Reframeables

Rebecca & Natalie Davey

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Do you feel alone in your own head when it comes to navigating life’s big and small problems? Do you find self-care language a little too self-focused but know you still need to do the work? Join us on Reframeables and eavesdrop your way into some new perspectives — we promise you'll feel less alone as you listen. We are Nat and Bec, two very different sisters who come together each week to reframe some of life's big and small stuff. Nat's a PhD whose favourite phrase is “let’s reframe that!” Bec's an artist who tends more toward “why me?” Through candid, vulnerable yet entertaining conversations with each other, as well as guests, we find a way to meet in the middle each week and offer you, our listeners, new perspectives along the way. From a painful divorce that still needs processing, to grief that sticks around, to the simple day-to-day problems of managing a grumpy teenager, to a dynamic interview with Giller winner Ian Williams or radio personality and co-star of the Jann Arden podcast Caitlin Green sharing her vulnerable story of loss: Join our intimate conversations with authors, actors, activists, and voices from the crowd — those who inspire us to think differently about the world so we can reframe living in it.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Reframeables episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Reframeables for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Reframeables episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

I Am the Medicine: A Conversation with Asha Frost (Episode 41)

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06/22/22 • 29 min

We're joined by Asha Frost, an Indigenous Medicine Woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, to discuss her lifelong journey of reclamation and her path as a healer. Asha provides profound insights into ways of integrating Medicine in our own lives and trusting ourselves as healers. Asha talks about shifting out of her private practice into her life work of sharing Medicine through Ceremonies, teaching and speaking events. We're also treated to some ideas from her new book, You Are the Medicine.
Links:
You Are the Medicine, Asha's new book
Dear White Woman Who Wants to Be Like Me, Asha's essay that is mentioned at the beginning of the episode
Check out Asha's website to learn about her healing work and see more writing from her
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Reframing Wellness with Princess Owens

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10/26/22 • 34 min

This week, we're reframing wellness with Princess Owens, otherwise known as Multiple Mom — a family wellness coach who has a lot to say about reframing wellness for moms, for Black women, and for children. She gives insights into the origins of Pilates, her business Be Well Zara, and how she opted for community over fashion.
Links:
Lori Harvey Is Just the Start of a Black Pilates Legacy, the article by Princess mentioned at the start of the episode
Hey Fran Hey and Dr. Amber Thornton, two wellness accounts Princess recommends
For more from Princess, follow her on Twitter and Instagram
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon, where you can also hear bonus episodes, or tipping us on Ko-fi. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

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Existential Crisis in LA (Episode 30)

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03/30/22 • 19 min

We're back from the Podcast Movement Evolutions conference in LA, where we had a bit of an existential crisis. We give you our travelogue, where we gave some serious thought to rebranding and reframing Sister On! as this project of ours grows and changes. Also, finding a mentor, SMART goals, being mansplained to in Ubers, and prioritizing pleasure.
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
You can find our transcripts and more information for all our episodes here. If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon. Subscribe to the Sister On! Newsletter. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube too.

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Reframing the Big Leap with Juno Rinaldi and Jenny Young

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01/18/23 • 41 min

We're kicking off a new year of Reframeables with guests Juno Rinaldi and Jenny Young, who have launched new web series, My Special Guest. You might know them from other roles: Juno played Frankie for five years on the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Workin' Moms, and Jenny had a long time role on CBC's radio drama Afghanada and more recently on Amazon Prime’s The Lake. Now they want you to experience them together in something new that they have written and we love women taking risks! So we’re here for them.
Together we talk about making big transitions in our 40s, leaving behind jobs that were working, and experimenting with opportunities that sit way outside the box. We discuss the perils of being a Canadian actor, the joy of working with our best friends, the futility of comparison, and what it means to connect with friends beyond kids or work — essentially friendship for friendship’s sake!
Links:
Follow Juno on Instagram
Follow Jenny on Instagram
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon, where you can also hear bonus episodes, or tipping us on Ko-fi. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

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The Endless Verbal with Aimee Bender (Episode 42)

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06/29/22 • 29 min

We joined novelist Aimee Bender for a phone call that turned into a backyard conversation over Zoom. You're going to hear the sound of California birds (and possibly the odd car) as we unpack the beautiful mundane — truly a joyful conversation, especially if you're a writer (or interested in the process of writing). We touch on using writing to capture the manifold reflections of reality, the strange in the mundane, knowing your own quirky brain, finding relief in failure, and letting go to experience amazing surprise and wonder in our lives.
Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. Her first book was The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of short stories chosen as a New York Times notable book of 1998. Other notable publications since are her novel An Invisible Sign of My Own, which was named as a Los Angeles Times pick of the year, a collection of short stories, Willful Creatures, and the novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Her most recent novel, The Butterfly Lampshade, was published in 2020. She lives and teaches in LA.
Links:
Fictionz, the podcast that did enacted episodes of Aimee's stories Off and Call My Name
Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan, Aimee's piece for Lit Hub that Nat mentions
Intimations, Zadie Smith's book of essays Aimee mentions
Take a look at Aimee's website to see all of her writing in one place, and follow her on Twitter
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon — where you can also hear bonus episodes. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram too.

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All Kinds of Stories with Zarqa Nawaz (Episode 40)

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06/08/22 • 44 min

We sit down with Zarqa Nawaz, the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie, the world's first sitcom about a Muslim community living in the west. She has recently released both a new book and a new show (out now on CBC Gem), and joins us to share her insights on storytelling — from how her faith informs her writing process, to her personal journey in bringing stories like hers to the mainstream, to the inherent value of depicting the ordinary.
Links:
Watch ZARQA on CBC Gem
Jameela Green Ruins Everything, Zarqa's newly published book
Zarqa Nawaz had a hit show, then a decade-long dry spell. She's ready for her second act. by Marie-Danielle Smith, the Maclean's article we bring up
Acting Muslim — Representing Our Authentic Stories, the session Rebecca mentions
Read about Christian Cooper (the Central Park birder), who will be hosting a birding series for National Geographic
For more from Zarqa, check out her site, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon — where you can also hear bonus episodes. Subscribe to the Sister On! Newsletter. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram too.

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Grief Forward (Episode 38)

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05/25/22 • 24 min

Grief is something that is present for a lot of us. There's lots to be sad about, so what's the best way to process the grief arising from it? Do we have an obligation to feel sad all the time given the daily tragedies in our world? We shine light on our own ongoing griefs and explore what it means to feel safe enough to feel all our feelings, even as we try and keep up with the needs around us. We also touch on counters to grief — which seem to fall somewhere between will and joy — and the meaning we can make as we grieve in community.
Links:
Untangled by Lisa Damour, the book Rebecca mentions
Couples Therapy, the show Rebecca mentions
How Long Should it Take to Grieve? in The New York Times and Grief and Conspiracy 20 Years After 9/11 in The Atlantic, two essays on grief we found insightful
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon — where you can also hear bonus episodes. Subscribe to the Sister On! Newsletter. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram too.

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Reframing Self-Love with Kids Lit Author Jael Richardson

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11/09/22 • 53 min

We are joined by author (and literary festival director) Jael Richardson to reframe all things self-love through the angle of kids lit. We talk about competition, faith, families, self-acceptance in our forties and, of course, books.
Jael is the author of the YA hit Gutter Child and the memoir The Stone Thrower, which was so popular it was eventually reformatted as a children's picture book. Her most recent book for kids is Because You Are. She is also the executive director of two literary festivals: The FOLD, and The FOLD Kids, which celebrate diverse authors and storytellers. These festivals are changing the literary landscape in Canada for the better.
Links:
The Stone Thrower (and the illustrated version with pictures by Matt James)
Gutter Child
Because You Are
The FOLD
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
The Break and The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
For more from Jael, check out her website and give her a follow on Twitter and Instagram
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon, where you can also hear bonus episodes, or tipping us on Ko-fi. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

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Reframing Community with Ian Williams (Episode 52)

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09/14/22 • 34 min

We're joined by Giller-winning author and professor Ian Williams to reframe community — or what we’re summing up as connections and collisions in both writing and living. He shares with us about the community he finds in his writing, while we share with him about community that we find in his characters. Through Ian’s lens we also explore the nature of disappointment as ambitious people, failure, loneliness, reaching out into the world, and giving yourself away. Buddhism and the search for an informed Christianity also make their way into our conversation.
Ian Williams is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His latest book, Disorientation, considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. His novel Reproduction won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was published in Canada, the US, the UK, and Italy. His poetry collection Word Problems converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster award.
Link:
For more Ian Williams, take a look at his website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram
We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon — where you can also hear bonus episodes. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

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Reframing Success with Novelist Marissa Stapley (Episode 24)

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02/16/22 • 39 min

Bec and Nat interview writer Marissa Stapley, whose writing career takes a major turn when Reese Witherspoon endorses her latest novel Lucky.
Marissa Stapley has worked as a newspaper journalist and magazine editor, and is now the internationally bestselling author of the novels Lucky, a Reese’s Book Club December 2021 Pick, The Last Resort, Things to do When It’s Raining, and Mating for Life. Her work has been published in fifteen countries and two of her novels, including Lucky, have been optioned for television. She also co-writes holiday rom-coms (The Holiday Swap, All I Want for Christmas) under the pen name Maggie Knox. She lives in Toronto with her family.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon. Subscribe to the Sister On! Newsletter. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram too.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Reframeables have?

Reframeables currently has 112 episodes available.

What topics does Reframeables cover?

The podcast is about Friends, Conversation, Change, Challenge, Help, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education and Support.

What is the most popular episode on Reframeables?

The episode title 'I Am the Medicine: A Conversation with Asha Frost (Episode 41)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Reframeables?

The average episode length on Reframeables is 39 minutes.

How often are episodes of Reframeables released?

Episodes of Reframeables are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Reframeables?

The first episode of Reframeables was released on Aug 24, 2021.

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Becky Mollenkamp

@beckymollenkamp

Jun 24

Natalie and Rebecca have the most amazing guests and their conversations really flip things on their head. What a fun idea for a show and so well executed!

Natalie

@natjd

Jan 10