Front Seat - The Road Back to You

Leaving Without My Children, Janelle Metchewais

Janelle talks about leaving domestic abuse.  Janelle has had a difficult life.  This podcast gives you a window into Janelle's life.  We begin to understand why she stays, and why eventually she leaves alone, without her children. If you’re afraid of your partner, that’s a big red flag. You may be scared to say what you think, to bring up certain topics, or to say no to sex. No matter the reason, fear has no place in a healthy relationship. If you feel like you’re being abused, there’s a g...

Just Love with Daniel Bruce Levin

In a world that is so divisive it a breath of fresh air to speak to Daniel Levin.   His message is just to love.  We explore the idea of getting in touch with ourselves by finding what we want at our core.  Daniel asks a simple question, How do you want to see yourself at the end of your life? Where are you? Who are you with? What are you doing?   He then asks: What is the one next thing you can do to get there? Honestly, so simple, and such  important questions. Daniel Bruce Levin is auth...

Changing the world through Conversation with Jonathan Rivera

We all want the same things: to be seen, to be heard and to be loved.   In the world that has become so divisive Jonathan Rivera cuts through all the noise one conversation at time.  Jonathan has been all around the world,  everywhere he goes, he looks for people to talk to who think,  and often look, different then he does. Jonathon believes that if we truly listen to people, not to change their mind, but just to listen and see them as people that the barriers can be pulled down. Jonathan...

The Unlucky Sperm Club, with Nelson Tressler

Nelson Tressler was born into unlucky circumstances,   he lived in a small town, that didn't hold much hope that he would amount to much.  When your start to life includes being born into a family where your  grandfather is  charged with murder of the town's police officer,  your mom is 15 year old mother, you are poor and are being abused by your step father the only choice you have is to either live in survival mode or circum to your circumstance. Nelson knew even at an early age, that...

Losing Myself to Grief, Susan Schruefer Ways

Susan Schruefer Ways talks about her journey of learning to love herself first. Susan was there for her everyone and was someone who tried to be all things to all people.  Things changed for her when her husband was diagnosed with cancer.  Susan's boss demanded she come back to work the day after her husband died.  She was expected to come back unscathed, to be the same Susan.  When it was discovered that she was less engaged, she was berated and scorned. With every micro aggression, Sus...

Dear Luna Wilde, Leena Lemos

Leena Lemos talks to me about yearning for a spiritual connection.  She felt this most profoundly when she was  pregnant and after the birth of her baby girl.   She kept wondering why women were continually skirting the real issues of how we are feeling and what motherhood  is doing to us on a soul level. On her quest for a more profound relationship with herself and others she started writing letters to her unborn child, here we see who she is and how she struggles as we all do with iden...

Wake Up! Your Life Is Calling, with Geri Paige Butner

About Geri Paige Butner Geri is a former startup and corporate marketing leader turned Life Alignment Coach, Business Launch Coach, and Speaker. After a decade of starting and growing business from the ground up and living life in the fast lane, she hit rock bottom and ended up in the ER. Geri then decided to take back her power and design the life of her dreams. She completely transformed her mindset, health and lifestyle, and left the corporate world to help people align their life with w...

Hiding From Myself, Amber Rose Washington

At the age of four Amber recalls, praying to god to please fix her by morning.  Amber was a little girl trapped in a boys body. Amber knew at that early age that something was amiss  For most of her childhood she tried really hard to be a good son, but whenever she had any alone time, she raided her mother's and sisters clothes and makeup and pretended that she was a girl, always conscious of the face that if she was caught, she could going to get in trouble. For people that are like Amber...

Whose Life Are You Living? with Miranda Werkheiser

Creator and Founder of Surrender and Slay LLC You are not everyone cup of tea, and that is the way it is suppose to be. Miranda Werkhiser is a spiritual life coach who's montra is to surrender and slay. We talk about learning to listen to your inner voice.  We all receive messages that come to us when we need to make a change, when we need to surrender to our life purpose.  Sometimes surrendering can be terrifying,  and it is okay to be scared.  Miranda tells me " I don't give up, but I gi...

Embrace the Unknown, What's the Worst That Can Happen, Dai Manuel

Words to live by with Dai Manuel.  Live the life the is true to yourself not the life that is expected of you. Today, I speak to Dai Manuel, personal lifestyle coach, entrepreneur and life adventurer. Have you ever been afraid to take the leap, to do what your heart tells you?  If you are looking for a role model, look no further Dai shows several examples in his life where he has changed direction to fulfill his life purpose.  He has gone from being an overweight youth to an athlete. He...

Stop Hating Your Body with Deanna Seymore

Deanna is out there shouting from the roof top tops that women need to STOP HATING OUR BODIES!!!!  Why is it that we as women are faced with micro aggressions on how imperfect we are.  Deanna's advice.. throw out the damn scale and just stop hating your body.  if you don't love it, just learn to be kind to yourself.   Deanna  has her own podcast called the Imperfect Party Podcast.  She was a ton of fun. So how about it, ready to love yourself?  Yeah me too! Deanna's Podcast:  The Imper...

Sex With Ghosts, Peeing Standing Up. An Intro to It's Really None of Our Business Podcast

This in an introduction to the very first episode of a new podcast called It's Really None Of Our Business. Please follow, rate and review Love you all! In today's episode Monica is having some weird dreams about her late husband and is wondering if John is haunting her? Can you have sex with a ghost? If so can you orgasm that way? Amanda seems to think so, so it must be true.   Topics for today's podcast include:  Sex dreams, how often do you have them? Why do men fall asleep right af...

No One Is Coming To Save Me, Doug Sands

 Doug Sands talks about how he came from a place where his life was riddled with anxiety,  living the life that was expected of him instead of living the life that he chose. After a dangerous hike out on a mountain he realized that the only one that was going to save him was himself.  This was his turning point, where he chose to save himself. He came from a background where he was told to JUST BE A MAN,  talking about feelings and emotions were not happening in his family.   After explorat...

Be Brave, You Can Live Fearlessly with Julie DeLucca-Collins

Julie gives us some skills to live a more peaceful, powerful, passionate and prosperous life. Go Confidently Coaching Julie DeLucca-Collins is the Founder and CEO of Go Confidently Coaching and the host of the popular Casa DeConfidence Podcast.    Julie is a dreamer, a traveler, a visionary, an adventurer, a risk-taker, a loving wife, daughter, best auntie ever, and doggy momma.    Julie has been a lover of books, activist, philanthropist, and, most of all, a supporter of women and thei...

Live the Life You are Meant To. Not The One You Are Suppose To, Ibrahim Sharkas

Abe and I talk about living an authentic life. Sometimes we all struggle with finding out what our purpose is, what it is we really want. When you are living in your purpose you should feel empowered, and content. When you are not living your life authentically you feel like there is something amiss.   As North American's we are often told of the things that will make us happy: the car,  the house, the career.  So what happens when we have those things yet we still feel an emptiness.  Usu...

Live the Life You are Meant Too, Not The One You Are Suppose Too, Ibrahim Sharkas

Abe and I talk about living an authentic life. Sometimes we all struggle with finding out what our purpose is, what it is we really want. When you are living in your purpose you should feel empowered, and content. When you are not living your life authentically you feel life there is something amiss.   As North American's we are often told of the things that will make us happy. The car,  the house, the career.  So what happens when we have those things yet we still feel an emptiness.  Usua...

Stop The People Pleasing!, It's Killing You, with Karen DiMarco

A nurse for 22 years with specialties in Intensive Care, Trauma, and Flight Nursing, Karen DiMarco  had an experience in 2011 that she describes as “a coming home.”  Within weeks of that profound moment  – on the floor of a closet in a puddle of snot and tears –  her mental and physical illnesses, and a 26-year history of eating disorders, melted away. Since then, she has been a catalyst for transforming the way we deliver and conceive of health care and wellbeing. Put simply, the mind and ...

Holding Your Boundaries While Loving Your Addicted Child, with Heather Ross

Heather Ross talks about understanding your relationship with your addicted child.  Heather talks about the importance of taking care of yourself in this emotionally charged time. It is important to hold boundaries, but it is important to do this with love. It is important to forgive because anger steals yours joy. Heather is helping other parents in crisis  who are struggling with their child's addiction. You can find Heather:   http://heatherrosscoaching.com/ +1 405-830-2753

The Narcissism Shame Correlation, with Michelle Anhang

When you grow up with a narcissistic mother, you stop trusting your own intuition because you have been told your whole life that it is wrong.  There are certain patterns that daughters of narcissistic moms go through.  Daughters often join a codependent or narcissistic relationship of their own.  It is incredibly important to understand that your patterns of behavior can be changed.  Michelle Anhang talks about her growing up in a family where she felt unloved, and what this did to her fu...

Find What Brings you Joy and Do It! with Punam Saxena

When  Punam Saxena turned 40, she took a close look at her family medical history which was chalk full of heart disease and diabetes.  Punam was sedentary, and ate a diet which consisted of fast food and colas.  She was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Punam knew that she needed to make some serious changes so she started looking at different ways she could exercise and still be the family super mom.  This is when should found running ,  Puman tells a hilarious story of how she trai...

You Can't Hide From Your Trauma, with Deanna Bryan

Deanna Bryant was sexually molested by her two older brothers when she was seven years old.  When she finally gathered the courage to tell her mother, she was implicitly told to never tell anyone.   Deanna did as her mother told her, and buried the secret for 40 years, and never told anyone. But as with all trauma, it surfaced in different ways.  Deanna was angry all the time, so much so that her own children were scared of her anger.  She became an alcoholic and  could not control her drink...

You can't hide from your Trauma with Deanna Bryant

Deanna Bryant was sexually molested by her two older brothers when she was seven years old.  When she finally gathered the courage to tell her mother, she was implicitly told to never tell anyone.   Deanna did as her mother told her, and buried the secret for 40 years, and never told anyone. But as with all trauma, it surfaced in different ways.  Deanna was angry all the time, so much so that her own children were scared of her anger.  She became an alcoholic and  could not control her drink...

Don't Fuck Up Your Kids With Your Divorce, Carly Israel

Carly Israel is a divorce coach.  She talks openly about her divorce and how the steps we take can help or hinder our children through the difficult divorce process. Carly has become an advocate, leader and coach in putting the children first in the divorce process.    I encourage you to listen to Carly's podcast as she is funny, insightful and real. In Your Corner Divorce Podcast If you would like to contact Carly for a coaching session email her at : [email protected] About C...

Supporting my Transgender Children with Chuck Pineau

Chuck Pineau and his wife were extremely supportive with their children's sexual identity.  That didn't make the coming out of one of their children any easier.   Chuck tells of a dramatic story of how his child was bullied at school, how he felt the only solution was to leave the USA and head for the Canadian border.  This child hopped on a bus and traveled the 22 hour journey across the USA all in the hopes of finding support from friends that lived on the other side of country.  Chuck an...

Expectations, Anger and Intentions, it is all a choice

Sobriety Saved My Life, with Angelique Linge

Angelique was living her rock star life, she had it all.  She had the perfect man, the perfect job, family... everything a girl could ask for.  But, did she really? Ang was so busy achieving success in her life that she stopped looking inward.  Eventually, Ang ran out of gas and she couldn't stop drinking.  She had to give up the life of over achieving and exhaustion so she could find herself.  Her story is one of hope and inspiration.

How I Recovered from Conversion Therapy, with Elena Thurston

Conversion therapy is any of several dangerous and discredited practices aimed at changing an individual's sexual orientation.  Conversion therapy uses a variety of shaming, emotionally traumatic or physically painful stimuli to make their patients associate those stimuli with their LGBTQ identities. According to studies by the UCLA Williams institute more the 700,000 LGBTQ people have been subjected to the horrors of conversion therapy. Conversion therapy does not work.  All major medical...

Fat Shaming, Catharine Clarenbach

Anti obesity campaigns are so common that we may see fat shaming as normal, we are after all, only concerned for a fat person's health, or are we?. Fat people are made fun of and scorned everywhere they go. They are faced with microaggressions on a daily basis. Whether it is eating an icecream cone at the beach, or buying groceries, or going to the gym. When you are fat you keep your guard up because you know those sideways looks, and insults will be out there. Have you given any thought ...

Polyamory, the need for more then one partner, with AC Fischer

This is an honest and frank discussion with AC Fischer, host of Turn Up the AC podcast.  AC tells me how monogamy just didn't work for him.   He had two failed marriages where the results were similar, he needed intimate connections with more then just one person.  This can be difficult for another person to accept, it takes the right person or the right people to be able to hold space for this kind of thinking.  AC is still working through this, he admits that there are some hiccups along...

Don't Pee in Your Boots!

Stories of Johnny on his 22nd birthday. Johnny was born on a hot August morning. I swear the kid came out smiling and just never stopped.  He has given me so much joy over his lifetime, I can't imagine a world without him.   

Codependent Relationships, with Alexa Crozier

Alexa Crozier and I discuss how living in a codependent relationship was detrimental to our own mental health.  Alex and I talk openly about previous relationships where we feel we were constantly putting the need of our partner before our own. This is a tough one to work through, Monica discusses that she is still working through this. Signs of codependency include (Lancer, 2016; Mental Health America): Having a hard time saying no; Having poor boundaries; Showing emotional reactivity; ...

Codependent relationships, with Alexa Crozier

Alexa Crozier and I discuss how living in a codependent relationship was detrimental to our own mental health.  Alex and I talk openly about previous relationships where we feel we were constantly putting the need of our partner before our own. This is a tough one to work through, Monica discusses that she is still working through this. Signs of codependency include (Lancer, 2016; Mental Health America): Having a hard time saying no; Having poor boundaries; Showing emotional reactivity; ...

Leaving Codependent relationships with Alexa Crozier

Alexa Crozier and I discuss how living in a codependent relationship was detrimental to our own mental health.  Alex and I talk openly about previous relationships where we feel we were constantly putting the need of our partner before our own. This is a tough one to work through, Monica discusses that she is still working through this. Signs of codependency include (Lancer, 2016; Mental Health America): Having a hard time saying no; Having poor boundaries; Showing emotional reactivity; ...

The Meditation Struggle, with Sondra Kornblatt

Why is meditation so hard?   One reason may be that it is hard spending time alone with our own cluttered minds.  It is hard to avoid our own internal contradictions, long repressed fears and the incessant need for validation when you are doing nothing but sitting still and observing your breath. Sondra teaches us to be kind to ourselves and be kind to our thoughts, that even when we struggle with our mind to not judge, instead to just observe that you are struggling and to move on. Even i...

Hearing Voices, Living with Bipolar Disorder, Catharine Clarenbach

Catharine Clarenbach bravely talks about what it is like living with Bipolar disorder.  Her first memory of thinking she did not want to live was at six years old.  She was from that point forward cycling in and out of depression.  Catharine had to learn to live with the extreme highs of Mania and the low lows of depression, all the while living with voices in her head telling her that she was worthless and should kill herself. It took many years for Catharine to get a diagnosis.  With ...

Two Beavers and an Eagle, What does Timm know about Canada

What does Timm from Texas actually know about his Canadian friends? Turns out not much! Have a listen as I talk about signing a petition for the baby seal hunt in downtown Calgary. Hope you laugh as hard as Timm, Amanda and I did!

Parenting Is Not Easy, the Language of Listening with Rosemary Clark

After a difficult childhood, Rose ached to learn how to parent in a way that comes from the heart and honors children as separate individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and opinions. She knew what kind of a mom she wanted to be but after her sweet babies arrived she realized she did not have the tools and needed them desperately. Rose will forever be grateful for the day she stumbled upon Language of Listening®, a parenting model that allowed her to become the mom she always wanted t...

Stress leads to chronic illness, with Lisa Gumieniuk

Lisa was living a high stressed, go go go lifestyle, this was when disease struck her and she was forced to start from the bottom up.  Lisa talks about mind, body soul connection. Lisa has incredible insight and gifts to understand what the body needs.  Stress causes disease, and it is only by letting go and nurturing every part of us that allows us to thrive as humans. Lisa takes me through EFT tapping, this allows stress to leave the body. Lisa has personally overcome chronic pain and il...

Chaos to Clarity with Lisa Gumieniuk

Lisa was living a high stressed, go go go lifestyle, this was when disease struck her and she was forced to start from the bottom up.  Lisa talks about mind, body soul connection. Lisa has incredible insight and gifts to understand what the body needs.  Stress causes disease, and it is only by letting go and nurturing every part of us that allows us to thrive as humans. Lisa takes me through EFT tapping, this allows stress to leave the body. Lisa has personally overcome chronic pain and il...

Dr. Alex Ridley, Hormones and Stress May Be Keeping You Overweight and Unhappy

Dr. Alexandra Swenson-Ridley helps women overcome Selfless Syndrome and transform from overwhelmed, overworked, and overweight to vibrant, energized and on fire. Selfless Syndrome is reaching epidemic proportions in our society as women put their families, careers, community, and commitments before themselves at a disproportionate rate to themselves. As a result women are developing low level health problems that lead to big problems down the road. Today 60% of adult women in North Ameri...

Hormone Imbalance may be keeping you fat with, Dr. Alex Ridley

Dr. Alexandra Swenson-Ridley helps women overcome Selfless Syndrome and transform from overwhelmed, overworked, and overweight to vibrant, energized and on fire. Selfless Syndrome is reaching epidemic proportions in our society as women put their families, careers, community, and commitments before themselves at a disproportionate rate to themselves. As a result women are developing low level health problems that lead to big problems down the road. Today 60% of adult women in North Ameri...

Understanding Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fear with Vikki LY

Your brain was built for a different time. Your procrastination and anxiety are SOLVABLE (and linked) A few years ago Vikki was waking up with panic attacks daily.  Everywhere she turned there was dis-empowering misinformation on her “disorder”. At least one in five American adults experience anxiety. That is not a disorder, it is a trend. Vikki stopped this daily pattern and has gone on to teach hundreds of clients the same simple steps. To contact Vikki: Download a free guide to F CK ...

Understanding Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fear with Vikki Louise

Your brain was built for a different time. Your procrastination and anxiety are SOLVABLE (and linked) A few years ago Vikki was waking up with panic attacks daily.  Everywhere she turned there was dis-empowering misinformation on her “disorder”. At least one in five American adults experience anxiety. That is not a disorder, it is a trend. Vikki stopped this daily pattern and has gone on to teach hundreds of clients the same simple steps. To contact Vikki: Download a free guide to F CK ...

Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Fear, with Vikki Louise

Your brain was built for a different time. Your procrastination and anxiety are SOLVABLE (and linked) A few years ago Vikki was waking up with panic attacks daily.  Everywhere she turned there was dis-empowering misinformation on her “disorder”. At least one in five American adults experience anxiety. That is not a disorder, it is a trend. Vikki stopped this daily pattern and has gone on to teach hundreds of clients the same simple steps. To contact Vikki: Download a free guide to F CK ...

Insomnia, Tools to get to sleep! Sondra Kornblatt

As a personal and sleep coach, Sondra guides people who feel depleted and empty to connect with their authentic selves, creating a fuller life of kindness and purpose. Her work includes helping people exhausted from sleep issues and stress get the rest they need, heal what’s underneath, and go after their dreams. Her 7 Pathways teaches clients how to change their relationship with body, mind, emotions, bigger picture, and more. She uses disciplines such as somatic healing, energy awareness, ...

Losing 100lbs, Jennifer Espinosa-Goswami, losing it the right way.

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Catfished, I fell in love with a pathological liar, with Lisa Edwards

Lisa Edwards was devastated to learn that her partner had a brain tumor.  They had planned on getting married, but instead Lisa was left wondering if she would be planning a funeral.  It turns out that he was a Pathological Liar.  So many lies, the betrayal held no bonds. Lisa left this man, but found herself deeply depressed, so much so that if left her weak and hospitalized.  Lisa had to learn to rebuild herself from the ground up.  She now works as a hypnotherapist, NLP trained and rela...

Lisa Edwards, In Love With a Pathological Liar

Lisa Edwards was devastated to learn that her partner had a brain tumor.  They had planned on getting married, but instead Lisa was left wondering if she would be planning a funeral.  It turns out that he was a Pathological Liar.  So many lies, the betrayal held no bonds. Lisa left this man, but found herself deeply depressed, so much so that if left her weak and hospitalized.  Lisa had to learn to rebuild herself from the ground up.  She now works as a hypnotherapist, NLP trained and rela...

Kortney Rivard, My Husband Was Cheating With A Man

Kortney Rivard had checked all the boxes.  She had a great career, she had a husband, baby, white picket fence.  Her life sounds perfect right? After 18 years of marriage things were feeling stale, but Kortney just chalked this up to what happens when you are married that long.  Kortney was shocked to learn that she really didn't know her husband at all.  She was going through her husbands phone and found that her husband was cheating on her with a man.    This blew up Kortney's world and ...

Aprile Giordano Williams, My Fiance Was Living a Double Life. Catfished!

Aprile Williams tells her story about being in love with a man and then discovering that he was living a double life. He had a second relationship that Aprile knew nothing about. There were so many lies.  Aprile had severe trust issues before this relationship but was learning to trust again.  This man devastated her trust and she spent several years completely lost.  She had decided to never trust again.  This made Aprile incredibly unhappy, she had to reevaluate all her values.  She had to...