This week, Shannon chats with Erika Straub, who is an anxiety & trauma coach for women.

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1. What is trauma?

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• https://www.instagram.com/_anxiousfemale/

This week, Shannon chats with Tamara Leszner-Rovet, who is a registered psychotherapist (RP), certified music therapist (MTA), and registered music teacher (RMT) with over 20 years experience working with individuals with neurological disorders and developmental delays. She holds an Associateship of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto (ARCT), an Honours Bachelor of Music Therapy Degree from the University of Windsor (BMT), and has received additional training as a Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT). Since 2007, she has been the owner and director of Tamara’s Piano Studio and Music Therapy Services (TPSMTS), a private practice specializing in providing music therapy services and adapted music lessons to children and adolescents. She believes strongly in presuming competence and the right to high quality music lessons and music therapy services, regardless of an individual’s age or ability. In addition to running a full time private practice, she is also a mom to an incredible 8 year old with his own unique challenges!

Topics discussed:

1. Tamara's health struggles with Hashimotos and the misdiagnosis she dealt with for 10 years (on and off meds that she didn't actually need)

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This week, Shannon chats with Barbie Liss who is a Maternal Empowerment Coach, helping Women heal Mother Wounds and reclaim their Goddess Energy!

As Mom to 3 grown children, Barbie has travelled the path of Motherhood, from typical to not at all typical experiences. Her life altering experience, and subsequent healing journey as a Mom of a rape survivor, and ultimate Restorative Justice outcome, led to her current path.

She has been featured in Forbes, on Sirius XM, the Great Canadian Women, Empowerography Podcast, and more.

Through a deep dive virtual Coaching Program, Barbie nurtures her clients through unlearning generational wounds and rewriting limiting core belief. She is an UNteacher of damaging messages and a perspective shape shifter. As a Maternal Empowerment Coach, Barbie helps heal old wounds that bleed into new moments, so that You can step fully into Your Goddess Energy!

Topics discussed:

1. Finding your true self through ancestral wound healing

Links mentioned in this episode:

• www.barbieliss.com

This week, Shannon chats with Sarah Deitcher who is a reiki and energy practitioner. After her first certification in Reiki 15 years ago, she fell in love with this healing modality and quickly moved to the next level and continued to practice daily. She uses energy work, essential oils, and meditation to holistically look at the deeper meanings of everything from self love and dis-ease in the body, to relationships and soul purpose.

Topics discussed:

1. What energy work is, who can benefit from doing energy work, and what positive effects you might experience

Links mentioned in this episode:

• https://www.instagram.com/essentially_high/

This week, Shannon chats with Melissa Maker, who is an accidental cleaning expert - because she hates to clean! In 2006 at age 24, she launched Clean My Space, a cleaning service in her hometown of Toronto, Canada, to help out people just like her. In 2011, she decided to create digital content to help drive bookings by launching the Clean My Space YouTube channel. Since then, the channel has amassed over 200 million video views and over 1.7 million subscribers along with a healthy Instagram following and busy website. She also founded a microfiber cleaning tools company in 2016, called Maker's Clean. While Melissa has delivered her expert advice on cleaning products, tools, and DIY substitutes for over ten years, she wasn’t always a cleaning pro and understands that people are looking for practical, time-saving solutions to everyday problems.

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This week, Shannon chats with Dr. Angele Close who is a clinical psychologist and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. Her academic studies included graduating with a Double Honors in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Carleton University in Ottawa and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. She was awarded prestigious National Scholarships when pursuing her doctoral studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto where she received her Ph.D. in 2014.

As a practitioner of mindfulness meditation for over a decade, she received her certification as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher when completing Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Two-Year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program in Scotts Valley, California, in 2019.

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This week, Shannon chats with Adrienne Altman, who is a working mama with two littles, on a mission to educate and empower busy parents, and parents to-be, on how to make smart choices to remove toxins from their everyday products and home without overwhelm. After losing her father to cancer and suffering with fertility issues, she was shocked to learn about the links between specific harmful ingredients in personal care products and overall health - links to fetal development, fertility, cancer, hormonal health and more.Adrienne’s approach is to ditch the overwhelm and empower you take small simple steps in the right direction based on YOUR priorities. Its about making education choices for your family in way that works for YOU and how you live.

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This week, Shannon chats with Laina Halberstadt who is a full time mom, full time house manager, full time wife, and full time business owner. She spends her free time being a mom, managing the house, being a wife, and building a business. She most recently left her eight year career in digital sales to start a career in construction recruiting, in the middle of Covid, with a toddler, and brand new Covid baby. She relies on instagram, Peloton, snacks, cannabis, and self-deprecating humour to guide her through motherhood and its everyday challenges with a smile on her face. She also lives with an invisible illness which she opens up about, and shares how it affects her life as well as her relationships and her children.

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Thank you for tuning in to season 1 of the Get the Gunk Out podcast. In this very short episode, I share my 3 goals/dreams for 2021, as well as a thank you to everyone that has tuned in so far.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. Sending love, support, and well wishes to everyone who is going through difficult times right now. I hope that everyone finds some peace and small pockets of joy this holiday season and into 2021.

Thank you again for being part of this community! We'll see you in the new year!

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This week, Shannon chats with Jenna Greenspoon, who is the mom behind Savvy Sassy Media. She aims to create crafted posts for moms of all types on savvysassymoms.com where she shares educational activities, DIY activities, recipes, travel tips and more. She is a busy mom herself juggling many different balls, but loves to get it all done!

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