Episodes
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A Paradigm Shift from the Varsity Clinic to What? with guest Ed
Ed has been in practice for over 30 years working at the same clinic with high level athletes and loving every minute of it. Recently a realization about his own ability to keep working at this level inspired him to retire from the place he has called home for decades. Still treating in some...
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Be So Unbothered, with guest Christine
Christine is a massage therapist and energy worker who is coming in strong with a message to everyone. Be so unbothered about other people’s opinions of yourselves so you can show up authentically and be fully yourself in every situation. Working in healthcare can make us feel like we have a...
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Incorporating Lymphatic Drainage Into Treatment, with guest Jennifer
Therapists sometimes don’t fully understand manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) likely because what we learned in school only scratches the surface of the lymphatic system. Jennifer is a newer RMT from the yoga world who went straight into lymphatics and became a certified lymphatic therapist right...
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Hanging with the Pain Killer, with guest Chris
Chris is an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner here in Toronto. His last visit on our couch was back in 2019 before his osteo journey began so we had him back to update us on his life now. Chris is taking the manual therapy world by storm! He’s a successful practitioner that has helped businesses...
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Starting Something New, with guest Leah
Leah is patiently waiting to officially become an RMT after spending the last couple of years as a student and single mom to make this change. We got to talk about what it’s like being a mature student, study hacks, parenting while studying, dealing with different personalities in a classroom and...
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The Man With Many Hats, with guest Mark
Mark wears many hats in our profession working as a LMT, PT, and AT as well as educating therapists and working the trade shows. We met Mark working with the Anatomy Assassin last year in Orlando at the American Massage Conference and again this year working with Muscle Care at the Canadian…
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Live From The Tradeshow Floor, with guest Shelle
Shelle is an owner of CoreStones Massage which we came to know in the last few years and the stones have exceeded expectations. Listen to Shelle explain the design, benefits, and differences with this product. They are not your typical hot stones and Shelle is not your typical massage therapist....
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Live From The CMC Tradeshow Floor, with guest Brent
Brent is the lead instructor at Shockwave Therapy training in Alberta and had a booth at the Canadian Massage Conference in Calgary this past week. Check out this recording live from the tradeshow and learn more about Brent’s trainings at https://shockwavetherapytraining.com 2rmtsandamic.com
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Therapists Need Therapy Too, with guest Magda
We had our kinesiologist friend Magda back in our office this week to talk about her injured back which has left her dealing with chronic pain for the last 6 years. As a young kinesiologist and personal trainer, she, like many young people thought the issue would resolve. Listen to how she’s been...
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The Clinical Atlas, with guest Omar
Omar is a Massage Therapist and Massage Therapy educator who was inspired to become the author of a series of massage therapy textbooks that will be accessible to all manual therapists. Omar is working with the CNIB and has massage therapists with decades of experience in the profession who also...
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Connecting Therapists Globally
In this episode, the entire Canadian Massage Conference organizing committee hung out to discuss the importance of therapists networking and going to industry events. As Massage Therapy Media, we have had the privilege to attend conferences such as LymphyCon, CMMOTAs annual conference, AMTA’s...
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What Does an Osteo do Anyway? with guest Sam
Osteopathic Manual Practitioners often have to answer the question “what do I tell my clients that you do?” And we have learned that apparently this can be a tough question to answer. Sooo we recruited our good friend Sam who owns the @osteopathiclyceum to try to educate us practitioners about…
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Robots and Competitions, with guest Erin
Erin is a returning guest who wanted to talk about some hot topics in the massage world. She has noticed chatter online about robotic massage and decided to book an appointment at a spa that offers the service. Listen to hear about her full experience being “treated” by a robot. The other hot…
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World Massage Festival, with guest Ana
Ana is the owner of the World Massage Festival, the American Massage Championships, and the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame. She’s a super passionate Massage Therapist that prioritizes networking and connection in our profession along with recognition and collaboration. Her events are all about...
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Accessible Care for Everyone, with guest Jessica
Jessica is a Registered Massage Therapist, clinic owner, and continuing education provider in Calgary, Alberta. Her mission since becoming licensed was to fill a major gap and provide a clinic space that would be accessible for all abilities. Her practice focuses on helping patients with...
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Balanced Bodywork Business, with guest Erin
Erin is a successful massage therapist in Colorado that turned her practice into a multiple six figure business and now helps other therapists do this without having to sacrifice their life and sanity. Like many mentors out there, Erin learned the hard way what to do and what not to do and she’s...
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For The Love Of Teaching, with guest Tyleen
Tyleen is a 4 time guest who started hanging out with us when she was just a newbie in the massage therapy profession. Today she’s a successful therapist with many modalities up her sleeve and a massage therapy instructor at a very prestigious school. Tyleen could not love her life more and she’s...
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More Synergetic Myofascial Therapy, with guest Magnus
Magnus is a LMT and Structural Integrator in Mississippi who teaches other therapists to incorporate fascial therapy into their practice. His training began with some of the pioneers of this work and through training and clinical experience he developed a method of treatment that incorporates...
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Bars and Barefoot Massage, with guest Noelle
Noelle is a Registered Massage Therapist from Alberta who has been bringing her Ashiatsu training to the Canadian Massage Conference for the last couple of years. She started her healthcare career as a nurse and moved into massage therapy when that career wasn’t serving her anymore. Little did…
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Booked and Busy, with guest Jessica
Jessica is a massage therapist and business owner that wears many hats. She’s a med spa owner, sells products, has a busy post op and Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage practice, is an instructor and a business coach. How does she do it all? Listen to Jessica talk about how she’s always looking for...
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Muscle Madness, with guest David
David is a Massage Therapist in Toronto, Ontario and he is about to embark on the wonderful world of entrepreneurship after 8 years working in a clinic as a busy therapist. We discussed why he would want to make such a leap considering he likes where he works and has a busy practice, what his...
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The Matrix, with guest Holly
Holly is a Massage Therapist in Ontario who dove into Matrix Repatterning early in her career and has found a way of practicing that she believes in and gets her patients results. Since she is a listener and knows we have had trouble in the past grasping the concept, she offered to come speak…
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A Revamped Resurgence, with guest Rebecca
Rebecca is a 5 time guest who has taken us on a ride. She has been a successful clinic owner, a badass business coach, lifestyle coach, mentor, mother, and overall cool massage therapist. Our last meeting with Rebecca had her telling us the story of her exit from her thriving massage therapist...
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Wrongfully Accused, with guest Bodhi
Trigger warning: this episode recounts a very serious incident involving a Registered Massage Therapist being SA’d and later accused by the same person as being the culprit. Bodhi has experienced tremendous trauma and is very courageous for telling his story. All of us hope this situation will…
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From The Table To The Chair, with guest Cathy
Cathy is a Massage Practitioner and the founder and CEO of Massage Training Academy and On The Spot Massage. She contracts both Massage Practitioners as well as Registered Massage Therapists to do chair massage at parties and gatherings, corporate functions, athletic events, and anywhere she can...
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The Team RMT, with guest Heather
Heather is one of our favourite guests and collaborators and she’s back to tell us everything we have missed since we last hung out. Aside from being fully immersed into massage therapy after taking a hiatus from the profession years ago, she has become a business owner, co-founder of the Oshawa...
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A Difference of Opinions, with guests Bodhi and Sam
A few weeks back, we released an episode where Sam spoke about certain frameworks within healthcare, namely evidence based practice and patient centred care, and how there are flaws within these frameworks. Bodhi is a first time guest and felt Sam’s analysis required further discussion. For the...
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Taking a Holistic Approach, with guest Elizabeth
Elizabeth started her bodywork career with an interest in helping pregnant people. She holds a midwifery license in the United States and even did some training here before ultimately deciding to take another route. Her search for a meaningful career led her to learn Maya Abdominal massage, an...
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The Life of a Student, with guest Mark
Mark is halfway through school to become a Massage Therapist. His decision to make a career change and go to Massage School was heavily motivated by his desire to truly help people and when he was starting student clinic, he asked for help via Facebook and landed in our office practicing...
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Shifting Gears Both Literally and Figuratively, with guest Michael
Michael is the owner of EversonCE, a professional continuing education brand focused on practical, evidence-informed massage and manual therapy education. This online platform was a career shift that Michael made during the pandemic to provide continuing education to manual therapists who no…
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Is Your Treatment Room a Safe Space? With guest Katie
Katie @stillpointmassagebodywork has over 20 years experience as a Massage Therapist here in Ontario and as a neurodivergent therapist and patient, she has shifted her focus to ensuring a safe space for all clients. We discuss what a safe space is, how therapists can improve their communication...
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The Patient Pathway, with guest Loy
Loy is a massage therapist in Toronto who learned through trial and error how to obtain clients through the internet. She started using her knowledge to help other therapists fix their websites to reflect who they actually are and to speak directly to their clients. This patient pathway that Loy...
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Another Episode of Somebody Has To Say It, with guest Sam
Sam is back in our office to discuss some hot topics that appear in social media chats and give us his opinions on these topics. We discuss evidence based medicine, patient centred care, education, regulation, and other hot topics. Sam is often quoted as saying “the work is good, the stories are...
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Traditions and Competitions, with guest Len
Len has done many things in his life and being in the right place at the right time led to him becoming a Thai massage practitioner. But not just any Thai massage practitioner. Len has won medal after medal in Thai massage championships as well as overall championships competing against massage...
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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, with guest Tyleen
Tyleen is a massage therapist in Ontario and a third time guest. We hung out with her to talk about how she’s moving forward in her career and stepping into a teaching role. Tyleen loves education, loves massage therapy, and loves being a part of helping the next generation of therapists fall in...
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Save Your Hands, with guest Lauriann
Lauriann is a musician turned LMT, turned researcher and author. She left the performance world after many years of working up to a hundred hours a week and being shoulder to shoulder with musical greats to find a tactile career that would bring more balance to her life. She went to a great…
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The One Concept Podcast, with guests Scott and Monica
Monica and Scott are One Concept Group who have been bringing us the Canadian and American Massage Conferences for 18 years. Recently Scott started hosting a podcast bringing on some of the greatest therapists in our profession. The two of them have made so many connections over the last 18 years...
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A Massage Therapists Survival Guide, with guest Travis
Travis is a former writer and photographer turned massage therapist in California. After a decade in practice, he realized that the last three years of his career were the most enjoyable of the entire decade which got him thinking about what changed. Why did work seem less daunting and more...
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Putting Yourself Out There, with guest Rebekah
Rebekah spoke to us last spring when she had just finished her massage therapy education and was working to build her brand online. She brought her followers on TikTok along for her school journey and created an online community showing massage therapy in a positive light. Fast forward a year and…
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From The Jungles in Peru, with guest Darren
Darren is a massage therapist from up north with very interesting backstory which he shared on his last visit here. This time he came in to talk to us about his month in Peru where he took part in eight ceremonies involving ayahuasca and san pedro. Listen to Darren’s story and what he learned in...
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From Italy to Canada, with guest Enzo
Enzo is a Canadian trained massage therapist from Italy. He has had a successful practice in Italy for the last seven years but this country keeps calling him back. Enzo returned to Canada to get licensed here and found a clinic to work at. Listen to his story about becoming an international...
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The Motion of the Ocean, with guest Nicki
Nicki is back from sea after a month as the spa manager on a Canadian cruise ship with Adventure Canada where she got the experience of traveling to the territories, Greenland, and Labrador. She came by just before departing with not too many expectations and in this episode we got the stories of...
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One Size Fits One, with guest Michael
Michael is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Vegas and a business coach for therapists. His story starts with his wife encouraging him to get into massage because he had a natural talent, to another therapist eventually asking Michael to coach them because he seemed to have a natural knack for...
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Your Angel on Earth, with guest June
June is not a massage therapist. June was brought to us by one of our massage therapist colleagues who wanted her to get a chance to tell her story because she’s so incredible. June has a background in nursing, caregiving, and dialysis and eventually she got into palliative care which is how we…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, with guests Jenny and Jane
Jenny and Jane are massage therapists with a lot of experience in different clinic settings. After 30 years in practice, they have learned what they like and don’t like when choosing a clinic to work at. Jenny wanted to address some unfortunate situations she has encountered with clinic owners.…
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Rural Life, with guest Victoria
Victoria is an athletic therapist and a multidisciplinary clinic owner in a smaller town in Ontario. She reached out looking to see if we knew any therapists looking for work as her clinic is booming and the demand for massage therapists is high. It got us into a talk about the benefits of being…
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Ben Asks Us Questions on our Podcast, with guest Ben
Ben is a Massage Therapist in Nebraska and fellow podcaster and educator. He is the co-host of “Ben and Nate’s Questions that we Ask Massage Therapists on the Internet” along with Nate who has been a guest with us earlier this year. Ben is so used to being the one to ask the questions that this...
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Rewind Your Sands of Time, with guest Andrew
Andrew is a massage therapist in Palm Coast, Florida that we met at the AMTA convention last year. He and Mark bonded over massage, the buffet, and music. Andrew describes his practice as “not your typical massage” and so of course his music wouldn’t be your typical massage music. He decided to…
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Introducing Stone College, with guest Mike
Mike is a Massage Therapist from western Canada who has been involved in sports- both as an athlete and a therapist for the Jamaican bobsled team- and education teaching at massage therapy colleges. Between his experience as a therapist and what he witnessed in the world of massage therapy...
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Bras, Breast Forms, Mastectomy Lingerie, and Spinal Health, with guest Voula
Voula is the general manager of Amoena Canada, a German company that was the first ever to create a breast form. The mission at this company is to help you regain confidence post surgery, help with proper healing, comfort, lymph drainage, and improve spinal health and balance. Listen to Voula…
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