The Be Real Babe Podcast

My last guest episode before we wrapped season 9. Holyyyyyy shit.

And of course I have to have my queens back to wrap this season up with me talking shit about dating, being single and relationships!

Jk it’s not a spill tea episode it’s more like … here is my crazy experience that is similar but different then yours and now I’m healing and grateful for it all kinda of episode.

Me, Brie & Darrian chat about our eras in life and how we’ve experienced being single or dating or in a committed relationship throughout.

From our chaotic younger years being messy and crazy in love, to learning the hard lessons about others and ourselves, what toxic behaviour is and red flags to look out for, how we’ve become who we are today because of that and what we think you should know if you are either single or happily taken.

Or maybe you are miserably taken and this could help you decide on how to navigate your relationship.

Orrrr maybe you are happily in a relationship and just wanna shout it from the rooftops and some of this validates your excitement being taken.

It’s truly beautiful to see how, even in the darkest relationships, our darkest times, we can blossom into even more with the right amount of healing and self preservation that eventually lead us to our person when the time is right 🥰

Join the girlies and I for the final guest episode of le season!

In this incredible mother daughter episode, I chat with long time listeners Adrianna & Shamra about their insane experience with TSW.

Just after a few days of being born, Shamra was given some steroid cream while she waited to see a dermatologist for a strawberry birth mark. Derm says nope, don’t need that… stop using it.

Then begin the awful repeated 11 year journey of what they know now to be Topical Steroid Withdrawal.

Unfortunately this wasn’t something they were told could happen, was a thing or even told after years of being in and out of the doctors offices with no true answers. Just more meds and more confusion.

Because these professionals were so adamant about Shamra having eczema, allergies and eventually asthma TSW was not a conversation. They just accepted this was her life.

Until one day… mama bear was on fb & she stumbled across a situation that looked eerily similar to Shamra’s. In the comments people kept saying TSW.

She then, as we all do, jumped down the rabbit hole and came out with - holy fuckin shit it’s the meds that are supposed to be helping her… they are making her worse… has this always been the case?! Wtf.

Shamra started the incredibly hard journey of weaning off the cream but you can imagine the freak out her entire skin had. Imagine a really hyper addict who hasn’t used for hours and is extremely inconsolable and violent.

That’s what this poor queens skin does.

I didn’t even cover the mental anguish, the divide illnesses like this can cause at home and within the family and the fact that someone called CPS on Adrianna because of her daughter’s condition.

Luckily thanks to her mama, her grandma and her spouse Shamra can live a somewhat normal life but always has to be in high alert to her surroundings in case they cause a flare up.

Incredible powerful duo I had the absolute honour of meeting and I think you should too ❤️

One of our most interviews guest Ms Hollie G joins us for her 11th episode 227 on the 27th! (She has a thing for 7s on this show)

Holls has come on the show since day 1 and has shared her journey through so many real and raw things and this episode might just be the rawest yet ❤️

Unfortunately, Hollie had to experience losing her biggest hype person, her rock, her guide in life, her father 😢

If you knew Lorne, you knew this man was bigger than life, you always felt his presence and he was the definition of a dad joke in all the best ways.

And he just got his girls. They were his everything.

So losing him through Holls through every emotion on planet earth.

She shares with us how she has navigated that heavy experience then and still.

It’s hard but it’s always wonderful learning more about this wonderful creature ❤️

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So excited to have Torva back on the show to catch up on her healing journey and her latest experience with cancer returning & now she fled to the US again plus we get into this Canada vs the US thing that is apparently a thing in 2025.

I wanted to learn more what it was like to grow up in the US to contrast what it was like growing up in Canada and Torva is the perfect person to do that with because she’s lived in both and is also so easy to listen too!

Both of us have love and hate for both countries. We don’t believe we should be fighting and we really see the benefit of unity between the countries.

Although in some ways we are vastly different but a lot of the ways we are the same.

Just really a line that has a bit different rules on one side than the other.

One of the biggest differences to me high level is politics and the military.

Politics seems much more talked about in the states up until the last few years in Canada and now it’s just as chaotic 😂

& I found it rare to meet a military family in Canada whereas it seems much more of a common thing in the states.

Blows my mind still that I was in grade 8 (misspoke stating high school 😂) while Torva was just landing planes for 9/11 with the military.

Join us for an awesome chat about our countries and the silliness this “fight” is. We have enough to deal with man… let’s not fight with our siblings like this!

In the final part of my Botox Injury series for the season, I had the honour to interview one of my fave women Angela to share her final experience with Botox.

Like the other guests, Ang had zero idea this type of reaction was a possibility.

Botox is something that is sold to you around every corner, every medical office and the pressure to remain ageless is more viscous than ever before.

More people are doing it on the regular so it’s gotta be safe and normal, right?

Ang didn’t really consider doing Botox at first until she started seeing advertisements and the thought process began of wanting to prevent wrinkles.

I often wonder if this thought would be thought if it wasn’t marketed to us. 🤔

They really grab us and take hold don’t they 😩

But since it’s so normalized she thought nothing of it and thought why not!?!

Years went by with no issues.

One December day in 2023 she received 189 units of dysport and went about her life having zero clue what was ahead.

She was a busy mama, wife and photographer so when symptoms started popping up over the first few weeks after her appointment, she chalked it up to being busy or possibly getting sick or being a mama (you guys do this too much!)

But after day 17 things turned drastically worse.

She ended up in the hospital showing signs of strokes and zero answers of what was happening.

She was finally able to get her validation that it was in fact the Botox but unfortunately nothing more than time can help.

Well I mean there’s the anti-toxin but that’s apparently only if you are inches to death 😩

Now nearly 18 months out she shares what it was like going through this, being gaslit the entire time and while going through it, she also had to deal with online silly mo-fos denying her experience.

She’s one of the strongest women I’ve been so blessed to meet along my journey and I’m so proud of the growth and healing she’s done. Not just on her own journey but helping every one else along the way.

I’m so happy to see the tides slowly changing and her spicy spark is coming back stronger than ever 💥

Join myself and Ang as she walks me through life before and after her Botox Injury.

In the 4th part of this series, I bring Kaley on to share her experience with Botox and the final appointment that changed her entire life.

She had just stepped away from a career as an OR nurse for nearly a decade and was going to focus on getting married and starting a family.

She had been receiving Botox for the cosmetic side of things and although she did have mild side effects in the past, once she got her masseters done, she was in an entirely different experience.

Immediately she felt relief from her headache but her jaw felt like she was beat up. Calling her injector, she ensured her that it was normal and to carry on.

A few days later things slowly then quickly turned for the worse.

Kaley was struggling to swallow during a dinner a few days later. She went to sleep and when she woke up, she felt like she was extremely heavy, feeking like her arms were bricks, she knew something was wrong.

As it tends to do her symptoms progressed to heart palpitations, chest pains, nasal congestion & a heavy body… plus all the mental anguish to work through.

After been gaslit several times as one does with this journey, she was validated that it was the Botox but she did not qualify for the anti-toxin….

The journey these women have to take is absolutely insane. The follows up to try to figure out what’s wrong just to be told tests are normal and it can’t possibly be the Botox hurts my brain 🤯

I’m glad more and more women are feeling empowered to speak up and share their experiences.

Hopefully more women will have more informed consent so they know what they are facing if they choose to inject.

Kaley is on her way to being mended but time is truly all that can heal and I truly hope she comes out of this stronger and feistier than ever!

We just want informed consent babes ❤️

Today’s most amazing episode I am joined by my mama 🥰

Something we don’t ever really talk about is invisible illness but it’s something that has been apart of our lives for 30 years now.

When my mom turned 28 she was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. A chronic pain disease that has zero chance of going away forever and comes with a long list of symptoms.

Symptoms she tries very hard to hide it from the world but sometimes it’s down right debilitating.

Things she used to do in her early 20s started slipping away over time. Fatigued kicked in and being a single mom she just assumed at first life was just taking a toll on her.

But after she had my little brother, we got into a bad accident and that took her illness into a whole new level of pain and discomfort that she could no longer work.

Her focus had to be on figuring out how to manage her Fibro while being a mama of 3.

Thank Jesus cuz she’s made it 30 years and is truly the best mom I know. I’m so grateful for all she has taught me and all we have been through together.

Without my mother’s strength, I and this show would not be here. Her resilience is unreal. Her desire to live a normal life is strong and we try to fister that whenever we are with her.

To her she thinks she’s a burden but truly it’s just to give thanks to her for never giving up and always still giving us 100% no matter how she has felt.

We always try to look at the positives. We are alive. We have each other. We have our family. We have a beautiful country to call home.

Every day is a new day. And I hope those with invisible illness feel seen and heard in this episode ❤️

Today’s episode is a solo episode and I chat all about body movements!

Now look before anyone @s me this subject was hard for me to talk about.

Mainly because growing up I was told I wasn’t allowed to have a positive or negative feeling about my body as I was “skinny” therefore I did not have any body dysmorphia 😏 ok

And that’s one of the parts of these movements I find are red flags. Telling someone they cannot speak because they have a different body than you.

I worked very hard in this episode to acknowledge that I have one experience and there are many others who will have different ones.

The projection that happens sometimes while talking about body sizes is a little crazy and an area I think we can all self reflect.

“Beauty standards” exist because we live in them. We blame outside sources for our body hate but at the end of the day, if we keep living in them… aren’t we to blame? Perhaps there’s internal work we have to do here before blaming everyone around us for our personal hatred.

Like the body neutrality and positivity movements share, we are so much more than our bodies.

The focus should be on one’s ability, kindness, generosity and character not what size they are.

I am well aware that there is hate no matter what size you are hence the creation of these movements.

I am grateful these movements started to bring light to all areas of body shaming. It should happen ever.

And I think the only time body size should matter is when said person is clearly in medical distress and that is hard to know judging from the outside.

So I think we keep calling out the red flags to all sizes of the scale here as well as celebrate the green flags at the same time.

Which I hope came through in this episode.

We all have commonality here. Lack of self confidence, inner self hatred and at the end of the day, most of us have had comments on our bodies, good and bad. And that can fuck you up!

But we work internally to not react to others opinions because they are just like stink stars. Everyone has one, it’s nothing special ❤️

In today’s episode I bring on two electric Canadian podcast babes to share their journey creating their weekly show “Girl Dinner”.

Sam & Amber knew one day the stars would align and the right time would present itself to launch their comedy podcast to the world!

In 2024 they did just that and starting creating a community of snackers, who like us, share their real and raw thoughts, opinions and experiences but with a comedic twist 🙌🏻

Between the both of them they can cover a large demographic with Sam being a mama/content creator/small business owner & Amber being a real estate agent dog mama in central Alberta, these dark humour millennials babes are just what the doctor ordered.

Every Wednesday you can catch them on platforms like Spotify and Apple to give your week the little giggle we all know we need!

I love how their friendship has only been enhanced by this project and how much it has ignited their creative fires in both their professional and personal lives.

Best advice I think we all feel about doing something like a podcast is to be authentic. Be real 😏 do you! And your people will come!

Join myself, Sam and Amber in this super light and funny episode!

With a side of dark humour of course 😉

In today’s episode I am joined by two powerhouse women who have been incredibly wronged by the same person and are on a mission to warn others.

Lacey & Sofia were both making their way through their nursing careers when they stumbled across what they thought could be an amazing opportunity.

To help others, further their careers, their knowledge, their reach.

Turns out the only opportunity there ended up being is a loss of money, mental health & trust.

After months of talking about opening clinics across Alberta, on-boarding tons of other hopeful nurses, and having a leader doing the bare minimum at best, opening day came and it was a disaster.

Not what either had hoped for.

But the disaster didn’t end there.

Paycheques were missed, questions left unanswered, bills not paid, and employees who gave up their careers to take a chance at a Holistic Health Clinic were left hanging and on read while the owners galavanted across the world.

After a chaotic time with this small business these women were left to fend for themselves with no restitution in sight. No apology. No legal action to be taken.

For absolutely wild reasons they were let go… still owed wages.

The owners aren’t even Canadians so not much any governing body can do, and not much these women can do either.

How is this ok?! How does a trauma coach inflict so much pain and walk away like everything is pretty much fine? How can they carry on knowing how much money, time and energy had been wasted on their promises?!

How are people like this getting away with this?

Karma. I hope she shows up in this one.

Join me, Lacey & Sofia as we chat about their experience working with a Holistic Business in Canada.