The Voice of Women Podcast Episodes: Women's Interesting and Inspiring Real Life Stories
Episode 112 - Ariel White
Ariel White is a Marketing and Communications expert, and Sr. Account Manager at a creative agency. She also serves as a strategic advisor for a global eCommerce retailer, a Community Manager for Toast, a talent partner that helps connect women to tech roles, and is the Founding City Director for the Victoria chapter of WNORTH, an organization dedicated to empowering women to advance into senior leadership positions.
A storyteller by nature, Ariel’s passion for writing led her to start a daily blogging practice in 2017. What began as a fun way to share recipes and outdoor adventures soon became an outlet for her to initiate and engage in deeper conversations around mental health, recovery from food and substance-use disorders, and finally disclose the secret of her childhood sexual trauma. Ariel currently works to amplify the voices of those fighting silent battles through advocacy and education, and leads conversations about trauma-informed practice and how it shows up in our leadership. Today, I have the pleasure of hearing her journey.
Episode 111 - Amy Reding
Episode 110 - Dr. Jessica Metcalfe
Dr. Jessica is a strategic leadership and workplace culture consultant with a focus on self-intelligence and relationship intelligence. She is an award-winning international speaker and best-selling author who is on a mission to empower and unlock the inner voices of high-stressed high-achieving leaders. Dr. Jessica’s first book Speak Kindly, You’re Listening has been flying off the shelves! As a former Dental Oncologist and Education Director at one of the top 5 cancer centres in the world, Dr. Jessica knows first hand the challenges that come with high-stressed careers. She started out by teaching the medical and dental community how to improve a patient's quality of life post-cancer therapy and now elevates leaders and their teams to improve their quality of life through confidence, collaboration, culture and communication. I am honoured to be siting down with her today to hear her journey.
Episode 108 - Andrea Mondoux
With a struggle of body positivity, a unique family upbringing an ongoing battle with imposter syndrome, Andrea Mondoux is a Best Selling and 3x published Author, Speaker, Host of The Balance + Bliss Podcast, Coach and a Curvy Body Advocate changing the future of health and wellness, and how those perceive achieving it. She is passionate about supporting people in their pursuit of wellness and happiness by sharing relatable, actionable, and authentic strategies to help empower them to take control of their lives. With over a decade of lived experience transforming her habits, despite the diet culture, she is committed to changing the way people think about themselves. I am so excited to be speaking with her today to hear about her journey.
Episode 107 - Bethany Gettis
Bethany Gettis is a highly dynamic Internationally known Certified Holistic Nutritional ConsultantTM and REAL Food Advocate. Bethany is focused on guiding busy, health-conscious parents to their optimum healthy lifestyle, through nutrition while creating a holistic balance. After all, she created her business Nutritious & Delicious because she believes a healthy family starts with a healthy parent. The unexpected loss of her husband left Bethany to be a widow to raise her two boys on her own. I am sitting here today to hear her story of how she navigated this tragedy, pivoted and became the leader of her life and shifted her focus on happiness from within.
Episode 106 - Dr. Jordin Wiggins
Let's talk about sex, baby! Dr. Jordin is a Pleasure Expert, Naturopathic Doctor and Author. She is the CEO of the Pleasure Collective, a coaching community for CEOs and founders who want to be as badass in the bedroom as they are in the boardroom. She is the author of The Pink Canary, an investigation into the hidden secret to optimal women’s wellness and podcast host of The Pleasure Principles.
Dr. Jordin is a regular contributor to articles and TV, including Cityline, Cosmopolitan, and The Washington Post, advocating for women’s health and right to pleasure. Combining her years of medical and holistic knowledge with personal experience and exploration, she unlocked her desires, attracted her reality as a fulfilled CEO, mom, stepmom, doctor, friend, lover, and women’s wellness advocate. I am so excited to sit down and talk to her today!
Episode 104 - Paul Dua Makkar
Dr. Parul Dua Makkar completed her Bachelor of Science from University of Central Oklahoma in 1999, Magna Cum Laude and then obtained her Doctor of Dental Surgery from University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry in 2003. She practiced in Alberta, before moving to New York. Currently she is the owner of PDM Family Dental in Long Island, a place she resides in with her husband and 2 boys. Dr. Makkar's life took a different trajectory when she lost her only and younger sibling, Dr. Manu Dua, to Oral Cancer last year. He was a well-known and practicing dentist as well. Since his death, she has devoted her time educating doctors and patients alike about risk factors, prevention and advocating for early diagnosis of Oral cancer. She has co-authored several Dental journals, has been presenting lectures to Dentists and has been a guest at several podcasts, besides her own. She believes oral care is the gateway to overall well being and aims to have open conversations with her patients. I am honored to be sitting here today to bring awareness on head and neck cancer in the dental community.
Episode 102 - Chelsea Squires
Chelsea Squires is an extreme data generalist, collaborator, and storyteller with over five years of energy industry experience and a successful pivot into the tech industry. After suffering for many years with a love-hate relationship with her brain, Chelsea was diagnosed with extreme ADHD. Learning to navigate life with her diagnosis has had its ups and downs. Today, I have the privilege of sitting down with Chelsea to openly discuss ADHD and how others going through the same can find resources and support to help guide them through their journey of life.
Episode 99 - Alisha Rai
Dr. Alisha Rai is a mother and the co-founder of Hope for Cerebral Palsy and the Author of Mighty Mr. Aiden. She shares her journey through infertility, multiple miscarriages and her pursuit of motherhood. Dr. Rai will lead our listeners down an unconventional way of finding her miracle rainbow baby. In this episode, Dr. Rai speaks to her experience through a traumatic delivery, NICU and becoming a special-needs mama. After a diagnosis of PTSD, Dr. Rai learnt how to process her grief. The prompting of a still small voice inside, "Your pain won’t have purpose if it’s in private," has led her to openly share her journey and how she's choosing to turn grief into giving, ache into action, and pain into purpose. I have the privilege and honor to speak with her today and share her story in hopes of helping other woman going through a similar experience.
Episode 97 - Gemma Stone
Armed with multiple degrees in psychology, two decades of working one-on-one with individuals, and facilitating internationally, Gemma is laser focused on helping people build emotional intelligence. Gemma is a natural-born storyteller who inspires compassion, with every breath. Her fresh, accelerated and loving approach to healing is changing the psychology industry. I am so lucky to be basking in her presence today sharing her story with our listeners!
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