By April McGinnis
The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
Welcome! Today we chat with Laura Suchan.
Laura is the Executive Director of the Oshawa Museum, a dedicated historian, lover of heavy metal music, and a jewellery designer!
Laura's story is sure to inspire! She left a bad marriage with kids in tow, found herself in the process, and has never looked back.
The love she has found with her new husband is a heart-warming story of how soul mates meet.
Aging: Our final episode in a 4-part series on aging and how women experience the aging process
Do men and women experience aging differently?
Our contributors share their views on how they feel women experience aging compared to men.
What do you think? Is there a difference? If so, what is the main difference, in a nutshell?
Aging: The 3rd in the 4-part series on aging as viewed and experienced by women.
In this episode, we hear some wisdom our contributors would share with their younger selves.
Do you have any knowledge you think your 30-year-old self would have benefitted from?
Aging: Part 2 of the 4-part series
This episode addresses some of the challenges women experience in the aging process. From physical changes to feeling invisible, we hear from Karem and Sue with their views on how aging presents challenges to them.
Thanks so much for joining us every Thursday!
Aging: is there anything you can appreciate about it? What are the challenges of aging? What wisdom would you share with your younger self? Do men and women experience again differently?
In this episode, the first of a 4-part series on perceptions of aging from a female perspective, we hear from women about what they appreciate about aging.
Freedom, reduced responsibility, opportunities to really know yourself and more!
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You met Judy and Rose of The Best Breast Vest Company in Episode XX. In this episode, they share their coping strategies, use of humour and camaraderie, family relationships and learning lessons that help build "life wisdom" and resiliency.
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Wellness includes mental and physical - and we seem to struggle with that balance. The pandemic has magnified the simmering lack of wellness we've been ignoring for years. We can't ignore it anymore. Tips from Lana Doss, Yvette Nechvatal-Drew, Lorine McGinnis Shulze, and Sue Pitchforth, plus some understanding of how the mind and body are connected and how we can learn to recognize the clues are bodies are giving us that we often miss.
Meet Judy and Rose, founders of the Best Breast Vest Company! These two friends joined forces after Judy had breast cancer and found that post-mastectomy, she wanted to look like her old self but she didn't want to wait to be fitted with a protheses that required more healing at the surgery site. So, she took matters into her own hands and designed a vest that had a pocket that accommodated an insert so that she didn't look "lop-sided". Rose was a stay-at-home mom and hadn't really considered going into business until Judy asked her to help her out!
In this episode, the friends share their journeys with us, and what a ride they have to share!
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If she’s going to chew gum, Rose Olesen likes to have enough to be able to blow bubbles. Knitting, reading playing board games and improvisation are the hobbies that save her sanity. She’s been married for 23 years and has one son whom she & her husband affectionally call "Robot Boy" because he’s always wearing headphones. She was born in southern Ontario and has resided in Kitchener-Waterloo ever since coming to the area for university a long time ago. She is of medium height, medium weight and has medium brown eyes. Rose is in awe of cats. Every day she has one black, one pu er [pronounced poo year] and one green tea with Jasmin, minimum. If you’re wondering what to give her, homemade cookies are an excellent choice. To help her son and husband out, she’s already written the opening line of her memorial service: “Wherever Rose is, we know she is saying, “Finally, the laundry is done.’ "
Judy Van Rhijn is the co-founder of the Best Breast Vest Co. It's a new company that sells vests to women who have had mastectomies. It is her first foray into the business world. She is an Australian lawyer by profession. She started her working life as a country town solicitor in Queensland and New South Wales. After practising for seven years, she went travelling around Australia for 3 years, writing novels and filmscripts and doing seasonal work like grapepicking, housesitting and nannying at the ski fields. During her third season at the ski resort, she met a handsome Canadian and moved to Kitchener, Ontario to be married. At that time, she was unable to work as a lawyer without returning to University to get a Canadian law degree. Instead, she started freelance writing, mostly for legal publications, and was able to work from home while she had four beautiful children in seven years.
In June 2018, when her children were 17, 16, 13 and 10, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As she prepared for a mastectomy, she tried to get fitted for a mastectomy bra and prosthesis and found that nobody would undertake that until 4 to 6 weeks after surgery, leaving her lop-sided for the first few months. Being a sewer, she came up with a vest with internal pockets as a practical solution.The response from the hospital staff was so enthusiastic that she asked her friend Rose to help her develop the idea into a business, and here they are.
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Lana Doss is back!
Lana has relished playing in the dirt since she was a child and continues to share that thrill with others. She has spent 30 years of her career in a leadership role in horticulture, mainly for reputable garden centers. She takes great joy in educating people on their living things and helping gardens reach their full potential with her company, The Fine Gardener. During the winter you can find her teaching Plant Health and Pest Management at Algonquin College and delivering gardening workshops, seminars and talks. Her company specializes in garden maintenance, consultations, small space design & installation, garden renovations, container gardening, edible landscapes, native and pollinator/bee friendly spaces as well as live plant workshops.
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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.