The Other Side

Nadine Hogan
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"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home Nadine has been talking for 47 years, and en route to pickleball can be overheard asking "So, what's your deepest wound?" Not known for her subtleties, she's a born story-collector and learned storyteller who decided to mic-up and take you along for the ride.  Listen in as Nadine chats with folks about their lives, zeroing in on those messy parts as we get ourselves from one point to another. Covering things like friendships, careers, deaths, and divorces. There's nothing she won't ask in hopes that other people's experiences can help you through your own.  We're not experts; we're just humans having a human experience we think you can learn from. Or relate to. Or laugh at. Or cry over.  So hit download, dive in, and hear how folks found themselves on THE OTHER SIDE.  nh x

  1. 3d ago

    TOS of Unlearning Pain & Re-Mapping the Brain

    What if your neck pain isn't actually about your neck? Nadine has been calling Dr. Jared Gerston a magician for years and this week she finally put him on mic to explain why. Dr. Gerston is a chiropractor in Ottawa, but what he does in that treatment room goes so far beyond what you think a chiropractor does - so much so that Nadine genuinely couldn't explain it to people so she stopped trying and just started sending them to him. This episode gets into all of it - a technique called PDTR that essentially asks your brain to stop compensating for injuries it thinks you still have. The visit when Nadine thought she had neck pain from her pickleball obsession while Dr. Gerston quietly traced it back to something emotional she thought she'd already dealt with. The way stress, grief, and trauma can live in your body long after your mind has "moved on", and what to actually do about it. But it's also just a really beautiful conversation about a human who took a psychology degree, wandered through India and Nepal for fifteen months, spent five years in Taiwan studying Tai Chi, stumbled into chiropractic school almost by accident, built a thriving multidisciplinary practice and is now, at the height of it all, walking away from owning it to go deeper into something that makes his whole body relax when he talks about it. This one's for anyone who's ever had a body that seemed to be keeping score long after they thought they'd settled the debt. @the_otherside_pod

  2. Jul 8

    TOS of Making Clothes, Losing It All & Finding Your Anchor Points

    Rebecca Rowe believes your body has never once been the problem. The clothes are. That's why she is so steadfast in helping people find themselves in their closets - and in their day to day.  This week Nadine sits down with Rebecca, education-led personal stylist and former fashion designer, to chat about everything from the fashion industry, to studying at Pratt Institutes's School of Design and ESMOD Paris, to building her own clothing brand and the studio flood that destroyed her entire collection, both sewing machines, and years of hand-drawn patterns overnight.  We talk about why she walked away from the brand instead of rebuilding it, and how "this feels easy" became the compass she followed instead. This is a conversation about anchor points instead of body types, why she refuses to do colour analysis, and the seven real reasons closets get stuck.  If you've ever stood in front of your closet and felt like nothing fits - and not just physically - this one's for you. @the_otherside_pod

  3. Jul 1

    TOS of Burnout

    This week Nadine sits down with Ro Nwosu - movement educator, studio owner, single mom, and self-proclaimed "weird gal who loves fairies" - for a conversation that starts with childhood comfort foods and ends somewhere much deeper; the slow, sneaky unraveling of burnout, and what it actually takes to come back from it. Ro gets honest about the years she said yes to everything - the studios, the trainings, the diversity work nobody else wanted to do - while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. She talks about being a Black woman expected to soften her own truth to make other people comfortable, about a relationship she stayed in three conversations too long, about losing touch with her own joy so completely she couldn't answer a simple question: what do you actually like? It's a conversation about hero complexes, "softer" racism, the friends who call you on your b******t, and the wild, freeing decision to become unmanageable on purpose. Ro and Nadine talk about what it means to finally hear your own voice again after years of drowning it out, and why being "a problem" might just be the healthiest thing you ever decide to be. If you've ever smiled through exhaustion, kept saying yes while you were quietly breaking, or wondered if the version of yourself before burnout is still in there somewhere, this one's for you. We're not experts, we're just humans having a human experience we think you can learn from, or relate to, or laugh at, or cry over. So hit download, dive in, and hear how Ro truly found herself on The Other Side x @the_otherside_pod

  4. Jun 24

    TOS of a Chat with Mom & Sis on Graduation

    It's the last Wednesday of the month which means mom and sis are on the pod! And this week the three of us find ourselves together in Calgary at my brother's home to celebrate our nephew (and grandson's) grade 12 graduation. Of course we had to give our two cents so we asked one another - what would you say to an 18 year old standing on the edge of everything? Mom/Lorraine, 77, who has said more than once she'd do it all the same way again: "Enjoy every single second of it." Sis/Danielle, 55, who works in mental health and will tell you that her 50s gave her permission to let go of any sense of control: "Get off your phones." Podcast Host/Nadine, 48, entrepreneur, took the long way and believes she was always meant to: "Stop racing towards a finish line that keeps moving." We also debrief our recent trips - including the time mom nearly burnt down an Airbnb in Notting Hill and somehow blamed the iron. This one is warm, funny, and very us x @the_otherside_pod

  5. Jun 17

    TOS of Daughters of the River

    This week Nadine sat down with Meagan and Megan - same name, different paths, and somehow the co-founders of Daughters of the River, a jewelry brand born out of communal living and a shared love of making things in the Ottawa Valley. Megan has been making jewelry (and ceramics) for what feels like her whole life - a born creator, she spent years experimenting, soaking up mentorship opportunities, and trying even before she felt ready. Meagan's entry point was messier but equally magical - it involved cutlery, her grandfather's anvil, and the specific kind of euphoria that hits when you make something with your hands for the very first time.  These two forces of nature met at a market and the connection was so strong that just weeks later they found themselves living together, and eventually, working together.  This conversation is about the courage to create. To go after a life that isn't the easiest. It's about tapping into a village and seeing what life was like before we learned to outsource all the things that folks in a close-knit community would do for one another. We talk about creative wells, how they dry up and how we learn to refill them time and time again. We touch on many things, with the underlying theme of just beginning. No matter where you are in life, or how badly you are at something. Begin. Begin.  If you make things, or you want to, or you used to and forgot why, this one's for you x @the_otherside_pod

  6. Jun 10

    TOS of Conscious Uncoupling

    This week Nadine invited Hillory on the pod to talk about divorce - she said yes, as long as what we could actually talk about was love 3 For Hillory, they are one in the same.  Hillory Tenute is a First Nations leader, advocate, entrepreneur, founder of Lodge Consulting, beader, auntie, and dog mom whose approach to relationships will genuinely make you rethink everything you think you know about what it means when something ends. Yes, this conversation is about divorce, but not the kind you're probably imagining. No villain. No blowup. Just two people who loved each other enough to stop.  Coming from a family where you don't just "throw people away", Hillory knew that when she realized she no longer wanted to be married, the work was in figuring out how to separate but remain connected. To, essentially, end well.  In this episode, Hillory tells us about the surgery that shifted things and what it felt like to finally say the sentence out loud. The night Mike's things were gone and she was alone in a house that no longer felt like hers. How it felt to explore her sexuality, and what it actually looks like to build a life that's fully, unapologetically yours - the new apartment, the solo trip to Europe, her Margie era, a new app (Matchee Matchee) and the new love she wasn't looking for.  If you've ever loved someone you had to let go, this conversation is for you.  It's warm and honest, a little bit funny and a lot bit true x @the_otherside_pod

  7. Jun 3

    TOS of Event Planning

    Amanda Ruddy knows how to throw a party. But this conversation isn't really about parties. It's about growing up the oldest of five kids in six years, in a house that was always a gathering place. It's about spending years wondering if your name opened doors that your talent was supposed to. It's about losing your mom three weeks before the biggest event of your career and showing up anyway — because she would've wanted you to, and because what else do you do? Amanda is the founder of Amanda Julia Events, one of Ottawa's most trusted event planning companies, and she is warm and funny and refreshingly honest about all of it. The loneliness of entrepreneurship. The hard conversations she'd rather not have. The event hangover that hits every time. And the two minutes before the doors open that she lives for, every single time, no matter the event. We also talk about what actually makes a great event (hint: nobody remembers the linens), what people get wrong about this industry, and how she survived COVID by driving around Ottawa tying ribbon on boxes and refusing to disappear. This one felt like sitting across from a really good friend. Settle in, folks x @the_otherside_pod

  8. May 27

    TOS of Chat with Mom & Sis on 77 Years of Living!

    What does 77 years of living actually look like? Mom will tell you, and she won't sugarcoat it either.  This month mom and sis join Nadine and they get into the big stuff - what years were actually easy (spoiler alert: none of them, really), who mom worried about most and why, and what it felt like to watch each of her three kids leave the nest one by one. There's also chats about debt, naivety, a very memorable butt dial, a cigar in a shed on New Year's Day, and two packs of cigarettes in Greece (maybe one, it's semantics). And we can't forget the siblings stuff - the tumultuous patches, the ditto moments, the fast-facing (dad's words, not ours), and what it actually means to have people in your corner who knew you when. Clear your hour. This one's worth it x @the_otherside_pod

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"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home Nadine has been talking for 47 years, and en route to pickleball can be overheard asking "So, what's your deepest wound?" Not known for her subtleties, she's a born story-collector and learned storyteller who decided to mic-up and take you along for the ride.  Listen in as Nadine chats with folks about their lives, zeroing in on those messy parts as we get ourselves from one point to another. Covering things like friendships, careers, deaths, and divorces. There's nothing she won't ask in hopes that other people's experiences can help you through your own.  We're not experts; we're just humans having a human experience we think you can learn from. Or relate to. Or laugh at. Or cry over.  So hit download, dive in, and hear how folks found themselves on THE OTHER SIDE.  nh x

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  • Creator
    Nadine Hogan
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Other Side
  • Show Website
    The Other Side

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