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Chelsea Jones, what a delight to chat with. Her easy smile and quick laugh arrive before you realize how sharp and creative her mind is. The thread of her life so far has been helping those disadvantaged restoring bodies and minds.  She has big goals, achieves them in what she calls small bits, yet for most people they would be considered long strides. Chelsea is humble in relating her Occupational Therapist work with the Canadian Armed Forces members. I believe the members of our forces deserve all the support we can give them for what they do for us, proud of her for that.

  Her photography will take your breath away, as it has many judges.

We chat about her systems for reaching her big goals, how she balances her life-work ratio, which is hard when you love both so dearly.  She relates the influences in her life; how she has embraced her path from that. It is a cheery conversation that I think will give you some rich insights that you can use yourself.

Chelsea Jones Bio

Chelsea is a diverse woman accomplished in both medical and artistic fields. She is brilliant in both. Having just earned her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. Now she is a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leiden University,  Netherlands going deeper into trauma-affected populations and novel interventions. She started and remains working with military and veteran personnel as an Occupational Therapists.  Even her dogs play their part as comfort dogs. 

 Her artistic expressions earned her PPOC’s Master of Photographic Arts (MPA). The crown is the rare award of a Fellow of PPOC with her thesis on Diversity and Inclusion in the Photographic Community. Her images frequently win regional and National salon awards. Chelsea holds 20 Accreditations in diverse photographic genres. 

 In front of all these accomplishments is a warm, caring woman easy to laugh and smile. Based in Edmonton with her family she has just started her stride to improve our world. She is the chair for PPOC’s National Accreditation program, a member of the PPOC National Diversity effort and PPOC-AB’s chair for their Inclusion effort

 Chelsea is the owner and award-winning principal photographer for Vitality Images. 

 You reach her here
Twitter: @Caffeinecamera
Website: http://www.vitalityimages.ca
Instagram: @vitalityimagesphotography
LinkedIn: @chelseajonesOT

 Some of her articles are here:

Articles: : https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2021/06/phd-grad-finds-her-calling-serving-those-who-serve-their-country.html

 https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2020/09/digital-mental-health-treatment-just-as-effective-as-in-person-therapy-study.html

Studies referred to in the podcast:

https://www.researchprotocols.org/2020/10/e20620/

 https://mhealth.jmir.org/2020/9/e22079/

  About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
http://innerspiritphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/innerspiritphotography/


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Grace Yan is my guest. rather than the usual speaking points, we talked more about her character what drives her, how she got her values. What future she sees for Calgary, the impressive challenge of running for Mayor in Calgary, why would someone want to who is not a career politician. 
I think you will find some insights on Grace, where she comes from, why she is running, what it takes; all those behind the scenes type of info.

 Grace Yan
More about Grace on her website
https://graceyanformayor.com/about-grace-yan

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
http://innerspiritphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/innerspiritphotography/


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Sara De Raaf is a young woman with focus. Her go-to phrase is "Just give 'er" When she focuses on something it pretty much happens. 

She is driven by accountability and responsibility. She really carves out her own path, accepting and working with whatever comes her way. With all that, you would be surprised she is quiet and rather bashful. She works full time in a metal shop, but side hustles with a self-published magazine, models while increasing getting behind the lens in her new photography angle. In the middle of COVID, she leased studio space.. 

This mom of two has a  relationship with her two children, 21 and 11 that is open and honest. Sara cultivated the no topic is out of bounds, no judgement (although she does bit her tongue) and guidance.

Oh, and she lost the bodyweight of an entire person over the last 18 months. That changed a lot in her life.    Sara has not had it easy, doesn't really care, just pushes ahead with her dreams and plans. 

Sara DeRaaf Bio
I am a 37-year-old model from the small town of Brooks, Alberta, Canada, born and raised. I have always grown up in small towns most of my life and a few farms. So I am not afraid to get dirty. I consider myself a bit tomboy/redneck, but always have that girly side to me. Love to get out and have fun and get dirty. I graduated high school a year yearly and continued onto college after that, graduating with a Business and Accounting Diploma. And have been working since. I currently run a large machine shop in my hometown and love the hard work and getting my hands dirty and putting in any and all effort to get the job done. 

 I also have been working as a model for 6 years now and am looking to expand my modelling portfolio.  I have expanded further and taken up photography as well and have been doing that now for two years. Just recently opened my own studio located in Brooks.

 I am an all inked Girl with 13 Tattoos (including sleeves) and three piercings and always adding more tattoos. I have grown to love adding artwork to myself and believe that our bodies are our temples, and I am just decorating the walls. I am plus size and tall. I am a hard-working mother to two kids, from ages of adult to just mid-school age and enjoy every minute of it. I love to work hard and keep busy. I currently run the machine shop with some modelling on the side, always looking to expand more with my modelling. I want to show others that size does not matter, everyone is beautiful and takes confidence to show the world.

 See her photography, her magazine  and her here:
Her website:  https://insonicphotography.mypixieset.com/
Instagram: @saraderaaf   @insonic_photography     @insonic_boudoir   @shazzlesmag      @shazzleslifestylemagazine     

Facebook: www.facebook.com/insonicphotography www.facebook.com/groups/Stella.Pearl www.facebook.com/theshazzles

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
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High Conflict Divorce is exactly as it sounds. A relationship has or is on the way of not only a complete angry collapse it but a fight on many destructive levels. It takes a lot to get through it. Trish gives clarity on what it is and means. How a woman entering this level of conflict can be prepared.

Trish Guise goes deep, the signs of when you are in a dangerous relationship that will likely end in this divorce style. She talks about what to expect, how to handle it, the resources available to you.

She talks about the words to watch for, the words to express what is going on. Why it is so important to leave this type of relationship. The importance of getting safe first, what to set up before you even start talking to professionals who will help to extract you.  She talks about escape plans before you even move towards divorce.

Powerful, life-saving perhaps, steps to take before the divorce action is put into action. Questions you should ask your lawyer. 

Trish Bio
Trish brings the face of reality and experience, she has gone, successfully but bruised, through her own high conflict divorce. She is trained in communications with high conflict individuals, copping with Cluster B personality disorders, post-separation abuse Business Coach.   

n addition to running her own practice Trish is:

• An associate at Supporting Wellness psychological & Family Services.
• A certified New Ways for Families® (NWFF) Coach, trained by Bill Eddy, Esq., co-founder of the High Conflict Institute.
• The Canadian Ambassador for Contemporary Family Magazine.
• A member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC).
• A btaining her certification in Brain Story.
• A Universal Women's Network™️ Women of Inspiration 2021 Award Nominee 
• A contributor and feature in Universal Women's Network™️ 100 Women of Inspiration 2021 Book coming Sept 2021.
• featured in Universal Women's Network™️ Driving Change - Women Seen, Heard, Valued campaign which celebrates leaders from a variety of industries that make an impact on a local, national and global scale.

Reach out to Trish:

Website: www.trishguise.com. Email:  [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-guise-b01756204/

5 things you need to know to survive and thrive after a divorce:
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/divorce-co-parent-coach-trish-guise-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-survive-and-thrive-after-a-b425b9a3ea1fHuffPost


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Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
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Trish Guise- Our chat brought out a unique mix in her personality. While she laughs a lot, her passion for helping women going through dangerous divorces focused. She has been there, surprised that she was yet fought through it. Taking that fight knowledge as a life purpose for other women. It does not define her though, she has a new happy marriage, children and zest for life that always has her smiling.

We talk about her gave her the strongest viewpoint and strength, that was a fun surprise, How sports helped get through those hard times and carries her today. Lots of insights, some unique viewpoints and things to consider.

I think you will enjoy this conversation.   

Bio Trish Guise
Trish Guise, MBA is a Divorce & Parenting Coach specializing in working with families experiencing abuse or high conflict. Trish is also a certified New Ways for Families® (NWFF) Coach, trained by Bill Eddy, Esq., co-founder of the High Conflict Institute. Trish founded her practice after surviving her own high conflict divorce that spanned 12 years. 

​For over 25 years Trish has taught others effective communication and conflict resolution skills in various scenarios. She initially honed her skills during her tenure as a Human Resources executive, University Business Instructor, Training Facilitator, Co-Founder of an Oil & Gas Consulting Firm and Executive Coach. As a result of her high conflict divorce and experience with parental alienation, Trish had the opportunity to study and work with many of the world's leading experts in family law, high conflict, post-separation abuse, and parental alienation. Combining her education and experience, Trish is on a mission to ensure people in high conflict situations are equipped with as many tools and resources as possible to minimize enduring trauma and prevent becoming a targeted parent.

 Trish helps parents navigate their divorce while protecting their children from the arising conflict.  She supports her clients with guidance on emotional regulation, issue assessment, document preparation, case management, understanding the divorce process, and how to choose and communicate with their family lawyer. Trish teaches clients how to trust their judgment as a parent, trust their ability to make the best choice for their children and how to be the kind of parent their children need them to be.

 Trish’s specialties include communicating with high conflict/antagonistic individuals, recognizing and handling the power imbalance between parents (particularly if one parent was a stay-at-home parent), preventing parental alienation and advocating for a child’s right to a loving relationship with both parents, save for any abuse or neglect. 

Website: www.trishguise.com. Email:  [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-guise-b01756204/

5 things you need to know to survive and thrive after a divorce:
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/divorce-co-parent-coach-trish-guise-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-survive-and-thrive-after-a-b425b9a3ea1fHuffPost


About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Julie Scott loves to talk. It was one of the joys she found about herself, making this episode a wonderful chat. Julie talks about how she used humour to deflect criticism or awkward moments. Looking back, she found she was constantly hiding herself, becoming a people pleaser to her detriment. Owning up to who she was, who she wanted to be, what her boundaries were, all came with a price, top of that list was her marriage.

It took a journey of several years, one she is still on, to find her happy place. She now steps fully into the richness of her life and relationships. 

In our conversation, we explore her trigger points of discovery and pivoting—gems of insight, lots of laughing too. A path does emerge with touchstones that you might find of value too. 

Julie Scott BIO
Julie is a Self Expansion Coach, Developer of the Confidence Blueprint, a speaker, author and lover of cats.

She is a life coach who thrives on helping mature women prioritize their needs and gain confidence so they can stop worrying about “being enough” and start living life. 

A self-proclaimed “feel-good junkie,” Julie is someone who personally experienced decades of struggling with people-pleasing, over-giving and low self-esteem; the end of her marriage is the wake-up call she needed to change her future. By uncovering unhealthy beliefs and patterns, Julie has learned to accept, trust and love herself, and she’s helped hundreds of other women do the same through her free  Facebook group and private and group coaching sessions. 

Julie currently lives in Palm  Springs, California and is truthfully living the confident life she always dreamed of.
You can reach her or learn more at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theconfidentwomenscommunity
Website: https://www.itsabouttimebaby.com/
Book some time; www.itsabouttimebaby.com

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Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
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Tracy Blehm is a focused ray of sunshine that guides people. From leaving school and her addictive-based family finally successfully, living on her own, to putting herself through university without anyone's help; vowing to be the opposite of her family she has done remarkable things.

With a stellar architect career, she changed direction to open a clinic, with no experience on a path full of terrors that she overcame. Finally landing where her true talent comes into play, a business coach. Helping entrepreneurs carve out a successful business.  She has a fresh openness, she is direct, does not tolerate fools, yet will help to no end a person willing to grow.   
I think you will enjoy getting to know Tracy. How she overcame obstacles. 

Tracy Blehm is one of Calgary's Top Spiritual Entrepreneurs. As a Women’s Entrepreneur Coach, her creative and strategic approach has this powerhouse working with clients in a unique and highly effective way. She is also the owner of Tracy Blehm Coaching, a company she founded in 2009 that is dedicated to educating and investing in client's mental health to create healthy, thriving businesses that make an impact while creating the time freedom and wealth they desire and deserve – guilt-free!
Reach out to her. She has some amazing programs that will grow you.

[email protected]
www.tracyblehm.com

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography. His photo studio is inner Spirit Photography. 
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Barabara Arnold - In a bid to add English to her 3 base languages she left Holland at 18 to university in Vancouver. Culture shock, determination along with her embracing the moment and its opportunities, she overcame and stayed. Set up an international horseback vacation company, with interesting business before and aft. Leapt into painting, never small stuff, she started with big expressive wall pieces.  She has found her heart in art. Our world is a bit richer for it. 

Fought cancer, lost a few soulmate dogs, had a marriage dissolve then had a new relationship blossom.   Barbara is an all-in-or-nothing kinda woman. With her infectious laugh, her lightness she is a woman you will want to meet.

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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Barbara Arnold Bio
Barbara Arnold Art, Vancouver

http://www.barbaraarnoldart.com

Instagram: @barbaraarnoldart. 
T: 604 760 4465

Barbara was born in The Netherlands and lived in Europe until she immigrated in 1981 to Canada. She lives and works in Vancouver.

After travelling extensively throughout Europe, South, Central and North America, Africa, and Asia, as well as working in the fields of, hospitality and travel industry and in interior design and photography and as a TV host, her search for a deeper spiritual meaning led her to a career in painting. After attending courses at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, in Vancouver, B.C., in addition to private training. Barbara is working full time as a mixed media artist and has a studio on Granville Island.

In 2017 Barbara wrote a coffee table book that was published by Granville Island publishing. The book offers short stories about her travels and a glimpse into her art.
Her work has been selected for many juried exhibitions and she holds solo exhibitions every year. Numerous of Barbara’s paintings have found a home in Europe, North America and Canada

 She also teaches private and semi-private art classes. In 2019 Barbara started her Art Fashion & Decor featuring Cashmere and Silk Scarves, decorative pillow covers featuring her artwork. Recently she added face masks to the collection and paints hand painted one-of-a-kind cards to send to that special person.

Barbara has a great passion for life, music, and nature, and has found that painting has become a necessity in her life. Painting gives her a feeling of harmony and balance. As it is in life, so it is in painting. She enjoys allowing her paintings to take on a life all their own and begins with a ‘get acquainted ‘period before seeing what the painting is about. The spontaneously abstract created pieces reveal a passion for colour and exploration, using methods that include acrylics, oils, wax, graphite, charcoal, antiquing processes, and inks.

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Joanne Ruston's smile is constantly coming on. She just naturally  a comfortable person to be around. The biggest force that shaped her we discovered was being the first born. It was fascinating to see how that nurturing, inclusive leadership roll shaped her journey. At the high school job search Travel Agent seemed to fit her future vision. It was a perfect fit, she was amazing at, loved to travel, still does. Then suddenly she took a leap into basically an all male industry she knew nothing about. Feet first as a franchise owner. It was a struggle the first year but her makeup is one to succeed,

She shaped her little company into on that not only shattered glass ceilings but broke records, a lot. Her belief in giving back with leadership roles on boards, perfecting the life work balance.  It is all here. I think you will enjoy Joanne Ruston's chat with me.

Joanne Ruston Bio
Speedpro Signs, Calgary NE
www.speedpronorth.com  *  403 239 2169

After working in the Corporate Travel Industry for over 20 years, Joanne opened the Speedpro Calgary NE franchise in in 2001, the week of 9/11 to be exact. 

With no background in the sign industry, Joanne applied her customer service and sales experience and adapted it to the Sign Industry. 

Being a mostly male dominated industry at the time, it was a work in progress. Fast forward almost 20 years, and many awards later, Joanne has grown the business into one of the top producing stores in the Speedpro Franchise.

*Speedpro Sales & Marketing Achievement Award – 2007

 *Awarded Business in Calgary Magazine’s “Leader of Tomorrow” – in 2009

(This award recognizes individuals who are leading their respective industries and are positioned by    attitude, desire and accomplishments to lead into the future. This award is nominated by customers, business associates and staff as firms that will lead their sector and the city in the future.)

*Awarded Speedpro Signs Franchise of the Year -5 times

*Awarded Speedpro’s Al Crowe Memorial Cup Award for highest sales in Canada – 4 times

*Named 3 Best Sign Companies in Calgary by “Three Best Rated” – 5 years in a row                                                                  (This is awarded after checking extensive customer reviews, ratings, history, complaints, satisfaction, trust, cost and general excellence.)

*2021 – written up in the Canadian Franchise Association Magazine – as a “Female Franchise  Leader” in Canada amongst Canadian Franchises

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Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
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Batista has an amazing story. Her small town entertainer troupe entrepreneur parents imbued her with the spirit of possibilities, with no money or contacts she goes to Spain, with a broken foot she travels with a troupe, then she follows her love to America, 9 car accidents in two years (none her fault), she goes searching for a new life pain free. She abandons her old life, friends & husband, finds a new purpose, new love and a new mission. All wrapped up in her new pain free life. Now, it is the in-between comments that are fascinating. You will want to find her magic in this chat.


Batista Gremaud’s Bio:
Her long time passion in quantum physics and metaphysical science inspires her to help people of all ages to achieve greater integration of body, mind and spirit through the practice of strengthening the body and the mind with the Dr Fitness USA’s Body Design Formula prescription strength training coaching system.
Link to websites
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Stay safe, strong and sane and remember
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" A. Einstein

About Mark Laurie - Host.
Mark has been transforming how women see themselves, enlarging their sense of sexy, expanding their confidence in an exciting adventure that is transformational photography.
http://innerspiritphotography.com

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