Don't Die Before You're Dead

"The airplanes are coming to bomb us!" This was something that Mara Aalipour would hear as a young child in her country of Iran. Growing up in the Iranian culture provided for her experiences not often had by others. After becoming a chemical engineer, working long hard hours and raising a toddler, she suffered what her doctors called self immune condition. While Mara suffered extreme pa...

Melanie Morrissette is a personal trainer who specializes in working with seniors. She runs a program called Osteofit at the B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Center. Her expertise here addresses Low Bone Density and Melanie has some unique tips to restore good bone health with proper nutrition. Many of her clients have suffered from Arthritis, and Parkinsons and Melanie works through specific...

Jyoti Sharma is a certified life coach who works with her clients from personal experiential knowledge. She knows of what she speaks having listened to her heart and followed her dream even when it meant moving to far away places.  Jyoti heard the calling from deep within to go to Goa,  India to work with entrepreneurial women. She started a non-profit called the Women's Collective where she...

Patti Pokorchak knows what she is talking about when she tells us to live a life worthy of your dreams.  "Nothing except Rocket Science is rocket science. Everything is learnable."  Born with a computer in her pocket, Patti was the first female in computers. Working for IBM at 25 years old, $50, 000 in her pocket, a sports car and boyfriend but not happy, she knew there had to be more. S...

My guest hales from the UK and knows what it's like to be knocked off his feet by life's sudden curveballs. As an environmental psychologist specializing in elite sports, Lee Chambers was living a very active life with his wife, son and the impending arrival of his daughter. The suddenly he was laid up in hospital unable to move. Listen as he shares his journey from being unable to walk...

Have you ever wondered what your life would be life if you had chosen a different profession? If you had taken a different path? Do you yearn to answer the call to go in a new direction but aren't sure of how to go about it? Is it time to make a change? In this episode, my guest Anita Watkins shares how she transitioned her career after 27 years as a scientist - first a researcher turned high...

Scott Aaron didn't start out to have a career in health and wellness as a personal trainer and coach but that is what happened. Circumstances brought about the sudden running of his father's business as well as an abundance of resiliency to overcome extreme challenges. With financial ruin on the horizon, Scott had little choice but to opt for bankruptcy in order to take back his life. To...

Do you know you could benefit from a fitness tracker even as a beginner?  My guest, Susan Lamb Robinson, did just that and is here to tell you how you can too. Her story is that of many women who spent most of their adult years, raising a family, working and spending very little time on herself. She decided to start small and buy a budget fitness tracker from Walmart that tracked different categor...

Guest Debbie Payne has quite the story to tell. Her journey of pain began three years ago after being in an auto accident while out of the country visiting her family. it took all that time to finally diagnose the true cause of the debilitating chronic pain she was suffering. What was needed then was surgery!  Getting the proper diagnosis was one thing; getting seen by a surgeon to being scheduled...

What do you think of when you hear the term Mid-Life Crisis? What if the term was changed to Mid-Life Transformation? Would that change what thoughts come to your mind? There are physiological changes that happen when we reach that so-called mid-life. Even though we may be living longer and the 40s might not be the middle, the changes still happen. Menopause hits. Thinning to balding hair hits and...

Debbie Adams of www.peoplecanbiz.com was well on her way in her primary career path in the Canadian military when she was stuck with a medical issue that cancelled that goal. What did she do? She faced incredible challenges and persevered in her journey of reinventing herself.  Listen to this candid discussion of how she faced her limitations over and over and is now a highly engaged adult educato...

Imagine if you will that you are 20, 30, 40 years into the future and contemplating your life. What is it like? Are you where you thought you'd be? Did you get to do the things that you told yourself you'd do later? Well, i t's later. Are you satisfied or are you regretting some of your choices? Take this time to consider what you could have done over the years. Make a list of what...

There is a tendency among people to put things off till later. It could be the pursuit of a dream, changing careers or locations or even planning for the future, the common response is that it will be done later. However, there is little evidence that when later comes, what was put off has materialized.  The result? Many end up regretting some of the choices they made in their lives and end up liv...

This is the first episode introducing podcast. It is all about real life stories of overcoming challenges: being resilient. Merri Macartney, the host, has had multiple challenges - abandonment, adoption, marriages, single parenting and loss of a beloved spouse after being a 24/7 caregiver for his last 3 years. Not only did she learn real life strategies to keep on keeping on, but she also gained l...