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Skin Deep Stories with Kirsten and Mel is where ink meets life. Hosted by Montreal tattoo artists, moms, and longtime friends Kirsten Diachidos and Melanie Belanger, this podcast dives beneath the surface to explore the art of tattooing and the stories that shape the people…
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Healing Through Music with Sarah Di Marco (opens the original)
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In this episode of Skin Deep Stories, Kirsten and Mel sit down with Sarah Di Marco for a deeply personal conversation about grief, tattoos, motherhood, music, and finding ways to carry the people we love with us after they're gone. Sarah lost both of her parents within just nine months, after each was diagnosed with terminal cancer only a year apart. She opens up about navigating that unimaginable period of her life while raising two young daughters, the importance of having a strong community a
Resilience is a Superpower (opens the original)
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In this episode of Skin Deep Stories, Montreal tattoo artists and moms Kirsten Diachidos and Melanie Belanger welcome a very special guest to the podcast: longtime client and loyal Skin Deep Stories listener Jonathan Chipman. Jonathan shares his story, including surviving a stroke when he was just four years old and growing up with hemiplegia. He opens up about years of physical rehabilitation, the challenges he's faced throughout his life, and what it's been like navigating other people's assum
So... How Was Your Summer? (opens the original)
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Mel is back! In this episode of Skin Deep Stories, Montreal tattoo artists and moms Kirsten Diachidos and Melanie Belanger reunite for a good old-fashioned catch-up after a VERY busy summer. They talk about balancing work, kids, travel, and trying to squeeze a little time for themselves into the mix. From family cottage trips and summer tattoo appointments to realizing how much easier traveling with kids gets as they grow up, Kirsten and Mel reflect on where the summer went and what they've been
Tattoos Run in the Family (opens the original)
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In this episode of Skin Deep Stories, Kirsten Diachidos is hosting solo again and welcoming someone who has known her a LOT longer than most of her guests: her cousin Rebecca. Kirsten and Rebecca grew up spending summers together and traveling back and forth between Montreal and the Maritimes, creating the kind of childhood memories that have kept them close well into adulthood. They look back on summers at their grandparents' house, family traditions, and what it's like to have a cousin who has
Tattooing: Then vs. Now with Robin Labreche (opens the original)
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In this episode of Skin Deep Stories, host Kirsten Diachidos sits down one-on-one with her mentor, fellow tattoo artist, and Wild Magnolia owner Robin Labreche to look back on more than two decades in the tattoo industry. Robin shares how his fascination with tattooing began when he was just 14 years old, and what it took to break into an industry that looked VERY different in the early 2000s. From old-school coil machines and hand-soldering needles to today's wireless machines and ready-to-use
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