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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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Failure and the Curse of Comparison

August 15, 2026 • Charissa McKay • Episode 2

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We all do it - compare ourselves to others...and we've all probably felt like a failure at some point. But what do those words mean? Really... What are the measuring sticks for failure? What is actually going on with the Joneses, and why does it all matter so darn much? All this and a guitar journey where mistakes are encouraged - enjoy!

Songs featured in this episode:

Mistake - Blue October

Putting Up With the Joneses - Spirit of the West

Pinball Wizard - The Who

That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain

Try Everything - Shakira

Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

Make Your Own Kind of Music - Cass Elliot

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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.

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