Fascinating Women

Tracy Blehm is a focused ray of sunshine that guides people. From leaving school and her addictive-based family finally successfully, living on her own, to putting herself through university without anyone's help; vowing to be the opposite of her family she has done remarkable things.

With a stellar architect career, she changed direction to open a clinic, with no experience on a path full of terrors that she overcame. Finally landing where her true talent comes into play, a business coach. Helping entrepreneurs carve out a successful business.  She has a fresh openness, she is direct, does not tolerate fools, yet will help to no end a person willing to grow.   
I think you will enjoy getting to know Tracy. How she overcame obstacles. 

Tracy Blehm is one of Calgary's Top Spiritual Entrepreneurs. As a Women’s Entrepreneur Coach, her creative and strategic approach has this powerhouse working with clients in a unique and highly effective way. She is also the owner of Tracy Blehm Coaching, a company she founded in 2009 that is dedicated to educating and investing in client's mental health to create healthy, thriving businesses that make an impact while creating the time freedom and wealth they desire and deserve – guilt-free!
Reach out to her. She has some amazing programs that will grow you.

[email protected]
www.tracyblehm.com

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Barabara Arnold - In a bid to add English to her 3 base languages she left Holland at 18 to university in Vancouver. Culture shock, determination along with her embracing the moment and its opportunities, she overcame and stayed. Set up an international horseback vacation company, with interesting business before and aft. Leapt into painting, never small stuff, she started with big expressive wall pieces.  She has found her heart in art. Our world is a bit richer for it. 

Fought cancer, lost a few soulmate dogs, had a marriage dissolve then had a new relationship blossom.   Barbara is an all-in-or-nothing kinda woman. With her infectious laugh, her lightness she is a woman you will want to meet.

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Barbara Arnold Bio
Barbara Arnold Art, Vancouver

http://www.barbaraarnoldart.com

Instagram: @barbaraarnoldart. 
T: 604 760 4465

Barbara was born in The Netherlands and lived in Europe until she immigrated in 1981 to Canada. She lives and works in Vancouver.

After travelling extensively throughout Europe, South, Central and North America, Africa, and Asia, as well as working in the fields of, hospitality and travel industry and in interior design and photography and as a TV host, her search for a deeper spiritual meaning led her to a career in painting. After attending courses at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver, B.C., in addition to private training. Barbara is working full time as a mixed media artist and has a studio on Granville Island.

In 2017 Barbara wrote a coffee table book that was published by Granville Island publishing. The book offers short stories about her travels and a glimpse into her art.
Her work has been selected for many juried exhibitions and she holds solo exhibitions every year. Numerous of Barbara’s paintings have found a home in Europe, North America and Canada

 She also teaches private and semi-private art classes. In 2019 Barbara started her Art Fashion & Decor featuring Cashmere and Silk Scarves, decorative pillow covers featuring her artwork. Recently she added face masks to the collection and paints hand painted one-of-a-kind cards to send to that special person.

Barbara has a great passion for life, music, and nature, and has found that painting has become a necessity in her life. Painting gives her a feeling of harmony and balance. As it is in life, so it is in painting. She enjoys allowing her paintings to take on a life all their own and begins with a ‘get acquainted ‘period before seeing what the painting is about. The spontaneously abstract created pieces reveal a passion for colour and exploration, using methods that include acrylics, oils, wax, graphite, charcoal, antiquing processes, and inks.

Joanne Ruston's smile is constantly coming on. She just naturally  a comfortable person to be around. The biggest force that shaped her we discovered was being the first born. It was fascinating to see how that nurturing, inclusive leadership roll shaped her journey. At the high school job search Travel Agent seemed to fit her future vision. It was a perfect fit, she was amazing at, loved to travel, still does. Then suddenly she took a leap into basically an all male industry she knew nothing about. Feet first as a franchise owner. It was a struggle the first year but her makeup is one to succeed,

She shaped her little company into on that not only shattered glass ceilings but broke records, a lot. Her belief in giving back with leadership roles on boards, perfecting the life work balance.  It is all here. I think you will enjoy Joanne Ruston's chat with me.

Joanne Ruston Bio
Speedpro Signs, Calgary NE
www.speedpronorth.com  *  403 239 2169

After working in the Corporate Travel Industry for over 20 years, Joanne opened the Speedpro Calgary NE franchise in in 2001, the week of 9/11 to be exact. 

With no background in the sign industry, Joanne applied her customer service and sales experience and adapted it to the Sign Industry. 

Being a mostly male dominated industry at the time, it was a work in progress. Fast forward almost 20 years, and many awards later, Joanne has grown the business into one of the top producing stores in the Speedpro Franchise.

*Speedpro Sales & Marketing Achievement Award – 2007

 *Awarded Business in Calgary Magazine’s “Leader of Tomorrow” – in 2009

(This award recognizes individuals who are leading their respective industries and are positioned by    attitude, desire and accomplishments to lead into the future. This award is nominated by customers, business associates and staff as firms that will lead their sector and the city in the future.)

*Awarded Speedpro Signs Franchise of the Year -5 times

*Awarded Speedpro’s Al Crowe Memorial Cup Award for highest sales in Canada – 4 times

*Named 3 Best Sign Companies in Calgary by “Three Best Rated” – 5 years in a row                                                                  (This is awarded after checking extensive customer reviews, ratings, history, complaints, satisfaction, trust, cost and general excellence.)

*2021 – written up in the Canadian Franchise Association Magazine – as a “Female Franchise  Leader” in Canada amongst Canadian Franchises

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Batista has an amazing story. Her small town entertainer troupe entrepreneur parents imbued her with the spirit of possibilities, with no money or contacts she goes to Spain, with a broken foot she travels with a troupe, then she follows her love to America, 9 car accidents in two years (none her fault), she goes searching for a new life pain free. She abandons her old life, friends & husband, finds a new purpose, new love and a new mission. All wrapped up in her new pain free life. Now, it is the in-between comments that are fascinating. You will want to find her magic in this chat.


Batista Gremaud’s Bio:
Her long time passion in quantum physics and metaphysical science inspires her to help people of all ages to achieve greater integration of body, mind and spirit through the practice of strengthening the body and the mind with the Dr Fitness USA’s Body Design Formula prescription strength training coaching system.
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Stay safe, strong and sane and remember
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" A. Einstein

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Michelle Askew is a sparkle from my deep past. She has had some novel twists in her life, She was adopted, adored her parents but did not feel connected to that full family bloodline, She found her birth mother followed the family string to Ireland. She connected deeply with all those relations. Ironically the cove of her heritage Irish family matches her PEI Cove.

We talked about Michelle's 14 year old start in sales, her approach to it as a lifestyle. We explored her values that tie back into what makes her so good at sales. Of course we talked about her daughter and her mom. Juggling those two loves. From that is how, in obvious and positive ways COVID has changed our connections.


Michelle Askew Bio
Michelle had travelled and worked overseas then called Calgary home. She worked in radio sales. She and her family fell in love with PEI and bought a cottage in 2008 they stopped living for a few weeks in the summer to become full time islanders.

Small places result in challenges so creating opportunities has been a full time challenge. The light in her life is her daughter Kennedy who is a well known Halifax DJ and car sales pro.

Covid has changed us forever. PEI has been fortunate with no hospital cases and no deaths but isolating on the island is challenging. Not seeing her daughter for a year despite being so close has been trying. Finding work, staying engaged, and focusing forward is a full time job as we all must adapt and be kind. We will get through this with kindness, integrity, creativity and love.

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Jenna Star is one energetic woman. She is a going forward woman at all times. Jenna started her first sales business at 7 years with an imaginary yard sale in her bedroom with dolls.  Her deals and arregments are always an equal win. By the time she was 20 she owned a hair salon Spa. 

I have never met someone with some many irons in the fire that are real projects. She is kinetic, and so positive. Not that she has not had some serious bumps along the way that tested her. Jenna shares what drives her, her perspective and importantly how things just flow to her. All in a way you can use too. 

Homeless at times, bounced back. She sees owning a business forever is like a very expensive job. 

Our conversation ranged from her business woman beginnings at 20, tracing how her parent's journey shaped her, her challenges and diversity. 

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Kerri Cust is a bold and intimate woman. She did not start out that way, but a switch flipped in that put her on a quest. There must be more! Along the way she became fearless. She opened up so so many possibilities. She came to demand of her self a real life, an intimate life; seeking out enriching opportunities. Kerri talks about all of this.

Even what you do when you fundamentally change but those in your family and friends don't, how to keep a relationship with them.

Kerri is transparent about her journey, her interaction with friends, along with her personal discoveries. I believe you will find nuggets of truths you can use in her conversation.



Kerri Cust Bio
www.kerricust.com 
Self Love & Intimacy Coach
Kerri Cust had it all, the man, the marriage, the great job, the house and babies were soon to follow. She had everything she thought she needed in order to be happy but when it all came together she wasn't. 

After leaving her marriage, the loss of her brother shortly followed. She then embarked on a spiritual journey where she found herself living in a tantric community in the gulf of Thailand. There she discovered what it felt like to feel true desire and pleasure. Through opening up to her sexual and sensual self her life changed, she began to feel alive, passionate and juicy. 

Now she guides women and couples to ignite their sexual energy and to have deep intimacy and experience true pleasure.

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Frankie Nobert is having a very interesting life, she just turned 70, celebrating with a nude photo session in my studio. Her huge smile and sparkling eyes are rarely gone from her face. She is a woman who likes deep conversations with dear friends or women needing support.
Her Story and journey are rooted in Father abuse she talks about how that has shaped her, how in later years it triggered her journey of self. It is a positive conversation, even when she loses her footing as she grew.

Could this vibrancy be you when you turn 70?

You can follow and contact Frankie here
https://www.instagram/frankienobert
https://www.facebook/frankienobert
https://theuncommonwoman.com/chapters

Her bio in her words:
“What I believe, makes me who I am” Deepak Chopra

Life has been about creating my best life, that I dreamed as a young girl, I believed there had to be a better life.  I was going to rise above my circumstances. 
Those were childhood sexual abuse, growing up in an alcoholic home, my mother staying with my father, being the oldest of 3, and becoming the parent. 
I was not going to let these affect me! 
I kept it all a secret, for far too long, as most of us do!! But of course, It all affected everything. All my relationships, my self-worth, body image, sense of responsibility, as I kept my armor on, myself safe and pushed everyone away! 
Through my healing journey, I have created an amazing life. Still carrying some armor and darkness in my heart, I was led once again to explore even deeper into my childhood wounds recently. 
The journey is never over!
I have shed all those layers of darkness and shame. I openly share my story, my life journey, past and current, to give hope in finding peace, to inspire and empower others. 
I live and lead by example, embracing life, still at 70

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Lisa Kennedy - Orgasmic Shaman but she is a lot more. Our conversation went into when she first knew she had these powers, how her parents felt about, and nurtured her power. We explore her insights on the power of guided meditation. 

How getting back to nature stills and heals the soul and spirit. We talk about the lens of failure, how to take a different perspective on it. She is such a calm gentle interview. Lisa explains guided meditation, how to calm yourself. It is an interesting glimpse into the perspective of a shaman. 

In her own words 
Energy medicine helps ! Energetic Massage sacred sexuality healing old traumas

I want to help you get a real useable direction for getting grounded on your path. Advising you on moving forward with confidence and clarity. Using intuition and spiritual practices to get you reconnected to your truth. I offer many modalities to help you on your journey. I am certified in; all levels of reconnection, 111 activation, universal sphere, Akashic records readings, and alchemy of nine dimensions sessions. I also offer angel card readings and Arcturian card readings

You can reach and learn more about Lisa at
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.kennedy.10888
https://www.facebook.com/EvolutionHealing

Lisa shares some resources
Caroline Myss
https://www.myss.com
Exploring the power of the soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkoHLDM6uIc 

Dr. Sue Morter
https://drsuemorter.com 
You are more creative than you think - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKqpiS9tjgQ

How to build energy circuits in your body 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wikdXaAzIo

You can reach and learn more about Lisa at
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.kennedy.10888
https://www.facebook.com/EvolutionHealing

Mark mentioned coaching programs
https://www.strategiccoach.com
http://www.mymsuccess.com

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Kim LaMontagne's conversation strayed into some interesting places. Her story of rising from a family stew of alcoholism to getting sober, along with signs to watch for is inspiring. Kim talks about becoming more fearless, how and why to set personal boundaries in a healthy way.

How the face of failure is growth. She shared the bold move of selling everything, buying what is really a self-owned caravan, 60 feet long, to travel freely. She shares her perfect day in a way that may help you find yours.

I think you will enjoy listening on her conversation with me. It is invigorating.


About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Lee Ellis  - [email protected]
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About Kim LaMontagne
Kim believes we must start the conversation now about mental health. 
Especially in the workplace.  

[email protected]      www.kimlamontagne.net
Follow Kim on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube

Kim's Bio

Kim LaMontagne has devoted her life to helping others survive and thrive in the face of mental illness. After suffering in silence in the workplace with anxiety, major depression, suicidal thoughts, and alcohol use disorder, Kim has found recovery and a life of true happiness. 

 A consistent top performer, Kim suffered alone in the workplace because of shame and fear of stigma.  Her professional performance never wavered, but inside she was broken, empty and on the verge of giving up. 

 On July 16, 2020, she celebrated 11 years of sobriety.

 Kim recognized her story was not unique and that leaders need solutions to help foster a mentally healthy workplace culture.  A culture where everyone feels safe enough to come forward and say - I’m not ok and I need help.  

As a solution, she created the "4 Pillars of Creating and Sustaining a Mentally Healthy Workplace Culture."  

Corporate training that teaches organizations how to:

 *Recognize the impact of mental illness in the workplace
*Share the lived experience to bring the human connection to mental illness
*Change the perception of mental illness and decrease stigma
*Create an environment of safety in the workplace

 The training launches the Fall of 2020.

 I invite you to click the link for details, take an organizational well-being assessment, and book a consult.  

https://mailchi.mp/36fcbe650b9e/4pillars

 Kim is a Speaker, State Trainer, Teacher, and Advocate with National Alliance on Mental Illness,  a Member of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Health System Campaign to Combat Stigma and Discrimination, and the USA Director of The Uncommon Woman International Chapters.  

 She speaks frequently at conferences, nursing grand rounds, is a visionary author for the book “It’s Ok to Not Be Ok” and a contributing author to the book “The Strength of Our Anchors.”