A body intelligence expert on why reaching your number does not feel like arriving, what to do before you answer a family money text, and the one question every couple should ask before planning their wealth.

Lily Shepard is a body intelligence expert, speaker and author. She spent more than two decades in dance and movement, including performing alongside Beyoncé, before turning that work toward leadership. Companies including Apple, Meta, Dell and Dropbox bring her in to help their leaders work with more presence and make clearer decisions under pressure. She joins Gillian Stovel Rivers on The Flourish Feed to talk about why the money can arrive before the person does.

Lily explains why a bigger balance does not change the habits that built it. The number in the account is one piece of data up against years of the same pattern. She tells the story of a client at the party for her first seven figure year who visibly shrank when they announced it, and Gillian talks about her parents' generation, who built their wealth by clipping coupons.

Then the body. Lily walks through what happens when a family member texts asking for money: interrupt the momentum, notice what your body is doing, name the story, then decide. They talk about trusting technology over our own signals, stillness, the hand on the heart, and the privilege guilt Gillian sees in her own practice, like paying the cousins every month or leaving the new car at home.

For families who have done the saving and the planning, this one is about the part the spreadsheet cannot show. Lily asks what it would take to actually feel the wealth you built, and what your children need to learn so they can look after it.

Chapters:
00:00 You Have Enough and Nothing Changes
03:00 Shrinking at Your Own Celebration
18:39 Your Body Decides Before You Do
42:37 Privilege Guilt
49:41 Are We Interested in Being Wealthy
57:28 Wealth Moving to People Who Did Not Build It
1:03:09 The Question for the Next Guest

Gillian Stovel Rivers, MA, CFP®, CEA, Senior Wealth Advisor, CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. Know Thy Wealth, Know Thyself.

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A neuroscientist on why it is not too late to start at 60, how lactate fuels the brain, and the one small daily deposit that adds up over decades.

Dr. Jennifer Heisz is a neuroscientist at McMaster University, where she directs the NeuroFit Lab and the Physical Activity Centre of Excellence, holds the Canada Research Chair in Brain Health and Aging, and is interim director of the McCall MacBain Kinesiology and Healthspan Institute. She is the author of Move the Body, Heal the Mind. She joins Gillian Stovel Rivers on The Flourish Feed to talk about health span, the years we get to live well, and why those years build the way money does.

Jennifer explains the difference between lifespan and health span, and why she does not want a long life spent waiting for time to pass. She describes what happens in the brain after a workout, why lactate, long treated as a waste product, turns out to fuel the hippocampus, and what her lab saw when sedentary adults over 60 started exercising: real gains in memory within three months.

Gillian asks the practical questions. Does intensity matter more than time? Why does the brain push back against getting started? What does a two-minute movement break every 30 minutes do for blood flow to the brain? They talk about strength training for women at midlife, what perimenopause changes in the brain, and why sticking with it is hard when time and energy are already spoken for.

For families who already pay themselves first, the idea lands close to home. A few dollars out of every paycheque becomes something large. Jennifer asks what happens when a walk, a workout and a good night of sleep get the same treatment, and what those years are worth when you arrive at 70 able to do what you planned.

Chapters:
00:00 Health Span Compounds Like Money
10:50 Can You Start at 60
14:44 What Happens in Your Brain After a Workout
21:38 The Two-Minute Movement Break
28:39 Why Alzheimer's Hits Women Harder
38:32 The Healthspan Institute
52:39 The Question for the Next Guest

Gillian Stovel Rivers, MA, CFP®, CEA, Senior Wealth Advisor, CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. Know Thy Wealth, Know Thyself.

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An AI trainer on who owns your expertise once a machine has learned it, why women need to be in the room before the strategy is written, and why nobody calls a calculator cheating.

Kristina Shea is the founder of WomenUp™ and BlueSky BlueOcean AI. She hosts The Kristina Shea Show and trains Canadian companies and their teams to use AI. Through WomenUp she helps women build the skills and confidence to use it in their work. She joins Gillian Stovel Rivers for Season 4 of The Flourish Feed.

It starts with the digital twin and the question Kristina cannot let go of: if a company trains a machine on thirty years of someone's judgment, who owns it when they leave? From there it moves to who sits at the table while AI is being built, why women call using it cheating, and the late mother Kristina would love to hear from one more time.

For families thinking about what they pass on, the values matter as much as the assets. This conversation asks what happens when wisdom itself can be kept.

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Chapters:
00:00 Who gets access to AI?
02:30 What a digital twin captures
14:41 Why women need to be at the table
20:20 Who owns your mind?
25:51 Talking to her mother again
39:18 Why women call AI cheating
42:38 Who has access because you had access?

This program was prepared by Gillian Stovel Rivers, who is a Senior Wealth Advisor with CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. This is not an official program of CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. and the statements and opinions expressed during this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. This show is intended for general information only and may not apply to all listeners or investors; please obtain professional financial advice or contact Gillian to discuss your particular circumstances prior to acting on the information presented.

Gillian Stovel Rivers, MA, CFP®, CEA, Senior Wealth Advisor, CI Assante Wealth Management Ltd. Know Thy Wealth, Know Thyself.

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