2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Rebecca is a RMT in Alberta, Canada who loves to learn and constantly give herself new goals and challenges. Rebecca worked as a bus and LRV operator in Calgary which she ended up loving but needed to go back to school and learn more. She decided on Massage Therapy and loves this career as well! But alas, she needs more. Her next goal is to move to British Columbia which is a regulated province, S...

Eric is a LMT in Idaho, and also a business coach for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers. He and Mark had decided that we would record an episode about having an exit strategy or retirement plan from this industry. That was the original plan but as often happens, we took many turns and discussed Eric’s Massage Therapy journey, his family, making home movies with his 10 siblings, going to Massage s...

Sophie was binging some of our episodes while in her second quarantine for possible COVID-19 exposure and since she had lots of time on her hands, we asked her if she would like to rap with us over the phone...about anything! We took it back to our lockdown days and recorded late night after the kids were asleep from our bedroom while sipping on blue drinks. Sophie has a similar background to us a...

Mike aka Mikey Alphabet has many titles and wears many hats. He is an Athletic Therapist, a Massage Therapist, a Sport Fellow Member with CSMTA, and a certified Matrix Repatterning Practitioner. We met Mike when he signed up for some one on one training at ConEd Institute and just found him to be an interesting guy. Mike has travelled the world working with athletes and is currently doing clinical...

Yvonne is a young athlete that takes her health and wellness seriously and doesn’t mess around when it comes to therapy! She has a team of therapists ranging from chiropractors to Massage Therapists to Athletic Therapists and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners. The reason she’s so serious about therapy is that she understands what it takes to keep an athletic body functioning optimally and...

Matt and Sam are both RMTs in Toronto who co-teach a course in Therapeutic Relationships at one of the most well known Massage Therapy colleges in Ontario. They invited us to be involved in the course and sit on a panel to have open and honest discussions with their students about the real life stuff involved in the Massage Therapy profession. We absolutely love this idea and think this part of Ma...

Kristofer is a Massage Therapist in Toronto who takes an evidence informed approach in his practice which focuses a lot on treating athletes. In his 6 years of practice, he has made an effort to ensure that any connections made, whether at a clinic job, networking event or conference, or even online, that he leaves an impression. He is passionate about his career and wants to leave an impression o...

Sabrina (not the witch) and Tatyana aka Kid Rock have taken some ConEd courses with us and are listeners who enjoy the Unprofessional Hour the most! That means we had to invite them in for a late night recording to tell some of their most outrageous Massage Therapy stories. This episode is full of giggles, as once again Mark was trapped in a room with a bunch of ladies (poor guy). Tatyana and Sabr...

Roxanne is a RMT and owner of a successful clinic, Bliss Wellness, in Orillia, Ontario. Roxanne and her two daughters were involved in a head on collision in July that has had a massive impact on Roxanne’s life. We were so thrilled that she was willing to have us at her clinic to hear her story- one that she has decided is not going to BE her story. Roxanne truly practices what she preaches and be...

Bobbi Jo has been a Massage Therapist for only 2 years and has already dove head first into practicing with very specific niche populations. When she was in college she had the chance to work with patients post surgery and although it was scary and she even made some mistakes, she could see how meaningful this work was and wanted to work with post- surgical patients once she became registered. Thr...

Michelle is a Massage Therapist we have admired from afar for a while now. She’s a business owner, mother, educator, and author to name a few reasons we wanted to have her on mic to share her story. Michelle is probably best known for her work in the perinatal world of Massage Therapy and her education company, Perinatal Massage Therapy education. Michelle shared her amazing story with us about wh...

Heidi stepped outside of her comfort zone to contact us and tell us about her fairly new and very unique Massage Therapy business. She is the only Registered Massage Therapist I have ever met who exclusively treats children. Heidi has been in practice 15 years and was starting to feel that she needed a change so she went inactive to explore other career paths. What she came to realize is how much...

Chris sent us an email because he wanted to talk about insurance and we were here for it. We met Chris a few years back and have used him as a resource for stories of insurance claims to give examples of why keeping quality records is so important. So we just knew Chris would deliver on some of the random claims that have crossed his desk. Chris and his father (and his grandfather) have insurance...

Jamie has been a guest on our couch before talking about all of the awesome things Registered Kinesiologists can do in the realm of complementary healthcare. She reached out again because she had more thoughts about how Kins could be better leveraged within clinics and how clinic owners are missing an opportunity with their Kins. She also has been having great success with virtual assessments and...

We invited two RMTs, Conor and Fran, to review the draft from the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario of the updated Standards of Practice. We had seen some online discussion and had some DMs come our way about the draft and decided to go through it, for the first time, with the mics on and some level headed therapists with a boat load of experience. Listen to our take on the draft and decide...

We had a client stay back after treatment this week to sit on our couch and talk about what school reopening has looked like this year. We wanted someone who is in the trenches to give perspective on the reopening plans and whether the government, the school boards, and the teachers unions had done a good job with getting our kids back to school whether in person or virtually. Phoebe has been a hi...

Bree is a RMT from Ottawa, Ontario that reached out to us because she enjoys talking shop with other therapists and had a ton of info to share with us about what she has been up to. We only scratched the surface with her in part one which is why a part two will be coming out soon! In this episode we really focused on NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT) which is a major part of Bree’s practice today. She ex...

Marsha is a friend of a friend who came highly recommended to be a guest on one of our episodes. We didn’t know too much about the woman we were about to meet but we are so happy she agreed to come sit on our couch. Marsha is a very newly retired kinesiologist who just decided during this pandemic not to renew her registration after practicing kinesiology for 27 years. She has an incredible backst...

Steph and Chantel came to ConEd Institute to take a Cupping course recently and we learned that they are so new to the profession that they had only had the opportunity to practice for 2 months before we were shut down. They are regular listeners of the podcast so we asked them if they wanted to record because we just LOVE new and eager therapists. These two had some interesting stories of getting...

Melissa and Mark met in online space and she reached out to him about being a guest on the podcast. She’s a former Massage Therapist that worked at the happiest place on Earth...Disney World! We were super excited to speak to Melissa because based on the small amount of information we had, shes seemed very interesting. We had no idea what we were about to learn. Melissa recently experienced The Da...

We invited Nick and Ryan back to talk about their clinic management software company- Noterro. Many Therapists may have known this company as Soap Vault in the past but the name has recently changed to a more encompassing name that represents all that this software can do for your business. In this episode we once again spoke about how the company came to be, its growth, how they keep up with the...

Dominique sent us an email as a newer Massage Therapist who is absolutely in love with this profession. She is currently living in Virginia with her fiancé but is originally a big city girl from New York. Dom has a very interesting back story that led to her Massage career starting with a challenging childhood including a mysterious disability, to a super supportive family that recognized at a ver...

Vivian joined us on the phone to give us some inside information about what colleges are doing to get in-class courses happening again. She is an employee at Mohawk College and could only really give us insight into their protocols but it is really a good indication as to what school will look like for most Massage Therapy students this fall because the program directors from various colleges work...

We had Lindsay on our couch a while back talking about Sport Massage and she was eager to come back for a collaboration for her podcast Lattes with Lindsay. She wanted to have an open round table discussion about the characteristics of an entrepreneur, how to get started as a self employed organization, and what it really means to be an entrepreneur. We didn’t know where this episode would take us...

This episode is both an entrepreneur segment AND a where are they now segment. Mary is a former student of Mark’s who has been incredibly successful in her 7 year career as a RMT. She has kept in touch with us over the years and constantly expresses her gratitude to Mark for playing a key role in her creating the life she wanted. Mary is far too humble. Listen to her journey and it will be easy to...