About
Family Matters explores the joys and challenges of family life. We talk about supportive parenting paradigms, relationships and communication, and culture in the context of traditional and non-traditional families. Parents, children, and other guests share their personal stories and wisdom to inform and inspire us all to support our kids and ourselves.
Many of our guests are not polished speakers. When I interview guests, I ask them to talk about how they overcame challenges in their own family. I look for raw stories from real people. I’m especially looking for children’s voices. My hope is to share that we’re all human, living together, making mistakes, and learning all the time.
The first Sunday of every month, we do a call-in empathy support show for families. Call in and share your family concern or joy and be heard.
Wendy McDonnell helps parents create Family Relationships that they love! Wendy is a Master Family Communications Coach and Host of Family Matters Radio, on CFRU, Guelph, every Sunday morning. She shows people how to value everyone’s needs and work together, without giving up…and without giving in.
Wendy is trained in Psychology, Nonviolent Communication, Restorative Circles, Mediation, Collaborative Divorce, Grief and Bereavement, Reiki, and Teaching. She transformed her own childhood violence into peace and now homeschools with her four children and loving partner of 24 years. She knows that resilient relationships are built on the foundation of trust and truth.
All our needs matter. Believe it or not, conflict can make our relationships stronger rather than pull them apart.
Parents…
In a rut with your kids or your spouse? Saying things you’d never thought you’d say? Forgetting the last time you enjoyed your family?
With a whole lot of empathy, we clarify what’s important to us, discern our own needs from our children’s, and find strategies to support our values. Parents, you know you and your family best. I bet you know what’s not working for you and you’re wanting help to get from there to another place…a place where you’re working together towards common goals and where your relationships can weather ups and downs.
Hire me and find out.
You can follow Wendy McDonnell and ask anything about families on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wendymcdonnell
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/wendy-mcdonnell/27/639/5b2
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wendy.mcdonnell1
Wendy loves to receive feedback. What did you like and why? Most importantly, what didn’t you like? What would you like to see instead?
Email Wendy anytime wendy(at)compassionatesolutions.ca.
Family Matters is a volunteer-run, community interview radio program in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
If you live in Guelph, Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas in Ontario, Canada you can listen to us on CFRU radio, 93.3 FM every SUNDAY morning from 8-9 O’CLOCK EASTERN TIME. You can also listen to us live on the web at that same time. Visit www.CFRU.ca for more information.
Show Archives are kept on-line for about 6 weeks. Log onto www.CFRU.ca , click on “Program Archive” > “Main Server” > a Sunday date > “Family Matters” 0800.
Otherwise, podcasts are published to this blog as soon as they are available.
Wendy loves to receive feedback. What did you like and why? Most importantly, what didn’t you like? What would you like to see instead? Who would you like to hear interviewed?
Email Wendy anytime wendy(at)compassionatesolutions.ca
RAISE YOUR VOICE
2009: Thank you CFRU listeners for helping the station raise $11,640 during the 2009 Funding Drive “Raise Your Voice”. This surpasses our goal of $10,000. Now, we have our new transmitter. Woohoo!
2010: Make a pledge to keep this show and other great shows on the air by emailing Wendy (at) compassionatesolutions.ca
October 24 and 31, 2010: I’m planning two fun shows to celebrate that Family Matters Radio has been on the air for the last year. We’ll have lots of guests and some giveaways for donations.
CELEBRATIONS and an AWARD
National Community Radio Awards June 11, 2010: Honourable Mention
Thank you Tara-Michelle Ziniuk for her help with the nomination. Without her help, this would not have happened. I was too busy programming to do this on my own.
CFRU received honourable mentions in two categories at this years Community Radio Awards.
Family Matters, for Current Affairs/Magazine Show
and
This Is Montreal, for Syndicated Show or Podcast
The NCRA Awards honour the amazing programming, people and activities our sector has to offer and reflect the range and diversity of community radio across Canada.
Winners received national recognition at the NCRC Awards Gala on June 11, 2010 on Gabriola Island, British Columbia and are mentioned on the NCRA website: http://ncra.ca/news/drumroll-please
APPRECIATION
“Great to talk to you this morning. Just hearing your voice inspires me!” jw
“Thank you once again for having me on your show. You are a very kind and genuine person and you seem to bring out the best in people through taking the time to listen to them, a skill that not everyone has!” Des Shanahan
