This week, Shannon chats with Sari Friedman who is a seasoned marketing executive with 15 years of experience leading marketing for high profile e-commerce brands like rakuten.ca, ShopStyle and now the Director of Marketing for Luxy Hair. Sari’s presence on social media originated from her need to walk-the-walk, build her professional brand, and have an outlet to share her obsession with beauty and real life experiences of being a career-focused mom of 2.

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This week, Shannon chats with Rachel Molenda who is a Toronto-based Intuitive Eating & Body Image Coach and Host of the Fill Your Cup Podcast, on a mission to help women stop hating on their bodies and feeling out of control around food. Rachel’s non-restrictive, intuitive eating approach to food has helped thousands of women put an end to emotional eating, binge eating, and disordered eating and find an effortless and enjoyable healthy way of eating and living.

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This week, Shannon chats with Rachelle Wintzen, who is the founder of the Chi Junky Studio in Toronto. She offers a bespoke yoga experience unlike any in the city.

Rachelle’s professional life began in the performing arts world as a dancer, but her thriving career was cut short by injuries. Abandoning her disciplined lifestyle, she was drawn to New York City’s nightlife, where she worked in the city’s top clubs for almost a decade. This lifestyle left her physically and mentally wasted and she vowed to dedicate one year to a radical detox. Turning a negative to a positive she became addicted to living well—a junky for the chi she finally found.

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This week, Shannon chats with Marlie Cohen (also known as Kale and Krunches), who is a fitness and lifestyle creator based in Toronto. Her blog, Kale and Krunches, started as a guide to staying healthy in an office job but quickly grew into a lifestyle brand, gaining the like, know and trust of thousands of women across the globe. From quick recipes and healthy food hot spots, to new workouts and the best mom gear, Marlie loves sharing her favourite products and routines with her audience. As a new-mom, trainer and content creator, Marlie continues to share her story, realness and tips with all her readers and community.

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This week, Shannon chat with Lani Lipson and Jordana Handler, who are both moms and the co-founders of Ee-mah (formerly known as "100 days of"). Lani and Jordana are best friends who navigated the wild world of postpartum together, and realized that there were so many things no one told you about motherhood. They consistently held space for one another’s journey in a non-judgmental, supportive way, and it helped them both come out the other end relatively unscathed. Ee-mah is an extension of their anonymous storytelling platform, @100_daysof where they will continue to explore the things that no one tells you about motherhood.

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This week, Shannon chats with Aaron Fisher, who is the author of the best-selling book “Love Letters”. Aaron was born with an innate passion for helping others. In his 20's he had moved to China to create a charity to facilitate schooling for kids in remote towns throughout the country. He has spoken globally at motivational business development seminars, and has coached fortune 500 companies like Yahoo and H&M on leadership and personal development skills.

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https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/

https://www.instagram.com/theawakeningself/

Love Letters by Us Podcast: https://anchor.fm/theawakeningself

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpek85lvc3LnHrYolwnfNw?view_as=subscriber

Love Letters Book in Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Love-Letters-Aaron-Fisher/dp/0994781210/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1604329695&sr=8-1

In the US: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Letters-Aaron-Fisher/dp/0994781210/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Love%20letters%20by%20aaron%20Fisher&qid=1604336517&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR0zf055FP_xeDQP9FDMex-LcZFmPKv5kk-US1XQtapSrgm41iG2l1z0aT8

This week, Shannon chats with Dr. Jordana Waxman, a Clinical Psychologist in Supervised Practice (currently registering with the College of Psychologists of Ontario), who specializes in working with children, youth and families. She has developed expertise while being trained and working at a number of children’s mental health agencies including The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), The Hospital for Sick Children, Alberta Children’s Hospital, as well as private practice settings.

Twitter: @jwaxman89

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1. Behavioural challenges in kids and how to handle it

The information shared by Dr. Waxman in the podcast is informational and educational only and does not constitute a therapeutic relationship being established with the listener. The content is not meant to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical care, advice, treatment and/or diagnosis.

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

This week, Shannon shares 36 life lessons she's learned in 36 years, on the week of her 36th birthday. Some lessons are serious, and some are about poop, but nonetheless, all equally important!

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This week, Shannon talks with Julia Glowinski, who is a Registered Social Worker, a Certified Sleep Consultant and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) clinician.

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This week, I discuss what life with PTSD and a debilitating panic disorder was like. I also share what I did to heal, lessons I learned, how the pandemic helped me even more, and how you can start finding space for de-gunking in your own life, reagardless of if you've suffered trauma or not.

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