What's Your Safe Word?

~~ *Update* Thank you so much to everyone for listening to the first season of What’s Your Safe Word: Declarations of Resistance!  Episode 25 - Visualize What You Want Your Life to Look Like w/ Amy Syed will be our finale episode for Season 1. We would like to thank her, as well as all of our previous guests, for coming on our show and sharing their knowledge with us! As always, if you have any questions, please email us at podcast@womenatthecentre.com and thank you again for all of your support. With love, Shelleena, Nneka, and Amanda ~~ This week we are thrilled to welcome another very special guest to the @WYSWpodcast, AMY SYED (@amy.syed)! Amy is the Founder and CEO of FindyourHCP.com (@findyourhcp) and 15minutesaday.ca. She is a serial entrepreneur and activist in the realm of women and children's rights. Amy is a survivor of intimate partner violence, terminal cancer and host of her own podcast: Calm After the Storm: Survivorship and other stories (@calmafterthestormpodcast). She has spent her life's work teaching others how to empower themselves to live their best life and uses technology to get them there. She is an innovator and a believer in hope for the future of our world spreading optimism to inspire change. After our weekly check-in, we sit down (via Zoom) with Amy to talk about the ways which children are often impacted by male-perpetuated violence, and how the violence is often shifted towards children as a means to hurt their mothers. This is an extremely heavy topic, but Amy shares her vast knowledge with us and also shares some incredibly useful tips for survivors currently navigating legal systems. This week we’re drinking Pieropan Soave Classico 2018, Wolf Blass Yellow Label Cabernet Sauvignon, Niagara Cider Company: Rose Gold Berry Soaked Cider, and Twisted Tea Peach. We gave these drinks a buzz rating of 5/5, 4/5, 4.8/5, and 5/5 respectively. Youtube videos mentioned during our check-in: https://tinyurl.com/gsq9ffq & https://tinyurl.com/yacdjv29 Become a Patron! http://tiny.cc/bhjuez Amazing intro music by: @wanderallwinter If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please email us at: podcast@womenatthecentre.com or check out our website: https://wysw.womenatthecentre.com

We are so excited to welcome another very special guest to the @WYSWpodcast today, ANURADHA DUGAL! Anuradha is the Senior Director of Community Initiatives & Policy at the Canadian Women’s Foundation. She is committed to not-for-profit work for social justice and has been engaged in many roles in the sector - management, fundraising, events, convening, public education and direct program delivery. As well as being a fierce advocate for all who identify as women and girls, she is the mother to three boys who she is raising to be feminists. And she still finds time occasionally to enjoy gardening, knitting, and swimming! After our weekly check-in, we were thrilled to lead a conversation with Anuradha surrounding what it means to be a racialized woman, and how this identity has shifted for her throughout her life. We also chat with her about how she is raising her sons, and what it means for her to raise white men. This week we’re drinking Pascual Toso Chardonnay, Sandbanks Riesling-Gewürztraminer VQA, and Anuradha’s Smoothie w/ Bacardi. We gave these drinks a buzz rating of 3/5, 4.5/5, and 3.5/5 respectively. Become a Patron! http://tiny.cc/bhjuez To learn more about any of our team members please follow us on social media! You can find WomenatthecentrE (IG: @WomenatthecentrE / TW: @WomenatcentrE), What’s Your Safe Word? (@WYSWpodcast), Nneka MacGregor (@NnekaMacGregor), Shelleena Hackett (@Shelleena), Amanda Hollahan (@AmandaHollahan), Nicole Fontyn (@NicoleFontyn), and Karia Jones (@motorkay) on Instagram and Twitter! Amazing intro music by: @wanderallwinter If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please email us at: podcast@womenatthecentre.com or check out our website: https://wysw.womenatthecentre.com

This week we are so excited to bring you the final episode of our Transformative Accountability and Justice Initiative series! Once again, we welcome SHIRLEY BROEKSTRA to chat with us about our experiences conducting research on finding  an alternative model of justice, and what our findings were. The team shares how the survivors involved in our research truly impacted us all, and the importance of reading the declarations within our final report. Shelleena, Nneka, and Shirley then also teased some of our findings, but we strongly encourage, and ask, you to read our entire final report, which can be found here: https://www.womenatthecentre.com/wp-content/uploads/Declarations-of-Truth-Final-Report.pdf But first, we opened with our check-in a little differently this week. Given the recent rise in anti-Black racism within both the United States and Canada, and the global uprising in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, our podcast format shifted a bit this week. Understanding the importance of amplifying Black voices (while also being critical of white silence, and the violence this causes) Shelleena stepped aside this week to give space for KARIA JONES (@motorkay) to join Nneka during our check-in. Please listen, learn, and commit to doing the work of anti-racism every single day! This week we’re drinking Stoneleigh Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, Cape One Moscato, Jackson-Triggs Reserve Chardonnay VQA, and 13th Street Burger Blend Rose VQA. We gave these wines a buzz rating of 5/5, 3.5/5, 4/5, and 3.5/5 respectively. Youtube link mentioned during our check-in: https://tinyurl.com/ybj4fud4 Become a Patron! http://tiny.cc/bhjuez To learn more about any of our team members please follow us on social media! You can find WomenatthecentrE (IG: @WomenatthecentrE / TW: @WomenatcentrE), What’s Your Safe Word? (@WYSWpodcast), Nneka MacGregor (@NnekaMacGregor), Shelleena Hackett (@Shelleena), Amanda Hollahan (@AmandaHollahan), Nicole Fontyn (@NicoleFontyn), and Karia Jones (@motorkay) on Instagram and Twitter! Amazing intro music by: @wanderallwinter If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please email us at: podcast@womenatthecentre.com or check out our website: https://wysw.womenatthecentre.com

On this week’s episode we are so excited to welcome JAIMIE TOROK! Jaimie is an Ontario Public Service employee, a volunteer for St. Vincent Place Men’s Shelter, Food Bank, Soup Kitchen and Thrift Store, a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters Sault Ste. Marie, a single-mother, a survivor, and a passionate advocate for women and children rights. Jaimie is also a part of the @WomenatthecentrE team as a Chapter Executive Member and integral leader of our Sault Ste. Marie chapter! How she finds the time to do this all, we will never know! But we are so happy to have her on the podcast this week to talk about her experience of being a single mother raising two children, the importance of leading with love, and how she fosters healthy relationships with her sons. To learn more about becoming a member with WomenatthecentrE, please visit: https://www.womenatthecentre.com/members/  This week we’re drinking Open Riesling Gewürztraminer VQA, Magnotta Shiraz, Babich Sauvignon Blanc, and Riunite Lambrusco Frizzante. We gave these wines a buzz rating of 4/5, 5/5, 4.5/5, and 4.5/5 respectively. Become a Patron! http://tiny.cc/bhjuez To learn more about any of our team members please follow us on social media! You can find WomenatthecentrE (IG: @WomenatthecentrE / TW: @WomenatcentrE), What’s Your Safe Word? (@WYSWpodcast), Nneka MacGregor (@NnekaMacGregor), Shelleena Hackett (@Shelleena), Amanda Hollahan (@AmandaHollahan), Nicole Fontyn (@NicoleFontyn), and Karia Jones (@motorkay) on Instagram and Twitter! Amazing intro music by: @wanderallwinter If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please email us at: podcast@womenatthecentre.com or check out our website: https://wysw.womenatthecentre.com