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In this episode, I am leaning into vulnerability and sharing a program that is coming to Canada on March 17th, 2023 called the M.A.I.D. Program. It is called the Medically Assisted In Death program and it is to support end of life support for incurable diseases. As of March 17th this program will extend to include mental health conditions and include over the age of 18 years old without parental c...

In this episode we are speaking with Meghan Weir. Meg is your spiritual Life and Business Mentor. She is a Board Certified Master Coach, Hypnotherapist, Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Teacher & Intuitive Business Mentor who guides you to drop into your self-sourced power and share your magic & medicine with the world. Meg is known for guiding her clients through deep, transformational work that elici...

In this episode, we are speaking with Personal Media Advisor, Vinnie Potestivo. Vinne is an Emmy Award-winning media brand advisor, personal brand strategist, and content coach. He is also the host of I Have A Podcast. His passion to inspire talent opportunities into impact has driven Vinnie and his team at VPEtalent to become well-trusted connectors who sell, develop, produce, launch, distribute,...

In this episode, I am leaning into the tools of vulnerability and bringing myself back to the power of vulnerability. You deserve to live your life outspoken, to lean into vulnerability, take up space and allow yourself to be seen and heard. To be a great speaker is more than finding your voice, it is to allow yourself to connect with your audience, develop confidence, composure and understanding...

In this episode, I am celebrating that this podcast idea that started 5+ years ago, is releasing episode #500. 3 years ago we celebrated episode #101. I want to share some thoughts, celebrations, and what is coming up for this podcast and where it is going in the future. I know and believe that the last 2 years, especially all the work I have done in NLP has allowed me to own my voice, trust it, b...

In this episode we are speaking with HR Director/Management, Kim Hamer. On April 16, 2009, Kim watched her 44-yr-old husband take his last breath. During his illness and after his death, she was amazed by the helpful ways their coworkers, bosses, friends, and family supported them. Kim started calling their kind actions "acts of love". After the death of her husband, Kim, an HR leader, noticed how...

In this episode, we are diving into the power of your thoughts. Yes I am talking a lot about this lately and it does coincide with the power of NLP. NLP is neuro-linguistic programming and it is the study of how the mind works. Your thoughts create a frequency and that frequency creates an emotion, which determines how you feel and those emotions lead you to take or not take your next action steps...

In this episode, I am sharing a concept that I recently heard on a podcast about the meaning of unqualified and inexperienced. It made me go down a rabbit hole to look at what we make our inexperience mean, and how we decide that inexperienced means that we are not qualified. In today's episode we discuss:1) We will always be inexperienced when we start something new. How can we possibly have any...

In this episode we are speaking with Empowerment & Leadership Coach, Andrea Johnson. Andrea is The Intentional Optimist: a Professional Encourager, Women's Empowerment Coach, Speaker and Podcaster. Andrea's work is equipping and empowering female leaders to step away from cultural expectations, trust their own ability to think critically, create imaginatively and lead effectively. She helps strong...

In this episode, I want to share some about starting the new year and setting yourself up for success and ultimately overcoming the excuse of feeling like you are too late In today's episode we discuss: 1) The timeline you are creating is made up in your head. What if you are right on time? What if all the experience you have been gaining was required for what you're here to do? What if you couldn...

In this episode, I want to share some about starting the new year and setting yourself up for success. In today's episode we discuss: 1) What are 1-3 things you know that you are leaving behind this year? For me it is people pleasing, wavering in my boundaries, and not putting my self care first. 2) Get clear on why you want to leave it behind, what purpose it was serving and maybe by leaving it b...

In this episode I am speaking with Professional Speaker & Author, Erick Rheam. Erick has been training and publicly speaking for 22 years. He's delivered hundreds of presentations to military officers in the U.S. Army, athletes, high school students, business leaders, and public officials. Erick has a long and rich utility background for over two decades. He served as Director of Education for an...

In this episode, I want to share some steps to help you create change in this New Year of 2023, and it can all start with changing one story at a time. In today's episode we discuss: 1) What is one story that is no longer serving you? It starts with becoming brutally honest with yourself, not applying shame, judgment, criticism or frustration, simply straightforward honesty. 2) What is the root of...

In this episode, I am sharing my experience with scriptwriting as a part of the extended work of affirmations. It's not as simple as standing and speaking affirmations. It is about changing your thoughts from the level of your subconscious mind. These are the steps I use to write a script for my brain to focus on where it is going. Your conscious mind creates the goals, and your subconscious mind...

In this episode, I am speaking with Coach Lindsay Couture. Lindsay is a Coach whose passion is to help women find their way back to wellness through movement, nutrition, and mindset work. After burning out in 2018 while being a primary caregiver for her mom, and with a career in healthcare Lindsay learned the hard way about the importance of needing to put herself first. Once Lindsay began to prio...

In this episode, I am sharing my experience, lessons learned and experiences with the tough word called "boundaries". Especially coming into the Christmas season, this is the time where boundaries are so important, necessary and truly a sign of self-respect. So here is another episode on boundaries and I know that it will serve you. Personally I have learned so much more about boundaries this year...

In this episode, I want to talk about doubt. Doubt is simply defined as a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Why do we experience doubt? It surfaces when we are growing and pushing our limits and comfort zone. We have motivational values and threshold values. Doubt may encourage us to gain more understanding - that would be positive. Remaining always in d...

In this episode I am speaking with Coach, fighter pilot instructor, author, Dominic Teich. Goal oriented individuals get frustrated because of setbacks and limited time to learn the right path. Since fighter pilots are trained to make split decisions at 800+ miles per hour I created the largest online group of fighter pilots to guide action takers in short, impactful steps, so that they can contro...

In this episode, I want to talk about our stagnation, expectations, and judging this feeling of being stuck. This idea came up after seeing this funny reel online and there is so much truth to it. So what do you do when you feel stuck or stagnation? Here are a few thoughts. In this episode, we discuss: 1) We never move as fast as we think, it never happens in the way we think it should and we can...

In this episode, I want to talk about our thoughts and how they are creating and solidifying our beliefs. In this episode, we discuss: 1) One of the first premises of NLP is understanding that we are being exposed to 2.3 million bytes of information every single day, and with all of that information that is bombarding our system, we create filters to delete, distort or generalize the information a...

In this episode, we are speaking with Keynote Speaker, Phil Barth. In August 2015 Phil suffered what the doctor called a "small" heart attack. Following his recovery Phil started a daily gratitude practice on social media. He listed a few of the small great things that happened in his life each day. The practice has gone on for over six years now. In 2018 Phil took what he had learned and wrote th...

In this episode, I want to share some thoughts on what happens when we try to skip over parts of our healing, our feelings and how we subconsciously cannot push through these pieces no matter how hard we try. This is in alignment with one of the processes we use in the NLP Breakthrough Day Experience, where we use TIME Techniques to release emotions that we are holding onto in the order of anger,...

In this episode, I have a couple of different perspective shifts when it comes to visualizing your goals and bringing your visions to life. This episode was inspired by Mel Robbins and one of her podcast episodes and it really hit home when I recognized that I spend more time visualizing the "end game or end product" instead of visualizing the mistakes, the challenges and getting up from them and...

In this episode, we are speaking with Retired Colour Sergeant, Tim Heale. Having spent most of his adult life under the Colours in the British Army from being an infantry soldier to being an experienced PSYOPS Operator on 7 operational deployments has given Tim some awesome opportunities. Tim played a lot of rugby and his position was scrum half, the ski telemark and completed several times at the...

In this episode, I have a question for you to ask yourself. Are you waiting for everything to be perfect, to be lined up perfectly until you decide to stand in your light? Are you waiting to release the podcast, do the live, share your story, write the chapter, the book, speak from stage, or launch your program when it is done and perfect? That is never going to happen and you will be waiting a lo...