Two-time author Shantelle Bisson was born and raised in Toronto and splits her time between Toronto and her Kawartha marina Shantilly’s Place. Her Amazon best seller and second nonfiction book, Parenting Your Teen Without Losing Your Cool, is a thought-provoking, fun, light-hearted handbook that helps parents raise functioning adults during the challenging days of teendom when all you seem to do is “lose your cool.” Shantelle has three beautiful daughters and one four-legged son with husband Yannick Bisson, star of Canada’s number one drama series, CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries. Shantelle recently expanded her Without Losing Your Cool brand with a three-month daily journal and a weekly podcast that can be found on all your favourite podcast channels.

Since 2012, Shantelle’s raised more than $1.4M for Childhood Cancer Canada as committee co-chair of The Purple Party (now One Golden Night), joining the Board of Directors in 2022. Shantelle and Yannick also give generously to the Artists for Peace and Justice fund and sit on its Canadian Board and Advisory Board, funding secondary school for kids in Haiti. Shantelle also supports Boost for Kids, an organization that collaborates with police, child protection, and medical and mental health agencies to provide an individualized and child-friendly response for every single child who has sadly experienced abuse. Shantelle’s life has been centred around children since she became pregnant with her first daughter at nineteen, so it comes as no surprise that her charitable endeavours focus primarily on kids in need, and she writes books to help raise them well.