2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Check out this sit down we had with Lindsay, the PR Chair for the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Sport Massage Therapists Association. Listen in as Lindsay gives us her back story into the world of Massage Therapy and Sport Massage. She gives us some insight in to the Association, the perks of membership, the importance of making connections and networking, and some of the cool gigs she has worke...

Check out this sit down we had with Dave, the co-ower of CHA High-Performance in Toronto. CHA High-Performance is an elite level off-season training program for hockey players looking to maximize their abilities on the ice. They believe repetition, discipline, and hard work brings true rewards, which is what we strive to provide for their our athletes. Listen is as we rap on working with youth ath...

Keisha is an Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Therapist in Toronto. She’s a Massage Therapy client and lately has been feeling extra stress because of the proposed changes by our Provincial government for funding for families with children with Autism. Listen as she describes some of the challenges the children themselves face with regards to daily living and social interaction, what ABA therapy c...

Check out this sit down we had with Vinny, who earned the title of Super-Fan!! Listen in as we have a couple of beers on a Wednesday morning rapping about the pressure from his family to go to University, his dislike for one of his Massage Therapy Instructors and being accused of plagiarizing his own work,  the stress of the licensing exam, his career path and all the strange stuff that comes...

Check out this sit down we had with Natalija, a Kinesiology Graduate and Personal Trainer in Toronto, Canada. She reached out to us and expressed an interest in taking a seat on our couch to rap about the student's perspective of Massage Therapy. After spending 12 years of being involved in Fitness, she finally took the leap to add Massage Therapy to her already thriving career. As a student...

This is the first of our series Conversations with Clients . As RMTs, we often get to meet and spend time with people well beyond our circle. We get to hear some of the cool things that our clients have going on - their personal life, their professional life, their thoughts and opinions. Check out this conversation we had with Aiden, a client of Massage Therapy who decided she wanted to join us in...

Check out this conversation we had with Brandy, RMT for 20 years. She has been involved in the profession on so many levels - Clinical Practice, CMTO Advisory Committee for Acupuncture, Ontario Council of Private Massage Therapy Colleges, Canadian Council of Massage Therapy Schools, Massage Therapy and Acupuncture Education, just to name a few. Listen in as Brandy talks about her start in the fiel...

MJ is a true Entrepreneur. Originally, she was planning to study law, but was inspired to enter the Healthcare industry after being in therapy from a motor vehicle accident. She went from working with professional athletes and amateur Olympic athletes and being on the board as Vice President of the British Columbia Shiatsu Association to therapist burn out. This lead her to a career in the corpora...

Stephen came by our office to shed some much needed light on the topic of alcohol and drug addiction. This is not information that you will get from a textbook, an academic journal, or a medical professional...this is the real life story of a courageous individual who candidly shares is life story with us. Stephen has struggled with addiction and is now is a place of being many years clean and sob...

Check out this Facebook Live we did with Robert from his place in Spain. Robert is not a Massage Therapist, but got his feet wet in the industry utilizing his background in sales and eventually acquiring a failing Day Spa, turned it into a profitable business, sold it, and moved to Spain.  He currently runs a marketing and advertising business, which includes Boost My Spa which provides marke...

Hers is a quick introduction to a new series coming your way - Conversations with Clients. Check out this intro to hear what it's all about!! ConEdInstitute.com 2massagetherapists.com

Check out this Facebook Live we did with Maureen, a Massage Therapist from St. Louis, Missouri. Maureen's life and career took a major twist from her University education - PhD in Biology and Biomedical Sciences with an emphasis in Immunology. Listen in as she talks about her journey from working in Biotechnology sales to Massage Therapy, which started with her exposure to Yoga and Thai Massage. M...

Another week, another road trip. We trekked an hour and a half outside of our city to meet Brian Fulton, RMT, and author of the book The Placebo Effect Improving Clinical Outcomes in your Practice . Listen in to hear Brian talk about all of the aspects of the placebo effect and how it plays a role in manual therapy and the biopsychosocial model of pain. ConEdInstitute.com 2massagetherapists.com

We are showing some love to another RMT turned podcaster - Krista is a RMT in Ottawa who is launching her podcast The Radical RMT on April 4th. We did a quick and dirty Facebook live with Krista who gives us the inside scoop about The Radical RMT  which will take you outside of a massage practice to meet  authors, world explorers, performers, artists, business owners and more. ConEd...

Something new we are throwin in the mix thanks to  Nicki, a Registered Massage Therapist in Toronto, Ont who reached out to us to say that she was diggin on our podcast and that we kept her entertained while she was travelling through South East Asia. And with that, our series of Hangin with our Listeners was born. Listen in a Nicki raps about her life before massage therapy, her career and b...

We travelled across the city to hang out with Rob Haddow, RMT. Rob took a concurrent Massage Therapy and Sport Injury program which he found super interesting and made him excited for a career in rehab. Listen as he speaks about his career path, why he has decided to go against the grain of traditional massage therapy and massage therapy stereotypes, and how his own struggles with Ehlers Danlos Sy...

Check out this episode of The Unprofessional Hour with our guest Curtis, who also looks and sounds a hell of a lot like Danny McBride. Listen in as we talk about surviving the "naked man", Curtis will only give you 5 chances, man grooming, and so much more....Nothing here should be taken seriously...don't judge us, just enjoy!! 

We did a Facebook live with Darryl Turner aka DJ, a Facebook advertising specialist and a client acquisition specialist. Darryl helps Massage Therapists find their ideal clients online. Listen in as DJ gives us some his backstory of how he went from living in the southern United States to Switzerland, how to effectively use Facebook advertising to boost your business, tips on using Instagram and I...

Check out this sit down we had Lee Kalpin, Registered Massage Therapist in Ontario and former Peer Assessor. Lee has been practicing Massage Therapy since 1984. She has been involved in Massage Therapy education since 1993 and was a Peer Assessor from 1997-2017. Listen in as she gives us some insight to the Peer Assessment process and its evolution, some of the history of the profession and the re...

We had a sit down with Brydget, an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner who is also studying to become a Registered Massage Therapist. Unlike many students training to become massage therapists, due to her previous education and her current employment, Brydget offers a unique perspective on her RMT training. Listen in as she give us her back story, talks about the struggle of taking off her professiona...

Check out this episode of Under The Sheets. We had a sit down with Ross in his home office in London, Ontario. Ross is a Classical Musician, a Registered Massage Therapist, and a self proclaimed nerd. Listen in as Ross talks about his journey into Massage Therapy, death, the need to take care of others, the quest to learn as much as his brain will allow, unique living situations, unforeseen life d...

Do you suffer from tinnitus? Have patients or clients who suffer from this condition? We had a sit down with Shelly-Anne Li, a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto and the Chief Operating Officer at Sound Options Tinnitus Treatments. Sound Options provides affordable tinnitus treatments that have been clinically tested to help people manage their tinnitus. They provide  a customized tin...

Check out this sit down we had with Lidiya Yermakova. Lidiya is a Lawyer at Koziebrocki Law Firm in downtown Toronto. Lidiya has extensive experience assisting professionals at regulatory proceedings, including complaints, investigations, and discipline matters. Lidiya’s practice includes professional regulation, health law and general litigation. She also assists professionals with employment law...

We did another Facebook Live with a friend from the US! Vicki S Winston is a LMT and the massage department director for Spa Visage in Knoxville, Tennessee. Listen in as Vicki raps about the misconceptions and bad reputation that often comes with working in a spa and how she is working hard to build a team of like minded therapists and hopes to inspire spa owners and directors to change the cultur...

  We had Scott Grisewood RMT and owner of Shockwave Therapy Centre in our space talking about some of the technology available to Healthcare Professionals to better understand their treatment interventions and how they are benefiting their patients by obtaining objective measured outcomes. For well over two decades Scott has worked with Olympic, professional and amateur athletes providing the...