Walking The Walk: Change for the Better

Welcome to Walking the Walk: Change for the Better a podcast about how changing your perspectives can lead to a better life if you let it. The things that I encounter in my job as a Health Promoter, a solo parent of a queer/non-binary/ADHD teenager and a partner trying to make long distance love work, all impact how I make my way through the world and sometimes that journey is in need of an improvement. If this sounds relatable, then hopefully the lessons I learn along those different paths, as I'm walking the walk will be too. We are all walking alongside each other, and if we can learn from one another along the way, it will have been a journey well spent.

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Walking The Walk: Change for the Better

The Birthday Edition

November 15, 2025 • Charissa McKay • Episode 39

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It's hard to imagine that this was recorded during the actual birthday's we talk about, which is already two weeks ago, but the sincerity of the wishes and the topic as are genuine now as they were then. Todd and I dig into what birthdays of yore looked like and how they factor into the slow burn that is life - happy times, sad times, good ones and bad ones we cover it all and discover some good lessons in the process. And it turns out that I do share a birthday with some folks - none that I know personally, but I did meet one of them, and there is a picture of me and Ed Robertson from the Barenaked Ladies out there somewhere. Also Katy Perry whose music is featured in the episode as well as John Anderson, a prog rock guy and if anyone cares, Ciara...maybe I know what she sings, maybe I don't.

Anyway - hope you enjoy and I'd love to know your birthday traditions, memories and stories, so feel free to drop a note in the fanmail section or the comments.

Here's the recipes I talked about:

Baked tuna buns - https://www.canadianliving.com/food/recipe/baked-tuna-buns (the website is terrible, but the recipe is great)

Pizza buns - https://www.food.com/recipe/pizza-buns-280927

And here are the songs:

Birthday (Beatles) https://open.spotify.com/track/1ABegtCPBMMJaMpfDyATjE?si=c36cb4fca6c84390

Today is Your Birthday (John Mann) https://open.spotify.com/track/3y29lUlmp9ybATQpOR4ll6?si=20aa6f3b4ebb463d

Birthday (Katy Perry) https://open.spotify.com/track/2xLOMHjkOK8nzxJ4r6yOKR?si=4369c69c072b4188

Birthday (Metro Boomin', Yung Thug, Skooly, Yung Booke, DJ Spinz) https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZMK78Lqa2I6EVp2MxQnwo?si=17e30d989df8453a

Eyes Closed (The Codas) https://open.spotify.com/track/5QsadWMUSwjaPPmNuLOgQb?si=5a19c1229b9b4e13

Listen wherever you get your podcasts - you can find us on Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Player FM, Tune-In and of course Spotify, Google Player and Apple Podcasts - where if you can leave a comment or throw me some ideas of topics you'd like to hear about, that would be great.

Walking The Walk is written, recorded and produced by me - Charissa McKay (aka CharCharBinx) in my awesome basement home office/studio/craft room on Treaty 6 lands known originally as amiskwaciy-wâskahikan, meaning Beaver Hill House, in Nehiyawewin (Cree). There are other names, equally as meaningful, and I am grateful to those who were here before me, for the ability to call this place my home.

Thanks for listening - follow me on Instagram @CharChar_bincks