OTGR Podcast x ADED 550 Mini-Series

A Creative Exploration of Continuing Professional Education

This mini-series was created as part of my graduate studies in Continuing Professional Education (ADED 550), within the Master of Adult Education program at St. Francis Xavier University.

Across these six podcast episodes, I explore the evolution of my professional identity, the theories that shape my work, and the learning pathway guiding my next chapter as an educator and leader.

The written academic assignment that accompanies this project is submitted privately to my professor.

What you’ll find on this page is the creative component of the assignment, the podcast episodes themselves, along with high level-summaries of themes we explore.

EPISODE 67 • From Pause to Purpose: Reconnecting with the Podcast

A reflective welcome back and an invitation into the next chapter of our work.

This episode marks a grounded re-entry into the OTGR community after a season of behind-the-scenes growth. I share what unfolded over the last year — identity shifts, deeper learning, expanded leadership — and how these threads wove together to support the next chapter of my work and this podcast. 

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EPISODE 68 • The Ongoing Journey of a Rogue Scholar

This episode explores the evolving nature of professional identity as I return to graduate studies in mid-career. I share what drew me back to academia, how adult learning theory has reshaped my work, and why nonlinear paths often create the deepest clarity and growth.

Through reflections on mentorship, identity shifts, and reconnecting with my occupational therapy roots, this conversation looks at what it means to learn in public—integrating theory, lived experience, and leadership in real time.

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EPISODE 69 • Learning in Context: Two-Eyed Seeing & Perinatal Health

This episode explores what it means to facilitate learning in community-based, culturally grounded environments. I share how my work in Indigenous prenatal and postnatal programming reshaped Strong Beginnings into a guiding compass rather than a teaching framework.

Through the lens of Two-Eyed Seeing, we look at how Western knowledge and Indigenous knowledge can sit side by side, and how humility, relational facilitation, and real-world context transform the way perinatal programs are designed and delivered.

RELEASING DEC 10th

EPISODE 70 • Systems, Capacity & Sustainable Performance

This episode explores how nervous system regulation, operational systems, and relational support intersect to shape sustainable leadership and learning. Rather than focusing on productivity or scaling, we look at the internal and external conditions that make meaningful work possible — especially for women navigating complex roles, nonlinear careers, and midlife transitions.

I share how my understanding of capacity, pacing, and ecological support has evolved through both entrepreneurship and graduate studies, and how these principles are helping me build a business — and a life — that is grounded, spacious, and sustainable.

 RELEASING DEC 12th

EPISODE 71 • Mapping My Next Chapter: A Continuing Professional Education Plan

This episode offers a clear look at the values, priorities, and developmental pathway shaping my next chapter as a scholar-practitioner. I walk through the learning goals at the heart of my Continuing Professional Education plan—not as a checklist, but as a purposeful framework grounded in identity, capacity, and long-term growth.

Through reflections on leadership, facilitation, women’s financial empowerment, and sustainable systems, I share how I’m designing a learning journey that integrates theory with lived experience and supports the leader I’m becoming.

RELEASING DEC 17th 

EPISODE 72 • Designing a Learning Pathway: The Behind-the-Scenes Process 

In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of how I actually designed my Continuing Professional Education plan—the pacing, decision points, and real-life constraints that shaped it. Rather than presenting a polished roadmap, I walk through the messy, iterative reality of building a learning pathway that honours capacity, seasonality, and sustainability.

From choosing mentors and structuring goals to weaving together leadership, adult education, and operational systems, this episode highlights the practical side of turning a vision into an actionable, grounded learning plan. It’s a clear-eyed look at what it takes to design education that truly fits your season of life.

RELEASING DEC 24th