Filled Up Cup

On this episode I am joined by Donna Spencer. She is the artistic producer and one of the founding directors of the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, BC. She is the winner of the Jessie Richardson Outstanding Direction Award for Urinetown, the Musical and for Reading Hebron. She is the recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for Multicultural Innovation in the Theatre and the Jessie Richardson Car...

On this episode I am joined by Melanie Ho. She is a multi-media creator, speaker and organizational consultant. She has an award-winning debut book: Beyond Leaning In: Gender Equity & What Organizations are Up Against. She is also the founder of Strategic Imagination, a firm dedicated to the imaginative arts to help businesses and non-profits achieve transformational change.  We talk about how...

On this episode I am joined by Steven J Manning. He is a self-described shameless researcher who has really made it a passion in his life to make human connections with the people around him. That may mean building a friendship with the person who shines his shoes, or it could be hoping on a red eye to a completely different destination just to finish a conversation with someone he would have neve...

My guest on this episode is Lindsay Sealey. She is an educator, speaker, consultant, mentor, facilitator, and activist. She has merged her love of academics and personal growth into her company Bold New Girls and Brave New Boys. She offers courses and workshops. She has also written three books: Growing Strong Girls, Rooted, Resilient and Ready, and Made for More. Our episode focuses on the advise...

Joining me today is Kristen Richers of KDR Wellness. She is a physiologist, kinesiologist as well as a doula located in Nashville, TN. KDR Wellness offers a variety of holistic wellness solutions designed for individuals or groups looking to make a lasting lifestyle change. Unlike other fitness professionals who work in the virtual space, we do not offer cookie-cutter programs or unsustainable qui...

My guest this week is Dawn Fleming. She and her husband moved from the United States to Mexico. She shares her experience in the new book,  Claim Your Life. How to Retire in Paradise . She  has a podcast, Overseas Life Redesign, which is available on all major steaming platforms. She also hosts workshops to teach people the information that they would need to know when considering moving to anothe...

I am joined on this episode by storyteller, author, screenwriter and optimist Robert Rivenbark. We discuss his new speculative fiction novel, The Cloud. The Cloud is book one in a trilogy. It is currently available on Amazon. Robert and Atchity Productions are hoping to turn it into a TV series as well. Robert is a perfect example of not having to choose one career path and that success can come a...

On this episode I am joined by Robert Koenen. He is the Chief Marketing Officer of Boxed Water is Better. Boxed Water has 92% plant based packaging and wants you to consider eliminating single use plastic. If you buy one of their waters and take a pic and post it with the hashtag #BetterPlant they will plant two trees for you. They have currently planted 1.5 million trees. They have also partnered...

I am joined by Dr. Rachel Allyn. She is a relationship & intimacy therapist spreading the mind-body medicine of bodyfulness, Retreat leader, TEDx Speaker, Author: The Pleasure is All Yours. We talk about how we live in a society where many things are unnecessarily taboo. We discuss how important it is to be connected to your body as well as being able to experience intimacy within all relation...

On this episode I am joined by Jennifer Haer. She is an owner of Bliss on a Budget Mattress in Maple Ridge, BC. She also is a wife and mom to 3. We talk about how vital a good night sleep can be and how that really starts with what we are sleeping on. She created a mattress quiz to help you find a mattress that is not only going to fit your budget but also be a quality product that will fit all yo...

On this episode I am joined by Colleen Wynia. She is a Reset Your Vibe Success Coach, Spiritual Intuitive, Quantum Energy Facilitator and Holistic Health Educator. She is passionate about living and teaching the fundamental principles of Quantum Physics and its relation to the Universal Laws of Attraction. We talk about the path that lead her to being  a spiritual intuitive, the comfort she felt b...

I am joined by lawyer and author Poonam Bhuchar. We discuss her book Safe from the Pain Out of the Darkness into a Life That's Free, Happy and Good. Poonam survived sexual assault, attempted suicide, and got went through a divorce. Her SAFE method helped with processing all that pain so she could live a full life after the trauma. We discuss how recovering from these events isn't an easy...

I am joined today by Dr. Alyson Nerenberg. She is a psychologist and author of No Perfect Love: Shattering the Illusions of Flawless Relationships. Perfect relationships and perfect families don't exist but while the idea of perfection and narcissism are so prevalent we talk about ways to navigate through this and how to set healthy boundaries. Philadelphia Individual Counseling & Couples...

I am joined today by Miri Rodriguez. She is a holistic well-being expert, best-selling author, brand story teller and CEO of Be Mindful Be Happy.  Be Mindful Be Happy is an online community to connect you to support resources, life coaches and they carry ethical and sustainable organic wellness products. They are Latina women owned and women operated. We also talk about her experience with discove...

On this episode I am joined by Geralyn Ritter. She has recently released a book: Bone by Bone a Memoir of Trauma and Healing.  She was on her way home from an ordinary business trip when Amtrak 188 derailed outside of Philadelphia. She was crushed in the crash, which killed eight and injured hundreds. A hundred percent of the proceeds from the book will be going to trauma professionals, medicine a...

On this episode I talk with Darby Fox about parenting teens. Darby is a licensed clinical social worker, TV personality, and author of Rethinking Your Teenager Shifting from Control and Conflict to Structure and Nurture to Raise Accountable Young Adults. We talk about the neuroscience around teenagers brain development and the best tools to use while presenting an actions based consequence and com...

On this episode I am joined by Caitlin Billings. She is a social worker, therapist and author of memoir In Our Blood. She shares her story of getting diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. She was talks about an unwanted sexual experience and being held at gunpoint both which led her on a journey of healing after PTSD and her experiences with finding a medication that worked. Her child mirrored some of...

On this episode I am joined by Dr. Amanda Savage Brown. She is a scientist turned therapist specializing in helping women with their explant journey. She created Breast Implant Through Explant (BRITE) Inner Healing. She also has a self-help book empowering women to overcome the mental and emotional difficulties with breast implant removal. We talk about Amanda's experience with wanting to rem...

This episode I talk with Port Moody, BC Mom Jennifer Geneve about burnout. In 2019, she was over-scheduled and had just a bit of unrest. She couldn't pinpoint what the problem was, just that there was one. She consulted with medical professionals and started making several shifts in her lifestyle to removing alcohol and replacing with more water, sleep and exercise. She started hiking the Coq...

This episode I am joined by Michael Kwan. He is a husband, dad and blogger behind Behind the Rhetoric. We talk about parenting during a pandemic, going from one kid to two and why we really need to stop stereotyping dads. Michael and a group of dad bloggers go on an annual camping trip #5DadsGoWild. We talk about the misadventures that can happen when you take a city boy and plunk him into the wil...

On this episode I am joined by Veronica Weedon. She is the owner of Revival Health. She works as a health coach helping people heal after being in toxic relationships. On this episode we talk primarily about being in a romantic relationship with a narcissist. She explains her past experience and how that affected her mental and physical health and what her healing journey was like. If you find you...

On this episode I am joined by Douglas Green.  He is a writer, psychotherapist, director, and teacher, living in Los Angeles. We discuss his books, The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons From a Divine Knucklehead and A Dog of Many Names. We talk about his love of dogs and how they can be our greatest teachers. We talk about finding a path to our passions that doesn't end up being the easiest...

On this episode I am joined by Hollie Fraser. She is a wife, mother and the owner of Punk Rock Pastries in Burnaby, BC. We talk about what it has been like trying to keep a small business open during the last few years and the enormous amount of pressure it can be trying to balance work life and home life. We talk about her experience with cancel culture after she received a complaint about what s...

I am joined by Bruce R Ross for this episode. Could you imagine living with depression for 20 years and it not even occurring to you that that is what is causing your suffering? That is unfortunately what happened to Bruce. He outlines his whole journey in his new memoir Breaking Free of Depression's Grip. We talk about his experiences with finding solutions that helped him treat his depressi...

On this episode I am joined by Julie Peters. Julie is an author of Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddess: Meditations on Desire, Relationships and the Art of Being Broken and Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault. She is also a yoga teacher, tarot card reader and offers trauma-informed and body based counseling. We discuss consent and her experience wit...