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ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 267, Lucca and Rebecca with a Dose of HopeEpisode 267, Lucca and Rebecca with a Dose of Hope by with Lucca Hallex and Rebecca Mears
2021-09-1456 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 267, Lucca and Rebecca with a Dose of HopeAiring live on September 10, 2021
2021-09-1057 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 266, Lucca and Rebecca on Pushing ThroughOriginally aired on August 27, 2021
2021-09-1055 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 263, Lucca and Rebecca on Hotter ColderOriginally aired on July 2, 2021
2021-08-0757 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 261, Lucca and Rebecca on Dreaming What's NextOriginally aired on June 11, 2021
2021-08-0755 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 260, Lucca and Rebecca, About the ChildrenOriginally aired June 4, 2021
2021-08-0758 min2021-08-0757 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 258, Lucca and Rebecca on Grounding Through the Big ThingsOriginally aired May 14, 2021
2021-08-0758 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 257, Lucca and Rebecca on Listener Appreciation WeekOriginally aired on May 7, 2021
2021-08-0756 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 256, Lucca and Rebecca on Using and Being UsedOriginally aired on April 23, 2021
2021-08-0758 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 255, Lucca and Rebecca on It's Time - AlmostOriginally aired on March 16, 2021
2021-08-0756 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 254, Lucca and Rebecca on Sealed in FaithfulnessOriginally aired on April 9, 2021
2021-08-0759 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 252, Lucca and Rebecca on ImperfectionOriginally aired March 21, 2021
2021-08-0757 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 251, Lucca and Rebecca on Pernicious Not-Enough-ItisOriginally aired on March 14, 2021
2021-08-0758 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 250, Lucca and Rebecca on What we Learn from WitnessingOriginally aired on March 7, 2021
2021-08-0757 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 249, Lucca and Rebecca on the Growing EdgeOriginally aired on February 19, 2021
2021-08-0756 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 248, Lucca and Rebecca, on PortalsOriginally aired on February 5, 2021
2021-08-0758 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 246, Lucca and Rebecca on Broken SystemsOriginally aired on January 22, 2021
2021-08-0758 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 245, Lucca and Rebecca on How to Navigate the FearOriginally aired on January 15, 2021
2021-08-0358 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 244, Lucca and Rebecca Welcome 2021Originally aired on January 1, 2021
2021-08-0358 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 243, Lucca and Rebecca 12 days of christmasOriginally aired on December 25, 2020
2021-08-0355 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 242, Lucca and Rebecca on Not That WayOriginally aired on December 4, 2020
2021-08-0357 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 241, Lucca and Rebecca on Enough is EnoughOriginally aired on November 20, 2020
2021-08-0154 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 240, Lucca And Rebecca, On When Something Needs To DieOriginally aired on October 2, 2021
2021-08-0155 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 239, Lucca and Rebecca on What to Burn DownOriginally aired on September 11, 2020
2021-08-0156 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 238, Lucca and Rebecca on Navigating New TerritoryOriginally aired on August 28, 2020
2021-08-0158 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 237, Lucca and Rebecca on SilenceOriginally aired on August 14, 2020
2021-08-0158 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 236, Lucca and Rebecca and now for something completely differentOriginally aired on July 31, 2020
2021-08-0158 min2021-08-0157 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 234, Lucca and Rebecca on the Slow Growing DreamOriginally aired July 3, 2020
2021-08-0159 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 233, Lucca and Rebecca on Working Out the RacismOriginally aired June 12, 2020
2021-08-0159 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 232, Lucca and Rebecca on BirthdaysOriginally aired on June 5, 2020
2021-08-0156 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 231, Lucca and Rebecca on Dreaming Through the New EraOriginally aired on May 22, 2020
2021-08-0159 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 230, Lucca and Rebecca on Technology and the New WorldOriginally aired May 1, 2020
2021-08-0156 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 228, Lucca and Rebecca on COVID SupportsOriginally aired on April 10, 2020
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ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 224 - Julie Beyer, Principal And Founder Of GLOW Chocolate“GLOW is my life's work - my soul's calling. My story is far from linear. What I can generally say, is chocolate found me. It lured me - like the pied piper. This sacred plant is very much a part of a very personal journey of discovery, healing, death and re-birth. Cacao is my master teacher and so much more."
Julie Beyer is the Founder and Principal at GLOW Chocolate. She studied holistic nutrition at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, and holds a bachelor degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. Julie’s other pass...
2021-03-0259 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 223 - Cat Webb, Curatrix Of Crossroad Catalyst HouseCat Webb is a Catalyst and Resident Crossroad Community House Curatrix and they are opening their home to create a sober intergenerational queer community centre and event space catering to LGBTQ2SIA+ individuals and their extended networks of allies.
Lucca and Rebecca talk through what Cat's dreams are for the Crossroad Community House, and what fuels them!
2021-03-0256 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 222 - Adina Neufeld, Facilitator Of Self LOVEAdina is a heart-led leader dedicated to empowering women, especially moms, to show up and be their best. She’s a clean beauty advocate and a Discover Your Sacred Gifts Guide. As a Founding Member, consultant and Executive Director at Beautycounter, she’s an award-winning sales leader, educator and champion of the clean beauty movement.
Adina is a business coach who supports women (and a few good men) to connect with their own unique sacred gifts and lean into life to feel more on purpose and fulfilled. She’s on a mission to help moms love themselves more so they can sh...
2021-03-0257 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 221 - Ricky Castanedo Laredo, Some Kind Of ArtistRicky Castanedo Laredo is a Mexican-immigrant, living on Unceded Coast Salish territories. He is primarily an artist and graphic designer, but has been heavily involved in the Vancouver punk scene for close to 10 years, and plays in a bunch of local bands. He's also the art director of Discorder Magazine, based out of CiTR 101.9 FM, and is the music director at CJSF 90.1 FM!
Lucca and Rebecca love interviewing our CJSF contemporaries to see what brought them to community radio, and to explore all the facets of who they are. We take some time with Ricky, getting to know the man...
2021-02-2757 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 220 - Jen Lang, Soundscape Artist and Transformation FacilitatorJen Lang guides spiritually-conscious women in business to become compelling and confident communicators so they can connect with and grow their community.
She has two main focus-areas in her coaching business: Public Speaking & Communications and Reiki & Sound bowl therapy. Both lend themselves well to group and individual guidance and experiences and there is often over-lap with clients within these two main areas.
Using her training in martial arts, Reiki, and opera singing, she works with the complete person in a method she is developing around embodied communication.
Currently she works with clients in a 1:1 or small group mastermind format around...
2021-02-2656 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 218 - Marissa Wong, Founder Of TWObigsteps CollectiveMarissa Wong is a Vancouver-based dance artist who has presented, hosted, and produced choreographic works in San Francisco, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa, including at TEDxSoma and Dance in Vancouver. In 2015, she founded TWObigsteps collective, a platform where she continues to create, explore, and research alongside other inspiring artists. In addition to performance, Marissa engages in the community through workshop facilitation, teaching, and mentoring. Interested in sharing dialogue, she seeks growth through the language of movement, and expansion in a practice of continually challenging assumptions.
Lucca and Rebecca discuss the origins and aims of Marissa's collective, and see where her growing...
2021-02-1756 minESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 217 - Lucca And Rebecca, On Choosing What Brings JoyHow do you claim and create hope and joy for yourself? How do you navigate life when it is throwing curveballs at you, and regain charge of your emotions and perspective about it all?
Rebecca and Lucca talk about the signs and symptoms of when we're a bit lost, and what kinds of actions they find helpful in taking charge of their brainspace and what is controllable around them to facilitate greater ease of spirit, and an increase in joy.
First aired on November 15, 2019.
2021-02-0659 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 216 - Mehrdad Rahbar, Artist And DesignerMehrdad Rahbar was born in Iran, moved to Canada in his teens. He studied Architecture at McGill University. and specialized in Community Development and Affordable Housing. He is the founder and principal of Vernacular Group, a design and land development company in BC. Rahbar is also the recipient of a number of BC's design awards. With his company he has been involved in many affordable and innovative residential projects working with Canadian federal, provincial and local governments, and First Nations.
In addition, he is a celebrated artist who has installed two major public art sculptures. His most recent sculpture "When...
2021-02-0657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 215 - Jennifer Ellis, Sacred Interface ExplorerJennifer Ellis is a Sacred Interface Explorer who collaborates with people through the art of Hypnotherapy to explore their inner
world. She's always loved working with people whether it’s through my leadership in the corporate world, as a yoga and fitness teacher, massage practitioner or “Jennifer of all trades” in an environmental technologies start-up company. She sees and respects people’s capacity for growth as well as their limitations. She facilitates a change in perspective to bring a greater depth of understanding of your inherent self. She's done her own inner journeying, and continues to do so, whether purposefully or kicki...
2021-02-0657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 214 - Flora Gordon, Art DirectorFlora Gordon is an Art Director with a passion for visually expressing complex ideas. She has designed everything from magazines to museum exhibits. As a professionally certified member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and holding a degree in Communication Design from Emily Carr University. Flora developed a plain language graphic design curriculum for Simon Fraser University that focuses on clear communication and readability through layout and typography.
Her obsession with advertising started in childhood, when Her father would point out clever ads to me. She buys more typefaces than shoes and her sketchbook is always within reach...
2021-02-0656 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 213 - Lucca And Rebecca On 'Optimal I'What does the little voice in the back of your mind tell you is your 'optimal self'? Is it giving you a realistic and helpful picture of yourself, or your goals? What if that voice is interfering with you REALLY being your best self?
Lucca and Rebecca take stock of what the devil and angel on their shoulders keep speaking in their ears about what they should be doing, and why, and how to either shut that voice up or change the messaging so that they (and you!) can have the freedom to truly embrace your best self!
2019-11-1359 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 212 - Amy Robichaud, ED For Dress For SuccessAmy Robichaud joined Dress for Success Vancouver as the Executive Director on April 1 2019. With a decade of experience, she has helped non-profit organizations advance their ideas, revenue and diversity goals through policy and practice. Amy has worked for and with charitable organizations in Toronto, Ottawa, Washington DC and Vancouver.
Amy owns a specialized Advancement Practice that uses a diversity and inclusion lens to guide organizations with their fund development strategy and operations, and communications including persuasion campaign planning and management. She is the former Director of Partnership & Engagement for Minerva BC, the cofounder of FundHer.ca, a speaker on mental...
2019-11-1357 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 211 - Connie Jorsvik, Founder Of Patient Pathways And Senior Healthcare NavigatorConnie is really good at solving healthcare issues for families and making things happen. She's quite fearless when going toe-to-toe with physicians or hospital management and the more intimidated 'her families' are, the more she seems to rise to the challenge. Our system is fragmented to the point of being shattered. She is able to help patients and families get the information they need in ways they can understand it and then get the best care possible.
Lucca and Rebecca take some time with Connie to understand what she is creating through Patient Pathways, what exactly is broken and why...
2019-11-1358 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 210 - Lucca And Rebecca, On The Importance Of StorytellingStories can be a gateway to developing relationship, a method of passing on history and wisdom, and are SO much more than just pleasant entertainment. Lucca and Rebecca talk about the power of stories in their personal lives, in their work, and in the cultures they have experienced. How stories build community, how they create rapport, how they teach with ease and gentleness the mores of families, societies, and sustainable relation with the world around us. Listen in and let us know your thoughts and favourite stories!
2019-10-2955 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 209 - Lucca And Rebecca, On How To RestDo you equate rest with sleep and vegging out? What is it that provides true rest for you? Lucca and Rebecca explore the idea of rest - what it means to them, how they find it, what counteracts it, what amplifies it - and why it is so very essential for balanced living.
2019-10-2558 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 208 - Ciara Reid, CJSF VolunteerCiara is a queer visual artist and student studying sociology at SFU. They volunteer at CJSF as the summer outreach and programming assistant. They constantly strive to learn, and they are committed to bringing creativity and dedication to everything they do. They always do whatever they can to be present and supportive of all the people in their life.
Lucca and Rebecca have a chat with Ciara to help bring to the forefront one of the voices and personalities of the lovely folks at CJSF working behind the scenes!
2019-10-2557 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 207 - Mark Watson, CEO, Engaged Community Member And Potential FarmerMark’s background as an educator and an athlete positions him to appreciate and explore the brain’s ability to change and recover after brain injury. His experiences with learning difficulties developed his interest in different learning profiles and helping students better understand the nature of their disabilities and their ability to overcome them. Mark has worked in education and cognitive rehabilitation since 2002. Having served as a teacher, administrator, Executive Director and CEO. With a background in human kinetics and educational leadership Mark has successfully paired his background in both of these areas into his role at ABI Wellness. Pairing his...
2019-10-2557 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 206 - Mary Ann Saunders, Transgender Educator And Amateur Feminist TheologianOver her life, Mary Ann Saunders has moved through many, often overlapping, forms of gender expression and identity—boy, man, cross-dresser, queer straight, genderqueer, girl—before settling into womanhood (with a large dollop of non-binary femme) in her late 40s. She has rested comfortably there since.
Professionally, she’s an instructor at the University of British Columbia, teaching research culture, writing, children’s literature, and transgender studies, and has presented at academic conferences on topics as various as the ethical questions which arise when citing transgender scholars, and the entanglement of her own life story with mass-market children’s books and a sewi...
2019-10-2458 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 205 - Lucca And Rebecca On The Illusion Of Safety and SecurityHow much of your time and energy goes into feeling or creating safety and security for yourself and your loved ones? Are you actually achieving the goal you are aiming for? What if what we think of as 'safe' and 'secure' isn't quite what we think it is? How do we determine what true safety and security looks like? And what if we simply CAN'T create safety or security - what then?
Hard questions that Lucca and Rebecca root around in to see where we find our own foundation stones and guiding principles. Listen in and see if you agree!
2019-10-2457 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 204 - Lucca And Rebecca On Relationships And Asking For What We WantDating and any romantic relationship that we might be in can be a minefield of problems. Lucca and Rebecca dig into a biggie: how can we get what you really want in a relationship? What DO you really want? Is what we think we want and what we need (that will be good and enjoyable) two different things? What is within our power to influence our search for a romantic power - and to better the relationships we're in?
2019-10-2258 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 203 - Kerry Phillips, Health Navigator Advocate General DistrupterAfter more than 30 years as an Advance Care Paramedic, Kerry is now working on health navigation, advocacy and disruption. She is disrupting the status quo with new innovation in coaching/teaching people on how to ask the tough questions in our fractured healthcare system, plan for their own health future, being an active collaborator with their health and creating new support systems for caregivers who are the unrecognized heros of health.
Lucca and Rebecca explore Kerry's journey both professional and personal, and hear stories of transformation!
2019-10-2258 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 202 - Diane Lund, Creative Director Of Creative Wonders CommunicationsFor a decade, Diane worked for large ad agencies as a writer and broadcast producer honing her creative skills of writing and producing communications campaigns for print, radio, video, television, transit, direct mail and promotion. Later, as a Creative Director, she wrote and marketed television programs centred around the environment, alternative health and metaphysics that aired in California, New York and Canada. In the last twenty-five years, Diane has been the owner and Creative Director of her award-winning company Creative Wonders Communications where she works directly with clients to help them grow their companies through integrated creative communications.
Recently, Diane...
2019-10-2256 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 196 - Susan Grieg, An Enthused By Life CreativeSusan is an enthused by life creative. Her 'Why' is to "help people live lives of courage in harmony with their values."
In 2013 Susan was diagnosed with PTSD and couldn't return to her healthcare position. She looked at her bucket list and the item that said 'quit work to write and paint full time' stood out. Then she asked herself, If I could do anything I wanted for work and if I wasn’t afraid to fail, what would I do? The answer was to heal herself, surround herself with a community of artists and create art. Within a few mo...
2019-10-1256 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 201 - Lucca And Rebecca, On Our ShadowsWe've all got a dark side. Have you explored yours, or is it too frightening to own? Lucca and Rebecca talk through what having a shadow side means, and how it can inform and uplift us.
2019-10-1256 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 200 Lucca And Rebecca, On Helping Someone Who Doesn't Want HelpThe world is full of big hearted people who want to help out those around them. Sometimes the people we want to help aren't looking for help, or have actively rejected help. What do we do in a situation like this? Lucca and Rebecca talk through the motivations behind wanting to help others (and our own selves), and how to navigate the tension of wanting to make an impact vs. self autonomy.
2019-10-1258 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 199 - Lucca And Rebecca On Joy And HappinessThe human race (and primarily modern western civilization) places great importance on being happy. If we aren't joyful or happy in our daily lives, we feel we are missing the boat. Lucca and Rebecca question this priority to see what we really mean - and whether this pursuit is helping or hindering us.
2019-10-1257 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 197 - Lucca And Rebecca On Bad LuckDo you ever feel like you've got bad luck? Like Murphy's Law personally has it in for you? Lucca and Rebecca tackle this feeling/belief and take it apart, seeing where its roots are, and where power and choice and new possibilities lie.
2019-10-1156 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 195 - Brian Rouble, Artist At LargeBrian's practice is about shining and sharing his light. Since childhood he has always been a seeker, questioning his reality and place within it. This propelled him into a biology degree and on to researching quantum physics and the resulting implications of a consciousness based view of the creation. Concurrent to this research he travelled extensively and was deeply impacted by travels to Africa where he first glimpsed the stillness of spiritual awakening.
Since returning from these quests in 2000, he has focused on stone sculpture as a vehicle for the symbolic expression of these realizations. As he continues to explore...
2019-10-1156 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsSpeak Up! Robin Eriksson and Rebecca Mears on Blossom Co-HousingRobin Eriksson hosts Rebecca Mears on Speak Up! to talk about the Blossom Co-Housing Project, a grassroots initiative by people who want to see change in the Vancouver rental market, and who have an idea that works. Listen in to learn how the myriad of empty homes combined with single parents or otherwise marginalized people and Airbnb equals new opportunities for housing and stability!
2019-05-1059 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 194 - Madeleine Shaw, Founder, Board Chair Of United Girls Of The WorldMadeleine Shaw is a Vancouver-based social entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Lunapads, a multiple award-winning green ecommerce venture. She is the founder and Board Chair of United Girls of the World Society, the registered charity that produces G Day. Her latest project is Nestworks, a family-friendly shared workplace. She has received numerous distinctions for her work, including the 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Special Citation for Social Entrepreneurship, the 2016 BMO Celebrating Women Innovation & Global Growth Award and the 2015 Vancouver Board of Trade Wendy MacDonald Award for Entrepreneurial Innovation. She is a graduate of Queen’s University, BCIT and th...
2019-04-1957 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 193 - Lucca And Rebecca On Creative SolutionsThere's an adage that goes "you can't fix a problem with the same mind that created it." When we find a deep rooted problem, then, how can we become deliberate about finding and creating a solution that will work - rather than just a band-aid for the symptoms?
Rebecca is about to launch a new project in Vancouver aimed at providing relief to the most vulnerable people impacted by the rental crisis in the city. Lucca and Rebecca take some time to talk strategy about problem solving in general, and then dive into the specifics of the Blossom Co-Housing Project.
2019-04-1959 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 192 - Sandra Nomoto, Author Aspiring World Traveller And LightworkerAfter earning her University degree and working in public relations, Sandra Nomoto launched Conscious Public Relations Inc., a virtual communications firm, at the age of 25. Over the 10 years in business, Nomoto earned B Corporation® certification, and contributed to eWomenNetwork Vancouver earning the Best Social Media and Community Engagement Award in 2016. She also founded and grew the Vancouver Short Film Festival from 2005 to 2015. In addition to her new roles with cannabis and female empowerment companies, Nomoto is the author of The Only Public Relations Guide You’ll Ever Need, writes for her own blog and at Cold Tea Collective, and serves on...
2019-04-1957 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 191 - Charlotte Sista C, Creative Health And Happiness AmbassadorCharlotte is a lifelong learner who has been teaching "something or the others" since 2nd grade. She has lived and is sharing her "Pillows to Pillars" (tear-soaked Pillows to Pillars of Strength) transformational journey through poetry writing, recordings, performances, and workshops. She is exploring the acronym STAR to explain what she does and to promote her new (Canada-US) business: Speaker-Teacher- Author who Revitalizes peoples stories or projects into written or digital media. Former Health Promotion officer for City of Toronto, Globe and Mail columnist - she crashed out after MVA and returned to the US for healing and Revitalization. She...
2019-04-1958 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 190 - Lucca And Rebecca, On How To Shift PerspectivesLucca and Rebecca dive into what it takes to manage changing situations inside and outside of ourselves - and how to be strategic about learning to perceive situations and people differently.
2019-04-1958 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 189 - Angela Himsel, AuthorAngela grew up the 7th of 11 children in Southern Indiana in the Worldwide Church of God, a doomsday apocalyptic church. After spending two years in Israel, she ultimately converted to Judaism. She wrote a memoir about my experience, "A River Could Be a Tree," and hopes that her words serve as a bridge of understanding between cultures and religions.
Rebecca grew up in the same Christian cult as Angela, and this conversation is a delightful exploration through territory that is familiar yet different... listen in as Lucca and Rebecca find out what influenced Angela's path and what she's creating now!
2019-04-1958 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 188 - Lucca And Rebecca, On BoundariesThere's a concept that comes up in almost every conversation about deep things that Lucca and Rebecca have - and that's boundaries. Today they focus directly on exploring boundaries - their ins and outs, their whys and wherefores. They are intangible and sometimes inscrutable - but pulling back the layers can help us all to apply them more effectively and health-fully in our lives.
2019-02-1457 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 187 - Sara Jonsdottir, RevolGirlSara is the owner and founder of the most badass period proof panty company - REVOL GIRL! Her life's purpose and pursuit are to provide and create EMPOWERING period proof underwear for everyone that menstruates. Gone are the days of staining your favourite jeans or nice sheets, Revol Girl always has you protected! On top of providing premium functional leak proof underwear (all handmade locally), Revol Girl (and Sara, to be specific!) is here to disrupt an archaic industry and create a community of support for all menstruators!
Sara chats with Lucca and Rebecca about the source of her passion...
2019-02-1357 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 186 - Sharon Selby, Registered Clinical CounsellorSharon Selby has been counselling children and teens for over twenty years, and she specializes in the treatment of anxiety. She combines a warm, and creative approach with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help children and teens regain their power from the worries and/or anxiety. She is the author of the children's book: Surfing the Worry Imp's Wave ~ Empowering Children ages 5-10yrs. to understand and overpower anxiety. She has written over 250 articles on her popular blog and is an active public speaker who has been featured on Breakfast Television, TEDx, St. John Ambulance, and many podcasts and magazines. Her...
2019-02-1357 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 185 - Jesse Wentzloff, Community Media StorytellerJesse is the Public Affairs & Talk Coordinator at CJSF 90.1FM, where he helps others raise their voices and share their stories to the communities around them. He loves to train and help volunteers realize their creative vision, while building the station community through supporting and communicative relationships. Jesse is the co-host of Speak Up! and the Vancouver Mixtape, where he highlights local issues, ideas and art.
Lucca and Rebecca go exploring around what brought Jesse into radio, why he stays, and what he's creating here. It's always a treat for us to interview a fellow colleague from our station!
2019-02-1359 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 184 - Lucca And Rebecca Reading 2019Every year Lucca does a Reading Circle where she psychically peeks ahead to what 2019 has in store for us. This episode we play the recording of Lucca's reading, and then discuss it!
2019-02-1359 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 183- Lucca And Rebecca, On Holiday SurvivalThe holidays are a time of joy - and stress. Time with family - and time to hibernate. Lucca and Rebecca talk through the tensions of the holiday season and discuss techniques for staying sane and holding boundaries while milking all the opportunities for joy and connection!
2019-02-1357 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 182 - Lorie Corcuera, Spark CreationsLorie Corcuera is the Co-Founder and CEO at SPARK Creations & Company Inc., a training and development organization that inspires people and companies to create meaningful cultures and workplaces. Over the past 20 years, Lorie has cultivated her people and culture development, community relations, and leadership coaching experience as both a strategic and progressive senior human resources leader in the technology, interactive entertainment, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, professional services, and non-profit space. Lorie is passionate about elevating the life experience at work and cultivating a community that is igniting and enriching our human spirit. Through their SPARK Essentials Women's 2.5 Weekend Retreats and other...
2019-02-1358 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 181 - Rina Liddle, Liddleworks Indie MediaRina Liddle is an entrepreneur, educator and visual artist. She has taught a variety of social media, communication and critical theory courses at Emily Carr University, University Canada West and Brighton College since 2009. She has an MA in Photography and Urban Culture from Goldsmiths College, University of London, England and a BFA in General Visual Arts from Emily Carr University. Rina leads a team of 5 contractors and one employee at Liddleworks Indie Media and has helped over 60 clients obtain their business and organizational objectives through training and social media management. She has a passion for visual art and has shown...
2019-02-1257 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 180 - Devon Hall, LoudMouthBrownGirlDevon J Hall is a 35 year old writer living in British Columbia BC. She's worked as an advocate in the past for those living below the poverty line, and now helps to tell the stories, (namely herself) of women escaping abusive relationships.
Instead of waiting until women become victims, Devon is helping to celebrate the lives of those who survive, now, through her blog LoudMouthBrownGirl.
Lucca and Rebecca take some time with this fellow colleague from CJSF to see what she is creating now.
2019-02-1259 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 179 - Kate Sutherland, Facilitator For The ShiftKate Sutherland is founding faculty and executive coach with Simon Fraser University’s Certificate in Social Innovation, SFU's new certificate on Evaluation for Social Impact and Transformational Learning, and THNK School of Creative Leadership. An author, Kate’s third book is We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Our Collective Genius.
Kate has 30+ years experience in organizational and community development and on issues as diverse as food systems, recovery from substance abuse, local currencies, and newcomer settlement. Increasingly her primary focus has become capacity building for leaders and change makers, sharing what has been most helpful in her own work, and...
2018-11-2758 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 178 - Deb Chaney - Illuminator Of ArtistsDeb Chaney is a contemporary abstract artist, speaker, & workshop facilitator. Recently named by Vancouver City Buzz and Culture Trip as one of the top 10 contemporary artists to watch in Vancouver, her artwork has been featured in Style At Home Magazine, The Georgia Strait, thrice on the homepage for Saatchi Online Gallery, in Rainmaker Films and on Telus TV. She teaches and speaks about the creative process and living an inspired empowered life. She stands for each of us being creative beings and aims to support others in their own process. Deb is a single mom to her teenage daughter. Her...
2018-11-2757 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 177 - Rhiannon Bennett, Slayer Of SystemsRhiannon Bennett is a Musqueam band member and was raised in her territory in what is now known as Ladner by her parents and grandparents. Rhiannon’s family instilled a strong sense of community in her and values of community service which lead to Rhiannon working with children, youth and families for over 20 years in a variety of roles ranging from dance, soccer, and teaching, community development. She is active in her community and volunteers her time on a variety of community organizations.
She is also very active within the BCNDP having served as President for Delta South’s Riding Asso...
2018-11-2759 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 176 - Winston Yeung, Story ArchitectWinston chased after fame, money and status believing that these things would make him “somebody” in this world. He reached for the stars, sat among them and eventually fell from grace. He's been told he's accomplished enough to fill multiple lifetimes if he were someone else, but he didn’t believe it, because he was a prisoner to the dysfunctional stories he created, lost in the land of illusion of his own design.
He walked alone through his own personal hell, numbing and slowly killing himself until one day he looked at his reflection in the mirror and admitted that he did...
2018-11-2757 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 175 - Patrice Mousseau, Founder Of Satya OrganicsPatrice Mousseau, a member of the Fort William First Nation, had a successful career as radio and television host, news anchor, and journalist. She became a conscious entrepreneur when her daughter developed eczema and needed help, crafting business and purpose together while raising her daughter as a single mom.
Now, Patrice is the owner/creator of Satya Organics Inc., providing NPN approved, certified USDA organic products to serve those with skin conditions, who those want a legitimate alternative to steroid products. Her company has grown and flourished since we last had Patrice on air. Lucca and Rebecca check in to...
2018-11-2757 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 174 - Lucca And Rebecca, On AngerOooohhhh ANGER. What's it all about? What can we do with it?
It's been showing up for Lucca and Rebecca lately, so instead of just feeling it, they're dissecting it. Join in to learn what they do to cope with it, to learn from it, to understand it, and to apply it for good.
2018-11-2657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 173 - April Bellia, Cereal EntrepreneurApril Bellia is an entrepreneur with a baking background. Her professional career started over 20 years ago as a dessert chef and wedding cake designer, under the namesake April Cakes. Her next company, Granola Girl was founded in 2008 and later incorporated in 2011. The company now services over 250 grocery stores in Western Canada. April is a wife and mother of 3 teenagers, so she understands the importance of providing good and healthy food for families and young people. Her granola is made with high quality, natural and organic ingredients. April is known locally to be the face for the conscious entrepreneur that is...
2018-11-2657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 172 - Lucca And Rebecca, On The Upside Of ChaosThe world has felt like it's on a bit of a rollercoaster for the last long while, and Lucca and Rebecca have been feeling it not only on the societal level, but the personal level. In today's episode we take time to dig under the sources of the chaos, and what we can learn from previous times of chaos in our personal and world history. How might this actually be serving us? How can we ride this rollercoaster without getting thrown off?
2018-11-2656 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 171 - Camellia Rumball, Facilitator Of Quiet HealingCamellia invites people to land deeply within themselves and their divinity using Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Reiki. She loves people up and creates a safe, playful, welcoming space for their healing and awakening. Camellia believes that compassion, kindness and love are essential to living a delicious life.
Lucca and Rebecca connect with Camellia to learn how and why she has been drawn to several "quiet healing" modalities - what they do for her, and what she witnesses they do for others.
2018-11-2657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 170 - Lucca And Rebecca, On Fraught TimesWhen everything feels pushed to the limits (and beyond), how do you cope?
Lucca and Rebecca spend time talking about personal overwhelm, societal overwhelm, and what a person can do to manage themselves and continue to contribute to the healing of the world closeby and farther away.
2018-11-2658 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 169 - Wendy Rée, KORU CremationPerhaps you might not expect the key descriptive words of the owner and director of a funeral home to be sunny, laughter, optimistic, effervescent, compassionate, quirky, thoughtful, courageous - but they describe this one to a T! Wendy Rée has lived fully since her birth and childhood years in small-town Ontario, and her life and work experiences have contributed greatly to her focus on being able to have a “heart-centred” career, which she has found in funeral service.
Wendy came to funeral service after being moved by the care and professionalism she experienced at her grandmother’s death and funeral...
2018-11-2657 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 162 - Tara Leduc, Chief Enthusiasm Officer Of PeaceTara Leduc is a peacemaker, speaker, healer and bestselling author. Making peace and spirituality accessible to "normal women", she walks the line between the soulful and the silly.
She is most fired up these days about teaching the art and science of manifestation in her Be a Money Manifesting Machine Masterclasses - how to bring in cash using grit, grace and magic. They're online, so you can attend from anywhere.
Tara Leduc is a peacemaker, speaker, healer and bestselling author. Making peace and spirituality accessible to "normal women", she walks the line between the soulful and the silly. Always on...
2018-08-3158 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 161- Stephanie Ostler, Devil May WearStephanie is the owner and designer of Vancouver based Devil May Wear, a clothing and lingerie company. She loves her work, and her distress at consumption habits leads her to want to teach people to make better decisions for their bodies, their bank accounts and the world. She believes most people don't know who they are, what they really want or what they are actually doing here.
Stephanie believes sustainable and smart shopping can be more fun, and is launching new projects to help people get in touch with themselves to find their way to the right, sustainable, life decisions...
2018-08-3158 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 168 - Chastity Davis, Consultant And Curator Of ConnectionChastity Davis is a mixed heritage woman of First Nations and European descent. She is a proud member of the Tla’amin Nation, located in Powell River just off the beautiful Sunshine Coast of BC. Chastity strives to keep her sacred First Nations culture, traditions, and values incorporated into her modern day life. She feels it is her life purpose to facilitate the building of bridges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and has dedicated her professional and personal life to do so.
Chastity is sole proprietor to her own consulting business, Chastity Davis Consulting and has been a successful entrepreneur fo...
2018-07-3058 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 163 - Lucca And Rebecca, On Collaboration, Community And CompromiseWe've got a big streak of community-building and love for community in us. Today we talk about some of the bumps of community: when collaboration is desired, but elusive; when compromise seems only to make everyone dissatisfied; when forward movement seems to be at the cost of someone else. How do we navigate the complexities of what being in community looks like?
2018-07-3059 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 160 - Melanie Phillips, Ayurvedic Healer And Spiritual MentorMelanie Phillips stumbled and fell before finding the strength to rise back up again. Having walked through chronic illness and extraordinary loss, Melanie embraces ayurveda, yoga and intuitive medicine as a primary means of how we can all re-emerge from darkness. As a 18 year full time yoga teacher and member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association - Melanie created The Madhuri Method, a method that effectively treats symptoms and diseases of the mind, body, and emotions leading to a truer relationship to joy, acceptance and personal empowerment. She believes that laughter is the best medicine.
She works with clients one-to-one...
2018-07-2957 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 164 - Leigh Hodgins, Horse Spirit ConnectionsLeigh’s love and passion for horses was kindled when she was five years old. Her Dad took her to visit a friend’s ponies and from that day forward, horses were a part of her life. If she wasn’t dreaming of horses, she was drawing them, riding or collecting them.
As an adult, Leigh’s passion for animals continued. While her career took her into the corporate world, her home was on acreage with dogs, a donkey, and horses she adopted over the years. Leigh honed her business skills, first in law firms as a paralegal, then as an Assis...
2018-07-2957 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 167 - Sue Dumais, Heart Led LivingSue Dumais is a Global Impact Visionary Leader answering the call to heal the world. She is a best-selling author, international speaker, a divine leader of light leaders, a sacred guide, gifted intuitive healer, a miracle weaver and a global voice of HOPE and inspiration for the “Heart YES Movement.”
In 2014, she received the WOW Spirit Success and Soul Award. Sue also established the Heart Led Living Foundation, which provides emotional and financial support to women and girls in Kenya.
Her most recent book is called “Stand UP Stand OUT Stand STRONG ~ A 30 Day Guide to Navigate Life When the SHIFT...
2018-07-2956 min
ESSENCEtial ConversationsEpisode 165- Lucca And Rebecca, National Indigenous Day SpecialIn honour of National Indigenous People's Day, Lucca and Rebecca use the hour to honour and highlight the tenacity, vibrancy, and strengths of the First Nations and Inuit of this land.
2018-07-2956 min