Quality Coffee Podcast

Somewhere along the way we recognized you have to love all of the parts of you without judgement. Tonia and Vanessa share a lot of humorous stories we hope you all get a kick out of, especially when one of Tonia’s daughters threatens to find a new family. We veer off-topic and take you on a journey but stick with us and you’ll be sure to find your funny bone. Mid life clarity is all about acceptin...

Optimal health in our forties means doing the deep dive with the right doctors to find out where the deficiencies or problems are so we know exactly what to fix with exactly the right tools. The only regret we have is not taking this kind of control over our health sooner… like twenty years ago sooner. But who has a naturopath at 21?!  From every day life to pain management, join in on the convers...

There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to being healthy. Luckily, we are living in a time where accessing information and resources is at our fingertips... and today, in your ears! We deep dive into how one person's strategy with food or even supplements could make the next person really sick. We also discuss our experiences with specific testing through our Naturopaths and how that impac...

As 40-something women never has the relationships with our women friends been more valuable than now. As we evolve during our mid-life era we know so much more about who we are as women, what our needs are and who helps us to meet those different requirements. Women empower each other when we are raising each other up. Women love unconditionally when we are completely safe to be ourselves. Women s...

Imagine a world where women are in charge of the finances and the ones investing for retirement. We live in the world we create for ourselves and nothing is off limits. The only way to learn how to do something is to take action and get involved. Now we do know what to do and we're having a blast doing it. Move the needle with us and join the conversation! To open up your own Wealthsimple acco...

Every ten episodes we delve into uncharted territory and invite to you to learn more about who Vanessa and Tonia are. Do we always fight the system? Nah. Are we always incredibly serious? Nope. Do we always need to right wrong? Ok that one is a for sure yes but you get it. We are human. Existing takes up space in all ways and we share some silly and insightful things about ourselves through compas...

Why do I feel this way if It’s healthy? What does “healthy” even mean? No two bodies are alike and neither are their needs. Emotionally, physically ad psychologically we all thrive differently from on another and that’s fascinating! Come and find out what makes food healthy or unhealthy to each of us and how they relate directly to our upbringing both literally and metaphorically. Many of us grew...

40-something women know our value and our worth - but in case you don't you have come to the right podcast. Today we talk about how we fill our own cups and what our supporting cast looks like when things are calm and when life is chaos. The basis of the conversation really comes down to us setting ourselves up for as much success as possible. Being clear about how our needs can be met means b...

Being certain of ourselves stems from a place of knowing exactly who we are. When we are sure footed it is because we have established and live by our core values. On today's episode of Quality Coffee Podcast we check in with our core values and discuss how we maintain alignment within our day to day lives, our working environment and our relationships with ourselves, our friends, our family and o...

Today's discussion stems from some of the shame we experienced as children unable to talk to our parents about specific topics. Often we were dismissed or punished for merely growing up and wondering about the world. Our world. We know now as adults much of this reaction comes from a place of discomfort and projection so we are doing the work of starting conversations about some of those confusing...

One of the reasons we communicate so well is because we offer intricately different viewpoints of the world. And although we do life a bit differently, we are in-step with one another in many shared goals and some important core values.  We are sisters-in-law walking through this life together as best friends; a united front as family for each other and for Tonia’s daughters, who of course are Van...

The definition of mental load for us is the anticipation of everyone else’s needs and making sure everything is taken care of so your household runs smoothly. The effort and execution it takes for a woman to do that is far more than meets the eye, even if you’re really paying attention. It’s the size of a massive sombrero - breaking our backs and putting us off balance. Have you seen that reel goi...

From the real-time discovery that we were  triggering each other with our own duties in the home (a light-hearted joke, of course), we realize a lot of what women should be doing is what makes the most sense for her own family. Traditional roles aren’t functional in our day and more women are out shattering glass ceilings, providing for their families alongside their partners. Many women are even...

While we started with a Gabor Maté quote about how feeling all of the emotions about a specific situation helps us to achieve forgiveness, we really sat in the feelings of anger itself. How do you handle your anger? One of Gabor Maté's famous quotes explains, "It's not about getting better, it's about getting better at feeling". Join us in having this difficult but important conversation.

Heavy conversation starters happening in toady’s episode of QCP. Tonia and Vanessa dig into important issues we all faced as children and discover the changes Tonia is making to raise her daughters with information to support and guide them through the big decisions they’ll need to make in their lives. There are a few laughs along the way as we discover her daughter has accidentally seen daddy’s p...

Every ten episodes of Quality Coffee Podcast Tonia and Vanessa will spend the show answering questions the other has about their life’s experiences. As the podcast grows our audience is invited to send in their burning questions for this forty-something duo. One today’s episode discussions lead us through having children after never expecting to, what it would be like to live a day in each others...

One of the most important questions we have as 40-something women is how we can improve our sleeping habits? In this episode of Quality Coffee Podcast Tonia and Vanessa share small shifts like monitoring water intake before bed so they’re not waking up through the night, meeting with their respective naturopaths for more concrete answers, and learning more about the path to quality health and slee...

Learning to find balance in a space where constant forward motion is the culture is of the highest importance when protecting your peace. Both of us agree that we want the projects and businesses we are working on both together and separately to be successful and we will do the work to make that happen. However, neither one of us is willing to sacrifice our health to do it. We are having these uns...

This conversation plays out quite naturally as Tonia and Vanessa explore ways they've learned to navigate the transition into their forties. The calmer years come from experience and the ever underestimated component of time all wrapped up in one, suggesting that our time to become better peoples ever evolving. We used to avoid pain or confrontation and now we appreciate the value in these discuss...

Tonia and Vanessa are ferocious and funny in this episode of Quality Coffee Podcast. Although in the beginning stages of their journey with perimenopause they address old, closed-minded stereotypes while shedding light on their experiences with common symptoms nobody talks about. Rage, sweats, changes in libido are just a few we’ve come across in the early stages we’re currently facing and we know...

We love a good deep dive into making sense of our triggers or crutches to better understand ourselves and the world around us. No one gets out of this life unscathed. Equipped with this knowledge, and that of the different attachment styles, we can pursue our relationships with more care. Protecting our peace is essential to becoming the people we want to be and it also means we have to hold ourse...

Something just clicked when we turned forty and a calmness we hadn’t felt before took over where chaos had once ensued. Did anybody else feel that? Protecting your peace became a quiet job, an inside job. It took forty-something years to learn how to let the energy run its course before you stepped in, if you really did at all. That’s a huge part of how we are staying ready these days. Special tha...

Time, presence and respect are vital to healthy boundaries and positive experiences. Boundaries are challenging and can feel really uncomfortable to talk about as well as to establish in our lives. As we continue this hard talk that even has us stumbling here and there, we discuss the perspective of how a boundary can feel a lot like a gift to you from you. These tools are intended to protect your...

Over a cup of quality coffee that Vanessa says smells like it would come out of her pores, we share our deeply personal reasons behind wanting better for the next generation, specifically in relation to Tonia’s daughters who, of course, are Vanessa’s nieces. Throughout our relationship we’ve discovered and processed the many ways we both want to positively impact the kids and how we can create mor...

When we boil it down, fundamentally all we want as women is to be seen and heard for who we are. In this introductory episode of Quality Coffee Podcast Tonia & Vanessa discuss their shared gifts of open communication and how our kryptonite as young women seemed to transform into these valuable skills that now help us navigate our lives and relationships. Hardships, including facing our fears (...