My son just graduated grade eight. My daughter is almost an adult. And I caught myself standing there thinking — how did we get here so fast?

In this solo episode, Jamie gets personal about one of those moments where time just stops for a second, and what it made her realise about the life we're building while we're too busy looking ahead to notice it. This one isn't just about parenting. It's about every season we rush through on the way to somewhere else, and the quiet, ordinary moments that become the ones we miss the most.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ The "lasts" that happen without any announcement, and why nobody tells you when you've had your final bedtime story, your last hand-hold in the parking lot, or the last time your child asks you to watch them on the playground

✨ Why our brains are literally wired to always look ahead, and why appreciating the present moment takes deliberate, intentional effort, not just good intentions

✨ Why gratitude is so much more than a journalling exercise - it's actually training your brain to notice what it would otherwise skip right past

✨ How this applies far beyond parenting - whether you're building a business, in your first home, starting over, or somewhere in the middle of a chapter you haven't appreciated yet

✨ The small, specific shifts that might be today's real rewrite - not a new goal, not a new plan, just a different quality of attention

You don't know you're in the good old days when you're living them. You only realise it later. So maybe the goal is just to notice a few more of them while they're still happening.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

Most people think finding their next career move starts with a job posting. Rosalie Salamone is here to tell you it starts long before that.

In this episode, Jamie sits down with Rosalie Salamone (founder of Dedita Recruitment Consultant and a 20-year veteran of the recruitment world) for a conversation about pivots, purpose, and what it really means to take ownership of your career. Rosalie has spent two decades sitting across from people at some of the biggest crossroads of their lives, and what she's learned about how people find work, build careers, and define success will genuinely shift how you think about yours.

From losing her mother with two small children at home, to launching her business days before the world shut down in March 2020, Rosalie's own story is as much a rewrite as the ones she helps her clients navigate every day.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why applying for jobs is one of the least effective ways to find work, and what Rosalie actually recommends instead

✨ The question she asks every client that stops them in their tracks: not "what job do you want?" but "how do you want to feel?"

✨ How Rosalie turned her full-time employer into her first client when she launched Dedita, and why more people should think this way

✨ The moment she walked into a construction site boardroom and knew she had finally found her people

✨ Why the version of success you're chasing might actually be someone else's, and how to figure out what yours really looks like

✨ The human-first philosophy behind Dedita's two-pillar model: serving both organisations and candidates, and being the bridge between them

✨ What 21 years in recruitment has taught Rosalie about patterns, people, and why the best career moves rarely come from a job board

This one is for anyone who has ever felt like their career path doesn't look the way it was supposed to, and needed someone with 20 years of front-row seats to the human side of work to remind them that that's exactly how it's supposed to go.

🔗 Connect with Rosalie on LinkedIn: Rosalie Salamone
🌐 Visit: dedita.ca
📩 Instagram DMs: @dedita (or search Dedita on Instagram)

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

If your business would stop the moment you stepped away - that's not success. That's a trap.

In this solo episode, Jamie is getting honest about one of the biggest rewrites she ever made in her own business: realising that being needed for everything wasn't a badge of honour - it was the fastest path to burnout. And that the business she was so proud of building was actually built entirely around her, which meant it could never truly grow without her.

This one is for every entrepreneur who is quietly exhausted, wearing every hat, and telling themselves they'll hire help after the next client, the next launch, the next milestone.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why so many entrepreneurs confuse being needed for everything with building a successful business, and the moment Jamie realised those are two very different things

✨ The question that changed everything: not "how can I get more done today?" but "why am I the one doing this?", and why that shift is the difference between busyness and freedom

✨ How Jamie's revenue doubled when she stopped doing everything herself - not by working harder, but by finally staying in her zone of genius and letting other talented people operate in theirs

✨ The neuroscience behind why it's so hard to let go, and why the strategy that got you here isn't automatically the strategy that gets you to the next level

✨ Why the coaching and the agency aren't two separate things, and how building the right business infrastructure is what actually supports the next version of you

✨ The mistake most entrepreneurs make when it comes to building a team, and why waiting until you're "big enough" might be the very thing keeping you from getting there

You don't need to build a different business. You might just need to become a different business owner.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

You don't find yourself. You build yourself — one decision at a time.

There's a phrase we hear constantly: I'm just trying to find myself. And every time Jamie hears it, something gives her pause. Because what if the whole idea that there's one fixed, authentic version of you just waiting to be uncovered is actually the thing keeping you stuck?

In this solo episode, Jamie gets into one of the most powerful reframes she's made in her own life — that identity isn't something you discover, it's something you create. And once you understand that, everything changes.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why the "find yourself" narrative might actually be what's keeping you from growing, and what to believe instead

✨ How your brain uses your existing beliefs about yourself to filter reality, and why that means the story you tell about who you are is more powerful than you think

✨ The difference between trying to stay consistent and actually telling the truth, and why your brain only cares about one of those things

✨ Why purpose isn't one fixed destination you're supposed to find, but something that grows and evolves as you do

✨ The shift from asking "who am I?" to asking "who am I becoming?", and why that one question gives you somewhere to go

✨ How identity is built not in one big breakthrough, but in thousands of small decisions that nobody else sees

You are not behind. You are not lost. You are becoming. And every choice you make today is casting a vote for the future version of you.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

Have you been telling yourself you'll start when you feel ready? When you have more clarity, more confidence, more time, more of whatever it is you've decided you need first?

In this solo episode, I'm getting into one of the things that comes up most with my clients, and honestly, with me too. Because the waiting never actually ends. There's always one more piece that needs to fall into place, and meanwhile, months go by and the thing still hasn't happened.

This episode isn't here to make you feel bad about that. It's here to explain why it happens, because once you understand what's actually going on in your brain, the "I'm not ready yet" story starts to fall apart pretty quickly.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why readiness is not what gets you started - it's what you feel after you've already started

✨ What your brain is actually doing when it tells you that you need more time, more information, more preparation before you can begin

✨ The important difference between preparation and waiting, and how to tell which one you're actually doing

✨ The action-confidence loop: why confidence is always downstream of action, and why you can never enter the loop from the confidence side

✨ Why you don't need to be ready for the whole thing - you just need to be ready for the very next step

✨ The hidden cost of waiting that most people never account for, and how staying still can quietly become part of your identity

The version of you who has the confidence, who looks back and thinks I did that - she's not waiting at the starting line with you. She got there by going before she felt ready. The only way to meet her is to start walking.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

Have you ever tried to change something about yourself (a habit, a thought pattern, a belief) and felt motivated, did the work, and then a few weeks later found yourself right back where you started?

In this solo episode, I'm breaking down the real science behind why change doesn't stick, and what it actually takes to build a new neural pathway that lasts. Spoiler: it has nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with understanding how your brain actually works.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Neuroplasticity, and why your brain can form new pathways at any age, no matter how "set in your ways" you feel

✨ Why old beliefs and habits don't disappear when you try to change - you're building a new pathway alongside the old one, and the old one has years of practice working against you

✨ The two things you actually need to build a new belief, in this exact order: emotion first, then repetition

✨ Why a flat, logical "I should think better about myself" will never be enough to get your brain on board, and what kind of emotional connection actually works

✨ The truth about the famous "21 days to build a habit" myth - where it actually came from (hint: it has nothing to do with science), and what the real research says

✨ Why so many people quit right before the new habit was about to stick

If you've ever felt like change "just isn't for you," this episode will completely shift how you think about that.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievande

In this episode of The Rewrite, I'm sitting down with Emma Tessler (founder and CEO of Ninety Five Media) for a conversation that is equal parts business strategy and real talk about what it actually means to build something you love without losing yourself in the process.

Emma's story is one of unexpected pivots, quiet hustle, and bold leaps. From studying interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, to discovering Instagram marketing as a college intern, to spending five years secretly building her agency on the side before going all in during the pandemic - Emma has learned that the path rarely looks the way you planned, and that's exactly the point.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ How Emma accidentally discovered social media marketing as an intern in 2015, and never looked back

✨ Why she secretly built Ninety Five Media for five years without telling anyone, blocking everyone she knew on Instagram so she could show up as the brand she envisioned

✨ The identity shift that came with leaving Manhattan, her corporate job, and the life she thought she was supposed to have - all at once

✨ What the transition from solo freelancer to agency owner really looks like (including the scary moment clients found out it wasn't just her doing the work)

✨ How AI is reshaping the social media industry right now, and why Emma sees it as an opportunity, not a threat

✨ The book that's currently shifting how she thinks about work, life, and what it means to actually enjoy what you've built

✨ Why scaling bigger isn't always the goal, and what happens when you start scaling your life instead

This one is for every entrepreneur who has worked so hard to get somewhere and then realized they forgot to enjoy the journey along the way.

🔗 Connect with Emma on Instagram: @ninety.five.media🌐 Visit: ninetyfivemedia.co💼 LinkedIn: Emma Tessler | Ninety Five Media

Nobody talks about the middle. And I think that's exactly the problem.

We celebrate the beginning - the decision, the launch, the exciting new idea. We celebrate the finish line - the goal hit, the milestone reached, the success story. But everything in between? That's where things get quiet. That's where most people quietly give up. And that's exactly what this episode is about.

In this solo episode, Jamie is getting honest about the part of every journey that nobody posts about — the season where nothing feels exciting, nothing seems to be working, and your brain starts telling you it might be time to start something new. Because sometimes it is. But a lot of the time? You're just in the middle.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why the middle of every journey is where most people quietly give up, and why that's not a personal failure, it's just how our brains are wired

✨ The difference between an intentional rewrite and escaping the boring part, and the question to ask yourself to figure out which one you're actually doing

✨ Why our brains are literally addicted to beginnings, and how novelty and dopamine are keeping you starting over instead of building something

✨ The social media, health, and business examples that will make you pause and ask if you've actually given this enough time

✨ Why progress is almost always boring when you're living in it, and only looks like growth when you look back

✨ How identity, habits, and confidence are built not through intensity or one big breakthrough, but through ordinary repetition nobody else sees

The magic isn't only in the rewrite. Sometimes it's in what happens after you've decided to stay.

Connect with me on Instagram: @vandercreativeco and @itsjamievander

Have you ever caught yourself saying, "I'll do it when things calm down"? Or "I'll start when I feel ready"?

In this solo episode, I'm calling out one of the sneakiest ways we keep ourselves stuck - the "I'll do it when" trap. It sounds reasonable. It even feels smart, like you're being strategic, waiting for the right moment. But here's the truth: there is always another when.

The moment never magically clears. Life doesn't pause to give you the perfect conditions to finally begin. And in the meantime? The thing you keep waiting to do just sits there.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Why "I'll do it when" feels like good timing, but is usually just avoidance in disguise

✨ What your brain is actually doing when it convinces you to wait (and why it's totally predictable)

✨ Why clarity, confidence, and readiness don't show up before you start - they show up because you started

✨ The simple mindset shift that helps you interrupt the waiting and just begin

✨ The ten-minute timer trick that changed everything, and why it works

This one is short, honest, and exactly what you need to hear if there's something sitting in your life that you've been putting off. You don't have to start perfectly. You just have to start.

In this episode of The Rewrite, I'm sitting down with Jaclyn Shaw (spiritual mentor, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker) for a conversation that goes straight to the soul of what it means to own your voice, trust your truth, and build a business that is unapologetically, fully you.

Jaclyn's story is one of divine orchestration, hard pivots, and hard-won conviction. From running a high-end children's clothing boutique in downtown Toronto, to stumbling into the online coaching world, to building a multimillion-dollar brand with her best friend (only to watch it nearly unravel the moment they stopped being themselves) Jaclyn has lived the very message she teaches.

In this episode, we talk about:

✨ Jaclyn's "spiritual smackdown" - the pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of her entire life and business

✨ How her first year in business brought in $358K by just being herself, and how following "the rules" dropped that to $128K the very next year

✨ The moment she stopped hiding her faith and let God into her business, and what happened to her income when she did

✨ Why she refused to dilute her voice when a well-known spiritual mentor told her to remove "shameful" chapters from her memoir, and how that boundary became the most powerful part of the book

✨ What it really means to stop betraying yourself, even when staying comfortable would be easier

✨ Her next big rewrite - stepping fully into her own brand, her own voice, and her own mission for the first time

Jaclyn's conviction is contagious. Her honesty is refreshing. And this conversation? It will make you think twice about every place you've been playing small.

📖 Grab Jaclyn's book Spiritual Smackdown on Amazon Canada or Amazon USA

🔗 Connect with Jaclyn on Instagram: @the.jacklynshaw🌐 Visit her website: jaclynshaw.ca