Life's a Wreck

Welcome back to Life's a Wreck (it's been a minute). I've been working on this podcast for the past five months and finally get to share it with all of you. It's been an experimental podcast for me as I look forward to what the future may hold for Life's a Wreck and let me promise you it has been a ton of fun piecing together. The entirety of this episode is inspired by th...

Hey you, sitting there about to listen to a mental health podcast, do you know anything about stress? Not really? You are stressed you just don't get it? Me too. How about regret? All too familiar? Me too. Well, you're in luck because this week on the podcast I'm joined by Dr. Leslie Bosch to explore our relationships with stress and regret. Dr. Bosch is a National Board Certified H...

I had a tough time coming up with a name for this episode because of all that Marty and I chatted about. However, I think what strikes me the most is that this man has gone through some really tough times and still continues to seek out life's challenges, face them head-on, and embodies the idea of embracing the wreck. So this truly is simply a lesson in living.  Martin Frenette is a fraud in...

WE'RE BAAAAACK BAAAABY! Welcome back to Life's a Wreck everyone! As many of you may know I recently participated in the most recent season of Big Brother Canada. It was an absolutely surreal experience to be a fan of the show and then actually get a chance to participate. In this episode, I break down my mental state leading up to the house, in the house and then after I was evicted. Thi...

What's going on guys and welcome back to Life's a Wreck! Happy New Year and from everyone here at Life's a Wreck we hope it's better than the last two :D This week on the podcast I'm joined by my best friend and roommate Allister Nicholson to simply chat. Too often in the world of mental health, we get caught up in the big picture conversations but it's these kinds of...

Happy Holidays to all! From us here at Life's a Wreck. Our gift to you: a conversation about suicide. Not the gift you wanted but the gift all of us need. This week on the podcast I'm joined by Dalhousie University Doctoral Candidate Bryce Anderson to talk about Social Anthropology and one of the biggest baddest words known to modern-day stigma...suicide. This episode is so important to...

What's going on guys and welcome back to Life's a Wreck! This week on the podcast we're sitting down with Taylor Lindsay-Noel to talk about self-identity, grieving the loss of yourself, and how mindset can help us achieve more than we ever thought possible. Taylor was paralyzed by a gymnastics accident at 14 and during incredibly formative years of her life had to readjust her sense...

Not often a few boys from Charlotte County get to sit down and get into the nitty-gritty of mental health but luckily for you, today is one of those days. This week on the podcast I'm joined by fellow mental health advocate Matthew Dickson to talk about schizophrenia and the experiences he's had living with the disease for nearly 30 years. There are some laughs, some parts that are tough...

The Life's a Wreck inception podcast. This week on the pod I thought it might be a fun little creative experiment to explore the world of self-talk in a deeper way by literally sitting down and interviewing myself for the pod. I woke up, thought "huh I wonder what it would look like to have a 40-minute conversation with myself?" turned it into a podcast and now you have the pleasure...

What's up you beautiful people and welcome back to another episode of Life's a Wreck. This week on the pod I'm stoked to be joined by TEDx Speaker, Mental Health Keynote and Public Speaker, Singer, Songwriter and Goodwill Ambassador to Holt International and HCMC Peace and Development Foundation; Amy Minh Hanh Corey. Amy reached out to me and after hopping on a call I knew we had to...

The whole reason I started this podcast was so that I had a creative medium to use when I needed to get some things off my chest. Now, going through a move, I figured it would be a great time to get back to the old Life's a Wreck podcast roots and just talk with you guys for a few. In this episode, I just talk through how being in a new environment both mentally and physically has changed my...

And we're back with another one, another absolutely lights out episode of Life's a Wreck for the homies. This week on the pod I'm so stoked to be joined by someone that I've been a fan of since early high school and have grown up admiring how they've worked for themselves and blazed their own path. This week, I'm joined by the one and only Jon Kilmer.  Jon is a film,...

And we are BACK! Season 5 is off to just an absolute *chefs kiss* start with this one. This week on the podcast I'm joined by one of the most prolific Big Brother Canada players in the show's history, the man they call Ro Show , Rohan Kapoor. In this episode we talk all about isolation, spending time with your thoughts, the concept of trust, and how Rohan's time in the Big Brother H...

To our dearest listeners, no fluff, this episode is long overdue. We're joined by Registered Nurse and Executive Director for Rising Sun Treatment Centre in Eel Ground First Nation, NB Cheyenne Joseph to have a conversation about the trauma, stigma and discrimination our Indigenous neighbours have faced throughout history. Kick back, relax, and more than anything, listen. Life's a Wreck....

What's going on guys? This week on the podcast I'm really stoked to be joined by men's coach, Chris Wilson. I met Chris through the monthly Tethr pods that I participate in and that Chris helps run. His impact on all the men that he works with is obvious and I couldn't wait to get him on the pod. We had a super interesting conversation surrounding some of the more philosophical...

What's up guys and welcome back to your mom's favourite mental health podcast, Life's a Wreck. This week on the show we're talking about something that is long overdue. A look into the world of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The two individuals who are sharing their experience on the podcast today are people who just reached out to te...

Welcome back to the podcast guys, this week I'm really excited to be joined by one of Canada's biggest mental health advocates and someone that I've looked up to along my own mental health journey, Michael Landsberg. Michael, the host and producer of TSN's Off The Record, has been an official spokesperson for Bell Let's Talk Day since that initiative was launched. In 2016...

This episode speaks for itself. This week I'm joined by the amazing Dr. Michael Gervais, one of the world's foremost authorities on the relationship between the mind and high performance.    His clients include the Seattle Seahawks, world-record holders, Olympians, internationally acclaimed music artists, Fortune 50 CEO’s and MVPs from every major sport, just to name a few of course. Not...

I'm a really lucky guy. I literally get to sit down and talk about mental health with some of the most interesting people I've ever met. I love every second of it and this week is no exception. Sometimes it can be hard standing out in a crowd, but especially when you're a woman and the crowd in question is a university football locker room. Reina Iizuka is the first woman to ever pl...

This week on the podcast I'm joined by one of the foremost scientists in the world of mental health; Dr. Sean Hill. Dr. Hill is the Director of the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and a Professor at the University of Toronto (he's pretty smart idk if you got that yet). In this episode, Dr. Hill and I talk all abo...

A little wholesome content to kick off your weekend! This week on the podcast I'm talking with my good friend Gina Amin about her fitness journey and the mindset that lead her to become the happiest and healthiest version of herself. She's a walking testimony to the power of self-discipline and how practicing healthy habits can lead to a healthier lifestyle. Kick back and relax because t...

This week on the podcast I'm absolutely stoked to share our little virtual stage with one of my favourite authors, Andrew Reiner. Andrew is the author of 'Better Boys Better Men" which details the current state of masculinity and how we as a culture treat boys and men. It was a fantastic read and to pick Andrew's brain was truly an honour. Kick back and relax because this one i...

This week on the pod I'm joined by a couple of fellow mental health podcasters Nick and Lawson from TAD Voices, to talk about the power that exists in sharing what you're going through as a man. All three of us have gone through a similar phase of not understanding how to go about talking about our mental health and then finding an outlet through podcasting and sharing our personal exper...

This week on the podcast I'm sitting down with my fellow Ryerson University alumni and the Middle East's own Mental Health Ambassador Ally Salama to talk about mental health representations in minority communities and how mental health is perceived in different cultures from around the globe but particularly in the Middle East. This is a great conversation where Ally and I get into all k...

This is a super special episode for me because I got to sit down with one of the first mental health podcasters I ever listened to, the amazing Bobby Temps from "Mental - The Podcast to Destigmatize Mental Health." Bobby and I had a great conversation that hasn't been highlighted on this podcasts before about body image, eating disorders and the biases that exist within gender in th...