Unpacked Podcast

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guests Lindsey Merkley and Crystal Bangle, Owners of Grow & Co in Calgary.  How do you start a small business? What is the secret to the best friend partners and business partners? Crystal and Lindsey share their story of friendship, business, and how they grew Grow & Co into a success! Let's be real who doesn't want to work with their best friend? These two are a fun and upbeat chat about the challenges of working together, and what they admire about each other and we dive into one of the best tools they've used to keep their partnership healthy: the enneagram and coaching with Evan!

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Grow & Co Website
-Recess Creek Enneagram Coaching 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Wakefield Brewster, Poet, Participant, Producer and Promoter in Canada’s poetry and spoken word communities since  1999. He is a Black man born and raised in Toronto, by parents hailing from the island of Beautiful Barbados, and he has resided in Calgary since 2006. For 21 years Wakefield has spent fiercely and ferociously spearheading Poetry and Spoken Word into every single circle of society he can infiltrate. He has spoken across Canada, and several States, and chats with us about his life story, mental health and the connection to poetry, speaking in classrooms and finding healing and hope in recovery from addiction. Wakefield shares a reading for us at the end of the episode so listen to the end! Wakefield is a community builder through engaging in volunteering, leadership, and mentorship for youth and through the arts. He is an active advocate for literacy and the humanities; Healing arts & alternative medicine; alcoholism & addictions; mental wellness & recovery.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Wakefield Brewster Poetry
-Wakefield Brewster Wellness
-Where to find Wakefield 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Mel Cornforth, Founder and Owner of The Movement by Mel. Mel has trained in dance fitness and leads choreography-based classes. Mel shares her story of training to be a nurse and becoming a mom Mel found herself in search for more. After years of struggling to accept her body, navigating the identity change of becoming a mom and feeling like her nursing career wasn't as fulfilling anymore she took a leap to start the Movement. We talk entrepreneurship, motherhood, body positivity and how the Movement has become a space to heal body, mind and soul.  The Movement started as a way for me to connect with others through movement, music, and conversation. A way to grow a community that values authentic connection, vulnerability, growth, and all that is this life. It's repetitive choreography set to songs that combine fitness and creating meaningful connections with yourselves.
 
TW: Miscarriage, disordered eating

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-The Movement Classes
-The Movement Playlist on Spotify
-The Movement Playlist on Apple

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Joan Alexander, Spiritual Director and member of the 2slgbtqia+ community. Joan is trained by the Haden Institute & Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre to practice Spiritual Direction.  She is in a same-gender marriage to a recently retired Anglican priest and is the mother of two adult sons. Joan shares her story of coming out and working in the faith community, her experiences and her realization of her calling to be a spiritual director in order to create a safe place for members, allies and family, of the LGBTQ+ community.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Joan Alexander Spiritual Direction
-Haden Institue & Mount Carmel
-Talking Across the Divide Justin Lee Book
-How to walk a labyrinth

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guest Tricia Otto, Certified Enneagram Coach and Relational Trainor, adoptive parent and Enneagram 2! Tricia's adoption experiences have given her understanding and training in Neurodevelopment and Sensory issues, Attachment Theory, Trauma Informed Parenting and Transracial Adoptions. Tricia shares her coaching and experience of caring for women and parents and how the enneagram has changed her own relationships with her children. 
She chats with us about how to use Enneagram stance work, exploring types, having conversations with children about reflection work can teach kids to learn about themselves. Tricia's passion to see people loving each other better as they experience deepened understanding with each other is contagious. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Tricia Otto Coaching
-Art of Growth Enneagram Certificate
-Unpacked Pod - Enneagram Part 1
-Unpacked Pod - Enneagram Part 2
-The Enneagram Journey Podcast with Suzanne Stabile
-Typology Podcast with Ian Morgan Cron

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked is chatting with guest  Laura Gervais, a University Student majoring in neuroscience and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. We chat with Laura about coming out and learning about who she really is. Laura shares her experience growing up in a small town in rural Alberta in a Catholic school and navigating coming to understand her true identity in that context. She shares her coming out story, what was most supportive, what she wished more people know about the LGTBQ+ community and gives hope and advice for young people who are discovering their sexuality but more importantly who they were made to be.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Canadian Mental Health Association LGBTQ+ Resources
-It Gets Better Help for LGBTQ+
-Kids Help Phone / Text
-Call 211 (in Alberta)

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guest Alicia Peterson, elementary school teacher, mama, wife and entrepreneur, mental health advocate, enneagram 7 AND one of our absolute besties! We shared the messy, the magical, the joys in the chaos of working with kids, the school system, creating a safe and inclusive environment in the classroom, what teachers wish parents knew and all of the things that may come in between. Alicia shares observations on the resiliency of kids, tips to help kids thrive at school and at-home routines you can build in! 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Support the show

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked are chatting with guests Tamreen Arif and Annand Ollivierre Co-Founders of You Need this Box @youneedthisbox It's a subscription box service that creates the opportunity to learn, act and create change around systemic racism in Canada.  Tamreen and Annand share the story of the creation and what to expect when it comes to the You Need this Box. Each is carefully curated with products, tools, and activities to help you move beyond awareness to a place of allyship and solidarity with BIPOC communities. 

How it works?! Over the course of one year, you will receive four boxes, each carefully curated with products, tools, and activities to help you move beyond awareness to a place of allyship and solidarity with BIPOC communities. The goal is to make a meaningful difference for and with people and the community as opposed to making profits that only benefit a few.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-You Need This Box
-Shift Lab 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

Support the show

*music by Bensound

This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the process of growth through the lens of enneagram stances. We share why you need to know your enneagram stance and how to discover it.  The stances influence how you interact with others and often we are prone to one. Evan and Tara share each stance the gifts and the tension they bring and the growth path towards healing. The next layer of using stances is knowing where you start and understanding what happens when you are in a season of disorder. We use Richard Rohr's theory of transformation - order-disorder-reorder to reflect on how each stance behaves and how you paying attention to your dominant stance can lead to growth and healing.  We share how you can use each energy in your relationships and workplaces to uncover greater depth and health.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
--Recess Creek Coaching
-Follow Recess Creek on Instagram
-Art of Growth Enneagram Certificate
-Unpacked Pod - Enneagram Part 1
-Unpacked Pod - Enneagram Part 2
-The Enneagram Journey Podcast with Suzanne Stabile
-Typology Podcast with Ian Morgan Cron

Support the show

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

Support the show

*music by Bensound