Carrie Doll features stories of guests exploring their personal truths, highlighting wins, and uncovering lessons they have learned along the way. Inspiring, empowering, and educating, The Inner Circle is one where everyone is welcome and all voices are encouraged to be heard.
Carrie Doll has a way with words. Her 20-year journalism career, which includes reporting, producing, reading the news for CFRN, CTV, Good morning Canada, and Global, prepared Carrie for her effortless transition into the next stage of her career: all things public speaking. A professional emcee, moderator, speaker, and coach, Carrie has always maintained that her first love always was and continues to be the art of the interview. Her passion for stories well-told, her many years of experience, and her knack for delivering an engaging and inquisitive interview make for an educational, thought-provoking listen with every new episode.
If you dig deep enough, everybody has a story. Today’s guest has gone through some unbelievable events in her life and has a shocking and heartwarming story to tell. Anita Baker is one of the sharpest and best-dressed women you will ever meet, and at age 75 she truly lives life with gratitude and reverence for the present moment. She shares her story about loss, rebirth, tragedy and life lessons. What You’ll Hear in This Episode: More about Anita’s dad, Helmut Gerth, one of the most famous and sought after photographers in Canada. Inside Anita’s mother’s struggle with epilepsy, leading Anita to be left as the caretaker of the family by age 12. The accident that changed everything in Anita’s life. What life was like after the accident and the discoveries of alcoholism in her family that burdened Anita. Anita’s career in nursing, and why she loved helping and caring for others. More about Anita’s beautiful marriage to her husband Bob, which resulted in a lifetime partnership and three children. The empire that she and her husband Bob built, and ways that they were entrepreneurs before it was even in style. The training Anita did personally and professionally to find her own voice, and the ways she loves to share it. How she keeps active, sharp, and engaged at 75. More about her great loves including golf, painting, and fashion. Some of the biggest lessons she has lived about life and living. Why Anita moved back to Victoria and still loves being close to the water.
Quotes: “What I learned from my father was to learn in life what makes me happy.” “There is no such thing as a normal family. Everyone has something.” “I am a very forthright woman.” “Having cancer was a gift. It gave me gratitude and a different perspective on life.” “You have to let go of fear.”
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