Taylor Way Talks

Dawn Taylor invites entrepreneur Greg MacDonald - owner of Jack Rabbit Contracting and co-owner of Align Home Design - onto the show to discuss balancing business, business partners, and having a family. What happens if a business falters or you need to divorce a business partner?  Greg MacDonald currently has two thriving businesses and a business partner he respects and enjoys working with. Howe...

CW: Spouse with epilepsy / chronic illness and medical emergency Dawn Taylor invites guest Melissa Miller, a former Certified Nursing Assistant, to the show to talk about her new life now as a stay-at-home mom and full-time caregiver to her husband. Melissa shares the two year journey she’s been on and why she’s passionate about opening discussions on this subject.  Melissa and her husband were bo...

Dawn Taylor invites guest Carling Middlestead, producer and co-host of I Did Not Sign Up For This podcast, onto the show to talk about grief. Specifically they discuss the complicated process of grieving the loss of a parent who wasn’t your superhero, who wasn’t ideal. What is that grief like and how do you navigate it?  Carling shares how she recently lost her father to a type of acute leukemia a...

Dawn Taylor invites guest Suzy Alcantara, Registered Massage Therapist and owner of Reveal Wellness Studio, to the show to talk all about money. They discuss earning, blocks in how we view money, how we are formed by what we grew up with, how we work, and musings on the concept of retirement.  Suzy shares how both of her parents worked full time when she was growing up and how the larger family wh...

Dawn Taylor and guest Katie Dooley of Paper Lime Creative talk about children in today’s episode. More specifically, they talk about being child-free adults, either by choice or through infertility, and the various judgements they face from society at large over being child-free. Katie is child-free by choice and she describes her feelings towards children as “mostly ambivalence”. She didn’t reali...

Content Warning: Frank talk of eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia. Dawn Taylor welcomes Renee Stribbell to the podcast to shed light on disordered eating, body image, and how food is not the devil. Renee shares her very personal journey through binge eating disorder and how she has worked to overcome her trauma and struggles in order to see food as simply food. Renee realized in her...

Dawn Taylor welcomes photographer Jessica Hoover to the show to explore what it’s like to quit something and make a major life change. Moving through significant career transitions can incur judgment from yourself and people around you, so Jessica shares her story and advice with Dawn. Jessica shares how she struggled, at 17, to rise to the pressure of finding her one lifetime career. She discusse...

Content Warning: Direct discussions of childhood abuse and violence. Dawn Taylor welcomes Kimberley Valerie to the show to explore how early life trauma created Kimberley’s addiction to over-achieving. Dawn and Kimberley discuss the events, feelings, and deep denial that put Kimberley in a perfect storm of doing too much all the time as a way of coping. Kimberley’s childhood was filled with siblin...

Have you realized yet how little is actually talked about? Truth bomb time! Join Dawn and her guests as they have honest open conversations about the shit we wish we had been told, the things nobody wants to talk about or are too scared to talk about. Feel seen, heard, understood and not alone while learning some hands on strategies for your own life. — Be sure to subscribe now so you don't miss t...