Real Talk with Laurie

What’s Love Got To Do With It, Tina Turner’s Memoir will be the topic of discussion. Domestic Violence affects your children, your body, mind and spirit in a negative way. Find out how the religious organizations should respond but quite frankly, don’t.

This week on Real Talk With Laurie Catherine Bennett of Retire At Home will be joining Laurie as they discuss the options for seniors that doesn’t include retirement or nursing homes! Elder Abuse, Alzheimer’s and Dementia and Dancing for Parkinson’s Disease are all up for discussion!

Clean water is a human right and there are many in Canada who do it have this simple basic right. I will be speaking with Mark from Birch Bark Coffee Company as he is on a mission to change that! Also, Catherine Bennett it from Retire-At -Home in Ottawa will be sharing this amazing business with us!

Surviving and Thriving through Separation and Divorce. Review of “Conversations With God” By Neale Donald Walsh

Dana Larsen is one of Canada’s most well known and respected advocates for cannabis reform and an end to the global war on drugs. He is a cannabis activist, author, businessman and politician and he is Laurie’s very special guest on Real Talk With Laurie

Today on Real Talk With Laurie The Nurtured Life will be featured. An amazing Indigenous Company that provides wellness services in your home from nutrition and yoga to hypnosis and make-up! Check them out if you live in Ottawa Ontario Canada www.nurturedlife.comThe co-founder and CEO Bree Jamieson-Holloway will be joining me!

Laurie will be sharing Montessori Methods for Alzheimer’s and Dementia and how cannabis can help!

Talking about Chron’s and Colitis with Sid Cratzbarg who almost died from it and now raises funds for research through his Get Sidified event every year in Ottawa Ontario.

On today’s show Laurie will be speaking with some of the presenters from the Mental HELLth Workshop for the Entrepreneurs which is the brainchild of Catherine Landry of Call Betty in Ottawa, Ontario Canada the nation’s capital city!

Laurie’s guests today will be 2 indigenous leaders who are making a difference in the world! Mark Marsolais-Nahwagahbow and Colleen Gray. Mark owns Birch Bark Coffee company in Ottawa and gives back to help indigenous families have clean water. Colleen fundraises to send art supplies (Art for Aid) Mylar Blanket warm home initiative and maps to remote communities in Canada! Tune in and call in!

Peggy Taillon of The Hera Mission Of Canada will be Laurie’s first guest followed by Mark Marsolais-Nehwegahbow of the Birch Bark Coffee Company that gives back by bringing clean water to indigenous families. Jason Petrunik of Liv a travel experience company will be sharing all of the new and exiting trips we can all go on together. Cannabis will be legal in Canada in a few weeks so Laurie will be talking about that too! Join Laurie at 2pm est for Real Talk With Laurie

Today on Real Talk With Laurie she will be following up with Peggy Taillon who just returned from her trip to Kenya and Jason Petrunik of the travel experience company Liv. As always Laurie will be reading from her book Life Lessons I Learned From My DoG Chapter 5 entitled “Be Patient, TheBest Is Yet To Come”. The recent Tornados that struck Ottawa will be a topc of conversation as well as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.

Friends, what does it mean to be one and what does it mean if you have none? Join Laurie as she delves into the topic of friends. She will be reading Chapter 2 of Life Lessons I Learned From My DoG entitled Learn to Love Unconditionally.

Good Grief! Laurie is grieving the death if her Dad and will be reading her eulogy from her dad's funeral as well as Chapter 13 Live in Today for Tomorrow is Not Promised from her book Life Lessons I Learned From My DoG and speaking with Grief Coach Anne Le Butte

Laurie will be reading the 3rd chapter from her book Life Lessons I Learned From My DoG entitled She Shall Not Be Moved - Learn To Stand Up For Yourself. What do you stand up for? Cannabis will be legal in Canada on October 17 of this year and that is a hot topic especially since the government is screwing it up already!

Today on Real Talk With Laurie, Laurie will be talking with Sunshine who started Her Braids a beading program that helps bring clean water to indigenous communities. She is a partner with David Suzuki and the blue dot program trying to make access to clean water a human right! Catherine Landry will be giving us an update on her upcoming events in Ottawa.

Laurie will be talking about the small things in life that can help us improve our moods, like taking a walk on a beach, or spending time outdoors with friends, family and/or animals.

This week on Real Talk With Laurie, Catherine Landry, the Founder of Ladies Who Lunch Ottawa and CEO of Call Betty will be co-hosting and showcasing some local businesses run by women. Brigitte Lord will be their very special guest talking about her book "We Live In The Shadows", the accounts of homeless people who live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the capital of Canada. Proceeds from the book and a song she wrote of the same title will go to the organizations that help homeless people in Ottawa.

Peggy Taillon is my guest and we are talking all things Africa. Peggy was the first single woman to adopt a child from Kenya now 11 years ago amd has been featured on CTV W5 a Cnd news show She is the founder and president of Hera Mission www.heramission.org

Laurie will be talking with Catherine Landry, the brain child behind Ladies Who Lunch Ottawa that boasts 20 thousand business women as members and Call Betty her marketing business. Laurie will be discussing with Catherine how she has learned to overcome the Negative Nellies, the back stabbers and the toxic people that she has encountered. Join us a we delve into the problem of adults who bully it isn't just a problem for the kids.