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Many of the movements we perform, tasks we complete and personal interactions we have all rely on our vision. Even our sleep schedules are affected by the light we see during the day. And having the ability to see is a sense that we tend to take for granted and don't give it much thought until our vision becomes blurred... and then we make that appointment to see our optometrist.

Dr. Morgan Welburn, Optometrist and Partner of the Renfrew Eye Clinic and her business partner advocate for eye health, encouraging people to get regular eye tests and are bringing in more tools and technology to help advance the full spectrum of vision care for their patients.

Dr. Welburn was also recently featured in Women in Optometry showcasing her clinic's recent renovation, is a community supporter sponsoring events and initiatives, and is bringing awareness to female optometrists, as the numbers and the positions occupied by women optometrists are not only increasing but are actually starting to outnumber their male counterparts.

In this episode, we discuss:

❌👓 Why should you NOT buy perscription and glasses online

🤓 If you have 20/20 vision... does this mean you have perfect eyesight?!

🤷🏼‍♀️ Does Dr. Welburn think that a gender imbalance still exists in optometrist professionals?

👏🏼 Hear how Dr. Welburn is empowering her team and other women in optometry

SOCL Media is an award winning female-led digital team with boss babes Krystal Archibald and Cassandra Oakley, website design and marketing strategists, that take pride in their unorthodox strategies, unique designs, and ability to stay true to your brand and its audience throughout the entire process. 


These babes are the go-to social media experts in their industry and they've proven that time and again from the testimonials from their clients, continuous FACES Ottawa award winners, and a portogio that's full of speaking engagements, high profile clients and a wealth of knowledge.

This dynamic duo also knows business and they're talking all about what gores on behind the scenes of being a biz owners and the not so glamourous parts that just don't get publically talked about enough in their new podcast Baby It's Business!

In this episode, you're going to hear all about:

📲 This multidisciplinary creative studio that helps biz owners with content creation, social media strategies, website development and everything related to the socials!

📲 Why EVERY business should have a website (regardless if you're a startup, home-based, or established biz)

📲 How can we get our businesses in the top 3 Google searches

📲 How to drive traffic people to your website (and a ✨tip✨ of what the first thing someone should see when they get there)

And so much more! 🤩 because these babes REALLY know a thing or two about social media marketing!

Tammy Bowers has owned Marché Bowers Freshmart for over 17 years and she knows a thing or two about food, community, and leadership. But how did a former PSW come to owning a grocery store and what did she think a day in the life would look?

In this episode, we chat about

🛒 Food inflation and why prices of our groceries keeps going up?!

🛒 How can we keep our food costs low but still buy what we need (along with our snack non-negotiables)

🛒 Why should more women consider a career in grocery retail?

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Tammy Bowers est propriétaire du Marché Bowers Freshmart depuis plus de 17 ans et elle connaît une chose ou deux sur la nourriture, la communauté et le leadership. Mais comment une ancienne PSSP en est-elle arrivée à posséder une épicerie et à quoi pensait-elle qu'une journée dans la vie ressemblerait?

Dans cet épisode, nous discutons de

🛒 L'inflation alimentaire et pourquoi les prix de nos courses ne cessent d'augmenter ?!

🛒 Comment pouvons-nous maintenir nos coûts alimentaires bas tout en achetant ce dont nous avons besoin (ainsi que nos collations non négociables)

🛒 Pourquoi plus de femmes devraient-elles envisager une carrière dans l'épicerie au détail ?

Located on 375 acres outside of Calabogie in Ashdad you can find Long Lane Farms - 5 acre market garden, 3 greenhouses, cows, goats, chickens, pigs, 3 livestock dogs, and a couple that is fiercely supportive of one another with the sweetest little farmer helper.

Chris Norten and Kristen Wagner are second generational farmers that want to keep the "great" in Greater Madawaska and beyond by providing their community with the freshest, naturally grown products as they strive to demonstrate how their food is raised, and nurture the connection between community and farmer.

In this episode, we chat about....

👨🏻‍🌾 The story of how Kristen and Chris met and how neither of them ever thought their paths would lead them to becoming farmers

🧑‍🌾 Why it's not only important to support local farmers but to get to know your farmer and learn where your food is coming from #knowyourfarmerknowyourfood

👨🏻‍🌾 The brilliant idea behind their Meat Share program, where you will experience a combination of the best, tastiest, local, pasture raised meats

👩‍🌾 Why Kristen and other female farmers are the unsung heroes in agriculture - because, in Kristen's words "women CAN do it all." And they will! 👏🏼

This big blue building is well known by Ottawa Valley locals, located Downtown Pembroke and their story stretches back 4 generations to one Beachburg family’s experience with deafness. Former owner and founder, Andrea Graham's great grandfather was profoundly hearing impaired. He was accidentally killed while walking along the train tracks. From the time her grandfather shared the story, she knew she wanted to educate people about hearing and the impact of hearing loss and opened Heritage Hearing Care Inc. in 1998.

Over the last 18 years, audiologist Terri Selle, has focused her education on tinnitus and hearing aids as a clinician. After working for Heritage Hearing Care for the last 10 years, Terri has taken over as owner and Andrea has stepped back to strictly focus on patient care.

In this episode, we chat all about:

👂🏼 What are some preventative ways that we can protect our hearing aside from the standard "keeping our noise exposure to a minimum?" 

👂🏼 What causes someone to be born deaf?

👂🏼 What is "listening fatigue" ... and is it common?

👂🏼Why should we NOT be using Q-Tips.. and what the hell are they for anyways?!

With a history working with competitive women's hockey teams, high school football teams, and is the former Head Athletic Trainer for the Humber College Women's Rugby team, for which she won Athletic Therapist of the year, Sarah Campanico is a proud athletic therapist and biz owner of Evernew Rehabilitation who's goal is to break the stigma about concussions, normalize that athletic therapy is for EVERY body, and that athletic therapists don't just "sit on the sidelines and get to watch sports for a living."

In this episode, we chat about:

💭 The hilarious story of how a dream Sarah had when was 15 years old that led led her to pursuing athletic therapy as a career (what?!)

💃 How Sarah went from enjoying a fitness pole dancing class to falling from an elevated height and realizing she was experiencing a concussion (and the signs to look for)

♥️ How chronic pain and concussions relate to pregnancy and postpartum recovery

👏🏼 Why Sarah has given her business. Evernew Rehab, pronouns (she/her) and shares that she has recently incorporated!

And so much more!

This is an episode YOU DO NOT want to miss and need to tune into.

All biz owners have similar goals - we want to grow our business, stand out, and get results. But we want to do it ✨EFFECTIVELY✨without putting in hours upon hours of time, ditch the feeling of becoming overwhelmed, and not waste money on service-based solutions that don't get us the results we're hoping for.

But in order to achieve those goals, you need to have a strategic marketing plan in place along with the knowledge to implement it. Sherry Crummy started Crummy Media Solutions in March 2012 after she saw a need for business owners seeking social media marketing help - and after taking advertising, digital marketing and social media courses throughout the years, she knew she was ready to launch her biz and started helping small business owners and organizations increase their brand awareness and sales by helping them understand and embrace digital marketing solutions.

In this episode, we chat all things social media + digital marketing, including:

👩🏼‍💻 If a business is on social media, has a LinkedIn page, AND a mailing list...should they also have a website?

👩🏼‍💻Why every business should have consistent marketing strategies in place

👩🏼‍💻 Why every entrepreneur and biz owner should be on LinkedIn

👩🏼‍💻 How to create an email marketing strategy without sounding too pushy

After Chelsea Malowski, an east-coast military spouse got posted to Petawawa with her husband, she noticed that there was a lack of home décor, gifts, and local products for purchase in Petawawa.  Starting in 2017, as a home-based e-commerce business, Chelsea began developing and expanding relationships with Canadian vendors. With a growing list of artisans and a need for more space to showcase the products, she began looking for a commercial location and opened Valley Creations Canada in June 2021.

Today, there are over 195 Artisans products from across the country that are featured inside Valley Creations, with several vendors that are sourced locally.

In this episode, Chelsea chats about:

🌸 How she manages to run and oversee her store, while working a full time career, and balancing motherhood, with a deployed spouse

🌸 Being a milspouse, it's challenges and sacrifices, and how she found her community support system

🌸 Her personal experience battling and overcoming cervical cancer while pregnant + why she strongly advocates for PAP tests and her health

🌸 Why her store goes beyond supporting local artisans and the friendships she's made along the way

We've been hearing this familiar voice on the radio for years, as she used to be the General Manager at Lapointe Chrysler, another local dealership but she has since relocated to her hometown of Petawawa's local dealership and is now the General Manager at Petawawa Kia.

Tiffany Schroeder has taken this opportunity to restructure her team, renovating the dealership, creating more of a presence for the dealership on the socials, and most importantly, is creating a space to entice more women to enter the automotive sector.

In this episode, Tiffany and I discuss:

🚘 Why she decided to leave Lapoiunte Chrysler and take on a new dealership

🚘 How she stepped into a new role where damage control was needed after a notorious negative customer experience went viral

🚘 The gender stigma around women shopping for vehicles and how that is changing

🚘 How women are driving the future in the automotive industry

Many of us start our businesses, without even really much of a game plan, and the majority of us are figuring it out along the way. But learning how to run a business is getting out of your own head and taking control of the steering wheel.

👉🏼 How do we navigate the hurdles?

👉🏼Prioritize our time so that we can finally have the financial freedom we've been manifesting?

👉🏼Actually have that work life balance that we thought we would achieve by becoming an entrepreneur?

All of this IS POSSIBLE and it doesn't have to be isolating and you don't have to feel alone in this journey.

Nicole Haney started her career like every other millennial: landed a corporate job, worked the 9-5 and then realized she wanted to work for herself. And so she QUIT her job and launched a multi-figure business that was booming! But with all her successes also came with its challenges and burnout,

When other business owners started asking for advice on how she had successfully scaled her business, Nicole started coaching entrepreneurs online. Now, she's a Business Coach, Professor, and Speaker helping passionate entrepreneurs build their business and create the life of their dreams.

In this episode, Nicole and I discuss:

🫱🏼‍🫲🏻 Collaboration, mentorship and guidance between other women in business

📱🚫 Why Nicole doesn't spend hours on reels, batching content, and scrolling for ideas to post on social media (and yet is BUILDING and GROWING her business)

😳 What to do when your business is no longer serving you and you are feeling burnt out, unhappy or unfulfilled as an entrepreneur

🤔 How to not only survive the recession we're currently in... but to BEAT IT!