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Today we are sitting down with infertility advocate, mother, content creator and Bachelor alum Astrid Wendt. We are talking all about how Astrid met her now husband Kevin on Bachelor in Paradise, moving to Canada for love ( and the climate shock involved!), navigating trying for a baby during the pandemic, working though infertility and her IVF journey.

She walks us through their infertility journey, the process of trying to get pregnant and navigating the disappointment each month, being diagnosed with “unexplained infertility” and how the journey impacted her and Kevin in different ways. Astrid shares about what the IVF process really looks like - the costs, hormones and medications involved, the impact it all had on her body and emotions and the time and stresses involved in IVF. She tells us what it was like going to all the appts on her own because of COVID, how they navigated playing the waiting game and how she dealt with the influx of emotions and hormones daily. We talk about the misconceptions about infertility and IVF, the hardest and most challenging parts for her, she shares great advice for navigating the IVF pregnancy journey, and we learn about the amazing work she is doing with the Fertility Friends Foundation to help alleviate the financial stress of fertility treatments for Canadian couples.

PLUS: How she found out she was pregnant with her first child, why she had to carry containers of sperm to appointments in her bra, celebrating the little things, and the behind the scenes of Bachelor in Paradise.

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Today we are sitting down with entrepreneur, life coach and mama, Courtney Quinn aka @coachingwithcourt. Courtney shares what led her to her path as a life coach, how her childhood impacted her life choices, and how exactly she helps her clients remove blocks and live their best lives through her signature Aligned Action Method. We are talking about micro habits, morning routines, thriving in motherhood and work, and how to find alignment in life.

Courtney openly shares about the family dynamic she was raised in, and how growing up with a young single mom and alcoholic father impacted her and her career path. She talks about her first memory of her dad’s drinking, the complicated emotions she felt when her dad got sober and the anger, abandonment and broken promises she endured. She share how they reconciled, the internal work she had to do in order to navigate it, the tools she used to support herself through the fear and discomfort and WHY she follows her own program every day.

We talk about what being a life coach actually means, how she helps clients break free from limiting beliefs and hurdles to live the lives they want, the biggest common denominator in feeling stuck, the most common pain points she sees in clients and the power of starting with “I FEEL”. Courtney takes us through the process she uses with her clients, she breaks down her signature Aligned Action Method step by step for us, and highlights why the process of breaking through a belief sometimes has to be done OVER AND OVER. We get into the conversation about motherhood and careers, why we don’t have to choose and how we can navigate “mom guilt” in a healthy way.

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The impact and benefits of Micro habits and morning routines, the importance of knowing your aligned WHY, how to disrupt autopilot and busyness culture, and being grateful for what you have while giving yourself permission to want MORE.

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• ⁠Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

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Today we are sitting down with Conner Curran and Dustin Paisley, owners and founders of Canadian apparel brand Local Laundry. Get ready to laugh a lot while learning a TON, these two are hilarious and deliver so much value all at once! Conner and Dustin are sharing valuable insights with us about entrepreneurship, navigating business partnership, building community and the importance of having clear, strong values in business and life.

We are talking about the impact of building community with a brand, using business as a tool to create an impact, making a difference with your dollar and how small businesses ( and their customers ) can have a BIG impact in the community. Conner and Dustin share the story of how Local Laundry was born in a tiny house in Sweden with a google search and $50, how they became business partners, why Conner called Dustin from the Vegas strip crying while eating cheeseburgers alone and how it resulted in the next growth step for their business.

They share about how they are using clothing to bring people together, how they have harnessed the power of connection and collaboration to build a loyal and thriving community, the power of the long game, embracing slow growth and picking up the phone, and why asking for help is their biggest secret weapon. Conner and Dustin are telling us WHAT to look for in a business partner in order to thrive, the importance of valuing each others differences, and why business partners should go to therapy together.

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The power of being resourceful, WHY you need to stop and celebrate your wins, the power of empathy and authentic curiosity, the difference a morning routine makes, what building community actually means - and how to do it (one authentic relationship at a time).

Get your notebooks out friends, this episode is PACKED with great insights, tips, takeaways - and laughs!

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It’s a solo episode today friends! We put Erika in the hot seat and are chatting about WHY she isn’t your average farm wife and what that means to her, how she found her voice and identity as a wife, mother and entrepreneur and how she navigates the old school culture of the farming community.Erika shares why she actively resisted the “farm wife life” at the beginning of her marriage, the dynamics of marrying into a farm family and feeling like the farming lifestyle and passion for it was being pushed onto her and the generational impact that farming has on women. We talk about the damage of putting expectations on people without communicating, the resentment and anger that built up for her because of the expectations put on her and navigating the challenge of the farm always coming first.

She shares about struggling to fit a mold she didn’t want to be in, how her dreams changed when she became a mother, how she quickly lost her identity and had to hit pause at the “starting line of life”, and the impactful advice she was given by a fellow farm wife that helped her to shift her perspective. Erika shares the struggle she has with being told who she should be, WHILE trying to figure out who she was, how once she figured out her role and had ownership in her life, she developed a new appreciation for farming and the impact this all had on her marriage.We talk about the importance of asking for help, delegating, communicating clearly and planning for your capacity, the freedom in choosing to accept certain things vs fighting them, HOW she found her identity again and the role becoming an entrepreneur played in it.

PLUS: the backstory of the original HER podcast, how and why we place labels on ourselves and the impact it has, learning to let go and set boundaries and the changes she would like to see in the farming community.

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Today we are sitting down with mother of 3, content creator and family influencer Heydy Lopez. We talk about Heydy’s journey of motherhood, the challenges of becoming a teen mother at age 16, how the closeness in age to her oldest son has made their bond super strong, and how it feels that he is currently the same age she was when she became a mom. She gets into what it was really like being a teen mom, how she navigated parenting desicions while finishing high school. Heydy shares about the impact of being raised by a single immigrant mother, coming to Canada as a child refugee and how her childhood impacted her values, drive and work ethic.

We talk about how she met her husband, why they made the decision to move their young family from Vancouver to Calgary, building community in a new city, the challenges of making friends as an adult (and why keeping them is even harder) and the grief that comes along with leaving your home town. Heydy opens up about why it takes her a long time to let people in, the difference between acquaintances and friends, the impact of shared experiences and seasons, and not having closure in friendships ending.

She shares her journey into becoming a full time content creator, how the pandemic impacted her career, and how sharing her story turned into creating and growing community. She tells how she got her husband and family on board, how she sets boundaries with social media and why she doesn’t force herself to show up. We talk about the importance of pouring into yourself, how she prioritizes “me time”, releasing internal guilt and why she takes herself on dates, and the positive impact it has on her marriage.

PLUS: Finding yourself within the throws of motherhood, being the “cool mom”, how she created the house the teens want to hang out at.

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We have a solo episode for you today, where we are getting real and raw about business partnerships. CJ and Erika are taking the hot seats on this one, and sharing all about what it looks like behind the scenes as business partners in their company Carousel Media Management. They are sharing the ups and downs the highs and lows, and the learnings and growth that they have moved through together over the years.

We talk about the importance of leaning into your strengths, navigating and leaning into each other’s strengths and the division of work through the seasons of life. We cover the importance of OPEN communication, having hard conversations and putting their personal relationship FIRST in order to protect it, the layers of their relationship and the power of using self awareness as a tool in business. They give us great tips about how to have those hard conversations, letting each other IN to help, and the power of getting curious and using the phrase “Tell me more”.

PLUS: Why our schedule can be a superpower, how they navigate big ideas that don’t align, managing output vs input and taking off the rose coloured glasses. Get your notebook ready, CJ and Erika are sharing some really GREAT tips with us!

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Today we are sitting down with founder of Devon + Lang, Tyler McCombs. We are talking with Tyler about leaving a secure career he loved at Apple and taking the leap into entrepreneurship, how COVID flipped his business on it’s head from the start, what the behind the scenes of creating a product in the apparel industry looks like, and why he is passionate about making “life changing underwear” - and what the life changing part really means. Tyler shares about the importance of company culture and taking great care of your people, how he took the major things he learned from his 10 years with Apple and incorporated them into Devon + Lang, how infusing passion into your work makes you stand out, and how getting his BA in Behaviour sciences helps him in business.

Tyler launched Devon + Lang 6 months before the COVID pandemic, and he shares about how the power of pivoting to serve what the community needed grew his business to 6 figures in a few months, going from filling orders from his in-laws basement to filling a warehouse and expanding into a women’s line as an add on that has now taken over the business.He walks us through HOW he set himself up for success by pairing his passion with research, education and personal development, the 4 things you need to consider when you have a business idea, and why you need to take time to celebrate your wins. We talk about the cost of entry to get into certain industries, the difference between building a business VS creating a job, how not to get trapped in your business, and how he overcame the hurdle of learning to delegate and let go of full control.

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The story behind the Devon + Lang name, why they look at apparel from a generational standpoint, the actual cost of “Made in Canada” and his biggest learnings in business so far.

Checkout the books mentioned this episode here:

• The Millionaire Fastlane
• The Lean Start UP

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Today we are sitting down with mother of two, contnet creator, and former Miss Universe Canada Siera Bearchell. We are chatting with Siera about how life changed for her after competing in Miss Universe, how she navigated the media blitz that followed her, how the learnings and experience from her pageant journey impacted her choices, values and career path as an adult and what is is REALLY like behind the scenes of the Miss Universe curtain.

Siera shared how and WHY she got into pageants, the cause near and dear to her that propelled her to take the stage, the misconceptions about the pageant world and why it is SO much more than swimsuit and evening gown competitions we see on TV. She tells us about the moment she was told she didn’t have “the Miss Universe Body”, how being forced to lose weight resulted in her losing her confidence and why she dumped her team before the competition and did things her own way. We really dig into the topic of confidence - why it is important to feel solid in who you are, how truly knowing yourself directly correlates with confidence, the growth that happens when you lean in to the uncomfortable and the power of being comfortable with not knowing the answer.

She talks about embracing the platform she was unintentionally given, how she leaned in to social media to continue conversations about body positivity, why she puts out content on socials that she wants to consume, the pressures to be “relatable” and how she deals with hate from social media trolls. Siera shares about parenting in the public eye, how she navigates sharing her family on socials, the importance of setting boundaries and how she leans into her personal bullshit meter.

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The pressures put on women to stay youthful as we age, watching your life through your eyes and not through your phone, why working on yourself will always get you ahead, and why kindness always wins.

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Today we are sitting down with grief, coach and mother of three Tanis Mitchell. We are talking with Tanis about how she navigated her daughter Lukah’s traumatic medical journey, how being a medical mama has impacted her and shifted her perspective on life, the empowerment of feeling through grief and refusing to be a victim of the pain, and how her journey has led her to walk alongside others through grief as a group coach.

Tanis vulnerably walks us through Lukah’s journey, from taking her into emergency at 11 months old with a diaper full of blood, to finding out she had a massive benign teratoma in her abdomen, and the nine hour surgery to remove it that ended in the doctor telling her that her baby’s organs were failing. She shares the moment she fell to her knees upon hearing her daughter had 12 to 24 hours to live, and the miraculous turn that kept Lukah alive to wait for a five organ transplant. We hear about the impossible situation they found themselves in trying to keep her alive one day at a time for 7 1/2 weeks until they got the news that she had a transplant match, the impossible joy of receiving the gift of five organs knowing another family was living their worst nightmare, the gruelling process of living out of the hospital the entire time and being forced to sit in her grief.

She tells us why she chose to share her journey on social media, how it helped her navigate and the healing it brought her to have an outlet, the beautiful and unexpected community that it built, and the way that community supported and held their family. We talk about what life has looked like after Lukah’s transplant and how they navigate daily, diving headfirst into learning how to navigate the grief that showed up everywhere, the book she found that was transformational in her grief journey, the tools + supports that have helped her along the way and the transition she made into coaching others in grief.

PLUS: what she does as a grief coach, the power of letting yourself FEEL, trusting the process and letting life unfold, how to experience joy alongside grief and the power of being held by community.

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It’s a solo episode today and we have Erika in the hot seat sharing all about her journey with ADHD. Erika takes us through how and when she realized she may have ADHD, what prompted her to take the steps to receive a proper diagnosis, the changes, the freedom AND grief she felt upon being diagnosed, the tools she has implemented for support and why she considers having ADHD a superpower.

She shares with us the “telltale” signs of ADHD she had, what the steps to get tested looked like for her, the process of deciding to take medication and her experience in choosing the best medication, why she takes her meds for certain tasks and not others and the emotional release she felt the first time she felt the effects of her medication. We talk about how many women are getting diagnosed as adults, how young girls tend to naturally mask symptoms of ADHD, the struggles she had in school as a child and the negative stories she told herself as a result, and the process of now grieving as an adult for the child she was then.

We talk about the impact her diagnosis has had on her and her relationships, Erika shares the tools she has introduced to support herself, how “knocking off thoughts/ getting through to dos ” helps her throughout her day and quiets her brain, the communication shifts she has implemented, and her BEST tip for dealing with the tasks you don’t want to do. She shares about struggling with lack of motivation around “uninteresting” tasks, the power of leaning into your strengths, the importance of finding the right systems, taking ownership in your life and setting yourself up for success, and the differences between listening and hearing in communication.

PLUS: The challenge of self assessment, removing the term “disability”, unlearning narratives and getting used to the QUIET in her head.

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