The Afterglow Podcast Julie Watson, Liz Doyle Harmer

Show Notes:

3:30 How the book came to be

4:55 What is the Wedding Industrial Complex

7:00 What is the messaging around weddings, and when do we start teaching girls 

8:00 How young girls are marketed to, and the pervasive messages in media

10:00 Not dismissing the traditional wedding, but understanding the customs and why they exist

11:30 Why does the father give the bride away?

13:00 The garter belt tradition...why it exists.

16:00 Make decisions for yourselves and nobody else

19:00 How the media puts pressure on women to create the perfect wedding, and how diversity is missing

22:00 The picture perfect pressure influenced by social media

25:00 The Engagement period and building trust within the couple'

28:00 Focus on the wedding day vs. The marriage itself

34:00 Look into each others eyes

35:00 An Eco-conscious wedding

38:00 Diamonds, the story of why we idolize the diamond engagement ring

42:00 Looking most like yourself on your wedding, not a thinned up manufactured version of yourself

45:00 Gay couples and needing more representation 

48:00 You don't have to get caught up in anything goes for the sake of the wedding.

53:00 Where did the moxie to write the book come from

57:00 Where does their courage and feminist attitude come from?

1:00 What to get rid of when planning a wedding.

Book: The New Wedding Book 

Instagram: 

@thenewweddingbook

@mbilodeau

@karen_cleveland

www.karencleveland.ca

Show Notes:

3:30 Oprah's effect on people, her favorite things list

7:00 How Covid and BLM affected her business

9:00 Taylor's 2008 gymnastics accident

11:00 The pressure of a coach

13:30 When the pressure is too much

15:45 How Taylor transitioned from elite gymnast to opening up to other options

17:00 Who was Taylor the teenager

20:00 Taylor follows her dreams

23:15 Taylor the original Pivoter

25:00 How she created her own tea brand

28:00 Being a black woman in the time of BLM

31:30 All the TEA

34:00 Taylor's writing saved her

40:00 Taylor does it all, and on her own. 

45:00 Where does Taylor's resilience comes from and who inspires her?

47:00 Life lessons

49:00 What Taylor would share with young girls and women. There is life after tragedy. 

Find Taylor:

@cupofteshop

@taylorln

www.cupofte.ca

Show notes:

5:00 Get Your Shit Together the book is for everyone.

6:00 Why write the books?

7:30 How they met

10:00 Their first book handbook for Cool Moms and why What to Expect when you re expecting is outdated

11:30 How to not lose your shit as a mom, most advice is b******t

13:00 Rebel Papa group- why men need support too

15:00 Moms need more than a day a the salon or a facelift for our vaginas

16:30 Redefine money

18:00 Women can be insecure around money even when they are intelligent

20:00 A book for people who don't know where to start

23:00 Ask yourself how money makes you feel

25:00 Money is NOT real

27:00 The mindset blocks of money

30:00 Things are not evolving quickly enough for women and money

32:00 The Gender Gap is real

36:00 Take care of yourself

40:00 Communication is key

43:00 Can you have it all?

48:00 What is the future for The Rebel Mama the business?

53:00 What is your Afterglow?

Show Notes: 

3:20 Zahra story of Resilience from Uganda and Yemen

5:20 Zahra went to the International School in Yemen as well as an Arabic School

7:00 Zahra questioned what being a girl meant 

9:30 Yemen was the worst country in the world to grow up for girls

11:55 What were the actual limitations for girls in Yemen

16:00 Zahra acted out in class, she was "trouble"

19:15 How Zahra tried to fit in, and completely changed who she was

21:00 Zahra experienced extreme depression 

25:00 Zahra moved to Canada with her 3 children and had no work experience

29:00 How her skills working at a shop in the mall helped her move forward in her career

34:00 How Zahra was able to push through the limitations put on women

40:00 The tragedy of being an immigrant

43:00 Think like an immigrant

49:00 Zahra has a comfort zone she is not happy being in, she does not hold herself back

52:00 Push yourself a little, baby steps

54:00 There's always a silver lining

55:00 What is Zahra's Afterglow

Find Zahra online at:

IG: @zahrasays

www.myskillit.com

Buy Zahra's Book: 

What It Takes: To Live and Lead With Purpose, Laughter and Strength

Show Notes:

3:00 Suzie tells us about her upbringing in Montreal

5:00 Suzie puts herself through Engineering at McGill

6:00 Suzie is an eclectic thinker in terms of Science and Math

8:00 Suzie talks about going into business, being the first woman hired at PG&E

9:45 How Suzie came in and turned things around for Weight Watchers

10:00 What gave Suzie the courage to enter a male dominated environment

12:00 Her first 50 years gave her resilience, and how her dad was her main role model.

14:15 Suzie wants to be a role model for women

16:20 Suzie's self taught barriers

18:00 Suzie used her experience to create a product and become an entrpreneur

20:00 How Suzie had the desire to create something first, and then tried to find the product

22:00 Suzie does it all

25:00 Suzie had an aha moment and created a product to serve herself

28:00 How Love Good Fats came to be

30:00 Suzie read a book and transformed her thinking to FATS being a good thing

35:00 What kept her going through all the obstacles

39:00 Suzie considers herself a changemaker

41:00 Suzie talks about barriers as a gay woman.

45:00 What still needs to change to equalize and have a just society

49:00 Suzie has a hugely successful business in her 50's, what would Suzie say to women in their 50's

Find Suzie: 

IG @lovegoodfats @suzie.lovegoodfats

www.lovegoodfats.ca

Show Notes: 

3:45 Dr. Rhonda McEwen and Dr. Jill Biden and the history of Doctor

5:45 Rhonda talks about culture of growing up in Trinidad and going to an all girls school

8:00 How and why Rhonda stayed in the Sciences

10:30 How an all female and all black environment growing up influenced her

14:12 Rhonda's Mother as a role model 

16:00 Growing up in a rich fertile environment and then moving to London England

20:11 Rhonda's inner knowing as she changed careers

24:00 Rhonda is a curious human man likes to ask questions

26:00 The results of Rhonda's PHD

30:00 What has changed in the use of cell-phones since 2007

34:00 Rhonda's research in Technology with Autism and ADHD

37:45 Rhonda's new role as Special Adviser on Anti-Racism and Equality at UTM

51:00 Should we be scared of Robots??

Find out more about Dr. Rhonda McEwen's role and research here:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcewen/index.htm