Self-Care Sunday

You can listen to Part 1: Becoming @Positively.Kate here: https://soundcloud.com/selfcaresunday/16-becoming-positivelykate-part-1

After hanging up on our last call, we both felt like we wanted to share MORE than just the mental illness aspect of Kate's story. In this episode we discuss daily self-care practices in life and business, Kate's secret double life as the ultimate fashionista, and what her day-to-day looks like as the CEO of The Dogist.

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You can follow Kate at @positively.kate and The Dogist at @thedogist. More episodes and show notes at selfcaresunday.co

After spending 10 years in and out of psych wards, Kate started a business in storytelling (despite doctors predicting she'd be in a ward forever). She's also the dog mom of instagram famous @wafflenugget, and shares her own dorky positivity as @positively.kate. As of May 2018, Kate is the newly appointed CEO of The Dogist.

In this episode, Kate shares her "decade of darkness" with mental illness and misdiagnosis, how she fell in love with startups and marketing, and her journey on Instagram as an "influencer" and advocate.

Sheena Brady is a Merchant Success Leader at Shopify Plus and the CEO/Tea Sommelier behind Tease Tea. She believes that “however you feel, there is always a tea for that.”

In this episode, Sheena shares how she went from restaurant hostess to tea entrepreneur, why she hasn't quit her 9-5 despite owning a successful business, and how she finds balance as an entrepreneur and mother.

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Tease Tea: teasetea.com / @tease_tea

Follow Sheena: @sheena_brady

More episode show notes: selfcaresunday.co

Nancy is an email marketer, boxing instructor, wellness blogger, and mental health advocate. Her past struggles with mental health, digestive issues, and disordered eating led her to a Paleo lifestyle, and she's now the smiling face behind Approaching Paleo, a blog intended to empower people to take their health into their own hands.

In this episode, we talk about the responsibility of being an influencer & mental health advocate on Instagram, why Nancy adopted the Paleo lifestyle, and what the heck being Paleo even means.

You can follow Nancy at @approachingpaleo and approachingpaleo.com

You can also follow @selfcaresunday and get full episode show notes at selfcaresunday.co

Alyssa Johnston is the founder of Lou La Belle Skin Care, a boutique luxury line of skin care and self-care products. Alyssa is the kind of person who cries at television commercials and will willingly tell you about it. She owns the label "sensitive" and thinks its a superpower, not a detriment. Alyssa lives in a little log home on Prince Edward Island, with her husband, a cat, and a rescued coonhound and likes to be curled up in bed by 9pm.

In this episode, we discuss her entrepreneurial journey into the beauty industry, myths around "natural" products, and why skincare and self-care often go hand in hand.

Today, I'm sharing some personal reflections on the mental health community, my journey into advocacy, and why I don't call myself a mental health advocate anymore. This is something that's been on my mind a lot lately, and something happened this week that made it fresh. So I recorded this episode on Sunday morning - it's not the most refined, but it's real.

"Even when you’re doing good, you’re doing something wrong. You can never please everybody. And the internet is not always a nice place."

More episodes & show notes: selfcaresunday.co

In her Sophomore year of high school, Emma Demar was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, and spent the next few years working towards recovery. The 27-year-old New Yorker has been dancing since she was three, and got into acting when she landed a role on Season 1 of Gossip Girl. After the show, she received her BA in Creative Writing and started a blog writing about her experience with an eating disorder. Now, fully recovered and with a Masters in Social Work, she works as a therapist on the Upper East Side.

In this episode, Emma shares how acting became motivation for her eating disorder recovery, what it was like to be on Gossip Girl, and her journey to becoming a therapist.

Full show notes here: selfcaresunday.co/episodes/11-emma-demar

Follow Emma on Instagram: @emmadayledemar and her ED recovery account: @emmadayleoneatingdisorders

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This episode is in partnership with AKA Decor. Shop at akadecor.com or find them on instagram @aka_decor

*Live podcast recording @ the UnCo Showroom*

Andreya Klobucar is the founding Editor in Chief of Mimp Magazine: is a platform & annual print volume with an aim to celebrate the infinitely beautiful imperfections of the women around us and within. Mimp empowers women to challenge media standards by promoting intersectionality, sisterhood and self-love. And...she’s only 19 years old.

In this episode we discuss the competitiveness of Instagram, overcoming anxiety at fashion events, and the "feminist" label.

Post-episode Q&A includes: how to grow your Instagram audience, and why you should turn off social media notifications.

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SHOW NOTES: http://selfcaresunday.co/episodes/10-andreya-klobucar

ANDREYA: https://www.instagram.com/andreyaklobucar/

MIMP MAG: http://www.mimpmag.com/

UNCO: https://www.uncoofficial.com/

Anita Cheung is an entrepreneur in the wellness space. As a yoga teacher, she co-founded Moment Meditation - the first modern meditation studio in Canada - and is the creator behind Betty - daily, live “beditations” from your phone. She's also a first generation Chinese-Canadian, and recently launched a photo project called, “Where are you really from?”.

In this episode we discuss how meditation helped Anita out of depression, and why she's struggled with calling herself a woman of colour.

LINKS

Betty - inbedwithbetty.com

"Where are you really from?" - whereareyoureallyfrom.org

Lizzie Brown moved to Los Angeles 14 years ago, and opened her first PR agency at the age of 23. In 2014, her and her husband opened Kamala Collective - specializing in app development, PR and marketing for fitness and wellness brands - through which they launched Fabletics, among others.

In 2017, the pair co-founded the first "yoga alarm clock" - the Yoga Wake Up app, which Apple subsequently featured in its’ “New Apps We Love”.  

You can download Yoga Wake Up here: http://bit.ly/selfcaresundaydotco

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