The Other Side
"Nadine sure likes to talk" - every report card she brought home.
Which is ironic because this whole show is really about listening and asking the questions other interviewers skip. It doesn't take an expert or a guest who's survived something tragic to make that work - it simply requires someone willing to be real. Because everyone has a real story if you're willing to ask for it.
An Olympic athlete figuring out who she is after competitive sports. A mother describing the 118 days she got with a daughter who was born four months too early and didn't survive. A business owner rebuilding after everything fell apart and Nadine's own mom and sister on what makes a family actually enjoy each other's company.
No script. No formula. No niche. Just real conversations that go past the rehearsed answer - because she's honest first, so her guests can be too.
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Episodes
56 episodes
Learn to listen to whispers before they become a scream
Two hours after giving birth at home, Sammi Dreiling passed out and lost her pulse. That's the day that started her hardest year - the one where losing her dad a month later and watching a ...
Give up or show up?
Clarissa Arthur spent her early teenage years angry. The skipping school, running away, in and out of trouble with the police kind of angry. Then 3 weeks after she turned 17, standing in the bathroom at her high school, she found out she was pr...
No decision is final. This doctor keeps proving it
Dr. Sam Hetz cold-emailed three Ottawa clinics that were offering Botox, asking for ten minutes of their time. One doctor graciously said yes, changing the direction of Sam's life. A decade...
She hid her narcolepsy for years. Going public changed everything
Michelle Weger fell asleep at a microscope in her first year of university and woke up with two black eyes. It took five years before anyone figured out why.As Michelle talks about living with narcolepsy we speak about the tendency to hi...
"We didn't speak for 10 years. Then she showed up with a pie"
My mom is 77. Her closest friends are four women she met when she was 16 and for almost a decade of their lives, she barely spoke to them.I went into this conversation expecting a nice story about a friend group that's lasted 60+ years. ...
Diagnosed with incurable cancer and suddenly all that mattered became abundantly clear
Erin McHarge was a 27 year old PhD student going about her life when she was told she has stage 4B endometrial cancer - and it's incurable. But this isn't a "cancer episode". It's a conversation with someone more curious about her o...
She lost two parents in under one year - it was brutal, but it sure made her funny
One of the most downloaded episodes in the history of this show - and it's the very first one I ever recorded <3My friend Mandie lost her mom to cancer, and then her stepdad, 11 months later. Two parents, back to back, in under a year...
Who are you when your career ends?
He spent 25 years inside some of the highest-stakes rooms in the Canadian government and he still describes himself as "not really a social guy."This past January Nadine sat down with Fraser Valentine to talk about what happens when the ...
Mom stopped parenting us. That's when we became friends.
This month Mom & Sis joined me to talk about the moment a parent-child relationship quietly turns into a friendship - and the phone call Nadine got from a hotel in Quebec that made her realize her mom had already made that shift, years befo...
She was homesick, so she started making jewelry
Nagad is a therapist, and the jeweller behind Of Soleil, where she hand-shapes polymer clay into blueberries you'd swear were real, earrings inspired by basket weaving, and collections named fo...
Unlearning pain & re-mapping the brain
Dr. Jared Gerston has been treating Nadine's body for years using a technique called PDTR. When she went to see him for what she assumed was pickleball-related neck pain and walked ...
Nothing fits? It's not your body's fault.
Rebecca Rowe trained at Pratt Institute and ESMOD Paris, ran her own clothing brand for eight years, and lost her entire collection - pattern...
Burnout knocked her out. She came back Unmanageable.
Ro Nwosu spent years as one of the only Black movement instructors most Ottawa-area fitness studios called on when they needed to "do the diversity work" - often unpaid, feeling under-appreciated, and exp...
You never really stop graduating into something new
This month's Mom & Sis episode started as advice for my nephew Connor, who's about to graduate high school, and ended with all three of us realizing we're still graduating into something new every few years, whether we call it that or not. ...
They refused to compete with each other and became business partners instead
Megan Lendrum and Meagan Kribeiro are the makers behind the jewelry company, Daughters of the River. Introduced by a mutual friend, they ended up side by side at a creative market and, within weeks...
She divorced her husband but kept her best friend
Hillory Tenute got divorced. No one cheated. No one lied. No one did anything wrong - they just grew into two different people, and chose to let each other go with love instead of a fight.What struck me wasn't the divorce, it's that she ...
She started a business with nothing left to lose
Sure, Amanda Ruddy knows how to throw a party, but this conversation is about so much more. It's about losing her mother to breast cancer and running an event three weeks later. It's about starting her
Letting her kids struggle was the hardest parenting move
Mom watched me unnecessarily rack up student debt in my twenties and made a choice most parents wouldn't: she let me handle it myself.And I'm not the only one - she's done this for all three of her kids, in different ways at different t...
Evie's Story, Part 2
Content warning: infant lossWhen we left off, Emma Mitchell's daughter, Evie, had just been born at 23 weeks and 6 days. In part two, Emma picks up 118 days later - when the numbers finally stopped adding up, and she and Devin h...
Evie lived for 118 days. She will be loved & missed forever.
Content warning: infant lossEmma Mitchell spent years assuming motherhood wasn't in the cards for her - until a chest X-ray for a bad case of pneumonia led her to check, almost as an afterthought, and the test came back with the...
"The Burnt Toast Theory" led her to start her own PR firm
Amira de Vera runs Project Four PR, the Toronto entertainment PR firm she founded in 2017, and she lives by something she calls the Burnt Toast Theory: every inconvience, missed exit, or delayed flight i...
They read a book about dying to finally talk about how their dad died
This month, Mom, Sis and I all read the same book - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - and it cracked open something that led to our most vulnerable conversation about dad's dea...
She'll tell you not to buy the house you love
Jen Alvarenga runs Good Story, the Ottawa real estate team she co-founded, and she'll tell a client not to buy the house they're already picturing their life in, if the numbers or the home don't actually add ...