Poolside Podcast

Welcome to the show Lauren and Avalon. These two women are the founders of Aura Inner Beauty, a company that sells a collection of premium ingestible beauty products are carefully formulated with a sophisticated blend of probiotics, prebiotics and antioxidants to nourish your beauty from within. They share how they met and why they decided to start Aura together. They explain what their first product, Radiance is and why they are dedicated to healthy products focused on beauty. They share their advice for living a healthy life as well as starting a business. https://aurainnerbeauty.com/

https://www.instagram.com/aurainnerbeauty/

Welcome to the show Brooke Van Ryssel. Brooke is the owner and founder of My Body, a gym dedicated to body positivity and being inclusive to every person, body and fitness level. Brooke shares where the idea for the gym came from and why we need to get away from the traditional gym where people are focused on aesthetic rather than how they feel. We talk about why body positivity is so important and how the beauty and diet industry is impacting how we view ourselves. She gives her advice for people who need to break out of the low self-confidence mindset and work towards healing. She explains why you should work towards body neutrality rather than only focusing on body love. We talk about social media and how it can play a seriously negative role in our body image and some of the steps to turn it into a positive experience. She suggests only following people that make you feel seen and supported rather than those you are comparing yourself to.

https://www.mybodywpg.ca/

http://instagram.com/mybodywpg

Welcome to the show Christine Leskun. Christine is the founder and owner of Enlightened Benefits and Lifelet and is a motivator at YYC Cycle. She shares how and why she has started to businesses, one in insurance and one is jewelry. They seem very different but at the core its about helping people and creating a connection with people. She shares how she is trying to change how social media is being used - making it more real and sharing someone's entire story, not just the highlights. Christine gives her business owner advice and how she dedicates her time to learning new skills and finding a way to solve problems that she encounters. Her two biggest takeaways are being curious and finding a mentor - she dives into what that means and how it has impacted her life and business career.

https://www.instagram.com/christineanne403/

https://www.instagram.com/lifelet.co/

https://www.instagram.com/enlightenedbenefits/

Welcome to the show Shauna MacDonald. Shauna is the founder and CEO of Brookline PR, a boutique agency in Calgary. She shares how she started Brookline from scratch and why she has chosen to remain boutique but also being able to land huge, national brands. We talk about how PR from traditional media when there was no social media and how it has evolved with the emergence of Instagram, Facebook and all of that. Who are we speaking to and how are they making decisions, thinking about millennials to Gen Z and how to get them to listen. Shauna gives her advice for people who want to start a business, what she loves about the flexibility of entrepreneurship and why she wants people to stop using the phrase, woman in business.

http://www.brooklinepr.com/

https://www.instagram.com/brookline_pr/

Welcome to the show Jess and Ronnie Olstad. Jess and Ronnie share their relationship advice and how they take time for each other even though they are both running their own businesses. Both of them acknowledge that a relationship takes work but at the end of the day and that the grass is greener where you water it. A relationship isn’t about you, and we talk about how important it is to keep your partner’s happiness in mind when you make decisions and choices in life. People who are 80 never look back on their relationship and wish they were more selfish. They share their favourite date spots and activity and how they check in with each other to make sure both people in the relationship feel heard and supported. Jess and Ronnie know the importance of family and that work isn’t the be all end all so spending time with each other and with Swazie is very important.

http://www.loveforlewiston.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/loveforlewiston/

https://www.instagram.com/jsjanzen/

Welcome to the show Jayme Macfayden. Jayme is the co-owner and co-founder of BMEX Group who owns five of Calgary's best restaurants. Jayme shares where the idea for UNA, their first restaurant came from and how their first business plan failed but in the end worked out because UNA was born. Two years later they opened Ox because they wanted a cocktail bar for their Una waitlisted guests to wait for a table.

Jayme shares her love for hospitality and how that inspires her every day to get out of bed. Customer interactions, a good experience and good food can really impact a person’s day. It’s not about the food, it’s about the people in the restaurant. Their secret sauce for success doesn’t have anything to do with the delicious food they are serving but the joy that customers feel when they dine in at any of their restaurants. The atmosphere and feeling of belonging in the restaurant. This was something that just happened naturally from day one but has been the underlying key to success in all of their restaurants. Jayme shares the lessons she has learned along the way about running restaurants, business and life in general. She also gives her advice on being able to balance work and life, why keeping her health a priority is so important and advice on finding the perfect business partner.

http://www.unapizzeria.com/

http://www.frenchieyyc.com/

http://www.breadandcircusyyc.com/

https://www.nativetongues.ca/

Welcome to the show Lexi and Dani. These two women are the co-owners and founders of The Gut Lab, a wellness company that is focused on products for a healthy gut. We talk about how important our gut health is and how it impacts every aspect of our life. The women share their story of growing up with bone broth and how they made bone broth cool. They evolved The Gut Lab from just bone broth to a whole array of health products including essential powders, tonics and superfood shakers. We talk about the power of stress and how to manage it as well as other ways to improve gut health and overall wellness. This episode is so full of great tips, tricks and advice for running a business as well as living a healthier life.

https://www.instagram.com/loveyourguts/

Welcome to the show Rachel & Dan. The couple teaches spin at YYC Cycle and are both business owners in the real estate space. They share their story on how they met and how they've strengthened and grown their relationship over the years. We talk about the distraction of cellphones and how to reconnect in a relationship. They share the challenges of both being entrepreneurs and how they use strong communication to separate business from their relationship when it's necessary. They give their best relationship advice, their relationship non-negotiable and their favourite date spot.

www.instagram.com/_rmorrison_/

www.instagram.com/dmackin/

www.tollo.ca

www.instagram.com/tollo.ca

Welcome to the show Amber Romaniuk. Amber is an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert who helps professional women achieve optimal health through mindful eating, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food. Her podcast “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” has over 275,000 downloads and she has appeared on local TV 40 times in the last three years alone.

Amber overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than 1000 lbs and spending over $50,000 on binge foods and spending 5 years balancing her hormones and digestion. Now she helps others achieve Body Freedom™ so they have the confidence and health to create amazing lives.

We talk about self-care strategies, how social media plays a part in our health and why you have to stop and ask yourself how you're feeling.

http://amberapproved.ca/

http://podcast.amberapproved.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/amberromaniuk/

Welcome to the show, Jordyn and Brianna. They are the owners and founders of The Study, a movement and wellness studio in Cochrane Alberta. They share the journey of coming up with the idea of the studio while in university and how they managed to open it and grow a loyal community without having business degrees. They are both creative visionaries and dreamers which is how the studio came to life. Even though there were roadblocks along the way, they both insist that if those mistakes and lessons never happened they wouldn’t be where they are today, celebrating more than two years of being open. They share their advice for people who want to start a business, how they have grown such an incredible team and what they’ve learned about themselves as leaders along the way. Both Jordyn and Brianna share their tips for living a healthy and active life and what the saying Movement is Magic means to them.

http://www.herewestudy.ca/welcome.html

https://www.instagram.com/the.study/