The Inner Shift Podcast

Nancy Morris is truly a pioneer…a champion for one of the most difficult subjects we have yet to discuss on the podcast…sibling sexual assault. The founder of #SiblingsToo is, herself, a survivor of sibling sexual assault.  You might expect her to be outraged, livid….and wanting to exact revenge. Far from it. She spoke to us about understanding that we don’t tell children about what is or is, defi...

Well, if you were ever afraid for the younger generation, this show might give you faith. Meghan Strauss recently graduated from the University of Ottawa Health Sciences program and is about to enter naturopathic medicine. While she speaks openly about mental health in her age group, Amy and Kimothy found her to be one of the most enlightened people we’ve ever spoken with. That’s not to say her ag...

Darpan Ahluwalia never enters a room without heads turning. She’s vivacious and a bit of a vixen who owns her space, and she takes no sh#t. Absolutely no sh#t. The certified Live Blood Analyst and registered nutritionist is also a herbalist homeopath and author of ‘The Context Eating Method for Women”. In Ottawa, Canada…Darpan is known as the “go to” for natural treatments and understands women’s...

Jeez, Kimothy lost her sh#t while talking about sh#t on this podcast! We made her cry!! And Amy disclosed something she wasn’t sure she would do…until it happened. And Kimothy cried more…. So, about our guest. Andrea Schade Douglas got “the diagnosis”. Breast cancer. What she did next was totally mind-blowing. She got better after a brutal path and dedicated her life to helping others. Andrea has...

Canadian Olympian Andrea Schwartz Smith joins us to talk the sh#t out of sh#t….from being an elite athlete to a parent, entrepreneur and swim coach.  As a woman, now in her “joyful years”, her perspective is vital when it comes to goals and reasonable expectations. Andrea has some very serious wisdom to share. What she learned, from the discipline of swimming, has kept her afloat in all areas of h...

Janet Gray – Advice-Only Financial Planner SHOW Title:  Is the Economy Impacting Your Mental Health? You’re not alone! Summary: Financial uncertainty is brutal for our mental health. It’s one of those “big ones”...up there with death and divorce. This week, Amy and Kimothy talk to our resident expert on The Inner Shift Podcast , Janet Gray, about how this time in history can impact everything from...

Mourning before a death. Loss before they leave. Endings before Beginnings. On this week's episode, just effing surviving before, during and after loss. Sometimes you lose someone before they die, like with dementia. Sometimes you're out of a relationship before you know, or well after you should have. The hardest, most would admit, is mourning a child you lost....and then, living to care for anot...

Guest: Kelly Riley Author, Coach and Podcaster Book: The Pivot Playbook Title: From Surviving to Thriving. Burnout to Bold. On this episode, Amy Friesen and Kimothy Walker talk to our guest, Kelly Riley, who has written The Pivot Playbook, and coaches people through the process one-on-one - if reading about it isn't enough . She also has a podcast of the same title. In full disclosure, Kelly is Ki...

Sam Laprade hears a LOT, "How do you do it?"  The week of her recent book launch, Ottawa Made, she helped other organizations raise money and hosted other high profile events. The woman with many titles, author, entrepreneur, innovator, fundraiser, broadcaster and public speaker has two others, mom and daughter. And, she is an only child.  Having already lost her Dad and raised a successful teenag...

Guest: Laurel GillespieCEO, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association On this week's episode of The Inner Shift Podcast, Amy Friesen and Kimothy Walker talk to the CEO of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. It's a really heavy job for a woman who beat breast cancer, went back to university for her Masters degree in business administration (MBA) and left a very difficult marriage....

If you believe almost everything you hear, the economies of many nations are in real trouble. You know who else is? Us… the women who live in those nations. For those of us invested in “stuff” (that’s Kimothy’s technical term for it), the stress is real and impacts women more than men, simply based on a number of factors. It can range from the disparity related to single parenting or the enormous...

Communications leader and athlete Susan Marsh-Marconi had it all…or so it seemed. A series of traumas impacted her life in a profound way but she’s still standing.  She shares her story to help others because vulnerability, she says, is the key to her ability to cope. Reaching, teaching and preaching…she knows that we cannot pretend we’re okay!! This advocate and change maker was a sexual assault...

Feeling alone when your hormones hit the skids can be overwhelming and there is a LOT to learn. Why doesn’t someone get us all together to share what you’re thinking! Gee, you think, I wish Amy and Kimothy would do that show for us.  Presto!! You’ve come to the right place. Our first guest does that on her own podcast based in the United Arab Emirates.  Experienced Canadian journalist Ann Marie Mc...

Canadians Kimothy Walker and Amy Friesen bonded over a shared “piss off”…one of those life-changing kind.  We are not experts…but we know a lot of experts as we are professional communicators with a combined 50 years experience. If we don’t know, we seek them out because we have some really tough questions about why so many women rank their mental health as pretty damn poor. Ya know what helps? Fi...