Latest Meander Podcast Episodes
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Hope and Flow, and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - January 30, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutesWhat is hope? And what is flow? Back in 2022, Angie and I explored these things… we said that hope is our background program that helps us get up in the morning. It’s actionable and intentional; it empowers us to do what we are here to be. And flow… flow happens when we let go of aspiration and ...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on ritual and storytelling and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - January 23, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourRitual and storytelling… intertwined these are. And when conducted using the framework of the Enneagram, I have learned a great deal about myself that has supported my personal development and enriched my relationships. In short, this is what this kind of work is all about. As we’ve said before...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on rebirth and community and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - January 16, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourWe start our meander with a reading from Richard Wagamese (Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) novelist, journalist, and mentor), a passage from his book "Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations" which I think is really about hope. How it’s not enough to be resilient if being so means bouncing back to the same place...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Enneagram and Wholeheartedness
Meanderings with Trudy - January 09, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourIn episode 2 on the enneagram, we tackle wholeheartedness, relationship and heart using the lens of the Enneagram. Angie and I also “show our work” here as we wrestle with the concepts, and how to keep things accessible to listeners at all levels of familiarity with the framework…. Not an easy t...
Meander Again: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt... on the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - January 02, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourEpisode one: The Enneagram. I laid the table at the end of January 2023 with my genesis story of the Enneagram and today, Angie shares hers… and a whole lot more. So what is this thing, the Enneagram? Is it a tool or a model to make me “better?” Is it a map, or an app? Is this an alone thing or ...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Wonder and fall wrap-up
Meanderings with Trudy - December 26, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesToday, we meander On Wonder, and wrap up the fall season in anticipation of our winter break. Like our previous topic, On Reverence, On Wonder came to us as a bit of a surprise. It felt like a natural follow on from On Reverence, and is deeply connected to joy, so… here we are. Wonder, like reve...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Reverence
Meanderings with Trudy - December 12, 2023 05:00 - 56 minutesToday, we meander On Reverence. We landed in this space unexpectedly in our previous PauseCast, when we explored On Worry, and Angie talked about how worry is a human response that takes us away from reverence. And reverence, well, last week Angie told us that “…reverence is a recognition of awe...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 2 with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - December 05, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutesIn chapter two of Dina’s book, we’re looking at reconciling loss. We start with last month’s exercise to look at our loss maps, and my extrapolation out, looking at belonging. It’s a great example of how to do the exercise and apply the learning to our own lives. Dina tells us that reconciling l...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Worry
Meanderings with Trudy - November 28, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutesToday we meander around Worry… what it looks like, feels like, and how it connects to joy. To be honest, there seems like a lot to worry about these days, maybe it has always been this way, I can’t say. But today, today’s days feel heavy. In a nutshell, worry is about control of how we want th...
Meander with Michelle Schafer
Meanderings with Trudy - November 21, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutesResilience... that's what lies at the heart of today's meander. Michelle is a career coach and what I noticed is how she used her recovery experience in her blog where she writes to people facing career transitions. “Find joy in the journey” is a guiding principle that helps her in both her lif...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Enough
Meanderings with Trudy - November 14, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutesToday’s PauseCast continues our dive into the bigger topic of Change. Last session we looked at abundance and scarcity, and we often see these two as opposites. But… the opposite of abundance isn’t scarcity, it’s actually Enough. At least we think so. This is a real wrestle folks… as we meande...
MwT: Grief Unleashed, Chapter 1, with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - November 07, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutesIn this second episode in our book review, we look at chapter one, which is all about grappling with grief. The starting point is understanding that we all grapple in different ways. And that is absolutely as it should be. But most of us don’t know how we grapple, and don’t realize that others w...
Meander with Sound: Kayaking on Lac Monroe
Meanderings with Trudy - October 31, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Abundance and Scarcity
Meanderings with Trudy - October 24, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutesToday’s topic is held in a bigger topic: On Change. Our more precise focus today is on abundance and scarcity and how it shows up in our lives. Abundance can be both joyful and a burden. It can mean safety and plenty of food, good health and social connection, many other things, but pushed to...
Meander with Leslie Rohonczy
Meanderings with Trudy - October 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourChapman Coaching Inc. Leslie’s website, and her book: Coaching Life: Navigating Life's Most Common Coaching Topics Leslie’s YouTube Channel and her Song Stories Playlist. Played with permission in this episode, is her song Joy. Make sure you take some time and watch her uplifting video as well...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, On Perspective
Meanderings with Trudy - October 10, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutesIn this episode, this launch into season four, we return to a grade school practice of sharing about our summer vacations, and then lay the table for where we plan to meander this year. And we dip our toes in the topic of perspective… from the point of view of an old apple tree that lives on Ang...
MwT: Grief Unleashed the Prelude Chapter with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - October 03, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutesIn this first episode in our book review, we’re exploring the information in the Prelude of Dina’s book, “Grief Unleased: Moving from the hole in our hearts to wholehearted.” The Prelude sets the table for the book, sharing her “why” in writing…. which is to dispel the myths around grief, to dem...
Meander with Me: Intro to fall 2023
Meanderings with Trudy - September 26, 2023 04:00 - 6 minutesEpisode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Sound: Thunderstorms at Mont Tremblant
Meanderings with Trudy - September 19, 2023 04:00 - 10 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Parc national du Mont-Tremblant Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander with Sound: Active Surf of Lake Ontario
Meanderings with Trudy - September 12, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutesWe had a slow start to summer 2023 but we've made up for it with a very active August. Trips to Lac McGlashan, Toronto and a few other spots, with soundscapes for you here, fresh off the recorder! Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma ...
Meander with Sound: Returning to Lac McGlashan
Meanderings with Trudy - September 05, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutesI hope you enjoy this soundscape. I’ll be back to you with fresh interviews in the first week of October. In the meanwhile, happy September… a new time of rebirth in the cadence of our lives. Episode Links: Chapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Pleas...
Meander Again with Thérèse Boisclair
Meanderings with Trudy - August 29, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Therese's FaceBook Instagram Her website
Meander Again with Margaret Anne Smith
Meanderings with Trudy - August 22, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Visit Margaret Anne on Instagram And to see where she is teaching felting, visit the Saint John Arts Centre for her workshops David Whyte poetry and Three Sundays workshops and leadership coaching Canadian poet rupi kaur Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – ...
Meander Again with Siobhan Arnott
Meanderings with Trudy - August 15, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Siobhan mentioned two mentors: visual artist Michael Goodson and Ottawa School of Art printmaking teacher Robert Hinchley (visual artist), as well as a few of the artists who have inspired her approaches to art making: Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jane Ash Po...
Meander with Sound: A Walk on the Beach in Newfoundland
Meanderings with Trudy - August 08, 2023 04:00 - 6 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]
Meander Again with Diane Merpaw
Meanderings with Trudy - August 01, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutesAs always, you can find more from me, including blog posts, at Chapman Coaching Inc. Diane would love you to join her on Facebook and Instagram! You can also see her beautiful creations on her website. Diane mentioned the work of Shiloh Sophia as pivotal to her artistic journey. Shiloh create...
Meander Again with Lara Wellman
Meanderings with Trudy - July 25, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Her company is called The Biz Studio. Her free FaceBook group is called Building Your Next Level Biz And her not-for-profit is called Kids in the Capital
Meander Again with Emily Chen
Meanderings with Trudy - July 18, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. mchen wears You can see more of her illustrations on her FaceBook page.
Meander Again: Bernard Funston, Guitar-maker
Meanderings with Trudy - July 11, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Funston Guitars Guitar clip from Bernie’s site of Ottawa musician Al Brown testing one of Bernie’s creations Allen Sapp, Indigenous artist from North Battleford Saskatchewan is the artist that inspired 13 year old Bernie to paint Bernie mentioned listening to music as a...
Meander with Sound: Thunder and Rain
Meanderings with Trudy - July 04, 2023 04:00 - 16 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma Please send thoughts and comments to [email protected]