Dharma Chasers

The Dharma Chaser's Podcast will wrap up with this final episode with Marzena Wojcik. Marzena's side hustle is being a yin yoga teacher. Her and Aisha discuss preventing burn out and embracing slow growth.

An interview with Calgarian Andy Nguyen from Playfield and Kings of Hearts. Andy shares his story as it relates to him starting his business and this new initiative and what experiences allow him to lead with vulnerability. We talk about masculinity and unlearning other behaviours we have been taught that no longer serve us.

For the end of the first season, I reconnected with Bobbi and Phil from Tribe of Lambs, to talk about this amazing journey that they have been on with their for profit business. One of the biggest take aways, is having community to ground you and to support you with your work.

This episode is with Sarah Feinstein from Superfein Creative. She has set up her life in the Himalayas in India, supporting herself through design work while living and connecting to her dharma. Her purpose, is to find out "Who I Am" in the personal and larger universal. We talk about how even when you set up this lifestyle, you still need practices of self care in order to keep yourself from getting overwhelmed or straying from what is important in your life. It opens with her beautiful take on meditation and her story.

Even when you are working in your purpose or dharma, you need a strong self care practice to prevent burn out. Carla Bitz was able to take time away from working within one of her dharmas to refocus and recentre.

I sat down with Priscilla Jabouin M.A, c.o, RYT 200- aka The Dream Job Catcher. Her dharma is to help others find their dream job. She believes that work should be fun and that you can find happiness through it.

This episode is for anyone who is unhappy in their current employment situation, anyone feeling like something is missing, entrepreneurs and dreamers.

When your WHY for your offering/business if your dharma (purpose or calling), it's common to stray from your WHY when things get too much. Aisha outlines 3 major obstacles all entrepreneurs and dharma chasers have in staying focused and connected to their why. And strategies to overcome these obstacles.

Michaela Bekenn is a Toronto based singer songwriter and yoga teacher. On this episode she talks about being called to write and share music- and the healing that this has had on herself and others.

This week’s episode is with Cory Burdock. She works as a nurse in palliative care and is a yoga teacher. Her calling was to create safe spaces for people to heal. We talked about what it means to create a safe space for others, storytelling, accountability, real talk on selfcare, and yoga- so basically all of my favourite types of things. This episode is for anyone who- works with others in a service or healing capacity. Like health care professionals, wellness professionals, teachers, coaches, social workers and caregivers.

This week I caught up with Laura Berg, who is the founder of the Nourish Sweat Soul. They make athletic wear that are sweat shop free, made in LA and using environmentally friendly practices. You might remember Laura from Episode 9, when to surrender. If you haven’t listened to that one yet, I definitely recommend going back to hear it either now or after you listen to this one. In episode 9 we learned about Laura’s dharma and what inspired her company. Since the 4 months or since we last talked to Laura, she’s been working full time on her brand and has a lot of exciting things happening. So In this episode we get some more insights into what it actually means to be an entrepreneur when you see your product or business as your calling or dharma. And we talked about the Fashion Revolution happening in Calgary, AB.