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Join Jen and Jane with guest Lisa Wilson as they have a real, raw, and flowing conversation about the unspoken barriers that exist to people owning their health and taking radical responsibility for whatever is unfolding in their lives. Listen in as Jane and Lisa trade stories around managing kids while growing a business and taking responsibility for their own health journeys, including botched surgery, near-death experiences, and “Super-Mom” Syndrome.

What purpose does community service in your life and are you getting enough? Different communities serve different purposes and in this episode, Jen and Jane discuss what community means to them and how they are working to develop the feeling of community through monthly community calls. “It takes a village”, is the feeling that Jen and Jane want to create with their community. A place to belong, hold space for one another and have the purpose to be present and connect. Listen in and begin to develop your sense of what community means to you.

When is a retreat NOT a retreat? How can you set a more conscious intention to retreat from your day-to-day life, in order to enjoy a different perspective? Join Jen as she explores this topic from her perspective as a recent retreat co-facilitator, and how it helped her to see a ‘retreat’ in a different way.

Join Jen + Jane with their guest, Integrative Health Coach Melissa Deally as they discuss the power of owning your health journey from head to toe. From the value of an Integrative Health approach to figuring out what a toxic load on the body can mean, the conversation dives into the value of investing in your health at the front end, rather than waiting for a wake-up call that may have more serious and long-lasting implications.

Try something new today as Jen and Jane give you a brief introduction to The Empowerment Playbook and some of the additional tools provided when you download it. Today, they invite you to Meet Your Empowered Self with the guided meditation that comes with the Playbook. Enjoy!

In this episode, Jane continues the conversation on taking radical responsibility for your life. She discusses what it means to take ownership of your life and how to shift from a victim's mentality to an empowered one. Listen in as Jane describes how taking radical responsibility for her life has worked for her.

What do you do for play? Do you still play? What does the phrase “Work Hard, Play Hard” mean to/for you? Jen talks about the way “play” was an essential part of her musical training and experiences, while Jane talks about how play is systematically and gradually removed from kids’ lives through the education system. Join Jen + Jane as they dive into the value of welcoming play into our adult lives and how more “play” made its way into their new free offering, The Empowerment Playbook.

What is Shadow Work and why is it important? Join Jen and Jane in this illuminating conversation about bravely exploring your shadow side and coming through with new perspectives and understandings about yourself. You’ll be in the ‘messy middle’ for a while. And you’ll emerge stronger and more compassionate about yourself. You don’t have to do it alone. This episode shows you how.

Listen in as Jen & Jane discuss real-life examples of when they asked for or got what they wished for, only it didn't quite come in the package they were expecting. For Jen, it is her urge for spaciousness and what she has had to let go of, and Jane takes us through her desire for significant change 1 year ago and what it really looked like. They noticed how uncomfortable even getting what we ask for can feel, as it can leave a void of pause between the old and the new ways of life. Tune in as Jen & Jane tell us how to recognize when your wishes come true (and not to stop them!), and how to celebrate them.

Today we dive into how to hand Uncertainty using Creativing with our guest Caroline Brookfield. Caroline is a speaker who is passionate about using creativity in traditionally non-creative fields.

Her no-nonsense approach to life, creativity, and taking on new challenges is so inspiring. Caroline believes that if everyone took small, unconventional actions to embrace their inherent creativity, we could change the world.

Caroline received honors for her veterinary degree from the Ontario (Canada) Veterinary College, is a certified level 2 Creative Problem Solving facilitator, and holds a Certificate of Professional Management from the University of Calgary, where she lives.

In our conversation, we dive into the variety of ways that creativity can help us handle ambiguity and uncertainty, the benefits of creativity to wellbeing in the workplace, and some of the ways that we all use to access creativity when we’re feeling stuck. Caroline shares her DANCE Acronym for learning how to access creativity on your own.