Returning to the Joy Foster podcast for an amazing Part 2 is the insightful Gagan Kalsi, bringing even more wisdom, leadership, and direction to our conversation.

Gagan shares deeply on the sensitive topic of inner child trauma. Speaking from the heart, she reveals what it truly takes to look inward, face the challenges of your past, and ultimately heal.

This is a phenomenal conversation between two women who have experienced, lived, and most importantly, survived.

Key Takeaways You Can't Miss:

👉🏾The power of Positive Thoughts

👉🏾The crucial concept of Continued Assigned Meaning (This is powerful!)

👉🏾The life-changing principle: Everyone is You Pushed Out!

👉🏾Strategies for Illuminating Blocks

👉🏾How to Rewrite Your Story

Grab your notepad 📕—the insights Gagan shares are incredibly powerful. This is a vital discussion for anyone struggling to find their way due to unaddressed childhood trauma. Let's break this cycle. It starts with us!

Incredible 💜❤️

As the school year rapidly approaches, The Joy Foster is thrilled to share an essential story of ambition, resilience, and clarity from a young woman who is truly charting her own course.

Meet Laura Mereweather, a dedicated student at the University of Waterloo, entering her fourth and final year in Chemistry. Laura offers an informative and genuinely inspiring look at starting post-secondary life, falling in love with Chemistry, and embracing the subject's dynamic nature.

Our conversation with Laura was deeply honest, cutting through the pressure of academic perfection. She emphasizes the importance of studying what you enjoy and having the courage to course-correct when necessary.

Laura’s journey is proof that setbacks are just setups for success. She shares vital wisdom and guidance for every student, including:

📚Overcoming the Setback: How she navigated a difficult first year, stepping up to the challenge to fundamentally change her academic trajectory and mindset.

📚The Power of Authenticity: Being honest about your life and academic struggles is the key to mental clarity and progress.

🛜 Networking with Purpose: The incredible importance of building genuine relationships with your professors—seeing them as mentors, not just instructors.

✏️Tons of Insight: Beyond the classroom, Laura offers wisdom on time management, mental health, and maintaining enthusiasm through the long university haul.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from a student who has been there. Approaching the finish line of her university career, Laura shares her insights with enthusiasm and excitement.

Thank you, Laura, for keeping the narrative real, encouraging, and truly inspiring. We wish you all the very best in your final semester! 💜👏🏾

I met this beautiful lady, Gagan Kalsi, while attending the Jazz Festival at Ashbridges Park on a very hot Saturday afternoon. A huge shout-out to my hubby who introduced us—love you, honey! ❤️

Gagan has a story I am so excited to share with you all. Why? Because it courageously unfolds the pages of a child’s inner wounds, giving voice to the silent cry for help, and highlighting the support needed to navigate through life.

This story touches my soul deeply because I experienced it myself. This is the story I have been wanting to share for a long time.

As Gagan uncovers each chapter, she paints a vivid, picture-memory that automatically pulls you into the story of her life. It will leave you with a vision of raising your own hand, saying: “I can relate to that very moment!”

You absolutely have to listen to the full episode because the ending is truly profound! 🔥🔥

Gagan, I want to thank you so much for being there at the right time and place. This is no coincidence. 💜🙏🏾

A Quick Note for Our Listeners:

Folks, the ending of this video was unfortunately shortened by a technical issue. That being said, this is Part 1, and we promise that Part 2 is scheduled to release very soon!

The Joy Foster podcast met this beautiful young lady while we were attending an event at Ashbridges Bay Jazz Festival and it was an absolute pleasure!

Gagan Kalsi has a story, one I’ve been so eager to share on our podcast for a while and it’s one that I can relate to as well as others who have experienced generational trauma and trying to find their own voice.

She runs her own companies, first Official Sauce Bawse, Airbnb Host and Coach.

That being said her true heart is helping people navigating their inner child hood wounds,

emotional triggers and child hood traumas.

Gagan covers her own personal struggles and challenges, keeping it real with each word she uses to express herself, and you’ll feel, as I experienced myself interviewing her the genuine and authentic love she has for her mission.

It’s deep, but a conversation that needs to be kept within our society and Gagan has the gift of being able to assist with others who suffer.

Gagan, you delivered from the soul ..a place where you’ve been, experienced and walked ..

Finding yourself and the courage to share your story is a great feeling of peace and joy 💜

My family and I were recently at a wonderful social networking event in Toronto. I was taking a moment to simply reflect on the evening when Raphaela Schneider-Friedman sat down right beside me, and that's where the story began.

We had an incredible conversation, and her message of passion and conviction was so powerful. We dug deep into some essential topics that every person needs to hear.

In this episode, you are going to hear Raphaela share her profound insights on:

1. ​ Creating Peace in a Divisive World: Why respecting our differences and learning from history are non-negotiable foundations for social harmony.

1. ​ The Power of Unconditional Love: Lessons from her own upbringing on how parents can show love without comparison, creating secure and confident children.

1. ​ Speaking Without Apology: How to express your truth with respect and confidence on complex issues that demand attention across all levels of society.

Folks, you absolutely have to hear from this incredible, wise, and loving woman. Raphaela, thank you so much for sitting down beside me and accepting my invitation to be a guest on The Joy Foster Podcast!

The Joy Foster Podcast is honored to welcome a truly remarkable guest: Canadian Professional Soccer Player, Deanne Rose!

Deanne's career is nothing short of phenomenal. From helping Canada secure the Bronze Medal in 2016 to scoring the opening goal, and ultimately winning Gold at the Tokyo Olympics 🏅, she has cemented her legacy. Currently, she’s a free agent, returning to her hometown of Alliston, Ontario, and preparing for her next club move in September.

In this beautiful, humble, and kind conversation, Deanne shares the inspiring reality of her journey, capturing the innocence of her early life and the profound lessons learned while navigating the professional world.

As Deanne puts it, "Everything you have envisioned, you’ve been walking towards it all the time!" 😉

🎧 Key Topics You'll Hear:

1. The Big Move: Leaving home for studies in Florida.

Life in England: Playing Forward for Leicester City.

2. Athlete's Challenge: Enduring a serious injury and the lessons in resilience.

3. The Wisdom: Going after what you desire, working hard, and making it happen.

Folks, this is a must-listen podcast for young people, students navigating new paths, young entrepreneurs, and women from all walks of life. Tune in now to be ignited by the perseverance and wisdom in a story that is still being written!

Thank you, Deanne, for sharing your humanity and wisdom; you are a treasure!

Kasey Hornby’s story struck a cord in my soul.. it literally reminded me how precious our lives are and stop thinking of the incidentals that comes our way!

The Joy Foster podcast is honoured by her words and her courage, strength and grace 🙏🏾

Short intro ..

While walking into the UHN Foundation We Walk United, May 31 my hubby and I were graced by Kasey, her sister and son. We immediately struck up a conversation and she shared why she was walking, Shaun and I looked at each other and said we have to share her story on the podcast.

Here we are!! 🎙️

Honestly, I’m going to be bold here in my content for our listeners, why, because Kasey’s story is about a young woman who endured one of life’s scariest moments and overcame a challenge that I pray none of us face 🙏🏾

Working from home she suddenly felt unwell, sweaty and her heart beats were rapid..at that moment Kasey knew something was seriously wrong.

She was experiencing a heart attack and went into cardiac arrest alone....reached out to her mother and later found herself in hospital.

Only later to know that she needed a heart

transplant.

She’s praises the team at UHN Health Network, Toronto General Hospital and all the incredible staff who supported one of the toughest curves in her life.

I’m going to leave it that!! 😌

We all face challenges in our lives, more addresses mountains and oceans , yet they remain hopeful, optimistic and grateful to their medical professionals, family and friends. 💜

Kasey’s story exemplifies in her own words ..

“To inspire people, keep their head up, things can always get worse and just try to get through each day!

Kasey, I appreciate your bravery, courage and your strength, more than you’ll ever know. You’ve taught me that special people are chosen for a greater walk!

To carry an inspirational prayer throughout this world 🌍 🙏🏾

You are an incredible woman and your son is blessed to have you!! 🙏🏾❤️❤️

People come into your life and awaken, ignite and inspire your mission, Maja Cardinale holds all of the qualities that exudes all of them! 🤗

The Joy Foster Podcast is honoured to share the story of a woman who has overcome and arrived, sharing from her soul with compassion, empathy, kindness and love 💕

Her poetry writing is memorable and full of inner emotions that are so relatable to all humanity, specially to the nurses who still suffer in silence from the mental hardship of the pandemic and all its demands.

Maja touches upon her own personal struggles and how she lost her own sense of self, being and wanting to be around her peers at work and society.

She leave us with the important message, so needed within this world 🌍 right now…. I highly recommend that you listen with an open heart to a beautiful woman who has walked through the toughest moments of life and shares the moving story of her survival 💪🏾

Thank you Maja for sharing such a powerful message to us, community and world 🌍 💜

I’m so blessed to know you 🙏🏾

I had the pleasure of meeting Saijal on LinkedIn when we were both to attend an event in Burlington, from there we collaborated and I asked her if she would like to share her story …

Throughout our pre interview it was so evident that she was a passionate DEI supporter and the importance of it’s significance within our workplace, community and our world 🌍

Saijal is a DEI Champion and hold nothing back when talking about the impact that it can make to others when recognized by our society.

After returning back to school to learn more about DEI, and during our conversation she covered so much including, the importance of history, reflecting the communities we live in, indigenous study, learning about colonialism, physiological safety within the workplace, being your authentic self to work…. contribute and share ideas.

Saijal: “ It brings awareness of myself, how am I showing up as an individual!

I don’t want to tell you everything on this informative podcast, it carries tons of honest and inspiring insights on how we can learn and apply to acceptance of each other. 🙏🏾

Thank you Saijal from the bottom of my heart for sharing on a topic and conversation that needs to be in the forefront for the healing process of our world 🌍

"One day, while flipping through my Instagram feed, I came across an incredible human being named Atud Clovis Tendong.

Looking through his pictures, every single one of them embraced a powerful message of giving.

Atud is the founder of a phenomenal charity called the Joyous Charity Organization in Cameroon, Africa. They rescue children from the streets who have been abandoned by their families, and they provide them with food, education, and true hope.

Atud is the founder of a phenomenal charity called the Joyous Charity Organization in Cameroon, Africa.

They rescue children from the streets who have been abandoned by their families, and they provide them with food, education, and true hope.

Folks, listen deeply to his message today. It challenged me to another calling.

Thank you, Atud, for reopening my eyes to what our mission here on earth truly is, and that is 'To Serve.'

Please share his story with others, support his powerful work, and help him meet the needs of these children.

Let's welcome Atud to the show."