Ashley Pimlott - Good Medicine Show Host

03/27/2026

Hey! Check out this incredible webinar with Dr. Marchand. He will be presenting "One Heart at a Time", focusing on cardiovascular health for Indigenous Peoples, addressing health disparities, and showcasing Indigenous-led, culturally-safe care models including his mobile cardiovascular programs.

Tuesday, April 28th, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM (PST)
Free online via Zoom

Pro tip: Register even if you can't make it live — they'll send you the recording!

I'm so grateful to FNHA for making it possible for me to bring vital health and wellness stories to our community through Good Medicine Show.

Link to register: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wxc4YKXWRySHA92oaCfR9A #/registration

In this webinar, Dr. Marchand will review the current state of cardiovascular health for Indigenous Peoples of Canada, outline current systemic inequities that contribute to disparities in cardiovascular outcomes, and discuss the power of Indigenous-led, culturally-safe models for cardiovascular car...

03/03/2026

🎬 This week on Good Medicine: Labrador Inuk filmmaker Ossie Michelin shares his journey and his documentary Feather Fall.

From covering the 2013 Elsipogtog anti-fracking demonstrations to revisiting the story nearly a decade later, Ossie reflects on community resilience, courage in the face of fear, and the responsibility of Indigenous journalism.

Feather Fall is a story told through an Indigenous lens — featuring the iconic viral image of Amanda standing in ceremony before police, and the strength of a community that helped protect their land.

Watch the full episode and stream the film free in Canada:
🔗 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e109-ossie?in=northernnative/sets/good-medicine-journey-fm&si=641b2d6074704466bf52aa15c9426fb2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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02/16/2026

🎬 Today on Good Medicine with film producer Jesse Bochner… we’re stepping into the wild — into stories carried on wings, hooves, and river currents.�

His latest project, Animal Nation, is a seven-part documentary series that reimagines nature storytelling. Instead of admiring wildlife from afar, it centers the relationship between Indigenous communities and iconic keystone animals — bear 🐻, eagle 🦅, salmon 🐟, wolf 🐺, caribou 🦌, beaver 🦫, and bison 🦬 — exploring not only what these animals do within an ecosystem, but what they teach us about reciprocity, responsibility, and repair.�

The series weaves Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological understanding, and Western science together through a two-eyed seeing approach — not competing truths, but interwoven perspectives. Voices long excluded from scientific conversations are brought back into the circle. While it speaks honestly about environmental realities, it refuses to dwell in doom and gloom. Instead, it highlights people taking meaningful steps forward. 🌱�

Through filming, Jesse found himself waist-deep in salmon runs, offering to***co to a caribou, helping relocate a beaver, and witnessing moments so powerful they dissolved the distance between filmmaker and land. He speaks about respectful storytelling — earning trust, entering homes and sacred spaces with clarity of intention, because real life carries real impacts.� ✨

Jesse encourages young storytellers to be brave. Take the leap of faith. Even a mountain can be crossed one step at a time. �

Catch Animal Nation on APTN Thursdays, with versions in French and Mohawk. Learn more at Two Ducks Media online.�

Storytelling, Jesse reminds us, can be good medicine … and sometimes, so can a simple peanut butter & jelly sandwich 🥪.�

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/jessebochner_soundcloud?si=9bfa78c4457144e9b9d67817216d899c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

02/09/2026

✨ Today on Good Medicine, we welcome Melissa Matheson Frost, member of Remembering Our Return Home — a scored, improvisational performance blending spoken word, dance, and found objects.

We dive into the Matriarchs Uprising Festival, happening Feb 16–21, 2026, in Vancouver, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre and Morrow, with live performances, conversations, and community workshops. Can’t make it in person? The festival extends online with IndigiDance on Screen films and a virtual talking circle with the film artists. Full details, tickets, and festival passes are at matriarchsuprising.com.

This festival is a sacred space to uplift Indigenous women’s creative expression, where art, movement, and storytelling are deeply woven into healing. We explore the power of gathering, grief, hope, and honoring Indigenous women’s voices, bodies, and lived experiences.

Remember: Teaching is healing. Burdens aren’t meant to be carried alone — they are to be shared. Just be human. Stay open-minded, like the youth, to the possibilities around you. 🌿

🎧 Listen now:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e107-melissa?si=ac71ecc260ea4e6bb0b13a3fde2484c7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

02/02/2026

Today’s episode is a gentle but powerful invitation to return to relationship—with land, with learning, and with one another. 🌎💛

In today’s conversation on Good Medicine, we are joined by educator, artist, and co-editor Katya Adamov Ferguson, whose work is rooted in Indigenous-centred curriculum, relational learning, and land-based education. 🎓🎨🌿

Katya shares her personal journey as a learning support teacher and mother, and reflects on what led her into this work—particularly witnessing how educational systems too often work against Indigenous children. We explore her collaborative work on Renewal: Indigenous Perspectives on Land-Based Education In and Beyond the Classroom, the second book in the Footbridge series, created to support reconciliation through learning. 📘🧡

Together, we talk about the process of gathering teachings, essays, artwork, and guidance from Indigenous leaders, scholars, knowledge keepers, and land defenders, and how these offerings can be meaningfully adapted for students from kindergarten through grade twelve. Katya speaks to the role of creativity, arts-based research, and inquiry learning in classrooms, and how land-based practices support mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. She also reflects on the importance of listening deeply, building authentic relationships, and understanding urban spaces as Indigenous homelands—always and still. 🌱🪶✨

Katya shares:
“ I was experiencing things in my practice, systems were working against children, specifically Indigenous children. I've seen kids have much more success in environments that are connected to land-based experiences. These are profound ways of knowing and being, and living and doing. A relational way of living in the world. This is important to us as human beings, to understand this web of connectivity on this planet, and it is important for our survival. You cannot understand land if you do not take the time to listen with an open heart, because the true journey of land-based education happens in your mind, heart, and soul.” 🌍💫

🎧 Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e106-katya-ferguson-co-editor-of-resurgence?si=0c02a536d8524ecca90f1731c7474994&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

01/27/2026

Today, we sit down with Scott Tremblett of Red Road Recovery for a powerful conversation about lived experience, recovery, and what real healing can look like when it’s rooted in connection, culture, and compassion.🌿

From personal struggle to purpose-driven leadership, this episode explores how vulnerability becomes strength, how community saves lives, and why accessible, culturally grounded care matters more than ever. ❤️‍🩹🪶

If you or someone you love is walking a hard road, this conversation carries hope, honesty, and reminder that change IS possible.

Support is available:
🌐 redroadrecovery.com
📞 250-800-3190
📧 contact@redroadrecovery.com

Healing takes courage — and none of us are meant to do it alone. 🌱✨

🎧 Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e105-scott-tremblett-red-road-recovery?si=b2416d7b0c90482ba8957a687035874d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

In this episode, Scott shares his lived experience with addiction and recovery, including years of struggle, multiple treatment attempts, and the pivotal moment that led him toward sobriety and a rene

01/12/2026

🌿 Today on Good Medicine 🌿
We’re joined by Thomas Long for a thoughtful conversation about Métis identity, culture, and community.

In this episode, we explore how Métis identity can unfold over time—the challenges and triumphs that come with embracing it, and the essential role community plays in that journey. 🧡

We talk about the significance of Métis art 🎨, the importance of reciprocity 🤝, and why culture cannot be separated from language, story, and relationship. We also reflect on the legacy of Amelia Douglas, the philosophy behind cultural collections and exhibitions, and the careful balance required when sharing knowledge that is both historical and alive. 🌱

🤍 To learn more about the Amelia Douglas Institute, explore their work, and find ways to support their efforts, visit AmeliaDouglasInstitute.ca.

🎧 Listen now at the link in our bio.

01/06/2026

🌿 Continuing the Conversation with Bob Joseph 🌿
What happens when Indigenous Nations lead from their own systems of governance? How do we rethink capacity, success, and who gets to define what’s possible?

In this episode, educator and author Bob Joseph dives deep into the impacts of the Indian Act, what it means to reclaim decision-making, and how respect, responsibility, and relationship guide real change. From governance to economics to everyday life, this conversation asks us to listen more closely, ask better questions, and imagine what becomes possible when autonomy and culture are centered!

🎧 Listen to the full episode on SoundCloud link.

https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e103-bob-joseph-part-2-21-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-indian-act?si=80bebf1f597a41e19b5756c476be9e86&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingndCloud

12/30/2025

🎙️ In this episode of Good Medicine, we sit down with nationally respected educator, author, and bridge-builder Bob Joseph—founder of Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. and author of 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act. 📘

🧭 This conversation explores truth, responsibility, and navigating a system that has shaped Indigenous lives in Canada for generations—often without being fully understood.

Bob shares his personal journey from fishing guide to becoming one of the country’s leading voices in Indigenous education, cultural awareness, and Indigenous–settler relations. 🎣

✍🏽 We talk about how answering everyday questions led to blogging, a viral article, and eventually a book that has reached tens of thousands across Canada. Along the way, Bob reflects on the historical and ongoing impacts of the Indian Act, lived experiences with systemic barriers, and why respect, curiosity, and thoughtful communication matter in building stronger relationships 🤝.

⏳ This is the first half of a two-part conversation, and we leave on a powerful cliffhanger—one question that challenges what we think is possible. Tune in next week for part two.

📚 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is available at Indigo, Amazon, and Raincoast Books.

🌐 For more Good Medicine, visit cjnyfm.ca/goodmedicine or find us on Facebook, Instagram, and SoundCloud.

✨ May this conversation spark curiosity, invite reflection, and encourage relationships rooted in respect and understanding.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e102-p1-bob-joseph-21-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-indian-act?si=80573d465b3f436ea5bb9f42b8ee3c13&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

12/22/2025

Today’s episode carries a truth that lives not only in memory, in land, and in the bodies of survivors, and is also reflected in archival research, archaeology, and architecture—coming together to tell the full story of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s longest-running residential school, often called the Mush Hole. 🏛️

This institution didn’t exist in isolation. Its practices and culture became a model that shaped residential schools across the country, leaving deep, intergenerational impacts that are still felt today. 🌿

One of the people carrying this work is a community historian and curator from Six Nations, who has spent decades walking alongside memory and responsibility. I’m honoured to be joined by Richard Hill Sr., one of the lead editors of Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute. 📚

In this conversation, we’ll explore Richard’s identity and early influences, the responsibility of truth-telling, the creation of Behind the Bricks, what reconciliation looks like when it’s lived, not just legislated, hopes for the generations still to come, and the good medicine that sustains this work. ✨

Behind the Bricks reminds us that remembrance is an active practice—and that truth, when carried with humility, can be powerful medicine. And it is available online for free through the University of Calgary Press on their open-access Manifold platform. 🌐

Read the book here:
https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/cfb76275-8c47-4c8c-9195-61e8d2efb301/content

Listen to the podcast here:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e101-richard-c-hill-sr?si=a16a658f366f42029ea48063631f48fe&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 🎧

12/16/2025

Welcome to this very personal episode of Good Medicine, marking the profound journey of reaching 100 episodes. ✨

I’m Ashley Pimlott — the one who usually asks, “What does good medicine mean to you?” And today, the tables turn. 🔄

In this milestone episode, I step into the guest seat to share reflections not only on the evolution of the show, but on my own journey of healing along the way. Every story I’ve had the privilege to share has also been part of my own good medicine — shaping me, teaching me, and supporting my path forward. 🌱

As the owner of Hometown Holistics and a student at the Anuttara school, my life’s work has been rooted in practices that nurture both personal and community well-being. That journey continues to unfold. This past year brought another meaningful milestone as my partner, Laurie Fulford, and I opened the Harmony Hands Healing Center here in Terrace, BC — a space devoted to healing, connection, and care. 🤍

For this episode, Sabrina Spencer of CFNR joins me as interviewer, guiding a thoughtful conversation that flips the script. Together, we reflect on how Good Medicine began, how it has grown, and the ways it has touched listeners far beyond our local boundaries. We speak to the responsibility of holding stories with intention, and the power of creating space where healing is shared authentically and with purpose. 🎧

I extend my deepest gratitude to our listeners for your unwavering support and love. Good Medicine is more than a podcast or a radio show — it is a journey that we have walked together. With each episode, we’ve collectively forged a path of healing, understanding, and resilience. 🙏

Thank you for walking this path with me. It is you — our listeners — who make all the difference. 💛

Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e100-with-ashley-pimlott?in=northernnative/sets/good-medicine-journey-fm&si=dce4b450664f4e24ab0b3fe71cbff450&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

12/08/2025

🌿✨ In this episode of Good Medicine, we sit down with Sabrina Spencer, as she shares how she found her voice — and why she uses it to lift the stories of Indigenous communities. 📝

Guided by the teachings of her father, a hereditary chief and preacher, Sabrina speaks about integrity, truth-telling, and the responsibility of reporting with cultural respect. She reflects on balancing the personal and the professional, grounding herself through family, nature, and culture, and the moments when storytelling becomes a form of healing. 🎙️

Together, we explore the beauty and the burden of journalism, her commitment to honouring Indigenous voices, and her upcoming podcast focused on missing and murdered Indigenous women.

This conversation is rooted in honesty, hope, and the medicine that rises when stories are shared with heart. 💫

💫 Stay tuned — next week we celebrate our 100th episode with a very special twist: Sabrina interviews me!

Listen now on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/sabrina_soundcloud?si=9fd77b3cddd144a78b3df6abfe2905c0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing