This week I’m chatting with Cladwell cofounder and CEO Erin Flynn – I have the Cladwell personal styling app and use it all the time! We discuss purging closets (she took hers from 450 items to 75!), shopping intentionally (and how “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence” keep us shopping), the impact of COVID-19 on business, […] Read more…
Whether you’re working from home and doing a lot of video calls, you’re a teacher who has started recording lessons, or both (like me!) you might have recently begun thinking about how to improve your appearance on video. And by “improve”, I mean look less sickly (me again!) I decided to take the route of […] Read more…
It’s episode 50 and Mabel’s Labels maven and mom of six Julie Cole is here! We cover a lot of ground in this conversation: the celebrity customers that her multimillion dollar business has attracted, parenting (before and during COVID-19, including how she mobilizes the older kids to help the younger ones learn at home); organizing […] Read more…
Yes, the kids’ spaces in your house can actually be both stylish and serviceable, and Dave Wilson is here to tell us how! I’m sure you know Dave from Masters of Flip and Season 4 of Home To Win, and this house-flipping expert with a passion for construction, renovation and business (and a father of […] Read more…
Financial educator Kelley Keehn is here answering questions about RESPs, online baking safety, why she won’t ask us to make a budget, shopaholic strategies, how to talk money with partners and kids and more. Kelley Keehn’s website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter For more information or to purchase Kelley’s book Talk Money To Me: Save Well, […] Read more…
It’s time for the annual countdown of my most-read blog posts of the year! Note that these are posts that were actually published in 2019 (not older posts that happened to get high traffic), and I eliminated giveaways, links to my TV segments and podcast episode shownotes (though my interviews with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and […] Read more…
Dr. Andrea Gelinas is a mom and business owner with an eye for design – and she’s also been called Toronto’s Coolest Dentist! She’s here to chat about all of that and more. Also in this episode: ways to give back (you may not have heard of all of them), DIY gel manicures at home […] Read more…
Sangita Patel, host of Home To Win on HGTV Canada, is here to talk about Season 4 of the show – they’re giving away a Home for the Holidays! We also talk about her famous Fitness Tuesdays, parenting our tween/teen girls, racism, travel tips and more! My previous interview with Sangita Patel Find Sangita on […] Read more…
Last fall, I shared this post on Facebook: “Would you ever guess that this empty patch of land in our yard brings me a huge amount of happiness? A few years after building our home, this became the site of a metal shed that we needed for patio furniture, off-season lawn and garden equipment, etc. […] Read more…
Today’s post is short and sweet! As I try to be more environmentally friendly, one small step at a time, I decided to design a sign asking our mail carrier (or anyone else distributing advertising) not to put any flyers or junk mail in our box. I used Canva to create the sign, then printed […] Read more…