Lets Not Sugarcoat It

In this episode we “get into it’ with Danica Dutt, Okanagan raised mom, wife, and wealth advisor. Danica tells us all about how she went from living life in an unhealthy marriage, and a body she didn’t love to becoming financially independent, and married to her soul mate. Danica’s biggest passion in life is to help women to become money confident. She serves as the Kelowna Women in Business President as well as President of BNI Business Builders, and has been awarded BDOs Top 40 under 40 from the Kelowna Chamber of commerce. We loved talking to Danica about her life, love, and passion. 

In this episode, we “get into it’ with Katharina Kunz, Personal trainer and owner of the company Personal Evolution. Katharina tells us all about her holistic approach to wellness, her business, and her journey to becoming a full-time stepmom. She shares how her workshops, retreats, 1-1 coaching, and membership programs offers opportunities for people to explore news way of being and feeling empowered in their bodies. We love Katharina’s take on healthy body awareness and creating create realistic and sustainable health, vitality and joyful body freedom for life.

Shannon Christensen (born Kimmitt) was born and raised in Kelowna, BC and lives here with her husband of 18 years and her 2 young boys. With a BA in Psychology and Masters of counselling psychology specializing in forensics, she has a passion for working with marginalized populations and used this drive to start Mamas for Mamas. This grassroots project has since become a national non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the negative impact of poverty on low-income mothers and their families. Shannon has been recognized as a top 40 under 40 recipient, A Woman to Watch, and was a top 3 finalist for Woman of the Year through The City of Kelowna Civic and Community Awards. Most recently she has co-authored a best selling book about motherhood and has brought home the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada for her work with Mamas for Mamas. Shannon really likes garlic dill pickles, spaghetti, and making the world a better place.

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In this episode, we ‘get into’ motherhood and entrepreneurship with our good friend and guest, Reena Yost. Reena grew up in foster care and has since gone on to be one of the top realtors for Remax Canada. Reena shares her story of resiliency and talks to us about what it was like growing up in the foster care system, how she navigated losing her brother to a tragedy and her experience as a single mother to a now 16-year-old teenager. 

In this episode we “get into” all things mental health with Lisa Moore owner of Crossroads Collective in Langley and Kelowna. We talk about grief, parenting, counselling for kids and well just about everything. From Bella’s dad’s passing, to  trauma in children, and separation, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. 

In this episode, we ‘get into’ all things academic with Shannan Schimmelmann, co-owner of Prep Academy Tutors of Interior BC. We cover it all, from homework to the pros and cons of the private and public education system, with no holds back on our opinion on the school system in BC. We hope you learn as much as we did from this driven mompreneur.

In this episode ‘we get into” the secret world of acronyms that kids use to hide what they are talking about in texts and online from their parents. We are blown away by the double meaning of common emojis and what to look for when it comes to protecting your kids from using hidden apps and more

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In this episode, we 'get into' all things skin and lasers with Crystelle Gordon, Director of a surgical import company and owner/operator of the new Body Bar Laser Clinic in Kelowna. Crystelle tells us all about how her theory that although "there may not be a holy Grail of eternal youth, there sure as sh*t is a lot we can do today with technology to look as good as possible, at any age." It's definitely an episode you won't want to miss.

 In this episode we ‘get into it’ with reiki master and homeopath Jen Bishop from Joyful Healing. Jen tells us all about how to protect our energy and what our favorite colors mean about what we might have to work on in our lives. Jen is full of knowledge and calm, powerful energy that had us enthralled

In this episode, we 'get into' what it's like to raise kids in this era of materialism and question all our life choices around parenting and the fact that we're raising pretty entitled kids. We answer big questions like 'how much is too much' and 'why are they so ungrateful when it feels like we're giving them the world? Is it us? Is it them? Or is it a little bit of both?