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The Inner Shift PodcastJanet Gray – Advice-Only Financial PlannerJanet Gray – Advice-Only Financial PlannerSHOW Title: Is the Economy Impacting Your Mental Health? You’re not alone!Summary:Financial uncertainty is brutal for our mental health. It’s one of those “big ones”...up there with death and divorce.This week, Amy and Kimothy talk to our resident expert on The Inner Shift Podcast, Janet Gray, about how this time in history can impact everything from our current housing situation to our retirement which, for some, could even be decades down the road. And then, there are the olde...2025-05-0847 min
The Inner Shift PodcastMourning before a death. Loss before they leave. Endings before BeginningsMourning before a death. Loss before they leave. Endings before Beginnings.On this week's episode, just effing surviving before, during and after loss.Sometimes you lose someone before they die, like with dementia. Sometimes you're out of a relationship before you know, or well after you should have. The hardest, most would admit, is mourning a child you lost....and then, living to care for another.Today, we talk to a mother who lost a child and dedicated her life to helping others in anticipatory grief, real-time grief or living grief. Do...2025-05-0158 min
The Inner Shift PodcastFrom Surviving to Thriving, Burnout to BoldGuest:Kelly RileyAuthor, Coach and PodcasterBook: The Pivot PlaybookTitle: From Surviving to Thriving. Burnout to Bold.On this episode, Amy Friesen and Kimothy Walker talk to our guest, Kelly Riley, who has written The Pivot Playbook, and coaches people through the process one-on-one - if reading about it isn't enough. She also has a podcast of the same title.In full disclosure, Kelly is Kimothy's social media coach as Kim transitions to...2025-04-2451 min
The Inner Shift PodcastLearning Your Limits: Balancing 3 Generations While Thriving as a Public FigureSam Laprade hears a LOT, "How do you do it?" The week of her recent book launch, Ottawa Made, she helped other organizations raise money and hosted other high profile events. The woman with many titles, author, entrepreneur, innovator, fundraiser, broadcaster and public speaker has two others, mom and daughter. And, she is an only child. Having already lost her Dad and raised a successful teenaged daughter, Sam is now the lead on her mom's long term care. For the first time since Kimothy has known her (a very long time) she's learning to say a...2025-04-1752 min
The Inner Shift PodcastBad News, Burnout and reBound: Self-Care to SurvivalGuest: Laurel GillespieCEO, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care AssociationOn this week's episode of The Inner Shift Podcast, Amy Friesen and Kimothy Walker talk to the CEO of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. It's a really heavy job for a woman who beat breast cancer, went back to university for her Masters degree in business administration (MBA) and left a very difficult marriage.Now, after all of that, Laurel Gillespie, is talking openly about burnout in women and how we need to embrace it, rather than feel shame for not keeping up. The mother...2025-04-101h 06
The Inner Shift PodcastFinancial Freak Outs. Control in ChaosIf you believe almost everything you hear, the economies of many nations are in real trouble. You know who else is? Us… the women who live in those nations.For those of us invested in “stuff” (that’s Kimothy’s technical term for it), the stress is real and impacts women more than men, simply based on a number of factors. It can range from the disparity related to single parenting or the enormous differences in leadership roles, so the decisions are out of your hands. Just look at the number of men on Fortune 500 boards versus women. Rig...2025-04-031h 06
The Inner Shift PodcastWhen You Get a Call That Changes Everything in Your Life. What Then?Communications leader and athlete Susan Marsh-Marconi had it all…or so it seemed. A series of traumas impacted her life in a profound way but she’s still standing. She shares her story to help others because vulnerability, she says, is the key to her ability to cope. Reaching, teaching and preaching…she knows that we cannot pretend we’re okay!!This advocate and change maker was a sexual assault survivor in a case that made national headlines a long time ago. And, as if that wasn’t enough trauma for one lifetime, she got a call one...2025-03-2759 min
The Inner Shift PodcastPerimenopause Preps and Menopause MayhemFeeling alone when your hormones hit the skids can be overwhelming and there is a LOT to learn. Why doesn’t someone get us all together to share what you’re thinking! Gee, you think, I wish Amy and Kimothy would do that show for us. Presto!! You’ve come to the right place. Our first guest does that on her own podcast based in the United Arab Emirates. Experienced Canadian journalist Ann Marie McQueen is a podcast expert with her multimedia platform Hotflash Inc., which focuses exclusively on information women need to get through the rolle...2025-03-2059 min
The Inner Shift PodcastIt’s NOT Black and White!! Grey Matters for Women who are Just Struggling with Sh#tCanadians Kimothy Walker and Amy Friesen bonded over a shared “piss off”…one of those life-changing kind. We are not experts…but we know a lot of experts as we are professional communicators with a combined 50 years experience.If we don’t know, we seek them out because we have some really tough questions about why so many women rank their mental health as pretty damn poor. Ya know what helps? Finding your people!! Asking experts about every single subject we can think of…from menopause to grief and loss…to why we love our pets so...2025-03-1337 min
Suicide Zen Forgiveness Stories re Suicide Loss | Ideation | Mental Health | Offering Hope |Empathy for AllLaying the Twenty Year Old Me to Rest S6 E11Laying to Rest: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Healing
In this episode of the Suicide Zen Forgiveness podcast, host Elaine Lindsay shares her personal journey of recovery and self-discovery following a devastating car accident in 1976 which resulted in numerous physical injuries and the loss of her pregnancy. After meeting with Kimothy Walker, a journalist who had been through a similar experience, Elaine reevaluates her perspective towards her own identity, learns to lay her pre-accident self to rest, and embraces her current self wholeheartedly. Elaine also discusses Andrea, a friend who passed away, and shares the empathy and...2023-11-2820 min
Dungeons, Dragons, & Psychology PodcastMaking the Best Villains for you CampaignsText us, PsyclithidsEpisode Details & LinksListen again to a great episode from our first season, where I was joined by my friend Kimothy Archer to discuss ways to make the most compelling villains. Tricks of the Trade Information & LinksIdeas for villains to use in your own games!Become a PatreonJoin my Patreon to show your support for the show and access exclusive content.https://www.patreon.com/DungeonsDragonsPsychology My Linktreeht...2023-07-3028 min
Pivoted SuccessKimothy WalkerMEET YOUR HOSTS Sean Cochrane is the President of TCC Canada- The Corporate Centre https://tcccanada.com/ with long term experience working in the corporate business industry. His exposure to a wide variety of businesses within the TCC Canada office spaces has given him great insight into where the business world has evolved and where it is heading. Jarrod Goldsmith https://jarrodgoldsmith.ca/ is a Canadian small business community builder and is the embodiment of the small business spirit. He is the founder of eSAX Virtual Events https://esax.ca/, eXclusive eXperience, Ask The Fedora ht...2021-07-0142 min
The Quick & The Dirty PodcastOpting Out of DatingDo you know someone who has opted out of being in a relationship? On this episode Hilary and Sandra talk to Kimothy Walker. She’s a former TV News reporter, journalist, and high profile business woman in Ottawa. You’d think it would be easy for an empowered woman to find a mate. Well… not if you don’t want one. She explains why she is opting out of the dating world and why many women in their 50s would rather be alone than in relationships.
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