Many of us will reach a moment in time when we must start to care for our aging parents, grandparents, or even aging older siblings. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when this time comes, not knowing what all of the options are or how to offer assistance when we live so far away. Feelings of guilt and confusion will rapidly …
Let’s talk about stress. There is a deep connection between what you’re feeling and internalizing from the world around you and your physical health. Your daily stressors can be what’s impacting your health long term. High blood pressure, muscle pain, chronic fatigue, even digestive issues are all symptoms brought on by stress through your nervous system. They can turn you …
In this week’s episode of the podcast, Jodie Rogers is back but this time she’s doing the interview! Jodie and I talk about my favourite topic, HOPE, and why it’s so important right now, how we can use it to our advantage and how being hopeful isn’t just thinking positive but actually using hope as motivation for action. I tell …
We’ve waited a long time for this episode with Danielle Calhoun to go live – we recorded it back in December 2019! Amazing to think that we didn’t know anything about where the world would be back then and we had no idea where we’d be today. The messages in this conversation are universal though. Danielle gets deep and vulnerable …
Can’t wait for you to meet another awesome human, Abby Herman, in this week’s episode of the podcast. When I first met Abby, she was offering me hope in the form of content strategy for my website but since then, she’s become a really great friend. One of the things I appreciate the most about Abby is her focus and …
I was thrilled to meet Danielle Droitsch, my guest in this episode of the podcast, because she is an expert in time and productivity – and who doesn’t need more time in their life?! During our conversation, we talk about the surprising time wasters in our lives as well as real strategies for finding missing minutes in our days. But …
In this episode, you’ll meet Kyle Radick, a Vancouver-based husband and father of two small boys. I’ve known Kyle a long time and think of him as a driven, motivated and hopeful guy, an attitude he’s developed through a ton of hard work as you’ll hear in his story. I love episodes like this because as Kyle is telling his …
Welcome back to the third season of the Hope Motivates Action podcast! I am so excited to kick off this season with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Allison Jordan. I have referenced this episode to so many people since she and I recorded it a few weeks ago and I can’t wait for you to hear it. Allison exceeds the highest levels …
This fourth post of the Work/Life Integration series might be controversial but since using my credit cards is a way I save money, I’m going to write about it anyways! I like having credit cards. Not only for the convenience and ability to easily track my spending, but I also really like the perks that come with most of them. …
I’m pretty self-sufficient, both in my personal life and in my career, often feeling like I need to depend on myself to get things done or that it’s a waste of money to pay others to do things I’m capable of doing myself. Historically, I’ve always done most things myself – house cleaning, ironing, and my own bookkeeping and taxes …