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  • Losing Our Mother Part 1 with Alana Kaplan

    Sisters, Blair Kaplan Venables and Alana Kaplan, talk about the series of events that led up to the loss of their mother. This is part one of two. Part two will be Episode 8.

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Guest:

    Alana Kaplan is a compassionate mental health professional based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She’s a child and family therapist at a Winnipeg-based community agency, and a yoga teacher. Fueled by advocacy, Alana is known for standing up and speaking out for others. Passionate about de-stigmatizing and normalizing mental health, Alana brings her experience to The Resilience Project team, navigating the role one’s mental health plays into telling their story.

    Engaging in self-care and growth is what keeps her going and her love for reading, travel, and personal relationships helps foster that. When she’s not working, Alana can often be found on walks, at the yoga studio, or playing with any animal that she comes across.


    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.


    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 



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    34 min
  • Making Brave Choices with Theresa Lambert

    Theresa Lambert has to pivot her business during the pandemic. This is her story. 

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Guest: 

    Theresa Lambert is an Online Business Strategy Coach with an impressive hotelier background in luxury Hospitality in the #1 Ski Resort in North America. She supports Female Coaches and Service based Entrepreneurs to get their first clients or scale to 6 figures and beyond through strategic, tangible and practical support.  Her mission is” To make Business EASY so that your life gets to be more FULL.”

    In 2020 Theresa became the Bestselling Author of her book  Achieve with Grace: A guide to elegance and effectiveness in intense workplaces. She is also a Speaker and the Podcast co-host of Dissecting Success. 

    Theresa has been recognized as a business leader in Whistler’s Profiles of Excellence, and is being featured in publications such as Hotelier Magazine, Thrive Global and Authority Magazine. 

    Website: www.theresalambertcoaching.com

    Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/theresalambertcoaching/

    Podcast:https://www.theresalambertcoaching.com/podcast

    iTunes Canada: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dissecting-success/id1548345529

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-lambert-cpc-acc-855b6957/


    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.


    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 



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    24 min
  • She Walks Canada with Lindsay Sutherland Boal

    Lindsay Sutherland Boal realized her problematic drinking habits were profoundly negatively affecting her life in several ways and she had to drop the only vice she thought she had. She had no idea what that meant and this is her story. 

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Guest: 

    Lindsay Sutherland Boal is an Empowerment, Life and Purpose coach, an executive responsible for relationship development at Urban Outline; she’s the podcast host and producer of The COVID Chronicles Canada and The Last Hangover Podcast, an amateur ultra-distance athlete, stage and TV actor, and opera singer and now the founder of SHE WALKS CANADA the national movement to engage both the sober and sober curious communities of women in and seeking recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder.

    Starting January 24 through until July 27, 2022 women are invited to join the SHE WALKS CANADA movement in online, private conversations about problematic drinking, join private virtual online support gatherings, there is access to a variety of resources about alcohol-reduced/alcohol free living, a private group to support one another and find sober friends in addition, there is a virtual 7315 km cross- Canada walk supporting our goal to prioritize our physical and mental health. Learn more and sign up at www.SheWalksCanada.com

     

    Donate to their cause: ​​https://gofund.me/bf1e6b86

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    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.

    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 



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    34 min
  • Goodbye Sugar Cravings with Melissa Deally

    Originally recorded in May 2020, this conversation is still extremely relevant. Do you think you have a sugar addiction or have you developed unhealthy eating habits while staying safe at home? Blair Kaplan Venables & Melissa Deally talk all about sugar addiction and how to kick unhealthy food habits. You can learn more about the programs that Melissa offers on her website.

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Guest: 

    Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients get to the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English-speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach:

    1) Discover your toxic load and lower it

    2) Discover your body’s imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! 

    Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients’ success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. 

    Melissa is the winner of the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart and has been featured in Pursuit 365, and Fresh Magazine, featuring 365 Canadian Women who lead by example in the everyday pursuit of success, happiness, and achievement. Melissa is also the host of the “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, a podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. 

    When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddleboard, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. 

    Email: [email protected]

    Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com

    Fb:  https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney

    LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/

    Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/

    Podcast:  “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast

    ******Giveaway:  Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz:  https://bit.ly/mytoxicload

    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.


    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 



    Thanks for listening!

    Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

    Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!


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    Leave us an Apple Podcasts review

    Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review.


    23 min
  • Sisters with Alana Kaplan

    Alana Kaplan is the first guest of our series, Radical Resilience. She shares tips for those of you who are new to spending a lot of time on video calls and in front of the screen. The transition from working in an office to working from home can be a challenging one and Alana shares some very valuable tips that can help you navigate this change.

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Guest: 

    Alana Kaplan is a compassionate mental health professional based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She’s a child and family therapist at a Winnipeg-based community agency, and a yoga teacher. Fueled by advocacy, Alana is known for standing up and speaking out for others. Passionate about de-stigmatizing and normalizing mental health, Alana brings her experience to The Resilience Project team, navigating the role one’s mental health plays into telling their story.

    Engaging in self-care and growth is what keeps her going and her love for reading, travel, and personal relationships helps foster that. When she’s not working, Alana can often be found on walks, at the yoga studio, or playing with any animal that she comes across.

    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.

    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 



    Thanks for listening!

    Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

    Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!


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    Leave us an Apple Podcasts review

    Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review.


    17 min
  • Who We Are

    Welcome to Blair Kaplan Venables’ new podcast, Radical Resilience. To honour her mother on what would have been her birthday, she chose today, January 17 to launch. In this introductory episode, Blair explains what this podcast will be about and invites you to listen, share, and be inspired.

    You can read stories of resilience and share your story at: www.iamresilient.info

    Trigger Warning: The Resilience Project provides an open space for people to share their personal experiences. Some content in this podcast may include topics that you may find difficult. The listener’s discretion is advised. 

    About the Host: 

    Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients which include global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. As a pioneer in the industry, she has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, launch their businesses, and more. Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch in 2021. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 bestselling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur and co-host of the Dissecting Success podcast. When she’s not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “The Resilience Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life’s most difficult moments.

    Learn more about Blair: https://www.blairkaplan.ca/

    Submit your story: https://www.iamresilient.info 

    Thanks for listening!

    Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.

    Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!


    Subscribe to the podcast

    If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite podcast app. 


    Leave us an Apple Podcasts review

    Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review.

    11 min

About Radical Resilience

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Radical Resilience is a weekly show where your host, Blair Kaplan Venables, has inspirational conversations with people who have survived life’s most challenging times. We all have the ability to be…