Finding Me podcast

Season 6 of Finding ME is a bold return to the roots of why this podcast began—seeking understanding, healing, and purpose through honest conversations. This season explores how women found themselves stuck during the COVID-19 pandemic, what they did to move forward, and why curiosity is the key to compassion, connection, and getting unstuck. It's time to use our voices, ask brave questions, and h...

Lisa's journey to midlife is not uncommon. She checked all the life boxes - education, marriage, kids, career - only to find she still felt lost. Somewhere along the way she'd lost that curious, confident and excited-about-life young girl.   Lisa's dark night of the soul happens when her mom dies very quickly and unexpectedly and her job as a teacher becomes unbearable. Change feels like her only...

This conversation is personal. I invited Shirlee to have a conversation about Covid because I feel deeply that healing is needed from this period when our lives were turned upside down and fear became the foundation for a lot of decision making. And I can't think of a better way to facilitate this healing than through conversation.   Covid has changed me. It changed how I see the world and how I s...

Melanie's journey from childhood abuse to becoming a psychic medium and embracing her gifts is an incredible rollercoaster ride.  For many years Melanie was driven by a desire to control her experiences for a sense of security but she's learned to surrender to a deep knowing that life is happening FOR her, rather than to her. This perspective grounded in curiosity and compassion permeates our enti...

How do you trust your body when it's massively let you down?  At the age of 25, Kelli is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease of the Central Nervous System. Having never heard of the disease, she follows the medical protocol she's given and tries to carry on with life and her love of dancing. What I find so fascinating about Kelli's journey with MS is how she learns to listen t...

Caitlin shares her journey with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease. She spends the first six years of her diagnosis in denial, intent on proving her doctors wrong even as her symptoms progressed. Once she accepts her neurological disorder she takes on a million projects so she doesn't have to face her greatest fear: there is no cure. It's only once all her projects start to fall apart and she hits a...

Nona shares her life and her 'crying on the bathroom floor moments' as she calls them. She struggled with a congenital disease, chronic pain, compulsivity and addiction. She was also in debt and depressed and hiding it from the world.  And then she has an out-of-body experience that changes her life. Her mind is opened to a new way of being, a new consciousness that she puts words to as best she c...

Sandra and I cover everything from giving away our authority, to death, to life's biggest lessons, to hypnosis and unlearning all the things that we find no longer useful in life.  What has stayed with me the most is her love for simply being human. Early in our conversations Sandra says "Everytime i feel my heart break…there is part of me that feels joyful that I can even feel that."  How beautif...

A short reflection of the past five years of interviewing women who have found themselves stuck, struggling or depleted.  What each woman learned for herself and taught me. What necessary life skills we're never taught in school.  How to live life in a new way: with energy, fulfilled, and with internal peace.  Welcome to Season 5!  

Marlene's story is a beautiful reminder that anything is possible. You can recreate yourself and start over. Again. And again. And again.  At 14, Marlene leaves home, drops out of school and gets a job waitressing. Her early story is one of survival: eating in soup kitchens, foraging for mushrooms and accepting welfare. It's also one of emotional trauma that left her feeling unwanted and unloved. ...

I used to think taking responsibility for where I was in my life meant shaming myself for not being where I had expected to be. I always felt like I was swimming upstream when it came to my career: every job, role, and industry I tried depleted my energy. I was consumed with self-judgement, feeling like I *should* be ahead of where I was.  In this snip-it of my conversation with Sarah, she talks a...

Laura lost her corporate job in 2020 which has set her on a journey of "who am I?" When she started out she had no idea what she wanted but she knew she needed a major change. She's worked on a horse farm, and a beekeeping farm, she's made financial sacrifices, she's ignored a lot of judgement from others, and learned she's capable of much more than she realized.  She's more energized and joyful t...

One of the biggest learnings I've had in the past 8+ years of my journey of self discovery is that I was living my life based on a subconscious belief system.  I was so miserable in my career because, without being aware of it, I was telling myself that success had to look a certain way (for me, that involved climbing a corporate ladder of titles and money).  Once I was able to consciously underst...

This is my second conversation with Lindsey, this time following her 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat which she did to process the intense rage that was bubbling up within her.   In our last conversation, Lindsey opens up about the emotional abuse and exposure to prostitution she experienced as a child and how that experience has played out in her adult life.  Today we talk about how the medita...

Kena was widowed at 38, felt very alone and like life was happening  to her.  I could relate to that feeling of not having any control; of wanting something different but lost as to how to go about it.  I love how Kena talks about giving herself permission to want something more, more than being a widow. This is where change can start; a simple acknowledgement that we can have visions and dreams o...

Lindsey opens up about the emotional abuse and exposure to prostitution she experienced as a child and how that experience has played out in her adult life.  We discuss storing emotions in our body, using movement to release emotions, meditation, psychedelics, yoga and most importantly love.  I feel so honoured to witness and listen to Lindsey share her journey to unlearn the coping mechanisms fro...

I think my biggest learning in the last 5 years has been the importance of getting out of my head and into my heart. I used to discount my own intuition; I didn't trust it. As a result, I over-thought every decision. I've come to understand that I have all the answers within me, I just need to tap into that heart / intuition / gut feeling. Nikki has had her own experience learning to tap into her...

I am amazed by Judy's journey because of the stark difference between where she came from and her perspective on life today. She grew up in a very strict and insular religion that believed the world was going to end. Her life was based on fear and she was discouraged from thinking for herself. I find it so fascinating how she gave herself permission to create a new perspective on life and, essenti...

Do you play? Like a child, do you engage in an activity for enjoyment rather than for productivity or an end goal? Have you considered how play might get you unstuck?  Amelie, who earns a living as an artist, got caught in a capitalist mindset: if it's not working then double down and work harder and longer. This had her perpetually stuck. She lost all creative inspiration when she needed it most,...

Edie shares how she felt broken, that something was wrong with her. She began to take notice when her body betrayed her: bad acne, digestive issues and sleep problems. Her attempts to control them with prescription drugs and diets just masked the deeper issues of anxiety and stress that led her down a path of emotional destruction. She's hit some low points but her healing journey to better unders...

Kena and I continue our discussion around loss and grief - Kena grieves the loss of her husband and also the story in her head of how life is *supposed* to go. Does she want to be a widow or a vibrant 38-year old woman? This sparks our discussion around death and how Kena's first hand experience with it motivates her choices for living. We also get into how we're born with a magic or spirit that i...

Kena shares her journey of having lost two special people in her life - her Dad and her first husband. She talks about how she spent her 30's caring for her husband who was in and out of hospital. All her dreams of flourishing in her fashion career and starting a family had to be re-examined. I love how she talks about surrendering to the choices in front of her: What are my options? How am I goin...

Welcome to the second half of my conversation with Amelie. We continue our discussion around deep seeded fears that hold us back, particularly the image in our heads of where we *should* be compared to where we *are*.  Amelie falls into the trap of comparing herself to the likes of Picasso which only makes her question her own abilities. But with some self awareness she knows creating art is what...

Amelie is an artist and I can't think of another profession that comes with so many deep seeded stereotypes and beliefs. Amelie opens up about these cultural beliefs that have had her feeling stuck. Stuck and fearful of becoming that starving artist and how she's had to question those beliefs to move forward and continue to create. We also have a great discussion around experimentation and the gui...

Sara's journey to acknowledge "I don't know what I am doing" has been quite the meandering one. She questions herself and her knowledge. She questions her life plan. She loses her job in Covid. She shares how stepping away from her career has given her a new perspective of herself and her expertise. With this has come new found confidence to follow her curiosity. She is now embarking on a new adve...