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The Safe Haven
by Amanda Lytle
We all have a pivotal moment in our lives that changed the trajectory of where we thought we were headed. The Safe Haven offers a space for conversations about those pivots, and what keeps us moving forward. Amanda is a kind and empathetic host, allowing her guests the opportunity to share their stories as she navigates the conversation from a place of love and natural curiosity. *Tune is to hear the new bi-weekly segment of The Safe Haven, called "ROAD TRIP!" - a light hearted podcast for the kinds of conversations you have with your besties while on a road trip.
Episodes
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It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later! - ROAD TRIP #23
Just as Jenn’s heli ski lodge season comes to an end - a new lodge season is about to begin! We hear the latest from Jenn’s wild runarounds and adventures and what’s currently keeping her busy these days, and what her summer plans entail. A few candid updates from the copilots before a rather…
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The Art of Reinvention + The Thresholds of Change with Rainier Wylde
Rainier Wylde is a teacher and writer who, as his son would say, is gifted with how he’s able to make people truly feel things. He has been a successful entrepreneur, a psychotherapist, a professor of psychology, and a spiritual director. His own experiences have contributed to his deep…
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Dog Chats, Abundance Mindset, and Books! Lifer Emily is in the Vaaaannn!! - ROAD TRIP #22
As we were all aware, Jenn’s season wrap up at the lodge has had her as busy as a bee! She was unable to join Amanda in the van this week, as she had to head out to the island to grab her stuff and move it closer to where she’s working. The van had to head in for some maintenance, so one of...
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I Am Me; Navigating Identity Through Commitment to Oneself
CW: Today’s guest speaks about their sexual assault / rape. They also recount one morning’s thoughts on dying by suicide. Mx Trina Prince (they/them) is a trans, non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent, white person, who currently lives on the territories of the Kwikwetlem, Qayqayt, Stó:lō,...
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Grizzly Bears are Coming Out. Oh, hey Fiona!… ROAD TRIP #21
CW: Today’s guest speaks about her sexual assault / rape. Amanda and Jenn hit the road for another great adventure… stocked with some meat and cheese snacks from Great Canadian Meats, they’re ready for a good catch up! After some funny stories and updates, Fiona calls! Thank goodness for the...
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Decolonization and Divesting from Whiteness; Amidst the Pivot'ing'
Kina Reed is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practitioner. She is also the creator and curator behind the social media platforms, The AntiBlackness Reader Project and Divesting From Whiteness. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies and is a published researcher, conference...
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Room service? I’ll take twenty pairs of slippers… - ROAD TRIP #20
We love being friends and we love our friends and seeing our friends so much. On today’s drive, Jenn tells us about her visit with a lifetime friend, Julie Moore! That gets us into chatting about a mug from The Dorothy Motel in Banff that was recently shipped to Ontario, and somehow that weaves...
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Finding Alignment and Flow State: The Power of Dark Places
Ariana Novak is a passionate, empathetic and community cultivating being with a deep desire for connection and helping others heal and live a healthy life. She’s one of the co-owners of hustl and flow and more recently of their latest adventure, Everlove, in Collingwood. In this conversation, we...
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Question Ping Pong Continues… Road Trip #19
Well, post-White Bark coffees, Amanda and Jenn resume the drive onwards to Jenn’s massage and continue their squirrel brain question ping pong. They dive into the questions and anecdotal stories around: Have you always liked your coffee black? What scents do you prefer? What’s your alter ego’s...
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Representation Is Vital and Empowering
Mary Fashik is a Lebanese-born, Queer Disability Rights Activist, author, public speaker and workshop facilitator. In 2019, Mary founded Upgrade Accessibility, a movement designed to challenge today’s accessibility standards. The movement has grown to include disability rights, intersectionality,...
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Squirrel Brains + Question Ping Pong… Road Trip #18
Who would have thought that asking each other random questions could be this fun?! Buckle up for a laugh, because this one is one of the most fun yet. For this drive, Amanda and Jenn ping pong random questions back and forth - everything from “where would you love to travel again?” to “how do you...
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Perspective Shifts - Grief as a Gift
Content Warning: Sudden Death of Lauren’s Dad Lauren is a heart forward, grounded, wise and incredibly empathetic woman. She’s a wife and a Mom, working for a large corporate company and is very intentional about the division and allocation of her time and energy. Lauren’s Dad died tragically in…
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Let’s Play: Imagine You Won $60 MILLION Dollars… - ROAD TRIP #17
Your favourite Road Warriors are back! And this chat is so good, so fun, and will get you thinking! The majority of this conversation plays with the idea: So, you just won $60 MILLION DOLLARS… who have you told, and what have you bought? Buckle up for this laugh-filled ride! --- LINKS: Come…
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Finding Happiness, Connection and Direction After Loss
Content Warning: Still-Birth Shelby Foster was born in Leamington, Ontario. After life adventures and starting a family moved her around, she’s landed back in Leamington and has taken the deep dive into establishing her own Bed and Breakfast with intention and clear visions. In the conversation...
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Diving into our Love Languages… What are yours? - ROAD TRIP #16
Amanda and Jenn are back in the van. They start with a quick card flip and then dive into their own personal experiences with the “Five Love Languages” - fitting as today is Valentine’s Day! After a candid chat about how they each feel loved and give love out to those around them, they explore…
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Mark Groves: Influential Mentors, Create the Love, Break Ups, Media and Morning Routines (Part 2 of 2)
Mark Groves is a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love, Create the Love Cards and Mine'd. In other words, he's a speaker, writer, motivator, creator and collaborator. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright…
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Mark Groves: Embracing our Sensitivities, Honouring Ourselves, and Stepping into Heartbreak with Intention (Part 1 of 2)
Mark Groves is a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love, Create the Love Cards and Mine'd. In other words, he's a speaker, writer, motivator, creator and collaborator. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright…
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Sun Signs and Planets and Birth Charts, OH MY! Astrologer Alex Albert is with us today! - ROAD TRIP #15
Don’t worry friends, we got the Bluetooth speaker hooked up in time for my friend Alex Albert’s phone call to come in! Great timing, considering Jenn and I were just talking about our shared love of and interest in all things ASTROLOGY! As Amanda and Jenn start their drive, there’s some chit chat...
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Grounded + Healing; Soul Sisters and Musicians
Becky and Emmalee are more than just bandmates. They truly believe that they’ve lived parallel lives before and are connected on a soul level. In the conversation today, we hear the backstory to Hollow Twin, how Becky and Emmalee met, and where they’re at now with life and music. We hear about...
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On the road again! A reflective drive to start the year. - ROAD TRIP #14
Amanda and Jenn are as thrilled as ever to be back in the van together, starting off their 2022 Road Trip adventures. This lovely catch up includes some more elaboration on words being carried into 2022, as well as some significant card flips of late. There is definitely a shared excitement…
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Erin Treloar from Raw Beauty Co. + Finding Strength in Clarity
Erin Treloar is a Health Coach and is the Founder of Raw Beauty Co. Her greatest passion is helping girls and women learn to live from a place of self love. In the conversation today, we hear about the backstory to Raw, Erin’s personal postpartum journey and navigating depression, huge moves in...
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And that's a wrap!~ See ya, 2021!
Hi friends! Thank you for tuning in. This is a little solo episode to wrap up the year with some thoughts and reflections from my heart to yours. I was sure to include my hard boiled egg method for perfection, as well as my eggnog recipe! A little chat about intention and expansion, and a loving...
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Business [not] as Usual; Moving Across the World While Running a Business and Starting a Family.
*Content Warning: Grief after losing father* March of 2020 was life altering for the entire world. For Alex, it also included selling most of his belongings and moving across the world with his new baby and partner within nine days. In this conversation, Alex shares about grieving as a new Dad...
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Intention, Expansion, Opportunity, Passion… and Cheese and Meat Holidays - ROAD TRIP #13
Guess what, friends?! She did it! Jenn has officially had the best day of her life and has crossed off Heli Skiing from her bucket list! In the conversation today, she shares her experience in full detail, including how cool it’s been riding around in a helicopter and learning how to work as a…
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Levelling up and Living Out Loud with Brittany the Birth Witch
Brittany Carmona-Holt is a midwife’s assistant, a full spectrum doula, photographer and a very soon-to-be published author. From someone who never thought she would get married or wanted kids, she’s now a wife and Mom, fully immersed in birth work. In the conversation today, Brittany shares her...
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Fireside Chats at Kimbol! - ROAD TRIP #12
When Jenn came to visit, we drove up a logging road - a typical Kootenay adventure! - and took the recording gear with us to capture a fireside chat! The crackle sounds from the fire and the fresh air in our lungs had us in such a great space to record and we had such a blast! We’re sure you’ll...
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Katrina and The Copper Bell; From Jobless to Business
Katrina Bell is the owner of The Copper Bell, making and selling natural soy candles. After losing her job at the beginning of the pandemic, she found herself at home with a toddler and without a job… so she turned a new found interest into a business that’s growing quickly! She’s got a great…
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The kitchen crow gets a new job! New job excitement for our friend Jenn! - ROAD TRIP #11
Jenn got a new job! So we get all the details about her new two week on, one week off job in the mountains at a heli ski lodge! - but what does living out of a suitcase feel like this time around? This ping pong style conversation covers everything from whether or not Jenn is in fact a kitchen…
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Serendipitous Moments; from Journalism into Entrepreneurship
Ashley Wray worked as a journalist and loved it. After closing one particular case, she felt this internal shift and a sense of closure within her to explore something new. Completely unsure of what was coming next, Ashley went on a soul-searching trip. A chance meeting on a plane in Bali changed...
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Impulsive decisions gone right! Value alignment matters. - ROAD TRIP #10
Guess what, friends?! Amanda and Jenn are back together in real life for this drive! After Jenn’s 14 hour drive into the Kootenays, she’s ready to share some big news. After nearly seven years as a passionate wedding and event planner, Jenn has resigned from her job and is welcoming new...
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Where’s Helen? - Real and raw journeys with infertility.
Jenny, Leah, Courtney and Sara’s lives intertwined while waiting to see RN Helen at their fertility clinic. What started out as a Whatsapp chat to connect and share their experiences and questions became a journey into authorship after Jenny shared a dream she had about the four women writing a...
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A dynamic conversation in the van with our first road trip friend!! - ROAD TRIP #9
What started off as a casual drive with Amanda updating Jenn about the ceiling sparks coming out of the light in the kitchen, they spotted a cute dog and … Shail?! We’ve picked up our first Road Trip friend! On the drive today, our squirrel brains cover all kinds of things, from roommate dramas,...
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Marc Champagne: “The Question Guy” and author of Personal Socrates
Marc Champagne is one rad human being. A podcast host, a Mental Fitness Strategist and most recently an author, he is the ultimate lover of questions and going beyond surface level conversation - with other people, and with oneself. In this conversation, Marc and I discuss his huge transitions...
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“It’s been a lot.” Crucial conversations, the importance of alone time, and face masks. - ROAD TRIP #8
September usually marks a new start. Well, Amanda isn’t returning to teaching this year, so there’s no filling up a new spacemaker pencil case this year… so what has September looked like so far for Amanda and Jenn? On the drive today, Amanda opens up about some challenges working from home and...
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Deep Diving into Codependency; A Life Coach’s Journey with Relationships
Kim Kimball is a life coach and mentor, offering a holistic coaching practice that goes deeper than the pragmatic fix to addressing the root of what’s keeping you stuck. Through her own personal deep dives into her own patterns in relationships, familial, platonic and romantic, Kim has been...
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Jenn’s Journey with Grief after Losing her Dad - Road Trip #7
Amanda returned from yet another ACTUAL road trip across the country, from BC to Ontario and back again. In this drive, Amanda and Jenn chat about a special brew that has now safely arrived in BC - the Kashagawigabob. This beer was brewed by Jenn and her family in honour of her Dad, Bob, who died...
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A Nutritionist’s Journey: From Panic and Anxiety to Freedom
Nutritionist and Yogi Tay Gendron is helping women fix their gut and balance their hormones so they can break up with anxiety for good. The path towards becoming a nutritionist weaves in and out of incredible anxiety, panic attacks, and medication, and Tay shares this story in today’s episode.…
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Amanda in Australia; teaching, farming, and crocodiles, oh my! - Road Trip #6
After a pretty significant break-up, Amanda booked a one-way ticket to Australia. Having spent a year in Argentina as an exchange student years prior, Amanda was hell-bent on getting her second year visa work done and dusted. From a nannying gig to house sitting, meeting new friends and working…
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Renee Reina; life after volleyball, and why authenticity and reflection really matter.
Renee Reina had a full ride scholarship to a university in Florida to play volleyball. After her first semester, she realized that she missed playing volleyball for fun, and a move back home was in order. With the decision to switch schools and direction came the challenges of navigating her...
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Jennifer in Australia; I’m just here to travel… and get fired. - Road Trip #5
Jennifer and her 80L Gregory Diva backpack and a rolly carry-on went to Australia eleven years ago on a one-way ticket. Let us be the first to tell you that Australia was never the same after that... In today’s episode, Jenn tells us all about how the theme of her ten months in Australia was all...
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Eternity Martis on Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Eternity Martis is a Toronto-based journalist, author and advocate. She’s also a best-selling author of her first book, “They Said This Would Be Fun - Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.” Eternity’s work focuses on issues of race and gender, taking deep dives into her own experiences and sharing...
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Cheese, Happy Glampers, Snowboarding Fails, and Burying the Hatchet - Road Trip #4
This one is good. This drive will keep you in stitches, between our food chats - obviously - and then deep diving into the realm of glamping essentials… including juicy spidey dogs. Jenn and Amanda both share some snowboarding stories as well as what burying the hatchet looked like one day for...
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Emotional Awareness and Overcoming Addiction, One Day at a Time
Dylan Bromley is a business development specialist working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His natural gifts in communication and interpersonal connections paired with his incredible level of self-awareness have allowed him to share his experiences over the last few years in a really powerful way. Wearing...
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Tim Horton’s, Cry Laughing, and Questionable Carry-On Items - Road Trip #3
Today’s drive is the best yet - because we’re actually together! Like in real life! We chat about Amanda’s drive from the Kootenays to the Island to visit Jenn in Ucluelet. We laugh a LOT, and talk about things from being cheap on gas to squirrels (and the lack there of while in Australia) to…
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Life lessons after breaking his neck: Rick and his Red Letter Days
Rick Werry is a motivational speaker and aspiring author, husband, and Dad. With incredible life lessons and insights from his life, he strives to live his life chasing Red Letter Days. In the conversation with Rick today, you’ll hear about how breaking his neck changed his life. Besides the...
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Chats with a Medium, Birds and Charcuterie Boards - Road Trip #2
Welcome back for another ride with Amanda and Jenn! On today’s drive, we chat about Jenn’s most recent chat with a Medium. Jenn shares a lot about her connection with her Dad, why birds are significant in her life, and how they’ve been showing up for her since her Dad passed last year. As the…
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Chronic Illness is not a life sentence; a writer’s journey with MS
Life long journalist and creative writer Tamara Sellman went back to school at 47 to study sleep technology. A lover of reading and writing, she was left in total shock and a space of concern when she lost her ability to read or comprehend the words in her textbook while going to study for exams....
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ROAD TRIP: Introducing your Co-Pilots!
New segment, what?! Welcome to the newest detour on The Safe Haven podcast, our new segment, ROAD TRIP! You already know Amanda well, so today you’ll meet Jenn Porter, Amanda’s Road Trip Co-Pilot! In this introduction episode, we get to know a little bit about Jenn! You’ll hear all about her 33rd...
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The Aftermath; a story of grief, healing, and the “Big Messy” book series
Rebekah was a guest on The Safe Haven podcast on April 23, and in the conversation, I asked Rebekah how she was able to be her best self for her kids while grieving. Her answer was that she wasn’t her best self for her kids. I loved how raw and real Bex’s answer was. Today, Rebekah elaborates on...
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Post Breakup Poetry; overcoming limiting beliefs and publishing anyway!
Gianna Shamone joins us today on The Safe Haven, opening up about how she’d lost herself in a relationship – a relationship that resulted in a groundbreaking break-up. As she navigated her healing, she began writing poetry. In addition to the healing, writing itself brought forward even more than...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We all have a pivotal moment in our lives that changed the trajectory of where we thought we were headed. The Safe Haven offers a space for conversations about those pivots, and what keeps us moving forward. Amanda is a kind and empathetic host, allowing her guests the opportunity to share their stories as she navigates the conversation from a place of love and natural curiosity. *Tune is to hear the new bi-weekly segment of The Safe Haven, called "ROAD TRIP!" - a light hearted podcast for the kinds of conversations you have with your besties while on a road trip.
HOSTED BY
Amanda Lytle
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We all have a pivotal moment in our lives that changed the trajectory of where we thought we were headed. The Safe Haven offers a space for conversations about those pivots, and what keeps us moving forward. Amanda is a kind and empathetic host, allowing her guests the opportunity to share their...
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