Let’s talk about . . . talking! Conversations are the heartbeat of relationships and yet we so often avoid the sensitive, difficult, intimate, emotional and scary ones. We play it safe and bit by bit our relationships become less intimate, less real, and less satisfying. Join my guests and I, as we explore what makes intimate conversations so scary and why we avoid them. We will talk about how to prepare for them, initiate them and participate in them in ways that deepen intimacy, clarify mi ...
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Joyful Curiosity with Life Coach Sara Smeaton
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Join me and life coach Sara Smeaton as we talk about invitations to change, curiosity and judgement, what we can learn from snails (!) and how we can lean into joy even as we challenge ourselves to stretch and grow. Sara is a certified professional coach and facilitator who helps midlife women follow their dreams after forty. "You have as much poss…
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Loving after death with Mary-Anne Popescu
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Mary-Anne is the executive director of the Ontario Association of Family Mediators and has her own mediation practice as well. She brings her passion, love and joy to everything she does and everyone she meets. We talk about the conversations she is grateful she had with her brother who passed away five years ago and the ones she regrets not having…
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Disrupting and Connecting with Bernie Mayer
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Bernie Mayer, an icon in the global mediation field, a scholar, a writer, a practitioner, a teacher, a mentor and a friend, joins me today to talk about his book The Neutrality Trap, Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change. Earlier books include: The Conflict Paradox, Seven Dilemmas at the Core of Disputes, The Dynamics of Conflict, Beyond Neut…
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The Meaning of Money with Judith Stern Peck
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Radhika is an a lawyer turned inner wellness teacher and personal and business alignment coach. In today's episode, Radhika talks about bringing unconditional love to her work. "I love you when you're angry. I love you when you're sad. I love you when you're happy. Because I think as children, we didn't all get that. It was like, stop crying. Why a…
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Victoria Smith is a mediator, collaborative lawyer, author and teacher. She has been ten years ahead of me our whole lives, going to the same elementary school, junior high (winning the same awards), high school (being on student council) and law school! We discovered all of this on our first friendship date. Join us as we connect around the work w…
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Talking about Feeling Seen with Dr. Jody Carrington
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Dr. Jody Carrington, talks about her best selling book Feeling Seen, Reconnecting in a Disconnected World. We talk about boundaries being a pre-requisite for empathy and how sometimes we need to bump against or go past our boundaries to know where they are. We talk about finding 'our people,' the importance of a good belly laugh, and how "the most …
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Listening from the Heart with Barbara Hummel
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Barbara Hummel, a couples and family counsellor and mediator from Cincinnati, Ohio, talks about how to stay present and listen from your heart. Paying attention to and getting curious about the differences between us can actual make us closer and more connected. She explores how to balance the need of the person who needs to process out loud in the…
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A Grandma's Lesson in Right and Wrong with Nicolle Kopping Pavers
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Nicolle is a mindfulness coach for lawyers having practiced law for 25 years both in South Africa and Canada. She talks about her journey from lawyer to mindfulness coach and her hopes for healing a wounded system. "And I just think that what we don't realize is sometimes we're not helping our clients because we aren't even aware of our own trigger…
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Pam is a therapist and a chef and the founder of Fanjoy Culinary and Wellness Centre. In today's episode, she talks about using food as a therapeutic tool to start conversations in the kitchen that might be more difficult to have somewhere else. "So what we really do is provide an alternative way to have safe conversations while also looking at how…
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Nancy is a mediator, collaborative family lawyer and author of Collaborative Practice, Deepening the Dialogue. In today's episode, she shares with us how she leaned on her strength in communicating through writing by sharing a poem with her father to begin a series of poignant conversations as he approached his assisted end of life date. She also s…
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