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Mind Your Midlife: Confidence and Success, One Thought at a Time, with Cheryl FischerHow Decluttering Can Increase Your Happiness (And Your Family's!) with Mary Beth MacKinnon (Ep. 24)Drowning in stuff while navigating midlife transitions? Professional organizer Mary Beth McKinnon reveals why decluttering now might be the greatest gift you'll ever give your family.Mary Beth shares her personal journey of helping clear out her mother's home after a move to assisted living—a process made doubly painful because her mother was simultaneously grieving her husband and her possessions. This experience transformed Mary Beth's perspective on our relationship with our things and sparked her mission to help others avoid leaving this burden for their children.Fa...2025-04-1838 min
Navigating Your Best Life!Finding Connection to Yourself + Others with Dr Kelly BarnettIn this show, we explore the exceptional benefits to one's health and well-being of attending a doctor-led wellness retreat. I am thrilled to welcome an outstanding guest to the show, our colleague and friend in wellness travel experiences, Dr. Kelly Barnett. The Women's Wellness Retreat founder, offered in partnership with Balance Medical Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dr. Kelly shares how a journey of self-discovery devoted to nutrition and well-being can help with creative growth and good health. Through immersive activities - Brazillian-inspired dance movements that sound like immense fun to wearing diabetic glucose monitors during her t...2024-07-1128 min
Get A Life - Ex-Cult ConversationsGet A Life Podcast Ep. 113 with guest Andrea (MacKinnon) BeckerGet-a-Life smashes through the Brethren’s “wall of separation” with this first ever interview of a current and participating member of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. After listening to the mandatory Friday night recording of Cult Messiah Bruce D. Hales, and before attending the mandatory Saturday morning Cult Bible Reading, PBCC “sister” Andrea Becker took the time to record this groundbreaking podcast with Get-a-Life’s Cheryl and Lane.
Andrea Becker (originally MacKinnon from Montreal) lives with her husband Lyle and two daughters in the German town of Bad Endbach. Andrea tells how their belief in the Brethren‘s doctrine was shaken by the...2024-05-221h 15
Navigating Your Best Life!Horses, Women and Wellness with Evelyn Coggins of Copper Cayuse OutfittersWe've all got a story as this show's guest, Evelyn Coggins, Co-Owner of Copper Cayuse Outfitters in Pemberton, British Columbia, shares with us, and it often weaves and turns in ways we least expect. From an early career start as a high school teacher to finding her tribe later in life once kids were launched, Evelyn leveraged her skills as a teacher to study Herbal Therapy as her second act, teaching at a local Naturopathic College of Medicine for over a decade. Evelyn's comment about life: "I think every person ends up where they're supposed to be, but every...2024-05-1044 minNavigating Your Best Life!How We Can Stay Well on the Road with Wellness Lifestyle Coach, Catherine Roscoe BarrWe are so pleased to welcome back one of our favourite people, Wellness Lifestyle Coach Catherine Roscoe Barr, who will offer guidance and recommendations on maintaining our wellness lifestyle when away from home.We're touching on Catherine's experiences in the past six months as she delivered engaging workshops and inspiring keynote presentations to audiences in Whistler, BC, with our wellness travel partner, Fairmont Chateau Whistler, and in Victoria, BC, with our wellness travel partner, Oak Bay Beach Hotel. Attendees at both wellness retreats attended retreats to learn from one of the best about how to be the f...2024-04-1122 minNavigating Your Best Life!Fuel To Love Yourself with Nutritionist, Alyssa BaumanAh, the month of love is here. So, let's embrace February with all our hearts and focus on nurturing and being good to ouourselves. By doing so, we will be better able to care for those we love - our partners, our families, our friends and our colleagues. My guest this week is respected health coach and 'wellness warrior' Alyssa Bauman of Nourished by Alyssa. A former food and travel writer who hails from New York City and now lives in Vancouver, on the west coast of British Columbia in Canada, Alyssa epitomizes the west coast lifestyle, famous for its...2024-02-0630 min
TIABC's Voice of TourismEpisode 19 - Cheryl MacKinnonTIABC's Voice of Tourism host Walt Judas and Cheryl MacKinnon, Principal of Wellness Travel BC, discuss the growth of wellness travel following the pandemic, her work with the Association, and some of the policy issues affecting the industry that require government attention.--Follow TIABC on LinkedInSubscribe to the TIABC mailing list for regular updates on BC's tourism sector.Learn more about Wellness Travel BC here.2024-01-2640 min
Navigating Your Best Life!Alyssa Bauman, Wellness Warrior & Holistic Registered NutritionistBe Well Celebrating the Holiday Season!From office parties and client appreciation dos, to kids' parties and Christmas plays, it’s the busiest time of the year and the easiest time to derail from a healthy lifestyle. So what's a person to do? Listen as our special guest, Alyssa Bauman, Wellness Warrior and Registered Holistic Nutritionist shares easy tips to help keep us in our wellness groove. Alyssa knows her stuff from years of 'holding the keys’ to New York City’s finest, in hospitality, food and entertainment. In this show, Alyssa explains her best pr...2023-12-0825 minNavigating Your Best Life!Leading with Wellness at Oak Bay Beach HotelWhat a pleasure to have this conversation about wellness and hospitality with Madone Pelan, General Manager of the exquisite Oak Bay Beach Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. During our time together, Madone shares the history of this waterfront gem, highlighting its Indigenous cultural roots with Coast Salish Songhees, to its modest beginning in 1927 as a small seaside Inn. The hotel's most recent incarnation saw a complete renovation from top to bottom, re-opening in 2012 to much fanfare and excitement as the emphasis was placed on what was then an emerging trend - wellness travel. Today, under the leadership of Madone alo...2023-09-2216 minNavigating Your Best Life!Sleep, Like a Baby - With Wellness Coach Catherine Roscoe BarrMy inbox has been filled lately with wellness press releases and newsletters featuring 'sleep.' It is one of the most widely craved comforts, yet it is often so unattainable to fall asleep and stay asleep.My guest, the luminous Catherine Roscoe Barr of The Life Delicious, is quite an expert in rest, aka sleep. In this conversation, we discuss some easy and enjoyable recommendations to help us all find those elusive 'zs.' And yes, we laugh over the perils of functioning without sleep. Who hasn't been there?One of Catherine's key takeaways is that starting n...2023-09-1520 minNavigating Your Best Life!Kickstart a Delicious Life with Catherine Roscoe Barr, Neuroscience based Wellness CoachThe Life Delicious Founder, Catherine Roscoe Barr, knows what she coaches as she holds a deep-rooted desire, complemented by education and life experiences that emerged following a neuroscience degree, to pursue fulfilling work to promote health instead of treating diseases. She lives with authenticity and is so incredibly honest in her presentations. Catherine is on a mission to help women and men (there were a few in the wellness retreat she led at Oak Bay Beach Hotel in January, and they loved the workshops!) lead a life filled with delicious moments of joy and happiness. She shares, be sure to s...2023-06-0821 minNavigating Your Best Life!Women & Wellness with Nutricuetical Expert, Dionne WalachFinally in the year, 2023, women’s reproductive health is no longer ‘in the closet’.Kicking off the conversation around women, travel, and our sense of well-being, this week we talk about women’s health at all ages. From menstruation to menopause and how the myriad of symptoms are whispered over lunch, at happy hour over too much wine, yet rarely between a woman and her male spouse/partner. Plus, as the lack of public conversations has gone on for several decades now, it is time to address all of it.Join me as I welcome Dionne Walach t...2023-05-0432 min