Amanda is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Ohio and has been in practice for 11 years and been teaching for almost half of that time. She wanted to be a guest because she’s so in love with the profession of Massage Therapy and feels so passionate about education and continuing education. We had a great talk about the discrepancy in education between states and between countries, about how she’s going to incorporate her nursing education, about a type of therapy to treat migraines, and how this busy Mom is creating the career of her dreams. Listen to another industry rap with an awesome colleague from south of the boarder.

Becca is a new Massage Therapist here in Toronto. She came to hang on our couch to tell us about her journey from being an event photographer working late nights at parties schmoozing and living it up, to getting heavily into self discovery and self care and making a drastic career change. Becca is now a Registered Massage Therapist, body positive yoga teacher, Fascial Stretch Therapist, and Thai Massage Practitioner. She has an inspiring story and has learned some lessons along her journey. Listen to some great advice from a woman with experience who is off to a great start in this profession.

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Ria sat on our couch to tell us her story about getting into Massage Therapy, how her career developed over the last 15 years, and how some recent circumstances brought her to the decision to go inactive this year to figure out what’s next for her in this profession. The pandemic definitely played a role in her decision but it was not the only factor in her choice. Listen to hear a real story from a real therapist about how you can love a career but still need to take a step back to make sure you’re doing the best thing for you!

Ready for the rest of Nicki’s unpopular opinions? Here’s the rest of our recording where Nicki shares more of her opinions that she considers unpopular but we will let you be the judge. Listen to us speak more about some issues concerning our profession and life in general and give our two cents! Will you agree? Listen and we shall see…

Welcome welcome to Nicki’s unpopular opinions! We had Nicki come by in spring of 2021 to give us her most unpopular opinions about the Massage world. She’s back with a recap of those opinions and so many more that we had to make this a 2 part series. In this episode we talk about money, passion, policies, and many more topics that Nicki sees online. She feels like the lone wolf sometimes when she sees discussions in Massage Therapy groups as her opinions seem to differ from the majority. Turns out, her opinions are more popular than she thought as she sat on our couch and we seemed to agree with most of what she had to say! Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon…

Michelle is a Registered Massage Therapist and clinic owner in Markham, Ontario and a listener of our podcast. Since our listeners are the most interesting people we ever have on the couch, we knew Michelle would have some stories to tell. In this episode we talk about her journey to becoming a clinic owner when she bought Solace Massage Therapy, the transition from colleague to captain of the ship with her long time coworkers, how she used the covid lockdown to learn new skills, and how she got in some hot water with a social media post.

Celine decided to take a Reflexology course after having an experience with this type of therapy and thought it might be cool to learn something that truly challenges her biases. During the course however, she really felt that certain claims were being made that could possibly be interpreted as harmful if directed at the wrong people. We invited her to come in and we reopened the discussion about alternative therapy and if and when practitioners are making claims that are harmful or misleading to the public about the effects of certain therapies. Language is important and we wanted to talk about it but of course we also discussed many other topics and got to know Celine. Listen for some open discussion as always with three Massage Therapists.

Mandy is a British Massage Therapist living in Miami and her new Massage Memoir, “If These Hands Could Talk, The Girl Who Touched The World” hit Amazon’s Hot New Releases at #1 in November and we got the pleasure of being her first podcast to talk about her book. Mandy’s British sense of humour is sprinkled throughout the book from her witty chapter titles to handling the saddest of stories about her 25 year career massaging rock stars, cancer patients, Military men and women, and everyone in between. We got to hear the story of her getting into massage, moving around the world with her Military husband, and how she became a published author. This one is worth a listen and a great way for us to kick of SEASON 5!!!

Lily is a Registered Massage Therapist in Toronto and a colleague we have yet to have behind a mic. We invited her in to speak about a recent unprofessional encounter with some clinic owners that left her scratching her head. We talked about her experience in the profession thus far, what she might do if she won the lottery (spoiler alert: she doesn’t even play), her opinions on some of Mark’s rants, and anything and everything that comes up when RMTs get together. Listen to hear the experience of one RMT and as always, don’t judge but just enjoy…