By Ami Dehne
The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.
In this conversation, we speak with fierce birth advocate, unmedicated birth expert and doula Lizzie Bolliger. We talk about creating a disruption around giving birth unmedicated in a system that pushes and almost expects births to be medicated. We talk about bringing ourselves back home to the ancient act of giving birth.
We talk about how our purpose in life is something that is in constant motion and changing and evolving all the time. That the experiences we are having today are going to serve us in the future in the ways we may never know.
In the end we talk about how being a busy mother providing for the needs of our families and doing work in the world that lights us up is possible.
This is a beautiful, light hearted, open and honest conversation with a fierce woman who cares deeply about women being able to have a fulfilling birthing experience and is an example to many mothers that being an entrepreneur and a mother is possible and fulfilling.
A true disruption.
In this episode, we talk about:
Intuition and how powerful a tool it is during our birthing process
Trusting Your Body to do the one task that biologically most women are tasked with doing which is to give birth
Fear and the role it plays in so many medicated births
Physiological birth which are powered by the innate human capacity of the woman and fetus.
Purpose and how our purpose is constantly evolving and shifting and its not something that will be the same indefinitely
About Lizzie:
Lizzie Bolliger is a doula and childbirth educator who empowers expecting moms to have their best pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a balance of mom intuition, evidenced based practices, and knowing what is physiologically normal.
When she’s not advocating for birth you can find her making Nespressos, exercising in her living room, homeschooling, or hanging out on Instagram (@fiercelizzie)
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In today’s conversation, we speak with mentor and change maker, Chris Green.
Chris is the founder and director of the Guelph Outdoor School which is committed to supporting youth by providing opportunities to know themselves, grow rich relationships, and respond with care to a changing world.
Ten years ago when Chris started the outdoor school, he saw a possibility that not everyone saw. What if there was another way of educating our children that wasn’t just about reading, writing, and arithmetic? Something non-clinical and yet an effective method for children's health and well-being.
A true disruption in the making.
This is a conversation about raising whole, balanced, and resilient children through nature immersion. It’s about whole child education.
We talk about how allowing children access to explore our natural environment is an education that goes beyond just the mind. It provides them with a solid foundation for interacting with life both now and into the indefinite future. We talk about the possibility of shifting how we see and conduct education.
Chris and his incredible team of mentors are providing an alternative and complementary method to our current educational system.
As Chris and I speak about in this conversation, its hard to put into words exactly what the outdoor school is providing because it's outside the realm of language and falls into the world of experience. One crack as explaining it is "Learning about plants. Getting feet wet in the river. Playing games outdoors. Yelling. Climbing. Peeing in the woods. Making tea. Lighting fires. Carving. Reverence for the ideas of others in a sharing circle.”
It's sometimes quite difficult to describe experiences but what I do know is that the experiences children get from their time in nature will serve them in ways that go well beyond just their grades on a report card.
We talk about:
Learning: it doesn’t just happen at a desk with paper and pen and happens up in the head and off to one side. Learning is embodied and happens through all our senses.
Unregimented Play: and how it leads to a deeper understanding of our bodies, developing a strong sense of intuition, and hones children's natural capacity for curiosity.
Mentorship: The role of question-asking and the value of remaining curious
Attribute-Based Curriculum: focusing on “ways of being” as opposed to things that we know to help children take on many future skill sets.
Experiences: The deep inherent value of having experiences vs being told or explained to which helps to develop multi-faceted children.
About Chris Green
After 2 years of classroom teaching, Chris founded the Guelph Outdoor School in the fall of 2012, and has served as Director. A settler of Scottish and English ancestry, he loves to tell jokes and old stories and is drawn to supporting youth by providing opportunities to know themselves, grow rich relationships, and respond with care to a changing world. This comes in the form of supporting outdoor immersion and mentorship programs at GOS, as well as Rite of Passage experiences for adolescents in the out-of-doors.
He loves old beat-up things, stacking wood, and sneaking up on painted turtles.
"Humanity for white folks is deeply tied up in this work as well, so it's impossible to live in a world with as much injustice and think that you will be unaffected by it" - Carla Beharry
In this episode, I speak with mixed race, writer, antiracism consultant, speaker, and mental health advocate Carla Beharry. This is a conversation about racism for white people. We talk about being white and the implicit and explicit harm it has caused for generations. We talk about racial justice. We talk about racial trauma. We talk about the various ways we can teach our children about racism and how to start the process of dismantling it.
This is an important conversation, friends. This is a conversation about uprooting racism that is so embedded in our culture that it's most of the time, invisible.
As Carla says in our conversation “it’s impossible to live in a world with as much injustice and think that you will be unaffected by it” For us to truly walk a life rich with meaning and purpose, we must look at the ugly parts of humanity in the eye, especially those we are blind to, and have a willingness to acknowledge it, to be with the uncomfortableness of it. Then we begin to disrupt it. Then healing can happen as the healing is a key piece to us ALL bringing our beauty and gifts to this world.
In this episode, we talk about:
Racism - what do we really mean when we say ‘all white skinned people are racist’.
Silence - how white progressives are causing the most harm to the racial justice movement by saying nothing at all.
Parenting - how can we as parents start teaching our children, even the youngest of them, about racism, and their role in it, in a healthy and non-demoralizing way.
Discomfort - how so many white people choose not to speak out in fear of making a mistake or saying the wrong thing. We talk about how to navigate this.
Being An Advocate - what does being an advocate for the racial justice movement look like and how to engage in it in the everyday.
and our own personal journey navigating racism.
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And if you're like many, you may be stuck and spinning by the question "What Is My Purpose?"
Finally reveal what’s important to you so that you can begin living the life you’re meant to be living without needing to know your purpose.
Asking ‘what is my purpose’ is one of the most frustrating questions you can ask yourself when you’re longing for a life rich with meaning, creativity and happiness.
The free meditation below is specifically designed for people who are unclear, spinning, and stuck by the question ‘what am I here to do?'.
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About Carla Beharry
Carla Beharry is a mixed-race, Guyanese-British-Canadian, and works as relationship coach for racialized individuals and intercultural and multi-ethnic families. She is an Antiracism Consultant, writer, speaker, and mental health advocate. She specializes in health & education equity and works with wellness professionals and educators to build antiracist and equitable healthcare practices and educational opportunities for under-served racialized individuals who have been historically excluded from health and wellness spaces.
“I've always loved the definition of adventure as a journey, with an uncertain outcome. And it's it's very much that, like, there is excitement and possibility and room to create. And there is this incredible void and grief and sadness and loss that I think you you need to have them together." - Alex
In today’s conversation we speak with outdoor adventure guide, canoe builder and entrepreneur Alex Savatti. Alex is the co-owner of an transformative outdoor adventure company located in Ontario, Canada called The Trip Shed.
We speak about the perceived risk of following your heart's desire, of stepping outside of our regular rhythm and standing in the often uncomfortable liminal space that these journeys take.
We explore what living an intentional life looks like and the ups and downs that come with stepping outside of our cultural worldview to get into alignment with what’s calling us. We talk about how powerful, yet challenging, it is to listen to our intuition as it often only speaks as a whisper.
In this episode, we talk about:
Trust: The willingness and 'risk' to loose sight of the shore in search of what's calling us and how uncomfortable this space can be but how imperative it is for following our soul's longing.
Intuition: It usually only speaks as a whisper and if we're willing to listen and follow its guide, the life we long for is on the other side.
Risk: What are we really risking when we follow the path towards our calling
Gratitude: How being grateful for the little small things in life allows for the bigger things to emerge.
Effortless Uncover What's Calling You:
You have dreams for yourself and an ambition for your life. You’re here to create influence, impact, and change.
And if you're like many, you may be stuck and spinning by the question "What Is My Purpose?"
Finally reveal what’s important to you so that you can begin living the life you’re meant to be living without needing to know your purpose.
Asking ‘what is my purpose’ is one of the most frustrating questions you can ask yourself when you’re longing for a life rich with meaning, creativity and happiness.
The free meditation below is specifically designed for people who are unclear, spinning, and stuck by the question ‘what am I here to do?'.
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Resources:
About Alex
Alex Savatti, self-proclaimed King of the Dirt, is a crossbreed of a life spent loving people and the outdoors. His path has led him and his brother, Aaron, to creating The Trip Shed, an experience-first outdoor adventure company.
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“[Astrology is] about accepting and finding ways of having compassion for and working with the different ways that we are and making it into more of the sort of strong, affirming, aligned ways that we can be in the world and letting go of maybe the less sure.”
In this episode, we have an inspiring, uplifting and educational conversation with astrologer and self identified Witch, Stella The Good Witch. We breakdown what we mean when we say witchcraft (I promise it's not as scary as you think), the power of using astrology to get us closer to our personal calling, to be fully witnessed and to have more compassion and self acceptance of just who we are.
We also dive into what spirituality means for both of us and how it's something that can be fully self created, which I just love.
I’m so excited to give you a little peek into a part of my life that I haven’t really let out of the bag yet.
In this episode, we talk about:
Astrology: how we can use it to help guide us to living more intentionally'
Witch Craft: what is it really (I promise its not crazy )and why it can be such a powerful tool in Spirituality: something that can be self-defined to fit our own values.
Burnout: taking care of ourselves first is fundamental in our healing of the world.
Connection: how going through our own personal disruptions can be healing pathways of connections with our families and communities.
Disruptions: what do I really mean when I talk about disruptions and the power it has to completely shift our lives for the better.
Effortless Uncover What's Calling You:
You have dreams for yourself and an ambition for your life. You’re here to create influence, impact, and change.
And if you're like many, you may be stuck and spinning by the question "What Is My Purpose?"
Finally reveal what’s important to you so that you can begin living the life you’re meant to be living without needing to know your purpose.
Asking ‘what is my purpose’ is one of the most frustrating questions you can ask yourself when you’re longing for a life rich with meaning, creativity and happiness.
The free meditation below is specifically designed for people who are unclear, spinning, and stuck by the question ‘what am I here to do?'.
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Become A Guest:
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Resources:
About Stella:
Stella the Good (Enough) Witch was born on Halloween and raised by witches. When they aren’t offering cosmically informed spiritual counsel, they spend most of their time cooking food, organizing for social and environmental justice, planning a trip or returning from one and collaging. They love helping artists, activists and healers prevent and recover from burnout. They live by poet Wendell Berry’s words “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”
"I think once you get to a point in your life where things are being a little bit on autopilot, you need to stop and check in with yourself as to why you're still doing what you're doing."
We speak with wilderness homesteader, winter wilderness travel guide and Alone participant Kie Marrone. Kie spent 80 days surviving on the shores of Great Slave Lake in the North West Territories unassisted in the History Channel’s ALONE.
Kie, co-owns Lure of the North, which specializes in traditional winter travel, handcrafts and wilderness living. Kie spends most of her time fully immersed in the remote wilderness at her homestead in which her nearest neighbour is 10 kilometres by rough trail.
Our conversation goes many places; Kie’s time by herself surviving on Alone, what does it look like to lead with vulnerability and how challenging that can be in a culture where, unfortunately, our emotional expression still erroneously signals a sign of weakness.
We talk about the challenge of staying our own course in life, following our internal compass, when the outside world is pushing hard to send us in a different direction and the power of reclaiming feminine leadership and the confidence it provides when women are able to show up with all parts of themselves and not try to fit into the traditional masculine model of leadership.
In this episode we talk about:
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Check out our free download that promises to help you discover the clarity you're seeking.
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About Kie: Kie co-owns Lure of the North, a Canadian wilderness experience company. She teaches wilderness living skills courses, traditional handcrafting workshops and guides some of the toughest snowshoe expeditions presently offered in the Boreal forest with her husband Dave. She has most recently spent 80 days surviving on the shores of Great Slave Lake in the NWT on the hit reality TV show ALONE in which she was able to put all of her life experiences to the test.
In this conversation, we speak with engineer, entrepreneur, teacher and my good friend, Dr. Jamie Miller, about shifting our consciousness and the way we see and interact with the world using nature as our guide. Jamie is the founder of an award-winning company, Biomimicry Frontiers which is leading the world in transforming how we think, behave and create from a paradigm that is inspired by nature.
This is a raw and honest conversation about what connects us, about our grief and our vulnerabilities. It’s a conversation about what is offered when we can slow down and listen deeply. Ultimately, this is a conversation about what makes us human.
In this episode we talk about:
Spirituality - exploring and redefining it so it fits our own values.
Nature - what we can learn from it about cooperation, living in community, and our capitalistic culture.
Slowing down - the gift that comes from deep reflection and going inward.
Vulnerability - the role it plays in helping us to actualize our calling and what we care deeply about.
Fear - choosing it, using it as our guide and as an indicator when we’re getting close to our edge and leading with our purpose.
Disruptions and rebellions - going against the status quo. Proving that we don’t have to follow the highway to be successful.
Death - how the premature death of a parent has been a major driver to be in service to a vision bigger than ourselves.
Grief - It never leaves us. It morphs, changes and evolves.
Get Into Action Around What's Important To You:
If you’re someone who is creative and driven and is longing to bring a vision into the world but is being stopped by
Its time to get into action to fully play in life, to bring your vision to fruition, and to gain the clarity you crave and begin to transition into living a more inspired and fulfilled life. Check it out here.
Become A Guest:
Do you have a suggestion for a Disruptor your know (it may be you!) who would be a great guest on the Disruptions With Purpose podcast? Submit a suggestion.
Resources:
The adaptive cycle and why we avoid change (and how nature could teach us to change)
Exploring the connection of death and environmental degradation
A toolkit for exploring nature's genius www.asknature.org
Biomimicry Frontiers www.biomimicryfrontiers.com
Braiding Sweetgrass
About Jamie:
By his nature, Jamie Miller is fundamentally looking to explore while he's on this planet. Whether it be philosophies, ideas, death or in nature, he appreciates finding boundaries and seeing if we can push just a little bit further into that unknown. It's no surprise that he named his company Biomimicry Frontiers, a company dedicated to pushing the perception of design, using nature as a model and measure to reharmonize the built and natural environments. Jamie lives in Guelph with his wife and child (and one on the way).
In this conversation, we speak with striper, artist, comedian and Instagram influencer, Jacq Frances. We have a hilarious and beautiful conversation about Jacq’s fascinating journey to becoming a striper and transitioning that gift into becoming an artist. Jacq’s Instagram account, @jacqthestripper, has been causing a huge disruption by giving voice to the female body and permission for women to take back ownership of our bodies. Overall, this is a conversation about the role play, humour, and creativity have in being an ally in our pursuits to creating a more purposeful life.
“I still wanted to be a traveller, just not a poor one anymore. So I shaved my legs and bush, showed up to the first Google search result that came up for ‘gentlemen’s club Sydney,’ got naked for this old fat guy named Jim and, to my surprise, I liked it. A lot.” -Jacq from The Beaver Show
In this episode we talk about:
Check out our past conversation with Jacq’s sister Karry On Death and Dying.
If you’re interested in Uncovering your blind spots and step into your full potential and discover what you want your life to look like and take the steps and build the muscle to make it happen or to get into Action to fully play in life contact me at [email protected] to chat about 1:1 coaching.
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About Jacq:
Jacq Frances is a multidisciplinary sex symbol and aspiring sugar daddy. She makes art, money and a joke out of everything. You may know her on the internet as @jacqthestripper.
In this episode, I speak with Organic Master Gardener, social change leader, aspiring rural farmer, a cook, a nurturer, an educator and advocate, Angel Beyde. We talk about the struggles and incredible resilience of Black farmers, the importance of land ownership for farming with equity, intergenerational trauma experienced by the BIPOC community, and non-racialized folks taking responsibility to work for racial justice.
We talk about how our stories from our childhood are a blueprint that shapes many of the passions and visions we have for ourselves in our adult years. We connect on her story that led Angel to become a Black-Mixed race farmer in her forties and the challenges that she is facing in trying to purchase land.
We talk about the importance of compassion in Calling In vs Calling Out, of social change through bridge-building, and the courage to overcome and heal from white fragility. We share about the need for willingness to go through discomfort as we’re addressing and uprooting racism that is so embedded in our culture that it's most of the time, invisible. I continue to reflect on Angel's quote,
"If your biggest fear is to be uncomfortable, but my biggest fear is to be killed by the police, then maybe it's worth it to be uncomfortable to learn how to change society.”
Overall, in the end, this is a conversation about what it takes to keep staying the course when all external forces are saying 'no'. It's about the importance of nurturing connection with an open heart. To see the possibility in the impossible. It's about how to stay creative and resilient in the face of adversity.
If you're interested in learning more about coaching 1:1 with Ami send me a hello - [email protected].
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About Angel:
Angel Beyde is a Black/mixed-race grower of food and flowers. An Organic Master Gardener, educator and facilitator, Angel has worked in Urban Ag, eco-landscaping and non-profits for many years. She is passionate about regenerative growing practices as key to food sovereignty and community abundance. Angel and her husband Raph are currently looking for rural O
In this episode, we speak with Tessa Fleming, a filmmaker, director, teacher, mother, and artist.
This is a conversation about what it takes to live a life that you want. How to be able to step outside of our current way of thinking to take bold steps into doing something that makes us feel alive.
We talk about shifting perceptions about what we’re told how things ought to go, and boldly saying no thank you, that's not for me and going in a completely different direction. It's about giving ourselves the permission to do the bold and wild things we want for ourselves and to see in the world.
Tessa recently premiered a short movie called Us Time which you can watch for free.
In this episode we talk about:
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Resources:
About Tessa:
Tessa is a budding writer/director who started her professional life as a high school English, ESL and drama teacher. Tessa has lived and worked aboard, most memorably in India, on a mobile library driving through rural townships checking out books and delivering programs alongside local librarians to enthusiastic readers. It was here where her love of working creatively and collaboratively with others was solidified. Tessa loves stories and loves telling them. Us Time is her first film. Tessa lives in Guelph with her partner Daniel Grant and their two sons.
The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.