Where The Wild Women Grow Podcast

Im so honoured to bring to you this episode with my good friend and fellow Fort St John "Lifer" Glenda Groat! She's an ultra WILD woman who has manifested the COOLEST life ever doing what she loves the most; hunting, mountains, horses, and being one with nature! All while being an amazing mom, wife and entrepreneur! She's modest, kind and keeps her circle of peep small and close knit. So I feel very privileged to share this intimate interview and even I learned some new things about her!

Episode Highlights:

• Her childhood spent in guide and outfitting camps and her homesickness for the mountains as a young woman.
• The in's and out's of hunting camp life.
• Religion and outdoor church
• Coming together of community in hunting camp.
• Her sometimes lonely life as a teenage girl with no friends of similar interests. And how the internet changed that.
• The surprising and profound spiritual breakthroughs that hunting guides support their hunters through.
• The importantance of conservation and undeniable relationships between that and hunting.
• How they select which animals they’re going to harvest. And waiting for an animal to present themselves for harvest.
• The fascinating history of her Indigenous roots and how her ancestry helps her in life.
• Her and her husband’s incredible mountain top elopement and the little surprise she had for him that day also.
• Her deep dive into self healing and energy work and how that has changed her life.
• Being empathetic for better or for worse.
• How she bad-ass-ly manifested her dream house. Which is my FAVORITE story!
• Some of our favourite childhood memories around the special Watson’s Spring.
• How she manifested her dream career and life as a Guide and Outfitter.

Her business link here https://canoloutfitters.ca/

Her business Instagram link https://instagram.com/canoloutfitters?utm_medium=copy_link

Her personal Instagram link https://instagram.com/glendoelg?utm_medium=copy_link

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The online world is flooded with business coaches who claim to be able to make your business gross 6 figures in the first year with their unique strategies and marketing tools. But when these strategies and tools fail.... its time to look to the common denominator! YOU the entrepreneur! Thats were my good friend Danielle can help! She's is doing some amazing work in the world for entrepreneurs by helping them get through their blocks. Not the blocks you might initially think of, but the personal blocks! The real juicy shit that is holding you and your business from flourishing! In this episode we talk about:

• Trusting the universe, your intuition, and surrendering to the bigger picture.
• Mom-peneuring.
• How using and enjoying your body might help you up-level your business.
• Social Media Algorithms101 and do "likes" don't really matter?
• The importance of being yourself and being vulnerable to help your business grow.
• Finding success in your business failures.
• Common fears that hold back entrepreneurs.
• Ego 101 and how it can effect your business.
• Stop dumping money into your business and start dumping energy into yourself.
• Preventing 'hustle burnout".
• We explore the question "do we all need to have spiritually fulfilling jobs to have a meaningful life"?
• Being addicted to personal work.
• Living simply to better humanity.
• The ways Danielle has encouraged me to face my fears with in my own business.

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Danielle's Instagram page click here https://www.instagram.com/radiantsoulcoach/

Danielle's Website http://www.radiantsoulcoach.ca

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• How we both experienced anxiety as children and teens and our attempts to verbalize it to adults.
• She Broke down the traumatic parts of her childhood which lead to her long journey with anxiety disorder, over achieving and perfectionism.
• Mothering with mental illness.
• She and husband deconstructed and left the religion they were living within and the massive fall out from that.
• The start of her healing journey and what that looked like.
• Living from a baseline of anxiety, and how it’s unachievable to live a healthy life from that baseline.
• Breaking down Stigmas around taking psychiatric medications.
• I shared my experience of the first anxiety I ever had.
• The physical sensations our bodies have personally experienced when feeling anxious or due to long standing anxiety.
• How anxiety or an unregulated nervous systems can be the cause of the “mysterious illnesses”.
• What is trauma anyways? She breaks it down and shares her own comprehensive and unique definition of what trauma is.
• The problem with “trauma comparing” among individuals.
• She breaks down the Autonomic Nervous System and it’s role in how we experience trauma.
• Why we need to be healing the nervous system FIRST when we’re looking to heal mental health issues.
• What “Healing Holisticly” actually should look like: a complete “trauma healing toolbox”.
• Her favourite tool: cold plunges! And how that works to heal our nervous system.
• Her huge recommendation that ALL women should receive pelvic floor specific therapy post baby, for healing pelvic floor dysfunction or when healing sexual trauma or anxiety disorder.
• Her struggle with insomnia, and using psychiatric drugs with the Neminchuck Protocol to heal that.
• What brain injury and trauma have in common.
• The language we use about anxiety and what to be careful of.
• A deep dive into mental health crisis of 2020 and a bit of how I crawled out of that.
• The early days of mothering, and dark side of those days.

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Kim Livingstone is the gorgeous creatrix and mastermind behind Sand And Stone Jewelry. What started out as a few leather stamped cuffs has turned into an empire of fashion that has landed her works in LA Fashion Magazine, and on the wrists of celebrities on Red Carpets across the globe!! And she doesn't stop there!! She's on a mission to change the world, one gold heart at a time with her #goldheartarmy and brand new clothing line! And NOW she's also a published author of her book "There Is Something Beautiful In Everyday"! Follow her on Instagram for her daily "Kimspirations" and other up lifting messages. Or go to her website to check out, purchase or custom order her jewelry and clothing lines!
AND $1 from every purchase goes to our local community’s needs such as sending underprivileged children to camps or sports teams, and to our local food donations organizations, just to name a few!
https://www.sandandstonejewelry.com
In this Episode we chat about:
- How she grew her business the good old fashioned way.
- The personal work she's had to do so she can show up everyday for her family, followers, clients and most importantly herself!
- Her experience at the Oscar Awards!
- Why she loves her 78 Ford Bronco (and the adorable nic name she gave Her!).
- The power of "The White T-Shirt".
- Her first ever meditation experience.
- Her new found love for her womanly body...
- And sooo much more!
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Episode Highlights:

• We swapped our birth stories of our 8 babies which are each so unique beautiful, and often hilarious.
• Jackie dives into what birthing and birth support for women in our area looks like. In FSJ we birth an average of 600 babies per year with a town with 20k population. The only option for women is hospital or unassisted births.
• Some of our visions for the future of birth women and babies in our community.
• The inner warrior-midwife that is born after a women witnesses her own free birth or another woman’s free birth.
• The deep wisdom you tap into and can’t ignore.
• Our understanding of how women took care of each other in birth and mothering, before the age of patriarchy.
• Do women need the hospitals to birth safely? We don’t believe so and here’s why.
• The ways the medical system isn’t working for birthing women.
• We could heal the planet with peaceful birth!
• All the ways birth parallels to everything else in life!
• Birth-Death-rebirth cycles helping us makes sense of and navigate life.
• Using our menstrual cycles to anchors us into flowing with life.
• Jackie actually puts her menstrual cycle on her families schedule so they all can live around her cycles and the ways that creates peace in household. She’s the nucleus of her family!
• Why menstrual cycles should respected at minimum and revered at best.
• Why we believe peaceful birth can heal the world.
• Healing our matrilineal trauma.
• What used to look like witchcraft and magic at one point in time, turns out to be scientifically proven to be “a thing” in the future.
• Jackie breaks down some of the different midwifery terms for the newbies to this conversations.
• Being a doula/support person and the PTSD that come accompany that role.
• Where The Wild Women Grow Festival website https://www.wherewildwomengrow.com/
• **Use promo code MOMMALOVE to receive 30% 0ff tickets purchased May 8th 2022 only!!**
• My Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true
• Jackies email [email protected]
• The BBC Documentaries Jackie mentioned:

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