Unpacked Podcast

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Mel Cornforth, Founder and Owner of The Movement by Mel. Mel has trained in dance fitness and leads choreography-based classes. Mel shares her story of training to be a nurse and becoming a mom Mel found herself in search for more. After years of struggling to accept her body, navigating the identity change of becoming a mom and feeling like her nursing c...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Joan Alexander, Spiritual Director and member of the 2slgbtqia+ community. Joan is trained by the Haden Institute & Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre to practice Spiritual Direction.  She is in a same-gender marriage to a recently retired Anglican priest and is the mother of two adult sons. Joan shares her story of coming out and working in the faith comm...

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guest Tricia Otto, Certified Enneagram Coach and Relational Trainor, adoptive parent and Enneagram 2! Tricia's adoption experiences have given her understanding and training in Neurodevelopment and Sensory issues, Attachment Theory, Trauma Informed Parenting and Transracial Adoptions. Tricia shares her coaching and experience of caring for women and par...

This week on Unpacked is chatting with guest  Laura Gervais, a University Student majoring in neuroscience and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. We chat with Laura about coming out and learning about who she really is. Laura shares her experience growing up in a small town in rural Alberta in a Catholic school and navigating coming to understand her true identity in that context. She shares her co...

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guest Alicia Peterson, elementary school teacher, mama, wife and entrepreneur, mental health advocate, enneagram 7 AND one of our absolute besties! We shared the messy, the magical, the joys in the chaos of working with kids, the school system, creating a safe and inclusive environment in the classroom, what teachers wish parents knew and all of the things t...

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guests Tamreen Arif and Annand Ollivierre Co-Founders of You Need this Box @youneedthisbox It's a subscription box service that creates the opportunity to learn, act and create change around systemic racism in Canada.  Tamreen and Annand share the story of the creation and what to expect when it comes to the You Need this Box. Each is carefully curated...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the process of growth through the lens of enneagram stances. We share why you need to know your enneagram stance and how to discover it.  The stances influence how you interact with others and often we are prone to one. Evan and Tara share each stance the gifts and the tension they bring and the growth path towards healing. The next layer of using sta...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Heidi Dinning, who is a  CDC®Certified Divorce Coach and CDC®Certified Divorce Transition and Recovery Coach.  She is also a Certified High-Conflict Communications Strategist and Co-parenting Communications Specialist.  After going through her divorce and her parent’s divorce, she recognized a gap that desperately needed to be filled.  The space between a...

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guest Maureen Speidel of Delta Psychological  Services in Chestermere and one of our absolute favourite people.  She specializes in Trauma and Attachment, is trained in EMDR, is a Circle of Security Facilitator and educated in the Neuro-Sequential Model of Therapeutics. Maureen returns with the Unpacked team to chat attachment theory. We chat with Maureen ab...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Jake Stika, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Next Gen Men. We chat with Jake on gender-based issues related to the social and emotional development of young men and boys, the health and well-being of men in communities, workplaces and their vision for a future where boys & men experience less pain, and cause less harm. We talk about power dynamics...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Keisha Blair, CEO, Founder and award-winning, international bestselling Author of the Holistic Wealth series. Plus host of the @holisticwealthpodcast . We chat with Keisha about the messy and tragic life lessons she learned from loosing her husband at age 34 with two small babies. Shares about life as an entrepreneur, economist, boss and her movement towa...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Jennifer Massig, CEO of Manga Engineering Services Inc. We talk with Jennifer about her experiences as an enneagram type 7, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens she carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking life as each...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Tandi Purych. Tandi, Indigenous Social Worker with Trellis Foundation. The Unpacked team chats with Tandi about her life and story growing up as an indigenous woman. She shares about her culture, the pain and trauma that was and continues to be inflicted. She talks with us about the ways she cares for herself when she experiences racism and gives her thou...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Linda Sambrook, Enneagram Coach and former Executive Assistant.  We talk with Linda about her experiences as an enneagram type 6, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens she carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking life as...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Dr. Mitch, Registered Psychologist and founder of Hexagon Psychology.  We chat with Dr. Mitch on kids and divorce and how to support them in the transition. He shares how to healthy spaces for your child to express their emotions and adjusting to change at different ages, what to watch for, strategies to cope, co-parenting and raising resilient kids...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Kosha Carstens, Senior Specialist, Neuroscience at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. We talk with Kosha about her experiences as an enneagram type 5, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens she carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Dan Hines, Leadership Coach, Activist, and Poet. We chat with Dan on the Circle of Trust approach, which is distinguished by principles and practices intended to create a process of shared exploration. He shares how this practice creates a space where people can learn to trust their inner voice find the courage to act on it. Dan offers group session...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest David Cramer, Founder and Managing Director, Sparrow Downhole Tools LTD. We talk with David about his experiences as an enneagram type 4, how he learned his type, and stories it shows up in his past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens he carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking l...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Rebecca Hagedorn, Owner and Entrepreneur of Everline + Co. We chat with Rebecca about her personal health journey with ADHD, Postpartum  Depression, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Rebecca shared the story of trusting her gut and following her instincts that helped her to continue to advocate for answers and unlock the missing pieces in her...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Michelle Pruett, LPC-S, Owner of Pruett Counselling and Consulting.  We talk with Michelle  about her experiences as an enneagram type 3, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens she carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Alex Cameron, Psychotherapist  with a Masters of Social Work at his own practice. Alex returns to chat with us about depression. Alex has a wide and varied wealth of professional experience. He was the coordinator of a provincially funded domestic violence counselling program that focused on males that had been the primary victim of violence from an...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Matthew Peterson, Project Manager Brookfield Residential. We talk with Matthew (Matt) about his experiences as an enneagram type 2, how he learned his type, and stories it shows up in his past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens he carries and practices for growth. Matt shares how he has come to accept and love his connection to his emotions, wh...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Tom D'eri, Owner at Rising Tide Carwash and Employment Change-maker. We chat with Tom about his family starting a car wash because they wanted to build a business that was engaging, supportive, and, most importantly, inclusive for Tom’s brother Andrew who has autism. Today it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida whose impact on using d...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest  Kirsten Waldschmidt, Lead Pastor, College Park Covenant Church. We talk with Kirsten about her experiences as an enneagram type 1, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Plus the gifts and burdens she carries and practices for growth. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking life...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Karen Bayley, counsellor, pastor and spiritual director. We chat with Karen about the lessons she has learned in her life as a survivor of sexual abuse, divorce, and going back to school to start her counselling practice at age 50. Karen shares how with the help of good friends, a trusted counsellor and her faith she worked through denial and years...