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Are you a woman 50+ who's fed up with online dating? Are you widowed or divorced and haven’t had a date in decades? Don't give up. We truly believe you can be successful. We’re Anne Bokma & Amit Karia, a couple in their 60s who met online (thank you, Tinder!). Listen in as we share true-life stories of people over 50 who have found love online and are navigating the apps with a sense of joy and anticipation instead of dread and despair.
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Reframe Your Life is a podcast for women who want to explore topics that will support change and transformation in their lives. From inspiring author interviews to lively conversations between friends, this podcast is for women over 50 looking for a voice that feels like home. From leadership to spirituality and lots in between - you'll find it here. Subscribe and browse through 7 years of episodes.
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I blew up my life: career, relationship, home, booze, fitness and lifestyle. I couldn’t be happier. A daily dose of ordinary courage can lead to extraordinary change. Join me, Linda McLachlan, and my diverse and inspiring guests for stories of conscious, everyday courage. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy lindamcl.substack.com
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Our client Barbara, a Toronto-based personal coach and facilitator, hadn’t been in a long-term relationship for decades. At 73, she re-entered the online dating world and after meeting guy #6, she struck it lucky. And so did the guy she met. Barbara shares her story about her approach to online dating and how being picky paid off.…
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Episode 2: Gail re-enters the Dating World
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Our guest Gail was single for seven years before entering the online dating world. A CEO in the tech field, she’s confident in every area of her life but was nervous about the prospect of meeting new men. She took our How to Get Great Dates Online workshop and the rest is history. After meeting a number of nice men (and almost getting scammed once)…
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Episode 1: How Lisa and Jordan found each other on Match.com
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Lisa, a 54-year-old writer in Toronto, decided to go online two years after her husband died. She had the right “let’s see what happens” approach and met Jordan, a 57-year-old psychotherapist, a couple of weeks after going online. They hit off right from the start. Learn what this couple did right as they share their strategies for online dating su…
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125 | Navigating the Messy Middle with Ann Douglas
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After a two year hiatus, Reframe Your Life is back. It took a special guest to get me to record another episode. Ann Douglas was Canada's go-to expert on all things parenting for decades. Now that her kids have grown up and left home, she's turning her attention to the glorious messiness that is midlife. And she hasn't just been researching it; she…
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A Canadian, an American and a Brit walk into a bar… for a light-hearted discussion about alcohol. Our experiences of it and our social obsession with it. Are you into it, or over it? Host Linda McLachlan and friends, Vijay Chavda and Ryan Geismar chat about how alcohol has played a role in their lives - from childhood to parenthood. How have things…
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Cindy Villanova is a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. She’s an author, consultant, entrepreneur and public speaker. She’s also a seventh degree black belt, master instructor and the owner of a martial arts studio in Austin, Texas. Cindy’s parents were a mixed race couple in the early 1960s in southern California. They faced prejudice but …
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Jean-Sébastien Cournoyer aka ‘JS’. He’s a son, brother, husband and father of 5 children. JS is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of Real Ventures and Montreal Startups. Both are early-stage venture capital firms that backs entrepreneurs and build the ecosystems in which they thrive. JS has primarily worked with entrepreneu…
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Anne Bokma is a daughter, sister and mother. Anne’s also an award-winning journalist, writing coach, workshop leader and author. Anne is also the founder of Hamilton’s popular 6-Minute Memoir live storytelling event which has also become a podcast, also called the 6-Minute Memoir. Growing up in a fundamentalist sect, the Canadian Reform Church, her…
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Amy Conway-Hatcher is a mother, daughter, wife, sister and middle child, attorney and a former Federal prosecutor. After 6 years as a prosecutor, Amy moved to private practice eventually becoming an equity partner in one of several firms that make up what is known as ‘Big Law’. These large legal entities with sometimes thousands of lawyers and offi…
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J. Paul Nadeau is a brother and father. He’s the son of a violently abusive, alcoholic father. At 7 years old he decided he wanted to be a police officer so he could arrest his own father. Life in school was not much better as Paul was conditioned to believe he was worthless and incapable of amounting to much. At 16, his father killed himself with …
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Niti Nadarajah is a sister, daughter, and Senior Counsel at Philip Morris in Australia. She worked as a lawyer in private practice in Australia and the UK before moving in-house to Philip Morris. She is the mother of four babies. She has a 7-year old daughter and a 2-year old son. Between their births she experienced the anticipatory joy of pregnan…
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Mr. Gohl passed away peacefully on January 13, 2022. He was 100 years young. He is reunited with his beloved Marjorie and missed by his loving children, grandchildren, former students and friends. Rest in peace, sir. Season 1, Episode 10: 99 Years Young Ron Gohl was 99 years young as of August 4, 2020. He was a son, father, grandfather and WWII vet…
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Stefan de Villiers is a son, brother, husband and fur daddy to two dogs, Lola and Lucy. He has a masters degree in clinical social work and he’s a podcaster. He was born in Canada to Afrikaans parents. Growing up, his family moved back and forth between Canada and South Africa four times which caused a first layer of tension around his identity. He…
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Lohifa Pogoson-Acker is a mother, sister, daughter, entrepreneur, social activist and in Linda’s mind, the unofficial Mayor of Hamilton, Canada. Born in Nigeria, Lohifa came to Canada at 16, via the UK. Her parents were professionals and she’d had some opportunities to travel but she was excited about this new adventure, embracing a new country, di…
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Martin Parnell is a father, husband, grandfather, son, and brother. In 2001, Martin lost his wife Wendy to cancer. Almost a year later, his brothers challenged him to run a marathon. As a highly competitive trio they decided to take it on. He strapped on his running shoes and quickly discovered how hard a challenge like this might be. He was 47 yea…
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Beth Riungu is a mother, sister, daughter. She’s been a registered nurse, a chef, administrator and is now developing a business as a soul midwife or death doula. In her twenties she traveled to Africa to learn more about her Kenyan father. As she shared in her blog, her blended Scottish-Kenyan ancestry meant she was “neither a local nor tourist, s…
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Ernie Louttit’s a son, brother, father and soon, a Moshum or ‘grandfather’. He’s a Missanabie Cree from Northern Ontario. He grew up in a town call Oba, about 1,000 kilometers or a 12 & a half-hour drive north of Toronto, Canada. While now it is a place where he goes to heal his soul, it was a rough start. He dropped out of school and started worki…
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Dr. Cynthia Miller - Conscious (R)Evolution
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Dr. Cynthia Miller is a daughter, sister and mother. She’s a designer, visual artist, whitewater river guide, adventurer, healer, author and PhD in Cellular Transformation & the Psychology of Change. She is the daughter of one of the scientists responsible for creating the bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima respectively…
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John Ruffolo is a father, son, a first generation Canadian, an avid cyclist, and member of Les Domestiques a philanthropic cycling team. He is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. In the business world, John joined OMERS Pension fund over a decade ago, and founded OMERS Ventures, a private equity fund established to back promising Canadian companies Not…
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She’s also the mother of a son who went through 5 cancers: 3 times with childhood leukemia and 2 times with adult tongue cancer. When her son Ryan was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Standard Risk with (CNS) Central Nervous System involvement at age 2, she dug in. She drew from her deep faith, family and friends for what was a fight for…
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Dr. Nadine Kelly is a retired physician, yoga instructor, American Council of Exercise certified Health Coach and Senior Exercise Specialist, founder of YOGI M.D. and host of the YOGI M.D. Podcast. Nadine believes in making yoga accessible to mature women (or as she likes to call them, Wise Women) of all physical levels by offering yoga in the chai…
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Ken Taylor - Courage is a Way of Living
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Ken is a father, husband and lover of all things created or derived by humanity. Like his father before him, he joined the Canadian military at 18 and served almost 13 years before leaving due to a career ending injury, both physical and mental. After the military, he transitioned into the technology world through years of education and a mission d…
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In 2008, at the height of the ‘great recession’, Laura was at a personal and professional cross-roads. She became involved in the self-help industry, first as a client, then as a coach. Her path took a tragic turn. On October 8, 2009, she was present at what became know as the fatal “sweat lodge incident” near Sedona run by James Arthur Ray. Three …
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Steve Emery - 100 Days of Courage - A Deep Tour
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Steve Emery: Season 2, Episode 22. Steve’s work can be found at: https://colorsweettooth.squarespace.com/ Akimbo’s Creatives Workshop: https://akimbo.com/thecreativesworkshop Linda can be found via: www.thearena-podcast.com or on her coaching website: https://www.lindamclachlan.com You can follow her on Instagram & Facebook @arenalivcourage or on T…
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Because of her experience juggling multiple commitments as a non-traditional student, she understood the unique needs of students trying to complete their degrees while working full-time, parenting, care-taking family members, and who are first-generation residents in the US. Now, she has parlayed her empowerment and self-mastery techniques into a …
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Stephan Dyer is a comedian, entrepreneur and co-founder of MalPensando, a bilingual school that helps people become funny, confident speakers. Stephan was previously on the podcast as Episode 18. Stephan has also developed NotWorking to Networking, an opportunity for professionals in the Latino community in Canada to network in their industry of ch…
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Lyle’s writing can be found via his Substack site: https://lyle.substack.com/ The following are further details about some of the stories he shares in this episode: The day his daughter was born: The Hardest Day of My Life Part 1 A piece about COVID and how it's different for his family: My Last Normal Day A post about cerebral palsy and what that …
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