during the pandemic. It go...

Maddie and Amanda are brand spanking new RMTs who have only been in practice for about a year and a half. They love improving their practice and have taken a number of courses with ConEd Institute which is how we came to know these two. They have a “meet cute” story about meeting in massage school and falling for each other and an even more adorable proposal story! Listen to this newly engaged cou...

We had a zoom call with Daniel, a Myotherapist in Australia. He listens to our podcast and just wanted to talk shop with us about what it’s like practicing in Australia. He feels that what he does is close to what we do here in Canada as Massage Therapists. He wanted to talk about education, the public’s perspective about what we do, what his practice has evolved to in his short career, and where...

Some of you may know Karen for her witty and wonderful Massage Therapy cartoons. We have seen them online, and in the Friday File from the RMTAO, and we wanted to speak to the woman behind the animations. Karen had a full and successful career in animation which allowed her to work on some of our most favourite cartoons from our childhood...talk about nostalgia! She eventually realized that the in...

Sandy is a Registered Massage Therapist in Vaughan who had reached out to us because he wanted to share his assessments and treatment approach with us. He thought he was coming in to give one of us a demo treatment so we could experience what he does but instead we have him a mic so he could share with you all. Sandy is no stranger to pain having injuries himself, and has found a way of providing...

We had a repeat guest, Emily, who is one of the owners of Muse Massage Spa; a licensed body rub parlour with locations in Toronto and Vaughan. We initially spoke with Emily back in 2018 when we did a series on body rub parlours to educate the public about what is and isn’t legal and why RMT’s get asked for “Happy Endings”! This time around, we reached out to Emily to see how her industry has been...

Ronan Levy, one of the founders of Field Trip Health, and Dr. Michael Verbora, the Medical Director for Canada at Field Trip Health, joined us via zoom to educate us and our listeners on evidence based, legal, psychedelic therapies that have been proven effective when used to treat anxiety, depression, and PTSD. These two both have a background working with medicinal cannabis and have now started...

Christina messaged us a year ago with an idea to record an episode about Massage Therapy and hydrotherapy for babies with the intent to debunk some baby spa myths. Well, being a Mom and Entrepreneur aka Mompreneur, took precedence and a year later we finally had our conversation! We got to hear about Christina’s journey into Massage Therapy, and how her practice has continually evolved through her...

Check out this 2nd episode of season 4. We had Liz hang out on our couch after receiving a Massage Therapy treatment. She was a bit reluctant to strap on a headset and sit behind a mic, she's a bit shy, but deep down shes really a superhero. Liz does something special for work, something she calls "just being nice to people" but really it's so much more....she does social work in a homeless shelte...

Welcome to Season 4!!! We kick it off with Rachel who is a LMT in New York and has an incredible story about turning a 5 year plan into a 6 month journey to becoming a business owner. Though 2020 was tough for most of us, Rachel took every WTF moment, made decisions, found solutions, and managed to have success and prosperity during a very challenging time. Rachel is the definition of entrepreneur...

ConEd Institute , 2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone , and Conor Collins of the Concast , have teamed up to organize a 2 day virtual conference with an all-star line up of industry giants! The best part of this new project...all of the proceeds will be donated to Food Banks of Canada! During such trying times, we all wanted to do some good both within our industry, and for our communities in ge...