Navigating Your Best Life!
Hi! I'm Cheryl MacKinnon, host of Navigating Your Best Life - formerly The Wellness Travel Show. Thank you for being here.
"Navigating Your Best Life" focuses on educating and empowering our listeners with credible insights to help you live well, travel well, and become the best versions of yourselves.
Through our podcast, we showcase remarkable wellness travel destinations, recommend and showcase immersive wellness retreats, and share holistic, science-backed medical and nutritional information to help you achieve the best of health and well-being!
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Episodes
22 episodes
Finding Connection to Yourself + Others with Dr Kelly Barnett
In this show, we explore the exceptional benefits to one's health and well-being of attending a doctor-led wellness retreat. I am thrilled to welcome an outstanding guest to the show, our colleague and friend in wellness travel experiences, Dr....
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Horses, Women and Wellness with Evelyn Coggins of Copper Cayuse Outfitters
We've all got a story as this show's guest, Evelyn Coggins, Co-Owner of Copper Cayuse Outfitters in Pemberton, British Columbia, shares with us, and it often weaves and turns in ways we least expect. From an early career start as a high school ...
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How We Can Stay Well on the Road with Wellness Lifestyle Coach, Catherine Roscoe Barr
We are so pleased to welcome back one of our favourite people, Wellness Lifestyle Coach Catherine Roscoe Barr, who will offer guidance and recommendations on maintaining our wellness lifestyle when away from home.We're touching on Cathe...
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Fuel To Love Yourself with Nutritionist, Alyssa Bauman
Ah, the month of love is here. So, let's embrace February with all our hearts and focus on nurturing and being good to ouourselves. By doing so, we will be better able to care for those we love - our partners, our families, our friends an...
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30:05
Alyssa Bauman, Wellness Warrior & Holistic Registered Nutritionist
Be Well Celebrating the Holiday Season!From office parties and client appreciation dos, to kids' parties and Christmas plays, it’s the busiest time of the year and the easiest time to derail from a healthy lifestyle. So what...
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Leading with Wellness at Oak Bay Beach Hotel
What a pleasure to have this conversation about wellness and hospitality with Madone Pelan, General Manager of the exquisite Oak Bay Beach Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. During our time together, Madone shares the history of this w...
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Sleep, Like a Baby - With Wellness Coach Catherine Roscoe Barr
My inbox has been filled lately with wellness press releases and newsletters featuring 'sleep.' It is one of the most widely craved comforts, yet it is often so unattainable to fall asleep and stay asleep.My guest, the luminous Cathe...
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Kickstart a Delicious Life with Catherine Roscoe Barr, Neuroscience based Wellness Coach
The Life Delicious Founder, Catherine Roscoe Barr, knows what she coaches as she holds a deep-rooted desire, complemented by education and life experiences that emerged following a neuroscience degr...
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Women & Wellness with Nutricuetical Expert, Dionne Walach
Finally in the year, 2023, women’s reproductive health is no longer ‘in the closet’.Kicking off the conversation around women, travel, and our sense of well-being, this week we talk about women’s health at all ages. From menstruation to men...
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BC Lodging & Campgrounds Association
If COVID-19 and the pandemic of 2020 have done any good this year, it has introduced camping throughout British Columbia as one of the best cures for what ails us. This type of travel literally exploded in the summer of 2020, and in fact,...
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21:36
Embracing Wellness By Living the Slow Life
An inspired conversation with Patrick J. Spencer, Marketing Manager with Halycon Hot Springs Resort, to learn what this means during a pandemic! With bragging rights to some of the world’s most restorative hot springs, Halycon Hot Springs...
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Let’s Welcome Canada to Canada & Other Bucket List Stuff!
An engaging conversation with a great lady I call the unofficial ambassador for Canada’s Yukon Territory! Deb Ryan of Air North, Yukon's airline, will have you spellbound, then daydreaming about places to discover in this great land and i...
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Episode 11
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A Rainforest Recharge to Rest and Rejuvenation Exploring Indigenous Culture
Join me with my guest, Keith Henry, CEO of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada as we talk health and wellbeing for the Indigenous tourism sector across Canada. Our country has some of the most interesting and culturally diverse t...
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Episode 10
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Fishing, For Solutions and More
With leadership roles in globally recognized companies such as Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Boutique Hotels & Resorts of B.C., Watermark Beach Resort, Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, Destination British Columbia, and Canadian Vacatio...
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Episode 8
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Ice Cream and Other Small Indulgences During a Pandemic
COVID-19 has all but decimated tourism in British Columbia. While industry stakeholders are known for their resourcefulness and resiliency, the unimaginable loss in revenues, staff and in some cases, the return to operations as a direct r...
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Episode 7: Travel to Wellness in Thompson Okanagan, British Columbia
A favourite getaway for recharging is to the Thompson Okanagan region of British Columbia. Lakes for a quiet paddle, ski hills where the fresh mountain air invigorates, a desert with vistas to calm the mind, to wineries where a small indu...
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Episode 6: Be prepared then head for wellness ... Harrison Hot Springs
How things have changed since we launched our site in late November 2019. Opening with podcasts describing a ‘natural high’ wellness getaway only 90 minutes outside of Vancouver, we would never have imagined the changes that lay ahead. In this ...
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Episode 5: Tourism Recovery is Possible By 2023
Rick Antonson, former CEO of Tourism Vancouver (he retired after 20 years leading this world-class DMO), NY Times Bestselling Author, Global Speaker and visionary joins Cheryl for a robust conversation about the future of tourism. Rick’s ...
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Episode 2: Winter Peace & Serenity
with Ted Swaine, General Manager, Sandpiper Resort – Rowena’s Inn on the RiverSurrounded by one of nature’s purest settings – skyscraping cedars and a gently flowing river that slips by the doorstep of the Inn and its cabins – o...
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Episode 4:Year-Round, Just Breathe
with Eric Towne, Sales & Marketing Director, Harrison Hot Springs ResortFor over 100 years, guests have been visiting Harrison Hot Springs Resort for the healing powers of its five hot mineral pools and the serenity of its n...
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Episode 3: Real Relaxation
with Kerstin Auer, Director of Marketing and Sales, Echo Valley Ranch & SpaThink about the last time you turned off your digital ’stuff’ and felt a calm sense of being wash over you. Or when you last leaned against a fence o...
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Episode 1: Forest Bathing, Fishing & Fa La La La La
with Robert Reyerse, Executive Director, Tourism HarrisonOutdoor experiences communing with nature’s bounty are the touchpoints of a rejuvenating getaway. For decades, Harrison Hot Springs has invited Vancouverites and internati...
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