Marika is a personal and private chef and Kundalini yoga teacher. A rebel at heart, Marika got her start after visiting an underground restaurant and falling in love with the experience. A lover of food and dinner parties, Marika decided to start her own underground restaurant in Vancouver, bringing people into her home and connecting over food. “Cooking for other people is more satisfying that just cooking for yourself”. When Marika discovered kundalini yoga, she committed fully - quickly moving from student to teacher.“It is the thing I can hold onto when I’m having a bad day, or super anxious or stressed out”. Yoga became Marika’s life-raft, and she was eager to share that with others. Listen in to hear how Marika stays in a place or curiosity, her daily rituals to be grounded, and how she deals with procrastination as a creative entrepreneur. //Into the Windhttps://www.urszula.co/retreats/intothewindhttps://www.urszula.co/blog/takingrisksAre you spending time putting out fires, battening down hatches, and being slowed down by strong winds that are blowing you off course? Now’s the time to press pause. Join us for Into The Wind, a leadership intensive for leaders who often forget to develop themselves and invest in their own vessel. You do a lot for your team and you do a lot for your business. Take the opportunity to develop yourself outside of the boardroom.//Show Links: https://www.instagram.com/paprikamarika/

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Taryn Eyton, the human behind the instagram @happiestoutdoors, joins Steph on the pod this week to talk transitioning careers, the hustle of doing what you love, and the importance of acknowledging the barriers many communities have to getting outdoors. Taryn followed a traditional career path, studying geography, and then earning a law degree. She found herself working inside all day, feeling depressed and unfulfilled. Despite living a life she now loves, Tarynn honestly describes her departure from working in law, and why is wasn’t without difficulty and feelings of regret; “The reality for me, and the reality for a lot of people, is that it was really hard. It was really hard to know when to make that decision, to know if it was the right decision, to know if it was actually a thing that was going to make me happy. To know if I had sunk too much of my life and my money and my energy into something — could I just leave it?” But despite hustling to make it work, Taryn knows she made the right move;“You have to do what you love because then you will feel okay about working hard to do it”. Taryn is in the process of writing a guide book about backpacking near Vancouver. The five year process has been a labour of love, with a focus on outdoor ethics and how the book can help hikers ‘leave no trace’. Listen in to hear Taryn’s favourite hike near Vancouver, what snacks she packs to fuel her adventures, and how she hopes to elevate her business in the next 5 years. //Show Links: Into the Wind: Accelerator for Entrepreneurial Leadershttps://www.urszula.co/retreats/intothewindAre you spending time putting out fires, battening down hatches, and being slowed down by strong winds that are blowing you off course? Now’s the time to press pause. Join us for Into The Wind, a leadership intensive for leaders who often forget to develop themselves and invest in their own vessel. You do a lot for your team and you do a lot for your business. Take the opportunity to develop yourself outside of the boardroom.// Taryn:https://www.instagram.com/happiestoutdoors/https://happiestoutdoors.ca

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Ed, Founder of Open Dialogue, long-time friend of the Corkers, and DisruptHR 2019 speaker, joins Steph at the mic this week. Ed spends his days creating space for people to explore and get to know themselves. Ed explains Open Dialogue as a “blending of human led coaching with a piece of technology — an artificially intelligent chat-bot, that you can chat with kind of like a human, and it just listens and interprets what you are saying. It then responds to you with questions and prompts and guides you through a self-reflective process”. Ed explains that the AI isn’t meant to replace humans, but rather act as a mirror to highlight our own humanness. His goal with Open Dialogue is to keep us in a state of contemplation longer and more often. Ed and Steph dive into how his business was born from burnout, how his path to self-discovery was sparked by a 90’s computer program, and what it’s like working with family. When Ed isn’t driving his company forward, he is a passionate kite surfer. Listen in to hear why hobbies and interests outside of work matter, and why it’s okay to satisfy the longing to try something playful and new, even as an adult. Show Links: Ed on the ‘gram:https://www.instagram.com/iamedwardmjb/Open Dialogue:https://www.instagram.com/opendialogue.ai/https://www.opendialogue.ai

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James and Steph became fast friends in December on the last bus travelling to the start line of the California International Marathon. The duo chat about what it’s like to run your first marathon when things don’t go to plan, how to deal with contradictory advice, and why it’s beneficial to start something new without the context of what everyone else is doing. James is a lawyer currently living in L.A. and was told as a teenager that he would never be able to run a marathon. Despite time and physical barriers, he persisted and accomplished something he is proud of. With his first marathon in the books, James can’t wait for #2 in 2020, just before his new baby arrives in the spring. Tune in to hear about the joys of being a beginner, and why it’s okay to not always do what you “should” be doing.

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Matt and Steph kick-off 2020 together at the mic, talking goal setting, avoiding guilt and shame around the new year and why the context of your goals matter. “How do we set goals so that are not fixing the past — but so that we are creating the future we want to live into.”Matt and Steph riff on what it means to change our relationship with judgement, accepting the tough moments, while having the vision to see what is possible in the future. What Matt sees in many of his coaching clients is the desire for freedom, and therefore goals can go beyond weight loss or making more money and rather focus on what will get us unstuck and living into possibility. The context in which we make our goals matter - if we are in a place of fear, doubt, guilt or shame, we will be driven by our desire for approval and our goals won’t serve us. Tune in to hear when and how Matt and Steph set goals, why we shouldn’t make goals out of personal development work, and how to unleash your strengths this year. Show Links: https://www.culturallydefined.comhttps://www.instagram.com/culturallydefined/

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Ashley Brodeur is the founder of feelosophy and is currently based in Toronto after starting her business in Vancouver. Ashley and Steph discuss the process of moving a business from the west coast to the east coast, the power of goals, and the importance of rest. Ashley explains her thinking around rest days, and changing our mentality from just resting our physical bodies, to resting our mental and emotional selves as well. Even when we skip the gym, we are often still turned-on and mentally stimulated — we can take these days to break our patterns and to put away our phones and computer.“You create your own reality in terms of what you choose to digest in the way of content”. When Ashley moved from Vancouver to Toronto last year, she found freedom in the reality that feelosophy will continue to thrive in Vancouver while she builds it up in Toronto. “I never wanted feelosophy to be about Ashley Brodeur, I wanted it to be about rest, and connection, and slowing down, and touch. And because of that other people can teach it, it doesn’t just have to be me”. Being in the yoga and wellness space, Ash talks about avoiding the comparison trap by using her 5 year vision to re-focus on herself and what she is working towards. Listen in to hear about Ashley’s year of growth in 2020 and where you can find the feelosophy space in Toronto. Show Notes: https://thefeelosophy.comhttps://www.instagram.com/the.feelosophyhttps://www.instagram.com/ashernoelle/ https://www.instagram.com/sweatfeels/

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Jacki Carr is a goal coach and motivational speaker. Jacki and Steph met 10 years ago, when Jacki was creating the vision of the life she lives today. Tune in to hear her describe how she lives into her goals and vision, while remaining spontaneous and present for her loved ones. They riff on Jacki’s ability to create so much and so often, and why busy doesn’t always need to carry a negative connotation; “I do well being busy. Busy is only a bad word when I have exceeded my time limit in a certain domain, i.e. career, and not spent time with my family. Or busy when it’s out of alignment with my values”. Jackie attributes her ability to create so prolifically to honouring her weird, honouring her busy, and honouring her relationship which supports her in doing it all. Despite this love of being in the flow, she still gets stuck all the time; “When I get stuck, I have to ask myself: am I being of service, am I honouring my whole self?” They talk what it means to have a goal and vision, and how to embrace when it changes and evolves - failing up, and deciding what’s next. From morning routines, to spontaneity as ritual, Jacki is living her bliss and we hope she inspires you to do the same. Show Links:https://www.jackicarr.comhttps://www.instagram.com/p/ByczL0mgNU_/

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Matt and Steph are back behind the mic together for an ‘ask us anything’ edition of Uncorked. They discuss the perception of TeamCorker as ‘so dang positive’, but offer that they both relate more strongly to a commitment to the world of possibility rather than positivity. Matt explains that we can think positively, or manifest our dreams, but urges listeners to consider the work in between the meditation cushion and the attainment of meaningful results.“The practice of seeing people, situations, and circumstances through a lens of possibility — I resonate more with. It gives me not only the ability to see something differently, but it also gives me the responsibility. It’s my job to see the possibility of it.”The brother and sister duo recognize that life gets tough, and it’s not all unicorns and rainbows, but possibility is a tool we can choose to navigate it. Despite Team Corker’s commitment to crafting lives we love, sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do. Matt challenges us and listeners to ask ourselves:“How can we play to and offer our strengths? Strengths being the things we are good at and we find fulfillment in — it doesn’t mean they are easy”.Matt explains that it’s about managing our weaknesses well — using our strengths to manage our weaknesses. And they riff on the importance of asking for help, using the strengths of those around us to avoid the overwhelm that can occur between the start and finish line.Tune in to hear what goals Steph and Matt are hoping to cross of the list before the end of the year, and of course the things that are currently making their hearts beat faster.

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Thom Brennan, friend of TeamCorker, challenged Steph to flip the script and field the questions on this week’s pod. Steph agreed to sit in the hot seat, letting us into her world and revealing the things we won’t find out about her online. We know Steph lives a life full of training, recruiting, and coaching, but tune in to hear what Steph does to wind down and to feel as though life is in balance.Thom dives into Steph’s strategies to remain upbeat when things get tough, how she feels reflecting back on 5 years of The Corker Collective, and the ups and downs of starting a business.“I think what doesn’t land on the vision, are the tough times. You don’t wish for things to be hard. And sometimes you don’t really know how they’ll turn out, or what they will look like. It would be remiss for me to say it’s always been easy, because it hasn’t.”Steph is known around town to be relentlessly positive and an exceptional cheerleader in supporting others in accomplishing their goals. But she reveals that she doesn’t feel like she is always positive, but rather focuses on staying in her own lane, avoiding comparison and doing good work her way.“It’s a lot easier to be positive and remain positive when you are on top and when you are winning. The responsibility of running a company feels enormous and while I totally choose it, it can be hard — because you look around and wonder … where are the other cheerleaders?”Steph talks about moving through fear in creating something new, and relates it to The Corker Collectives latest offering, ‘The Now What’— taking on the challenge of creating a course that allows people to move from feeling stuck to feeling like things are totally possible. “The law of gravity pulling us down to be mediocre, or to settle, or to not create something new is really real.”Show Links:The Now What:https://www.thecorkercollective.com/portfolio_page/3258/Steph on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/steph_corker/

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Akeem Pierre is the founder of Rich Sol Foods, selling ancestral healing products from St Lucia. Akeem found the healing powers of plants after he suffered from a basketball injury as he was meant to be reaching peak performance. Since then, his knowledge of healing products have expanded into a business, a plant-based lifestyle, and a reconnection with his roots in St. Lucia. Akeem and Steph riff on how his relationship with movement, food, and mindfulness have evolved since his days as an athlete, and how he has become more attuned to his body and his desires. He distills it down to asking yourself the questions:What are you eating? Is it in-line with how you want to feel?What are you thinking? Is it in-line with how you want to feel?How are you moving your body? Is it in-line with how you want to feel?Show Links:A fav podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/million-dollaz-worth-of-game/id1460157002IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/princedonnell/Favourite places to eat in Vancouver:https://www.chowatchau.cahttp://ramendanbo.comAkeem on the 'gram: https://akeempierre.comCheck out Akeem’s retreats and healing products: https://akeempierre.com

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