Angela was a fellow speaker at the Seven Secrets to Success Summer Summit in July and after speaking to her we learned that she had done work as a death doula. We have been trying to get a death doula to speak on our podcast for months and jumped at the opportunity. What we didn’t know about Angela is that she’s not your ordinary doula. Angela described herself to us as a clairvoyant and the discussion that followed was not what we had expected. Angela shares her story of being a healer through ...
Sep 16, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 4Ep. 50
Jason and Crystal met while working at a large gym/ clinic here in Toronto which is also how we know them. In 2020, these two colleagues and friends decided to make the move to open their own personal training studio/ clinic which is how chalk up was born. Listen to their story about why they wanted to open their own business, what challenges existed opening during such a difficult time, and of course a lot of smack talking between the 4 of us on a Friday night! ConEdInstitute.com 2rmtsandamic.c...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 49
The Unites States Organization of Licensed Massage Therapists (USOLMT) is a new association which our guest, Stephanie, created to help to unify Massage Therapists in the US who want to create change and better the profession. Stephanie is working to get the word out about this new association, get new members, and to talk to therapists about what changes they want to see to continue to move the profession forward. We were very excited to have Stephanie on to discuss why she decided to take on s...
Sep 06, 2021•54 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Ashley has been a Massage Therapist for over twelve years and it was a career she got into after her mother realized that Ashley had a gift. She was somewhat of a healer for her mother and her Mom encouraged her to take this further. She is also an educator, focusing on TMJ dysfunction, and during the time off due to the pandemic, Ashley decided to expand a business idea that she had that she believes is missing from the wellness industry. Ashley believes social gatherings are part of self care ...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 47
Melissa is a Massage Therapist in Hawaii that we have been following for sometime. She’s originally from New York where she had a successful practice but a turning point in her life made her realize that nothing was keeping her in New York. She decided to follow one of her dreams of living in Hawaii after a client invited her there for a vacation...and the rest is history. Listen to hear how this entrepreneur has created her dream life in Hawaii where she now owns two businesses that are steadil...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Huixin and Harrison are a happily married couple and new grads waiting for the results of their licensing exams so they can become Registered Massage Therapists. These two have a very interesting story about how they met and became a couple (you know we love a good love story), their previous career paths, and how Huixin roped Harrison into going to school with her and starting a new career together. They are fully immersed in massage therapy and have been joining Facebook groups and attending c...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Mel and Rico are 3 time guests who are very new to the RMT profession. They first came on as students, then just after passing their licensing exam, and they are back again to tell some stories from their first year in practice. This time they brought another friend and colleague, Anastasia. Listen to hear some of the things that these 3 have already dealt with as new therapists and what it’s like working with your friends. Trigger warning: there’s some talk about mental health and covid that go...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 4Ep. 44
Massage Therapists are truly an eclectic group of people. We have had guests who are evidence based, reiki masters, nomads, clinic owners, coaches, spa therapists, educators, researchers, and the list goes on. Our goal is to meet interesting people and give them a platform to share their story. Enter Cristina, a very new massage therapist who is still in the process of finding herself. Cristina is currently living in her car, with her cats, working on her YouTube channels, and trying to figure o...
Aug 05, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 43
Tijen and Ashley are life partners and business partners who have shifted from service focused to product focussed now that their cannabis infused cream has officially launched into the legal market. They are second time guests on the podcast and we just have so much love for these two who have truly hustled to get to where they are today, enjoyed the process, and continue to focus on their goals with their company, Earth Kisses Sky. Listen to hear what they have been up to since we last spoke t...
Jul 30, 2021•56 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Debbie went 24 years as a massage therapist without insuring her money makers- her hands! She understood the importance but couldn’t find an insurance company that made sense for her...until she did! She found a company that made so much sense that she decided to work with them! She’s currently in the process of creating a CE course about insurance, with a focus on disability, accident, and injury because she wants to help the rest of us truly understand how these things work and why it’s so imp...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 41
Kelly contacted us to ask if we had recorded an episode about what to do when school administrators, teachers, clinic owners, or bosses abuse their power to manipulate and intimidate the people that look to them for guidance. We didn’t have an episode that discussed this so we invited Kelly to come sit on our couch to talk about her personal experiences with power tripping people who became abusive towards her and how she dealt with it. Kelly admits that she didn’t initially recognize how these ...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Celena is a new listener in the US and wanted to offer a different perspective to our listeners. She has listened to many episodes where we discuss splits, rent, working in clinics and spas, and mobile therapists. Celena took mobile massage to a whole other level when she decided that she was not going to allow other people and their fears tell her that she couldn’t structure her career to allow for the life she always wanted...which included travelling the world. Celena has worked in 21 spas in...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 39
To all of our listeners, a woman who really needs no introduction, Pam Fitch! Pam has been a Registered Massage Therapist for 34 years and in that time she has made quite an impact. Pam is an educator, peer supervisor, writer, and researcher who has dedicated so much of her career to helping other therapists with the ethical and interpersonal challenges that we all face and yet don’t seem to have much support or education for. Her seminar and book, “Talking Body, Listening Hands” is the go to re...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Michael is the Executive Director and CEO at the RMTAO which is our association here in Ontario. A few years back we had the former Executive Director, Andrew on to speak about what the RMTAO does for us. We felt it was about time to have a follow up to see what the RMTAO is up to these days, where their focus is, and how they have been working to support RMTs in Ontario during these difficult times. Michael was happy to come on and speak to us candidly and be transparent about what’s happening ...
Jul 04, 2021•56 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Eric is a second time guest for 2 RMTs and a Mic. He’s a Massage Therapist, business coach , and author, who has been dedicating his career to helping others achieve success. He is the founder of The Happy Successful Massage Therapist which is a free Facebook group that he started a year ago to help fellow therapists find a community to support them in their careers. As an anniversary celebration, Eric and his awesome community will be hosting a FREE virtual summit from July 5-11th where he will...
Jun 28, 2021•51 min•Season 4Ep. 36
Mark is a clinic owner, educator, coach, and mentor who has been practicing as a Massage Therapist in British Columbia for 27 years...oh and he’s blind. Mark has a super inspirational story about how losing his sight very young was actually a blessing that allowed him to do super cool things in his life that he may not have had the opportunity for had he not lost his vision. He felt that being a blind Massage Therapist was something that he could win at and he was right! Mark has had a very succ...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Mark is a LMT and certified Neuromuscular Therapist in the US with 30 years under his belt. About 20 years into his career, his body was giving up and after being diagnosed with many injuries he was told to hang up his hands. Mark America, as we have named him, decided to give himself a year to figure out if he could continue his practice and massage pain free. A decade later and here he is still practicing and helping other therapists learn how to make the most of massage with his blog which fo...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Saira is the founder and CEO of a new business which is described as a creative coupling of a massage bar and social experience. We met Saira a couple of years ago when she took a Chair Massage course at ConEd Institute because she had this vision of opening up her own wellness center that focussed on Massage Therapy. We had a meeting with her to hear her business plan and fast forward to 2021 when we stumbled upon this beautiful Instagram page and lo and behold...it’s Saira’s business- Touch Ma...
Jun 14, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Michelle is one of the owners of Cupping Canada and Cupping USA alongside her husband, Paul, whom we had the pleasure to chatting with a couple of years ago. Michelle has had such an exciting career as a Massage Therapist working with professional athletes and celebrities and working in all sorts of out of the box settings. Her experience with the mobile world gave her yet another business idea which was to start a group to help other mobile therapists and create a course for therapists to learn...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 31
We had our good friends from the Massage Therapy podcast join us again for a round table discussion about the peer assessment process which seems to be a hot topic in the Ontario Massage community these days. Nicole has first hand experience working with the college and we had a peer assessor help us to understand the process as it is meant to be. We wanted to give the other side of the story and maybe ease the stress on those who have yet to be peer assessed by giving some insight...spoiler- He...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Linda is a senior Massage Therapist...she’s a senior, who treats seniors. Linda wanted to come on the podcast to discuss the reality of being a senior when it comes to healthcare. She has learned to be loud and use her voice to advocate for seniors like herself whom she feels after often not listened to in society. Linda felt it was important to shed some light on where there are gaps in the healthcare community when it comes to treating seniors and illustrate what you might expect when working ...
May 28, 2021•56 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Susan is the founder of Massage and Movement Magazine which is a bi-monthly digital publication for Massage Therapists, by Massage Therapists. Susan has 2 decades of experience under her belt and to ensure she could happily continue in this profession that she loves, she needed more. She has been incorporating movement including yoga and Pilates for a while and really loves improving her fundamental knowledge of both Massage and movement to be the best she can be for her clients and not get bore...
May 22, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Storm is a 16 year old that reached out to us after their parents had introduced them to our podcast. Storm thought it might be useful for people to talk about mental health from a teen perspective. After many conversations back and forth (and meeting with Mom) we decided to give Storm a mic to tell their story. I started off by saying that this young person has been through more than many adults. Storm reminded me that when it comes to mental health there is no comparison and everyone has a sto...
May 17, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Rebecca is a 3 time guest who always has some inspirational words for RMTs, LMTs, CMTs, and any bodyworker or entrepreneur really. We invited her back to talk about her newest baby, iHeal Institute, which uses NLP, Time Line Therapy, and hypnosis, to help coaches, massage therapists, and anyone really to learn the ways that they can heal themselves and help other people do the same. As always, Rebecca delivers some awesome advice for anyone in our profession and told us about another thing off h...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Paula is an International speaker and educator from Brisbane, Australia who specializes in teaching Neuro-Lymphatic Reflexes, commonly called Chapman’s reflexes, because they were first observed by Osteopathic Physician, Frank Chapman. Paula is also the founder of the Supercharged Therapist Method. She wanted to have a chat with us about some of the very interesting things she’s doing in her practice and her teaching and we love hearing from practitioners around the globe who are doing something...
May 06, 2021•55 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Ali has taken almost every course here at ConEd Institute as she patiently waits to become a RMT. She, like so many others, had to wait to do her licensing exams due to COVID and now that she’s completed them, she’s back in the waiting game as her results won’t be available for some time. We have gotten to know Ali over the course of the last year and she has a story. Many stories. We love hearing about people’s journeys and she’s got a lot to share about career changes, relationship changes, fi...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Joyce is a Massage Therapist in Toronto who is the “breadwinner” for her family of four. She says her family has broken the mold of what people view as a traditional family structure. At the end of 2019, Joyce and her family had their world shaken up when Joyce made a discovery that led to a diagnosis she never would have imagined she would hear. Joyce feels like often people don’t speak about what happens behind closed doors when something like this happens to your own family and there can be a...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Kelly is a Reiki Master from Orlando Florida and has a story about her first experience feeling energy through massage which is how she realized she may just be a Michael Jordan in this field (you have to listen to understand). We learned that Kelly was organizing a fundraiser for Prevent Child Abuse Florida and wanted to give her a platform to talk about it. She had a virtual lip sync battle, “Putting on the hits 2021” to help raise money for this organization which means so much to her. As a c...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Nicki is a regular guest, turned friend and wine drinking buddy here and she has returned for a third episode to share some of her most unpopular opinions with us. The three of us discuss topics such as money and how society feels about the “super rich”, discrimination and when it may be justified, Massage Therapists as a business, and many more opinions that may or may not be shared by the majority of manual therapists. Nicki loves healthy debates and is very open minded and her opinions are fl...
Apr 15, 2021•2 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Alyssa sent us a message to express some of her thoughts about being a Massage Therapist in California. She’s a new therapist and is also still in school to become a Neuromuscular Massage Therapist. We invited her to talk about being a new therapist while still studying and we ended up going down a path that of course we didn’t set out to go down. Alyssa recalled a time when she had a major emotional release while receiving treatment which opened up her eyes to how incredible Massage Therapy can...
Apr 10, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 20
