Podcast appearances and mentions of christa couture

Ontario poet and author Gary Barwin discusses his new nonfiction Imagining Imagining, exploring a young queer relationship through multiple endings in How It Works Out, Canadian American author Vauhini Vara on her short story collection This Is Salvaged on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture.

Bestselling author Lesley Crewe reflect on how the slow pace of Cape Breton Island inspired her latest novel, Talia Kliot shares captivating historical fiction recommendations, catching up on CBC Books' most anticipated fiction novel of Spring 2024 on this episode of the summer edition of The Next Chapter with Christa Couture.

Toronto author Christine Estima celebrates the immigrant experience, Rajinderpal S. Pal on what inspired his book However Far Away, columnist Max Arambulo recommends books about personal growth — plus more on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture. 

Erum Shazia Hasan speaks with Ali Hassan about the inherent complexities of doing good, Award-winning musician Royal Wood reveals the book that helps him channel his creativity; unplugging and reconnecting with reality in Gamerville; and Don Gillmor explores midlife malaise on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture.

On this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture, M.G. Vassanji talks to Ali Hassan about his novel Everything There Is, Sarah Henstra talks to Christa Couture about her spellbinding mystery The Lost Tarot, and Vincent Lam answers the Proust questionnaire.

Joanna Goodman reflects on the ways money changes and challenges family dynamics in new novel The Inheritance, Sarah Bernstein discusses her critically acclaimed breakout book, author Kevin Major takes the Proust questionnaire and an inside look at the social media phenomenon BookTok on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture. 

Mariko and Jillian Tamaki explore New York City in their graphic novel, Anton Treuer on writing coming-of-age thriller Where Wolves Don't Die, Riverdale actress Asha Bromfield talks about the real-life inspiration behind her novel Songs of Irie plus more on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture.

Brent Butt talks to Ali Hassan about his novel Huge, Catherine Mack talks to Christa Couture about her series Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies and Premee Mohamed talks to Ryan B. Patrick about her novel on We Speak Through the Mountain on this episode of The Next Chapter: The Summer Edition with Christa Couture.

Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show's new host, Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses. Highlights:Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)About AMI-tv's “Postcards From…” (03:23)Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)Travelling with Small Children (22:54)The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)Show Close (25:55)Guest Bio:Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and hosts Season 5 of AMI-tv's accessible travel series “Postcards From…”Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.caFind Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp“A remarkable chanteuse, singing superb material,” deems Roots Music of Christa Couture, an award-winning indie artist who has built a reputation for transforming tragedy into musical triumph, with sharp-shooting wit, effortless grace, and heart-on-sleeve intensity. Follow Christa Couture on FacebookChrista Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A MemoirChrista Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child's single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others."How to Lose Everything" series on CBC GemHow to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films' stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.More from Christa Couture  About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca

Can accessibility and adventure co exist? Indigenous artist and amputee, Christa Couture, pushes the boundaries of accessible travel in a brand new season of AMI tv's Postcards From. She joins us with a preview of her tour across Canada.

Tech Expert Mike Babcock shares an in-depth tutorial on creating audio content with Reaper. Polyamorous relationships are on the rise in Canada, but Family Law isn't keeping pace. AMI Producer Grant Hardy has that story and more on Trending Headlines. Can accessibility and adventure co-exist? Indigenous artist and amputee, Christa Couture, pushes the boundaries of accessible travel in a brand-new season of AMI-tv's Postcards From. She joins us with a preview of her tour across Canada. Technicians are busy repairing wildfire damage to a critical fibre line that brings telecom service to Northern Canada. Kim Hovey reports in on how the community is coping with the communications and emergency services outage as they get reconnected. Does posting “relatable” disability content really work to engage audiences in meaningful discussion on social media? In a special roundtable discussion, Producer Grant Hardy examines whether visibility online comes at the expense of dignity. On Know Your Rights, Danielle McLaughlin examines our Charter section two rights and what reasonable limits mean for peaceful protest.

Today on NOW with Dave Brown, season five of “Postcards From” debuts this month, Christa Couture gives you a sneak preview. The 2024 UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup is taking place across Europe. Community reporter Nathan Clement gives you an update on how it's going. A Toronto restaurant owner attempted to waive tipping but had to bring it back. Dawn Dickinson shares this story in her preview of Maclean's Magazine. Apple unveiled new products this week, Marc Aflalo breaks down the details. And, Ryan Gosling's latest action-comedy flick debuted this past weekend. Michael McNeely shares his review of “The Fall Guy.” This is the May 9, 2024, episode.

Season five of “Postcards From” debuts this month. Christa Couture gives you a sneak preview.

In our final episode Smokii is joined by Cree/Scandinavian performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, filmmaker Christa Couture. Smokii and Christa share their grief stories and Christa reads from her book How to Lose Everything Christa's song "Hopeless Situation" is also featured on the episode.The ʔasqanaki Podcast by Smokii Sumac honours connections between Indigenous storytellers through the Ktunaxa concept of ʔasqanaki: to tell two versions of the same story.Tune in to hear Smokii and his guests share stories of how their work came to be, what inspires them to create, and which pieces of their work resonated so deeply with Smokii's experiences that he decided to create a whole show about it!Christa CoutureChrista Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, filmmaker and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom.Over the course of her acclaimed career, Christa has become known, unenviably, as an expert in loss: singing, speaking and writing about the childhood cancer that led to the amputation of her left leg, abortion, and the tragic deaths of her two infant sons. When it came time to make her fourth album, 2016's eclectic, upbeat and twangy Long Time Leaving, a more run-of-the-mill loss, divorce, provided inspiration.​Those years of loss are revisited in her debut non-fiction book How To Lose Everything, published September 2020 by Douglas & McIntyre. But Christa's most recent recording Safe Harbour tells a different story. Safe Harbour's six songs were written during a thankfully tragedy-free, joyful time in Christa's life that saw her leave Vancouver, her home of 17 years, and relocate to Toronto to start anew. During this time, Christa took a step back from recording and performing music to write her memoir, take on a daytime radio host job, and welcome a third child.Content: Grief, Loss, Death of close relations including children, Amputation, Cancer, Birth, Adoption, and Adoption trauma, Disability and combating ableism, Anger, Therapy, Gratitude, Struggling with hating parts of ourselves, “Holding the Complexity,” Divorce, Memoir, Grief symptoms (and a critique of the “5 stages”), allowing space for all kinds of feelings, challenging binary thinking, sorrow, numbness, Survivorship, Luck, Sadness, public versus private experiences, moving, patience, the pandemic, growing around our grief, and becoming “okay.” Thank you to our guest, Christa Couture and to Michael Ayotte at the National Music Centre in Calgary, for recording the episode.Thank you, also, to our team, Sound Designer, Audio Engineer and Editor Greyson Gritt of Minotan Music Inc. and Producer Krystal Strong of Osum Artist Management. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first hour of the show, Sarah Trick and Alanna King chat about their efforts to develop a media style guide for disability coverage (17:33). Lawrence Gunther discusses the issues around textiles and fabrics marketed with “green” and eco labels (32:23). And, Musician Christa Couture's tells you all about her latest single “Summer is Hot with My Little Trans Lover” (44:05).

When it comes to loss and moving gracefully through grief, Christa Couture knows a thing or two. The multi-talented writer, singer and now filmmaker has lived through more than her fair share of loss. At 11 years old, she received a cancer diagnosis. She lost her first son when he was just a day old due to complications during childbirth. Her second son died at 14 months old due to complications with his heart. Soon after, her marriage ended. And just as some new beginnings emerged, cancer returned. To work through her loss and grief, Christa turned to music – creating seven albums and a memoir called How to Lose Everything. These were important projects in helping her deal with her own grief. Now she's looking to help others with their experiences with grief and loss. Christa and producer Michelle St. John have teamed up with 5 pairs of Indigenous writers, artists and animators to create a series of short films. Each one – a personal story of loss. Each voice – sharing wisdom to help others through the darkness. “Grape Soda in the Parking Lot” is the name of Taqralik Partridge's short film animated by Megan Kyak-Monteith. In it, Taqralik recalls her Scottish grandmother who spoke Gaelic and her Inuk father who spoke Inuktitut and poses an important question about language. Archer Pechawis, an artist and member of Mistawasis First Nation, is the storyteller behind “A Bear Named Jesus.” The short film, stop-motion animated by Terril Calder, explores what happened after his mom became a born-again Christian.

Musician and writer Christa Couture joins Martin and Sam for the final few Orphans, including a Book of Knots collaboration, the tale of an unpaid grocery bill, and a bit of ol' Blue Eyes. Our penultimate episode for the season includes a celebration of youth, silly storytelling, and a surprise vocal cameo by the one and only Kathleen. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Pray, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Young At Heart, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Missing My Son, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Good Bayou, The Living Record, Christa Couture (2012) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

Actor Paul Mescal talks about his starring role in Aftersun and the success of his breakout role in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. Christa Couture's memoir How to Lose Everything is opening the door for other Indigenous artists to share their stories of resilience. Writer, producer and director Kenya Barris talks about his ambitious new animated project with rapper Kid Cudi. Elamin Abdelmahmoud joins Tom to talk about the new show launching next week, Commotion. Plus, Shamus Currie, composer of the original theme for Q with Tom Power, joins Tom to help him say goodbye to the tune.

We talk to Christa Couture about the CBC arts original How To Lose Everything, streaming beginning this Friday on CBC Gem. We chat with Chantal Oaks, President of AEBC, BC Affiliate, about an exciting job posting for project Manager for an emergency preparedness project. Plus, many new jobs are in the gig economy. What does this mean? Kevin Shaw stops by to explain during his entrepreneurship segment.

Christa Couture (Cree/Scandinavian) shares how she uses music, filmmaking, and memoir to tell the many facets of her personal story through grief and triumph. 

Christa Couture (Cree/Scandinavian) shares how she uses music, filmmaking, and memoir to tell the many facets of her personal story through grief and triumph. 

Today's convo is with my guest Christa Couture. We discuss her book, How To Lose Everything and how grief gave meaning to her gifts, shaped and redefined her role in her community, the importance of naming grief and attending to it, what grounds her today. We also discuss advocacy and how being disabled empowered her to advocate for herself and her daughter. Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), disabled, queer, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records. As a writer and storyteller, she has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, and on cbc.ca. In 2018, her CBC article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. Couture lived for many years in Vancouver, BC, but now calls Toronto, Ontario, home. Her debut memoir “How to Lose Everything” is out now with Douglas & McIntyre, and her short animated film “How to Lose Everything: a Field Guide” recently won Best Animated Short Film at both the Imagine This Women's Film Festival and the American Indian Film Festival. Visit Christa's website here Connect with Christa on Facebook Connect with Christa on Twitter Connect with Christa on Instagram Purchase Christa's  How To Lose Everything on Amazon Listen to Christa's music via Spotify  

Michael's new book How to Begin: Start Doing Something that Matters is now available at www.HowToBegin.com. Today, we're pulling one of our best episodes from the vaults, featuring the brilliant Christa Couture. We all have labels - some are given to us, and some, we give ourselves. Christa Couture says that how you word those labels can make all a difference. Christa is a brilliant woman with many labels: she's queer, indigenous, disabled, a writer, a musician, a broadcaster, and a mother. In today's show, she reveals how these labels do and do not define her and the pressures that come with them. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Christa reads from ‘Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure' by Eli Clare. [reading begins at 16:30]  Hear us talk about:  Acceptance and empowerment: “My body is good enough.” [23:04] | “I am not the broken one here; it's the ideas that are broken.” [25:55] | Moving beyond shame. [29:27]

Join us on Episode 616 of Folk Roots Radio for another hour of great new music, and a selection of songs that have a little bit of a new start feel about them. As we settle into a new year, we wanted this episode to feel reflective, but also optimistic. Despite the challenging times, things will get better. This time around we hear from Lucy MacNeil (from The Barra McNeils), Sarah McQuaid, Michael Logen, Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra, Tony McManus, Sophia Tice, Dar Williams, The Sanctuary Song Project (feat. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno), Big Little Lions, Gurf Morlix, Moira Smiley & Piers Faccini, Joe Nolan , Dizzy & Fay, Melanie Peterson and Christa Couture. If you like the artists you hear on this show and want to support them, don't just stream their music – BUY their music and then you'll really make a difference to their income during this difficult time when it's much more challenging to find live show opportunities. Folk Roots Radio is a labour of love - a full time hobby. If you enjoy this episode, please consider giving us a 'LIKE' and leaving a review/comment on your podcast provider and sharing the episode on social media. We'll love you for it! Check out the full playlist on the website: https://folkrootsradio.com/folk-roots-radio-episode-616-were-all-about-the-music-the-turning-year-edition/

We have another wonderful interview to share with you on Episode 614 of Folk Roots Radio. Award-winning singer-songwriter, writer and broadcaster Christa Couture joins us for an in-depth conversation about her career. An artist who describes herself as queer, disabled and proudly indigenous (she's mixed Cree and Scandinavian), Christa Couture has experienced more loss than most people can ever imagine: childhood cancer that led to the amputation of her left leg plus a second bout of cancer - this time of the thyroid (later in life). She's also lived with the tragedies of abortion and the deaths of two sons in infancy, followed by divorce. Her life experience informed her very well-received memoir "How To Lose Everything" which came out in 2020, and has helped many, many people deal with loss and grief. Christa Couture continues to make great art in both music and literature, with a willingness to share her story and inspiring attitude to life through broadcasting, public speaking and now film. We wrap things up with uplifting new single "To Us", a song she describes as 'a toast to resilience and survival', with the hope that things will get better as we move into 2022.

David Weitzner, assistant professor at York U on his article "Management is so passe - it's co-creation that workers are demanding." / Plus, Christa Couture, ELMNT FM Midday DJ on her award-winning animated film "How To Lose Everything - A Field Guide" and moving on from ELMNT.

Sydney hops on the mic solo today to reflect on grief and loss and to share a life update.  On August 1st Sydney's Grandma Pearl suddenly and unexpectedly passed away. She was this podcast's biggest fan and she never missed an episode. When Sydney sat down with Christa Couture and Cat Peters back in June (two recent episodes on grief and loss) she had no idea that she would be embarking on another grief journey so soon after losing her Grandpa Milton in October 2020.  In this episode Sydney shares her thoughts and reflections on grief, why remaining present has not only been challenging but also incredibly transformative and crucial, and what she's learned from her experience with grief and loss so far. Plus, Sydney shares more about her incredibly talented Grandma Pearl Kaufman.  Our biggest takeaway from this episode? Remaining present with grief is challenging, but it allows us to learn so much about ourselves and just how capable we are of loving others and ourselves.  We would love it if you checked out Pearl's incredible talent and music on Spotify here and Apple Podcasts here. You can also check out a highlight reel of her show here and make sure to listen to Bumble Boogie and Rhapsody in Blue, those are Sydney's two favorite tracks (with Malaguena and Lara's Theme in a close second!) Links & Sponsors:  Thank you to today's sponsor, Better Help. We want you to be able to live a happier, more joyful, and ease filled life, and I'm excited to share that as a listener of Seek The Joy Podcast, you will you get 10% off your first month by going to betterhelp.com/seekthejoy.  Seek The Joy MERCH is here! Check out our fav new designs here   Subscribe to our Newsletter! seekthejoypodcast.com/subscribe. You won't regret it.  

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREChrista Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. We dig into her new book How To Lose Everything a self-described "grief bio" which she describes in point-form as "cancer, amputation, death, death, divorce and more cancer".  She shares her life's losses from having her leg amputated as a cure for her cancer as a teen to losing 2 sons as babies to her divorce to her 2nd episode of cancer.  We discuss the need for our culture to normalize differences among people in terms of disability & neurodivergence. We also talk about coming to terms with the idea that sometimes finding meaning in suffering and loss can be elusive and she explains her thinking around shaping her life experience into a book that could be shared.“I used to sit at my piano and just banging on the piano, saying all kinds of things. Just sobbing. And it's moving through you. And those aren't moments that anyone should witness. They're cathartic. And I think how I know when it's something that I can craft or it's something that I believe won't be too much, won't be too raw is kind of by feeling: it's beyond catharsis. It's now more expression or storytelling. I don't know who said it, but there's this idea of writing from the scar, not the wound. And so I think it's also the timing. If I'd written this book sooner, it probably would have been a bit raw, a bit too messy, maybe a bit burdensome, you know. I didn't want to tell these hard things in a way that left the reader kind of stuck with them. I always had this idea that I was sort of holding my hands up saying like, 'Look, but you don't have to touch it and I'm not going to drop it on your lap. It's mine. And I will take care of it, but you can see.' And I think that just kind of came with time.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- CHRISTA COUTURE WEB http://www.christacouture.com BUY THE BOOK "How To Lose Everything" http://christacouture.com/everything/#buy IG https://www.instagram.com/christacouture--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Christa Couture, an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom, joins Sydney for a powerful conversation on grief and loss, its connection to joy and love, and the gift that comes from sharing our experience with grief. We dive into Christa's grief bio, why we need to “create from the scar and not the wound”, and how we can take care of ourselves when expressing and sharing our grief. We talk about Christa's book, "How To Lose Everything" and why she sees the book as an opportunity to give back, her advice for anyone who wants to support those in their life who are experiencing grief and loss.  Plus, we dive into the shift in perspective that comes with loss, letting go of the idea that “things will get better” and instead accepting that things will be different, why resilience sucks (it's okay to not be resilient!), and why grief doesn't exist in isolation. Plus, Christa shares her experience shifting to a very visible and beautiful prosthetic leg and no longer hiding her disability, her biggest dream, and so much more! To connect with Christa visit her website www.christacouture.com on Instagram @christacouture and you can find her book "How to Lose Everything" here and you can find her beautiful music here https://smarturl.it/christacouture Links & Sponsors:  Thank you to today's sponsor, Better Help. We want you to be able to live a happier, more joyful, and ease filled life, and I'm excited to share that as a listener of Seek The Joy Podcast, you will you get 10% off your first month by going to betterhelp.com/seekthejoy.  Seek The Joy MERCH is here! Check out our fav new designs here   Subscribe to our Newsletter! seekthejoypodcast.com/subscribe. You won't regret it.

In this episode, Annette speaks with Christa Couture, an award-winning recording artist, author, and broadcaster from Toronto, Canada.  Christa, who is also disabled, wrote the book "How to Lose Everything" which is a story of the grief and loss she has suffered in her life.  Christa has also recorded a Walrus Talks (the Canadian Ted Talks) called "Living Better"  where she speaks about accepting your life as different rather than better.     Christa has known her fair share of grief and loss.  At 11 she was diagnosed with bone cancer which was cured by the amputation of her left leg above the knee.  Christa had 2 infant sons who tragically passed away followed by divorce and then a thyroid cancer diagnosis which threatened her speaking and singing careers.  Christa finds that people don't always want to speak about grief and loss, they are uncomfortable with sorrow.  Most seem to want to fix things quickly and just say, “Things will get better”.  Christa wrote the book “How to Lose Everything” to connect with those that are struggling with their grief, to hopefully allow them to feel less alone.  She also hopes the book will find those who may not be experiencing loss at this time but will allow them to understand and have compassion for someone they may know who is grieving.   Christa, who has been an amputee since the age of 13, wears a prosthetic leg.  For many years she kept her leg covered, not keeping it secret just not comfortable with it.  A few years ago, she received a new prosthesis and was feeling good about it and wanted to celebrate it.  Christa had seen a beautiful prosthesis that had been hand painted with flowers and was determined to create one for herself.  Her “flower leg” was then created laminating floral upholstery fabric to her prosthetic leg.  Her prosthesis became a “celebration of her loss”, as this now beautiful thing that she was proud of and wanted to show people.  The conversations about her leg also changed from what happened to you, to - wow that is beautiful, where did you get that, your leg is so cool – her leg became a huge confidence booster.   Christa also discusses her view of her disability.  As an amputee, Christa considers herself a disabled person due to the loss of a limb that she had been born with, whereas a person that was born without the limb may see themselves as limb different and not disabled.  There can be resistance for some to label themselves as disabled as the word “disabled” tends be thought of by most in a negative way.  Christa often does not feel her disability until she encounters things that affect it and show her she does have limitations.    Christa is currently working on a second book which will be focused more on disability.  She also received a grant and is producing a series of short, animated films based on her “How to Lose Everything” book.  Each film will be a different story of loss.  If you would like to check out Christa's music, click here.  Christa can also be found on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.        For information on other topics, please also check out Special Needs Companies. For legal advice, inspiration, and other resources, visit our blog here. Similarly, you can always listen to previous podcast episodes (and be sure to leave us a review), or download our free eBook here. We are always looking for podcast guests as well so please let us know if you or someone you know, has a special needs or disability topic you would like to speak about - Contact Us!  You can also join our free Facebook group for the disability community, the “Circle of Care,” or watch the webinars and other speaking events on YouTube. The purpose of this community is to create a space for people to be themselves, ask questions and get support and answers, so please share these resources with your friends!  Annette Hines has been practicing in the areas of Special Needs, Elder Law, and Estate Planning for more than 20 years. Ms. Hines brings personal experience with special needs to her practice and podcasts as the mother of two daughters, one of whom passed away from Mitochondrial disease in November 2013. This deep, personal understanding of special needs fuels her passion for quality special needs planning and drives her dedication to help others within the special needs community.

We all have labels - some are given to us, and some, we give ourselves. Christa Couture says that how you word those labels can make all a difference. Christa is a brilliant woman with many labels: she's queer, indigenous, disabled, a writer, a musician, a broadcaster, and a mother. In today's show, she reveals how these labels do and do not define her and the pressures that come with them. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Christa reads from ‘Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure' by Eli Clare. [reading begins at 16:30]  Hear us talk about:  Acceptance and empowerment: “My body is good enough.” [23:04] | “I am not the broken one here; it's the ideas that are broken.” [25:55] | Moving beyond shame. [29:27]

Christa Couture: How to lose everything... with TRE´s Selina MacKenzie

Have you ever been told to "everything happens for a reason" or "things will get better in time" when something truly awful has happened to you? Singer/songwriter and author of How to Lose Everything Christa Couture can relate. Christa has an advanced degree in loss: the loss of her leg to cancer as a child, the lost of two children in their infancy, the loss of a marriage, and temporarily, her voice to thyroid cancer. How she could possibly be creative after such life-shattering tragedy? That's what we explore in this grace-filled conversation. We also discussed: - How to take the leap into our work when we're feeling blocked. - How Christa turned her amputation into art - Christa's philosophies on "person-first" language around disability - Her brief stint in film school - How she channels her indigenous roots into her creative and spiritual life Christa's book HOW TO LOSE EVERYTHING can be found anywhere books are sold: https://www.amazon.com/How-Lose-Everything-Children-Marriage-ebook/dp/B08G4ZSWWT#:~:text=Amazon%20Book%20Clubs-,How%20to%20Lose%20Everything%3A%20A%20Memoir%20about%20Losing%20My%20Children,and%20My%20Voice%20Kindle%20Edition&text=Christa%20Couture%20has%20come%20to,a%20powerful%20and%20wise%20emotion Check Out My Creativity Ebook!: https://jenniferlouden.com/desire/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

Christa Couture refers to herself as a “singer, songwriter, storyteller, cyborg”.  She's an award-winning performer and recording artist, a non-fiction writer, and a broadcaster.  She is also proudly Indigenous, mixed Cree and Scandinavian, queer, disabled, and a mom. Christa knows profound heartbreak and shares her journey with a depth that draws you in with humanity.  … Continue reading "Singing Woman Christa Couture; the healing energy of singing and sharing one's grief story"

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also mixed Cree and Scandanavian-settler, queer, disabled, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records in 2020. As a writer and storyteller, she has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, and on cbc.ca. In 2018, her article and photos on disability and pregnancy went viral. She is the weekday afternoon host on 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto, Canada, and her debut memoir How to Lose Everything is out now with Doulgas & McIntyre. In this episode, we talk about finding a messy-middle of acceptance, a childhood living with bone cancer, life as a queer amputee, GRIEF AS AN ACCESS NEED and much more. http://christacouture.com/ LITQB Podcast: This is a podcast about the barriers to embodiment and how our collective body stories can bring us back to ourselves. This is a podcast for people who identify as queer or for people who might think of their relationship between their body and confining social narratives as queer. This can feel like an isolating experience. Our wounded bodies need spaces to talk about struggles with nourishment/disordered eating, body image issues, dysphoria, racism, heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, substance use/abuse, chronic pain/disability, body changes in parenthood, intergenerational trauma, the medical/wellness/therapy industrial complex and its lack of inclusion of queer bodies and much more. Hopefully this podcast can illustrate the connections, and resonant pain points, that we have with one another. Livinginthisqueerbody.com @livinginthisqueerbody Purchase a recording of the Navigating Pandemic Fatigue from a Disability Justice Perspective Webinar: https://www.livinginthisqueerbody.com/pandemic-fatigue The Host: Asher Pandjiris is a Psychotherapist/ Podcaster/ Group Facilitator SUPPORT https://www.patreon.com/livinginthisqueerbody Sound Editing: Barry Orvin www.talkbox.studio Music: Ethan Philbrick and Helen Messineo-Pandjiris --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/asher-pandjiris/message

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom.   Christa, through her life experiences from the loss of her leg due to childhood cancer, the tragic death of her infant son, only to lose her second son, as well. Then, divorce, Christa, has undoubtedly become an expert in loss.   Now a mother, with a robotic floral leg and a 3-year-old daughter, she’s released her memoir called How To Lose Everything. This conversation with Christa walks us through grief, loss, joy, catastrophic thinking, guilty and the ability to feel and honour the swings in between it all. As well as support through loss, and how to navigate when someone we love is going through loss.    This episode is one you’ll be bookmarking to come back and replay, again and again, it truly was so healing to be in conversation over this. Follow Christa on IG @ChristaCouture and visit her website www.christacouture.com for more + to buy her book How To Lose Everything   Dipsea is offering a 30 day free trial when you go to DipseaStories.com/PAPAYA.   Go to FunctionofBeauty.com/papaya​ to take your quiz and save 20% on your first order   If you feel like you’ve tried everything, are too tired to figure it out on your own, or simply want professional guidance and support head over to goodnightsleepsite.com to book your complimentary 15-minute discovery call with a Good Night Sleep Site consultant and start your journey towards sleep success.   Produced by Dear Media. 

We talk to singer-songwriter Christa Couture about her memoir, “How to Lose Everything,” which is being released this month as an audiobook. Christa talks about her journey with grief and the strategies she has used to cope. This is the March 13, 2021 episode.

"Sometimes I've heard people talk about losing a child and people say it's like losing a limb. And as someone who's lost both things, I just want to say, the realities are very different." Musician and writer Christa Couture has experienced way too much of people trying to convey sympathy and instead expressing their discomfort about disability and death.  Content note: we talk about ableism, cancer and bereavement. Part of the conversation is about the deaths of two of Christa's babies, so stop listening at the 20-minute mark if you need not to hear about that subject right now. Find more about this episode at theallusionist.org/additions-losses. Christa Couture's website is christacouture.com. Her excellent new memoir How To Lose Everything is out now, and her music is available on Bandcamp, Spotify etc. The music is by Martin Austwick. Hear Martin’s own songs at palebirdmusic.com or search for Pale Bird on Bandcamp and Spotify, and he’s @martinaustwick on Twitter and Instagram.  The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Support the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/allusionist. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionists how and instagram.com/allusionistshow. If you'd like to sponsor the Allusionist this year, contact Amanda McLoughlin via multitude.productions/contact. This episode is sponsored by: • Skillshare, the online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people. Get a free trial of Premium Membership at Skillshare.com/allusionist. • Bombas, makers of the most comfortable socks in the history of feet. Get twenty percent off your first purchase at Bombas.com/allusionist. • Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running a sleek website. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist. Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, filmmaker, writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom. Her seventh album Safe Harbour was released on Coax Records in 2020. As a writer and storyteller, Christa has been published in Room, Shameless, and Augur magazines, she’s gone viral on CBC with an article and photos on disability and pregnancy. Christa’s also a frequent contributor to CBC Radio and is currently the weekday afternoon host on 106.5 ELMNT FM in Toronto. Her life has been both extraordinary and fiercely engaged. She is utterly and awake, connected, and alive, which is a powerful state, given the stunning amount of loss that’s touched down in her life, from the loss of her leg as a child to the loss of children, a sense of identity, community, and the need to find a way to reimagine life, to not just exist, but also live in the face of deeply challenging circumstance. In her debut memoir How to Lose Everything (https://bookshop.org/a/22758/9781771622622), she shares many stories and we dive into her extraordinary path, revelations and lens of life, possibility, hope and grace.You can find Christa Couture at:Website : http://christacouture.com/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/christacouture/Check out our offerings & partners: Theragun: A deep muscle massage treatment unlike anything you've ever felt. Feel better, move better, and recover faster with tension and soreness relief. Try Theragun for 30-days starting at only $199. Go to Theragun.com/GOODLIFE right now and get your Gen 4 Theragun today.Peloton: Access high-energy workouts, instantly. Discover Peloton: streaming fitness classes to you live and on-demand. Get started on your Peloton journey. Go to onepeloton.com to learn more.InsideTracker: Get a personalized nutrition & lifestyle action plan designed to improve wellness. Our cutting-edge technology guides you to your goals with actionable recommendations. Data-Driven Results. Evidence-Based Solutions. Personalized Recs. Leading with Science. Visit insidetracker.com/GOODLIFE to get 25% off storewide.

Christa Couture is an award-winning performer and recording artist, nonfiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled and a mom. This is who the CiTR's Accessibility Collective members, Lakshanyaa and Jessie Y chats with in this episode. Also, check out some awesome music by Christa as well!

Brendan McLeod and Adrian Glynn from Vancouver based folk collective The Fugitives join us on Episode 551 of Folk Roots Radio to chat about their wonderful new album “Trench Songs”, which takes as its source material, lyrics from songs written by frontline soldiers during the First World War – set to new music from the band. The album is actually based on “Ridge”, a new stage show by Brendan McLeod which was due to be performed in front of a live audience in Vancouver this past March. Unfortunately, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, those live shows had to be cancelled – however Ridge has now been re-imagined as a feature film with the accompanying album. As always, we wrap up the episode with more new releases, and this time around we hear from Christa Couture, Emily Rockarts, Karl Mullen, Ian Foster, The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc and James Gates. Check out the full playlist on the website: https://folkrootsradio.com/folk-roots-radio-episode-551-feat-the-fugitives-trench-songs-more-new-releases/

Christa Couture has distilled the layers of loss she's experienced into what she calls her grief bio: "Cancer, death, death, divorce, more cancer." Her new memoir, How to Lose Everything, details how she's writing herself a new chapter.

A former Kentucky judge says the Breonna Taylor grand jury should have done more, how video games could be the next frontier for political disinformation, the photographers documenting California's wildfires, Christa Couture on her new memoir How to Lose Everything, Indigenous actor Grace Dove on her starring role in Monkey Beach, how the COVID-19 pandemic toppled a century-old business and more.

Christa Couture (Cree author, How To Lose Everything: A Memoir); Mark Bowden (#1 Body Language Professional in the world, how we can improve communication wearing face masks)

Christa Couture reframes the experience of loss for us in her beautiful memoir, How to Lose Everything. In this interview we talk about the questions she gets asked most frequently, her story of loss and the writing process. Synopsis of her book: From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture’s writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others. Evoking Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work, Couture explores the emotional and psychological experiences of motherhood, partnership and change. Deftly connecting the dots of sorrow, reprieve and hard-won hope, How to Lose Everything contains the advice Couture is often asked for, as well as the words she wishes she could have heard many years ago. It is also an offering of kinship and understanding for anyone experiencing a loss.” You can find out more about Christa at her website. If you have started on your memoir but need help shaping it and getting it ready for publication, Patti M. Hall can coach you through this critical stage. Contact Patti here. Find out more about Sandy's work with chronic people-pleasers at her website and get started Disappointing More People.

Filmmaker THEOLA ROSS tells us stories from her film Many Bloodlines--from the search for an Indigenous donor and midwife to concerns about raising a child as interracial queer parents. Then, artist, author, and mom CHRISTA COUTURE shares her ideas on what to do with your kids this summer. And, TRINA MATHER-SIMARD tells us about the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival going virtual this year.

Christa Couture wants to turn the idea of "getting better" on its head.  Everywhere we go, we're confronted by the language of betterment. Everything in your life needs to be optimized. Your Insta stories, your smoothies and even your days off need to be filled with wellness. But what about for those who are chronically ill, or grieving, or working from home, anxious about a spreading pandemic? This is Christa Couture spoke at The Walrus Talks Living Better in November, 2019.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before I tell you anything, let me say this: today's conversation with Christa Couture will move you. Take time. Listen closely. Of the nearly 70 episodes in MamaFuel, all of which I've loved, THIS is the one. THIS is the conversation I'd urge you to listen to again and again.Not only because it's not every day you can listen to a cancer survivor cyborg amputee chanteuse mama of three (as she says "two have died and one is here") mixed indigenous Cree Scandinavian queer radio host non-fiction author and singer-songwriter. Not only that. But also because Christa is a sensitive, generous, warm, kind and thoughtful woman whose intelligence and talent seep through everything she creates, including this conversation.  Given the name "Singing Woman" as a child, Christa weaves and shares stories about grief, loss and life as she processes how life is unfolding. I loved hearing how, at time of recording, Christa was reworking her narrative around Christmas, making space for both grief for her absent sons and delight for her vivacious and very present daughter.  I appreciated learning more about the importance of representation and how critical it is for us to share and talk about our differences. When Christa decided to showcase her "cyborg" limb in its full floral glory, she and the world started interacting differently. It's an important reminder that it's critical for us to share and celebrate difference. There's so much more, but these are "show notes" and not "show encycopediae" so I'll leave you with this: listen and share this conversation far and wide, and support Christa and her work by pre-ordering her book AND ordering her record. You can find her on www.christacouture.com and you'll find links to everything we talk about in the episode when you read the full show notes here.  If you loved this episode, remember to head to the MamaFuel Virtual Village to tell me what you'll keep in your heart from this conversation. Even better, leave us a review and a rating over on iTunes so as many people as possible can hear and share this conversation. Be well!

Episode 7 is here! It's the season finale, and to send us off into the holidays, we had the pleasure of chatting with award-winning musician, writer, artist, producer, broadcaster and host of 106.5 ELMNT FM's weekday midday show, the legendary Christa Couture! The interview starts at 18min 46sec. We talked about her upcoming new album (Safe Harbour) and new book (How to Lose Everything), the day that Edmonton cried, dreaming about theremin, searching for photogenic cranes, her anthems for 2019 and the 2010's, who was the affordable Peter, Paul & Mary of Alberta, and many more fascinating tales! Bruce, Andrew and Luca also chatted about holiday films and soundtracks, pickle pranks, mystical pajama armour, the do's and don'ts of being cremated and St. Germain's mighty stomach sounds! And with that, the Barbershop crew wishes you a happy holidays, and a super happy new year!

Christa Couture joined me on the show to talk about a maternity photo shoot she did in 2017, that highlighted the beauty of being pregnant and having a disability. Since the inception of my doing the Living Well Today show, Christa is now the third person I have had the pleasure of encountering in the flesh. It's not so much that I actually met her, it's more I often see her at a music-related conference we both attend.

Over the past three months, we've introduced you to brand new music from some of the top Indigenous artists across Canada. From up-and-comers like Skyler and Snotty Nose Rez Kids to more established musicians like JB The First Lady and Christa Couture, the scene is bursting with talent and the future looks brighter than ever. This week, we catch up with Haida/Cree rocker Kristi Lane Sinclair. In addition to winning Best Rock Album at this year's Indigenous Music Awards, she's a co-founder of the Red Ride Tour and recently chronicled her journey in APTN's Face The Music.  On this week's finale of First Listen Fridays, Kristi talks about everything from touring the country to her fear of sharp objects. She also introduces a new song she's working on called Grit. 

Time truly does fly when you're having fun. The days are getting shorter, stores are stocking up for Halloween (it seems to get earlier every year!), and we're already up to Episode 9 of First Listen Fridays. This week we're thrilled to share our interview with Toronto-based singer-songwriter Christa Couture. In addition to being a whiskey drinker, a seasonal knitter, a non-fiction writer, a project manager, and a self-described cyborg, she's a crazy talented musician.  On this week’s edition of First Listen Fridays, hear what she had to say about touring, recording in Nashville and more. She also gives us the exclusive premiere of Happy or Unhappy, a track that almost made the cut on her most recent album, Long Time Leaving. 

This episode of Folk Roots Radio is all about the Folk Music Ontario 2016 Youth Programme. Each year during the weekend conference, a group of youth performers are paired with mentors from the Ontario folk community to work on a showcase performance and participate in professional development activities. This documentary features commentary and musical contributions from programme coordinator Treasa Levasseur; Mentors: Cécile Doo-Kingué, Christa Couture, Graydon James, Lynn Miles and Alysha Brilla; Youth: Brandon Girouard, Anita Cazzola, John Muirhead, Missy Baumann and Melina Hanke. For more information about the Folk Music Ontario Youth Program visit http://folkmusicontario.ca. Photo credit: Mike Bourgeault. Visit us online at http://folkrootsradio.com.

We’ve got plenty of upcoming shows this week, including Redgy Blackout, Christa Couture, Craig Cardiff, Valdy, Leeroy Stagger, and Jeremy Messersmith! That’s a pretty good basis for a show, but we’ve also got plenty of new music and old favourites to fill it out.

We’ve got plenty of upcoming shows this week, including Redgy Blackout, Christa Couture, Craig Cardiff, Valdy, Leeroy Stagger, and Jeremy Messersmith! That’s a pretty good basis for a show, but we’ve also got plenty of new music and old favourites to fill it out.

Welcome to show #115, our celebratory podcast for 5 years of Boutique Cafe goodness! This journey has been a real joy to go on with our our listeners and readers, I can't thank you enough for the support you have shown for the website, podcasts and for me personally as well. This episode Daria shares her thoughts on 5 years of podcasting and supporting mompreneurs. We share LOADS & LOADS of Boutique News about sales/promotions and great finds (all NEWS links are within the podcast and can be clicked below the image), and also give info on how you could be our very LUCKY listener to win our 5th Birthday Ultimate PRIZE PACK!. As a tribute to Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday after a heroic battle with Cancer, we play a song called "Jennifer Grey" by Christa Couture inspired by the movie "Dirty Dancing" and featuring some favorite images of him. ***5th Birthday GIVEAWAY*** - ONE LUCKY listener will receive a HUGE Prize Pack from our Boutique Cafe friends! Prizes Contributors include - Patty Young 6-piece fat quarter set of her fabric AND a Lil' Chef sewing pattern Tote and Tee - custom initial tee any style of winner's choice Carla Hegeman Crim - CD loaded with complete Scientific Seamstree Ebooks (valued at over $100) Priscilla Resendez - set of 5 headbands...halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, valentines day, & 4th of july Christa Couture - copy of her most recent album "The Wedding Singer and The Undertaker" & one-of-a-kind "Christa Couture Couture" shirts MaryAnn Daniels Springer - gift card for a custom cuff! Sandi Henderson - set of patterns, and a collection of her gift boxes Lee Coulter - his new album! Boutique Cafe free banner advertising package for 6 months! And more prizes are coming in today as well!! Several ways to win: Comment in our shownotes =1 entry Share this post on Twitter and mention @BoutiqueCafe (then come back and post the link here) = 1 entry Share this post on Facebook with your friends (then come back and post the link here) = 1 entry Join our Boutique Cafe Facebook Fan Group and post about this show = 1 entry Drawing will take place on October 1st, 2009 at Midnight MST!

Part 2 of our interview with Singer/songwriter and mommy-to-be Christa Couture. During the show you'll hear two of Christa's songs "Jennifer Grey" and "I will". Daria dishes about Flexflops and raves about Baby Boy Blog. News about our current contests, cool prizes & featured articles. We even have an Auction Scramble that is sweet like Cotton Candy, and an Accessory Scramble to make you feel like a Superhero!

Singer/songwriter Christa Couture joins Daria and Nathan for part 1 of an interview about her passion for music, and her new baby on the way. Daria talks about the Daily Dish and lets you in on the scoop of how to win great must-have products each weekday by reading the reviews (be sure to leave your comments). Happy Father's Day wishes to all the Dads out there with our love! All that, plus new baby announcements for Laurie of Buttercup*Babes and JenTheMom. Daria invites you to Discover the Boutique Community, and we play Christa's song "Day 4".

Tune in today for our 30th episode of Boutique Cafe, we want you to celebrate right along with us as we hear messages from viewers, friends, musical artists and fellow podcasters. Guests include: Mommycast, Amy Butler, Charlene May, Christa Couture, Cali Lewis and many many many more! Daria announces our "Where in The World Is Boutique Cafe?" contest, you may submit your pictures for our online scrapbook to info@boutiquecafe.com (more details available in the BC Chat forum). We will be having a fun After Party in the Chat forum to celebrate further, so stop by and join in. **You'll want to see pics of people you know on the RED CARPET!

It's Breast Cancer Awareness month and the BCA auctions are set to begin next week from Oct. 17-21st on eBay. On today's show we meet event organizer Angela Goins and learn about how you can get involved and bid for a cure. Angela also shares her own personal and touching story of how breast Cancer has touched her life. As a special treat we'll hear a gorgeous song by artist Christa Couture called Day 4 which is available on www.garageband.coma great source for podsafe music. Our current Auction Scramble is for your own little Belle of the Ball - this extravagant and beautiful gown is sure to be on every little girls Christmas list. Stunning and beautifully crafted! View Auction Scramble Accessory Scramble - Lovin' these Brown and Aqua Funk hairbows, a totally mod look for your little diva. Accessory Scramble (*if you have an item that you'd like to be considered for an upcoming Scramble please email the auction link to info@boutiquecafe.com, we feature one amazing accessory and one outfit per show).