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"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home.  Which is ironic because this whole show is really about listening and asking the questions other interviewers skip. It doesn't take an expert or a guest who's survived something tragic to make that work - it simply requires someone willing to be real. Because everyone has a real story if you're willing to ask for it.  An Olympic athlete figuring out who she is after competitive sports. A mother describing the 118 days she got with a daughter who was born four months too early and didn't survive. A business owner rebuilding after everything fell apart and Nadine's own mom and sister on what makes a family actually enjoy each other's company.  No script. No formula. No niche. Just real conversations that go past the rehearsed answer - because she's honest first, so her guests can be too.  New episodes every week.  Hit download and find out what folks are sharing on The Other Side.  nh x

  1. 2d ago

    Who are you when your career ends? Fraser Valentine is finding out in real time

    He spent 25 years inside some of the highest-stakes rooms in the Canadian government and he still describes himself as "not really a social guy." This past January Nadine sat down with Fraser Valentine to talk about what happens when the thing you built your whole identity around is about to end. It was just months before his retirement date and the conversation was so well received it remains as one of the most downloaded - so here's the re-release.  Listen in as we get into the Sunday-night ritual his father ran him through as a kid, why he calls the public service "a parent" - one that can reward you and quietly punish you in the same breath - and the moment he realized he'd spent decades accomplishing things without ever stopping to actually feel them. This isn't really about retirement. It's about what's left of you once the title's gone.  Hit play. @the_otherside_pod

  2. Jul 29

    TOS of a Chat with Mom & Sis on Liking Your Kids & Mom's Alter-ego

    Leave it to Lorraine Hogan to tell you that liking your kids is not a given, even if you love them. This month Nadine sits down with her mom, Lorraine, and sister, Danielle, for their monthly chat, curious how the three of them built a friendship alongside their mother/daughter relationship. They talk about the exact moment each of them remembers the relationship shifting, and why "staying on the periphery" without disappearing is the hardest, most generous thing a parent can do. Lorraine shares why she refuses to be intrusive even when she wants to say something. And Nadine and Danielle share the story behind "Rotch" - their mother's alter-ego, and the reason everyone in the family knows to be careful when it comes out.  Bonus: Nadine asks her mom what each of her three kids has taught her (guess which one gets called "brutal" again .... lol).  If you've ever wondered whether you'll actually be friends with your kids one day, or whether your parents will ever really see you as an equal, this one's for you. @the_otherside_pod

  3. Jul 22

    TOS of Cultural Memory, Blueberry Earrings & Healing Through Art

    Nagad believes we're all creative - we've just forgotten to notice the moments where it already shows up. This week Nadine sits down with Nagad Hersi, jewelry maker behind Of Soleil and a practicing therapist, for a conversation on memory, cultural identity, and what it means to make something with your hands when words aren't enough. Listen in as Nagad talks about hand-sculpting polymer clay blueberries so real they look plucked from a market box, and why it took her nearly three years to get a single collection right. She gets into growing up in the East African diaspora, and how a collection inspired by oud - the wood, the instrument, the incense - became a way of carrying her home with her. She's honest about still calling herself "not a business person" even while running a full one, and about her dad quietly tucking her business card into his pocket like it was nothing, when it meant everything. It's a conversation about creativity as survival and how solving a problem, weathering a hard year, or just sitting with a cup of coffee is its own kind of art. Nagad and Nadine talk about the vulnerability of releasing something deeply personal into the world, the discomfort of "just letting it be" instead of making it something, and why healing and making things have never really been separate for either of them. If you've ever doubted whether you're "creative enough" to count, this one's for you. @the_otherside_pod

  4. Jul 15

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home.  Which is ironic because this whole show is really about listening and asking the questions other interviewers skip. It doesn't take an expert or a guest who's survived something tragic to make that work - it simply requires someone willing to be real. Because everyone has a real story if you're willing to ask for it.  An Olympic athlete figuring out who she is after competitive sports. A mother describing the 118 days she got with a daughter who was born four months too early and didn't survive. A business owner rebuilding after everything fell apart and Nadine's own mom and sister on what makes a family actually enjoy each other's company.  No script. No formula. No niche. Just real conversations that go past the rehearsed answer - because she's honest first, so her guests can be too.  New episodes every week.  Hit download and find out what folks are sharing on The Other Side.  nh x

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  • Creator
    Nadine Hogan
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Other Side
  • Show Website
    The Other Side

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