Food is Medicine, Art imitating Life, Reconnection, the Bluest Monday Ever, and Improv Fun!

Is it even a new year if we’re not taking stock of our lifestyle habits, in particular our diets. My first guest strongly believes that food is medicine and doctors shouldn’t go to medical school but rather health school. A Regenerative Medicine Educator, entrepreneur, author, Doctoral student and speaker Nicolette Richer joins me to share some practical tips for optimizing your health with food. After all, you are what you eat, right? Anne Brodie joins me to share details about Locked Down the first major release about and shot during the pandemic, with Anne Hathaway and The Dissident from Academy Award-winning director Bryan Fogel (Icarus), a documentary thriller that plays out at the highest levels of power, exposing the labyrinth of deceit behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to Anne, you’ll be screaming at the screen watching. While many of us are looking to reinvent ourselves in 2021, Catherine Harrison believes we should be chasing reconnection instead. A certified professional coach and behavior-change specialist Catherine helps her clients focus on mindfulness, adaptability and accountability and shares a little with us. Blue Monday, typically known as the most depressing day of the year is right around the corner and to compound that we’ve also all got a case of the Covid Blues. What better way to get around that then by planning for the future. Teresa Valenti, Senior Wealth Advisor at Meridian Credit Union joins me to share how taking active steps will prepare you financially in the short, medium and long term and improve your overall emotional and financial wellbeing. Do you feel like you’ve been winging it for much of this last year? Then you might be perfect for improv. Julie Dumais, Artistic Director of Second City in Toronto joins me to share how you can access their new online classes from anywhere, expand your creativity and be a master of improv, a skill we all need during these trying times. Finally, the big question we’re all pondering is “when will l get my vaccine”. Never fear, we now have a calculator to help us figure it out easily online. Jasmine Mah from Omni Calculator joins me to share what inspired her and her co-creator, Steven Wooding to develop the vaccine queue calculator for Canada and how you can access it yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices