The Lovolution Movement Podcast (formerly the Podgecast)

What is an affirmation? 

In this short episode, our podcast host and Lovolution Co-Founder Rachel Hayek introduces our new segment on affirmations, why they work, and how to use them. At Lovolution, we are excited to bring you this as part of our podcast offering. We want all humans to believe in themselves and each other, and affirmations are one way we can help you do this!

Tune in to this short and sweet episode and stay tuned for more episodes on how to create your own affirmations and for deeper ways to use them to support your highest good. Here's to sharing and spreading more love on our planet through the positive power of affirmations!

What is Forest School? Tune in to our this episode with Laura Burki to find out! In just 3 years, Laura Burki has brought a beautiful and creative idea to life through Seedlings Forest School. Now running 11 programs, she employs a staff of 28 who are helping teach the next generation about nature while outside, honouring many different ways of learning. At Seedlings Forest School, the goal is for all children to be successful.

We deeply appreciate all that Laura is doing to make Seedlings an official part of the Independent School System in Victoria. In love with the idea of school outdoors, we can't wait to know what these young students will be doing 20 years from now...Our conversation with Laura is so aligned with our current theme of helping others shine their light.

Community is our theme this May, and it is so much more than a monthly theme to us. At Lovolution, community is embedded into everything we do. In our 5th episode of Season 5, our host Rachel sits down with Piya Sandhu, owner and curator of The Handpicked Home in White Rock, BC. 

In this lively conversation, Piya shares with Rachel all the ways her shop has impacted community, and some of the incredible learnings she's harvested on her journey. The Handpicked Home is one of our host's favourite shops in White Rock, BC, and after understanding more about Piya's values and principles, Rachel adores it even more. The ways that Piya talks about supporting local artisans and creating space for community is so inspiring.

If you love supporting local, or if you're an entrepreneur or both, this is a must listen! Piya shares with us the importance of shopping local and how that impacts the local economy, what it's like to run a business, and the beautiful relationships she's cultivated with her clientele. Tune in to hear the whole conversation, and be sure to fill out the poll in the show notes below! Thank you for listening, and if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with others in your community.

Visit the Handpicked Home & Connect with Piya:

Welcome to the Lovolution Movement Podcast Season 3, Episode 4 with Lizzie Allan.

Lizzie works as a therapist and comedian, and her work is a blend of these. She shares with us the journey that catalyzed @hilarapy, and she talks about can be present, move, release, love, and get silly on the healing journey of coming back to who we truly are. She shares stories of recovery, mental health, shining the light on all of ourselves, are, and more. Tune in to hear Lizzie’s approach to pain and shame. Lizzie brings people together with love, and shares how exploring what's inside of us can be a wondrous adventure. Laughter and comedy can be powerful tools as we become more aware of what's happening in our inner experiences. 

In this special 2-part episode, Jennifer Pratt joins host Rachel Hayek for a lively conversation about the Seeding Square, gardening, and our connection to the food we eat. What exactly is the Seeding Square? Jennifer explains in detail how she and her partner Karl invented this handy tool that allows for perfectly symmetrical gardens that require little to no weeding and less water than a typical garden. Learn how to make gardening both efficient and abundant, and hear some tips from Jen on how to feel more connected to the food you eat.

Tune in via your favourite podcast app!

Connect with Jennifer and find the Seeding Square:

In this special 2-part episode, Jennifer Pratt joins host Rachel Hayek for a lively conversation about the Seeding Square, gardening, and our connection to the food we eat. What exactly is the Seeding Square? Jennifer explains in detail how she and her partner Karl invented this handy tool that allows for perfectly symmetrical gardens that require little to no weeding and less water than a typical garden. Learn how to make gardening both efficient and abundant, and hear some tips from Jen on how to feel more connected to the food you eat. 

Tune in via your favourite podcast app! 

Connect with Jennifer and find the Seeding Square: 

Welcome back, dear listeners to Season 3. Like all things in life, the only constant is change. After 2 seasons of the Podgecast, I've decided to merge the pod with another project. The Lovolution Movement is a grassroots movement inspiring, supporting, and uplifting positive change and hope in our world. Because the Podgecast and Lovolution both want to share more love with the world, it made sense to me that one platform would help me do better work, and put my focus on collaborating with others. Please reach out if you have any questions at all about this shift. 

In Episode 1, you will meet Venetia, Co-Founder and Visionary of The Lovolution Movement. When Venetia first shared her vision with me, it was natural for us to see that we shared this vision, as well as common values. When I think of a person who embodies love, light, and sunshine, I think of Venetia. She does so much in the world to care for others, and through the Lovolution Movement, she wants to do more. Tune in to hear about what we are up to! 

To get involved, please find us on social media, visit our website, and like and share our posts. Thank you for tuning in! 

It's been a minute since the Season Finale of Episode 2: You are Creative with Marissa Schiesser. Welcome back, and thank you for tuning in! 

I like to think of this special edition episode with Karen as a bridge between Season 2 and Season 3 of the Podgecast. 

A little about Energy Healing for Professional Practice: 

If you have taken a weekend Reiki class and have no other experience working with clients, jumping into a professional practice where you are taking on clients and charging money isn’t safe or ethical. It’s not safe for the client and it’s not safe for you. The reason it’s unsafe has nothing to do with esoterism. 

Energy healing, like any other healing modality, requires practice and it requires education and it requires a safe space. A safe space is held by a practitioner who is grounded in their practice and has knowledge and resources to support them.

We LOVE that you want to practice. We LOVE that you want to work with clients. And, we believe that energy healing is serious business and that to be effective, professional practitioners, we need effective, professional training.

Gabe Lee and I share our serendipitous first encounter in this episode, and how taking time to reconnect can be so nourishing. Gabe is a bright light with infinite optimism, who shares his story, his challenges & opportunities, and his triumphs with an open heart. ⁠
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Alice is a tantra teacher that supports women in letting go of who they think they “should” be to create lives that turn them them ON in life, love and business.

She the creatrix of Wild Women Temple, UnTamed: Wild Feminine and facilitator for Women Who See in the Dark.

Her skilful facilitation comes from over 12 years of teaching training in the fields of tantra, sacred sexuality, conscious communication, and embodiment. Her passion is creating brave spaces for people to step into deeper layers of truth, love and freedom.

Shaun Phillip Naylor is an artist, content creator and producer. Shaun is currently hosting and producing the podcast Excuse me, I have something to say. A podcast which takes an open and honest look at life, through conversations with everyday people willing to share their personal stories, beliefs and experiences. There's also the occasional deep dive into social movements and our collective history as humans.

Dai, a lifestyle mentor and executive performance coach shares some potent wisdom about choice, change, and vulnerability in this episode. He is a super dad, dating his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, who is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life through education, empowerment, and community. Dai is an engaging speaker, and a Distinguished Toastmaster living in Vancouver, BC. 

Dai knows the struggle of the juggle and keeping his health and happiness a priority. He models his work based on 5 F’s: Fitness, Family, Faith, and Finances with an overarching roof of FUN, built on a rock-solid foundation of Health. Nuggets of wisdom and inspiration to take action to be your best self are guaranteed when you connect with Dai!

Tune in to hear about his journey with fitness, as an author and TedX speaker, and about how he helps men share and communicate vulnerably. 

Connect with Dai: 

Gloria serves as a guide for emotionally intelligent humans who have big dreams, fierce hearts, and creative minds. She helps leaders navigate the pains of growth using conscious leadership, kind communication, and transformational self-mastery so that they fulfill their life's work in their own way, on their own terms, and by their own rules.

Drawing on her studies in sociology and human communication, her research in the art of authenticity and meaning-making, her training in Applied Depths coaching, and her experience building inclusive educational communities and high-performing teams, her mission is to help facilitate learning and create love inside ourselves and between one another so that we can build a more expressive and inspired world.

Gloria believes that true leadership is not a form of doing, but a way of being. With that, her coaching is a collaborative, creative, heart-driven process where she supports her clients to activate the mindset and energy required to live and work on purpose.

She sees communication as humanity's most important characteristic and the life of every relationship, and believes that what we do for work can, and ought to, make our lives better.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of the Podgecast. 

My special guest Katarina Bousaleh (Grabic) opens the season by sharing some of her personal journey with wellness and she provides some insight into why using multiple modalities to heal is so powerful. After struggling with mood swings, digestive issues, celiac, allergies and just a feeling of not being healthy, Katarina set out to find the correlation between the nervous system and the digestive system. What she found was profound and she has based her programs around it. 

Katarina has taught me so much about nutrition and this impacts my level of presence in my body. Highly educated, Kat finished 5 years of a doctorate of traditional Chinese medicine academics, herbology, acupuncture, Tuina, holistic nutrition and she is trained in biological medicine and psychosomatic energetics. Added to her busy schedule, Kat became a mama this year to the sweetest baby boy, Roman. She lives in the Okanagan with her lovely husband Jessi and she is like family to me. 

I hope you will enjoy and gain something valuable from this episode that you can apply to your own wellness. 

To connect with Katarina and to learn more about her work: 

Welcome to Season 2 of the Podgecast! I'm excited to continue my passion for sharing the stories of people who are doing meaningful things to spread love, kindness, and healing in our world. As we navigate these times of change and uncertainty, we can choose love and we always have the option to connect with each other through our hearts. 

In this "mini episode" preview of Season 2, I share a short guided meditation/visualization followed by a peek at some of the topics we will cover over the next several months. 

I'm excited to have some returning guests to speak about Astrology and Reiki, and there will be another episode on the enneagram in this and every season going forward. 

Thank you for tuning in. Please listen to, like, share the episodes that resonate with you, and connect with the Podgecast guests who have something to offer that could support your journey. If you'd like to connect with me, please do so. I'd love that. 

Much love to you all, from my heart to yours xo 

In Episode 10, I connect with KR (Kristin Rondeau) on a topic we share a deep love for: the enneagram. I've worked with this incredible system of transformation for close to 9 years. The enneagram is a framework of 9 core motivations that impact human behaviour and influence personality. I use it in my coaching, I teach workshops, and I go to workshops. It is dynamic and vast and the learning is never-ending. 

Three words I correlate with the enneagram are: compassion - for self and others, communication, and appreciation. 

Instead of an interview, I wrap Season 1 with a conversation during which KR and I excitedly share the impact of the enneagram in our own lives followed by a tour around the enneagram wheel and an overview of each of the 9 types. 

About Kristin: 

Naturally curious and a passionate advocate for a plant-based lifestyle, Kristin is a devoted life-long learner who enjoys working, playing and growing in the wellness space. Inspired by her love of nature and interest in continued professional and personal development, she feels honored to call the West Coast her home, where she has the opportunity to explore, reflect and embrace the next chapters of her life.

Natalie Salvino has been reading cards for approximately 33 years. In this episode, I join her for morning coffee at her magical home in the forest outside of Salmon Arm, BC. She teaches others how to read and some of her clients have been coming to her for many years. You know a reader is good when people return to them for more readings! 

She is one of my dearest friends, a person I consider a soul sister, and I have learned so much about Tarot from her in the past 20 or so years. Natalie is both logical and creative, with a quirky sense of humour. She's an artist who paints, makes jewelry, blends herbs, and she even knows how to make drums. Natalies is also an incredible gardener and she once grew a garden shaped like a star in the backyard of her former apartment on Commercial Drive in Vancouver. 

In this episode, Natalie shares a little of her own story, and some information about how to interpret Tarot. She also shares with us the "Clair senses." We forgot to mention a couple of them, so to "clairify," here's a list: 

• Clairsentience - feeling, sensing
• Clairvoyance - seeing 
• Clairaudience - hearing 
• Clairalience - smelling 
• Clairgustance - tasting
• Claircognizance - knowing 

Tarot Basics: 

Major Arcana - 22 cards 0-21 

Minor Arcana 56 cards, 4 suits and 4 heads of state - based on a deck of cards: 

• cups - water, emotion (hearts)
• wands/rods - fire, action (clubs)
• pentacles - earth, money, 3D, material (diamonds) 
• swords - air, the mind (spades) 

trust your intuition and notice the symbols that stand out to you: astrology, numerology, colours, archetypes 

Allie Bee is someone I am really excited to share with you. She is an extraordinary human and one of the most humble people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. She is funny, kind, and incredibly wise. Allie is a Certified Leadership Coach with a 20 year HR background in Recruitment and Career Coaching. She is a certified Reiki Master and Huna practitioner that creates Reiki infused bracelets and accessories. I have a few of her beautiful gemstone bracelets that I wear regularly. Allie is a passionate student of Astrology and Tarot. She is most interested in connecting with & guiding others in their self-empowerment.

Connect with Allie and book sessions and readings with her via the links below: 

In Episode 5, I have the pleasure of speaking with Flora Yang. Flora refers to herself as a "life-experiencer." Flora shares with us her experiences of living in multiple cities, leading from the heart, her own personal journey, and the process of writing her book, "Unanswered," which will be published this summer. 

Flora is currently working as a business consultant, with deep interest in self-discovery, self-awareness, and personal growth. She has travelled and worked in multiple cities and industries. She is intensely curious about herself, others, and various cultures, and how they all interact in the world.

"Unanswered" is her first English book. She is compelled to write because this is how she meditates, how she processes her thoughts and her experiences, and how she connects with them. In her book, she shares her thoughts, experiences, and what she has learned in hopes that it may resonate with readers and comfort or inspire them.

She is a naturally vibrant person, energized by meeting and learning about people. She loves dancing and the feeling and energy it brings to her. She appreciates beauty in many forms from vivid sunsets, seeing blossoms and flowers in spring, to vintage clothing and jewelry, and lovingly designed and crafted objects. She relaxes by learning about good food of all styles and cooking and sharing it with good friends and good conversation.

For more information, you can connect with Flora here:

Welcome to Episode 4 of The Podgecast. I feel honoured to welcome Desirée Dawson as my guest. She is a queer recording artist, songwriter, producer and yoga teacher from Vancouver BC. Desirée is very passionate about music’s role in collective healing, by encouraging listeners to find a connection within themselves and the people and land around them.

In our conversation, we touch on many big topics, including the many identities we navigate, healing from trauma, safety and belonging, self love, and of course, music. Desirée talks to us a bit about racialized trauma and recommends the book My Grandmother's Hands. You can find the book online and I picked it up from my favourite independent bookstore Iron Dog Books: 

I invited Desirée to sing to us so you'll get to hear her sing her beautiful acapella song, What I Need, which will be on her new album that is planned for release this summer. 

Where to find Desirée: 

In Episode 2, I have an inspiring and uplifting conversation with Vancouver-based entrepreneur, Pearl Cicci. I met her at a virtual networking event about 6 months ago and we had an instant connection. Tune in to learn how Pearl found ways to weave her passions into her dream business, while having fun and helping others! Pearl shares how she was born into a family who eats healthy and she learned in elementary school that others didn't understand the importance of nutrition. This is part of what fuels her desire to help others. She also shares how a devastating loss gave her insight into how much she wants to live life fully every day, and that she wants to help others find joy in their lives too. We wrap by talking about her dance fitness classes. 

Pearl is a plant based nutritionist, health coach and personal trainer with a passion for educating people about taking care of their bodies. Her goal is to make it easy and simple to achieve optimal health. Taking a very holistic approach, Pearl is focused on the overall well being of a person. Working with women entrepreneurs to make them feel good, increase their energy levels and optimize their health, through plant based approaches and movement. Thus allowing them to show up better for their businesses and other areas of life. She believes that with proper information and guidance, everyone can feel and look their best!

Where to find Pearl: