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Imagine The Good

Jason Dorland and Robyn Meagher

Imagine The Good is a podcast that explores what is possible when we choose hope, purpose, and connection. Through inspiring conversations with changemakers, thought leaders, and everyday people, hosts Jason Dorland and Robyn Meagher uncover ideas that help us live with greater vitality, strengthen our relationships, elevate our communities, and create a better future together. Every episode is an invitation to celebrate the good, imagine what's possible, and become the best version of ourselves.

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Thursday · 59 min
Redefining Success Beyond the Gold Medal with Cath Bishop
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if everything you've been taught about winning is wrong? In this episode of Imagine the Good, hosts Robyn and Jason welcome Cath Bishop, three-time Olympian, Olympic silver medalist, former diplomat, and author of The Long Win, for a powerful conversation about redefining success beyond medals, rankings, and results. Cath reveals how winning an Olympic silver medal challenged everything she believed about achievement and inspired her to question the culture of winning at all costs. Drawing from her experiences in elite sports and international diplomacy, she explores how resilience, teamwork, leadership, human connection, and personal growth create a deeper, more meaningful definition of success. Discover why true high performance requires more than results, how competition can strengthen collaboration, and why the greatest victories often happen long after the scoreboard is forgotten. What if the greatest win isn't what you achieve, but who you become along the way? Connect with Cath Bishop Website: https://cathbishop.com Get Cath's Book, The Long Win Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Long-Win-Theres-success-think/dp/178860525X
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October 29 · 53 min
One Blanket Changed Everything with Greg and Ben Ould
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if one simple act of kindness could change thousands of lives? In this inspiring episode of Imagine the Good, hosts Robyn and Jason welcome Greg Ould and his son Ben, the father-son team behind Blanket BC, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness through compassion, community support, and the gift of warmth. What began in 2005 with Greg giving a blanket to a man struggling to survive a cold Vancouver night has grown into a remarkable community initiative that has distributed more than 750,000 blankets. Greg and Ben share their journey of building Blanket BC, the life-changing lessons learned through volunteering, and how raising children with empathy and generosity can create a lasting legacy. Discover the power of small acts of kindness, the importance of community involvement, and how businesses, families, and individuals can make a meaningful difference in addressing homelessness and helping vulnerable communities. Because changing the world doesn't always require a grand gesture. Sometimes, it starts with one blanket and one person willing to care. Listen now and discover how compassion, family values, and community action can transform lives and inspire generations to give back. Additional Inspiration: Repair Café's 15-Year Anniversary Documentary Explore another inspiring example of community-driven action through Repair Café's anniversary documentary, celebrating 15 years of bringing people together to repair, reuse, reduce waste, and make a positive difference. https://www.repaircafe.org/en/anniversary-documentary-on-15-years-of-repair-cafe/
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October 22 · 44 min
Repairing Things, Rebuilding Communities with Martine Postma
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if fixing something broken could help repair our communities and change the world? In this episode of Imagine the Good, hosts Robyn and Jason welcome Martine Postma, founder of the global Repair Café movement, to explore how one simple idea grew into approximately 4,000 Repair Cafés across 40 countries. What began in Amsterdam in 2009 as an effort to reduce waste has become a worldwide movement bringing people together through generosity, shared skills, sustainability, and human connection. Martine shares how Repair Cafés are challenging our throwaway culture, keeping valuable items out of landfills, teaching younger generations practical repair skills, and creating meaningful connections between neighbors. Together, they explore the growing Right to Repair movement, the importance of designing longer-lasting products, and how small acts of kindness can inspire lasting change. Because sometimes repairing a broken object does more than save it from the landfill. It restores memories, builds friendships, and strengthens entire communities. Want to learn more about this inspiring global movement? Watch the anniversary documentary celebrating 15 Years of Repair Café and discover the impact of bringing people together through repair, sustainability, and community. Watch the documentary: https://www.repaircafe.org/en/anniversary-documentary-on-15-years-of-repair-cafe/ Listen now and discover how one repair at a time can help create a more sustainable, connected, and compassionate world.
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October 15 · 49 min
What You Focus On Grows: The Secret to Grateful Living
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if the secret to a happier, more meaningful life isn't having more, but appreciating what's already here? In this episode of Imagine the Good, hosts Robyn and Jason explore the transformative power of gratitude and how practicing grateful living can change the way we experience everyday life. Inspired by Canadian Thanksgiving, they reflect on childhood memories, family traditions, and how our understanding of gratitude deepens as we grow older. Through personal stories, insights into the neuroscience of gratitude, and heartfelt reflections on love, loss, and resilience, Robyn and Jason reveal why gratitude is much more than simply saying thank you. Discover how shifting your attention toward the good can help you navigate difficult emotions, strengthen relationships, build resilience, and find meaning even during life's most challenging moments. They also share simple daily practices, including their family gratitude ritual, and explore why expressing appreciation to the people who matter most shouldn't wait until it's too late. Because grateful living isn't about pretending everything is perfect. It's about recognizing the goodness that exists, even when life is difficult. Listen now and discover how looking for the good, naming it, and sharing your appreciation can transform the way you experience life.
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October 8 · 51 min
Nourishment: Maybe a Little Harder Than We Think
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... We talk constantly about health, fitness, nutrition, sleep, and productivity. But when was the last time you asked yourself: What truly nourishes me? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Robyn Meagher and Jason Dorland explore “true nourishment” and why taking care of ourselves involves far more than diet, exercise, meditation, or checking another healthy habit off the list. True nourishment is about how we use our time, energy, and attention, and whether the way we're living actually supports our vitality, relationships, and what matters most. They unpack the tension between doing and being, why high performers can become addicted to accomplishment, and how quick fixes, technology, constant stimulation, and task mode can leave us feeling depleted even when we're doing everything we're “supposed” to do. Robyn and Jason also share practical ways to recognize what genuinely fills you up, including the power of intention, presence, meaningful relationships, rest, emotional well-being, and taking an honest inventory of where your time, energy, and attention are going. Because true nourishment isn't simply about what you're doing. It's about who you're being while you're doing it.
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October 1 · 1 hr 10 min
What 30 Years in Business Really Teaches You with Ian Walker
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... Can you build a successful business without sacrificing your values? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Robyn Meagher and Jason Dorland sit down with Ian Walker, co-founder of Left Coast Naturals, to explore more than 30 years of entrepreneurship, friendship, resilience, and purpose-driven business. What began with homemade nut butter sold at Vancouver’s Granville Island Market grew into a company committed to measuring success through people, planet, and prosperity. Ian shares the lessons that helped the business survive and evolve, including humility, courage, adaptability, learning from failure, building strong relationships, and sometimes trusting your instincts before all the data is available. The conversation also explores the future of organic and regenerative food, creating a workplace where people can show up authentically, and why business relationships built on collaboration rather than competition can create better outcomes for everyone. After three decades, Ian’s philosophy remains refreshingly simple: good people providing good food. It’s a conversation about building a business that succeeds financially while creating a positive impact on employees, communities, people, and the planet.
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September 24 · 1 hr 19 min
Beyond the Broadcast with Canadian Icon Ron Maclean
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... For decades, Ron MacLean has been one of the defining voices of Canadian sport, from Hockey Night in Canada and Hometown Hockey to the Olympic Games and World Championships. But this conversation goes far beyond hockey. Ron joins Robyn Meagher and Jason Dorland on Imagine the Good for a deeply personal conversation about sport, identity, mental health, leadership, community and what truly defines success. He shares stories from his remarkable broadcasting career, including his own experience with anxiety and panic attacks and the simple purpose that helped ground him: “make someone’s day.” Together, they explore a bigger question: What if winning isn’t the ultimate goal? From hockey to rowing to everyday life, this episode examines how sport can help build better teammates, stronger communities and, ultimately, better human beings.
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September 23 · 56 min
Devotion and Discipline: The Yin and Yang of Showing Up
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... Is discipline enough to create lasting success without leading to burnout? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore the powerful relationship between discipline and devotion. They discuss how fear, pressure, and relentless striving can fuel achievement, but may become difficult to sustain without purpose, meaning, and a deeper connection to why the work matters. From elite sports and leadership to careers, health, aging, and everyday life, Robyn and Jason examine how devotion can give discipline a more sustainable source of fuel. The question isn’t simply, “How hard can I push myself?” It’s, “What do I care about deeply enough that I’m willing to keep showing up for it?”
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September 10 · 51 min
Is It Your Intuition or Just the Noise?
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... In a world constantly competing for your attention, how do you decide what actually deserves it? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore the power of discernment and why making better decisions often begins by slowing down. From the news and social media to work, relationships, responsibilities, and our own fears and expectations, we are surrounded by voices telling us what deserves our time, energy, and attention. Through personal stories of decisions they got right and others they wish they could make again, Robyn and Jason examine how our emotional state, ego, biases, impulses, and desire to please others can influence the choices we make. Discover how creating space for reflection can help you separate noise from what matters, recognize whether a decision is coming from fear or deeper alignment, and make choices that better reflect your values, priorities, and the person you want to become. Discernment isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about creating enough quiet and clarity to recognize what matters most and choosing your next step intentionally. If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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September 3 · 52 min
Presence: The Secret to a More Meaningful and Fulfilled Life
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... How much of your life are you actually present for? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore the power of being fully present to ourselves, the people we love, and the moments that matter most. Through personal stories of family, loss, the Olympics, nature, and everyday life, they examine why our minds constantly pull us into the past or future and how stress, technology, fear, and distraction can keep us from experiencing what is right in front of us. Discover how intention, acceptance, connection, and simple awareness can help you come back to the present and experience a richer, more meaningful life. If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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August 27 · 47 min
What Happens When You Stop Trying to Control the Outcome?
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What happens when you stop trying to control every outcome and begin trusting yourself to handle whatever comes next? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore self trust, surrender, acceptance, and letting go, a lesson they unexpectedly had to practice when their first recording of this very episode had no audio. Drawing from experiences in Olympic competition, coaching, teaching, relationships, and everyday life, Robin and Jason discuss how fear and our need for control can create anxiety and interfere with our ability to perform at our best. They explore what can happen when we release our attachment to a specific result and instead focus on what we can influence, how we want to show up, and what the experience can teach us. They also share a powerful lesson about trust: when we trust other people, we can help them discover greater trust in themselves. Ultimately, surrender isn’t giving up. It’s accepting what you cannot control, trusting yourself to meet what comes next, and choosing how you want to move forward. If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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August 20 · 39 min
Outcome vs. Process: Are Your Goals Controlling Your Happiness?
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if obsessing over the outcome is actually making it harder to achieve the result you want? In this episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore the powerful relationship between process and outcome. They explain why goals and results still matter, but the more tightly we attach our happiness, identity, and self-worth to achieving them, the more pressure, fear, and stress we create. Drawing from their experiences as elite athletes, coaches, entrepreneurs, and educators, Robin and Jason reveal how an outcome-focused mindset can make us believe life will finally begin when we win, reach the goal, make the money, or prove ourselves. Instead, they challenge us to focus on what we can influence today: our preparation, choices, values, effort, and how we show up. They also explore how failure changes when we stop making results a reflection of our identity. Losing becomes information, setbacks become opportunities to learn, and the process becomes a pathway to greater freedom, fulfillment, and even better performance. The question they leave us with is powerful: What is one outcome you care deeply about, and who do you want to become while pursuing it? If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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August 13 · 41 min
The Power of the Pause: Choosing Your Response Under Pressure
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if the space between what happens to you and how you respond could change everything? In this episode of Imagine The Good, Jason Dorland and Robin explore the difference between living in a reactive state and choosing a more responsive way of being. Inspired by Viktor Frankl's teachings, they examine how greater awareness can help us create space between stimulus and response, giving us more freedom to choose how we show up. Through personal stories involving competition, coaching, parenting, road rage, public speaking, and even encounters with their dogs, Jason and Robin reveal how stress, fear, time pressure, and an obsession with outcomes can push us into reactivity. They also share how intention, mindfulness, self-compassion, preparation, and focusing on the process can help us stay present under pressure and respond in ways that align with our values. The question to consider is simple: What could become possible in your life if you responded more and reacted less? If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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August 6 · 45 min
Having Your Own Back
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if the biggest obstacle to your success isn't the competition... but the conversation happening inside your own mind? In this thought-provoking episode of Imagine the Good, Robyn and Olympic rower, leadership coach, and author Jason Dorland continue their No Enemies Within series by exploring one of the most transformative practices in leadership and life: learning to have your own back. Together, they challenge the deeply ingrained belief that self-criticism fuels excellence and reveal why self-compassion is actually one of the greatest drivers of resilience, accountability, and high performance. Drawing from Jason's experiences as an Olympian and coach, along with Robyn's expertise in emotional intelligence and compassion-focused leadership, they explain how our nervous system naturally gravitates toward fear, shame, and self-judgment during difficult moments. More importantly, they share practical ways to interrupt that pattern, replacing harsh inner criticism with a mindset that creates emotional safety, clearer thinking, and the courage to move forward after setbacks. The conversation explores why self-compassion is not about lowering standards or making excuses. Instead, it strengthens accountability by creating an environment where mistakes become opportunities for learning instead of sources of shame. Through stories from Olympic competition, coaching elite athletes, teaching students, parenting, and leadership, Jason and Robyn demonstrate how people perform at their highest level when they feel safe enough to grow, reflect, and take ownership without fear of judgment. Listeners will also discover why shame is one of the greatest barriers to personal growth, how leaders can create psychologically safe cultures where people thrive, and why the simple practice of saying, "I'm for you," can transform not only the way we treat ourselves but also the way we lead, coach, parent, and support others. This episode offers a powerful reminder that true strength isn't found in perfection. It's found in meeting ourselves with courage, kindness, and unwavering commitment when life gets hard. Whether you're an executive, entrepreneur, coach, educator, parent, athlete, or anyone striving to become a better version of yourself, this conversation will challenge the voice of your inner critic and inspire you to build a healthier relationship with yourself because lasting success begins when you stop being your own opponent. If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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July 29 · 38 min
The Power of Becoming Your Own Greatest Ally
Send us note—ask a question or make a suggestion or just say hello. We'd love to hear from you! Thanks... What if your greatest obstacle isn't the world around you, but the way you speak to yourself? In this inaugural episode of Imagine the Good, Jason Dorland and Robin Meagher explore the transformative idea of No Enemies Within. Through deeply personal stories, Olympic experiences, coaching insights, and lessons from psychology, they challenge the belief that being harder on yourself leads to greater success. Instead, they reveal how curiosity, compassion, and self-awareness unlock higher performance, stronger relationships, and a more meaningful life. You'll also discover the powerful philosophy of Together We Fly, a mindset that redefines competition as collaboration and reminds us that when we help others rise, we rise too. If you're ready to replace self-criticism with self-compassion and imagine what's truly possible for yourself, your relationships, and your community, this is the perfect place to begin. If today's conversation inspired you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use a little more hope and possibility in their life. To learn more, access free resources, and explore upcoming episodes, visit https://imaginethegoodpodcast.com Until next time, keep imagining the good, creating what's possible, and bringing out the best in yourself and those around you.
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