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The Happy Soul Podcast

Sammi and Melissa

We are about loving, encouraging and empowering others to share their journeys. Most of all, we are about celebrating the overcoming that each one of our guests has gone through. A podcast about life. We share inspirational stories about facing life"s challenges. Stories about rising through the shit that life hands us to find & create happiness, success, abundance and love. Disclaimer: The opinions and views of our guests, do not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the

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00:59:22

Season 3. Ep. 6: Gail Taylor - No Ukulele's, This is...

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2025/02/20

Do you know what it means if someone was to say "Curveballs come with opportunity?" If the answer is no or even leaves you slightly confuse, then this episode and Gail's book are for YOU. Gail Taylor wrote the book Curveballs to inspire others to follow their dreams, pursue their passions and to not allow life's curveballs to slow you down. Her book Curveballs is written in the most beautifully unique way; sharing stories of her life and then giving a QR code at the end of each story, so you can

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00:47:43

Season 3 Ep. 5 Sandra Radha Chand - Tune Into Yourself

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2025/02/13

Have you ever felt overwhelmed in Motherhood? Building a business? Or life in general?Sandra shares her inner journey to rediscovering herself and things she felt she lost in motherhood. Growing up in a tough household, Sandra shares with us how this shaped her early on in her parenting journey and when she broke and started taking the steps to finding herself again.Her kids became her teachers in showing her how she wanted to show up for them, instead of how she was taught to show up.This beautiful

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00:56:32

Season 2 Ep. 4; Iesha Madden - Thriving In Motherhood

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2025/02/06

Iesha Madden is passionate about mental health, self-advocacy, setting boundaries and taking care of YOURSELF in order to be able to function at your best level, in all areas of life. Iesha is a working Mom, who started her instagram page @Morethanamamaseries originally, to start helping other Mom's who were finding it hard to balance both motherhood and well, life. But what Iesha came to find out; is that, her instagram page that she started, began impacting her more than she had

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01:29:33

Season 3. Ep. 1 Stop Your Nonsense - John & Mark X...

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2025/01/30

Have you heard of John's Crazy Socks? If not, stop what you're doing right now and go check them out.If you're looking to hear the true meaning of Spreading Happiness and living through your values, these gentleman and their company are IT. They speak from their heart on issues such as Elon Musk using the 'R' word, how the world needs more social lubricant, that our values don't matter until we're willing to spend money on them, and on top of doing their very best to spread joy and happiness to

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00:32:24

Season 3. Ep. 2: Rachel Kliver - Overcoming the...

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2025/01/23

Rachel graciously shares the deep truths of her past.At 18 years old, Rachel has lived a heck of a lot more life than many of us ever will. She has been on a rollercoaster and a half, and yet, somehow she handles it with grace, gratitude and ambition. Rachel and I started our conversation at a grocery store of all places and she sparked our interest with her go-getter attitude for achieving her goals. We are so honoured to be able to hold space for Rachel and her story. As a

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01:02:07

Season 3 Ep.1 Welcome Back

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2025/01/16

We love to say it.. so here it comes again...Buckle UP! Season 3 is here and ready for YOU. If you follow us on Instagram, you've seen us share about what we have coming up for this season. If you don't, stop what you're doing now and go follow us on Instagram. Or. Send us a lovely e-mail at thehappysoulpodcast@gmail.com and say "hey. I dont use social media but I would like all these details please." And we will happily send it along. In today's episode, we catch up on Christmas, touch on

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00:38:13

Season 2 Wrap Up

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2024/11/28

Well, you know us. We just like to wrap up our seasons with a ridiculous banter. So that is what we are bringing you today.It's messy but we had fun and we hope you enjoy! When recording, Sammi made a comment that, if anyone made it to the end of this episode, and told us, We'd send them a $5 gift card... assuming hardly anyone would listen. But, then we second guessed ourselves and worried that everyone would listen (insert laughing face here) So, If you DO listen to the whole thing , and you

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00:51:44

Season 2. Ep. 52 - Zara Kadir: The Most Powerful...

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2024/11/21

Zara is a Child & Adolescent & Family Psychotherapy. She has a Master's in Counselling & Psychotherapy.Zara has spent 7+ Years working in schools offering art and play therapy to primary and secondary school pupils and 9+ Years working with adults struggling with domestic violence, trauma, anxiety, depression & attachment issues.She is a Mum to a 5 yr old a 1 year old with the most humble spirit and incredible insight as to what most children and parents alike, need from each

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01:08:31

Season 2. Ep 51: Andrea Merkl's Internal Gift

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2024/11/14

As Andrea would say, her book, The Gift of Infidelity is not really about infidelity itself. Her book is really about her own personal growth and self discovery that she embraced after finding out about infidelity in her relationship.Calling infidelity a Gift. Would you ever say that? If not, then that is why you need to hear this episode and read her book. It's about growth, embracing the unexpected, diving deep into your own personal story and learning how no one can betray you, except

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00:47:46

Aly Part 5 - Big Changes Are Coming

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2024/11/07

** trigger warnings: Suicidal thoughts, drug use, child loss, grief, foul language, homelessness, sexual conduct, eating disorders**Going through Detox. Getting out of Rehab. Overcoming Alcoholism Overcoming Meth Addiction Overcoming Eating Disorders Coming out of Homelessness. Grieving through the Loss of 2 Babies And now. A stable income. Clean living. Running her own thriving business. Flourishing in Motherhood. Building strong friendships. A stable, healthy romantic relationship. Aly

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00:31:35

Aly Part 4 - There's No Way The Universe Could Do...

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2024/10/31

** trigger warnings: Suicidal thoughts, drug use, child loss, grief, foul language, homelessness, sexual conduct, eating disorders**At the end of Part 3, Aly finds out she is unexpectedly pregnant. This new information gives her the insight she needs to really focus on getting to addictions under control. Taking a FULL STOP on drugs, Aly takes on the incredible role that is, becoming a mother. After her son Jaxon is born, suffering from an epidural headache, she gets help from her parents for the

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00:27:22

Aly Part 3 - I Guess I'm Not Going To My Dealers House

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2024/10/24

** trigger warnings: Suicidal thoughts, drug use, child loss, grief, foul language, homelessness, sexual conduct, eating disorders**If you've tuned into parts 1 & 2, you've heard how much life and overcoming Aly has already gone through. In Part 3, Aly makes it into detox and rehab and started to take more control of her own life and her decisions. On her way to her dealers house, Aly stopped to get a new form of birth control, only to find out that she was in fact, already

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00:27:16

Aly Part 2 - You Can't Catch Me, I'm Drunken Aly

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2024/10/17

** trigger warnings: Suicidal thoughts, drug use, child loss, grief, foul language, homelessness, sexual conduct, eating disorders**After things she had planned to achieve didn't work out, Aly's addictions took hold of her in unimaginable ways. She began diving deeper into the world of hard drugs to try to lose weight and believing, at that time, there was no going back. A dangerous encounter changed perspective and helped her realize that she didn't fit in on the streets and she

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00:33:36

Aly Part 1 - Being Vulnerable Creates Connection

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2024/10/10

** trigger warnings: Suicidal thoughts, drug use, child loss, grief, foul language, homelessness, sexual conduct, eating disorders**Recorded almost a year ago, life has grown and change a bit since this 5 part Mini series was recorded, but the back end details are accurate. In part 1, we go through Aly's growing up years. Life with her Mom coming in and out, and the heart break of when her Mother never came back. Then into the hard times of waiting for her mothers return, only for it to

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00:28:27

Melissa & Sammi - Breaking It Up and Down

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2024/10/03

Why this title? I don't know. We think we're hilarious.Jumping from Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and into our next mini series, which is a very different vibe, we just felt we needed something in the middle to break it up. In todays episode, we talk a little bit about our up-coming mini series with Aly, with a rollercoaster of ups and downs, you HAVE to make it to the end of this mini-series to see just how resilient this woman is. As this next mini-series was recorded 1 year ago, it

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00:45:55

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Wrap Up

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2024/09/30

Join us as we get a little fired up while we wrap up, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.There is SOO Much we learned during this month, listening to these stories, hearing these parents who are not only fighting so dang hard to help their kids thrive, and honour their lost children but are ALSO choosing to go even deeper, to fight even harder, to advocate for and make an impact for not just their own kids but for children to come. Children, who unfortunately will be impacted by Pediatric Cancer in

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02:07:19

CCA Month - Claire Masikewich - Teaches Us How to be...

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2024/09/25

A re-release episode from Feb 15 2024.While her 6 year old daughter Sloane was in the hospital, undergoing high dose chemo treatments, Claire Masikewich chatted back and forth with us, via whatsapp voice messages to help us raise awareness about this incredible cause that deserves more funding and research. Claire graciously gave us her time and knowledge to help us put together this episode. Full of honest stories about what her daughters symptoms were, to how her and her family responded and a

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00:56:27

CCA Month - Season Johnson - Igniting Hope

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2024/09/22

In our episode today, we asked Season what was on her heart to share about. The topic of choice? How a healthy relationship with your spouse can drastically impact your childs mental health and overall ability to thrive through cancer. A beautiful episode that we know will add value to not just families going through cancer treatment, but anyone, with any family dynamic and health journey can benefit from the incredible advice that Season gives us today. Season Johnson, is a Functional

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01:27:53

CCA Month - Kristin Johnson - You're Brave, You're...

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2024/09/19

Kristin's son Rhett was diagnosed at 4 years old with Rhabdomyosarcoma.Kristin shares with us how this story started.... what were Rhett's first signs and symptoms, how did the family respond and what were his treatments. And, have you ever wondered how to show up for someone during a traumatic event? Or, what all the GoFundMe money might go towards? Kristin does an amazing job answering these common questions with us. But, the most impactful part of this story? Listening to Kristin share how

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01:35:23

CCA Month - Dominique Epthorp - Fighting For Your...

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2024/09/16

All the way from Australia, Ashton's Mother, Dominique shares with us how, life with a child diagnosed with Cancer, is very similar to life here in Canada.With the treatments for children being incredibly harsh, and seeing her son struggle so much, Dominique has become determined to raise funds and awareness around Childhood Cancer, not just in Australia, but globally. Dominique shares an incredibly important lesson for all of us to remember... that, as much as we want to protect our

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