OV Boss Babes Holly Molenaar

a world that is constantly changing, being at the top of YOUR GAME means you need to make TOUGH DECISIONS about your business and yourself in order to be successful. And working one-on-one with Tina Collins, Executive and Team Coach helps individuals, organizations and teams identify their strengths, needs, dreams, potential, identities and more.

During the coaching process, Tina holds up a mirror to executives so that they can identify some of the things that are blind spots to them and implement changes, creating self-awareness, driving transformational change, and providing critical challenge and support.

In this episode.....

✨ We discover how Tina fell into her line of work by becoming an executive and leadership coach and who her ideal client is

✨ We talk about self-awareness, regulating our emotions, vulnerability, identifying triggers, and more!

✨ Tina and I explore gaslighting in the workplace and why this master of manipulation … And how they can break you

✨ Tina shares solution-based tips for your organization with proven client testimonials that work and create effective teams

Saschali Brunette, Owner of The Sushi House Petawawa, co owner with her partner Mackenzie and proud mother of three busy littles, launched the very first sushi business in downtown Pembroke before she decided to take a break and focus on her music career. But after relocating back to the Ottawa Valley and the small community of Laurentian Hills, she realized there was a demand for more sushi options - so she and her partner got to work!

With their skilled talents, fresh sushi recipes and a taste for more sushi variety, The Sushi House has since expanded across the Ottawa Valley, showing locals that a home based business can be successful without the need for a store front, multiple staff, and set hours, with their grab-and-go sushi trays found in Sip-N-Stirs Pembroke, Jan's Valu Mart, No Frills Renfrew and No Frills Arnprior and Canex!

Sascha is relentless with big dreams and big obstacles that she plans to overtake in a BIG way, with a podcast EXPANSION exclusive - you'll have to tune in to find out! 🍣😉

In this episode......

🎶 Sascha unveils that her initial dream was to dive into the music scene... but she flipped the script and we are so happy that she did, diving into the sushi making business instead! 🍣

🍱 Sascha shares how she pitched The Sushi House's grab-and-go sushi to be featured at grocery stores across the Ottawa Valley and how they got into Canex!

😵 We talk about the importance of community and how Sascha's close network rallied together whenever their social media account got hacked

🤌🏼 We learn how The Sushi House has found its niche that no other restaurants are doing to retain and build its customer base

For over 17 years, Adrienne Carfagnini, Founder, Clinical Director and therapist at Connected Counselling Services has been working with individuals, couples and families to assist them in their healing and recovery journeys.

This isn't your typical couch therapy session though, as Adrienne shares how she uses holistic and alternative approaches in her therapy, counseling, and healing sessions.

We switch positions as we learn about a therapist's point of view, how awkward it can be when a fighting couple enters a session, Adrienne's thoughts on personal self-sharing with clients, how she implements self care to prevent therapist burnout, why listening fatigue is a real thing, and why she values mentorship from other therapists.

During this podcast "session" Adrienne speaks out to entrepreneurs in hopes to inspire them to seek out therapy to battle life’s perpetual challenges, especially those working in isolation, seeking validation in business decisions and dealing with unexpected curveballs!

Looking to shift away from the field of Social Work, Kaitlin decided to return to school to become a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT).
After the magical home birth of her daughter in 2018, Kaitlin was inspired to support women and families through their transformative perinatal journeys and became a birth doula and it was during her second pregnancy Kaitlin decided to expand her perinatal education and began the process of becoming a Licensed Childbirth Educator.

Now, Kaitlin is putting her passion into practice, opening Flourishing Families in Perth, a holistic heart-centred clinic designed to support individuals and families through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

Kaitlin is a trailblazing boss babe as she brings a unique revolutionary approach in the way she approaches business and builds her team, demonstrating how she is clearly a leader in her field and credits her education, skillsets, core values and life experiences to the various series she and her team provides.

In this episode,

🤱🏼We hear how Kaitlin's vast career journey and home birth experiences contributed to her opening her multi-disciplinary family centre

🌸 We dive into why everyone's pregnancy and postpartum experiences are different why lost birth recovery is so important

👑 Kaitlin shares how she secured financial funds to build her business, the bones of creating her centre and building her team

🫱🏼‍🫲🏻 We talk about the importance of asking for help, utilizing your village and why "mom / parent shaming" is NOT okay

Maven Catering has been a staple in the Deep River community for quite some time now and I'm sure many of my listeners have sampled Carolyn Arnold's delicious meals at one point or another.

But how did this seasoned world traveller who left home to explore restaurants in Australia, Cambodia, and Thailand, bring back sharpened skills, new recipes and seasoned flavours and wind up working... for an insurance agency?! Well that 9-5 corporate job didn't last long, as Carolyn's entrepreneurial spirit finally emerged as she gave her boss 3 month's notice and began the shift from employee to employer, launching Maven Catering and building a team of folks with a passion for providing great food to their local community.

In this episode, we chat all about:

👩🏽‍🍳 How this Deep River local went from world traveller, to working in insurance to launching a successful catering biz

🤌🏼 Carolyn's award-winning catering strategies, from curating her menu to setting prices to offsetting overhead costs

🤦🏽‍♀️ Mixed up orders, too much food, customer complaints and dealing with price negotiations

🤔 How Carolyn (unintentionally and unconventionally!) landed huge corporate catering contracts with CNL and at the Hexagon Restaurant

Originally from India, Aneeta Jacob knew that she wanted to study abroad and study social services in Canada, coming to Canada in 2018 and landed on Algonquin College Pembroke Campus' Social Services Worker Program after reading that it was one of the top colleges to attend in Canada, relocating to the Ottawa Valley and graduating from the SSW program in 2020.

Aneeta was one of Algonquin College Pembroke's first international student graduates and she reflects back on her time at school and in the Ottawa Valley fondly, reflecting on the skillsets she developed from her professors, the friendships she made and the community that embraced and welcomed her the minute she landed.

Aneeta is now enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta and is eager to share her story for how she wants to become a driving force for change in rural health care and is eager to make a difference in social services and in the health care field.