2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Tyleen is a relatively new therapist here in Toronto that listens to the show and we have been following for a while. She has a very famous voice and a quirky and fun personality that no doubt attracts patients to her. Her vulnerability and authenticity when speaking about her own mental health struggles allows her patients to connect to her and feel comfortable being vulnerable as well. Listen to...

Sandy is a RMT who sat on our couch about a year and a half ago to share his new approach to treatment that had helped to spark a new love for therapy after 26 years of practice. He had opened up his own practice using a unique style of therapy that he hadn’t quite defined yet. We invited him back to give us an update about how his practice was going. He has done quite a shift in a year and half,...

Laurie is a Massage Therapist in Nova Scotia and the owner of Sensorimotor Education. Her background as a Massage Therapy Educator inspired her to move into the world of continuing education where she could really help therapists to understand sensation, anatomy, and movement in a way that uses critical thinking and function versus the traditional methods used in anatomy textbooks and formal educa...

Joanne and Mark have many things in common as Massage Therapy educators but most notably their passion for helping people go from Massage Therapy graduate to Registered Massage Therapist. The three of us sat down to talk about where there may be a disconnect from a grad who was successful in college to having trouble with the exam. We discuss text anxiety, teaching tools, how to talk to new grads...

Susan is a Holistic Nutritionist, Intuitive Coach, and Live Blood Analyst who works with clients to help them understand their constitution and get to the root cause of their concerns whether it be trauma and emotions, nutritional deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, a combination of them all, or a wide range of things that can wreak havoc in our body. In this episode we discuss how she fell in lov...

Leslie is a LMT and the founder of the Institute for Phenomenal Touch. One of her students, Joe, was on a recent episode talking about his experience with The Massage Championships. He began his story with his training at the Institute and in describing Leslie’s training, he got us very curious about what is so unique about this style of manual therapy. Leslie was happy to come on and clear up som...

Kelley and Holly are LMTs in Florida and both got their start in casino massage at the Hard Rock and the rest is history. These two have created successful careers working as massage therapists in casinos and providing treatment to some of the highest rollers in the casinos even walking away with tips larger than some of us make in an entire month. They sat down to talk with us and maybe clear up...

Nicki has been a guest on our couch many times sharing her unpopular opinions. She’s back and in a mission to help therapists-specifically women- make more money. Her “unpopular” opinion is that women are not asking for enough, taking care of everyone at the expense of themselves, and holding onto the narrative that it’s their job to take care of everyone without asking for too much. This episode...

Joe is a Massage Therapist in Seattle and has a very unique style of treatment that has influences from his experience with martial arts but also from continuing education and watching and learning from other uniques therapists. He has also had the unique experience of both competing and judging the Massage Championships. We got to hear first hand about the judging, the categories, some fun experi...

Viktoria is a clinic owner as well as a practicing Massage Therapist and a hypnotherapist primarily working with chronic pain patients. She also works in an addiction treatment center  providing pain education for her clients. Viktoria wanted to have a conversation about the use of language when it comes to chronic pain as well as the mindset of our patients and how it affects their healing....

Having Benita as a guest was a happy accident that turned into a very interesting and inspiring episode. We met during the Canadian Massage Conference during an ice breaker game aimed at helping the therapists connect and get to know one another. Benita felt like she already knew us from being a listener and after running into each other multiple times in different classes, demos, on the trade sho...

Jasmine had worked as a Massage Therapist in spas before starting up her own mobile practice. She mentioned to us that when she was employed at the spa, she had more than one encounter with a patient who didn’t want to be treated by her because she is a black therapist. We invited Jasmine in to speak about her experiences with racist patients, how she handles the situation, how the spa handles it...

Never have I ever met a more passionate therapist than my first interaction with John. He is a Certified Massage Therapist in California and is on a mission to build a community of therapists to exchange ideas, learn from each other, promote therapist self care, vent to, share ideas, and generally just elevate the profession by helping each other out. He’s a breath of fresh air in a world that can...

Robert has many years experience in our profession and has built quite a career by constantly having the desire to learn more to better help his patients. Through research, tons of reading, and continuing education, Robert was able to develop his treatment approach which has yielded amazing results in his practice. As a true leader in the RMT community, he has worked to advance our profession by t...

Krista is a Registered Massage Therapist in Nova Scotia and has had a passion for safe touch since she was 5! Her passion for Massage may have even landed her in the Principal’s office in high school. She became a RMT in the early 2000’s and hasn’t lost her love of Massage one bit. Krista is now in the final stages of becoming an author with her first book set to be available in fall 2022 entitled...

Megan is a Registered Massage Therapist and founder of Slow Medicine Company in Toronto. We invited her in to talk about her company and her journey through massage. Megan is a yoga instructor and was the person who got Amanda interested in yoga many years ago with her unique style of helping her students gain more body awareness and mind body connection into their practice. We didn’t expect the c...

We had a sit down with 2 people from the Canadian Massage and Manual Osteopathic Therapists Association (CMMOTA). We met Heather, the Executive Director, and April, the conference coordinator, at the CMMOTA spring conference this past May in Saskatchewan. These two women really strive to provide a supportive environment for therapists and bring quality education and advocacy for their members. We...

Julie has been practicing Massage Therapy since before she was old enough to have a license! More than half of her life has been spent taking care of others and at a certain point she realized that she had never really learned to take care of herself. Through a lot of self discovery, Julie recognized what might be missing for Massage Therapists in their training and what the term “self care” truly...

We had Monica, the owner of Atinama Massage Therapy, on the couch to tell us all about her journey this far as a clinic owner in Toronto and how she got to where she is today. Her clinic has been in operation for 10 years now and we wanted to have her come share her story. Monica tells us all about her training in Ayurveda, how it impacted her education, the way she practices, and ultimately how i...

Our favourite guys from Noterro are back to tell us what they have been cooking up. Most of you likely know by now that they have a really cool new patient portal available as an app that will make everything more efficient for you and your patients. If you know, you know…if you’re not using Noterro in your practice, take a listen to this…it may change your mind! 2rmtsandamic.com    cone...

Joanna is a business strategist that works with innovative holistic practitioners, personal trainers, and bodyworkers that have the passion, the technical skills, and know how when it comes to their work but still there is something missing. Joanna’s background as a business owner in the fitness industry taught her that even the best and most knowledgeable practitioners that have the appearance of...

Charlie is an avid listener and has opinions on many of the topics we discuss. She originally wanted to come on for a good old unprofessional hour but we wanted to just hang out, talk, and see where the night took us. We talked about getting into the profession, her journey through the last 15 years, and many thoughts about the college, the role of schools in weeding out inappropriate therapists,...

Janette is an Athletic Therapist and Registered Massage Therapist that has renamed herself a perinatal therapist because she focuses her practice on the most intense sport in the world…pregnancy. Janette knows how to get an athlete back on the field and she realized that there isn’t the same care and rehabilitation for the most gruelling sport with a 100% guarantee of injury at the end. Pregnancy,...

Check out this sit down we had with Jeffrey, a RMT practicing in Pickering, ON. Listen in as we get down to some real talk with the usual nonsense sprinkled in the middle. We rap about a childhood accident which left Jeffrey with one functioning eye, a bar fight in his early 20s which injured his other eye, meditation and martial arts-how it helped him to overcome depression and helped his daughte...

Check out this remastered episode from Season 1, the first of our Hanging with Entrepreneurs series. Check out this sit down we had with Jason Campbell, co-owner of Modern Theory Institute, an Education and Skills Training Centre with 3 locations across Ontario Canada. Listen in as we crack open a couple of beers and talk about being kicked out of University, taking a stab at the film industry, an...