Behind The Mic
Robert Szmigiel
Robert Szmigiel was born and raised in Vancouver and grew up there until he was 18. He then moved to California and got his BA degree in Marketing and Advertising from San Jose State University. He currently lives and operates Vancouver’s podcast while working internationally for companies in Canada, Costa Rica, Antigua, Malta, US, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Panama. He has won several international awards for his work on directing brands and marketing.
Philip Bliss
Philip Bliss is a business visionary, entrepreneur, digital marketing pioneer and a board-level executive. He provides strategy, marketing, product and technology leadership to companies and organizations. Philip has built and sold four companies and been a strategic advisor, marketing visionary, product marketer and board-level director to a number of start-ups and major names in the technology, real estate and travel sectors. He has been instrumental in the branding and marketing launch of many consumer software products.
Céline Williams
Céline Williams is an international speaker, business strategist, and the founder of reVisionary, a boutique consulting firm providing executive coaching, leadership development, and culture services to human-focused businesses around the world. A serial entrepreneur who dabbled in corporate for a decade, Céline has almost 20 years’ experience working with growing organizations and is the trusted advisor to investors, Fortune 500 companies, and executives in a variety of industries. She is sought after for her expertise in accelerating team performance, designing culture, managing transformation, and facilitating effective communication. In 2020 she won the award for Best Culture Design Specialist from Corporate Vision for her body of work.
Angela Faye
Angela is a mobilizing speaker, impact coach, promoter & author who LOVES to empower purpose-driven individual & geographically connected property owners to imagine & build “Places Worth Living For”. Angela leverages her own 10x Mindset, plus core competencies of business building, destination development and public relations to help others break through ‘building blocks’ and access maximum happiness, social impact and profits through “place”. Angela’s vision has evolved to ‘Mobilizing 1 Million purpose-driven individual and geographically connected property owners to build a place worth living for their family, community & generations to come.”
Mario Toneguzzi
Mario Toneguzzi, based in Calgary, has 37 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist and editor. He worked for 35 years at the Calgary Herald covering sports, crime, politics, health, city and breaking news, and business. For 12 years as a business writer, his main beats were commercial and residential real estate, retail, small business and general economic news. He now works on his own as a freelance writer and consultant in communications and media relations/training.
Cynthia Lockrey
Cynthia Lockrey is a change maker + communications expert with 25+ years of public relations experience. She shifts people, teams, organizations, and cultures to go from overwhelmed to clear and activated through her writing, consulting, speaking, training, and coaching. Cynthia is skilled at breaking down communications fundamentals into bite-size and easy-to-implement pieces. From her home on Vancouver Island, she works with clients across North America. Wanting to share the tools she uses as a consultant, Cynthia developed How to Communications. This online training and communications resources platform provides entrepreneurs with the tools they need to improve their communications skills. As a mom of an autistic child, she’s also a strong advocate for the rights of kids with disabilities. She is passionate about helping people share their stories and be heard.
Sylvie Bougie
Sylvie Bougie is member of Quebec Bar and practices business and commercial law since 2006. In 2009, she went into business and founded, a few years later, the firm Vigi legal services. Since then, the firm is growing and is dedicated to business law. The firm won a Jarret in the category of professional services during 2019’s Edition of Le Gala de l’entreprise beauceronne. Sylvie has many involvements in the entrepreneurial community of Quebec. Among others, she contributes to “Centre de transfert d’entreprises”, “Ressources Entreprises” and “Entrepreneuriat Laval”. She’s also member of the board of “J’Entreprends Québec”, a non-profit organization whose mission is to generate the entrepreneurial spark and create a unifying entrepreneurial culture, and board member, secretary and responsible of programing of “Association Femmes Entrepreneures Québec”. whose mission is to promote, develop and support women’s entrepreneurship, as a lever to sustain economic development of Quebec City Area.
Josée Turmel
My mission is to help you speak in public with confidence, ease, energy and authenticity.
I want to help you tell your story, your speech, your message, in the most natural, interesting and dynamic way possible.
I offer tools, online training and personalized on-site coaching to help you build your speech and then teach you how to present it well.
I also offer private coaching to help you prepare for a journalistic or other interview.
Coaching also to learn how to do facebook lives to promote your business.
Every person has a story to tell!
Claudia Villarinho
Jason Capon
Claudia has a creative mind and is passionate about her career and loves to discover new stories, new cultures and new places. She’s a Multimedia Sports Journalist, Television Executive, Presenter and Content Producer. With 15 years of experience in film, journalism and television broadcasting in the Latin American Market. She recently moved to Vancouver where she specializes in Digital Marketing. She is also studying Fundamental of sports Global Management at NYU – New York University. Currently working as Content Creator and Presenter at Behind the Broadcast. Sports Journalist for SIGA Women – Sports Integrity Global Awards program for female leadership in sports. Claudia was an Audiovisual Producer at ESPN – The Walt Disney Company and also a producer for Fox Sports. In Brazil, she has produced series for several different channels, such as: Discovery Turbo, Canal Brasil, Canal OFF, Multishow and TruTV.
Jason is a highly accomplished marketing executive with over 20 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a keen ability to drive growth, enhance brand visibility, and optimize sales and marketing operations. Jason began his career in the book and music industry as a product manager. He successfully managed multiple product lines and marketing campaigns in the Canadian retail market. After a massive transformation in that industry, he joined a friend in an innovative start-up company making environmentally friendly cleaning products. Over the 10 years spent with that company, the products went from obscurity to the number one brand in the industry. After the company was sold Jason felt the time was right to launch a boutique marketing agency working with small businesses to improve their visibility and sales. Jason is known for his innovative strategies and transformative branding leadership.
About Canada's Podcast
Canada’s Podcast was created out of a need to build a national brand podcast. Also to create a network and community for entrepreneurs and business owners so they have one location to find out and connect with like-minded people across the country. The company has offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal with popular hosts from each city, that know and interview the local entrepreneurs. Each city is connected to the national brand making the podcast a truly unique and nationwide representation of all the business activity going on throughout the country. Now you can find out what’s going on in each major Canadian city all in one place.
The company is managed and run by experienced entrepreneurs who saw the need in creating a national podcast, starting the first and only one in Canada. These entrepreneurs are highly knowledgeable in the Canadian digital marketing arena and have combined their vast networks and skills to bring Canada this unique and progressive thinking and approach to connecting via a national voice.
Whether you’re at the gym, going for a walk, driving in your car, waiting for a plane or listening at home, at Canada’s Podcast you can get inspirational insights into some of the brightest minds and innovative in businesses that Canada has to offer.
