The Ruth Montgomery Show: Recent Episodes
Ruth Montgomery
A collection of inspiring interviews with change-makers and everyday Mavens! Join me each week as we create a space for vulnerability and curiosity to meet!
Here's a quick mini episode, reminding you of just how resourced you are. Where do you have access to what you are already desiring?
Reminding you to step back, and look at what is right in front of you!
Much love, Ruth
What a year this has been! It's time for new conversations, and it feels important to share with you some of my biggest shifts and lessons from this past year. Join me as I reflect on this past year:
- Selling my home and stepping out of my cocoon
- Backpacking through Europe when the world told me I "shouldn't" for three months
- The lessons I found in traveling Portugal, Italy, Spain - worth the listen just for these! From human connection & like minded people, doorways, tiles, a Reiki session in Italy, The Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Writing my book (letting it come through me) in Italy with Astrocartography
- Being in flow and giving myself the flexibility to go where I needed to go
- Visiting Scotland & England (and the heart chakra of the world)
- Winter Reflection in Canada
- My forced pause (with a broken shoulder requiring rotator cuff surgery) & surrendering to the lesson
- Asking what am I supposed to learn from this?
Thank you for listening, for joining me on this journey. I am so grateful for each and every one of you that take time to listen to this! xo Ruth
Joining me this week is Jennie Schimanski, an Intuitive and Reiki Master. In this episode, we talk about re-connecting to your authentic self and remembering the gifts and the knowledge you already have within you. We cover Reiki, Past Lives and The All Game.
We talk about how important it is to find the root of our patterns and our beliefs. Jennie reminds us that the beliefs we have grown up with might be great, but they might not be ours.
Jennie teaches us about past lives, and how you can start to tap into this information yourself (through your dreams & movies you watch). Jennie shares that Past Life Information is a reason why we do some things, but it is not meant to be an excuse as to why we can continue. "Trusting that your soul has put you where you're supposed to be to figure it out...and work with what you've got, until you can create what you want."
Find and Follow:
Facebook: Choose Joy - Jennie Schimanski
Website: jennieschimanski.ca
Joining me this week is Natalie Walstein is a career astrologist who works with creative souls and spiritual seekers to help them align their life and career with the cosmos! Natalie shares with us what Astrology is, and how your astrological birth chart can explain who you really are and what you are here to do.
Natalie explains the significance of your Sun, Moon and Rising signs, as well as what the different houses mean in Astrology. We talk about moon cycles - specifically new and full moon rituals, overcoming fears, and stepping into alignment with our soul calling!
Find and Follow:
Instagram: @soulshineastrology
Website: soulshineastrology.com
Cosmic Community: Cosmic Community
Work with Natalie: Cosmic Career Blueprint
Joining me this week is Kate Hazlitt, a Naturopathic Doctor who helps women who are disconnected to return to a state of bliss.
In this episode, we talk about connecting to our authentic self. Looking at our body, mind and spirit connection to see where we are out of alignment, and the clues our body is trying to give us using compassion inquiry. We talk about reacting to our lives versus responding to our lives - and recognizing that we have a choice in how we show up. We look at Witness Consciousness, as the ability to step back and see from a birds' eye view to gain perspective on what is really going on. We also look at attachment, and inner programming that is no longer serving us or perhaps not even ours. And we dive into how the ego and Imposter Syndrome shows up for us both, and what we do when that happens.
This offers so much insight into the inner workings of self. And as Kate says, "Give yourself permission to pause, and inquire with compassion...and to really examine...and be curious." To allow yourself to understand that you have access to bliss at anytime!
To Find and Follow:
goodearthcentre.com
Facebook: Kate Hazlitt
Instagram: Dr. Kate Hazlitt, ND
This 15 minute guided meditation will allow you to connect, opening up your channel as you open up your chakras. Allowing you to witness the feeling of your energy moving through you as you connect to Universal Source energy!
Recognizing that you have the power within you!
Your soul is your essence. The piece of you that knows everything will work out better than you could imagine! Your ego's job is to keep you save, to keep you in your comfort zone. Picture that cute little devil and angel on your shoulders trying to guide you through life!
In this episode, Ruth talks about normalizing hearing voices and questioning your beliefs, and stepping out of the box that your ego keeps you in as you learn to trust your soul!
"You get to have whatever your heart desires when you listen to your soul and are in soul alignment. But if you don't know what your soul even wants how are you ever going to get that? You have to do the work to learn to trust your soul, to give your sould the power to speak up louder, to start showing itself to you, louder so that you can hear it and listen. And so that you can trust it."
Michelle Goodman, an Empowerment Coach who likes to work with Spiritual Badass Female Entrepreneurs joins me this week to talk about our Emotions! Michelle shares with us Conscious Communication - a tool on how to communicate based on what you really want. And most importantly, how to determine what it is that you actually want.
Michelle has over 25 years of experience as an Acupuncturist and uses Human Design to help clients recognize their emotions and works to re-program and connect who they think they are to who they are truly meant to be. In this episode, Michelle also explains what EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is, and explains the waves of our emotions!
Find and Follow:
Instagram: @theempoweredbliss
Facebook: Michelle Goodman
Clubhouse @10AM Fridays!
Joining me this week is Jannette Anderson, The Why Whisperer, Founder of Bodacity & International Speaker and Business Coach.
People want to work with those who have similar values, approaches and styles. People they resonate with. Beyond that, as entrepreneurs and business professionals, if you don’t know why you are working so hard, life can become an endless series of ‘have-to’s and ‘should’s’. Inspired leaders are both motivated by, and inspire with, their WHY!
In this episode, Jannette shares 3 ways to gain clarity about your "why", and the importance of understanding your value. She reminds us that we are valuable simply for being here, meaning our value is completely separate from the value we provide in our business.
Find and Follow:
Bodacity.ca
Bodacity Unleashed Conference - April 16-18, 2021. Use code: BODACITY for 50% discount!
BONUS: Complimentary Why Whisperer Call
Bodacity's Action Heroes Facebook Group
Simon Sinek's "Start With Why"
Joining me this week is Lisa Elle, Certified Financial Planner, Author and Founder of The Wealth Collective!
We talk about making money fun and what romantic comedy inspired the creation of Lisa's book, "Strut"! Lisa also shares some of the money blocks and fear that often stop people, and a few tips on where to look to see if you have unclaimed money that you didn't know about (this is gold!)!
We talk about how our energy affects our ability to receive money, how money is energy, how it trickles into so many other areas of our life, and how you can start to welcome in more abundance with tools like, The Wealth Collective!
To Find & Follow:
For Lisa's Book: Strut
Access to The Wealth Collective
Lisa's New Client From with Ellements Group
Financial Bliss Freebies
Find Lisa on Instagram: @Lisa_Elle
Money Makeover Podcast
"No one's self love journey looks the same. There is absolutely no one that you can compare it to, piece by piece. You can take inspiration from other people's self-love journeys and you can use that as a guide. But ultimately, self-love comes from a place of trusting your own intuition and self [appreciation]."
When self-love feels foreign or inauthentic, we can find the blessing in self-appreciation as we start to embrace all that we are!
Joining me this week is Sadie Al, Co-Owner of Sleepers Bed Gallery who is passionate about local living. We talk about the ripple effect that supporting local businesses has on our communities, and the beauty in collaborating and creating together!
Sadie shares some advice on how to get a better night sleep and she will amaze you with how quick we are to overcomplicate sleep and the excuses we tell ourselves.
We also talk about life as an entrepreneur, a few of the highs and the lessons we've learned. We talk about learning to set the hours that work for you, giving yourself permission to do it differently, and how valuable setting boundaries is for your work life balance and in turn - your sleep.
Find and Follow Sadie:
Instagram: @sleepersbedgallery and @localliving_
Facebook: SleepersBedGallery
Website: sleepersbedgallery.com
Joining me this week is Rebecca Ann, a Divine Intuitive Healer, Priestess & Wealth Leader. Rebecca shares with us what a Priestess is, and how to know if you are a Priestess! She shares with us her journey to becoming a Priestess and the importance of following the nudges - however unusual they may feel at first!
We touch on goddesses, ancient intuitive knowledge, and our ability to remember (and heal) past lives. We talk about trusting the process, and allowing life to unfold as it's meant to! This is a magical episode, one you do not want to miss!
To Find and Follow:
Instagram: @the_rebecca_ann
Facebook: Rebecca Ann
Website: therebeccaann.com/
Podcast: Healer Unleashed
Joining me this week is Kim Hagle from Radiant Vitality Wellness. Kim is a mom of four, Personal Trainer, Registered Holistic Nutritionist and host of The Joyful Movement Show podcast.
This week we talk about motivation and willpower, and the three main things that contribute to having motivation. We talk about setting goals based on chasing a feeling, not the outcome and how important our thoughts are when it comes to re-framing exercise as movement.
To Find & Follow Kim:
Instagram: @radiantvitalitywellness
Facebook: Radiant Vitality
Website: radiantvitality.ca
Podcast: The Joyful Movement Show
Free Guide: The Motivation Secret
Join Ruth Montgomery this week as she talks about changing directions, releasing who we once thought we were and allowing our identity to change as we grow.
As humans we are constantly evolving and adapting to new ideas and perceptions of ourselves - through careers, hobbies, skills, and roles within the family and our relationships to other people. Ruth shares her journey with releasing the idea that she was only a designer, and how that identity has shifted over the years to become a piece of her, not her entire identity. She reminds us that it's okay as we grow and we evolve for it to be messy. Not everyone is going to understand and they don't need to, because at the end of the day this journey is about you.
Welcome to The Ruth Montgomery Show, Season 2 of the formerly named, The Maven Project Podcast!
This episode explains why the name of this podcast has changed, and what Ruth is manifesting as a big picture dream! Join Ruth this week as she shares how she manifested being in the same room as Ellen (twice), Oprah (& her BFF Gayle), and the Queen of England!
This episode will encourage you to continue to up-level and move towards your dreams, through specific and simplified goals!
A compilation of words of wisdom from all of this season's guests! There have been so many great takeaways this season and I am so grateful, to you, our listener, for being apart of this, and to our guests for all that they shared and their willingness to show up vulnerably.
To listen to the full conversations, be sure to go back and listen to each episode, but for now, the perfect messages to take us into the new year!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Joining me this week is Erika Eileen, a sex and confidence coach. We talk about the life-long journey and the many layers of gaining confidence, from setting boundaries and the fear of missing out (FOMO), to honouring your goals and the ability to make decisions for yourself. We talk about allowing your identity to grow with you and the impact that listening to other people's lived experiences can have.
Erika shares her story of becoming a confidence coach, including her journey with being diagnosed at the age of 7 with Type 1 Diabetes, being a dancer at a young age, traveling abroad, and how a gender equality course in University pivoted her professional career.
This episode has something for everyone - and reminders we all need to hear!
Trigger Warning: Disordered Eating
Find and Follow Erika:
Instagram: @erikasconfidenceco
Tik Tok: @erikasconfidenceco
Website: https://erikasconfidence.co/
With the end of 2020 just days away, this is a great time of year to reflect on all that you've accomplished and learned this year! Ruth shares her tradition of looking over the year to create lists of the year's highlights, accomplishments, lessons, themes, and a few ideas for setting goals in 2021 - it's not your typical goal setting method!
There is so much joy in this season and in the opportunities this year to look at your traditions and holiday experiences to see where you get the most enjoyment from! It's potentially an opportunity to create new traditions, and to amplify the joy of the holiday season for years to come!
Wishing you the happiest of holidays this year!
Joining me this week is Christina Wahi (she/her)! Christina talks about fat phobia, life experience in a larger body type and the layers of wellness or being unwell. We talk about the importance of the language we use, how hurtful "feeling fat" can be and how to be an advocate for yourself and your wellbeing!
Christina came out publicly this year at the age of 37 as Queer and Bisexual. She shares her story, the importance of labels, and reminds us that "we need to be open to the concept that the label that you use for yourself right now isn't always going to be the appropriate label to define yourself with later."
Find and Follow Christina:
On Instagram at: @muddled.mama
This week is a solo episode with your host Ruth Montgomery. Talking about self-love, Ruth shares a recent experience with a photoshoot and how using that helped to create more self-awareness in her body. She shares tools you can use to bring more self-love and body awareness into your day to day!
This episode is a reminder that you deserve to love the body that you're in and you deserve to show yourself that compassion and excitement just for showing up in the world!
Joining me this week is Diane Liska, Registered Psychotherapist and Certified Yoga Teacher. We talk about what emotional cycles are and how they can get stuck in our body - and how it can show up in injuries or inflammation. Diane explains what trauma is, and how our nervous system responds in fight, flight or freeze mode.
This week we dive into the importance of mind-body connection through embodied movement and talk about treating our bodies with compassion as we start to uncover what it is our body is trying to teach us!
Find and Follow Diane:
www.dianeliska.com/
On Facebook: @dianeliska.yoga.psychotherapy
On Instagram: @dianeliska.yoga.psychotherapy
Joining me today is Shanterra McBride. Shanterra is an author, teacher, speaker, preacher and Founder of Marvelous University, but most importantly she is passionate about connecting with people and telling people the truth.
We talk about trusting your intuition, the power of vulnerability in relationships, allowing ourselves to have a fluid purpose and letting go of the desire to seek permission in asking for what we want.
"The only way that we are going to change the world is by having the conversations and being in partnership and community with each other." This is a conversation about creating change, systemic racism, white privilege and the importance of human to human connection.
Find and Follow Shanterra:
marvelousuniversity.com
Instagram: @marvelous_shanterra
Twitter: @shanterramcb
Today's guest is Alexis Dempsey, Anxiety Nutritionist and Owner of Flourish and Fettle. We are talking about anxiety and how our gut health, and the food we eat can impact it. We cover the idea of what is considered "Normal" vs. "Normalized" when it comes to our health and how to find the tools that work for you to flourish!
To Find and Follow Alexis:
Flourish and Fettle on Instagram
Download Ditch The Anxiety - 3-Day Meal Plan Freebie
Joining me this week is Bill Elliott, a good person, who is passionate about powerlifting, music and is here to share part of his story. Bill has had lifelong health problems which have led to two open heart surgeries by the age of 34, yet an awareness of his body that allowed him to deadlift 545lbs.
In this episode, we talk about expectation management, and discuss long term goals vs. plans. Bill shares how his health has allowed him the time to self-reflect and has created a unique perspective on asking for help, receiving help and the idea of helplessness. This is an episode you don't want to miss!
Find and Follow Bill:
Instagram: @musclebill
Facebook: Muscle Bill
Instagram: Maximum Meathead Podcast
Cait Hamilton, joins me this week as we share some of our biggest lessons from being Entrepreneurs.
An episode about finding community, accepting and seeking support outside of yourself when needed, and learning to trust when you need to go within. We talk about hustling with heart, the seasons of rejection, goal setting and how to show up as a leader for your team and, most importantly, for yourself.
This is an episode for everyone, as Cait says, "entrepreneurship is essentially an embodiment of you becoming the best version of yourself".
Book Recommendation: Rise Sister Rise, by Rebecca Campbell
Find and Follow Cait:
Instagram: @caitdhamilton
Facebook: Cait Hamilton
Joining me this week is Paige Ballagh, a creative artist, business owner, performer and poet. From creating a patchwork quilt life through curious actions and play to finding joy in a pandemic! We talk about the the value of individual art, internal vs. external validation, how to follow your internal compass and learning to trust your gut without asking for permission.
To Find and Follow Paige:
For Paige’s album, songwriting sessions and kid workbooks: www.paigeballagh.com
For musical theatre info: www.studio410.ca
Live music info: www.thecrewcanada.com
This week I am talking with Ryan Antooa, a creative artist, photographer and poet. We talk about pushing our comfort zones, our view on taking on new experiences, and embracing opportunities. From traveling solo, to the upside of heartbreak and suffering, what the creative process looks like for each of us, finding the unique art within and everything in between.
To Find and Follow Ryan:
Ryan Antooa on Instagram
RyanAntooa.com
Better In Tune With The Infinite
Channel Blue: January 2021
Nicole Kelley joins me this week to talk about diet culture and the process of un-dieting to gain body confidence and enhanced self-love!
From creating community and connection while going through a break-up to manifesting a partner - we talk about learning to trust that it is all working out exactly as it's meant to. In this episode, we cover what it really means to manifest something, what it looks like to be tested - because you will be tested, the importance of creating joy in your daily life and celebrating with grace as we move through these life lessons.
Recommended Book: The F*ck-It Diet" by Caroline Dooner.
Find and Follow Nicole Here:
Instagram: @n_kelley2
Facebook: Nicole Kelley
Joining me this week is Laura Siebert, Life Coach, Retreat Co-ordinator and Founder of The Society of The Unladylike.
From back-packing mountain trails, to stilettos and pole dancing, Laura focuses on freeing women from the "shoulds" of life.
I "should" be doing this, I "should" look like that - says who? We talk about connecting and checking in with who you are in this moment, and the importance of allowing how you define yourself to change as you evolve and grow. From celebrating the small moments in life, to tips on how to start moving towards a new goal - this episode is full of empowered knowledge! You don't want to miss this one!
Find and follow Laura here:
Society of The Unladylike AF
180 Health
www.facebook.com/LSiebert
www.instagram.com/180.health
An episode of reflection on the last few months, and trusting that everything falls into place exactly as it should. Knowing how to recognize the signs, and trust the nudges as you venture out into your soul journey! I'm learning how to trust, and allow my wings to grow as I learn to fly - and I'm hoping this will resonate with you, as you reflect on your own journey!
The concept of you only know what you know, is a myth! There is so much knowledge out there for us to learn. Join Ruth as she expands on a simple business visual to understand just how much!
It may seem slightly confusing at first, but stick with me, as I break down the idea of what you know you know and what you don't know you know. Confused, yet? I promise to make this super clear! Take a listen.
Host, Ruth Montgomery, shares a chapter of her story as she explains why The Maven Project was created. There are a few reasons that led to the creation from lack of community, questions of self-worth, the desire to show up vulnerably as an entrepreneur and the grief of a loved one.
Dr. Lesley Johnston shares her journey to becoming a Naturopathic Doctor. Lesley explains how going through her own insecurities lead her to a path of Self-Love and Compassion. We discuss the importance of Mind-Body Connection, the value in Bowen Therapy and the knowledge she gained from making decisions based in love instead of fear. This episode is filled with so much insight and inspiration!
Find Her & Follow Her:
Instagram: @simplelifend
Facebook: Simple Life Naturopathic - Dr. Lesley Johnston, ND
Website: www.simplelifenaturopathic.com
Book: The Importance of Being Love
Ruth explains what a Maven is, and how each of us has the ability to be a maven, simply by sharing our story from a point of vulnerability.
An introduction to what a maven is and how to embrace your inner maven! In this solo episode, Ruth Montgomery gives insight into the theories that started The Maven Project, and how each of us has a valuable story worth sharing!