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Episodes

Amy Doerksen on Fierce Female Hockey, Women in Coaching, and Confident Girls | Strong Like a Girl
June 9, 2026

Amy Doerksen on Fierce Female Hockey, Women in Coaching, and Confident Girls | Strong Like a Girl

Amy Doerksen ran for her local hockey board, lost, and decided she did not need permission to build the thing she wanted to see. That thing became Fierce Female Hockey, a camp in Brandon, Manitoba where everything is designed...
Shelley Wray on Grief, Rituals, and Learning to Carry Loss | STRONG LIKE a GIRL
May 26, 2026

Shelley Wray on Grief, Rituals, and Learning to Carry Loss | STRONG LIKE a GIRL

Grief shows up in almost every story we tell on Strong Like a Girl, so this episode we sit down with someone who has spent years walking people through it. Shelley Wray is a grief seminar counsellor and certified funeral cele...
Willie Van Lankvelt on Immigration, Quiet Leadership, and Beating the Odds | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.
May 12, 2026

Willie Van Lankvelt on Immigration, Quiet Leadership, and Beating the Odds | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.

Willie Van Lankvelt was 21 when she packed up her life in the Netherlands and crossed an ocean to start over in rural Manitoba. She didn't speak much English. She'd never grain farmed. She was leaving seven siblings behind. N...
Lyndsay Seafoot on Quiet Leadership, HR for Childcare, and Trying It Anyway | Strong Like a Girl
April 28, 2026

Lyndsay Seafoot on Quiet Leadership, HR for Childcare, and Trying It Anyway | Strong Like a Girl

Lyndsay Seafoot didn't grow up loud. She grew up watching. Born in a small town on the northeast tip of Scotland, raised in rural Manitoba alongside eight siblings spread across three continents, she learned early that quiet ...
Debi Cost-Finn on Music as Medicine, Single Motherhood, and Rising After Cancer | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.
April 14, 2026

Debi Cost-Finn on Music as Medicine, Single Motherhood, and Rising After Cancer | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.

Debi Cost-Finn raised her son alone on food stamps, built a career bringing therapeutic music into hospitals, was diagnosed with breast cancer 85 days after her wedding, and flushed her medication down the toilet rather than ...
Tami-Rae Rourke on Anxiety, Entrepreneurship, and the Cost of Being Strong | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.
March 31, 2026

Tami-Rae Rourke on Anxiety, Entrepreneurship, and the Cost of Being Strong | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.

Tami-Rae Rourke is the kind of person who makes everything look effortless. A career that spans telecommunications, real estate, financial advising, and board leadership. A telecom company she co-built from the ground up that...
Lyn Radford on Community Leadership, Fundraising, and Quiet Strength | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.
March 17, 2026

Lyn Radford on Community Leadership, Fundraising, and Quiet Strength | STRONG LIKE a GIRL.

What if the strongest leaders are not the loudest in the room, but the ones who quietly keep building when nobody is watching?In this Season 2 kickoff of Strong Like a Girl, host Tanya sits down with her aunt, Lyn Radford, fo...