The After 30 Podcast

Our 30’s are often our most pressured, desired, and common time to have children. The journey is an incomparable experience that can be filled with hope, beauty, discomfort, loss, purpose, and hopefully love and a joy like none other. Our focus today is on understanding what’s going on in our bodies in that overused “clock is ticking” metaphor and on a journey with so many elements out of our control, what we do have control over.

Dr. Meivys Garcia, an IVF doctor assistant medical director at Markham Fertility Center gives us the facts to help us better understand infertility. With a medical resumé and list of awards that’s intimidating to read out, Meivys was also an IVF patient herself while being an IVF doctor - which she indicates was a humbling and grounding experience. She knows that infertility never leaves you if you’ve experienced it,  she knows that science isn’t everything, and she knows you have to look at the whole person when considering thier IVF journey.

1) Online course from @freshinsighthealth is for individuals and couples navigating a diagnosis of infertility and includes 5 modules delivered live each week. Register anytime here.

2) 7 Myths about Conception from Dr. Meivys Garcia's blog here. Or visit the rest of her website for other incredible resources.  https://www.drmeivysgarcia.com/ or @dr.meivys.garcia.

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As our first episode in season 2, we wanted to kick off with a topic that's often experienced in our 30's and potentially amplified during the pandemic - a career "pause". Before the pandemic hit we could experience the pause for mat leave/paternal leave, pivoting our career, moving cities, starting a new business, or getting laid off, and now in the middle of the pandemic, many of us are experiencing the unrequested break. 

We chat with Allison Venditti, a Career Coach & HR Expert about what we CAN do during this time. Allison knows this space well, having spent over a decade in Human Resources, coaching and consulting in a super niche specialty as a return to work expert. She's interviewed over 2000 applicants for jobs, coached individuals into more senior roles, new careers, 40K salary increases and starting new businesses and she walks us through going back to work, what to do during the pandemic, and her thoughts on whether or not this will fundamentally change the way we work.

Visit Allison's website to learn more! 

www.careerlove.ca

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As our FINAL episode for Season 1, today's episode is about our bodies. Specifically our joints and muscles, and how as we get older we seem to get increasingly creekier and need to stretch WAY more. Legit. To tell us what is actually going on to cause this is Dr. Glenn Paul Uy. Dr. Uy is the co-owner of Ossington Chiropractic and Rehabilitation in Toronto and is a full-body certified ART® provider and is a registered Acupuncturist with the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario. Dr. Glenn's focus lies in the treatment and prevention of physical injuries, integrating techniques such as Active Release Technique®, acupuncture, spinal manipulation, and exercise rehabilitation. He uses functional movement assessments to find the root of the problem and address the underlying causes.

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We know sleep is crucial for our health, and that with consistent, deep sleep, we function better and with more mental clarity. But our 30's often come with a lot of disruptions in our sleep: children, long work hours; then add to it that we're in the middle of a pandemic, and our sleep is likely drastically impacted. Our routines are off, our stresses are high, and we either have much more time and in theory could be getting a lot more sleep, or we have less time and our sleep is compromised. With us is Jillian Dowling, a certified sleep consultant and owner of Sleep Wise, a holistic sleep solutions provider to talk to us about why sleep is important, and what we can do to improve it.

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Moving through week 3 of self-isolation, finding inner peace, positivity, calmness, and frankly sanity, can be a new dance everyday. We've been lobbying tips to each other each day on how we can do so - so we thought we'd bring it to you! Today we'll share what we're each doing in our routines, some great resources we've found, and what's helping us get through this time.

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We are living in a moment in history - we are social distancing, by ourselves, or with the people we live with. Whatever our individual situations, we're living in a different world and we're adjusting and creating a new way of living for the time being. We're also bombarded with information that's changing everyday and it's an ongoing challenge to keep our mindset from falling into overwhelm, sadness, or anxiety - which is normal, by the way. With us today is Wendy Thomas, an individual and corporate mindset coach who helps people redirect thought patterns and behaviours to help target, clarify, and achieve their greatest selves. Wendy's here to talk to us about replenishing our thoughts with hope and courage by living from the inside out vs. living from the outside in.

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With so much changing around COVID-19 this week, we want to provide a mental break and consciously direct your attention back to YOU and your personal growth, evolution, and success. Our show is dedicated to contemplating experiences that you might be going through as you age to give you a sense of support, understanding, and perspective - so very "big picture". We always aim to take a look from 1000 feet back to consider longer term and bigger picture why we're feeling a certain way or what we can do about it. So we should do the same thing here with what's going on in the world right now. There's so much fear, confusion, and attention on COVID-19, and although we both believe it is our individual civic responsibility to stay informed and take actions with the things we can control, we also believe having balance, and thinking about the impact on our mental health is just as important. As content creators in times like these, we see it as our responsibility to either add to the conversation or intentionally distract from it, so that's what today is. Take the next 30 minutes for yourself and reflect on something you might have been thinking about weeks before this pandemic hit, and you'll be thinking about after we get through it. 

Show Notes

Today we're talking about pivoting. We all seem to experience it - the feeling of needing to pivot our careers and life trajectory in this decade. At first, it might seem like this is the decade to do the opposite; settle down, start a family, buy a house, become more and more experienced and settled in our careers. The combination of knowing ourselves just that little bit better mixed with the realization that our life is ours to control and we don't want to waste it doing things we don't love, we see far more people change careers and start new businesses in their 30's to go down a completely different path than they were previously marching down. Here to chat with us about created that shift is Carey Dillen, the President of Canada's largest network of yoga studios, YYOGA. Carey started with her CPA designation heading straight for a lucrative successful career in corporate finance, and after a number of great years she pivoted her career to something she felt more passionate and connected to. Among many other things, she was part of the core team that made the Vancouver 2010 Olympics happen, before coming to YYOGA and implementing the strongest female leadership team the company has ever seen while expanding across the country. She's a force to be reckoned with and an inspiration to anyone looking to climb their way through the corporate world with intention, passion, and no fear.

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Not to be overdramatic but everything you do has an impact. Everything. What you eat, the tone of voice you speak to your kids in, the plastic bag you use for your groceries (no longer NYC!). We breakdown why we're thinking more about the impact our choices are having on ourselves, those around us, and the things we don't even see.

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