Supporting individuals and families through the fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum period is not an easy task. Finding someone who can truly walk alongside you with education in all of those areas without having to spend time finding separate doctors and care providers is no minor task either. 

Today we’re talking with Debbie Fazio who is one of the co-creators of Mohawk College’s PNSW program. She tells us about the passion and excitement she has for the field she works in as well as how valuable the PNSW designation is for the people who earn it.

You can learn more about Debbie, and the program she has created by visiting: www.pnsw.org Debbie is also on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PerinatalSW, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pnsw_inc/ and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-fazio-4a0a6930/

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

Our world is finally turning a corner and understanding that those who identify as women truly can have it all. Today we’re speaking with professor, researcher, coach, educator, parent, spouse, and so much more Daisy. 

Daisy talks to us about finding a way to honour our passions, respect our needs and accomplish our goals. It’s a matter of knowing your own limitations, and listening to what your body is telling you.

You can learn more about Daisy and the organizations she is involved with by visiting: https://daisymeadowsequestrian.com IG @daisymeadows.equestrian Kidney Care International: https://www.kidneycarenetwork.ca IG @kidneycarenet Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres https://www.sadvtreatmentcentres.ca 

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

While approximately only 25% of podcast hosts identify as female, the percentage of women who listen to podcasts and consume the information shared significantly higher than that. 

Over the course of the last 18 months, Laurel and I have had the opportunity to speak with many women who own their own businesses, and to welcome guests who provide information and skills to help you, our listeners, live your healthiest and most well life.

Today we are talking with Stacy Maynard. She is not only our BBB producer but she is ALSO an expert in helping individuals start and grow a podcast. Discover tips, tricks and techniques about how to make a successful podcast. To learn more about Stacy and to join her free community, visit: https://www.themastermind.city/ and on IG @sociallystacy

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

From the time we are born, young women and girls are taught to downplay and minimize the feelings that we have from the traumas that we have experienced. We don’t let ourselves think about the reality that these traumas stay with us for the rest of our lives, even if they don’t manifest in the most obvious way. 

How we feel them is really unique and individual to everyone of us. We may experience self limiting beliefs, depression or anxiety, and we may feel isolated in our trauma. 

Kim Murphy is here today to talk to us about the Gentle Trauma Release coaching that she does, and how she teaches her clients to learn to forgive themselves. You can learn more about Kim, and the work that she does by visiting: IG: @its_a_wonderful_life_coaching

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/murphyk13 Website: www.itsawonderfullifecoaching.com

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

What if we started when our children were young? What if we taught them about all of the things that their bodies can do? We tend to be more inclined to do this for children who are assigned male at birth, but for their peers who will have cycles administrate we tend to assign shame and guilt. 

Today we are speaking with Michelle Kapler TCM, acupuncturist, reproductive medicine, practitioner, and more, and we spend dive into the who, what when where and why of menstrual cycles, perimenopause, and menopause.

To learn more about what Michelle does, or to schedule some time to chat with her visit: https://www.michellekapler.com IG @michellekapler and check out her podcast: Perimenopology 

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

You know that feeling when you hear a song that you haven’t heard before and all of the memories come flooding back?  You feel that familiar tempo and pace your breathing to the beat of a time previously forgotten?

Today we are speaking with Music Therapist Adrienne Pringle about how music therapy is used from the incredibly young all of the way to the amazingly aged. It is a technique utilized alongside treatment for illnesses like cancer, Alzheimer’s and dementia, anxiety, chronic pain and more.

To learn more about Adrienne and the work she does, please visit: Beyond the Studio  www.beyondthestudio.ca  / @beyondthestudiomusic

Sing it Girls  www.singitgirls.ca  @singit.girls

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy.  You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be.  To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website:  https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

It isn’t uncommon to hear people talk in whispers about chakras. what IS uncommon is for those same people to take the time to talk about WHAT the chakras are and how we can work with them to encourage our physical and emotional bodies to feel well, process emotions or heal.

Today we are speaking with Heidi Martin of Heidi Martin Wellness Inc., about being open to using our chakras, using social media as our own personal vision board and some of the simple benefits of blending our use of allopathic medicine with some more alternative care approaches in order to be our healthiest and most well.

You can find Heidi on her website: https://heidimartinwellness.com/ and on social media @heidimartinwellness

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy. You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be. To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website: https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

For over two decades Sam has been a consumer of and worked in the realm of women’s and children’s health. She is an expert at helping families start and grow their families and she has watched many of her clients strive to be the best parents they can be while losing a little of themselves in the process. For more information about the services Sam offers, visit her website: www.babyREADY.info2

No matter how much we may plan for or yearn for to become a parent, the moment we get the call or pee on the stick and are dreams begin to move toward being a reality, the nerves crank up.

How will we do this? Can I physically do it? How will I know what to expect? Who is going to be there, by my side with the answers to these questions? How can I have the best, happiest and healthiest journey possible?

Today we are speaking with seasoned Birth Doula, Lisa Caron as she tells us about what a doula does, why she got into the industry and how it is her passion to make every birth experience she attends, the most powerful day in the life of her clients.

You can find Lisa on her website: https://lisacaron.ca/1/Call_the_Doula.html

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy. You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be. To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website: https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

For over two decades Sam has been a consumer of and worked in the realm of women’s and children’s health. She is an expert at helping families start and grow their families and she has watched many of her clients strive to be the best parents they can be while losing a little of themselves in the process. For more information about the services Sam offers, visit her website: www.babyREADY.info

When you are buried in the mountain of grief that surrounds you and your entire existence with the loss of a child, it is virtually impossible to believe that you will ever see a light again.

It is the greatest fear any parent ever has.

It is the greatest fear any expectant parent ever has.

Today we are speaking with Nicole Fraser of the podcast From Heaven and Hope. Nicole lost her first child in September 2015. Over the last couple of years Nicole has found a way to help her own heart heal while at the same time sharing the stories of others.

This conversation is difficult and fraught with emotion. You may want to have a tissue nearby.

To learn more about Nicole, and the work that she does visit: https://www.fromheavenandhope.ca/ or visit her Instagram page: @fromheavenandhope

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy. You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https://boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be. To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website: https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca

Sam has spent over two decades both as a consumer and a professional in the field of women's and children's health. Her extensive experience has made her an expert in assisting families with starting and growing their families. She has observed many of her clients striving to be excellent parents while simultaneously losing their sense of self in the process and her goal is to help them overcome that. To learn more about the services Sam provides, please visit her website at www.babyREADY.info

Sue has a face that most of us have seen before, literally. She spent over a decade and a half working as a professional, international model. Today she spends time speaking with us about the fashion world and how it has changed over the years.

Sue also details for us the journey she embarked upon following her battle with Covid-19. She made the decision to become the healthiest and most well version of herself . . . and that just happened to lead to her becoming a competitive body builder at 50!

Listen today and hear Sue’s story AND meet this week’s guest co-host.

Our special guest co-host this week is Nicole Fraser. Nicole is a wife and mother of 6. 1 child who lives here, earth side and 5 that live in the clouds. Following years of loss and grief, she developed From Heaven and Hope. A space to encourage you on your grief journey. In addition to informative and supportive blog posts, she shares conversations with women who have experienced grief and found a way to move through it effectively on the From Heaven and Hope podcast. You can learn more about Nicole on her website: https:// www.fromheavenandhope.ca/ or visit her Instagram page: @fromheavenandhope

boobs, bods & brains is the pairing of the work and interests of hosts Laurel Crossley and Sam Leeson-McCoy. You can learn more about the podcast, its origins and how to become a sponsor by visiting the website: https:// boobsbodsandbrains.wixsite.com/my-site

For over two decades Sam has been a consumer of and worked in the realm of women’s and children’s health. She is an expert at helping families start and grow their families and she has watched many of her clients strive to be the best parents they can be while losing a little of themselves in the process. For more information about the services Sam offers, visit her website: www.babyREADY.info

Laurel has been guiding and coaching her clients through life's situations for over 30 years with astounding results. Regardless of age or history, Laurel embraces the story of each person she connects with to help them work towards being the happiest and healthiest version of themselves that they can be. To learn more about Laurel or to schedule time to work with her, visit her website: https://www.littlewellnesscompany.ca