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If I'm being honest, showing up online is something I still have to talk myself into sometimes, and I do this for a living!

This month on Thinking About is all about confidence, and this week we’re talking about the confidence to be online. So many of the people I talk to are carrying around the same fears about being online, and most of the time, they're holding themselves to a standard they'd never hold anyone else to.

So we're busting some myths, walking through what helps me (and the clients I've worked with), and hopefully leaving you feeling like maybe — just maybe — you do have what it takes to show up online. (I believe you do!)

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• Why showing up online feels unnatural for pretty much everyone
• Three myths that are keeping you from showing up
• Why editing, practice, and time are the actual secret
• Lowering the bar, finding an accountability buddy, recording on your best days, and treating content like a creative experiment
• The "one person" trick

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You know that feeling when you open your closet and nothing feels quite like you anymore? Maybe, ever since the pandemic, it's been a few years of sweats and working from home. Maybe your body has changed, your life has changed, and the clothes hanging in there feel like they belong to someone you used to be.

That's exactly where I was, and then Suzanne Colmer walked into my closet with her closet cleanse method and literally changed my life!

As one of Canada's premiere style and image consultants, Suzanne Colmer works with her clients to ensure they love their clothes and that their clothes love them back. She specializes in closet cleanses, size-inclusive personalized shopping, and Canadian curated capsule wardrobes that allow you to buy less and wear more. Often sought out by the media as a Canadian style expert, Suzanne has been featured locally on Global TV, and CBC and in the Globe and Mail and globally as Toronto's style consultant with Tourism Toronto.

Suzanne has a gift for making you feel seen, understood, and genuinely excited to get dressed again. I can’t wait for you to listen!

In this episode, we're talking about:

• The first step to reconnecting with your style when you have no idea where to start
• Closet cleanses are like cleaning out your fridge before you go grocery shopping
• “It's not you, it's your clothes"
• How to handle clothes you're saving for "someday"
• Suzanne's philosophy for her own closet – and why she shops on a one-in, one-out rule
• What "style words" are and why figuring out yours is a game-changer
• How to actually finish an outfit
• Suzanne’s take on trends
• The one piece Suzanne thinks almost everyone should own (can you guess what it is?)

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Connect with Suzanne Colmer

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Check out her website

Links from the episode:

The Diary of a CEO podcast

Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

New York Times Cooking

Jenn Eats Goood on Substack

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This week, we’re thinking about what’s working, what’s shifting, and how I’m easing into a new season after a busy start to the year.

In this solo episode of Thinking About, I’m reflecting on Q1 so far – the highs, the lows, and everything in between. January felt like a creative high, February brought heaviness, and now, stepping into March, I’m finally feeling lighter.

We’ve had some incredible conversations on the podcast this year about energy management, burnout, and redefining success, and I’ve been learning a lot from my own journey. Let’s chat about the personal wins and lessons that have shaped my year so far, plus a look ahead at what’s coming in Q2.

In this episode, I’m talking about:

• The highs & lows of Q1 from creative energy to the challenges of February.
• Being 100 days sober – what this milestone has meant to me and what’s shifted along the way.
• Reflecting on the progress made in running events (one of my big goals for the year).
• Creativity ebb & flows
• Rest, delegation & letting go of doing it all
• My workout routine & prioritizing movement
• The little things making a big impact
• What’s I’m focusing on for the next couple months

If you’ve been feeling like the year is flying by or if you’re still finding your groove, this episode is a reminder that things don’t have to be perfect to be good, progress happens in seasons, and every step forward counts.

Links from the episode:

Steff Sullivan sobriety episode

Courtney Croucher episode

Alyssa Fry astrology episode

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Today, we're thinking about the overarching theme of the importance of tuning into you with Linh Phan.  Linh is the founder of Bona Fide Life Coaching and a body acceptance and intuitive eating coach. She grew up as a restaurant kid, working in her parents’ Chinese restaurant in small-town Canada from the age of 12. Food was the reason for her family to come together and connect and it was, and always will be, a love language for her. However, Linh realizes that many people have difficult relationships with food and she has made it her mission to raise awareness around diet culture and the harmful effects it has on people’s physical and mental health. Linh works one-on-one with people who struggle with shame and guilt around eating and helps them find joy and peace with food – and with themselves.

In the episode, you’ll hear about Linh’s journey to her current business after working in the financial industry, she walks us through diet culture, intuitive eating and her experience with intentional movement. We talk a lot about the changes we’ve seen in our own lives after we stopped living on autopilot. She gives us actionable tips on how to find validation within yourself, again something I’ve been working on heavily for the last while, how not to fall victim to the new year new you craze of January, finding ways to move your body that you actually enjoy, prioritizing yourself even when you’re busy, check in on yourself, and so much more.

Connect with Linh:
Connect on Instagram
Connect on Facebook
Connect on LinkedIn
Connect on TikTok
Visit Linh's website

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Today we’re thinking about our inner critic and living life in alignment with Gloria Eid. Gloria helps leaders of all kinds embody their innate creativity and become who they need to be to carry out their unique role on the planet. As a transformational leadership coach, she works with rising entrepreneurs, new managers, executives, artists, and students to unlock their creative abilities and become their most loving selves so that they live and work consciously and joyfully towards the fulfillment of their dreams. 

She draws on her studies in sociology and communication, her research in the art of authenticity and meaning-making, her training in applied depths coaching, and her experience building inclusive educational communities and high-performing teams to help create a world that is full of more inspired and expressive humans. She sees communication as humanity's most important characteristic and the life of every relationship, and believes that what we do for work can, and ought to, make our lives better. 

We chat about the thoughtful career break she took during what some would see as the height of her previous career, themes facing overachievers and their view of success, what our inner critic is and how to use it to our benefits, and so much more. If you're looking for a mindset shift, a pat on the back to keep going with what you're doing, or permission to try the thing that keeps pulling at your heart strings – this is the episode for you.

Connect with Gloria:
Listen to Gloria's free mini-memoir and receive her letters on living, loving, and creating by joining her readership at www.gloriaeid.com
Connect on LinkedIn
Connect on Instagram

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Today we’re thinking about the new year – not having to be a new you but still setting intentions and reflections heading into 2023 with our first-ever returning guest, Coach G! Gillian Macgregor-Spur helps people at any level of fitness to achieve their running goals while having fun, building belief in themselves and take the stress off their shoulders. She was inspired to begin running. In an outstanding first year of running that included 5K, 10K, and a half-marathon, she fell in love and soon after started helping others. Eventually, Gillian's love of running blossomed into full-time entrepreneurship as a certified running and nutrition coach helping others on their own journeys.

We chat about kindness, burnout, figuring out what works for you, our thoughts on the new year, visualization, manifestation lists, actionable steps for changing your habit and lifestyle, figuring out the steps to get from where you are today to where you want to be, the 31 x 31 challenge and so much more!

Connect with Coach G:
Instagram
Facebook
Pinterest
Youtube
Website
Get your guides or connect with Coach G for more support
Sign up for 31 x 31 challenge 

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Today, it's just me and you! Listen in as I dive into the five biggest takeaways from previous episodes of Thinking About – featuring lessons from Danielle Robay, Palak Dave, Rachel Kelly, the ladies of Females Who Side Hustle, Consciously Cait and so many more.

We'll dive into living life more fully, how everything is a lesson, being multi-passionate, why doing things for others can make your life more meaningful and more. Plus, I'm sharing five questions I'll be asking myself throughout 2023 to stay connected with everything I've reflected on.

Thank you for all of your support this year and I hope you have the happiest new year!

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Today we’re thinking about a lot of different things including accessibility, mental health, and balancing many priorities with Matisse Hamel-Nelis. Matisse is VP of Communications for AbleDocs, and oversees both internal and external communications, partnerships, and conferences. She’s also the Director of Communications for the IABC/Toronto IDEA Committee and the program coordinator of DC’s PR program. An international award-winner, she is best described as a strategic, forward-thinking communicator focused on goal-oriented social PR with accessibility at the forefront.

We talk about why it’s important to focus on accessibility especially as communicators, social media, balancing many roles, her experience with bipolar disorder and eating disorders and what she’s learned, how people are not usually thinking about you as much as you think, the importance of supportive people in your life, and so much more. 

TW: SA, ED, Mental Illness

 Connect with Matisse:
On Instagram @simplymatisse and @matissenelis
On Twitter @matissenelis
Website

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Today we're thinking about transitions, pivoting, community and finding new industries with Rachel Kelly! Rachel Kelly is the entrepreneur behind Make Lemonade, previously a co-working space in Toronto and now a boutique floral studio making magical designs for brand activations, corporate events, your kitchen table and more. 

We talk about her transition from running a coworking space to becoming a florist, creating communities that foster real conversations, helping people feel comfortable in community settings, her experience becoming a florist, how she broke into the industry, what she did to learn about the new space, and how she’s moved her way through over the past year. She also shares tips for running a business without losing yourself, goal setting tips and how goals can change and that’s ok.

 Connect with Rachel:
On Instagram
Get flowers!
Sign up for the last few months of the Get Sh*t Done Club

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Today we're thinking about exploring growth in content creation, freelancing, and life with Jacci Rai! Jacci is an extremely talented content creator, video editor, freelancer, YouTuber, reels creator extraordinaire and one of the previous co-hosts of the What Day Is It Podcast.

We talk about being cancers, career longevity, her process for the most creative reels on the internet, starting a YouTube channel and working on a new platform as a content creator, how she got into freelancing, tips for freelancers, closing the chapter on What Day Is It, podcast growth tips, and so much more.

 Connect with Jacki:
On Instagram
Subscribe to her YouTube channel
Listen to episodes of What Day Is It

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