Krista is a Registered Massage Therapist in Nova Scotia and has had a passion for safe touch since she was 5! Her passion for Massage may have even landed her in the Principal’s office in high school. She became a RMT in the early 2000’s and hasn’t lost her love of Massage one bit. Krista is now in the final stages of becoming an author with her first book set to be available in fall 2022 entitled Confessions of a Massage Table. In this book she shares client stories from her many years as a the...
Aug 26, 2022•49 min•Season 5Ep. 42
Megan is a Registered Massage Therapist and founder of Slow Medicine Company in Toronto. We invited her in to talk about her company and her journey through massage. Megan is a yoga instructor and was the person who got Amanda interested in yoga many years ago with her unique style of helping her students gain more body awareness and mind body connection into their practice. We didn’t expect the conversation that developed but we got to hear a beautiful story of Megan’s unique journey from leavi...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 41
We had a sit down with 2 people from the Canadian Massage and Manual Osteopathic Therapists Association (CMMOTA). We met Heather, the Executive Director, and April, the conference coordinator, at the CMMOTA spring conference this past May in Saskatchewan. These two women really strive to provide a supportive environment for therapists and bring quality education and advocacy for their members. We have been invited back to their fall conference next month and we are so excited to work with them a...
Aug 12, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 40
Julie has been practicing Massage Therapy since before she was old enough to have a license! More than half of her life has been spent taking care of others and at a certain point she realized that she had never really learned to take care of herself. Through a lot of self discovery, Julie recognized what might be missing for Massage Therapists in their training and what the term “self care” truly means. Now as a Massage Therapy educator in BC, Julie wants to be sure that therapists truly unders...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 39
We had Monica, the owner of Atinama Massage Therapy, on the couch to tell us all about her journey this far as a clinic owner in Toronto and how she got to where she is today. Her clinic has been in operation for 10 years now and we wanted to have her come share her story. Monica tells us all about her training in Ayurveda, how it impacted her education, the way she practices, and ultimately how it is influencing her plans for her future. She describes herself as fearless and we agree! She has g...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 38
Our favourite guys from Noterro are back to tell us what they have been cooking up. Most of you likely know by now that they have a really cool new patient portal available as an app that will make everything more efficient for you and your patients. If you know, you know…if you’re not using Noterro in your practice, take a listen to this…it may change your mind! 2rmtsandamic.com conedinstitute.com massagetherapymedia.com...
Jul 27, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 37
Joanna is a business strategist that works with innovative holistic practitioners, personal trainers, and bodyworkers that have the passion, the technical skills, and know how when it comes to their work but still there is something missing. Joanna’s background as a business owner in the fitness industry taught her that even the best and most knowledgeable practitioners that have the appearance of being successful because they are “busy” might not be living up to their fullest potential. For the...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 36
Charlie is an avid listener and has opinions on many of the topics we discuss. She originally wanted to come on for a good old unprofessional hour but we wanted to just hang out, talk, and see where the night took us. We talked about getting into the profession, her journey through the last 15 years, and many thoughts about the college, the role of schools in weeding out inappropriate therapists, and the ongoing conversation about healthcare versus service and where Massage Therapy fits in. 2rmt...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 35
Janette is an Athletic Therapist and Registered Massage Therapist that has renamed herself a perinatal therapist because she focuses her practice on the most intense sport in the world…pregnancy. Janette knows how to get an athlete back on the field and she realized that there isn’t the same care and rehabilitation for the most gruelling sport with a 100% guarantee of injury at the end. Pregnancy, labour, and delivery, affect a persons body immensely and it is even more intense when it ends in m...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Check out this sit down we had with Jeffrey, a RMT practicing in Pickering, ON. Listen in as we get down to some real talk with the usual nonsense sprinkled in the middle. We rap about a childhood accident which left Jeffrey with one functioning eye, a bar fight in his early 20s which injured his other eye, meditation and martial arts-how it helped him to overcome depression and helped his daughter to deal with a bully, dealing some of the stuff the comes with being a black male massage therapis...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 5Ep. 33
Check out this remastered episode from Season 1, the first of our Hanging with Entrepreneurs series. Check out this sit down we had with Jason Campbell, co-owner of Modern Theory Institute, an Education and Skills Training Centre with 3 locations across Ontario Canada. Listen in as we crack open a couple of beers and talk about being kicked out of University, taking a stab at the film industry, and breaking the rules. 2rmtsandamic.com conedinstitute.com massagetherapymedia.com...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 5Ep. 32
Check out this remastered episode from Season 1. Lidiya Yermakova is a Lawyer in Toronto. She has represented professionals before complaints and discipline committees, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Superior Court of Justice and the Divisional Court. Listen in as we rap about things to consider when dealing with the regulatory body and how having the proper representation is something you need!! You don't know what you don't know... 2rmtsandamic.com conedinstitute.com massa...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 31
Check out this remastered episode of Under The Sheets from Season 1. We had a sit down with Ross in his home office in London, Ontario. Ross is a Classical Musician, a Registered Massage Therapist, and a self proclaimed nerd. Listen in as Ross talks about his journey into Massage Therapy, death, the need to take care of others, the quest to learn as much as his brain will allow, unique living situations, unforeseen life discoveries and the process of adaptation. We get down do the real, the raw,...
Jun 25, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 5Ep. 30
Sue is a repeat guest and fellow podcaster. We met in 2019 when Sue had gone inactive for personal reasons and since then she has become a podcast host (twice!) and co-hosts the “Every Body Holds a Story” podcast, became an author (again), editor, coach, and back to doing hands on body work. She has had an interesting career as a therapist but is now considering retirement. We talk about some of the reasons RMTs are leaving the profession, how Sue has managed to create other streams of income in...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 29
Birthday Month Series continues... check out this remastered throwback to our first season. We chose this episode because it speaks to an attempt to understand a human's experience with open ears, searching eyes, and non-judgement intentions. How else are we to learn?? Stephen came by our office to shed some much needed light on the topic of alcohol and drug addiction. This is not information that you will get from a textbook, an academic journal, or a medical professional...this is the real lif...
Jun 20, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 28
Birthday Month Celebration Series. In celebration of our birthday month, check out this remastered throwback to our first season. Listen in to our 1st episode of the Under the Sheets series. We sat down with an old friend Olivia, Registered Massage Therapist and Fitness Competitor. This conversation gave birth to this new series. The original intent was to speak about her journey into fitness, but it quickly turned into a candid conversation about her life- work, fitness, marriage, life, death, ...
Jun 19, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 27
In celebration of our birthday month, check out this remastered throwback to our first season. This month we will continue to fire off new guests for your entertainment, but we are also throwing you back to the early days before some of you were on board with the 2 RMTs and a Mic crew. So sit back, open your ears real wide, and enjoy this throwback episode with Mark and Robert.... Are you a Manual Therapist or Fitness Professional interested in adding something new to your tool box? Check out th...
Jun 17, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 26
If a person could be the definition of go-getter, it might be our guest, Dylan. We had her on the podcast in 2020 when the RMTAO featured her in their member spotlight and she was published in Massage Therapy Today. 2 years later and this therapist has continued to kick some gluteals in our profession. She is the lead therapist at her clinic, a board member with the RMTAO, and she has her own line of muscle trading cards and study guides to help students and therapists who need to brush up on an...
Jun 12, 2022•59 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Our business exploded! With guests Ashley and Omar Ashley and Omar are the owners of Level Wellness in Scarborough, Ontario. We had them in our office in early 2020 when they were gearing up to open their doors of their beautiful, newly renovated Massage Therapy clinic and fitness studio. As well all know, the excitement came to a halt as they had to close as quickly as they opened. We have had requests from listeners to do a follow up with these two entrepreneurs and here it is. Not what we exp...
Jun 07, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 24
Heather and Nicole from the Massage Therapy Podcast have teamed up with us yet again to have a discussion about the recent increase in the fees that Ontario RMTs will be subject to for the upcoming year. We talked about how people are feeling, why this may have occurred, what the college’s responsibility may be in this matter, the associations role, and oh so much more! We had a very off the cuff conversation but hope we covered all bases! Listen to hear some different perspectives and feel free...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 23
We knew Viviana in what now feels like a past life when she was a Massage Therapist. Through what some might call a spiritual awakening or enlightenment, Viviana realized that although she had achieved what she believed was her dream life- a good job, a husband, a house, and financial security, she felt empty. She soon realized that there had to more to life and she craved connection. She decided to pursue further education in emotional psychology and took many workshops and training to learn ho...
May 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Heather is the president of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ontario (TCMO), and she agreed to speak to us about all of the drama surrounding the possible deregulation of acupuncture in Ontario. Although Heather, TCMO, and the coalition, were victorious, we still wanted to talk about what this could have meant for Registered Acupuncturists, TCM practitioners, and RMTs with dual registration. The fact that primary healthcare providers could potentially become deregulated, was enough for us to all get...
May 15, 2022•46 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Skylar was a clinic owner until 2019 and between selling her clinic, and COVID, among other factors, she made the choice to become inactive to decide where her career should go next. Amongst a lot of tangents and discussions about the profession, we talked about her newest venture in becoming a life coach. If you’ve ever wondered what a life coach is, if there’s training for it, who may need the services of a coach, and how the process works, have a listen to Skylar. She’s in the midst of making...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Ryan has been working for one of the biggest spa chains for most of his career and he has really found his place there. He has climbed the ladder from therapist to lead therapist and now corporate trainer. His experience in this environment has been incredible and has allowed him a career he is passionate about and he even got to travel and participate in the World Massage Championships. Listen to Ryan’s stories about the spa life and how he tries to educate people about the misconceptions and n...
May 01, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Yes it’s THE Grace and Christine as in Grace Chan and Christine Sutherland who are the founders of Sutherland Chan School of Massage Therapy. We had an opportunity to meet Grace at Sutherland Chan in Toronto and she invited us back to record this episode in her meeting room. Christine joined us via zoom as she’s on the west coast somewhere near Alaska working on yet another book! These two incredible women have not seen each other face to face in over a decade and this reunion was emotional, bea...
Apr 24, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Sophie is not a Massage Therapist but loves getting massages and when her life changes prompted her to find a new career path, she was led to an opportunity to open a one room Massage Treatment space where she just needed to find a RMT to work! A few years later and she is the owner of Savon Massage Therapy. She recently reached out to us because she’s been having trouble finding RMTs to work in her spa and she was ready to throw in the towel. Mark invited her to come brainstorm on our couch bec...
Apr 18, 2022•58 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Dryden was a guest on our podcast in spring of 2020 while he was just starting his new venture of becoming a business owner. He was a brand new therapist and in the midst of renovations for his new home based clinic in Regina, Saskatchewan. He wanted his practice to focus on assessment based therapy which he found wasn’t typical in his city. Now, 2 years later, we had him back to see how his clinic is doing and get an update about his practice. Listen to hear what he’s been up to these last 2 ye...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Heather recently became a Massage Therapist and even more recently has discovered our podcast. She has decided to become a business owner and was seeking out resources for Massage Therapists and found us. In her words, the guests we have are relatable and not boring! We invited Heather to come on and talk about her recent journey to becoming a self employed Massage Therapist in the suburbs of Philadelphia and anything else she wanted to rap about because she seems like our kind of people! Plus s...
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Tobi is a Certified Massage Therapist in California and also a business owner. She reached out to us to have a chat about how to reverse engineer your life and career and using the fear abatement method to reach your goals. The 3 of us had a very open conversation about how Tobi managed to become a clinic owner with only $300 in her bank account and how she used techniques to get over the fear, realize her vision and motivation, and work backwards to get where she is today. If you’re hoping to o...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Krista is a Registered Massage Therapist In Ottawa, Ontario and the host of The Radical RMT podcast. She had a fantastic guest who also appeared on a 2 RMTs and a Mic episode when he was promoting his book, The Pain Free Massage Therapist, Mark Liskey. Mark’s message really resonated with Krista and the two of them decided to create the first ever virtual conference for Massage Therapists focused on every element of self care. They have amazing speakers presenting on everything from physical, to...
Mar 24, 2022•47 min•Season 5Ep. 13
