Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! In this episode, I had an amazing conversation with Sara Beth Wald all about redefining love and setting boundaries in business. If you aren't sure where to start when it comes to setting boundaries, then you need to listen to this episode. We talked about everything from what redefining love is, why it's important to establish boundaries in business to setting up internal boundaries and giving yourself permission to show up and take up space in the world. ___...
Dec 09, 2021•29 min•Ep. 49
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Jackie wants everyone to know that your story is important enough to be shared - even if you think your life is so mundane. People are looking for solutions to their problems, and you don’t know who is waiting to hear your story in the way you tell it. In this episode she is sharing her top tips for: How to know if writing a book is the next step for you Getting started with the process of writing and important questions to ask yourself Moving through emotions...
Dec 02, 2021•33 min•Ep. 48
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Do you ever feel like all the odds are stacked against you? How do you move through that and get to where you want to be? Martha shares her inspiring story of how she rose above the odds stacked against her Martha Kyak is a self-taught artist and seam-stress. She grew up in Pond Inlet, Nunavut and is the youngest of eleven children. Most of her family members are creative, artistic, and in the field of education. Living in Pond Inlet, Martha had her own retail...
Nov 25, 2021•24 min•Ep. 47
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! You might be wondering, is it actually possible to make 6 figures in your first year of business? The answer is YES! And it’s not just for special unicorns. Today on the Shine to FIVE Method, I am talking with Rachel Di, Founder of Geek Unicorn, about how to confidently make 6 figures in your first year of business. Rachel went from running the media department at a not-for-profit to starting the web design company Geek Unicorn and smashing through the 6 figur...
Nov 18, 2021•33 min•Ep. 46
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Do you celebrate the progress you are making in your business? Or just the milestones? My guest on the podcast today is Amy Klein of the Courageous Brand. Along with her co-founder, she is disrupting the traditional education system allowing women to follow their dreams. They focus on building leadership and entrepreneurial skills in young women and girls, helping them follow their passion and dreams instead of just checking the traditional box of ✅ education ...
Nov 11, 2021•26 min•Ep. 45
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! As a Pregnancy & Postpartum Fitness Coach, Reena was surrounded every day by diet culture and snap back mentality. The one that portrays ‘healthy’ as being a lean and toned smaller white woman. She started to realize that this wasn’t a realistic goal for most people and that strength and health comes in many shapes and sizes and she wanted to share this idea with her community. Reena and I are talking all about how she started shifting her messaging and th...
Nov 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 44
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Today’s special guest on the podcast is…….drumroll please … it’s ME, CJ. I wanted to do this special episode because October is my birth month, since I turned 43 this month and THIS is episode 43 - I thought it would be fun to share 43 lessons that I have learned since becoming an entrepreneur. So buckle up, lots of great lessons in this week’s episode. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Have you been think...
Oct 28, 2021•27 min•Ep. 43
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! I am so excited to share this conversation with you because it puts such a different spin on how to run your business and show appreciation to your clients and make sure they feel supported and taken care of by you. --- Hailey Patry… Is your True Happiness Coach & Marriage Mentor. She’s been awarded as “World’s Best Marriage Mentor", as she helps couples heal in 90 days or less. Hailey is also an award-winning author with three International-Best-Selling B...
Oct 21, 2021•36 min•Ep. 42
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! From secondary school teacher to maker of luxury bags Cherie is sharing her incredible story of how she stopped waiting around for a teaching job to open up and decided to trust herself and her talents and start her own business instead. Leaving her teaching career behind and starting her own business was a huge risk for Cherie, but it was something that was put on her heart that she couldn’t stop thinking and dreaming about so she knew she had to take the ris...
Oct 14, 2021•31 min•Ep. 41
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Alora (she/her) & Veronica (she/her) are not only sisters but best friends. They launched SAM & LANCE with the goal of empowering women owned businesses around the world and to make it easy for you to find quality sustainable products. They named the company after their grandmothers SAM & LANCE because they were two strong women who inspired them to be strong, independent and how to care for others. Click below to take a look at what they're promot...
Oct 07, 2021•28 min•Ep. 40
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Sandy feels she’s been truly blessed to have some amazing experiences in her life so far. Met her boyfriend at 16, married him 11 years later and divorced 3 years after that (became a single mum and ended up with $100,000 of debt and on welfare) then discovered the Law of Attraction, became a master at manifesting and turned it all around. She’s climbed to the highest camp on Mt. Kilimanjaro, meditated in complete silence for 10 days, watched the wildebeest mi...
Sep 30, 2021•32 min•Ep. 39
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Are you afraid to be seen? This often manifests by hiding when you don’t want to use your voice, procrastination, taking courses, finding anything that needs to be done instead of the thing you NEED to be doing. Does this sound familiar? We have been raised in a culture where we have been conditioned not to stand up for ourselves or speak out so it can feel pretty darn uncomfortable when you have to stand out and be seen. Luckily, my guest on the podcast today...
Sep 23, 2021•37 min•Ep. 38
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! When you think about hypnosis, do you picture someone swinging a watch back and forth to put someone into a zombie-like state of compliance? Well you can throw that old stereotype out the window. The reality is that hypnosis is a powerful tool to help you overcome what is holding you back. Have you ever had a big goal, and you knew what you needed to do but for some reason you just couldn’t do it? Hypnosis can help. Today my guest on the Shine to FIVE Method w...
Sep 16, 2021•25 min•Ep. 37
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! If the thought of speaking in front of people (or even on video) leaves you feeling terrified, then this episode of the Shine to FIVE Method with CJ is for you. My guest today is Kesha of Talking Tales, she answered a calling to step in and fill a void that she saw when it came to sharing stories - even though she was completely terrified. Now she confidently shows up and speaks, sharing stories in front of all kinds of audiences. You have probably heard how i...
Sep 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 36
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Succeeding in business is 95% mood management. Entrepreneurship is often glamorized but isn’t always shown is how hard it can be. It really puts you on the front line of stuff. You have to figure out a lot of things for yourself about communication, negotiation, figuring out how to deal with clients and hard situations. There is so much information out there about what steps we need to take to grow and get clients and marketing. But how do you manage your mood...
Sep 02, 2021•31 min•Ep. 35
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! My Lana Evanson, Life Coach, Reiki Practitioner & Meditation Teacher. My goal is to empower people by education and exploration of self. Once we know ourselves, we have the power to choose. Choose to do the things that align with our highest selves. That's when real living beings. Connect with Lana for Coaching, Reiki and Energy readings: https://www.coachingbylana.com/ linktr.ee/coachingnylana.com instagram: @coachingbylana _______________________________...
Aug 26, 2021•33 min•Ep. 34
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Muse. Magician. Mentor. Marketer. Creative. These are the most common words that precede an introduction to Tamika Auwai. Tamika is the CEO of Orisha Creative, an inventive nurture marketing agency that serves leaders in the online coaching industry. She is also the creator of The Nurture Matrix™, a unique evergreen nurture marketing framework that’s revolutionizing the way Master Coaches approach social media and email marketing, generating millions in premiu...
Aug 19, 2021•38 min•Ep. 33
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! What does it mean to "find your people"? As Entrepreneurs, we quickly learn how isolating the journey can be, and that leads to some very demotivating moments. Dee Boswell-Buck is the Digital Marketing Strategist of Boswell-Buck Creative. She helps business owners use the online space strategically to get found, get connected, and drive traffic to their websites. Dee helps her clients craft messages to win their ideal clients over and choose the right platform...
Aug 12, 2021•36 min•Ep. 32
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Meet Samantha! Tired of seeing service providers like her trading in their corporate lives only to bring all the work and double the hours into their new business, Samantha King, a former teacher with years of experience in both the corporate and small business worlds, is using her skill set to teach these busy entrepreneurs how to get out of the friend zone with their audience through niche identification and authority building and turn that into sales by pac...
Aug 05, 2021•27 min•Ep. 31
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Claudine offers a solution-based business coaching experience unique to each client with a clear vision, strategies, and action steps. Her corporate career, spanning two decades as a team leader in collections and disaster recovery for a large financial institution, set up her problem-solving mindset. Her ability to identify and resolve problems was recognized because of her innate people skills that she employed to smooth the process. She is a natural investi...
Jul 29, 2021•34 min•Ep. 30
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Have you been struggling to start your business because you aren’t really sure what you should do? You have so many ideas but just don’t know where to direct your energy, you just know that you want it. If that sounds like you, then this episode is for you. My guest today is Shelagh Cummins, a Business Coach whose superpower is helping women tap into their Zone of Genius. That intersection between a need that there is and people are willing to pay money for, a...
Jul 22, 2021•28 min•Ep. 29
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Have you ever skipped down the street and not had a big smile on your face? It’s pretty much impossible. In this episode of the Shine to Five Method podcast, I am talking with Kericia Gowrie, a fitness coach who focuses on improving the way ‘everyday’ people move and experience life, all about movement and the powerful impact it can have on your mindset. Kericia teaches that movement is the foundation of your life both for your physical health and mental wellb...
Jul 15, 2021•45 min•Ep. 28
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Raina Willick guides freelancers and solopreneurs to create more flow and fun in their work by cutting through their Shiny Object Syndrome and organizing the focus of their businesses around their Personal Jedi Codes. Her goal is always to turn the internal clarity coaching brings into external action plans her clients can use to make their business a better place for them to work. She is a Co-Active trained coach, a member of the International Coaching Federa...
Jul 08, 2021•27 min•Ep. 27
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Dr. Thabo believes in the power of turning pain into purpose and struggles into strength. When she was a 14 year old girl she lost her mom and made a promise that she would become a medical doctor one day. She didn’t know it then, but that promise was the beginning of a journey to step into her power and purpose. Trying to keep her promise to her mom, she enrolled in medical school at 22 with no idea how she was going to pay for it. She went on Oprah’s website...
Jul 01, 2021•26 min•Ep. 26
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Do you adapt well to the challenges of entrepreneurship? Keisha Pinto is an event planner. When the pandemic hit and in person events were all shut down, She had to adapt. She knew she didn’t want to do online events like a lot of other people in her industry so she took a step back and looked at her business to see where she was falling short. This inspired a huge rebrand and restructuring of her business and she took the time to look at what she was really g...
Jun 24, 2021•33 min•Ep. 25
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Emily Milling is the Founder and CEO of The Ultimate Creative, a podcast production agency based out of Toronto. Emily, a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur, started The Ultimate Creative in 2018 to facilitate a big leap out of the corporate 9-5 life with the goal to share more of her creative passions (music, filmmaking, comedy, audio) with the world! She truly believes that when we share our voices and tell our stories, we enable others to do the same – ...
Jun 17, 2021•31 min•Ep. 24
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Caryn works with people in the Greater Toronto Area who are looking to buy, sell, rent, or invest in property in the local community. She'd been following the real estate market for over 15 years, and in the middle of Covid, decided to get her Real Estate License. To date she has helped several clients with their real estate goals, and she wants to help you! The best praise she's received from a client was: "We're happy to have chosen Caryn as our Realtor for ...
Jun 10, 2021•29 min•Ep. 23
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Raia Carey built her business on collaboration. When she started off as a life coach she knew she wanted to build her career and her brand her way, and she saw the number one way to get more people talking about her was to have more people talking about her. That's when she decided to start collaborating to grow her brand. This week on the Shine to Five Podcast Raia is dishing all the deets on how she used collaboration to grow her brand. Everything from getti...
Jun 03, 2021•27 min•Ep. 22
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Born in Toronto, Canada, Charmaine is a Digital Content Creator with a focus on Style, Beauty, and Motherhood. Charmaine has a background in Fashion Merchandising, Sales and Marketing. Following the rise of social media, she made the switch to full time content creation after garnering an engaged online following for her DIY tutorials, videos, writing and photography. She has been featured in a variety of websites and publications such as BuzzFeed, PopSugar, C...
May 27, 2021•33 min•Ep. 21
Text Me, I'd LOVE to hear from YOU! Maxine Choy is a Health Coach who helps women transform their lives by learning to let go of their fear of uncertainty so they can start taking action to change their lives. In this episode of the Shine to Five Podcast, Maxine and I talk about all things transformation and practical tips on how you can reach your goals. In this episode you will discover: Why your emotional wellbeing can affect your health How you can make past the fear that holds you back from...
May 20, 2021•35 min•Ep. 20
