Walking Alongside: Perspectives
Welcome to Walking Alongside: Perspectives. Take a walk with me as we explore perspectives that I find interesting, moving, ridiculous, hilarious, infuriating, frustrating or down right bizarre! This iteration of the podcast features a combination of short (read 10-15 minutes'ish or less) solo-pods sharing what I have seen, heard, experienced or am navigating and fun and insightful conversations with cool people. Hopefully it will be relatable, possibly humourous, thought provoking or at the very least, entertaining. Looking forward to sharing these perspectives and hope you enjoy.
Episodes
61 episodes
The Benefits of Stress Leave and the Barriers to Getting There
When you think about your mental health (and I hope you do) do you consider that most of the time we might actually be taking it for granted? That we assume we're going to wake up every morning and be okay or fine or good to go, or whatever phr...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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21:06
How Dumpster Fires Build Resilience
I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy (well, maybe my WORST enemy) what my friend Jeremy has had to endure, deal with and overcome over the last almost 2 years. In this episode we talk about what happens when life takes a dramatic and unexpected le...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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48:01
Who Doesn't Like Music?
This is the third and final installment of our series on all things music and we cover so many things. Lyrics, musicality, motifs, feelings and life experiences and all the things that music is and influences. We talk about a wide range of arti...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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37:55
The Beatles
Well - here we are with our second installment of our series on music, and this time we are going head to head discussing the Beatles. It is in my opinion, one of the most polarizing bands, for reasons we will get into in this episode. There ar...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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44:42
David Bowie - The Man, the Music, the Movies
In this episode - I have a special guest/cohost! None other than my kiddo Daphne. Audiophile in the making, they are joining me in a three part series where we look at music and what it means to us, what we think about it, and what we actually ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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24:40
Out of the Ashes - Creativity and Inspiration
Sometimes things happen that seem on the surface to be tragic or difficult or challenging and sometimes they are some or all of those things. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. But so to is creativity and inspiration some...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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10:00
The Perspective Changing Power of Travel
When you travel - there are so many things that could happen. Being on a cruise ship, which is really more like being on location than truly travelling, or going to a resort, which while ticking the boxes of "getting away from it, having some d...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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17:58
Friendship
Friends - we hopefully all have 'em. We need to have those people in our lives that keep us grounded, call us out on our BS and are there when things hit the fan. Whether near or far, old or new, casual or close, friends are the glue that keep ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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15:30
Customer Service - The Spoonful of Sugar
If you think that you customer service is a thing of the past, then I would challenge you to pay more attention to not only what you bring to the interaction, but what the people that you are interacting with are dealing with and how if you loo...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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18:30
A Moral Obligation
It's not about religion - so don't be put off by the title. I gave up church during the pandemic...long story. But I still believe that there is an inherent responsibility that all people have regardless of any spiritual affiliation or lack the...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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12:26
Sucker!!
We've all heard that word. Been called it. Maybe used it - to describe someone or possibly ourselves. Why do we so often find ourselves in situations where maybe we feel like we've had one pulled over on us? Maybe it's just me. There are defini...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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14:26
Mind Over Matter
The last little while there seem to have been all these little hints or clues that I needed to be a little more connected - in my mind and body, more mindful, more present, more able to respond rather than react. And let's be clear, it's still ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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10:10
Reinvention or Evolution - with Trina Mansour
I was thinking about this for a long time, when I realized that maybe it's not so much an either/or as a both/and, which was confirmed for me in this conversation with my good friend Trina Mansour. We talk about how life changes, or how perhaps...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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49:54
Lessons I Learned From My Dog
It's amazing how doing something everyday, multiple times a day can give you moments of clarity or inspiration. Luna and I spend a lot of time walking. In the neighbourhood, in the ravine, and I'm always amazed at her zeal at sniffing the same ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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13:01
Knitting Together Mental Health
So I clearly don't know what season I am working on - but it doesn't matter, new year, new season and I'm calling it 5 and I'm excited to kick it off with a conversation that ties in mental health, because that's always important to talk about,...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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28:52
Seasons Greetings and a Challenge
Well - here we are. Another Holiday Season upon us, another year almost ready for the archives, and what have we learned? Hope that you all have an amazingly restful break (if that's in the cards for you) and that you all find what you need to ...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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13:01
(Not All) People are Stupid
At first blush, it might sound like this is going to be just a negative bashing of, well, pretty much anything you can think of - but it's not. Yes it's about stupid people, or perhaps more precisely the stupid things they do, but it's not an e...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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40:15
The Antithesis of Fast Fashion
Who among us hasn't caved and bought that cute T-shirt while on vacation, or dashed into the store because something caught our eye in the window display? We can probably all remember the "back to school shopping" trip that we did as kids, and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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43:26
From Sorrow to Elation - the trials and tribulations of Iron Man etc.
So before you think I did Iron Man, I need to stop you there. This story started with a conversation I had with a fellow Aryllian who was training for another endurance race and it lead me to have a chat with a friend of mine who did Iron Man -...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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25:26
When East meets West and Worlds Collide:)
Finally a guest! I'm so excited to share this conversation that I had with my friend and former colleague Trina Mansour!!! We talked about beginnings, starting over, parents, the challenges that kids are having and how we can "help" them naviga...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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47:13
All Over the Map
All over the map - that's where I feel I am at the moment. Podcast schedule all over the map, focus all over the map, and no real sense of direction. So when we were recently in Jasper looking at all the map markers and contemplating the size o...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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11:52
Things I Don't Understand
Have you ever thought about the things that you don't understand. I find myself saying that a LOT. I'm not sure why...maybe because I'm always thinking about something, usually a problem or a challenge that I'm hopeful there is a solution to, e...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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18:29
Nostalgia
It's funny what can trigger a bout of nostalgia...smells, sounds, songs, conversations. It doesn't matter how you end up there, but sometimes it seems like there is a whole lot of stuff that seemed easier, better, more fun, less stressful, less...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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13:51
On Responsible Pet Owners
Despite having just been party to dismantling a magpie nest for the third time, I still feel like an animal lover. There are just some birds that don't make good neighbours. If you've ever been in the presence of a family of magpies, you'll kno...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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15:18
The Rise of Rebellion - Beyond Quiet Quitting
We have heard the term. Maybe we've secretly thought about doing it. I'm excited to share my kiddo's perspective on what they view Quiet Quitting to be, and I have to say (with all the objectivity a proud Mama can muster) that they pretty much ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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14:59