Latest Meander Podcast Episodes
Meander with Me! Wrapping up season 3
Meanderings with Trudy - June 27, 2023 04:00 - 48 minutesWe’ve covered a lot of ground what with my meanders with friends around joy in their lives, a deep dive into the Enneagram and another deep dive into the myths around grief. Whew, what a season it has been! I hope you’ve enjoyed it all; we’ve tried a few new things while still “colouring within...
Meander with Melissa Park
Meanderings with Trudy - June 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourMelissa works in IT by day but has what she calls a “side hustle” helping people organize their homes… a thing she’s loved to do since she was a child. Organizing her family home brought her a sense of security and safety when she was a wee girl, and now she likes to help people create space for...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, how the Enneagram can change the world
Meanderings with Trudy - June 13, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutesToday we do a little recapping, and also reflect the Enneagram into our lives moving forward. How we can play with the characteristics of our type, and begin to learn how to choose how to respond to situations as opposed to simply react in our age-old way. This can create some unease in our rela...
MwT: Grief Busting with Dina Bell-Laroche
Meanderings with Trudy - June 06, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourThis is our fifth episode in this “Grief Busting” series with special guest and expert on grief and bereavement, Dina Bell-Laroche. You’ll remember Dina from her chat with me back in November, 2022. Today we meander all round myths relating who and what can help grieving people. We start by ...
Meander with Anjali Dilawri
Meanderings with Trudy - May 30, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutesIn this meander, we talk about how stillness and curiosity, and withholding self-judgement, are key to seeing oneself with clarity. How we live lives of “busy-ness” so we can avoid hearing ourselves, our true selves, speak from our hearts… how boredom is a gift, and is often avoided in our highl...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Soulfulness and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - May 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourSoulfulness…what is it? How does it differ from spirituality? Why does it matter? And how does the Enneagram support it? In this meander, we explore how the Enneagram is both a tool and a practice… a tool of information about my type and the other personality types, and then the invitation into...
Meandering with Trudy: the sounds of summer
Meanderings with Trudy - May 16, 2023 04:00 - 7 minutesChapman Coaching Inc. Some background about Lac McGlashan, Quebec
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on expectations and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - May 09, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutesWe kibbitz around a bit to begin with around unexpected connections in the supermarket, and that old game from the 1990s, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon… which was really about just how connected we all are in this great big world. We wrestle with expectations, the ones we have when coming new to th...
Meander with Philip Cole
Meanderings with Trudy - April 18, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutesI’ve known my guest Philip Cole for almost a decade. This meander is such a treat for me as he and I share an understanding about joy and heart and soul coming out of studying together for all this time. We’re both students of the Enneagram, and of the soul, led through our studies by Angie Aren...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Hope and Flow, and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - April 11, 2023 04:00 - 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 ...
MwT: Grief Busting with Dina Bell-Laroche, on Behaviour
Meanderings with Trudy - April 04, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutesThis is our third episode in this “Grief Busting” series with special guest and expert on grief and bereavement, Dina Bell-Laroche. You’ll remember Dina from her chat with me back in November, 2022. Today we meander all round myths relating to behaviour… how we behave when we are grieving, a...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on ritual and storytelling and the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - March 28, 2023 04:00 - 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 with Ariadni Athanassiadis
Meanderings with Trudy - March 21, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutesMy friend Ari is a lovely person and her heart shines through in our meander. Coming out of an eclectic background in science and art into intellectual property law, she’s followed her whimsey and curiosity and created a pretty unique offering to her clients. While she offers …”customized intell...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on rebirth and community
Meanderings with Trudy - March 14, 2023 04:00 - 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...
MwT: Grief Busting with Dina Bell-Laroche, on Emotions
Meanderings with Trudy - March 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourThis is our second episode in this “Grief Busting” series with special guest and expert on grief and bereavement, Dina Bell-Laroche. You’ll remember Dina from her chat with me back in November, 2022. Today we meander all round myths relating to emotion. English doesn’t serve us well here – i...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on Enneagram and Wholeheartedness
Meanderings with Trudy - February 28, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourIn today’s meander, 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 task. In sh...
Meander with Dodzi Amemado
Meanderings with Trudy - February 21, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutesIn this meander, we talk about Dodzi's writing process, which he calls “…a sacred process.” Writing gives him a sense of purpose. He writes long form, by hand, and bookends his day job with writing time at his desk. We talk about the magic and spirit that is present in his writing, in how his w...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt... on the Enneagram
Meanderings with Trudy - February 14, 2023 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: Grief Busting with Dina Bell-Laroche, Setting the Table
Meanderings with Trudy - February 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourThis is our first episode in this “Grief Busting” series with special guest and expert on grief and bereavement, Dina Bell-Laroche. You’ll remember Dina from her chat with me back in November, 2022. For her, the death of her sister Tracy was life-changing and we heard about that in our first me...
Meander with Trudy: What's Next?
Meanderings with Trudy - January 31, 2023 05:00 - 19 minutesThe Enneagram. It's having a moment in personal development circles. Angie and I will explore this personality framework in the winter coming episodes, dropping every second and fourth week. The Enneagram is a framework for looking at people. It can help and guide people as they look at themsel...
Meander Again with Nancy Guy
Meanderings with Trudy - January 24, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutesThere are always such gifts for me coming out of these meanders, and this one doesn’t disappoint. I have a date to go see the City of Ottawa blow up a part of the Rideau River this spring… something I plan to enjoy this year with my friend Nancy. She’s always up for adventure, and this is one I’...
Meander Again with Peter McGaugh
Meanderings with Trudy - January 17, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutesToday’s episode, with my friend Peter McGaugh, is about community, place, and home. There is a silent partner in this conversation too – his big stone house. Peter, and Angie Arendt, our regular guest from the "PauseCast", live in this gorgeous stone house in Almonte, Ontario. In this meander ...
Meander Again with Chaviva Lifson, on heart
Meanderings with Trudy - January 10, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes“It all goes back to framing – we can go through something wonderful and see everything as bad, or we can go through something horrible and see the goodness in it.” For Chaviva Lifson, as she says, how we experience things, and how we hold them afterwards, is all about perspective, as she tells ...
Meander Again with Lisa Flanders
Meanderings with Trudy - January 03, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutesSuch a gem of a meander with physiotherapist and co-owner of Bloom Integrative Fitness and Movement Centre... Lisa Flanders. This is one of those awesome conversations that really light me up! Lisa had been go-go-go since her days in university. This way of being led her ultimately into burnou...
Meander Again with Roberta Gal
Meanderings with Trudy - December 27, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes“I never tire of it,” said today's guest, Roberta Gal, her mischievous eyes all a-twinkle. Born into a creative family, Roberta worked as a graphic designer for 25 years (work she also loved) before pulling her first love out of her back pocket – photography – and landing a job as photographer f...
Meander Again with Angie Arendt from December 2020
Meanderings with Trudy - December 20, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutesAs we enter the season of light, I thought it might fun to dive into the deeper meaning of joy. We often conflate it with "happy!", but as this week's guest tells us, "...joy is that still small space inside each of us." It's a rich and nuanced place, informed by our lived experience, the highs ...
Meander Again with Stephanie Helmerson
Meanderings with Trudy - December 13, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutesThere are people in my life who drop in and out occasionally through time. Stephanie is one of them for me. Each time we meet up, it’s a gem of a conversation, and such is the case with this meander. I’ve known Steph for 20 odd years and while we don’t live nearby each other, nor do we talk ofte...
Meander Again with Jennifer Hollington
Meanderings with Trudy - December 06, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutesAs I'm on break, I'm replaying some of my past Meanderings... this is one that I found particularly uplifting and it seems fitting for the first week of December: my meander with Jennifer Hollington. Not only is Jen an effervescent soul, she's my model for positivity in the face of adversity. ...
Meander with Bernard Funston
Meanderings with Trudy - November 29, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutesMy friend Bernie is eclectic – now retired constitutional law expert born in Canada’s far north whose hobby is handmade guitars. He’s still got his first guitar, bought at the age of 13 with money made from selling his own paintings - landscapes from his childhood in the far north. Guitars hav...
MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt, on US Thanksgiving and more
Meanderings with Trudy - November 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hourCommunity and belonging… this is a story about heartbreak, and heart healing. Angie’s first US Thanksgiving here in Canada was not a smooth one and she missed home BIG. To meet her ache, she invited neighbours over and the tradition of pie-palouza came to be. It is a ritual she follows with her ...