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      How has a domino changed your life? A domino is the first to take the leap, the first to break the norm, the first to say yes or to say no. How has a domino impacted your life or how have you impacted others by being a domino? There have been many moments in my life and career where I’ve had the privilege of being a domino. From being the first in my extended family to move out of province for university, to co-creating a documentary film showcasing women entrepreneurs during a time when our stories weren’t as widely shared, and now in cultivating my own space in well-being and personal development as a Resilience Educator. I...

  I didn’t actually know what a boundary was until I was 27.  It took hitting rock bottom with my health, and leaving a business partnership where I was gaslit to really understand what boundaries were, and that I was allowed to create them. Me... the youngest child in my household, who grew up in a home living with 10+ family members at any given time, someone who was so used to being always available to others, was actually allowed to create boundaries and ask for what I needed. What. A. Concept. That year in 2017, I began to test out what it looked like to set boundaries with those I love. If voices were raised with me, I would...

Bringing the lens of social justice to the wellness space and creating a more resilient and inclusive space in the yoga world.  Tejal shared with us that she tries to  teach yoga in a way that is not of the mainstream. There are so many people that are craving spaces that do more than just teach movement, and there’s people trying to understand yoga more in terms of getting to know it’s philosophy and learning about the eight limbs of yoga.  When it comes to social justice, Tejal bridges the gap between social justice and yoga by talking about the four relationships that we cultivate within yoga both on the mat, and out of the mat:  What are the four...

Connecting with identity and spirituality  [2:55 ] Cassandra recently made the conscious choice to begin to identify as a spiritual teacher. As someone who has struggled to own my identity as a South Asian woman in the wellness and yoga space although Yoga is a part of my ancestral lineage because I don’t feel ‘seen’ in the space much of the time, I am curious about what this experience is like for other BIWOC.  I ask Cassandra what it has been like for her to own her Vietnamese identity in fullness, along with her spirituality, and what her journey has been like owning her identity in fullness and seeing herself in this light  Cassandra shared with us how most of...

Click the buttons below to listen wherever you like!  Living life as the embodiment of possibility [3:15] At the age of 2, Eddie was diagnosed with a degenerative condition that only affects one out of a thousand babies, and Eddie’s single mother was told that he would not make it past the age of five. At the time, this was happening against the backdrop of political turmoil in Namibia and South Africa, and Eddie and his mother had to fashion a life for themselves in the midst of neglect and isolation.  Eddie shares with me how the cards were stacked against him from the very beginning in his life, and he believes that the fact he is here speaking to...