Women Positive
by Patricia Dent
The Women Positive podcast features the stories of transformation and of the women who share their solutions to life challenges they have overcome. From personal health, to relationships, limiting beliefs, and systemic discrimination, their stories are personal and sometimes raw but always real.
Episodes
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A Girl With A Typewriter: From Technical Writing To Historical Fiction
Alina Rubin is an author who spent over 20 years working in IT before turning to writing historical fiction. Having overcome setbacks as a child, including the need to learn English at age 11, and the culture of her new country - the United States, then the loss of her mother at the age of 14,...
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Episode 19: Patricia Dent: Winning My Battle With Cancer (x 2)
This episode is a personal one for me, touching on my experience with cancer (from the inconvenient timing that paused a new business) to the range of treatments and support I received to recover fully - I am going to list them below. Cancer is now rampant - with 1 in 2 people who can expect a...
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Episode 18: Desirea Herrera: Succeeding in a Male Dominated Field (or two)
Desirea Herrera is an author who has worked in several different fields, from breaking in race horses to teaching, software training and IT (in software programming, in which she was self-taught). Throughout her life, including her experience as a single mom, going back to school, starting from...
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Episode 17: Karen Salcedo: Taking Off The Mask And Hitting Rock Bottom On The Way To Reclaiming Health
As a health coach, holistic practitioner and advocate for the environment for almost 30 years Karen Salcedo has spent a career in helping others improve their lives while she was dealing with emotional binge eating from her early 20's. When her 10 year history with diabetes became so much worse,...
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Episode 16: Elle Nagy: Self Leadership: Question Everything - Go Deeper - On the Journey Back to Self
Elle Nagy is a self-leadership expert from New Zealand who has gone on a historian's journey to release and become energetically unavailable for her cultural identities, and end cycles for her lineage like: abuse, self sacrifice, not living her truth, staying small, not being vibrant, not being...
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Episode 15: Elle Nagy, Learning to Love And Outgrow Fear
Elle Nagy is a self leadership expert for women from New Zealand. She has owned over twenty years of coaching, and her self leadership expertise, and now owns her other expertise... the author, the speaker, and the CEO. Dealing with the scary and tough stuff in her life prepared her for this...
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Episode 14: Sue Carr: Overcoming Problematic Leadership
Inspired by her encounters with poor leadership, Sue Carr established CHC Consulting to provide leadership training and team support to boards, leaders, and employees so that work and board experience could become more satisfying. Sue goes through major issues of problematic leadership that she…
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Episode 13 - Getting A Seat at the Big Table - Joanna Shaw
Joanna Shaw wanted to be a judge from the age of 6, but when it was time to go to university in order to become a lawyer, she wanted to change the world. As she became an adult, she became aware of and wanted to change the conditioning that she and her family had experienced particularly after…
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Episode 12: Finding the Courage To Be Courageous: Becky Bartley
Coming from a dysfunctional family leaves its mark on how you see the world, what your expectations are and how you interact with others. Becky Bartley came to a turning point at the beginning of the pandemic, when faced with the reality of a co-dependent relationship with an alcoholic she wanted...
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Episode 11: Identity Crisis: Conny Lee
When the pandemic hit in 2020, all of a sudden, there was a rise in incidents towards the Canadian (and North American) Asian communities. Violence that arose as a result of a belief that China was the cause of COVID, affected anyone who looked Asian, even though they had nothing to do with the...
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Episode 10: A New Take On Imposter Syndrome_Debbie Adams
Debbie Adams began her career in the military at the age of 17, in the first cohort of women mechanics. Learning on the job (under supervision) started to prepare her for her later business career where there was no room for failure and when getting money in the door helped her avoid living on a...
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Episode 9: Overcoming The Impact Of Change
This week, I am contributing my thoughts on Overcoming the impact of change. It has been on my mind since watching the impact of the pandemic unfold, and managing change (in my view) is a critical building block of mental wellness, particularly timely for Mental Health Week. With 65 life changes...
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Episode 8: You're Never Too Old To Do What You Were Meant To Do
Fran Kruse of Sidekick Creative Copywriting has been both an employee in corporate and an entrepreneur, but the work she really wanted to do from the time she was a teenager was writing. In those times there were different expectations and writing didn't fall into the realm of growing up, getting...
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Episode 7: Building A Business Mindset For A Creative Passion
Jess Kotzer is an author and a marketer who is writing a fiction series for women, and who wrote her first book almost 10 years ago. Jess talked about the slow growth strategies that are common to creatives - but which held her back. She struggled to do all the "right" and "polite" social media…
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Episode 6: Stacy Morrison, Starting a Business and Holding Down A Career
Stacy Morrison is a paralegal whose legal work for a non-profit is integral to helping in the fight to preventing human trafficking and illicit massage in the US. She also developed a training approach to teach young adults how to become responsible for and educated about their finances, based on...
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Episode 5: Settling
Jan Freethy, an NLP Master Practitioner relates her story of ending the history of "settling" for life without dreams from her family tree. She was raised in a family without communication and with the expectation of living life without realizing dreams or happiness. Just before she turned 50…
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Episode 4: Confidence
Developing confidence can be a challenge if you were encouraged to please people and to put ourselves last. Christie Buckley learned to develop confidence over time and shares the steps she took to become confident. Christie is an entrepreneur and the owner of Buckley and Associates and Savvy...
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Episode 3: From Invisible to Entrepreneur
Today's guest is Sujati, a Mind Body Therapist. From Invisible to Entrepreneur describes her journey into entrepreneurship, in which she had to overcome the challenge of being invisible, working for others, in order to become an entrepreneur. She describes how she learned to develop her unique...
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Fear Of Failure (and Perfectionism)
Women often suffer from fear of failure - even more so then men. Listen to Stephanie Butler, a Life and Wellness Coach who beat fear of failure... and her suggestions. Here is a copy of the transcription:...
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Challenges women in our community are facing... and some are overcoming
The first episode for our series on overcoming challenges that women particularly face, is a perspective to help understand where we are in the evolution of women. A weekly series will spotlight the specific challenges that women have experienced, and their approach in successfully overcoming…
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About this show
The Women Positive podcast features the stories of transformation and of the women who share their solutions to life challenges they have overcome. From personal health, to relationships, limiting beliefs, and systemic discrimination, their stories are personal and sometimes raw but always real.
Hosted by
Patricia Dent