What She Said!

Allison Venditti is adamant that women do not need another survey, and that the time for action and helping women through this pandemic was yesterday. She joins me to share exactly what companies and the government needs to do to help, and its starts by not asking women to do more work for them. Anne Brodie is keeping us all going with more movies and tv shows, including two from the beloved Ron H...

Nancie Taylor from Meridian Credit Union joins me to discuss female entrepreneurs in Canada, and how they have been hard hit with Covid19. Nancie joins me with some of the more sobering statistics, but more importantly some concrete steps you can take to keep your cash flow in the positive while you pivot your business plan. How we communicate was increasingly done online pre-pandemic but in a Cov...

Erin Kelly, is the President and CEO of Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), a company that uses Artificial Intelligence to augment market research and prediction. ASI’s patented AI, named “Polly” correctly forecast a Trump win in 2016, not to mention Brexit and the last Canadian election. Polly is definitely creating buzz, and you’ll want to hear what she’s predicting for the election south of the bord...

Mariane McGraw director of the second season of You Can’t Ask that on CBC Gem asks all the questions you would feel too awkward to ask yourself. It’s been a tough year for businesses, so it’s a delight when we get to celebrate a Canadian, women-led business that has seen its sales increase a whopping 77% in the last year. Neetu Godara, is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of SoCIAL LITE Vodk...

Tiffany Moyer from Kal Tire joins me to share the importance of getting your tires on now, and what to look for if you didn’t bother removing them from your car over the summer. Dr. Kim Hellemans from Carleton University joins me to share some of her research looking at mental health among youth, and what she’s seeing, especially with social media use among young women in particular. You’ll have a...

Dilys D'Cruz from Meridian Credit Union has some solid tips for navigating the post-divorce world of rebuilding credit, qualifying for mortgages, and other added financial burdens for the newly single lady. Aly Pain, What She Said’s own retired teenager is back and today she’s helping us differentiate between motivating your teen and nagging them to death. Anne Brodie is exhausted from a couple of...

Dr. Andrea Gonzalez, the lead author of the Ontario Parent Survey joins me to share some of the jaw-dropping results of her study that was conducted in May and June of this year. If you’re looking for your next great read, you won’t want to miss my interview with Marci Warhaft who joins me to share details on the release of her new book: The Good Stripper: A Soccer Mom’s Memoir of Loss, Lies and L...

Michelle Audette, one of the five commissioners of the government's national inquiry into Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls joins me to discuss her role in that inquiry, what still needs to happen in Canada to improve the lives of the indigenous community, and the recent heartbreaking death of Joyce Echaquan that has put a bright spotlight on systemic racism. Julie Cole, mom of six a...

When the world went into lockdown in March of this year hidden talents were unearthed everywhere as women looked to combat boredom and keep depression at bay. Some of us discovered we were baking queens, others explored knitting and needlepoint, large swaths of the population went back to school to chase degrees and new career opportunities, and a lot of us found ourselves on TikTok. Pre-Covid, Ti...

Elizabeth Manley shares her story and how in doing so has helped pave the way for others to step out from the shadows and seek help without shame, as well as details on Run for Women. Aly Pain joins me as a regular contributor to help parents and teens be stronger together. Alex Thom started making masks in the early days of the pandemic as a way to help friends and family stay safe, but her grass...

As I record this the El Dorado fire in California has burned over 14,000 acres. Aside from the sheer horror Californians are facing right now, it’s even more insane to think that this particular fire was started by a gender reveal party, crazier still, it’s not the first time. You can’t help but shake your head and ask “why are we so obsessed with gender”? Maybe it’s time to examine not just the d...

The stakes are high when women don't return to work. I speak with Jennifer Reynolds from Toronto Finance International joins me to discuss. Why you should rely on your intuition with Lynn Nicholls. Anne Brodie shares the latest on TIFF, and a review of Mulan. Collaborative Law is the future of divorce. Anna-Maria Musson shares why. Erica Ehm joins me to share information on MusiCounts. Finding a b...

There was nothing more disconcerting for many of us than entering the grocery stores in late March and early April 2020 and seeing the shelves bare. Of course, we had all seen images like that in our life from other countries, but to actually experience it, was an entirely different feeling. Like most things in life, being told something could happen feels abstract to us. So when it comes to the f...

Dr. Michael O'Connor joins me to share the signs and symptoms of VKC, a rare childhood eye condition parents needs to be aware of. Dr. Natasha Sharma's mission is to make emotional health and personal self-development mainstream, and joins me to share how The Kindness Journal can help. Anne Brodie has an exclusive interview with Rachelle Lefevre from The Sounds, plus Bill and Ted Face The Music, a...

The connection between mental and physical health is indisputable. The challenge of course is getting your head on board with this knowledge. Dr. Andrea Dinardo thinks that in order to get through this pandemic, and in fact all stresses in life, it’s crucial to give meaning to the suffering. She is a professor of Psychology at the University of Windsor, TEDX speaker and a Psychology Coach who appl...

Lisa Selin Davis talks about her new book Tomboy, The Surprising History and Future of Girls who Dare to be Different. Anne Brodie joins me with this week’s new releases and an interview with Enuka Okuma from Netflix’s The Sleepover as well as her thoughts on the emotional and beautiful Summerland and Amazon Prime’s new teen romantic series Chemical Hearts. The future of food is definitely interes...

Of all the things that 2020 has brought forth, who possibly could have predicted that we would have seen one’s of Canada’s brightest stars, WE Charity, under a microscope. My next guest had a pretty good idea back in 2012 when she wrote her Masters thesis "Pomp and Circumstance: Communication Strategy, Charitainment and the Media Event in the Humanitarian Context" focusing on the communication str...

I interview Elizabeth May, the parliamentary leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament representing the southern Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. One of Canada’s most respected environmentalists and with over a decade of experience navigating politics, she is also a model for women who want to jump into a life of public service. Anne Brodie joins me with reviews...

I think about being single a lot. I constantly weigh the pros and cons of being in a relationship in a way I never even considered before. In retrospect it’s also made me question why I ever wanted to be married in the first place. Looking back, it never occurred to me that I could have a full life unless was half of a couple, half of a whole. That type of existence never seemed like a viable opti...

How often do you think about your privacy? Do you think about it every time you login to Facebook? Post an instagram picture? Send an email? Do you regularly ask Google or Siri to help with a task? Do you worry about data breaches or have you just resigned yourself to accept there is no such thing as privacy anymore? Personally, I know that I was at that point, and I emphasize was because in this...

Women20 AKA the, (W20) is an official G20 engagement group forming a transnational network of women's organizations, female entrepreneurs associations and think tanks. The main goal of Women20 is to promote women's economic empowerment as an integral part of the G20 process. At the beginning of this year, my next guest assumed her role as the W20 Sherpa for the year of Saudi Arabia’s Presidency. L...

Some have called 2020 a dumpster fire, but my next guest says is more like a forest fire actually. She is an awarding futurist and a Senior Associate at the Future Today Institute. She combines research with unhindered creativity and grounded organizational practice to imagine and realize new worlds. She’s joins me to share some insights into what our future might hold and it’s not necessarily all...

This week I interview Salma Al-Rashid, the Women 20 Sherpa for the year of Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of the G20 and the effects of this pandemic on women globally and why we need to be at the table for a our economic recovery. On a lighter note, Lisa Selin Davis shares her thoughts on Zoom wearing down women's self-confidence. Anne Brodie shares an interview with Lesley Chilcott, the producer of H...

I first heard of my next guest when I read a Huffington Post article about his fears raising black sons during this time. It became quickly apparent thought that it’s not just the systemic racism of being black that Avi deals with on a daily basis but the that he is living with ALL the isms, seriously, almost every one. Trans, black, Jewish, in an interracial relationship to a gay woman, adoptive...

Raising teenagers to paraphrase Charles Dickens, “is the best of times and the worst of times”. It’s been this way for time immemorial, but in 2020 we added a plot twist. We have taken teens who are hardwired to be seeking independence and pushing boundaries and locked them in a house, often with parents who are going through their own developmental stage at mid-life and then we soaked the fuse on...