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PLOT TWIST!

The episode we had booked for this week unfortunately got rebooked SO I decided to launch my first quickie!

A short episode sharing my childhood in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island!

I was born in their 80s in a tiny little fishing/logging town on the coast of British Colombia, where I spent the first 20 years of my life.

Port is a small town of around 18K people, nestled in the centre of Vancouver Island and has a few claim to fame like being the “Heart of Vancouver Island”, the “Salmon Capital of the World” and also “the world place to live”.

I’m sure as most people do, I hated my hometown growing up. It was so small, so limiting, so claustrophobic nestled into a valley of mountains.

It took me moving away and being an Albertan for a decade to truly appreciate Port.

If you can find a good job, it is an amazing little piece of heaven to raise your kids. It’s full of community, outdoor activities and a quick trip in either direction leads to even more beauty.

Although as an adult, I still have no desire to move back, I truly see the beauty there is there. I love having all elements in one spot.

The heat can be tropical like Hawaii, where the cold can cut through right to your bones in the winter. Port sees all seasons and is truly beautiful year round.

Join me on this quickie as I go down memory lane of being raised in a tiny, most wholesome town, nestled in the heart of Vancouver Island ♥️

In the final episode speaking about Big Pharma, we get into over the counter medications like Tylenol and avenues like off labelling prescriptions.

Now, and again, as we have said we are not medical professionals, check with them for medical advice.

We are again asking if it’s truly the best practice to over medicate every time.

What are the side effects of over the counter meds? The lawsuits pilling up are sure something we find concerning.

What are the disadvantages of off label prescribing? Specially when medicine shortages happen everywhere.

What are the risks associated with suppressing your flu and adding chemicals to the mix?

Things we’ve all come to know as normal yet should they be?

Should this really be the first call to action? Suppressing with meds? In the name of? Discomfort now?

We have so many questions. But this is a good start!

Join us as we talk about these topics that are now deemed controversial.

On our next segment of being real with, we bring on Sarah from Canadian Frontline nurses!!

We absolutely love this women and this group and could not be more thankful for their hard work and time!

Sarah and B chat about how Canadian Frontline Nurses came to be, how Sarah became a nurse, all her healing and the fight she is currently in.

Right now, for standing up and doing her job, the College of Nurses of Ontario is trying to take her license away for being a voice to so many.

How does this make any logical sense?

Their literal duty is to protect their patients.

She is and was doing that.

We all know what the problem is but what she is doing is trying to set a legal precedent for all Canadian Nurses.

If this gets shut down, if her license is revoked, what does that mean for the future of this industry?

Maybe you were ok with the pandemic measures, but what if something else happens that you do not like? Don’t you want a voice as a nurse?

Check out the link in our Bio to help support Sarah fight against the CNO.

You can email [email protected] for the link to her hearings set for June 9th and June 30th from 9:30am to 5:30pm. Make sure to ask for the links to Sarah Anahid Choujounian Abulu case.

We did it and it took seconds.

This was an absolute amazing episode that I cannot describe in this tiny box. You’ll have to tune in to learn more!!

You can also visit https://www.canadianfrontlinenurses.ca

To sign up for a yearly membership and unlock the key to start healing YOURSELF with these amazing nurses behind you ♥️

As always, 10/10 recommend this amazing episode!!

In this episode we have the two OG babes back in the studio together real talking the mental health madness that has taken over!

Now before we get dragged for what we say and feel and have experienced, if you are struggling with any mental health issues, please seek a professional. We are no way saying we know what’s good for anyone, just speculating opinions and sharing our personal experiences in this topic.

For many years, we both felt trapped in our illnesses and trapped in the idea that life couldn’t get better. This was it. Even after medication, this was it. A big nothing burger. Life still sucked and we both agreed we didn’t feel connected to life.

Sure, emotions were “under control” but they were actually just silenced by drugs. Once you remove that, if you don’t practice emotional regulation, you will feel like you are spiralling.

Both of us believe that medicine has its place but it requires so much more than that. You need to sometimes really change your lifestyle to help your mental health.

It’s not always easy but it’s so worth it! This is why we don’t believe pills are the be all end all and only option.

For sure it comes in handy when live is really just too hard but what else are we doing to set us up for success?

Are we truly getting to the root cause of one’s mental health crisis or are we just slapping meds on it and calling it a day.

Big differences there.

We care about you. So make sure your health care team does too!

Join B&K as they chat this phenomenon where you say one thing to the doctor and they dispense a pill. Wild.

In our next segment of Being real with we have a plot twist!

The mamas take over the show and share real talk with each other about being a parent and specifically being a mama.

Since we just celebrated Mother’s Day, what a perfect way to honour the mamas on our show and in our community.

Y’all work so dang hard.

We see you. We love you. We support you.

This beautiful real talk between K & H is so heart warming.

To listen to K on her journey with Kash man as he navigates school life, being a big brother & amazing co parenting parents is truly amazing.

You’ve guys have heard her grow through the seasons as a woman and as a mother and her raw real talk always makes me proud of her. You can even hear the massive growth with Kash too and that’s truly a reflection of the work his parents are doing to make his life the best.

That doesn’t mean that didn’t come with hard times, whoops moments and tribulations but what that does mean is that they faced it all, grew and moved forward.

We also get to now watch Hails and her baby girl grow right in front of our eyes. With similar but different experiences to Kay, Hails was a new mom during the pandemic (Ep 109) with a whole new set of situations moms before her never faced.

But as you’ve seen those two are the best of friends and Hails determination to make sure Evie doesn’t feel the blow of the last couple years shows what a strong woman she is.

Despite being tossed this shit bag situation, her little family is just growing day by day, learning ways to live the most happy, health life on their terms, getting back to the basics of living and health and we ARE HERE FOR IT.

Watching these two lean on each other, help each other, be graceful with each other but also being honest about parenting is just the dopest thing.

This is how mom friendships should be IMO.

Have a listen to this episode to see why we love our Be Real Mama’s so much!

Next up on our talks about Big Pharma we chat about the current opioid crisis and how we got here exactly.

Of course this all stems with good intentions back in the day to help soldiers deal with a plethora of issues they had to deal with and pain their went through but as the years went on, progression started and we ended up with things like heroin and fentanyl.

Which again, we understand the need for intense cases of cancer and such illnesses/diseases but babes, the impact it has had on everyday people just looking for a moment of relief… not realizing the implications that comes with.

The amount of people addicted to opiates in the world is astonishing. Being someone who is a past addict of pills, I know had it been offered to me (B) I would be in the same situation a lot of people are finding themselves.

I truly do not believe most people addicted to this form of medication woke up one day and chose this.

Most often then not you hear that someone was in a bad accident or had a surgery or was having some pain and took someone’s pain meds… and once those opiates hit those receptors and give them body this sense of relief, euphoria, escape, the body wants more and it will not stop.

These chemicals take hold of your mind, body and soul. It’s all you can think about. It’s all your brain and body allow you to think about. It is a crushing and scary feeling. Almost like you are not in control of your actions.

This is why we are so empathetic to those who have been affected either directly or someone they know.

If you are suffering with addiction, please know you are worth every second here on earth and if you cannot feel that on your own, please see medical help.

This episode is in no way medical advice or can even begin to truly capture the pain this has caused. We also understand if this is a sensitive subject and you have to skip it but please know we are just trying to spread the awareness of how dangerous this medication can be.

And how little informed consent is here.

Quit on par to the rest though….

Episode 123 is live babes!! 🔥

In this next segment of Being real with we get all 4 of us together for a MASSIVE celebration!

After 5 seasons, 120 episodes posted we hit 10,000 plays!!!

Across all platforms we are sitting around 12k but on our Spotify app, that we watch daily, hit that massive mark the night before we filmed!

How perfect!

As you can imagine, having 4 busy women on the show, makes it a little hard to all get together at once but we did right at the perfect time.

We chat about how much we are thankful for all of you, how excited we are for the future and we travel back a bit into our childhoods… of course we didn’t get past 4 questions cuz we just can’t shut up when together 😂

Jump into this really fun episode where we all have a few drinks (minus Hails!) and chat about life, the love we have for y’all and the love we have for podcasting!!

Here’s to the next 10K fam!

In this next month we will be discussing issues in Big Pharma. Or ones we have at least ;)

Starting with birth control.

This isn’t the first nor will it be the last time we touch on this subject because it’s so dark and spreads so wide.

Please keep in mind that we respect your decisions with your body and you know what’s best for you.

We just want you to always be informed about things you may not be, like we weren’t.

We had no idea that this pill was experimented on on the women of Puerto Rico in the early RJ mid 90s and that they had no idea what they were getting into.

Our hearts broke listening to stories of these women who thought they were doing the right thing because at the time the alternative was sterilization. Wtf?

We also had no idea of the side effects and the many people profiting off of it too.

We all agree there are positives and negatives to everything. But what’s the real bad part is no informed consent and hidden history.

Why was this stuff so hard to find? Is it because it was attached to people who are celebrated when they shouldn’t be?

Is it because there’s deeper meanings behind birth control then women’s health like we are all lead to believe?

We know what we think. You look into it and let us know how you feel about it!

In the best segment of being real with we share my first guest appearance on another podcast!

This one is especially special as we’ve had the pleasure of having this host on our show in Season 4!!

So we flipped the script and I (B) went on Could it bii? Hosted by the amazing Bianca!!

We had an amazing talk about how I learned about BII, how I’ve always wanted implants but never went through with it and how I dealt with mentally accepting the size of my chest.

We also talk about the pressures we felt as young adults to have the nicest breasts and although I did not go under the knife, I absolutely relate to the negative thoughts about small breasts.

Such an amazing time and so fun being a guest in a show! Thank you again so much Bianca! Cannot wait to have you back on ours 🫶🏻

On our final adventure into messed up operations sponsored by Daddy Gov, we adventure down a path of war.

Now before we get dragged, we believe wars happen ok!! We are not saying it doesn’t hurt people, affect them, and turn their lives upside down.

We are saying we aren’t sure we believe the official narrative to any of them.

In this episode alone, we cover how they took over 1,600 Nazi personnel from Germany & brought them to the US, some working in top ranks in NASA, they also had tried MANY MANY insane and some kind of funny ways to take down Castro by harming their own citizens or making him look like a slob, we also cover project Bluebeam which blew our minds to how life is currently and then we end with some ESP and telepathy cuz why the f not?!

Don’t believe this is all real and hair conspiracy?

We urge you to watch this episode, take the biggest of info and go look at the declassified documents yourself… they are a quick google search. You don’t even have to go on the deep web to find this shit.

Now we have you thinking… is daddy gov as trust worth as you thought before this series?!

We feel you babes, they are lunatics!