HER - Honest Everyday Ramblings

Today we are talking with mental health advocate and entrepreneur Lesley Kelly (aka @highheelsandcanolafields) about the importance of mental health conversations and support in agriculture, why she co-founded the Do More Agriculture foundation to support farmers, how she is working to change farm culture and create a supportive community for future generations, and the change you can inspire when you are willing to share your story. 

We hear the shocking statistics around mental health, stress, anxiety and depression in farming communities, the heartbreakingly high suicide rates of farmers, what the many layers of “FARM STRESS” are, and the stigmas, challenges and barriers preventing people from getting the help and support they need. Lesley shares openly about mental health struggles within her family, why her husband initially hid his panic attacks from her - and how they found the tools to navigate together, and the AHA moment that led them to speak openly about their stresses and struggles in a video that went viral around the world - impacting hundreds of thousands of farming families. We talk about the power of leaning into service, the life saving impact of knowing we aren’t alone in our struggles and a remarkable piece of advice from her dad that had us ALL in tears. 

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The misconceptions and misinformation about farming and mental health, how Do More AG is moving the needle on mental health awareness, the positive changes she has seen in the past few years within the farming communities,  navigating working with your family and the weight of generational farming.

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We are tackling a tough and uncomfortable topic today.... MONEY honey! Erika specifically gets super open on how her over spending and lack of respect for finances put a HUGE stress on her marriage, why her husband made her manage the budget on her own, and what exactly caused her get her butt in gear to change her habits and save her marriage. She struggled to find resources to help her, and in true Erika fashion she figured out a method of her own and did the work! She gives us the TOOLS she personally developed to get her spending on track and start saving, HOW she broke the work down for herself and the book that seriously shifted her money mindset.

We talk about the EMOTIONAL reasons behind her spending and shopping, how her recent ADHD diagnosis gave her more clarity on her financial struggles, and the impact influencing had on her bank account. She shares about her “money personas”, how to implement a spending detox, and WHY you need an accountability person. 

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Then importance of acknowledging your WANTS, defining your NEEDS, why it’s important for your future to live within your means now, specific advice for shopping at Home Sense ( we all need it! ) and the THIS or THAT trick that helped her along the way. 

Grab your notebook + a pen friends - this episode is FULL of great tips! 

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Today we are chatting with Milton Block ( aka Erika's Dad!) about conflict resolution, navigating team environments and how to connect with your children in the language they understand. Milton has 34 years of experience in the education system as a teacher, principal, teacher representative and mediator - and he drops some SERIOUS tools and tips on us. We were on the edge of our seats during this conversation, this episode is FULL of so much good stuff- get a pen and notebook ready because you are about to be hit with A LOT of wisdom and tools!

Milton gives us tools for navigating team dynamics, conflict and problem solving in the workplace, how to deal with the jerks on your team ( hint, it starts with holding up a mirror ), leaning into our individual strengths to build a solid team, why “KNOW THYSELF” is his number one tip for conflict resolution, and the power of self awareness. We talk about the things that motivate behaviour, the power of OBSERVING, the question he starts conversations with to allow for curiosity and choice, what a “PLUS 10” is - and how you can utilize it in your workplace and relationships.

Milton shares his best parenting advice, the two questions we are hardwired to come to a problem with, tips on how to talk with our children in the ways they understand, and the importance of finding out our children’s path of learning. We talk about how to deal with bullies in the language that they speak, the different types of bullying, and the importance of teaching our children to be assertive without being aggressive.

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The role parents play in children's behaviour and the emotional moderation of children, knowing our "blind spots" and strengths, and reallocating our weaknesses in order to expand and grow, what accountability looks like and how to model and teach it to our kids, the meaning and power of asking for forgiveness, AND.... what Erika was really like as a child!

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Today we are sitting down with multi passionate entrepreneur and founder of the Little Wonders Family Program Jen Draper. We talk about battling imposter syndrome, the impact her childhood trauma had on her mental health and anxiety, and how she turned not having a place to feel safe into a beautiful Non Profit program that connects families together in community and support. 

Jen shares vulnerably with us about being removed from her childhood home due to her mother’s addictions and lifestyle, her near death experience as a toddler, growing up very quickly at a young age, and the catalyst that led her to start therapy in her 20’s and dig deep into the buried memories she dissociated from as a young child. We talk about healing generational trauma, finding the right therapist, the tools she uses to manage her anxiety and mental health and how she is being who she needed when she was younger NOW. 

Jen shares with us her WHY behind creating the Little Wonders Family Program, the process and journey of building a Non Profit, the hurdles that came up and the community that she found along the way. We talk about the impact working with the Little Wonders Families has on her, how the Little Wonders moms inspired her to create the Heart's Desire Gala, and how she learned that the smallest things are truly the BIGGEST.

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Getting over the comparison game on social media and building boundaries within in, the magic of women coming together to support and build each other up, the healing the comes of creating the community and spaces you need and want and why singing in the car is her favourite form of therapy.

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Today we are chatting with multiple business owner Aimee Schneider about how she bought and rebranded existing businesses and made them her own, what happens when you bite off more than you can chew in business, navigating the wedding industry, and the 10 years of ups and downs its took to get where she is now.

Aimee opens up about going through a divorce while simultaneously taking over a bridal business, how she found the right support people to help her grow, and the importance of taking risks, stepping into the unknown and finding her way. She shares how COVID shifted her perspective in business, the beautiful learnings and opportunities it brought her and the intentional system she developed to give brides the ultimate experience AND increase sales conversion during the pandemic. We talk about the behind the scenes of the bridal industry, how she manages the dynamic surrounding the bride so she has the BEST possible experience, the emotional aspect of finding THE dress, and why giving support NOT opinions is so important.  

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It’s a solo episode friends, and we take a raw and honest look into how entrepreneurship affects and impacts our friendships. We chat about our vastly different experiences with friendship and business, what it looks like to be surrounded with support - and how it feels when the people you cheer on DON’T clap for you in return. 

We open up about the layers and misconceptions of being an entrepreneur, false friendships and navigating the fakeness that exists in social media, the overlap of entrepreneurship and personal development and the journey of knowing who your people are and letting go of what others think. 

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Today we're chatting with morning news anchor and media personality Joelle Tomlinson about her journey into journalism, the identity struggle she had growing up biracial in Saskatchewan to adoptive white parents. What it's been like navigating the grief and trauma of losing her brother to an accidental drug overdose, and how she has unpacked her grief and grown because of it.

We dive into how her journalism career started as a scrappy teenager vying to get published (and how that led to her first on air job!), navigating the many NO's to find the one YES, and the career opportunities that have surprised her. She speaks vulnerably about the challenges and abuse she faces as a bi-racial woman in the media industry, how she protects her energy and handles it with grace, the line she treads with tokenism in her work and the importance of mentorship in the workplace.  

PLUS: Why running is therapy for her, how it has supported her healing, and the vulnerability it takes to run Ultra marathons. Why she ISN'T a long term goal setter and how it has opened her up to opportunity, the value of making mistakes and stepping outside her comfort zone, how she found and created community in a new city, and beauty of making new friends as an adult. 

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Today we are in conversation with Transformational Life Coach and Unstuckologist Jaime Gordon, chatting about how to get UNSTUCK in life and relationships, the main emotion we all battle with that causes us to STAY stuck, WHY we choose things for ourselves that cause us suffering, HOW we can step into ownership and accountability, and the freedom of figuring out our “victim stories”.

Jamie shares how she got herself out of the “living to not lose” mindset, how she uses the Enneagram in her work + how it can help you lean into your strengths, the one question she asks herself and her coaching clients that holds major power, and her tools for consistent growth.

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Moving through resistance and how to peel the layers back in order to grow, becoming comfortable with your discomfort, what over reacting actually means about YOU, why ownership is the name of the game, and the simple questions to ask yourself to make BIG shifts.

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It's a SOLO episode friends, and we are talking ALL things ANXIETY. It's something that affects so many of us, including CJ and Megan personally - and we are getting open and honest about what our journeys managing anxiety have looked like. We talk about the physical, emotional and mental impacts anxiety has on us, how it FEELS for us, how we recover and reset after experiencing an anxiety or panic attack, what we do to cope and how we get ahead of it before it goes off the rails.

We share about our personal experiences with and without medication, the shame and stigmas around it and the personal pros and cons for us. You will hear how we navigate external factors, triggers and overstimulation, we share tools and tips we use for managing anxiety, talk about the battle between logic and overwhelm AND how you can support the people you love who are managing anxiety. 

PLUS:  How anxiety impacts our everyday lives as entrepreneurs, our businesses, our families, and our relationships, the simple things we implement daily to support ourselves, the importance of setting boundaries, and the difference of postpartum anxiety. 

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We are joined by multi passionate entrepreneur, business coach and mother of 4 Suzy Holman today! Suzy shares how she has healed her wounds through creation in business, why she is empowering women to have their best lives within their business, releasing emotions and attracting on purpose, what it MEANS to be manifesting and how we can harness it to create what we want! Suzy opens up about her journey in the Instagram world, how she manages the intertwining of work, motherhood and life, what the emotional guidance scale ( aka the Vibrational Ladder) is and how we operate from it, and how we can matching our emotional energy to our manifestations to create abundance in any area. 

PLUS: How creating safe rooms of women and finding her people changed her life, having BIG visions and seeing them through to creation, why she installed a giant screen and production studio in her home and what we can expect from her in the near future! 

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