Unpacked Podcast

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Jasmine Fasoli Bartel, Music Teacher. We talk with Jasmine about her experiences as an enneagram type 9, 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 enneagram type with...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Melody Wilson, Enneagram Certified Coach for Realtors & Realtor. We chat with Melody about international adoption, attachment and her personal growth journey of learning to let people in. We discuss female leadership and navigating the workplace as strong, confident women. Melody shares with us her experience of racism being an Asian woman, her...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Shailushi Baxi Ritchie, Nonprofit Management Expert in Strategic Transitional Leadership and Organizational Change Management with Sevah Consulting.  She is also the host of the I'm Speaking Podcast. We talk with Shailushi about her experiences as an enneagram type 8, how she learned her type, and stories it shows up in her past and present. Pl...

The producers and co-creators of the Unpacked Podcast present a special series 9 part series the Everyday Enneagram. Everyday Enneagram is co-hosted by Tara Linsley and Evan Dewald unpacking life as each enneagram type with regular, growing people like you and me. Episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays.  Evan and Tara go through all 9 types of the personality tool that reveals motive and helps to shed l...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Heidi Gruss is a licensed psychotherapist and transformation strategist who specializes in working with burned out entrepreneurs seeking a change in their lives.  We chat with Heidi about being a transformation strategist and coach who helps her clients discover their purpose and achieve lasting success in business. Heidi shares about her psychology...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Unpacked Team! This week on Unpacked Tara and Evan chat with our favourite people our spouses Christin Dewald and Ryan Linsley plus our best friends Ardis and Josh Foat (Ardis is Evan's sister!) about the upcoming holidays, our own traditions, snow day stories, awkward holiday moments and reflect on the year. It's a light and fun conversation a...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Alex Cameron, Psychotherapist  with a Masters of Social Work at his own practice. We chat with Alex about masculinity, vulnerability and the barriers in mens mental health. Alexander  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 th...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara talk the enneagram types and defence mechanisms. We are all trying to avoid something, most of the time unknowingly. Becoming more aware of our patterns and learning to accept what defence mechanisms can bring freedom from the very thing we are avoiding. Evan and Tara chat about the unconscious strategies we use to deal with uncomfortable situations. We talk abo...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Elena Boston,  Owner of Elena Boston Creative Co Shop and Workshops. We chat with Elena on her life of growing up in Cyprus, her travels to England for her degree and where she met her husband and how the wound up in Canada raising 3 beautiful boys. She is a mama, autism advocate, plant lover and mental health advocate. Elena shares her heartbreakin...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Kate Semeniuk  RTT® Hypnotherapy therapist. RTT stands for Rapid Transformation Therapy®, an innovative method founded by Marisa Peer that combines the best practices of Hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and NLP. We chat with Kate about her own life as a Ukrainian immigrant, journey with anxiety and postpartum depression and accessin...

This week on Unpacked Tara and Evan chat about what it means to live with an invisible illness.  Tara Linsley is the owner, Creative Juices Communications and Co-host Unpacked Podcast.  We switch things up by sharing Tara's story of living with a chronic illness and rare auto-immune disease. Tara shares what the journey of diagnosis up to what her life is like day to day now. She talks about...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Joel Hubbard, Cofounder of The Art of Growth and Certified Enneagram Coach. Joel chats with us about his life and as a former minister and his journey to becoming an enneagram coach. We chat with Joel about his work on belonging and inclusion. We chat with Joel about how he defines belonging, why is it important to feel a sense of belonging in our r...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guests Patricia Sproule and Hanna Mughal. Patricia or Patty as we know her is the President and CEO of Sproule Consulting, Executive Director with Synergy, an amazing advocate for youth in Chestermere. Hanna Mughal, University Student Research and Synergy employee and long time advocate for youth in Chestermere. We chat with Patty and Hanna about the need...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guests Clint and Robyn Pigeon, Owners, entrepreneurs, authors and hosts of @BusinessLifeofHusbandandWife. Clint and Robyn Pigeon each ran their own business prior to meeting and getting married. In 2013 they started a new venture together that started in a ten-by-ten-foot basement room that has since grown into a multi-city operation creating half a milli...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Musician and Pastor Cody Anderson, Faith Covenant Church, Winnipeg Manitoba. Cody chats with us about the process of songwriting and in particular a song he wrote after travelling to Haiti. We chat with him about his life and story and in particular the grief and emotional experience this year his family has gone through with his daughter going thro...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Ashley Vogelaar, Registered Provisional Psychologist in Airdrie, Alberta.  Ashely chats with us about self harm and her modality of therapy Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)  to treat the behaviour. We chat with Ashley on the intent behind self harm, how to assess the risk, the strategies to take when caring for someone who is carrying out self ha...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara wrap part 2 of the 27 enneagram subtypes and where your attention goes. Enneagram subtypes are a combination of your core type and your instinct (the 3 basic human instincts that are essential to survive). We chat about the three basic instincts and how they play out in each enneagram type. Evan and Tara chat about how instincts are essential for human experienc...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Rob Lawless, founder of @Robs10Kfriends. Rob chats with about his mission to meet 10,000 people one one one for 1 hour at a time. Rob graduated summa cum laude from Penn State University with a degree in Finance and minors in Accounting & Entrepreneurship. After graduation, he had a career with Deloitte Consulting as a Business Analyst in Strate...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the 27 enneagram subtypes and where your attention goes. Enneagram subtypes are a combination of your core type and your instinct (the 3 basic human instincts that are essential to survive). We chat about the three basic instincts and how they play out in each enneagram type. Evan and Tara chat about how instincts are essential for human experience an...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Anshu Narayan Founder and CEO of the Expert Connect. Anshu chats with us on her own personal health challenges through burnout and chronic illness that developed her passion for holistic healthcare. She shares her own painful story of how she, like many women, face challenges and pressures to live up to unrealistic expectations to be successful in a...

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Zak of the Canadian Podcast and @YYCinfluencer on Instagram. Zak chats with us on the important truths he learned first the painful grief of the loss of his mom, the loneliness he experienced in the pandemic and the pain that ultimately led to addiction. We chat with Zak on the painful, yet, beautiful journey to recovery and how in sobriety is the c...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about why you need to know your enneagram stance and how to discover it.  We chat through how the stances refer to the basic posture of each enneagram type and how they move in the world. The three main stances are aggressive (at energy), dependent (toward energy) and withdrawn. The stances influence how you interact with others and often we are prone to on...

This week on Unpacked we wanted to share and highlight a poem by one of our favourite people, Erika Jane Dewald.  She is bravely sharing her story and experience of being a pan-sexual teenager through her poetry.  Erika Jane's poem was featured on The Indie YYC's Facebook page as a video too! She shares this challenging poem to remind us to accept and love kids and people for who they ar...

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the growth and transformation through the lens of coaching with the enneagram.  The enneagram is a personality tool that reveals motive to help shed light on the truths present in our lives. Tara and Evan give a quick overview of the enneagram, sharing personal stories of how it's helped us mine for the truth in order to grow in awareness and com...

This week on Unpacked we are releasing our LIVE event recording with guest Maureen Speidel of Delta Psychological  Services in Chestermere and one of our absolute favourite people. Maureen returns with the Unpacked team to chat about navigating repairing relationships in the pandemic. We chat with Maureen about the stress and tension causing relational breakdown of all kinds due to the pandemic. W...