Jenny, Leah, Courtney and Sara’s lives intertwined while waiting to see RN Helen at their fertility clinic. What started out as a Whatsapp chat to connect and share their experiences and questions became a journey into authorship after Jenny shared a dream she had about the four women writing a book together. sharing their journeys with infertility. These four women have shared their stories in their new book, “Where’s Helen?” in a vulnerable and uncensored way in hopes that other women will fee...
Oct 25, 2021•39 min•Ep. 168
What started off as a casual drive with Amanda updating Jenn about the ceiling sparks coming out of the light in the kitchen, they spotted a cute dog and … Shail?! We’ve picked up our first Road Trip friend! On the drive today, our squirrel brains cover all kinds of things, from roommate dramas, Shail’s experience as the Bachelorette of Rossland, wine and grape varieties, meat and cheese sticks (obviously), relationships, things that interest us, and wrap up with some astrology talk! This drive ...
Oct 18, 2021•43 min•Ep. 167
Marc Champagne is one rad human being. A podcast host, a Mental Fitness Strategist and most recently an author, he is the ultimate lover of questions and going beyond surface level conversation - with other people, and with oneself. In this conversation, Marc and I discuss his huge transitions between hosting a top ranked podcast called Behind The Human and the co-creation of a journaling app which reached 86.9 million people and into his latest endeavour as an author. Marc’s love of questions h...
Oct 11, 2021•33 min•Ep. 166
September usually marks a new start. Well, Amanda isn’t returning to teaching this year, so there’s no filling up a new spacemaker pencil case this year… so what has September looked like so far for Amanda and Jenn? On the drive today, Amanda opens up about some challenges working from home and navigating into a “school year” without the teaching job. Amanda and Jenn talk about working from home, alone time, and setting boundaries. Amanda also shares a story about self-abandonment, a huge conver...
Oct 04, 2021•28 min•Ep. 165
Kim Kimball is a life coach and mentor, offering a holistic coaching practice that goes deeper than the pragmatic fix to addressing the root of what’s keeping you stuck. Through her own personal deep dives into her own patterns in relationships, familial, platonic and romantic, Kim has been actively addressing codependency in herself and helping other women do the same. --- LINKS: Kim Kimball on Instagram: @kimkimballcoaching Kim’s Website: www.kimkimballcoaching.com Website: thesafehaven.co Ins...
Sep 27, 2021•28 min•Ep. 164
Amanda returned from yet another ACTUAL road trip across the country, from BC to Ontario and back again. In this drive, Amanda and Jenn chat about a special brew that has now safely arrived in BC - the Kashagawigabob. This beer was brewed by Jenn and her family in honour of her Dad, Bob, who died last May. Jenn has really been missing her Dad a lot these days, and shares what’s been coming up for her recently. She talks about how she honours him now, how grief shows up in her life, and what hypn...
Sep 20, 2021•35 min•Ep. 163
Nutritionist and Yogi Tay Gendron is helping women fix their gut and balance their hormones so they can break up with anxiety for good. The path towards becoming a nutritionist weaves in and out of incredible anxiety, panic attacks, and medication, and Tay shares this story in today’s episode. Tay always saw herself going through school to be a lawyer. After someone close to her died of suicide, Tay’s path was altered significantly. From limiting beliefs, expectations, guilt, shame and embarrass...
Sep 13, 2021•33 min•Ep. 162
After a pretty significant break-up, Amanda booked a one-way ticket to Australia. Having spent a year in Argentina as an exchange student years prior, Amanda was hell-bent on getting her second year visa work done and dusted. From a nannying gig to house sitting, meeting new friends and working on a cattle station, Amanda shares how she lived in Australia almost completely rent-free for an entire year. With a few detours, this trip is a good one! --- LINKS: Come follow along! @roadtripbuckleup W...
Sep 06, 2021•35 min•Ep. 161
Renee Reina had a full ride scholarship to a university in Florida to play volleyball. After her first semester, she realized that she missed playing volleyball for fun, and a move back home was in order. With the decision to switch schools and direction came the challenges of navigating her identity without volleyball, something she’d played for so many years of her life. Years later, Renee holds a Masters and a Ph. D in Psychology, has started a family, and is growing her social media platform...
Aug 30, 2021•34 min•Ep. 160
Jennifer and her 80L Gregory Diva backpack and a rolly carry-on went to Australia eleven years ago on a one-way ticket. Let us be the first to tell you that Australia was never the same after that... In today’s episode, Jenn tells us all about how the theme of her ten months in Australia was all about working to travel - and getting fired because, you know, jobs in Australia are just to supplement travel… Jenn’s storytelling abilities keep you on the edge of your seat while she enlightens us wit...
Aug 23, 2021•36 min•Ep. 159
Eternity Martis is a Toronto-based journalist, author and advocate. She’s also a best-selling author of her first book, “They Said This Would Be Fun - Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.” Eternity’s work focuses on issues of race and gender, taking deep dives into her own experiences and sharing them with the world. Her stories are real, raw, and relatable. Our conversation covers so much about the journey through writing this book and many of the topics and experiences shared within. We talk a...
Aug 16, 2021•46 min•Ep. 158
This one is good. This drive will keep you in stitches, between our food chats - obviously - and then deep diving into the realm of glamping essentials… including juicy spidey dogs. Jenn and Amanda both share some snowboarding stories as well as what burying the hatchet looked like one day for Amanda while on a hot springs hiking adventure. Grab a snack and buckle up! --- LINKS: Come follow along! @roadtripbuckleup Website: thesafehaven.co Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast Frequency Podcast Networ...
Aug 09, 2021•38 min•Ep. 157
Dylan Bromley is a business development specialist working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His natural gifts in communication and interpersonal connections paired with his incredible level of self-awareness have allowed him to share his experiences over the last few years in a really powerful way. Wearing his gigantic heart on his sleeve, Dylan is a hard working, business minded, family centred man who’s learned a lot from his experiences. Dylan is recovering from his addictions to alcohol and cocaine. R...
Aug 02, 2021•37 min•Ep. 156
Today’s drive is the best yet - because we’re actually together! Like in real life! We chat about Amanda’s drive from the Kootenays to the Island to visit Jenn in Ucluelet. We laugh a LOT, and talk about things from being cheap on gas to squirrels (and the lack there of while in Australia) to Jenn losing her Dad’s ashes at the airport… but did she really?! You may need a tissue though… not for sad tears, but if you’re ready to join Jenn while she cry-laughs while holding onto her thoughts about ...
Jul 26, 2021•36 min•Ep. 155
Rick Werry is a motivational speaker and aspiring author, husband, and Dad. With incredible life lessons and insights from his life, he strives to live his life chasing Red Letter Days. In the conversation with Rick today, you’ll hear about how breaking his neck changed his life. Besides the obvious physical changes, Rick weaves his story through his challenges mentally and emotionally, too. He shares two of his biggest pivot moments and what kept him moving forward. A heads up that Rick shares ...
Jul 19, 2021•28 min•Ep. 154
Welcome back for another ride with Amanda and Jenn! On today’s drive, we chat about Jenn’s most recent chat with a Medium. Jenn shares a lot about her connection with her Dad, why birds are significant in her life, and how they’ve been showing up for her since her Dad passed last year. As the food lovers we are, we get into what our must-haves on a charcuterie board are, and why ratios matter. --- LINKS: Come follow along! @roadtripbuckleup Website: thesafehaven.co Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcas...
Jul 12, 2021•35 min•Ep. 153
Life long journalist and creative writer Tamara Sellman went back to school at 47 to study sleep technology. A lover of reading and writing, she was left in total shock and a space of concern when she lost her ability to read or comprehend the words in her textbook while going to study for exams. Scans and tests confirmed her diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, (MS) and led Tamara into a space of grief as she worked through processing this new information. As a writer, she worked through her grie...
Jul 05, 2021•31 min•Ep. 152
New segment, what?! Welcome to the newest detour on The Safe Haven podcast, our new segment, ROAD TRIP! You already know Amanda well, so today you’ll meet Jenn Porter, Amanda’s Road Trip Co-Pilot! In this introduction episode, we get to know a little bit about Jenn! You’ll hear all about her 33rd birthday shenanigans, including how she ended up bartending at a bar she doesn’t work at. We share the story behind how this segment came to be, and as you’ll hear through the laughs and the giggles, we...
Jun 28, 2021•32 min•Ep. 151
Rebekah was a guest on The Safe Haven podcast on April 23, and in the conversation, I asked Rebekah how she was able to be her best self for her kids while grieving. Her answer was that she wasn’t her best self for her kids. I loved how raw and real Bex’s answer was. Today, Rebekah elaborates on what she meant, and the emotions she has experienced along her healing journey after losing her parents, while being a mom herself. Rebekah is also the creator behind the “Big Messy” book series, and cam...
Jun 21, 2021•49 min•Ep. 150
Gianna Shamone joins us today on The Safe Haven, opening up about how she’d lost herself in a relationship – a relationship that resulted in a groundbreaking break-up. As she navigated her healing, she began writing poetry. In addition to the healing, writing itself brought forward even more than she could have ever expected. As Gianna wrote, the idea of publishing came to mind. She was flooded with limiting beliefs about how no one would be interested in her work, but she pushed through and pro...
Jun 14, 2021•18 min•Ep. 149
Over the last few years, Madison has thoroughly explored the world of podcasting. From being an avid podcast listener, she became the first employee of a podcast network, into the role as a podcast producer, and then jumped into the driver’s seat as the co-founder of a podcast and guest networking platform called Wildcast. It was part way through her MBA program that Madison realized she didn’t love what she was doing. Between the misery at work and her keen interest in podcasts, she recognized ...
Jun 07, 2021•29 min•Ep. 148
Happy Thursday, friends! This upbeat TGIT episode is jammed with updates and a fun story for some entertainment as your week wraps up. There are some updates about some shifts to look forward to within The Safe Haven, final totals for the She Moves Mountains pre-sale orders, and a rather large announcement about a career shift! Amanda fills you in on a massive take-away from a conversation with a great leader in her school community, and how the word “choice” now holds so much more meaning than ...
Jun 03, 2021•29 min•Ep. 147
Patrica is an entrepreneur and the founder and creator of The Homeowner Link Inc. Previously a home stager herself, Patricia’s passion and desire to stay at home with her kids transitioned into the idea and then the development of the app, which connects Realtors and Home Stagers. After having her first child, Patricia knew that she wanted to create something big, that would allow her to generate revenue while allowing her to stay at home while her family grew. In this conversation, Patricia sha...
May 31, 2021•16 min•Ep. 146
Sometimes the hardest decisions are the ones that bring forward the biggest opportunities, the deep learnings, and most impactful life lessons. Erin Moraghan is a mindset and wellness coach, bringing her life experiences and practices into a space where she helps others live their truest and most healthy life. Over the course of the pandemic, she was able to bring forward a massive lesson from ending a relationship into the work she does today. Erin was in relationship with someone in crisis for...
May 24, 2021•23 min•Ep. 145
Tasha Hunter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, an author of her book What Children Remember, and a host of her podcast called When We Speak. She’s worked through her traumas to bring her best and most empathetic self into her practice, heart first. Tasha’s deep connection to God is something that keeps her grounded. Her personal experiences have informed her practice and have helped shape the way she shows up for her clients, sitting with them in their pain, and helping them feel less alone....
May 17, 2021•36 min•Ep. 144
In this week’s TGIT, Amanda fills you in on just how good her birthday was on Monday, and how the pre-sales for She Moves Mountains are going! Her “week” feels like it’s two weeks, being in the midst of the pre-sales, and the hype is real! There are updates on the dates as to when the pre-orders will be in your hands! This episode includes some injury updates, some candid stories from a recent camping adventure, and some timely conversation topics with some friends. The birthday excitement is re...
May 13, 2021•17 min•Ep. 143
Christa Couture refers to herself as a “singer, songwriter, storyteller, cyborg”. She’s an award-winning performer and recording artist, a non-fiction writer, and a broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, mixed Cree and Scandinavian, queer, disabled, and a mom. Christa knows profound heartbreak and shares her journey with a depth that draws you in with humanity. In this beautiful conversation, Christa and I chat about her life and navigating identity through grief. Christa shares how she’s ...
May 10, 2021•33 min•Ep. 142
A cute little TGIT to wrap up your week! In this snack-sized episode, Amanda shares a few really important thank you messages to her followers and one in particular who bought Amanda her first virtual coffee! There are some updates on Riley’s back injury, and a walk-through of the beautiful new website that launched last weekend. The hype is real! The walk-through will explain the highlights of the site and Amanda can’t wait to hear what you think! There’s the latest news about the book pre-sale...
May 06, 2021•13 min•Ep. 141
Katherine is a heart driven woman, navigating the world with strong faith. Her relationship with the heavenly Father has been a pillar of strength and a huge influence in her life, as her relationship with her biological father is non-existent. Sharing a love of the Netflix series This Is Us, Katherine and I have found so many aspects of the plot line that resonate with us, and there’s one in particular that reached Katherine’s core. Part of the plot line in season one surrounds Randall searchin...
May 03, 2021•30 min•Ep. 140
Alex is a Counselling Astrologer, Empowerment Coach & Menstrual Cycle Educator, working to guide people through the cycles of life so they reclaim their power and come home to themselves. Her work in astrology came after her unhealthy relationship patterns began to scream at her and while she began seeking for answers. What she didn’t realize only a few short years ago was that having a birth chart reading would change her life. Bringing an awareness to mental health, Alex has learned so muc...
Apr 30, 2021•34 min•Ep. 139
