Soul Sister Conversations

We are getting an artist’s perspective on life this week. I speak with Fredericton artist Sasha French known as Bird Girl Arts. This concert pianist, dance choreographer and artist started down the nursing path and realized she was focusing in the wrong place. Her resilience and dedication paid off as she now gets to earn a living as an artist. -- She shares her artist’s perspective on many relatable life topics such as: making mistakes, chasing dreams, handling rejections, and how curiosity helps you succeed.  -- Sasha also shares:  ✔️ about not allowing herself to be an artist when she was practicing other disciplines.  ✔️ how life doesn’t wait and neither should we.  ✔️ why she tracks her rejections  ✔️ why all art is valuable.  ✔️ why it is important to expose children to art.  --  Connect with Sasha French:  -- Instagram: @BirdGirlArts

We are going to be slowing down in today’s episode. You are going to meet Angela Wooden, a homesteader, textile artisan and a student of nature. We explore the art of slow living.  -- This episode is less about homesteading and more about mindfulness, slowing down and connection. Perhaps it will do for you as it did for me…. Stir up great memories from childhood and reminders about living your most authentic life.   --  About Angela Wooden   --  Practicing the art of slow living and herbalism in southern NB. She is the face and textile artisan behind Angela's Stitches of "A Stitched Homestead." Through her work Angela hopes to connect her community to traditions, local fibers, foods and remedies.   --   Connect with Angela Wooden   Website: angelastitches.ca   Shop: https://www.facebook.com/angelasstitches/shop   Instagram: @astitchedhomestead

Leanne Cochrane shares her story of death, grief and re-birth. Her husband Will, facing a terminal diagnosis, chose to enroll in MAID program which stands for - the Medical Assistance in Dying- to have control over his final days. -- Leanne takes us through what she calls their 7 month long “incredible journey to death.” She shares details of the MAID program and the tough conversations they shared which helped accelerate her grief. She shares her experience with grief in the time of Covid and how it has transformed her. -- Leanne shares: ✔️ what the early days of her husband’ diagnosis looked like. ✔️ her advocacy for the MAID program...as she says it is not suicide. It is about love and compassion. ✔️ how her husband helped counsel her through her grief and how having the heavy hearted conversations accelerated her grief. ✔️ how to not make death a taboo subject. ✔️ what she has learned about grief. -- CONNECT with Leanne Cochrane: Leannecochrane@hotmail.com

Cindy Stradling is founder of Courage In Action, an organization that helps women coming from difficult circumstances move forward in their lives. Cindy is passionate about this because the circumstances of her early childhood led her to make choices in her life including living in an abusive relationship. She talks about what was happening at the time that enabled her the courage to leave her abusive situation and what she continued doing to create a new and amazing life for herself. She now helps other women do the same. Today is all about rising up from the feeling of not good enough. -- Today we talk about Rising up from not feeling good enough. She has so many great lessons to share. -- Cindy shares: ✔️ how her early childhood put her on a path of feeling not good enough. ✔️ she shares what her abusive relationship looked like and how she got out of it. ✔️ the turning point that shifted her life in a different direction. ✔️ education is key for helping people overcome their circumstances. ✔️ strategies f

Emmy Rousseau is a transformational coach and speaker who shares her story of navigating life with high functioning depression and anxiety. She shares what life with that diagnosis looks like and as well as what tools she has learned to manage her mental health to go from surviving to thriving.  Emmy shares: -- ✔️ what is high functioning depression and what does it look like ✔️shame and guilt of struggling with mental health ✔️tools that worked her for to navigate mental health. ✔️how a growth mindset was a game changer -- About Maria-Elena “Emmy” Rousseau Emmy is the founder of Trinity Transformations, a company devoted to helping the anxious overachiever release the shame and guilt they’ve been hanging onto surrounding their high-functioning depression and/or anxiety. Emmy struggled with high-functioning depression for years, and developed a robust toolbox that allowed her to stop feeling like she was treading water and, eventually, truly thrive. What began that journey for her was growth mindset, som

"You have to make a choice to come back after you hit rock bottom." - Stephenie Zamora -- Have you been through a big life change and not sure how to come back from it? Or perhaps you are sensing there is a big life change you need to make. Stephenie Zamora shares how you can make the impossible (meaning whatever it is you want to happen in your life) possible. She demonstrates this by sharing her own difficult personal traumatic experience that cracked her open to her true self and purpose. She also shares the journey mapping guide she uses to help people move through difficult life transitions such as the one she experienced.  --  About Stephanie Zamora:  --  Stephenie Zamora is an author and coach, business and marketing strategist, and founder of Stephenie Zamora Media—a digital media and production company, publishing house, and a full-service life-purpose development, branding, and online marketing boutique. Her company has been merging the worlds of personal development, digital med

In 2018, Desiree Ford was involved in tragic car crash. Dying 7 times, she amazed doctors and survived after spending over 200 days in a coma with multiple injuries and surgeries. She shares her powerful story of coming to terms with her new reality. As a former professional dancer, she now faced the long road of nursing her physical injuries including brain trauma, but more importantly, she had to learn to love the new version of Desiree. (You can also listen to Episode 99 where I interview Desiree’s mother on the healing power of positivity. She shares a mother’s perspective. So good!) Desiree shares: -- ✔️how she went from hating herself to loving herself so much. -- ✔️her struggle with mental health before the accident and how that shifted post accident. -- ✔️the darkest times when she realized that couldn’t return to her old self. -- ✔️when she began accepting herself. -- ✔️the spiritual impact -- ✔️ what she has learned about resiliency -- CONNECT with Desiree Ford: Website: https://resilientspirit.ca/

Be kind to yourself. Food and weight loss is the basis of this conversation, however, my guest, Roni Davis, shows us that it is so much more than that. We are talking self-love, good self-talk and unhealed traumas. -- Roni Davis, a former personal trainer and national athlete shares her very raw story of coming to love herself. For 3 decades she struggled with food including battling bulimia and depression. She is open and honest about her journey and how she finally healed herself. Now she is on a mission to help others by bundling everything she used to heal herself to create her own Cognitive Eating Academy. -- Roni shares: ✔️ her turning point and a-has. ✔️ how our culture’s focus on equating worth with size is hurting us. ✔️ we have to get real about the damage being done by judging our bodies so harshly. ✔️ what is cognitive eating -- About Roni Davis: Cognitive Eating founder, Roni Davis is on a mission to cancel diet culture and change the way the world views weight, healthy eating and healthy living.

“You abandon yourself when you stop trusting your intuition, your inner knowing.” I chat with Laura Gatien, a social worker and clinical therapist, about the ways that we abandon ourselves. She says there are rules that are handed down to us that we are expected to follow if we are to be liked, accepted and fit in. She helps people examine that rule book so that people can begin editing their story so they can start living freely and with authenticity. -- Laura shares: ✔️ The BIGGEST rule that affects people’s lives. -- ✔️ Taking responsibility to get your needs met. -- ✔️ The ways we abandon ourselves -- ✔️ What holds people back from moving toward their authentic self. -- CONNECT with Laura Gatien: -- Website: https://www.lauragatien.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauragatiencounselling/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lauragatienmsw

About the Show: Today I speak with Dr. Agnes Wainman, a clinical psychologist that helps overwhelmed and worried women overcome unrealistic expectations that are making them sick and miserable. She coined a term called Expectation Discrepancy Syndrome.  We talk about: - what causes unrealistic expectations - why they are making you miserable and  - how to overcome them. About Dr. Agnes Wainman: -- I understand what it's like to feel overwhelmed, to face unexpected life stressors and to struggle with finding balance between self-care and the care of everyone else.  I know what it's like to feel like you're doing everything that you "should" do, yet it still never feels like it's enough.  It is exhausting, both physically and emotionally.  I want to help you silence that nagging voice in your head that says that you're not good enough or that you're not doing enough.  I want you to be able to enjoy your life without having to imagine all the possible worst case scenarios and feeling like you need a contingency

About the Show: -- Do people see you as “flaky” because you’re always changing paths or your mind? OR perhaps you’d like to change your mind and don’t yet have the courage to opt out of the things that you’re currently in. — Opting out is actually intentional living. It takes you closer to your most authentic life. — Cait Flanders, Best Selling Author of A YEAR OF LESS has is back to talk about recently released book #2 called ADVENTURES IN OPTING OUT: A field guide to intentional living. — We chat about all aspects of opting out: fear, mindset, getting lost, trusting people. — We also talk about: — ✔️ The difference between opting out and quitting. ✔️ How opting out relates to intentional living. ✔️ What kind of MINDSET do you need to opt out of something. ✔️ You are not flaky if you change your mind. ✔️ Overcoming fear you can live your most authentic life ✔️ It is hard to self-soothe without numbing. ✔️ How to identify your own voice versus the inner critic. ✔️ How to trust other people ✔️ How do you kno

About the Show: “I didn’t panic. I knew I had a job to do...invite the Universe to help.” -- Meet Betty Ford, a woman who provides incredible insight into one mother’s unbending love for her daughter after she suffered a horrific car crash. You will be inspired by her mindset, motivation, and the healing power of positivity. She held a vision of her healed daughter overcoming such suggestions from the top surgeon that taking her daughter off life support was a possibility...”You have to be realistic,” she was told -- We talk: ✔️ how she held the vision of healing for her daughter ✔️ what she learned about having a resilient spirit ✔️ what did positivity look like ✔️ what she taught the doctors that they don’t teach in medical school. ✔️ taking nearly dying to want to live -- Connect with Betty Ford or Book her to Speak: -- Website: https://resilientspirit.ca/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/regodamdiculous

About the Show: Melissa Doucet is a serial entrepreneur and real estate agent who is a life long learner. She is book obsessed and acquires a lot of knowledge through leadership books. So I wanted to chat with her about her book obsession. Melissa shares the system she uses to consume a great quantity of books, what are some of her favourite book recommendations and what are some of her favourite ideas that she has learned from books that has impacted her life and business. Melissa shares: ✔️ favourite ideas that she has learned from books that has impacted her life and business. ✔️ the big secret for consuming 25 books a year ✔️ how to accept criticism ✔️ her 7 pillars for measuring success ✔️ And the # book she recommended most this year. ✔️ How does reading help her as a leader in her business

About the Show: -- If you are like me, I Iike to talk about the big topics in life. Deep soulful conversations such as “What does it mean to lead a life of meaning?” That is what I am exploring today. I break it down into 3 parts: 1) what is meaning -- 2) how to create meaning in your life -- 3) and what impact does leading a meaningful have on you. -- If you like these kinds of conversations, join me on my email community at https://www.danalloydleadership.com/ -- You can go straight to the contact page or grab 10 minute free coaching audio on 3 ways to start living joyfully.  You’ll start receive weekly email on topics of personal growth and self-discovery. https://www.danalloydleadership.com/ OR Grab this freebie now: 7 Soul Prescriptions for Common Fears:  https://mailchi.mp/92caa474feb7/7-soul-rx-for-common-fears

About the Show: -- Natalie Moyes shares her authentic story from 29 years in broadcast television including Director/ Producer of Atlantic Canada’s #1 morning show turned certified Intentional Creativity Coach. -- As she began to explore art, Natalie began to heal. She now helps women release unhelpful internal stories through this incredible tool. Natalie shares her authentic path to art, what healing looked for her and how she helps others discover and explore who they were intended to be. -- We talk: ✔️Losing & finding yourself ✔️Everyone is inherently creative ✔️Creativity can silence the Inner Critic ✔️Healing through creativity ✔️ You can create new realities through art -- CONNECT with Natalie Moyes: Website: https://www.nataliemoyes.com/ Natalie has a Intentional Creativity course running in early January.  Go her website to register.

About the Show -- This week I speak with Megan Stephens of Be Grateful., a company she started to help people express gratitude to the special people in their lives by creating gratitude boxes. We dive deep on what is gratitude and how it impacts others. Megan shares how her gratitude practice has shifted and how it has impacted the way she shows up in life. As Megan says, "The magic is all around us if we just look for it." -- About Megan Stephens: -- Have you ever met someone who looks after the lives of everyone around them but is barely present in their own? Well, that was me.I had a collection of moments where I felt like an imposter. I was constantly saying, “Yes,” to everyone but wasn't genuinely capturing real memories. The realization of how precious these real memories are struck me when we lost my grandmother to dementia. In one fell swoop, a lifetime of amazing stories was washed away and replaced with feelings of grief, anger, and guilt. This was the moment I felt my grandmother nudging me forwar

About the Show:  --  Marion Fischtner  experienced a devastating divorce where she lost everything including herself in the process. She shares how she heard the little whispers all along, but ultimately did not trust herself until she was faced with reality. Marianne shares her insight on how she finally put herself first, learn to see the good in herself and how she slowly, but surely moved onto her authentic path.  --  About the Show:   --  Founder of Spark the Future, Marianne is a skilled facilitator and speaker with experience in coaching individuals in managing change with confidence. Specializing in Personality Dimension she is able to teach people to communicate and work effectively with leaders, staff, and --stakeholders. She has facilitated small to large groups with a focus on supporting transitions, seeing strengths, and fostering positive goal setting.  Social Media Links:  www.linkedin.com/in/speakermarianne  https://www.facebook.com/marian

About The Show: -- Today I go solo on the podcast exploring the power of going inward...building the relationship with the inner you...your Highest Self. I explore what does it means to go inward, the purpose of it, the ways in which you can go inward to build that relationship and the benefits of doing so. I share my own personal stories and a provide a few book recommendations that I have enjoyed if you are looking for books to help you on your spiritual path. If you are a seeker, this episode is for you. -- About Dana Lloyd: I help people reconnect with their joy, meaning  & fulfillment through speaking, coaching, authorship and podcasting. I am author of Soul Prescription: 101 Ways to Find Joy, Meaning & Fulfillment. I am almost finished Soul Prescription for Women: Awakening the Woman Within. -- Connect with Dana Lloyd: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaLloydLeadership/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danalloyd_leadership/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoachDana_Lloyd -- Connect wi

About the Show:  -- Ever wonder why you can’t just be happy? Feel like you have blocks? Sandra Akl felt this way too which eventually led to her taking herself on a  journey of self-discovery. What was waiting for her on that path was spectacular, supernatural and life changing. She now uses her gifts to help others as a Soul Realignment Practitioner. Through Akashic readings, she helps people learn their purpose, release blocks and remember their gifts and talents. She helps you get back to your original divine blueprint.  —  About Sandra Akl:  I am a Soul Realignment® Practitioner and a Reiki Healer. My journey with spirituality started after the birth of my son in 2011. I found myself in a deep depression, which prompted me to find alternative ways of healing myself. Meditation and Reiki became my go-to methods of treatment, which assisted me on my awakening process. As a result, I set out on a quest to seek the meaning of my life beyond my physical reality. Five years later, I found myself leaving my ten

About the Show:  -- Nicole Paquet has a passion for authentic leadership. Showing up authentically begins with owning your own purpose, superpower and vulnerabilities. When we are on a path of authentic leadership we are on our way to creating true and meaningful change whether it is in our lives or workplaces. Nicole helps define what it means to be authentic and how to become an authentic leader. --  About Nicole Paquet: -- Nicole is a Change Leadership and Culture Transformation Consultant with over 20 years of experience working in large global organizations both as a consultant and as an employee. Her focus has been providing advice and support to clients as they navigate strategic change programs and strategic planning efforts.    Through her professional and personal journey, and experiencing first hand the effects of leadership behaviour on culture, her interest and passion has shifted to connected and authentic leadership as the path to true and meaningful change.  Nicole believes that through authen