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Heart Stormings & Common GroundsCarol Youngson - Author of "Take Your Baby and Run"Welcome Back to Heart Stormings!On today's episode, we get to hear the story of Carol Youngson, a retired nurse who spent over two decades working in operating rooms and then went on to serve as an investigator for the Manitoba Department of Justice for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. We sat down a few weeks ago to discuss "Take Your Baby and Run", Carol's first-hand account of the shocking ineptitude and misogynistic behaviour that led to the death of twelve children, primarily infants, under the care of Dr. Jonah Odim at Winnipeg's la...2023-10-1759 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsMessage from the HostHi Everyone. Welcome back to Heart Stormings. This week's gonna be a little bit different, because I don't have an interview to share with you. Unfortunately, I've had technical difficulties. I had the stresses of work, stresses of dealing with a senior parent, stresses of dealing with, unfortunately, a pet that's not doing so well, so I'm making sure that she's happy and comfortable and quite frankly, I'm exhausted. The downside of running a podcast and doing it all yourself from A to Z, including the edits after the fact, it's time consuming. It's a lot o...2023-08-2903 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsSusan Moore - Social Change AdvocateWelcome Back to Heart Stormings!On today's episode, I will be having a conversation with Susan Moore, graduate of the Royal Roads University, lifelong social change advocate and all around amazing human being!Susan will share with us her story of how and why she has dedicated her career to supporting marginalized groups in housing and health care. Susan also graciously shares her story of what it was like to come out to her parents and her community after she had discovered her true sexual identity in early adulthood. Although Canada has made some progress in...2023-08-2233 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsLindsay Poll - Reconcili-Action & Gender RolesTan’si!Thank you for joining us!On today’s episode, I will be having a conversation with Lindsay Poll, proud daughter of the Métis Nation, flight attendant, wife, mother of 5 and all around amazing human being!In the spirit of reconciliation, I acknowledge that I live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Stoney Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.I’m emb...2023-08-1550 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsCandace Neskar - Dating After Divorce, Widowhood and Starting OverOn today's episode we get to hear from Candace Neskar, successful marketing expert, Mother of 3 beautiful daughters and Glamma to 2 very handsome grandsons.Candace and I met under very unusual circumstances when I decided to try out a new dating service "It's Just Lunch" many years ago, after my own divorce. Candace was the consultant that arranged all of my dates and although I eventually decided that dating through a matchmaking service wasn't for me, she and I got along so well that we've kept in touch over the years. Throughout the podcast, you'll get to...2023-08-0858 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsKirsten Mah - Next Chapter: Published AuthorThank you so much for joining us!On today's episode, we will be hearing from Kirsten Mah, wife, mother, teacher and all around amazing human being, who recently decided to go all in on her dream of becoming a published author.Kirsten will share with us what it was like to transition from a stay-at-home mom of 3, to getting back into the workforce as a teacher and now taking the leap to writing her own novels: "Resistance" and "Redemption".We will also discuss our concerns regarding the gap in knowledge and experience women o...2023-08-0133 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsDebbie Mastel - Navigating Starting a Business During a Recession and Foster ParentingWelcome Back to Heart Stormings!On today's episode, we get to hear from Debbie Mastel, successful owner of a female led HR consulting business, foster parent and all around amazing human being.Debbie will share with us what it was like starting a new business during a recession, some of the pitfalls of trusting the wrong people, why a having a support system and backup plan is so important and how and why she got started in foster parenting. Debbie is one busy lady and we are so fortunate that she h...2023-07-2536 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsDionna Hickox - Travel, Wellness, Menopause, Dog Momager and Nomadic LifestyleOn this very first episode of the Heart Stormings podcast, I will be having a conversation with Dionna Hickox (Instagram Link), successful content creator for travel, wellness and menopause, dog momager to Kevin the Berner (Instagram Link), wife, mother, grandmother and all around amazing human being!Dionna will tell us how she got started in content creation, her journey through wellness, exercise and now perimenopause, what it's like to live a nomadic lifestyle both in a custom built van and via Airbnb and how her Bernese Mountain Dog Kevin's social media presence (@itskevintheberner) started and has really...2023-07-1835 min
Heart Stormings & Common GroundsWelcome to Heart Stormings!Welcome to Heart Stormings!The podcast where we get to hear relatable and inspiring stories from amazing women, who are living the lives that they truly want instead of trying to live up to the expectations of others.After decades of hard work and frustrations, women are redefining what "having it all" means on our own terms!Instead of just brainstorming to find solutions, let’s start heart storming ideas to help each other by sharing what is in our heads AND our hearts. Nobody understands what we’ve been t...2023-07-0401 min
Bad Ideas about Writing49: Student Writing Must be Graded by the Teacher, by Christopher R. FriendChristopher R. Friend (@chris_friend) reads his chapter "Student Writing Must be Graded by the Teacher." (Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.) It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) produces the show and will be back as narrator next week.
Chapter keywords: open peer review, peer review, rhetoric and civic engagement, student writing self-assessment, writing community engagement
Chris Friend has been teaching writing...2022-01-0714 min