Kevin Robbins: Minister Focusing on Radical Optimism

Kevin Robbins: Minister Focusing on Radical Optimism

I have a deep respect and admiration for a minister (evangelist, pastor, cleric, chaplain, missionary, priest, rector, preacher, Reverand). The job of a minister is tough and demanding. It can be satisfying from an intrinsic perspective. However, there are metrics to deal with. The modern-day 

The Pandemic: Grow from it, learn from it, or fear it

The Pandemic: Grow from it, learn from it, or fear it

The pandemic leaves me with three choices. Grow from it, learn from it, or fear it. How was your week? This week, someone whom I have known since a teenager lost his wife to cancer in Toronto. What do you say? How do you say 

Denise Gardiner: Addiction and Getting Help

Denise Gardiner: Addiction and Getting Help

An addiction is a disease that you inherit, where mind and body crave something you have consumed more than life itself! It exists due to the disease you inherit, and you may not know you have the disease until you are hooked, and without help, your life could be doomed.

Joanna Lafleur: 21st century’s Aimee McPherson

Joanna Lafleur: 21st century’s Aimee McPherson

Joanna Lafleur has an undergrad in communication and business and a master’s in theological studies focusing on how to use digital communication tools for evangelism and discipleship. Over the last 15 years, she has spoken at churches, conferences, camps, and ministries in North America, Europe, 

Nena Hart: A Healing Heart

Nena Hart: A Healing Heart

Nena Hart is the Director of Nursing at Maui Health Systems. She is also a mother to four amazing children, a wife, married for 15 years, and a blogger. Nena is real and vulnerable about how she changed her heart from a stone to a 

Menstruation is Natural. Period.

Menstruation is Natural. Period.

The origin of all of us is clouded in contempt, confusion, revulsion, loathing and is forever blemished. Let’s face it, we all came out from the uterus. I fail to understand why shame is connected to a bodily function. Shame is powerful, dominant, persuasive, preeminent, 

Sharon Hussey: Swagger, Sympathy and Sensibility

Sharon Hussey: Swagger, Sympathy and Sensibility

Sharon Hussey is a senior hairstylist who works in the Durham region. Sharon Hussey works for L’Oréal Professionnel Canada as one of their Artistic Portfolio Artists. She travels to teach master classes and present stage work for the current looks and trends for L’Oréal. She 

Chronic Pain Meets Bipolar Disorder

Chronic Pain Meets Bipolar Disorder

The main challenge I face each day is not knowing how I’m going to feel at any given point. I can wake up in the morning with some energy and have that totally gone within the morning.

Mayple Dorrington: Finding the Meaning of Life

Mayple Dorrington: Finding the Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? I have known Mayple Dorrington since I started my career at Scotia Bank. Mayple was Director, Communications and Change Management at Scotia Bank.  Mayple recently wrote a book called Finding: The Oasis in my Soul. It is a journal, 

Faith, Obedience and Suffering

Faith, Obedience and Suffering

What is the meaning of life? In the first part of the interview, Mayple talks about women’s empowerment and leading an authentic and transparent life. In the second part, we discuss faith, obedience, gratitude, and embracing suffering. I have known Mayple Dorrington since I started