Season 1
Sept. 28, 2023
Work/Life Balance – the Teeter Totter Principle | LAYC06
Balance, by definition, means status quo. It's a flat line, nothing is happening. If you think that you can succeed in moving forward and growing, evolving, living a full life, and neither one of these are moving; your profe…
Aug. 4, 2023
Can You Bank On Your Friendships | LAYC25
Dr. Stephen R. Covey used a great metaphor for close relationships as joint emotional bank accounts. “By proactively doing things that build trust in a relationship, one makes ‘deposits.’ Conversely, by reactively doing thi…
July 31, 2023
REAL Friends | LAYC08
Let’s continue our conversation begun in Episode 07 about friendships and why that is something that's very important in every woman's life. Previously, I shared a very personal and painful story about a breakup of a friends…
July 31, 2023
BFF Not Forever | LAYC07
BFFs are meant to stay forever - or maybe not. As we go through life not all friendships are forever and sometimes the end comes before you expect it. Let’s talk about why that hurts so much and why you feel it even to this …
July 28, 2023
Expiry Date - Remastered | LAYC33
What is your expiry date? Seriously! Isn't that how society has planned it for us as women in our sixties and beyond, when we reach the “a certain age” stage, we are supposed to just go gently into that sweet night of obsole…
July 21, 2023
Origin Story of Lift As You Climb | LAYC11
“GO AHEAD – START A MOVEMENT!” I remember vividly where and when I heard that challenge and the electricity it triggered throughout my body! Instinctively, I knew in that precise moment my life, at age 60, was about to have …
Jan. 12, 2022
Lift Like Betty White | LAYC43
LIFT LIKE BETTY - Lift As You Climb like Betty White Betty White’s imprint on our lives is indelible. Almost 100 years of living and millions of reasons she will be remembered for many lifetimes. Let’s Be More Like Betty! H…
Oct. 20, 2021
Change of Address | LAYC42
Hello, Eh!... Isn't that what you expected?... Now that I'm in Canada? Oh yes, good natured Canadians always get a chuckle out of how we are believed to add Eh... To the end of everything. This is Isabel Banerjee, checking i…
Oct. 13, 2021
Irreconcilable Change | LAYC41
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines irreconcilable difference as the inability to agree on most things or important things. In my case, as for many ‘Grey Divorces’, that was the reason cited for the reason to end our marriage…
Oct. 6, 2021
Unpacking Change | LAYC40
How many boxes do you need to pack to move on with your life? How much baggage will you drag forward with you, ensuring the unresolved issues, disappointments, and regrets from your past take up space in your future? Listen …
Sept. 29, 2021
Grieving Change | LAYC39
Eyes wide shut. I refused to acknowledge the change that was coming at me like a freight train. I refused to take responsibility for my part in this change. I lied to myself that everything was just fine. Just a rough patch.…
Sept. 22, 2021
Change Your Mind | LAYC38
CHANGE YOUR MIND Change Your Mind. Change Your Future. Change Your Attitude. Change Your Relationship. Change Your Relationship With Your Self. Change Your Paradigm. As women, we've been teased about changing our minds as ea…
Sept. 11, 2021
Change Decoded | LAYC37
Change Decoded – My System for Difficult Decisions Often even when our circumstances, and our gut, tell us it is time, even absolutely necessary, to make a change, we struggle to make the decision and act on it. I developed …
Sept. 8, 2021
Because I said I Would - Remastered | LAYC36
I really had to drag my ass out of bed this morning. And that says something because I am a morning person. I do love waking up before the sun. I love beginning the day when it's quiet out there in the world, and I start to …
Sept. 1, 2021
Driving Change on a Road Trip | LAYC35
If your nose is pressed to the glass, it’s impossible to see much, and at best, you have a distorted picture of your reality. You might even end up cross-eyed! With a myopic or shortsighted view of your life, you literally c…
Aug. 25, 2021
Womanhood Wonderland - Remastered | LAYC34
Alice in Wonderland isn’t the only one having trouble fitting into her circumstances and environment frequently. As a woman, evolving, transforming, and growing to fit the part for my next stage of life, business idea, perso…
Aug. 11, 2021
Still Loving My Selfie, Love Thy Selfie Remastered | LAYC32
I am travelling for a month, visiting family, dear friends and colleagues in Canada, and spending some reflection time with Me, Myself and I. I love road trips, and as a safe driver should, I frequently glance in the rearvie…
Aug. 4, 2021
The Essence of Lift As You Climb - The 5 "E" Themes | LAYC31
The original recording and release of this episode took place in March, 2021 . Now merely 4 months later... So much has changed and happened, that I felt it was time to re release this episode for you. Additionally, techn…
July 28, 2021
Stuck In The MUCK | LAYC30
Stuck In The Muck Here I grow again! But not without resistance and getting a little dirty. In this episode, I come clean about how it feels to resist the urge to struggle against fear, frustration, and the imposter syndrome…
July 21, 2021
ROCK YOUR AGE with Ashton Applewhite | LAYC29
When are we too old or too young, or when it is too late or too soon, to change our perceptions, expectations, and attitudes about aging? When are we the right age to embrace that aging is an achievement and a benefit to soc…
July 14, 2021
Kissing a Beautiful Future Hello with Jenn Harper | LAYC28
More than just lip service to Indigenous Beauty Jennifer Harper, edgy girl, alcoholic transformed to CEO change maker, exemplifies Lifting As You Climb, and tireless building of success ladders for many, along her own journe…
July 7, 2021
Once Upon a Time | LAYC27
The expression ‘Once Upon a Time’ may conjure up thoughts of a time when things were different, perhaps better, or at least simpler. Generally, these are times fondly or romantically remembered but not always. Once Upon a Ti…
June 30, 2021
We FIX You Industries | LAYC26
Do you feel like big corporations and trending influencers, coaches, and practitioners are intent on making us feel “less than”, not good enough, and that we need fixing or remaking into their idea of valued members of socie…
June 16, 2021
Caregiver, Mess, and Masterpiece with Lisa Zawrotny | LAYC24
You don’t become a better caregiver by sacrificing your own self-care. In this interview, Lisa Zawrotny shares bittersweet and challenging life experiences of a ‘Sandwich Generation” caregiver. Falling primarily on the shoul…