The Intersection Podcast

TW: Before continuing to listen to today's podcast, we caution you, as sensitive and hard topics such as suicide, abuse, self-harm, neglect, homelessness, racism, colonial violence, and systematic discrimination are discussed and talked about in this episode. 

Please make sure to have good coping mechanisms available for you to, listen with caution, take breaks, and we truly thank you for listening.

In this episode, we have an amazing guest who goes by the name Some-Sum, also known as Grizzly Bear, his paper name is Ryan James Summers and he is a spoken word poet performance artist and writer from Amiskwaciwaskahikan Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 

His work covers anti-colonialism, indigenous spirituality, his own personal story and the relationship between self and the world around us.  

Jo, B, and Linda were honoured that Some shared his story with us and that he was able to talk about Men's Mental Health and all the societal issues that hinder men's ability to talk about their mental health. Topics covered in this episode include but are not limited to: experiences with Bipolar Disorder, the patriarchy and mental health, how we can support men in our lives, and Some-Sum's intersections with mental health. 

We hope you learn from Some's story, his bravery, generosity and kindness and that his story inspires you in some way, as it did to us. Thank you so much for listening to this very special, long, sometimes fun, transformational, and emotional episode (PS. Linda and B even cry).

Well guys, this one is a whirl wind. In this episode Jo, B, and Linda start off by talking about ageing and how B fails at pronouncing words in different languages.

Jo, B, and Linda the move along to talk about how crazy the last two years  have been. It goes from light events that took place in 2020 and 2021, to deep conversations around police brutality, BLM, accountability, COVID-19, and vaccinations.  Linda, B, and Jo talked about all the emotions and events that took place- and we even tried hard to find some positives that happened, but it seems that happy events were very few. So be prepared for a heavy episode guys. 

We urge our listeners to keep on following up on the murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery, Breanna Taylor, George Perry Floyd Jr.  challenging the current Criminal Justice System. 

As 2021 is coming to end, we hope you acknowledge how strong you all are and that you have made it this far.  We hope you enjoy this episode if you are able to get through it, because  as we've seen in the last two years, the world has been a shitstorm. 

To our listeners around the world, THANK YOU. 

In this Episode, B, Jo, and Linda take a fun quick quiz about fake news. Jo, B, and Linda discuss how to suss out fake news, and use our critical thinking whilst reading news. 

But as usual, Linda, B, and Jo go off on a different route, giving you an exclusive- dolphins noises. Clearly, Linda failed, so y'all are welcome. We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did because Jo and B forced  Linda to embarrass herself.  We laughed so hard during this episode, so we hope you enjoy our embarrassment. 

With Fake News being a part of our culture right now, we encourage you all to do your part, and be well informed. 

We hope you hang in there through the whole episode because we know it's a whole mess, but a good mess.  Enjoy the Episode!!!!!

Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave us a rating on Apple podcasts. Happy Tuesday! 

Hey guys, your favourite friends are back, with a new episode. FYI, this is B's favourite episode, its Spooky Season!!!!!!. 

In the first session, we discuss our bone to pick with God, which is why do women have periods? (Don't worry guys, this last maybe for 3 minutes). This then somehow leads to us discussing how sexy accents are (because they really are).

Then, we get into Spooky Season! We talked about B's love for Halloween and why she loves Halloween.  This includes B's yearly Halloween parties, and her obsession with Scary Movies, Haunted houses, and her strict Halloween dress code. And B's weird Halloween decoration named Edward, gets a shout out. 

Jo discussed her complicated relationship with Halloween and Scary Movies and through this we find out that Linda is scared of everything.

And then comes the best part of all (or at least in B's eyes). B decides to give Jo and Linda a heart attack by making them watch a scary scene from the Paranormal Activity movie. Jo tries to give a love playback, but as you'll hear- the scene gets the best of her. 

We laughed, got scared, almost had a heart attack, and almost cried- so we hope you enjoy the episode as much as B did (because Linda and Jo have other choice words to say about the outcome of this episode). Happy Halloween to everyone from Yeg Wellness Collective! 

We are back with another episode where we just decided to see where the wind took us, and let us tell you..... the wind took us down some weird turns. In this episode we talk about A LOT of different things including some reality TV tea, dating life, eating habits (and gross foods we will not touch), why Linda is afraid of headless chickens?????, and some weird animal facts (like how ducks get down and dirty). 

It is quite the episode ya'll so be prepared and buckle up. We  hope you enjoy it and laugh as much as we did making this one!

This episode was important and fun at the same time. Linda, B, and Jojo are happy to be back, as we haven't recorded for a while. And guess what?! We start off distracted as usual, with even Benji visiting the recording with his Banana Hat on and how Linda somewhat overcame her fear of dogs. 

Then we finally got to the important topic of this episode, which is the Canadian Federal Election on September 20, 2021. We talk about everything from the Canadian voting system, how the government system works, your legal rights around voting, and what could change. Linda, Jo, and B encouraged our Canadian listeners to get registered to vote.

Of course we are a podcast that touches on wellness, so it's only natural that we discuss the importance of voting, how politics affects our lives on a daily basis, how fragile democracy is, and how its continuation is dependent on people believing and upholding the democratic ideals. And Jo even sings to us you guys!

Remember the Federal election is September 20, 2021. Please make sure you vote, and voice your opinion. 

We also had some technical difficulties, so hang in there with us. 

NOTE: We might and probably have some numbers, information, dates, names, and statics wrong, we are not experts, so we encourage you to do your own research, and look up information. We do provide some information on our blog so please feel free to start there! 

Linda, Jo and B hope you enjoy this episode, and GO OUT and VOTE. September 20, 2021.

V-O-T-E

During this Episode, YWC was honoured to have Linda's friend Thoha  Mahmood as our special guest. Thoha is a Communications and Events Manager. She has worked with several local politicians and attended the University of Alberta for her BA in Arts.
B, Jo, and Linda wanted to talk about the hate crimes against the Muslim community in Canada, particularly in Edmonton, Alberta. We felt that it would be more appropriate to have a Muslim woman )that is inspiring) share her experience with us. Thoha discusses the intersectionality of being not only a woman, but a Muslim woman, and how navigating the two identities affects her and Muslim people, especially Muslim woman. Thoha also calls us and the listeners in, to be better allies. We discuss the use of words and their power and how we need to unlearn and re-learn new and better ways to discuss important issues. 
We discuss the burden the minority community feel while living in a world of whiteness, and how being othered affects our daily activities. 
We hope that you enjoyed this episode. B, Jo, and Linda learned a lot from our amazing Guest Thoha. To the Muslim community, particularly, Muslim women, and Muslim women of colour, YWC  Stands with you. Thoha, thank you so much for trusting us with your experience. We heard you, we see you, and we are here for you.

TW: this episode talks about racism, the N-word, and it's impacts.
In this episode, we decided to wing it and see where it will take us. This ended up with Linda telling us a story about her experience with being told the N-word while on a walk at the River Valley.  In this episode, Linda talks about the burden that Black people are forced often to carry and the consequences the N-word has on a Black person when it is used as a weapon by people who are not Black. We particularly, discussed how that word ruined Linda's day and how that painful experience affected her mental health.
Ultimately our message went back to the importance of people understanding that they cannot say the N-word under any circumstance when they are not Black. We call upon our white allies to show up and support Black people, especially when you see something wrong, say something. We want to shed light on how our silence's roles in the continuation of bad behaviour, racism, and gaslighting. 
B, Jo, and Linda bring this episode to an end by talking about white people calling out their friends, family, co-coworker, or anyone that is not Black when they use the N-word.  This burden shouldn't be on Black people; it is up to the white people to keep other white people accountable when they are racist. We want to thank Linda for using her experience, as hard as it was to talk about, as an opportunity to open up this conversation a remind us all about the impact words have on people and their mental health.
We hope you enjoy this episode and that you learned something new to be better and grow.  To the Black Community, please take care of yourself.  You are beautifully made.

WE ARE BACK!!!
Hey, Pod-listeners we are finally back from our long and well-needed break. First and foremost, thank you so much for sticking with us and being patient and understanding while we were on our break. 
In this episode, we update y'all on the reasons why we took our break and why it was so long. B, Jo, and Linda let you into our lives and our life changes and give you all of the updates on where we at in our lives. Jo and B still manage to roast Linda about her Hiking "hobby", Jo talks about what she has been up to, Linda shares what's taking up all her time, and B gives you all an update about her health.
We hope you enjoy this episode and we're SO happy to be back being our chaotic selves. In true Intersection Podcast fashion, we go off the rails about fun topics, like eating habits, childhood memories, just us being us, and of course this heat wave.  We hope you enjoy this episode because we enjoyed recording it!

Have you ever had a bone to pick? You know, a topic or something that's going on that just drives you nuts or you just cannot bring yourself to understand? Well for this episode we share with you some of our bones to pick.

Linda starts us off by talking about schooling and how BLOODY expensive it is, even when it's online. We talk about the importance of education in society, break down some not so great Canadian moments of blatant ignorance when it comes to education, and just vent (we all need to do it sometimes). Jo then takes over by talking our healthcare system and where is needs a little more TLC and improvement (even from before the pandemic!). Finally, B leaves us off on a lighter note sharing her bone to pick... McDonalds? 

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