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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 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

    1h 15m

  2. 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

    1h 30m

  3. 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

    1h 6m

  4. 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

    52 min

  5. May 20

    TOS of Infant Loss, Part 2

    Content warning: infant loss Part 2 of 2 with the wonderful Emma Mitchell. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there first. We pick up right where we left off, inside the NICU, where Emma spent every single day with her daughter Evie, who was born at 23 weeks and 6 days. We talk about the moment everything shifted, the decision she and Devin made together, and the 43 minutes they'll carry with them forever. We also talk about her brother Gord meeting Evie, the Ottawa Senators showing up on the most unlikely of days, a guitar, a playlist, and a room that felt a little like home. But this episode is also about what happens after. How pickleball pulled Emma back out into the world. The advocacy work she's done with CHEO that's already made real change for NICU families. And what it looks like to keep being a mom to a baby who isn't here anymore - because she is still very much Evie's mom. Emma is a pickleball player, a guitar player, an open mic host, an advocate, and simply one of the most generous humans I've ever had on this pod. I'm so glad she shared Evie with us. x @the_otherside_pod

    57 min

  6. May 13

    TOS of Infant Loss

    Content warning: infant loss Emma Mitchell is Evie's mom. She's also a pickleball obsessive, a Canadian music lover, a former open mic host, and one of the most honest and open humans I've had the pleasure of sitting across from. We start the conversation talking about pickleball outfits (because of course we do) and then we go somewhere really deep and really real. Emma never let herself think about motherhood. Between her brother, Gord, her PCOS diagnosis, and just never really going there in her mind, she'd quietly made peace with a different kind of life. And then a chest x-ray waiting room moment sent her home to take a pregnancy test. The rest, as they say. We talk about everything - the pregnancy she didn't see coming, the bleed that terrified them at eight weeks, a missing referral, a cervix that was nearly gone, an infection, and a baby girl named Evie who arrived at 23 weeks and 6 days weighing 660 grams. We also talk about what it means to become a mom the moment you find out you're going to be one, even when everything that follows is the hardest thing you've ever done. This is part 1 of 2, which will be released next week x @the_otherside_pod

    1h 6m

  7. May 6

    TOS of PR

    What happens when the rug gets pulled out from under you? Amira believes you were always meant to land exactly where you did. This week, listen in as Nadine sits down with Amira de Vera, entertainment publicist and founder of Project Four PR, for a conversation that wanders, beautifully, from books to burnout to the Burnt Toast Theory. Amira shares how she stumbled into the Public Relations world with zero plan (just a volunteering gig at Toronto Fashion Week and a lot of nerve), built her own firm after a toxic boss finally pushed her out the door, and learned that the universe has a funny way of redirecting you right when you think you're lost. They get into the difference between working hard and burning out, why sitting with pain is scarier than outrunning it, and how therapy, morning routines, and the occasional ugly cry over Kristin Hannah can all be part of the same healing toolkit. Plus: Tom Cruise is apparently really lovely, Honey's Ice Cream is a life-saver, and if you haven't started The Nightingale yet — well, you've been warned. @the_otherside_pod

    57 min

  8. Apr 29

    TOS of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande w/ Mom & Sis

    They're backkkkkkkk. The last Wednesday of the month means mom and sis join Nadine for a conversation that starts with a laundry disagreement and ends with all three of them in tears. This one is special 3 It began with a simple idea, a book club of sorts. All three of them agreed to read Being Mortal by Atul Gawande but when they hopped on to chat about it, it turned into something unexpected and deeply personal. Turns out the book, which examines how medicine handles aging, terminal illness, and end of life, lands differently when you've lived it. And this family has lived it. Listen in as Nadine, Danielle, and Lorraine open up about losing their dad/husband, Ed, to stage four lung cancer in April 2020, right in the thick of COVID. They talk about the brutal treatments that no one told him to stop, the fact that only once, and while in crisis, did anyone ask about his end of life wishes, and the friend and GP who finally had the conversation that the system never could. They wrestle with the tension between fighting and letting go, and how hard it is to honour someone's autonomy when all you want is more time with them. Lorraine reflects on Ed's unshakable will to live and his refusal to hear a prognosis. Danielle connects the book to her daily work in addictions and occupational therapy, where she fights for the same things Gawande writes about - choice, dignity, and a life worth living. And Nadine reckons with a memory she can't shake: calling her dad from Ottawa, telling him to go to the hospital, unable to accept that he was dying. They also talk about what the book gets so right; the loneliness, boredom, and helplessness of institutional care, the couple who built their own aging community, the man who came back to life when someone put a bird in his room, and the music teacher who spent her final days doing the only thing she ever wanted to do - teach. This one is heavy and beautiful and important. It's about how we treat the people we love at the end, and whether we're brave enough to ask them what they actually want. It's also about screaming into the void at Cape Spear, which according to this family, is excellent therapy. Read it. Seriously. Read this book. @the_otherside_pod

    1h 27m
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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
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Other Side
  • Show Website
    The Other Side

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