The Other Side
"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home
Nadine has been talking for 47 years, and en route to pickleball can be overheard asking "So, what's your deepest wound?" Not known for her subtleties, she's a born story-collector and learned storyteller who decided to mic-up and take you along for the ride.
Listen in as Nadine chats with folks about their lives, zeroing in on those messy parts as we get ourselves from one point to another. Covering things like friendships, careers, deaths, and divorces. There's nothing she won't ask in hopes that other people's experiences can help you through your own.
We're not experts; we're just humans having a human experience we think you can learn from. Or relate to. Or laugh at. Or cry over.
So hit download, dive in, and hear how folks found themselves on THE OTHER SIDE.
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Episodes
39 episodes
TOS of Chat with Mom & Sis on 77 Years of Living!
What does 77 years of living actually look like? Mom will tell you, and she won't sugarcoat it either. This month mom and sis join Nadine and they get into the big stuff - what years were actually easy (spoiler alert: none of them, ...
TOS of Infant Loss, Part 2
Content warning: infant lossPart 2 of 2 with the wonderful Emma Mitchell. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there first.We pick up right where we left off, inside the NICU, where Emma spent every single day wit...
TOS of Infant Loss
Content warning: infant lossEmma Mitchell is Evie's mom. She's also a pickleball obsessive, a Canadian music lover, a former open mic host, and one of the most honest and open humans I've had the pleasure of sitting across from....
TOS of PR
What happens when the rug gets pulled out from under you? Amira believes you were always meant to land exactly where you did.This week, listen in as Nadine sits down with Amira de Vera, entertainment publicist and founder of
TOS of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande w/ Mom & Sis
They're backkkkkkkk. The last Wednesday of the month means mom and sis join Nadine for a conversation that starts with a laundry disagreement and ends with all three of them in tears. This one is special <3It began with a simple idea,...
TOS of Real Estate with GoodStory
Jen Alvarenga was 18 years old when she left Honduras for Ottawa with a plan - get an education, go back home and work for the family business. That was over two decades ago and well, she's still here and she's shaping her adopted city with as ...
TOS of Becoming a Mother at 40
What happens when the woman who spent years telling her partner that having kids was a 'dealbreaker' suddenly finds herself in her mid-30s wanting the exact thing she'd been against her entire life? Meet Brittany Gordon, a holistic nutritionist...
TOS of Vincent Boutique
This week sisters Angie and Amanda Cambareri, owners of Vincent Boutique in Ottawa, Ontario, join Nadine for a candid chat about closet staples, owning a clothing store, and how they protect their tight bond while also ensuring they make the ne...
TOS of the Music Industry
Calling all music lovers! This week Nadine welcomes Erin Benjamin - mom, golfer, former touring singer-songwriter, and now President & CEO of the Canadian Live Music Association - for a wide-r...
TOS of a Chat with Mom & Sis on Bucket Lists, Wills, Death & Vacations!
They're backkkkkkkk <3 The last Wednesday of the month means mom and sis join Nadine for another funny, candid chat that starts with favourite breakfasts and spirals into bigger life questions. Bucket lists. When Nadine admits he...
TOS of a Single Mother by Choice
In a candid conversation, Donna - an artist, musician, and mom - shares what she’s loving lately in music (Louis Tomlinson, thanks to her nine-year-old daughter) before diving into the story behind her decision to choose to become a single moth...
TOS of the Camera Lens
In this week's episode Nadine chats with Ottawa portrait, brand, and commercial photographer Amanda Thirkill about road-trip music, growing up in Sudbury with summers on Manitoulin Island, and how her dad's film-camera candids sparked her love ...
TOS of Astrology
On this episode Nadine welcomes Ottawa-based astrologer, Sarah Goldsmith, to the pod to explore astrology as a tool for mindfulness, storytelling, and personal growth rather than certainty. They chat about Sarah's background, how sh...
TOS of a 50+ Year Love Story
Mom and sis are back, and this week we asked mom how she managed to stay in love with the same person for over 50 years - our dad <3Though she says there's no magic formula, she tells us of the importance of trust, mutual respect, bei...
TOS of Miscarriage
This week we talk with Lori Brooks, a dear friend of Nadine's who graciously came onto the pod to talk about what it means to live through repeated loss on the road to becoming a mom. Lori always knew she wanted kids, and after expe...
TOS of Tarot (& an Erin Update <3)
Erin is back! If you haven't listened to Erin's first TOS podcast, TOS of a Cancer Diagnosis, go have a listen to episode #2 and prepare to fall in love with her. She's incredibly special, and smart, and interesting, and here to tell us how's s...
TOS of Retirement
How does it feel to reach the age of retirement when you’ve spent your career strongly identifying with your profession? What happens when our value becomes untangled from what we ‘do’ to who we actually are? How do folks navigate that shift an...
TOS of a Chat with Mom & Sis on Movement & Community
Mom & sis are back for a light-hearted discussion about our own personal fitness stories, sharing how different forms of movement like running, Pilates, and dance classes impact our lives. In a world where everything feels quit...
TOS of Influencing
This week's lively discussion is brought to you by Chantal Sarkisian, an Armenian-Canadian influencer better known as Chantsy online! Listen in as Nadine and Chan...
TOS of Entrepreneurship (the not-so-pretty-side!)
In this week's episode of The Other Side Pod, Karla Briones hops on to chat about the side of entrepreneurship that isn't so pretty. The burnout. The decisions we make when we lose connection with our...
TOS of an Olympic Athlete
It's the first pod of 2026 and what better way to start a new year than a conversation with Florence Maheu; Canadian slalom kayaker, Olympian, and just the loveliest human with a refreshing perspective on life.Recently retired from an 18...
TOS of a Chat with Mom & Sis for NYE
Happy New Year's Eve from mom, sis and I! Join us for this special holiday episode to hear our thoughts and expectations for this coming New Year, as well as anecdotes about past resolutions, generational differences in goal setting...
TOS of the Cash Register
On this nostalgic Christmas Eve, sisters Nadine and Danielle, along with their cousin, Amy, share their memorable, often chaotic experiences working at a housewares and gift shop in St. John's, Newfoundland during their high school and universi...
TOS of Dead Parents 2.0 'The Holiday Special'!
Mandie Vossenberg is back on the pod to talk about dead parents, but make it festive?!The holidays bring about a lot of feelings, especially if you've lost someone, so Nadine and Mandie wanted to share how they've been feeling in hopes t...