The Drawing Bored Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marie-Eve Gingras
Do us a favor. Look at your calendar, your activities, where you spend the majority of your time, your energy level, your life. Now answer this: Does it 100% reflect the amazing and UNIQUE human you are? And the time, does it seem to be flying by? No worries, you're in the right place! The Drawing Bored Podcast is all about helping you achieve an exciting and customized life. When we say customized, we do really mean tailoring each and every single aspect of your life to fit your personality. No more auto-pilot. Through ideas, inspiration, tips and tricks, we will help you design a life that lights you up and, most importantly, looks like YOU! Tune in and let's make sure your real life is 100x better than your instagram one.
Want to start creating a life that is off auto-pilot and looks like you? We recommend you start with a hobby. We know you've heard of hobbies before and you might think there's nothing new about that. Tune in to hear the surprising benefits of hobbies and how it can impact your love life, your financials, your happiness, and more! Plus, Marie-Eve give you bunch of hobby ideas that might inspire you to find the perfect fit.
Our podcast turned one in early February and we couldn’t be more excited! This week, we decided to change things up a little and offer you some behind the scenes tidbits and a look at what the future might hold for us and this awesome project. We discuss our dream guests, our workflow, our favourite part of year one and more.
One of our FAVOURITE days of the year. Marie-Eve and I are such big love fans, so you can only guess how much we love planning this day for our significant others!
Now, if you're single... DON'T. LEAVE. NOW! Even if you don't have a significant other to share this day with, there are plenty of fun ideas in this list for you!
If you are in a couple, but you think that Valentine's Day is a silly holiday and that other may be celebrating for the wrong reasons, then we ALSO have ideas for you!
Now, let's dive in to see what these fun and unique date ideas are! There's ideas for all types of couples. Oh and we also sprinkle some fun tips as well. Here we go!
We've been waiting for this one for a while, and we're so excited to share it with you! This week, Marie-Eve sat down with the one and only vanning extraordinaire, Fred St-Gelais. This "van life" pro was full of fun ideas and tips for us! Fred St-Gelais, an avid vanner since 2015, says he's been interested in van life before it was even "cool". Tune in to hear all about his amazing adventures and the advice he has for you.
Do Cool Sh*t is easily one of my favourite books. Miki Agrawal manages to tell her story about her life and career, all while infusing practical and detailed how tos, tips and so much inspiration. She swims against the current, she's creative director of her own world and gets your own thoughts rolling. In this episode, I discuss a chapter of the book where she talks about an incredible concept that, in my opinion, can be used in and out of the professional realm. It's called Meeting of The Minds and it will blow yours.
Found the picture of a fort on Pinterest, clicked through to the blog and BOOM! My mind was blown. Lucy Fairweather started a unique tradition years ago, where her and her friends built the worlds most epic forts. Every year, a new theme, another awesome fort and even greater memories. Tune in to find out about her stories, tips and tricks and for inspiration! I'm already dreaming up mine. Here are some of them: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71TdCfM4Iw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9SWjr_BPM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1SI9UFNvM&t=3s
We're back with resolution talk! This week, Marie-Eve gives us 3 tips we believe YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF YET for setting our goals in 2020. But... this year, we want you to look at things differently. Essentially, we want you to make this year count by shifting the energy, bringing loads of fun into your year and making it feel different. Let's dive in!
Although we all want to give back, do more, help our community, care for our planet and the environment, protect and save animals, clean our waters, march for climate change, etc... It doesn't always feel fun and exciting. Until now. Listen as Samantha Dimitraki talks us through her journey, her trips and adventures that not only made a difference, but are some of her favourite memories.
Come join us as we take you through a guided visualization. Meet your future self, three years from now. And guess what? It's your surprise party. Guided visualizations are incredible for staying focused on your goals, reducing doubts, boosting motivation, getting clear and answering confusing and uncertainty. Oh and it's also so relaxing! See for yourself why Marie-Eve does these every day!
Safe to say, we're obsessed with Christmas and the holidays! Tune in to find out how to turn a stressful and expensive time into a fun and unique celebration. In this episode, we talk tips and tricks and a bunch of ideas on how to make the best of the festivities. Different ideas on how to spend money, save time, tweak traditions and so much more! Trust us, you don't want to miss this.
Ever get curious about what your sign means? What about the rest of your birth chart? If you're like us, we always were curious about astrology but never knew the extent of how detailed charts can really be. In this episode, Marie-Eve covers the basics of astrology, the sun sign, moon sign and rising sign. She gives tips on how to use astrology on the day to day and so much more!
There are only a few weeks left before 2020. Did you achieve your 2019 goals? Don't give up to soon. This episode is all about goal setting, accomplishing more of the goals you had set out, and plan your 2020 with momentum. Kim Gingras is a professional dancer who has toured the world with artists like Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, to name a few. She's also my sister, which I think is her best accomplishment yet. All jokes aside, she knows how to kick butt when it comes to goal setting and she teaches us to finish 2019 with a bang.
We have some explaining to do. It's been a while since we last posted an episode. First of all, can we just say: we missed you. The first few months of this project has been so incredible and we are just getting started. As summer creeped up on us, we both felt called to turn our attention to our friends and family, connect with nature and disconnect. It was wonderful, but now we're back. We've been putting together incredible episodes so make sure you tune in every Thursday! Till next time, Stay playful!
Safe to say, we spend an incredible amount of time in our cars. Especially if you're like me and you love driving! On average, we spend about 13 hours a week on the road. It got me thinking... If I'm trying to design my dream life and be my best self, what am I doing with those 13 hours a week? And yes, I thought about this in the car (of course!). I've since create a top ten list of things to do in your car that I want you to try! Let's replace that mind chatter and the negative stressful thoughts with something that will light you up!
It may come as no surprise that I adore holidays. What’s not to love? Great food, no work, amazing company, making memories, high spirits, music, and the list goes on and on. I understand that everyone might not share this same passion with me. Family dynamics, already hectic schedules, financial situations, etc... That being said, I think that the real power of holidays isn’t in how perfect they are but in their ability to gather people together and influence people to be present/in the moment. It got me thinking, why stick to the existing holidays? Why not create our own?
When spring time comes around, I get all "new me" vibes. You know what I mean?! It’s definitely a time when I love to plant some seeds, reflect back on what I want to bring with me as I move forward and when I get to dream up fun yummy goals to put into motion. I’ve been doing this for the last couple of weeks (loving it by the way, ugh it feels so good!). In the last weeks, we covered spring cleaning your life and fun exercises to help you picture your dream mentors. This week, it's all about lessons learned. When I got to the part about reflecting back, I realized that there are 3 amazing little nuggets that I want to share with you. Here we go!
It was my birthday last week! Along with celebratory drinks and even better company, there is something I can always count on when my birthday comes around. Spoiler alert: it happens to you too. My solution to this problem? Finding mentors. Oprah defines a mentor as "someone who allows you to see the hope in yourself". We couldn't have said it better ourselves! Tune in to figure out how to find the right mentors for you and why it's such a magical exercise, even if you don't act on it after.
When I first heard about what these guys were doing, I jumped out of bed (true story) and looked at my boyfriend with this overwhelmed look painted all over my face, got all animated and started yelling: "These guys know what life is all about! They got it! They understand!" In this episode, you'll be given examples of fun games you need in your life and tips on how to create them.
When we think spring, we think spring cleaning. Okay, and taxes but let's stay positive, shall we? In today's episode, we'll be talking to you about how to spring clean your life, a well needed detox if you will. If we're being real, we do this a few times a year, so no need to wait for the birds to start chirping again to get a little (inner) house keeping done. Speaking of houses, we know you got the skills when it comes to going all Marie Kondo on your home. So we won't even bother you with that. We're going to be focusing on steps you need to do to reset, refresh and set yourself up for an incredible summer. And life.
We have to start by saying, we are kind of obsessed with this concept. When hearing communal living, your first instincts might be "um, yeah no. I want my own space and I don't want to share my home with other people". We get it. In fact, that was our first reaction too. But we bet that after listening to this episode, you will just tweak a couple of things and adore communal living, the way we do. In this episode, Marie-Eve is joined by the wonderful Melanie Vandersluis. Together, they touch on everything on the "communal living" scale. You're going to love it!
Okay so, you’re on board.You love the concept of reimagining your own rules and can’t wait to apply originality to the mundane stuff.
Thing is, although you’re having this amazing time dreaming up all these possibilities and getting creative with it, what a lot of you guys express is that you’re getting stuck deciding what to pick out of all the new ideas that are coming up and what’s really going to make you the happiest.
Here's how we're going to solve this problem. We're going to walk you through steps that will help you get to know yourself.
The more you get to know yourself, the more detailed you can get, the clearer vision you have of where you want to go and the easier it is to make a choice. A detailed roadmap to yourself will give you a detailed roadmap to where you will be happiest going. Got it?
Okay so, you’re on board.You love the concept of reimagining your own rules and can’t wait to apply originality to the mundane stuff.
Thing is, although you’re having this amazing time dreaming up all these possibilities and getting creative with it, what a lot of you guys express is that you’re getting stuck deciding what to pick out of all the new ideas that are coming up and what’s really going to make you the happiest.
Here's how we're going to solve this problem. We're going to walk you through steps that will help you get to know yourself.
The more you get to know yourself, the more detailed you can get, the clearer vision you have of where you want to go and the easier it is to make a choice. A detailed roadmap to yourself will give you a detailed roadmap to where you will be happiest going. Got it?
We can’t talk about an exciting, blissful, unique and memorable life without touching on the topic of Bucket Lists. In this episode, we shared a few items on our bucket lists with one another, as well as with you! But before we get into it, we couldn’t resist giving you 3 tips and reasons why you should have a bucket list too.
In this episode, we aren't going to talk about what is in your schedule. Instead, we are going to look at the structure of your schedule itself. It's time to free you up from your relationship with time and time management and get you excited to plan your calendar and fill your agenda. Are you ready to for these tips and tricks? Take a listen!
The big day. The people you love the most. Celebration. What does your ideal wedding day look like for you? Well, for Merryn Kritzinger, it was a magical two-day experience that complete mirrored her couple and included her community. Tune in to here about her magical day.
Welcome to our very first episode! Meet the co-founders of the Drawing Bored podcast, Marie-Eve Gingras and Melanie Siciliano. Discover what the Drawing Bored is all about, and why you will love this new podcast.