Mom Camp: Around the Campfire

In this episode of Mom Camp: Around the Campfire, I chat with Dr. Orlena, a former paediatrician and mom-of-four. Orlena now runs a coaching program for moms, teaching them how to build up habits of healthy eating and healthy living for their families. Orlena is passionate about helping families to live healthy lives. She has a holistic philosophy encompassing healthy eating, exercise, sleep and e...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with I am chatting with Erica Bazzell, all about wellness. It's not just about checking the boxes for nutrition and exercise, we talk about ALL the things that go into what wellness can mean to you, and how you can take very small, simple steps, toward living your best life. Erica shares her eight areas of focus, which initially might sound like a lot. But tru...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Kerstin Kirchsteiger. Kerstin is an emotional intelligence coach, family culture expert, and podcast host. She helps people reach their leadership potential through Emotional Intelligence coaching, and we chat about how the same principles she teaches individuals can have a huge impact for families. Kerstin shares how her own life wasn't matching the visi...

We are now at 100 episodes of the Mom Camp: Around the Camp. What?! I can’t even believe it! 99 awesome conversations, 99 awesome women. I have had the honour of bringing you these chats every week. My original hope was to bring you inspiration, lessons, and growth – I didn’t really count on coming away with so much of all that goodness myself. It has been such a gift.  Through the last 99 ep...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Meg Maclure. She is a business advisor, strategist, author, and mom to 14-year-old Abby. She helps entrepreneurs rediscover who they are in their business by getting clear on their purpose. She believes that a good business process should be about focusing on what you want as an entrepreneur, how you want to feel, and not how or when it’s going to happen....

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Liz Coalts, owner of The Anxious Adult. Liz is passionate about normalizing the conversation around mental health, and about helping smart but overwhelmed people manage their stress. She shares her own struggles with anxiety and depression, and how actually talking about those things was the way she realized that she wasn't alone. Liz shares some simple s...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Dr. Whitney Casares. She’s a private-practice pediatrician, an American Academy of Pediatrics published author, and a mom to two young girls. Whitney wrote her book The Working Mom Blueprint after experiencing earlier struggles of being a working mom and witnessing the same in moms in her circle and in her practice. Dr. Whitney explains how societal burde...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Heather Chauvin. She’s the host of the Mom is in Control podcast, a mom of 3 boys, a parenting and business coach, and the author of Dying to Be a Good Mother . Heather spent her early years in motherhood trying to measure up to expectations of what she thought it meant to be a “good mother.” Complete self-sacrifice, endless hustle, ignoring the warning s...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Leona Carter, intimacy and relationship coach. She is mother of six, grandmother of one, and the author of nine books, including Maximize T.I.M.E: 44 Strategies to Effectively Manage Your Time from Motherhood to CEO. With six kids Leona had to become a good time manager from day one, not to mention how she became a successful coach and author. She shares...

In this week's episode I am chatting with Bevin Farrand. A year and a half ago, Bevin unexpectedly lost her husband, just days after they returned from a whirlwind trip to France. Bevin had been laid off months before and they had gone back and forth for months on whether or not to take the trip. Now, that trip offers some of her best memories. It prompted her to start the "Take the Damn Trip" com...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Audrey Renee, author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and coach. Audrey shares about her life as a single mom and how started her business and community, Dear Single Mommy . She is on a mission to coach and empower single moms to have an identity beyond "single mom," and to break through the obstacles of life and take action towards their dreams. Audr...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Lori Beth Auldridge, a work-at-home mama of 3, wife, homeschooler, business owner, and the host of Elevating Motherhood podcast. Lori Beth lives a life of design on the island of Maui with her husband and three soon-to-be-four children. She shares in detail the five red flags that define toxic motherhood messaging, and how we can tweak our mindsets to imp...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with mom and daughter Lynn Hughan and Carsen Gray. Lynn and Carsen are a mother-daughter duo who were inspired by their life experiences on Haida Gwaii to write a children’s book, Twelve Months of Fun on Haida Gwaii with Mattie and Jojo . The book is based on the lives of Carsen's children, and is filled with the familiar activities and beloved people on Haida...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Kasha Mitton and Maggie Aynsley. They are the founders of The MASH Movement, a platform that raises awareness about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). They inspire and mobilize their community with a focus on movement, awareness, service, and health. Kasha’s son is living with DMD, and she helps us understand disease, where Canada stands in fighting it, a...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Lila Harrison King, the author of the book Love Like A Mama and host of the podcast of the same name. Lila wanted to be a mom since she was a little girl, but it wasn’t in the cards to happen biologically. She shares the story of her adoption story, an incredible and inspiring story of perseverance, loss, and love. Lila also shares how she started on the...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Gina Bell, empowerment coach, and creator of the Tears and Tulle Movement. Gina shares how a photoshoot moment with a rainbow tulle skirt empowered her in her darkest time, and she wanted to empower others in the same way. She believes that women should allow themselves to express their colour from within, in their dark moments, and not wait for the momen...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Eva Klein. She’s a certified infant and child sleep consultant and is the founder of My Sleeping Baby and the Sleep Bible program. Eva shares how she experienced debilitating effects of chronic sleep deprivation when her now 7-year-old daughter was a baby. Her experience prompted her to get a sleep consultant certification during her maternity leave, and...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Justine Sones, a writer, stress management coach, and mom of two. Justine has made it her mission to help women business owners do work that matters, and build a life that supports them instead of stressing them out. Coming from a background in massage therapy, she understands the power of self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and creatively solving prob...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Jennifer Koster, a recovering workaholic, serial entrepreneur, startup investor, owner of several companies, upcoming author, and mom to a 9-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter. Jennifer shares her story of how she struggled most of her adult life with childhood baggage of wanting acceptance. She has always been in a conflicting dynamic of wanting rela...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Emily Tomlinson, sober mom, and Epidermolysis Bullosa advocate. We talk about overcoming drug and alcohol addiction, finding healing, and being a mom to a special son living with epidermolysis bullosa. Emily shares about her struggles with alcohol and drug addiction since the age of 13; and her journey to becoming sober at the age of 30. She became sober...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with self-love, self-confidence and empowerment coach Christine Osoria. Christine was a guest presenter inside the IGNITE community and led a great conversation for our members. In this episode we talk about how often moms can lose a sense of themselves, and their self-confidence. Christine shares her story of how her own confidence and sense of self hit rock...

In this week's episode I am chatting with Sara Olsher of Mighty and Bright . Sara has made it her mission to help families, and specifically children, work through hard seasons. First through her divorce and then through a cancer diagnosis, Sara developed the tools to help her daughter navigate the uncertainty, anxiety, and fear that come with those stressful times. This led to the creation of Mig...

In this week's episode I am chatting with Amy Bushatz of Humans Outside. Amy shares her story of how her family moved to Alaska for a change of pace, and to align more with their desired lifestyle of spending more time outdoors. She initially struggled to make outside time a habit, so she created some rules for herself to help her build the habit. She created a personal challenge to spend a minimu...

In this week's episode I am chatting with Amanda Laramee, occupational therapist and health coach. We are talking all about how it is important to make space for joy, but to also make space for the struggle. Checking our expectations about how we "should" be feeling, and making space for the hard times. It is okay to feel the feelings, and to move through them as opposed to around them. It can be...

In this week's episode I am chatting with parenting coach Danielle Bettmann. I LOVED this conversation. Danielle has developed the idea of a Family Business Plan, helping families establish goals for how they want to live their lives. How they want to communicate, how they want to problem-solve, what their core values are, etc. It's just like a business plan, right down to writing a family mission...