Reframeables

We joined writer and chef Sang Kim for a conversation around reframing trauma. We were thrilled to get Sang's perspective as one who has lived life from so many different vantage points — there is so much here in this interview! We touch on the search for "home," crossovers between art forms, cooking as a source of joy, what it takes to be a great improviser, and reframing trauma th...

We also recorded this episode as a video, which you can watch here . To finish up our summer series, we're discussing all things growth. We get personal with a discussion of new paths we're taking, and how things are going with our own progression as we move into the fall — the next season of growth. We've also got some items to bring with us on the journey: some poems, some chia pu...

This week we're taking a moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate — while leaving you with a couple big questions to ponder. Link: Know Yourself prompt cards from The School of Life We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message , write to the show email , or send us a DM on any of our socials. If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a don...

This week we're putting a spotlight on a conversation from Art Heals All Wounds , a podcast hosted by our friend Pam Uzzell. We feel connected to her in our shared love of art and its reframing power, and bring to you a conversation Pam had with poet Preeti Vangani on mothers, loss, and the reframing power of poetry to heal. We hope you find this episode as enlightening as we did. Pam's...

We also recorded this episode as a video, which you can watch here . We continue our summer series riffing on all things lists. This week’s dive: nostalgia — despite it being a feeling that doesn't come easily for either of us. We explore the early blog days, weeding and podcasts, returning to books read at a young age, candy in plastic cups, and other thoughts all tinged with nostalgia in on...

Nat sits down with Lloyd Rose (aka @plantcrazii ), a vegan content creator who's been doing amazing things on Instagram and has a new cookbook coming out at the end of the summer. We're putting good vibes out into the world with this conversation, talking about Lloyd's journey from meat-eater to living a plant-based life, pushing back on how veganism is portrayed in the media, build...

We also recorded this episode as a video, which you can watch here . Over the next few weeks, between some exciting interviews, we are doing a summer series riffing on our love of all things lists. This week we have a list based on the theme of heat. Enjoy a new poem, thoughts on writer Rachel Cusk, capsule summer wardrobe items, cold foods, and other thoughts, all inspired by the heat! Links: Hea...

We welcomed sommelier Beverly Crandon to the podcast to talk about making wine more accessible, and how diversifying vino can make the conversation around it all the more fruitful. It's a conversation that gets into wine as a way of bringing people together, how Beverly's upbringing informs her work as a sommelier, the importance of learning the entire story of a wine, and celebrating su...

We also recorded this episode as a video, which you can watch here . Over the next few weeks, between some exciting interviews, we are doing a summer series riffing on our love of all things lists! This week we have a list based on the theme of water. Enjoy some poetry, music, literature and thought prompts: all water-inspired! Links: Home Body by Rupi Kaur (with the excerpt we mentioned) The Vagi...

We joined novelist Aimee Bender for a phone call that turned into a backyard conversation over Zoom. You're going to hear the sound of California birds (and possibly the odd car) as we unpack the beautiful mundane — truly a joyful conversation, especially if you're a writer (or interested in the process of writing). We touch on using writing to capture the manifold reflections of reality...

We're joined by Asha Frost, an Indigenous Medicine Woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, to discuss her lifelong journey of reclamation and her path as a healer. Asha provides profound insights into ways of integrating Medicine in our own lives and trusting ourselves as healers. Asha talks about shifting out of her private practice into her life work of sharing Medicine...

This week we're rewinding to bring forward our conversation with Carley Fortune, whose book Every Summer After has just made it to The New York Times bestseller list! We reframe life's big transitions as we talk with Carley about leaving her steady career in the Canadian media industry to work as a solo writer and novelist. She tells us about the concept of matrescence, something she has...

We sit down with Zarqa Nawaz, the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie , the world's first sitcom about a Muslim community living in the west. She has recently released both a new book and a new show (out now on CBC Gem), and joins us to share her insights on storytelling — from how her faith informs her writing process, to her personal journey in bringing stories like hers to the mainstre...

We are all multi-hyphenate. How can we reframe what it means to be more than one thing and embrace our multiplicities? We talked to artist Jessica Hiemstra, whose work spans many different mediums, from essays and poetry to children's books to murals to large-scale installations, about how she navigates doing a lot. Our wide-ranging conversation spanned how we embrace being big in the world t...

Grief is something that is present for a lot of us. There's lots to be sad about, so what's the best way to process the grief arising from it? Do we have an obligation to feel sad all the time given the daily tragedies in our world?  We shine light on our own ongoing griefs and explore what it means to feel safe enough to feel all our feelings, even as  we try and keep up with the needs...

Nat and Bec chat with Chicago-born digital media artist and social entrepreneur Anna DeShawn. We reminisce about the Podcast Movement conference in LA, church as preparation for life as a performer, and Anna shares some insights about creating when you don't fit in any box, doing many things at a time, and developing a self-care regimen that enables thinking big to flourish. Anna Deshawn is t...

Bec and Nat chat with Jen McNeely, founder of She Does the City , about what it means to curate her life even as she curates a publishing platform. We get into shifts in perspective, taking on different roles as we mature and media changes, the negative side of wine mom culture, advocating for mental health and recovery, and simpler ways of being. Links: Follow Jen on Twitter and Instagram . We al...

What is art anyways? This week we're reframing the binary of highbrow and lowbrow art after watching the Hallmark movie The Beach House , starring Minka Kelly, Andie MacDowell, and Chad Michael Murray. Do our categories get in the way of really engaging with art? How can we cast off these ingrained ideas to engage with whatever is in front of us — whether it's Dostoevsky or The Bachelor?...

This week we step outside of the podcast recording studio to reframe a couple of locations we have a lot of history with. We visit two coffee shops — ‘G.N.’ and ‘C.’ — that we’ve both spent a lot of time in and are full of memories (not all of them good). How do spaces take root in our minds and become meaning-filled, and how can we reframe places we might have bad associations with so that we can...

Fiction writing can be a really powerful reframing tool — writer Katie Zdybel joins us to talk about this idea and reframe our own writing lives in the process. Plus: finding the right headspace for writing, living in the Yukon, seeing beauty in the landscape (and sometimes not!), and using fiction to build better relationships with the sadnesses that are a part of life. Katie Zdybel’s recently re...

Nat joins Miranda Hassell in a two-for-one episode of Sister On! and The Big D on reframing divorce. How can we put this painful process in a new light and learn to choose ourselves over relationships? Take in our breakup stories (because who doesn't like a little drama?), the ways we reframe our experiences of divorce, and what comes after the papers are signed. We also get into video games...

What's the biggest risk you've ever taken? Managing risk has been front and centre in our minds these past two years of COVID. This episode tries to unpack some of that risk in a broader way as we examine big risks we've made in the past and what our choices say about us. How do we react differently to the risks imposed on us, versus the ones we choose to take on? How do we manage w...

We're back from the Podcast Movement Evolutions conference in LA, where we had a bit of an existential crisis. We give you our travelogue, where we gave some serious thought to rebranding and reframing Sister On! as this project of ours grows and changes. Also, finding a mentor, SMART goals, being mansplained to in Ubers, and prioritizing pleasure. We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us...

Does our relationship with food need reframing? We had a talk with Dr. Michelle May, a former family physician who struggled with disordered eating, about what it means to eat mindfully and how we can cultivate healthier ways of thinking about food. We got into identifying self-care habits that can make us feel better, how to actually change our habits in a way that is lasting, and the origin of o...

This week is all about reframing life's big transitions as we talk with writer Carley Fortune about leaving her steady career in the Canadian media industry to work as a solo writer and novelist. She tells us about the concept of matrescence, something she has written about in her time with Refinery29 — a challenging experience that many parents undergo but aren't able to name. We'r...