Pickleball & Partnership: On Transformation, Growth & the Game of Becoming
Welcome to Pickleball & Partnership, the podcast about Transformation, Growth, and Becoming...both on the pickleball court and in life.
I'm Charlotte—Registered Nurse of 37 years, now Life Coach, Podcast Host, and lifelong student of what it means to evolve. Each week, I share honest reflections on the messy, courageous work of personal growth: how we heal, pivot, release old identities, and step into more authentic versions of ourselves.
The pickleball court is where I see everything clearly. My triggers. My patterns. My resistance to change. Every rally becomes a mirror—showing me where I'm gripping too tightly, where I need to trust more, where I'm still playing small.
And what I learn on the court applies to everything off it!
This podcast explores:
- Nervous system healing and regulation
- Identity shifts and career transitions
- Relationship dynamics and emotional patterns
- The cost of transformation (and why it's worth it)
- How to go all in when you're terrified
- What it means to integrate who you were with who you're becoming
This isn't motivational fluff. It's real talk about growth...the kind that honours the grief, the discomfort, and the beauty of becoming.
If you're navigating transition, doing inner work, or just trying to understand why change feels so hard — this podcast is for you.
Hit subscribe and join me every week for stories, insights, and the lessons the court keeps teaching me about life.
Pickleball & Partnership: On Transformation, Growth & the Game of Becoming
Latest Episodes
Being Me Is Enough: The Path to Feeling Worthy
In this episode, Charlotte demonstrates a powerful coaching exercise she uses for herself and her clients. She explains that even with great strategy and consistent effort, people can hit an “invisible wall” that is usually driven b...
Embracing Change: Who Am I Now?
This episode is also available in VIDEO format on YouTube.In this episode of the Pickleball and Partnership Podcast, Charlotte reflects on recent conversations about grief and a life change that included losing her mum, discovering she w...
Navigating Life's Sudden Changes: From Grief to Growth
Charlotte continues last week’s conversation about grief, focusing on pivotal moments when life splits into “before” and “after,” and shares her experience of losing her mum to renal cancer: diagnosis in 1994, death in December 1996 when Charlo...
The Sacred Journey of Grief: Love, Loss, and Presence
Charlotte reflects on the overwhelming response to a prior episode featuring a conversation with her mother, who died nearly 30 years ago, and explores grief as a profound expression of love rather than a problem to fix. Charlotte s...
A Conversation With My Mum… What She Still Teaches Me About Love, Loss, and Becoming
Charlotte shares an unplanned, deeply personal episode of Pickleball and Partnership reflecting on her mother, who died in 1996 nearly 30 years ago, and the lasting feeling she associates with her—“soft, warm, and brown.” She leads ...
Fan Mail
great podcast this week and every week! It was fun playing against you and Al in the tournament!
Calgary, AB
