After six years and more than 180 episodes, I’ve decided that it’s time to put the Better Me Podcast to bed. Three of my favourite people, who were also guests on previous episodes, joined me to say farewell. My dear friend Jennifer Diehr, who was a…
Fall is a good busy time, and snow has arrived, but when exactly does winter start?
Julie M. Green was diagnosed with autism when her autistic son, Carson, was ten years old. She joined me to talk about her experience as a mom with autism and how her own diagnosis helped her to better understand and care for herself. Her new book…
My dear friend Jennifer Diehr returned to the podcast to talk about the World Series, what we’ve been reading, and the terrible algebra course we met in a long, long time ago.
Dr. Brittany Penner, an author and practicing family physician in Manitoba, joined me to talk about her new memoir, “Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home,” growing up as an Indigenous woman in a…
Author Ashley Herring Blake joined me to talk about her writing process and what it’s like to have her books banned.
Here we are with the start of another season of the Better Me Podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear about some of the upcoming episodes, self-care, and my impending experience with empty-nest syndrome.
Writer and illustrator Gabrielle Drolet joined me to talk about her struggles with chronic pain, its effects on her ability to write and draw, and what that has meant for her identity and mental health.
Unexpected things happen all the time in our typical days. We need to keep an eye out for the ones that will make us smile or laugh. I also talk about the parody film Hardware Wars (1978), which I was reminded of when I recently saw the trailer for…