2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Check out this remastered episode from Season 1. Lidiya Yermakova is a Lawyer in Toronto. She has represented professionals before complaints and discipline committees, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Superior Court of Justice and the Divisional Court. Listen in as we rap about things to consider when dealing with the regulatory body and how having the proper representation is...

Check out this remastered episode of Under The Sheets from Season 1. 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 situ...

Sue is a repeat guest and fellow podcaster. We met in 2019 when Sue had gone inactive for personal reasons and since then she has become a podcast host (twice!) and co-hosts the “Every Body Holds a Story” podcast, became an author (again), editor, coach, and back to doing hands on body work. She has had an interesting career as a therapist but is now considering retirement. We talk about some of t...

Birthday Month Series continues... check out this remastered throwback to our first season. We chose this episode because it speaks to an attempt to understand a human's experience with open ears, searching eyes, and non-judgement intentions. How else are we to learn?? Stephen came by our office to shed some much needed light on the topic of alcohol and drug addiction. This is not information that...

Birthday Month Celebration Series. In celebration of our birthday month, check out this remastered throwback to our first season. Listen in to our 1st episode of the Under the Sheets series. We sat down with an old friend Olivia, Registered Massage Therapist and Fitness Competitor. This conversation gave birth to this new series. The original intent was to speak about her journey into fitness, but...

In celebration of our birthday month, check out this remastered throwback to our first season. This month we will continue to fire off new guests for your entertainment, but we are also throwing you back to the early days before some of you were on board with the 2 RMTs and a Mic crew. So sit back, open your ears real wide, and enjoy this throwback episode with Mark and Robert.... Are you a Manual...

If a person could be the definition of go-getter, it might be our guest, Dylan. We had her on the podcast in 2020 when the RMTAO featured her in their member spotlight and she was published in Massage Therapy Today. 2 years later and this therapist has continued to kick some gluteals in our profession. She is the lead therapist at her clinic, a board member with the RMTAO, and she has her own line...

Our business exploded! With guests Ashley and Omar  Ashley and Omar are the owners of Level Wellness in Scarborough, Ontario. We had them in our office in early 2020 when they were gearing up to open their doors of their beautiful, newly renovated Massage Therapy clinic and fitness studio. As well all know, the excitement came to a halt as they had to close as quickly as they opened. We have...

Heather and Nicole from the Massage Therapy Podcast have teamed up with us yet again to have a discussion about the recent increase in the fees that Ontario RMTs will be subject to for the upcoming year. We talked about how people are feeling, why this may have occurred, what the college’s responsibility may be in this matter, the associations role, and oh so much more! We had a very off the cuff...

We knew Viviana in what now feels like a past life when she was a Massage Therapist. Through what some might call a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, Viviana realized that although she had achieved what she believed was her dream life- a good job, a husband, a house, and financial security, she felt empty. She soon realized that there had to more to life and she craved connection. She decided...

Heather is the president of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ontario (TCMO), and she agreed to speak to us about all of the drama surrounding the possible deregulation of acupuncture in Ontario. Although Heather, TCMO, and the coalition, were victorious, we still wanted to talk about what this could have meant for Registered Acupuncturists, TCM practitioners, and RMTs with dual registration. The fact...

Skylar was a clinic owner until 2019 and between selling her clinic,  and COVID, among other factors, she made the choice to become inactive to decide where her career should go next. Amongst a lot of tangents and discussions about the profession, we talked about her newest venture in becoming a life coach. If you’ve ever wondered what a life coach is, if there’s training for it, who may need...

Ryan has been working for one of the biggest spa chains for most of his career and he has really found his place there. He has climbed the ladder from therapist to lead therapist and now corporate trainer. His experience in this environment has been incredible and has allowed  him a career he is passionate about and he even got to travel and participate in the World Massage Championships. Lis...

Yes it’s THE Grace and Christine as in Grace Chan and Christine Sutherland who are the founders of Sutherland Chan School of Massage Therapy. We had an opportunity to meet Grace at Sutherland Chan in Toronto and she invited us back to record this episode in her meeting room.  Christine joined us via zoom as she’s on the west coast somewhere near Alaska working on yet another book! These two i...

Sophie is not a Massage Therapist but loves getting massages and when her life changes prompted her to find a new career path, she was led to an opportunity to open a one room Massage Treatment space where she just needed to find a RMT to work! A few  years later and she is the owner of Savon Massage Therapy. She recently reached out to us because she’s been having trouble finding RMTs to wor...

Dryden was a guest on our podcast in spring of 2020 while he was just starting his new venture of becoming a business owner. He was a brand new therapist and in the midst of renovations for his new home based clinic in Regina, Saskatchewan. He wanted his practice to focus on assessment based therapy which he found wasn’t typical in his city. Now, 2 years later, we had him back to see how his clini...

Heather recently became a Massage Therapist and even more recently has discovered our podcast. She has decided to become a business owner and was seeking out resources for Massage Therapists and found us. In her words, the guests we have are relatable and not boring! We invited Heather to come on and talk about her recent journey to becoming a self employed Massage Therapist in the suburbs of Phil...

Tobi is a Certified Massage Therapist in California and also a business owner. She reached out to us to have a chat about how to reverse engineer your life and career and using the fear abatement method to reach your goals. The 3 of us had a very open conversation about how Tobi managed to become a clinic owner with only $300 in her bank account and how she used techniques to get over the fear, re...

Krista is a Registered Massage Therapist In Ottawa, Ontario and the host of The Radical RMT podcast. She had a fantastic guest who also appeared on a 2 RMTs and a Mic episode when he was promoting his book, The Pain Free Massage Therapist, Mark Liskey. Mark’s message really resonated with Krista and the two of them decided to create the first ever virtual conference for Massage Therapists focused...

Olivia has been a Registered Massage Therapist since she found out she was pregnant with her first child and now she’s the mother of teenage daughters! Throughout her career she’s had experience with many types of patients and now with more time to focus on her own self care and her career, she’s bringing her dream to life of working with both infants and palliative patients. Coming this spring, h...

Kalynn Lea is a Registered Massage Therapist and has recently added Hypnotherapy to her practice. She became certified in Rapid Transformational Therapy and came on to educate us about this therapy, how it works, and what it can do for her patients. She also has a very cool story about her journey from growing up in a small town, to traveling the world, and working on yachts with the rich and famo...

Liz is a Registered Massage Therapist in Alberta but is originally from Ontario. In her practice lately she has been treating a lot of front line workers who have made comments about the mental health of children. It got Liz thinking about the impacts on our littlest people with everything happening in our world today and printed her to do some research. As much as we keep hearing “kids are resili...

Jennifer is a Registered Massage Therapist in Ottawa and has discovered the value in understanding hormonal cycles to optimize your health. She wanted to hang out with us over zoom to share what she has learned and how it has improved her way of living. She was worried that Mark may not have much to add to the conversation but to her surprise, he agreed how valuable this information is and that an...

Amanda is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Ohio and has been in practice for 11 years and been teaching for almost half of that time. She wanted to be a guest because she’s so in love with the profession of Massage Therapy and feels so passionate about education and continuing education. We had a great talk about the discrepancy in education between states and between countries, about how she’s goi...

Becca is a new Massage Therapist here in Toronto. She came to hang on our couch to tell us about her journey from being an event photographer working late nights at parties schmoozing and living it up, to getting heavily into self discovery and self care and making a drastic career change. Becca is now a Registered Massage Therapist, body positive yoga teacher, Fascial Stretch Therapist, and Thai...