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🎉 Our Summer Contest is Back! 🎉

One lucky winner will receive:

📖 Honest Motherhood by Libby Ward
📖 Birth Vibes by Jen Hamilton
🧺 A picnic blanket perfect for summer days at the park, beach, or backyard

To enter:

✔ Follow
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✔ Comment: SUMMER ☀️

The winner will be announced on June 30, 2026.

Open to residents of Canada and the United States only.

Good luck! 💛

What happens when you know something is wrong with your body, but no one seems to be listening?

In this week's conversation, award-winning journalist and host of (MIS)Treated, Nam Kiwanuka, shares her personal experience navigating fibroids, chronic anemia, lengthy wait times for care, and the reality of advocating for herself in a system that often dismisses women's concerns.

We talk about the gaps in women's health research, why so many conditions go undiagnosed for years, and what women can do to better advocate for themselves and their families.

One message from this conversation stayed with me:
Manage your health like you manage your credit.

It's practical advice, but it's also a reminder that our health deserves attention, questions, and follow-through.

If you've ever felt unheard, dismissed, or frustrated while trying to get answers, this episode is for you.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Professional relationships matter, but networking can feel awkward, transactional, or performative.

In a world where AI can help us write faster, the human skills still matter most: trust, authenticity, conversation and follow-through.

In a world where AI can help us write faster, the human skills still matter most: trust, authenticity, conversation, and follow-through.
Our host, Stephanie Mitton, is teaching a new in-person Ottawa workshop for professionals who want to build relationships in a way that feels natural, intentional, and effective.

Authentic Networking: Turn Conversations Into Professional Relationships That Last will help you communicate with more clarity, ask stronger questions, follow up with confidence, and build professional relationships that last beyond the room.

This is for you if you want to:

Network without feeling performative
Build trust through better conversations
Follow up without feeling awkward
Strengthen your professional visibility
Create relationships that support your work, leadership and career growth
Create relationships that support your work, leadership, and career growth

Join Stephanie in downtown Ottawa on June 23, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Comment connect, and we’ll send you the details.

Women don’t do that? Watch us.

World Turtle Day felt like a good reminder that slower does not mean less meaningful.

Turtles have survived for millions of years by conserving energy, protecting themselves when needed, and not treating every moment like an emergency. Honestly, there may be a lesson in that.

More than half of turtle species are now at risk because of habitat loss, plastic pollution, and illegal wildlife trade.

Maybe protecting slow, steady things matters more than we think.

For more about turtles- https://ontarionature.org/world-turtle-day-2026-snapping-turtles-blog/

What if getting dressed for a big event felt less stressful, more affordable, and more fun?

This week on WOMENdontDOthat, Stephanie Mitton talks with Angela Pastor and Julie Kalinowski, co-founders of The Fitzroy, about building a Canadian dress rental business rooted in confidence, sustainability, and real customer care.

They share how they grew from a pop-up boutique into a national business, what they have learned about risk and entrepreneurship, and why helping women feel like themselves is at the heart of the work.

Listen to the full episode and reflect on where you might be overthinking the next step.

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PSA: Get off your phone and get outside if you can. 🇨🇦☀️

It’s a long weekend in Canada, and while many are enjoying sunshine, family time, road trips, and rest, some communities across the country are dealing with difficult weather conditions and disruptions right now.

So if you’re able to safely enjoy the outdoors today, take the moment. Go for the walk. Sit in the sun. Be present with the people around you.

To everyone working this long weekend, health care workers, first responders, retail staff, hospitality workers, transportation staff, and everyone else keeping things running, we appreciate you.

Sometimes the small moments matter most.

On International Day of Families, we’re talking about the invisible workload many women carry every single day. The scheduling, planning, remembering, organizing, caregiving, emotional support, and unpaid labour that often happens quietly in the background.

For many women, leadership does not end at work. It continues at home.

Creating healthier families means recognizing that emotional labour and caregiving responsibilities should not fall on one person by default.

What do you do when the thing you worked for does not go the way you hoped?

Olympian Cynthia Appiah joins Stephanie Mitton for a powerful conversation about rebuilding after disappointment, reclaiming agency, and learning that starting over does not mean starting from nothing.

After nearly walking away from bobsleigh following the 2018 Olympics, Cynthia chose to become a pilot and rebuild her career on her own terms. In this episode, we talk about resilience, women’s sport, identity beyond achievement, leadership, Jeopardy!, and the motto that has carried her through difficult seasons:

“Every storm eventually runs out of rain.”

This one is full of wisdom for women navigating pressure, change, or a season of asking “what now?”

Mother’s Day listening guide 💛

Conversations for:
• the mom carrying the mental load
• the ambitious mom balancing work and family
• the woman grieving
• the woman longing to become a mother
• the recovering perfectionist
• the mom trying to hold it all together

Featured episodes:
🎧 Ep. 218: Choosing Motherhood on Your Terms with Jessica Nuremberg
🎧 Ep. 202: Willow Allen on Identity, Motherhood, and Mental Health
🎧 Ep. 78: Working Mom Life and Growing Your Business with Kelly Sinclair
🎧 Ep. 194: Jordan Leichnitz on Politics, Parenthood, and Purpose
🎧 Ep. 82: Advice from a Recovering Perfectionist with Libby Ward
🎧 Ep. 102: A Story of Grief and Motherhood with Tarah Schwartz

Real conversations. Honest stories.
For whatever today feels like. 💛


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