Fascinating Women

Send us Fan Mail In this captivating episode of "Fascinating Women" with host Mark Laurie, we journey through the life of Dana McIntosh, a woman whose story is as diverse as it is inspiring. Born in Winnipeg and raised in England, Dana's life took a turn when she visited Calgary during the 1988 Winter Olympics. Years later, remembering how she fell in love with the city, she made a...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on "Fascinating Women with Mark Laurie" as we dive into an inspiring conversation with Wendy Winder, a beacon of positivity and a master of marketing strategy. Wendy shares her life's guiding principles, including the power of positivity, the importance of giving generously, the pursuit of continuous learning, and the joy of collaboration. Discover how her m...

Send us Fan Mail Discover the captivating journey of Charmaine Muzyka on this week's episode of "Fascinating Women with Mark Laurie." Charmaine, an embodiment of creativity and resilience, shares her inspiring story from childhood challenges to becoming a successful entrepreneur and designer. Raised by a single mother and influenced by entrepreneurial parents, she navigated through...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is sponsored by http://InnerSpiritPhoto.com Create your story with them. Angela shares her story. From a journey as young hairdresser to a fitness expert embodies resilience and transformation.  Angela shares her experiences of personal challenges, including motherhood at a young age, a bold move to California, and overcoming profound personal losses. Tune in to be in...

Send us Fan Mail In this engaging episode of "Fascinating Women," host Mark Laurie sits down with Maggie Lam, a woman of diverse experiences and profound insights; Maggie is a risk taker in spite of her parents teaching her compliance.  Originally from Hong Kong, Maggie shares her journey of moving to Canada, embracing new challenges, and navigating life as a solo parent. Her story is a...

Send us Fan Mail Mark and Patricia chat about  Such a range,  from her clarity and boldness of walking into Costa Rica's Presidential Palace at 18 to ask for a job and getting one with the President through the journey of becoming a diplomat. In her soft-spoken way, she talks about what it takes, the shape of challenges, and the power of women.  The pride of her life, her sons and so much mor...

Send us Fan Mail This is a fun conversation with Victoria, as the unearths where her optimism was born from a tragedy. How she went from being an active athlete to emerging from a car accident that has her testing new limits. Her energy, enthusiasm, her desire to engage with anyone in interesting conversations and avoid filler conversations. You may well find some inspiration and admiration in thi...

Send us Fan Mail Joanne has an interesting arc; she has entwined her entrepreneurship into her love of helping people. More of a passion. She explains how that works, how she grew through the loss of a marriage—taking us on the road of avoiding being a biz person to finding a way to make it fit. She has some of her own personally created quotes to keep her focused. Joanne Neweduk Joanne Neweduk is...

Send us Fan Mail Special Podcast on Long-term Pain Management Pain, what a pain pain is. Carol has had several life events that triggered long-term pain. It has been a lot for one person. That she is remarkably outgoing, positive and smiling speaks to what she has learned so tricks and approaches to living with pain, even overcoming it enough that she can live a life, laugh often and engage the wo...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, this is a very interesting conversation with Megan. She talks about how a chance encounter with a man changed her life 180 degrees instantly and how her youngest daughter's health issue changed her life direction again.  She talks about two women, complete opposites in most ways; role models gave her a template on how to shape her own character.   There is a rare gem on b...

Send us Fan Mail Adriana is a bundle of enthusiastic energ y. She talks about how growing up in communist Romania, an abusive family; perfectionism shaped her. How it never squashed her curiosity. Her path to a form enlighted woman has not been easy, but her reflection on it all reveals her optimism. She talks about twice turning away from suicide; survival has made her grateful. Adriana talks abo...

Send us Fan Mail Carol Pedersen:  I was born and raised in Calgary. I grew up in an environment of sexual and emotional abuse.  I survived Ovarian Cancer at the age of 20. I had 11 more abdominal surgeries to remove scar tissue and adhesions. I was on Morphine for 20 years to manage my pain; it was a living death.  I have lived with debilitating illness and severe chronic pain for over 30 years. ...

Send us Fan Mail Claudette is charmer. She has been an entrepreneur since before it became a thing. She hosted Facebook when it was barely born. She is intuitive to people; here , she explains that skill. She is so joyful of her journey, speaking of wins and lessons learned.  She was breaking ceilings without noticing she was doing it. A remarkable woman with some great insights. I think you will...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica van der Hoek is a young woman who has risen above a very troubled traumatic past into a woman with a huge vision. She talks about her use of psychedelics to heal her trauma, Family can really be a test, it made her grow up fast. She talks about the power of horse therapy. She gives some great insights on why and what her tattoos mean to her. She relates to them every day o...

Send us Fan Mail Kenisha Mei is a woman falling into her future. She left a  life full of family issues as a young teen, became an Alberta nurse working up north, married, then divorced but got the two most precious young girls from it. She talks about her struggles, hopes, surprises, and the role she has merged into by building a new community. She is clever but does not see what others do; she t...

Send us Fan Mail My Chat with Marlene went places we don't normally go. We explored how she so easily shifted careers, Quotes and people who still inspire her. What makes her strive to help people. We got into where her curiosity has taken her, which took us into some interesting and useful deep concepts on being centered, authentic and personally accountable. I think your curiosity will enjo...

Send us Fan Mail In this chat with Amanda , I was surprised to learn she had gone through Calgary firefighter training but was too young to follow through so she trained with the Calgary Police Academy, passed before she decided that too was not for her. She talks about the evolution and start of her drawing passion, How her values or definition of what success is for did a complete flip. She is a...

Send us Fan Mail This conversation with Dee is unique in how deep our conversation goes into being an immigrant, what it meant to leave even though family is everything, her core. Her positive energy pours through. She is a woman who embraces what ever comes at her or comes her way. She talks about going deep within herself, her joy and how she keeps it. It is a conversation that goes into some un...

Send us Fan Mail I had a delightful conversation with Laurie, she is insightful, light and engaging. We talked about her childhood dinner conversations where she learned to advocate for herself, quotes that moved her, her transition from a  New York City prosecutor to a legal commenter on news channels into her leap to becoming a communications coach in a whole different state. Laurie shares how s...

Send us Fan Mail Adele Engel had an interesting chat. She is 66 yet keeps getting reborn. Decades ago she choose a path of healing when confronted with a life changing devastating illness.  In our conversation she explains how she had an audience with the Dali lama, only to find he was not the most interesting, life changing person in the room. We chat about how she found healing, how music with a...

Send us Fan Mail Calli has her vision. She is launching an online services that will lift the economics of women. We talk about the powerful negative forces, cancer, hostile job, the loss of everything , financial and focus rebirth. She had her 70 year old mom move in with her, to help her build this new business. Along the way, she has fought demons, written a best seller. All with an optimistic...

Send us Fan Mail Chelsea Jones, what a delight to chat with. Her easy smile and quick laugh arrive before you realize how sharp and creative her mind is. The thread of her life so far has been helping those disadvantaged restoring bodies and minds.  She has big goals, achieves them in what she calls small bits, yet for most people they would be considered long strides. Chelsea is humble in relatin...

Send us Fan Mail Grace Yan is my guest. rather than the usual speaking points, we talked more about her character what drives her, how she got her values. What future she sees for Calgary, the impressive challenge of running for Mayor in Calgary, why would someone want to who is not a career politician.  I think you will find some insights on Grace, where she comes from, why she is running, what i...

Send us Fan Mail Sara De Raaf is a young woman with focus. Her go-to phrase is "Just give 'er" When she focuses on something it pretty much happens.  She is driven by accountability and responsibility. She really carves out her own path, accepting and working with whatever comes her way. With all that, you would be surprised she is quiet and rather bashful. She works full time in a...

Send us Fan Mail High Conflict Divorce is exactly as it sounds. A relationship has or is on the way of not only a complete angry collapse it but a fight on many destructive levels. It takes a lot to get through it. Trish gives clarity on what it is and means. How a woman entering this level of conflict can be prepared. Trish Guise goes deep, the signs of when you are in a dangerous relationship th...