Let's Talk With Coach Che Marville

In today's episode, Che has a deep dive conversation with Illustrator, Painter, Brand Strategist, and Professor Vince Mancuso about growing up in the fifties and sixties from a working- class immigrant Italian family in Toronto. Vince describes his inspiration and the impact of culture and childhood on his expectations of himself as a working artist. He is committed to progressing as an Artist, storyteller and teacher, learning to use technology to adapt and grow into this new reality and navigating life during the Pandemic. Che and Vince worked on the Mobile Children's Own Media Museum together in 2010. They sit on the Literary Board for the Excelsis Foundation, founded by the Canadian Publisher Barry Callaghan. 

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In today's episode, Che speaks to Journalist Sabrina Nanji; she covers Ontario politics from the Queen's Park press gallery for Queen's Park Today News Outlet. She is formerly the Toronto Star's democracy reporter and has covered politics for more than five years, focusing on grassroots democracy and participation.  Sabrina describes her experience as a female journalist and her strong sense of duty to report the truth, to tell untold stories, like that of tenants evicted from their rentals during Covid, the story of Covid Long Haulers, the underpaid PSW workers. Sabrina also shares the overwhelming pace of Covid reporting and how driven she is to record the public's real-time experiences in these extraordinary times.

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In today's episode, Che introduces the Let's Talk Listeners to an extraordinary guest, Founder & CEO of The Origin Group of Companies Neil Prashad and gold member sponsor of Let's Talk. Origin is a global industry leader in providing homes, products and programs for seniors. He took the word "retirement" out of Origin's name in 2008 to signal his absolute commitment to embracing the benefits of active living and environmental design for ageing in place. For the last three decades, Neil has built communities not only for mature humans but for the Care workers. He believes that this critical turning point to bringing attention and changing how Caregivers are treated, as they are the retirement industry's backbone. He grew up with a mom who was a nurse, and he saw how hard she worked and that knowledge has inspired the Origin philosophy of looking after the humans that look after our elders through this pandemic and into the future.

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In today's episode, Che thanks the growing listenership for their feedback and shares her desire to use the podcast to talk to thought leaders about diverse ideas that help us grow and adapt in the face of this transformational time. Che also shares some of her childhood experiences and why Black History Month is so meaningful, and the value of building a resilient mindset in the face of racism's detrimental effects. She contends that this is not a period to be hopeless but to be hopeful.

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This unprecedented moment in our collective history is painful, but it also a time to appreciate being alive. It is a time to rise not from fear but to take hold of the value of being alive and acknowledging the hardship and suffering of this universal experience.  And as we battle through the mindset of hopelessness, let's keep focusing on the essential things and wake up the opportunity to be alive from the inside. This moment calls us to make something new, to not forget that we are built for possibility and ingenuity.

In today's episode, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with the Vice President of Sales Solutions and Canada Country Manager at LinkedIn, Jonathan Lister. His team works with the world's most widely recognized brands to help them leverage their vast employee and client networks to build social selling expertise and dramatically improve how they sell. We discussed LinkedIn's goal to connect every working professional on the planet and their commitment to continually grow a more accessible, equitable and transformative platform. 

Che has a conversation with Cheri Lovre, Owner, Director at 5 Radical Minutes and Crisis Management Institute, in today's episode. 

Cheri specializes in working with schools and children who have experienced school shootings; she found herself in an area she had never imagined. She has carved out a unique specialization in on-site response to catastrophic events for schools, agencies or businesses. 

She shares some of her experiences with Columbine, 9/11, the tsunami, the Nickel Mines Amish School shooting and others and the role of compassion and the complex role of recovery in healing.  

Cheri shares her unconventional path into taking care of the suffering others, her new book A Little Book of Courage for the Big Pandemic is about navigating the "lingering fog" of the pandemic and the relationship between grief and anxiety.

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In today's episode, Che had the opportunity to have a profoundly reflective and fascinating conversation with the Physician and Surgeon. Dr. Jane Salter. Jane has carved a unique path in the medical field and discusses the tremendous learning in her life as a human being and health professional. She explores the role of curiosity in learning to heal from our deepest wounds and the role of community and nature in that healing. Jane does not often like to talk about herself; she sees herself as an observer, continually growing from learning. At one point, she started to work more with her own body, becoming a yoga teacher, continually growing her understanding of the body, herself, and the patient's experience. Dr. Salter talks about the value of recognizing what is happening in your own body, being sensitive to what's going on and sensitive to its impact on another body and meeting that body with compassion without expectation and not assuming that we're all in the same place. She is so curious about life, working through her fears and pain to interface with other living beings. She continually asks how we care for mother earth and how we become more present with other sentient beings in pain. Che and Dr. Salter discuss what we can learn from the pandemic moment about being present for others on a soulful level. And the relationship between the biological world, our souls and the opportunity for growth and connection. A lot of learning is about being sensitive and recognizing others' pain; she thinks about the loneliness present before the pandemic, but now we see it. She discusses the role of compassion and kindness in meeting others' suffering and the value of slowing down and simplifying life. But there is a lot of fear naturally right now, and that we all have a history of unresolved trauma, generations back, that doesn't disappear from the human psyche. If perhaps we can become consciously aware of our collective woundedness as a healing location and our essential role as observers. We are sometimes unaware of the pain of others, Dr. Salter cares about paying attention to our felt and yet invisible ancestral pain and being present with her patients; we must recognize our wounds as we care for others. 

She is continually trying to be in the present, trying to pay attention to the moment we exist in now while honouring our ancestors and our collective pain. She finds herself growing more sensitive and intuitive as she takes great care to look after herself, those she loves and her patients by creating space to be present. She describes a contemplative process, allowing the heart and mind to grow in awareness and confront false beliefs. She describes the relationship between continuous learning and healing and always looking for ways to create more room for others. 

Dr. Salter talks about the value of recognizing what is happening in your own body, being sensitive to what's going on and sensitive to its impact on another body and meeting that body with compassion without expectation and not assuming that we're all in the same place. Dr Salter describes nature's role in her learning and practice and how her father influenced her from one human to another human. She said of her father that he carried prayers in his hands and believed in the possibilities of life. She sees her mindset as continually evolving and coming from accumulating a lot of falling over and getting up. 

You can reach Che here- https://www.coachchemarville.com/

In today's episode, Che will introduce you to Stephen Salter; he is the son of the Doctor who saved her life and taught her how to walk again.

Eight years ago, Che shared her game-changing personal story on the CBC show The Current, and by some strange fate, Stephen Salter and his sister Dr. Jane Salter in different provinces heard the show and reached out to Che. They now have this unique connection and friendship.

Stephen is an Environmental Engineer dedicated to sustainable infrastructure for water, energy, and materials across the world. He is always looking for solutions to "balance" the needs economy to reduce our carbon footprint.

As a child, he was fascinated by the beauty and efficiency found in nature; it impacted his perspective as an engineer, always looking at the interconnectedness of things and engineering. He feels that although there is a kind of inertia in the current generation, the generation growing up has an awareness and understanding and willingness to change behaviour. And if we pay attention to our transportation needs, heating our homes and what we consume and how we consume that and make in our kitchen and right there we can make changes that positively impact the environment and is working on some remarkable concepts in his right. Most recently, Stephen and his wife Fernanda Oliveira. felt compelled and inspired to do something to help during the pandemic; drawing on his background, they came up with the idea to create Masks with filters that would for people that work in a long-term care home to use on their way home to and from work to reduce the risks. They organized a team of people, including his eighty-seven-year-old mother law Odete Oliveira., with scoliosis but sewed hundreds of masks herself and sent them to Ontario and Quebec. He was curious about how useful the masks were and tested them. They came back as over 90 percent effective.

Stephen loved nature and how things were connected; he was always interested in the interconnectedness of things and observing nature's beauty, a love inspired by his mother. And even though he came from a family of physicians, he found nature far more compelling.

In this very illuminating conversation, Stephen describes his father's passion and makes a difference as a researcher and innovator. Behind the scenes, he saw his father working on a then-radical experimental process called Continuous Passive Motion that would support joints' healing; this would directly impact Che. Stephen described his father's mobile experiments on rabbits, data analysis and observations of animals. He described the resistance his father experienced and his commitment to continuing to the continual study of cases from around the world; he never wanted to give up. Stephen continues to find inspiration in his father and mother's life experiences. 

Below you will find a link for his website and the abstract on the mask, 

“Canada Sewing Hope” - https://canadasewinghope.ca/index.html

“Reinventing Cloth Masks in the Face of Pandemics” - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/risa.13602

You can reach Che here- https://www.coachchemarville.com/

Che will share a  series of events that changed her life when she was eight. In 1978 she was sent to live with her Aunts in Guyana, and while there developed, a bone infection called osteomyelitis. Che describes harrowing events in three countries where she almost died and how renowned Surgeon and Researcher Dr. Robert Salter saved her life.  As fate would have it, eight years ago, she shared this life-altering event on the CBC radio show The Current about Game-Changing life events.  Unbeknownst to Che, two of Dr. Salter's four children were listening to that show. They reached out to her and have had a chance to develop a  deep connection with them; in the following episodes, Che will introduce listeners to Dr. Jane Salter and Stephen Salter. They are remarkable people in their own right.

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