In this episode we bring you Kayla Short, Lifestyle & Travel Blogger. Kayla is vibrant and full of life. From surviving a tragic car accident to thriving in the public eye. Our conversation takes all kinds of tangent: from haters on the internet, to appreciating your body for what it does instead of how it looks and show up and be all of who you are. Kayla shares with us her love of dance and blogging. As mentioned in today’s episode, grab Estelle’s new 2021 SHE Quest Calendars & Planner...
Nov 20, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 13
In this episode we bring you Emily King (SHE Quest OG and return guest on this podcast). Emily helps us debunk what stops us from living our dream life. This Rich Woman is full of powerful personal stories, words of wisdom, and hands on actionable steps to live big and bold! In this episode, we talk about how to work the intuition muscle, surrendering, and debunking the word DREAM. Listen to this and start living AND feeling your dream life! As mentioned in today’s episode, grab Estelle’s new 20...
Nov 13, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 12
In this episode we learn Dr. Jenn’s own story in terms of identity but also delving deep in her healing journey with difficult periods, endometriosis, c-section and early menopause. Her personal experience as added to her professional experience in helping women have smooth transition in menopause and aging. I love this episode because Jenn is a genius at breaking down the phases of menopauses. She also highlights the emotional side of menopause as important as the physical aspect. Jenn offers u...
Nov 06, 2020•49 min•Season 4Ep. 11
In this solo podcast, Estelle will be guiding you through an energizing Yoga class.
Sep 18, 2020•31 min•Season 4Ep. 10
In this solo podcast, Estelle will be guiding you through an energizing meditation on the concept of Imramma: the crossing of deep waters, going where are soul wants to go. A quick go-to for inspiration and a sure way to elevate your day!
Sep 11, 2020•13 min•Season 4Ep. 9
In the Solo Podcast, Estelle explores how reading poetry and making poetry can deepen and improve our mindfulness practice. Estelle also touches on how poems can act as catalyst, intention and touchstones in your own self-healing journey. This episode is greatly inspired by an article by the author of John Fox and is essay called Poetry Therapy, Creativity and the Practice of Mindfulness.
Aug 21, 2020•21 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Meet Meagan Cole - mother of two boys, paediatric nurse, & entrepreneur based in Halifax, NS! Meagan has been on an entrepreneurial journey for past past seven years. After experiencing the benefits of self-development work in her own life, Meagan was inspired to share her learnings with others. This passion fuelled the creation of her brand Rise Up Shine Bright - a brand designed to empower women through women’s empowerment events and apparel! As a self-proclaimed hype girl, Meagan’s missio...
Jul 31, 2020•37 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Meet Katharina Reed - a Neuro-Social Evolutionary and an intuitive healer. She is an expert in story listening, storytelling, identifying and connecting archetypal patterns to story. She now uses that wisdom to guide women - predominantly mothers 35 years and older - to heal from intergenerational stories that are limiting them from being in alignment with their truth. I was on the edge of my seat listening to how she "unstuck" from her own story to move forward in breaking her own family patter...
Jul 24, 2020•40 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Recorded during the pandemic quarantine, Elise Besler - also known as The Vocal Warrior - is a true extrovert on a mission to heal and empower women's voices and consequently their hearts. In this episode you will learn about Elise’s profoundly shy & bullied childhood to her "coming out" 40-year old party where she stepped into her own vocal power. The irony of being a voice teacher and not singing for twenty years and how yoga helped her come into her own body again. You won't want to miss ...
Jul 17, 2020•40 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Perinatal loss happens more than we know. SHE Quest Podcast is privileged to give SHE Quest’s long time member Trista Bloom the stage as she shares her story of giving birth to her first little girl, still. In this episode you will learn how grief can show up years after losing a loved one, how more Perinatal Loss stories need to be out into the world, and the steps Trista took to take her body and life back which included therapy, meditation and journaling. Please share this with all the mother...
Jul 10, 2020•38 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Meet Stephanie Bizzeth - an African Nova Scotian, born and raised in Cole Harbour. An Occupational Therapist currently working in mental health and addictions. A humble student in the practice of yoga, meditation, and shadow work. Through this journey she has been finding her voice and getting LOUD about anti-black racism. In this podcast, learn about Stephanie’s heritage and story growing up here in Halifax and being faced with systemic racism from early on all the way up to her Masters Degree....
Jul 03, 2020•51 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Meet Kimiko Tao Fujimoto - a creative ritualist and mystic walker on the path of soul empowerment. As a Shakti Initiate, her offerings are held by the divine mother through service, intuition, and devotion. She is an Earth Priestess, who blends the arts of herbalism, shamanism, yoga, and sound medicine into embodied practices that awaken one’s innate evergreen magic. Her teachings bridge cross-cultural storytelling with ancient mysticism to ground the sacred into everyday living. She’s known for...
Jun 26, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 2
SHE Quest Season 4 opener is blessed to feature Nikki Martin, Writer and full time Yoga Teacher living on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. Her love of words and stories, both reading and creating them, started very young and with the release of her first fictional novel ‘A Momentary Darkness’ in August 2018 comes the realization of a long time dream. Her passion for words and creating also shows up in her yoga classes. Through her own life experience, and through teaching, she has come to belie...
Jun 19, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 1
We are ending Season 3 of the SHE Quest Podcast with a simple, 5 minute Grounding "Earth Keeper" Meditation. This meditation will help you infuse your being with power and stability, while also protecting your entire being. Take five minutes to create a field for healing that is supported by the earth itself. Feel a deep sense of rootedness before you begin your day.
Jun 12, 2020•6 min•Season 3Ep. 14
In this week’s episode, Estelle interviews Beck Keen, Business Mentor for Coaches & embodied Durga! Beck discusses how her “successful” life - big house, perfect family, big corporate job - was not as fulfilling on the inside as it was on the outside. She shares with us the incredible, catalytic event that spurred the change that she had been craving. Listen now to hear her Durga Initiation.
May 30, 2020•50 min•Season 3Ep. 13
This week’s podcast is a *bonus* episode on grounding to grow with art with Faith Evans-Sills a painter and creativity leader and visual artist in Charleston, South Carolina. In the episode you will learn how Faith uses paint as the foundation of who she is, what her art practice look like on a weekly basis. She breaks the taboo on what the professional artist weeks looks like. A great talk, for someone who would like to start an art practice but doesn’t really know where to begin!
May 22, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In this episode, Estelle explores the world of our inner strength, our inner warrior, our inner mother, and ultimate compassion. You will be introduced to Durga, learn how Durga’s fire can help you empower your most radical aspirations and guide you through your life, and hear Estelle’s own Durga Initiation story. Estelle explores the notion of viewing our bodies as more than just robots living life, but rather as vessels to ferociously explore and experience deep self-transformation. Tapping in...
May 15, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 11
May 08, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Guiding Starlight for the Soul of Nova Scotia: Here’s How Art & Yoga Can Help There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Slow work is grief work. In Part 2 of this special podcast series, Estelle shares with her audience and most tried, tested and true way to engage with some heavy shit. She shares wisdom and nuggets in poetry, breathing exercises, hand gestures, journaling prompts and so much more wisdom in the art of loss. Listen and widen your lens on grief.
May 01, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 9
A Dark Night for the Soul of Nova Scotia: Here’s How Art & Yoga Can Help I usually use my radio show for women’s voices and stories to be heard - but as a self-titled grief activist, I thought I could use this media platform to have a heart opening conversation about personal and collective GRIEF in these poignant time. I hope this conversation will widen your lens on where we find ourselves as a province and where we can go from here. Like all of you, I am just trying to figure out some pre...
Apr 24, 2020•25 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Dhavita is a Meditation Coach, Writer, Speaker, & loyal SHE Quest member! In this episode Dhavita, talks about why it is so important routinely make time for meditation, how motherhood has changed her meditation practice, provides tools on how to improve your meditation practice, & dives deep into the idea that our best s^% comes from the darkest s*^% in your life! Dhavita is currently working on her second collection of poetry ‘Wise Woman’ to be released in 2020! Her first poetry book ‘...
Mar 24, 2020•47 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Laura is a Soulmate Attraction Coach who works with women across the globe to help them attract EPIC love. In this episode, you will learn how to look at things more intentionally, what happens when you get to your “enough” point and choose to surrender, & tools to better align to your truth! Laura’s unique approach incorporates yoga philosophy as a guiding tool to help women identify and work through their biggest blocks so they can take aligned action and consciously create the love life o...
Mar 20, 2020•38 min•Season 3Ep. 7
With over 14 years of experience as a Yoga Teacher and Certified Life and Breath Coach, Jolene D’Entremont delivers customized yoga and breath work practices. Jolene is such an earthy and nurturing human being. In this episode you will learn how yoga can be used to support postpartum depression and how Shadow Work and Holotropic breathing allows us to welcome all parts of us. Jolene's own experiences and commitment to self healing shines through this rich conversation. As mentioned in this episo...
Mar 13, 2020•47 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This month Estelle explores and dives deep into the world of women, breath, protection and power. For many years now, Estelle has been working with Sacred Symbols, totems and visual imagery to access a deeper realm of knowledge when it comes to living a magic life. This episode focuses on the symbol of the Lioness; a stunning totem of protection, fierce self-love, huntress, confidence and conviction. In this episode you will learn Estelle’s “go-to 3” techniques to protect or clear her energy and...
Mar 10, 2020•15 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In 2015, after a car accident Kelly - fellow SHE Quester - suffered a complex concussion and as been in rehab ever since. Through this identity crisis and wake up call and a huge tool kit for reigniting her spirit. In this episode you will learn how to reignite yourself after a traumatic event one leap at a time, how self-expression has the immense ability to ground you, as well as tips & tricks to maintain a consistent art practice! Kelly Cuvilier is a creative and lover of nature, and is w...
Mar 06, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Heather is a paediatric and research nurse by profession, and a mom, a grandmother, and a wife married to her high school sweetheart for 34+ years! Her yoga and art journey started a few years back when she had attended my first SHE workshops (then called Feminine Magic). In this episode you will learn Heather’s defining moment in her “SHE” Journey, how “I am not ready” is perhaps your cue that you are, and how her SHE Quest work travels with her wherever she goes and has become indispensable! H...
Mar 03, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Kristen Herrington is an abstract painter, designer and creative collaborator. Though born and raised in a small farming community in rural Nova Scotia, Kristen Herrington has called Halifax, NS home for more than a decade. She identifies primarily as a “fluid-artist,” capturing life’s overlooked moments and experiences in abstract form. In this episode, you will learn how to nurture your self expression, how to lean into resistance when painting, & how liberating posting your art on social ...
Feb 28, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In this episode, Estelle dives deep in the world of art as a meaning of self-healing & transformation. Estelle connects how grounding to grow allows you to really land you our power, body, story, beauty, voice and art. In this episode you will learn how to understand yourself as creator and how not to minimize that power, also how self-connection, self-reflection, self-introspection, and self-awareness is crucial in ‘grounding’! Ultimately, Estelle unearths how landing in our stories and bod...
Feb 25, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 1
What a moving episode! Proud founder of "You Gotta Sing" choir, Vanessa Lindsay-Botten speaks to us from the heart. In this episode, you will learn: Vanessa's #myshestory coming from a classical background of voice and the powerful turning point moment when everything changed. How to start a a singing or "humming" practice today. Vanessa's lesson in grief and powerful mantra: The Way is the Way. The scientific benefits to singing and so much more! Perhaps one of my favourite episode to dates....
Jan 17, 2020•Season 2Ep. 16
Meet Anne Bérubé - a powerful spiritual teacher who has made it her life’s purpose to help individuals come back home to their heart and remember their soul’s calling. In this episode, enjoy Anne's personal story of reclaiming her feminine voice. We also speak of ways to reclaim the word "bitch", "moody", "spicy" , "inconvenient" and instead reframing it as: clear. Anne is a brilliant speaker & author who offers wisdom and deep knowledge and how to stand in your shakiness and voice your desi...
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