The Alpha Female Podcast

Robyn talks to Colleen O'Connell-Campbell about financial wealth and how she helps guide her clients. 

Colleen O'Connell-Campbell, lead of O'Connell-Campbell Wealth Management at RBC Dominion Securities, was born and raised in the Ottawa Valley. She is a married mother of two young adults. Caring deeply about her community, she is actively involved in local causes highlighted by her involvement in mental health advocacy and fundraising. 

Colleen embarked on her professional journey while still in University working the weekend shift, as a teller, beginning in 1994. Shortly after earning her B.Com. (Honours) from Carleton University in 1996, Colleen shifted into personal banking and then to a Financial Planning role. Within the following year, she began establishing her own clientele as Wealth Advisor.

Colleen specializes in building and strategizing financial plans that optimize how entrepreneurs, self-made millionaires, & wealthy families spend save and share their wealth. She publishes a weekly blog, is the host of "I’m a Millionaire, So Now What?" and speaks regularly as an expert in areas relating to wealth management and entrepreneurship.

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Robyn talks to Kyleigh Marcotte about financial wealth and how she helps guide her clients. 

Kyleigh Marcotte is a Financial Solutions Advisor with Wealth Street Financial Solutions. Kyleigh founded Wealth Street Financial Solutions because she believes that everyone should have a clear path to financial freedom regardless of their current financial or economic situation. After years working as Communications Advisor to senior management in the Public Service Kyleigh was introduced to the Financial Services Industry and intuitively knew this is how she could make a better impact. She began working for an established Wealth Management firm and a few years later launched Wealth Street Financial Solutions to begin her own journey making a difference in the lives of her clients. 

Kyleigh helps hardworking individuals and families find clarity when it comes to their finances, improve relationships with money, identify financial goals and create a path to make their goals a reality. Sharing financial tips and tricks, helping clients understand the “why” behind the actions they’re taking to reach their goals, and ultimately achieving their version of financial freedom is Kyleigh’s focus. When she is not working Kyleigh loves connecting with women in business and leading the FemCity Ottawa-East networking group, spending time with family and friends, walking along a beach, or enjoying the fresh air and lake views at the cottage.

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Listen to an episode quickie about our next topic series and some of the guests that I have lined up for our show.  

Robyn talks to Erin Claire Jones about Human Design and how she uses it to guide leaders. 

Erin Claire Jones uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and to their highest potential. Her work as a guide, coach, and speaker has attracted a growing community of over 120,000 people who turn to her teachings for practical tools, digestible tips, and deeper self-knowledge they can access to live with greater ease and authenticity every single day. 

With work featured in Forbes, mindbodygreen, Well&Good, and Nylon; words shared on over 100 podcasts such as Almost30, That’s So Retrograde, Highest Self, and Chatty Broads; and conversations with crowds of hundreds around the world, Erin’s insights are highly sought-after because they make Human Design pragmatic, tangible, accessible — and immediately applicable to everyday life.

Human Design is a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern science that sheds light on a person’s energetic makeup, as well as specific tools they can use to live at their happiest, healthiest, highest potential. It doesn’t change who they are; it teaches them who they are. It offers insight into what’s possible, and highlights the significance of understanding and living as the fullest expression of themselves. 

By putting this tool to work in her own life, Erin is showing the world a new way of work, a new path toward success, and a new perspective on living as you truly are.

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Robyn talks to Victoria Jane about human design and how we can use it to go after our goals and take care of ourselves at the same time!

Victoria Jane is a human design coach whose mission is to guide growth-oriented humans to live with less hustle and more flow. After a decade in Silicon Valley achieving everything she thought she was supposed to, Victoria was earthquaked into the harsh reality: she was burnt out and in danger of doing irreparable damage to her health. As she searched for how to heal not just her body, but her spirit, she discovered her design. Today, she is passionate about sharing Human Design so you can confidently live your truth. 

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Robyn talks to Nadia Last about Human Design as she walks her through her personal reading while also walking the listeners through all the aspects of Human Design and the different types. 

Nadia Last is an intuitive guide, an illusion clearer, and an energetic match to set your soul aflame. Nada leads transformational work through 1:1 mentorship, group work, Human Design readings, and community healing events. She also hosts a podcast unpacking the changing energetic currents of our collective consciousness called, “The Current.”

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Robyn talks to the Luscious Hustle Ladies - Laura & Betsy Milne about how they are using Human Design in their personal lives and in their business coaching. 

Betsy Milne & Laura Milne are transformational business and branding coaches, podcast hosts, and creators behind the growing tribe and coaching brand, Luscious Hustle!

So you’re probably thinking they’re sisters, right?!

In fact, they're total strangers! ...who just happen to have the same last name.  After connecting through an Instagram DM in 2016, Betsy and Laura became fast friends and business partners while living 3000 miles, in two different countries.    

Betsy and Laura were brought together through a shared common purpose: To empower women with the energetic tools and strategy they need to turn a spark of an idea into a successful businesses and sought-after brands.

Born from the ashes of burnout, Luscious Hustle was created to redefine what it means to “hustle” as an online entrepreneur. In less than a year, they harnessed their passion to build a six-figure business that supported the lifestyle and time freedom they craved.

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Listen to an episode quickie about why I've chosen Human Design for our next topic series, the upcoming guests and a real quick life update. 

Robyn talks to Angel Rockwell about her passion for helping mothers transition into motherhood. 

Angel is an Intuitive Motherhood & Certified Health Coach. She helps new moms decrease stress and anxiety to navigate motherhood with confidence and ease without having to spend hours a day on self care. So many women struggle in the early stages of motherhood to balance the needs of their child, spouse, family, and friends. They feel overwhelmed, frustrated, isolated, exhausted, unsupported, and even guilty at the idea of taking time for themselves.

Angel believes there is unlimited power in the truth of who you are. Angel guides you to that truth so that you can create the life you desire: grounded in your womanhood and fulfilled in motherhood.

Angel is a mother to a three-year-old daughter, an 11-year-old fur baby, and one baby angel who never set foot earth-side. She lives in Kelowna, BC with her husband.

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Robyn talks to Hanieh Sigari about her experience as an entrepreneur, her passion about learning about the aging process and her journey as a mom so far. 

Hanieh Sigari is an entrepreneur, biochemist, and anti-aging industry disruptor. Her Al-driven skincare start-up brand, Qyral, is the culmination of a lifelong mission to improve lives and increase longevity. No stranger to entrepreneurship, Hanieh has the experience of driving 600% YoY growth with her healthcare startup and taking an e-commerce startup from zero to over $20M in revenue over five years. Combining her business acumen, bioscience knowledge, and passion for empowerment, Qyral delivers far more than skincare. In addition to individualized, science-based products, the brand offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship. Following in the footsteps of her mother, whose efforts lifted hundreds of wartime widows out of poverty, Hanieh sees Qyral as a pathway for women to change their skin, their incomes, and their lives for the better.

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Robyn talks to Kristina Mand-Lakhiani about her experience as an entrepreneur, international speaker, and artist. 

She started her career in a government office in her native Estonia and, by her mid-20s, achieved a level of success mostly known to male politicians at the end of their careers. It was shortly after that Kristina and her husband Vishen founded Mindvalley. From a small meditation business operating out of the couple’s apartment in New York, the company quickly grew into a global educational organization offering top training for peak human performance to hundreds of thousands of students all around the world. 

Kristina believes life is too important to be taken seriously and makes sure to bring fun into every one of her roles: as a teacher, mother, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and world traveler. Kristina helps her students to virtually hack happiness by taking them through her unique framework. 

Kristina advocates that everyone is 100% responsible for their happiness and is entirely in charge of their own life. Whether it’s singing her two children to sleep, playing the harp, going on a solo trip to the Amazon Jungle to recharge, or joining groups of entrepreneurs, such as Maverick1000 on Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Kristina is set on taking in every moment and invites us to do the same. Her honesty and authenticity are breathtaking in a genuinely educational conversation on dealing with emotions and searching for the true meaning of happiness.

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Robyn talks to Rachelle Ganesh Bain about her experience as a performer, dancer, fitness instructor and mom!

Rachelle has always been passionate about movement. Movement and teaching people to love how they move became a focus for her as she eventually became a professional performer, dance, and fitness instructor. 

In recent years, while pregnant with her first child, Rachelle became certified as a pre/postnatal fitness specialist and is now passionate about working with women as they transition into motherhood. Rachelle is currently the Head Trainer of Soul Fuel Fitness in Toronto, where she instructs a variety of classes and clients and also develops programming and workshops for children, teens and Pre/Postnatal clientele. Along with auditioning and volunteering as a fitness coach for MoveCamp, she is now pregnant with her second child who is due to arrive earth side in September.

Rachelle believes in helping and encouraging others to reach their full potential in all aspects of their lives. With this in mind, she promotes freedom of movement and expression as well as active and healthy living for all.

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Robyn talks to Meghan Ward about her experience as a working mom/entrepreneur transitioning to a mom, a mom of 2 and now a working mom. 

Meghan J. Ward is an outdoor, travel, and adventure writer based in Banff, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Meghan has written several books, as well as produced content for films, anthologies, blogs, and some of North America’s top outdoor, fitness and adventure publications. She has a forthcoming travel memoir (Fall 2022), to be published by Rocky Mountain Books. Meghan is also wife and partner in business and creativity with Paul Zizka, a mountain landscape, and adventure photographer. They love to explore the wild and the world together and take their two young daughters along for the ride.

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In this episode, I share what's been going on since my last solo episode including returning to work full-time. 

I also share what to expect for the next topic series around working women turned mom turned working mom. 

Robyn talks to Sharita Day about leaving the corporate workplace to become a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advocate. 

Sharita Daya is a purpose-driven Innovator and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocate, Coach, and Advisor. She is passionate about leveraging the power of technology to drive social change and to create an equitable and inclusive society for everyone.  Sharita also frequently speaks, writes, and mentors on the subject of DEI and advocates for social change.  In 2020, Sharita left the corporate workplace and followed her calling to invest her time intentionally to focus on social change advocacy, which she believes allows her to operate at the intersection of her purpose and her impact. Sharita is committed to actively pursuing work that is close to her heart and her purpose, which is to build an inclusive and equitable world for everyone.

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Robyn talks to Mallory Rowan about working while in school, launching a six-figure business and hitting burnout and then what she does now to take care of herself as an online entrepreneur.

When Mallory Rowan was 22, she built a global, multi-six-figure e-commerce business on a student budget. They were scaling incredible fast but then it happened: she burned out. She started losing her hair, getting unexplainable rashes all over her, and she didn't even notice she had pneumonia until a doctor heard her trying to catch a breath. 

Now she helps entrepreneurs build without burnout: more specifically, she helps them skip the burnout entirely, work less but actually start earning more, and do it on their OWN terms.

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Robyn talks to Karen Yaworsky about leaving the corporate fitness world to become an entrepreneur and how she came to launch The Chaos to Calm Method. 

Karen has been in the Health and Fitness industry for over 22 years. She is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Culinary Nutrition Expert, Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor, Fascial Stretch Therapist, and Thai Massage practitioner. She is the owner of Yaworsky Wellness and the founder of The Chaos to Calm Method. She has dedicated her life to helping busy and bloated women improve their broken digestion by embracing a healing, whole foods lifestyle without the overwhelm so they can lose weight with ease. 

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Robyn talks to Nadine Dumas about leaving the corporate world of accounting to become an entrepreneur. 

Eating Psychology Practitioner, Mind-Body Nutrition Coach, mother, a former accountant turned entrepreneur, 11x international cover model, and a leading businesswoman and influencer in the worldwide fitness market.  I have spent the last decade helping women lose weight and gain their power back.  Women that have lost themselves over the years have 'failed' time and time again with their diets, struggle with burnout and fatigue, and are caught in the endless cycle of compulsive eating and food addiction.

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In this episode, I share what's been going on since the start of 2021 and our move back across the country home to Ottawa, Ontario.

I also share what to expect for the next topic series around corporate women turned entrepreneurs (online entrepreneurs). 

In this episode, Julia Nichol from Intuition Parenting Support Services takes me through a Birth Story Medicine or Listening Session. We then chat about what Birth Story Medicine is and how it can impact a mother's healing from birth trauma.

Julia Nichol is the founder and owner of Intuition Parenting Support Services. She supports families in so many ways: as a Gentle Sleep Consultant, a Birth, Postpartum & Sibling Doula, a Birth Story Listener, and a Reiki Practitioner. Can you envision life with some or all these offerings? Julia daydreams of a norm where new families are not only celebrated with gifts, but also with much-needed services that nurture the body, mind, and soul.

Julia lives in Russell, Ontario with her husband and two children aged 4 and 7 who are her constant inspiration for her work. She loves to be outdoors as much as she can, forest bathe, dive into a book, and get creative cooking up delicious and nourishing meals.

Julia supports families in Ottawa and surrounding areas as well as virtually.

In this episode, I share details about my twin pregnancy, symptoms I experienced in each trimester, and what I did to support my health. 

Dr. Samina Mitha is a licensed and registered Naturopathic Doctor. She is passionate about helping patients find true clarity and confidence in their health using evidence-based natural therapies. Dr. Samina strives to provide empowerment, support, and education to patients with hormone health concerns in a compassionate environment. 

Dr. Samina focuses her practice on Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), Fertility and Thyroid health and has completed extensive clinical and education training in Reproductive Health and Fertility. 

Her clinical experience includes working within a fertility clinic alongside the reproductive endocrinologists and nurses to support and treat many fertility patients/couples with PCOS, endometriosis, unexplained infertility, thyroid conditions, and IVF and IUI processes.

Having been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Samina has a personal connection with women who experience hormonal imbalances. Her drive and passion to become a Naturopathic Doctor stemmed from wanting to support women with reproductive concerns.

For some people, having a baby is easy, but for others, like Robyn, it's a long and tough rollercoaster. Her journey starts off just like most of us. She thought having a baby would take no time at all. A year later, she found herself at the fertility clinic, and several ovulation inductions, IUI's, IVF cycles, OHSS, and a miscarriage later, finally conceived.

Now, she is passionate about helping you not only survive the process but thrive! Her superpower? Helping type A women find calm, confidence, and happiness in their TTC journey and feel like warriors. She is a little woo woo. A lot straight shooter and has never turned down a bowl of mashed potato and if you love Salt n Pepa, well… you’re soul sisters.

In The Fertility Warriors podcast, She interviews other fertility warriors and shares advice and tips on how to conceive, how to navigate the world of fertility treatments, and how to be your best and healthiest self. Robyn Birkin is the author of Screw Infertility, the core educator for The Fertility Warrior Intensive course - a 12-week program for women struggling to manage the stress of infertility. You can find her at robynbirkin.com and on Instagram at @robynbirkin.

In this episode, I share details about our IUI procedure that led to the conception of twins. I share resources around working with a naturopath while working with a fertility clinic, the local Ottawa acupuncturist that I saw the month of the procedure, and how the day of the IUI went. 

Emma George is a Registered Nurse and Holistic Nutritionist, with a special interest in reproductive health and fertility. Emma is extremely passionate about helping others get to know their body better as a way of achieving their reproductive health goals. She loves educating and inspiring change through her Instagram account, online courses, and coaching programs. She feels especially passionate about helping clients regulate and understand their natural menstrual cycle and the power of preconception health for optimizing fertility and pregnancy outcomes. She loves to educate and bring awareness to the concepts of epigenetics and fetal programming when it comes to fertility, pregnancy, and early childhood development. She feels that we have the power to help shape the future generation by mindfully supporting the overall wellness and lifestyles of parents and their children, from well before birth and beyond.

In this episode, I share what our infertility journey looked like for 2 years, testing, and what I did to be able to conceive twins in November of 2019. I share resources in terms of how to work with your family doctor, fertility clinic, naturopaths, and more. 

Dr. Rachel Corradetti-Sargeant, ND was destined for a career in Naturopathic Medicine – she’s part total science nerd and part no-holds-barred health nut. During her undergraduate studies in Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario, she learned that conceiving would likely be a struggle. She worked with a naturopathic doctor to overcome these issues and it became clear to her that becoming a naturopathic doctor was her destiny.

She studied at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, Ontario. She is licensed through the College of Naturopaths of Ontario and is a professional member of the Canadian and Ontario Associations of Naturopathic Doctors, as well as the Endocrinology Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She is also licensed to prescribe a small schedule of pharmaceuticals granted to naturopathic doctors and intravenous infusion therapy.

With a special interest in fertility, she is passionate about empowering her patients to make healthy changes that help them conceive and maintain pregnancies.

When Dr. Corradetti-Sargeant is not seeing patients, she’s running triathlons, contributing to magazine articles (look for her in Clean Eating and Elle magazines), or making a giant mess in the kitchen whipping up the latest healthy desserts! She lives in Stoney Creek, Ontario with her husband and 2 children - both conceived with the assistance of preconception healthcare.

In this episode, I share what I've been up to for the past year since putting the podcast on hold at the end of 2019. 

I also share what to expect in terms of the upcoming series on the show. 

In this episode, I talk about everything from what is Masculine & Feminine Energy to Yin & Yang, Shiva & Shaki and Sun & Moon Energy. Have a listen as this is the first episode in the next series of topics all around Masculine & Feminine Energy.

What I cover:

• Ayurveda Qualities
• Ayurveda Attributes
• Simple Food Switches