British Columbia

Dave’s entrepreneurship journey started with running a painting franchise in Victoria, BC to help offset the costs of his education and get real world experience. He found that Working 70+ hours a week and having a team and clients who depend on him is an exhilarating experience, especially as a young student. Now he is the cofounder of Riipen. Riipen challenges students to demonstrate the specific skills that companies will be hiring for. Companies can build their employer brand and easily identify the talent that will fuel their future success. Check out his interview here: Download this episode (right click and save)

Darren is a World-Class Professional Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Angel Investor For over 19 years, Darren Jacklin has travelled four continents and over 40 countries mentoring entrepreneurs and business owners on specific and measurable strategies that they can consistently use to increase their income, transform their obstacles into cash flow and turn their passion into profits. His uncanny ability to increase wealth and success by uncovering hidden assets, overlooked opportunities and undervalued possibilities has captured the attention of Tiger 21, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, NBC TV, CBS TV and Global TV. Check out his interview: Download this episode (right click and save)

Karina is the founder of Amando Natural Stone. She is an Avid learner and passionate entrepreneur with an Administration/ Information Technology bachelors degree. At Amando Natural Stone they help clients add warmth, strength and beauty to their ‪custom home‬ or home ‪‎renovation‬ projects by supplying distinctive Natural Stone tile and handcrafted designs. Karina loves to create awe inspiring interior and exterior living spaces for her customers.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬  Check out her interview at: Download this episode (right click and save)

Sibo is a Communication Director at Adai Network, a non-profit tech start-up aiming at revolutionizing how volunteer events are organized in Greater Vancouver. Sibo came to British Columbia in 2011 as an international graduate student. Now, as a PHD Candidate at the School of Communication, at Simon Fraser University, he strives to transferring his expertise in new media and consumer culture to the entrepreneurial landscape. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ray has been an integral part of the movement to make Vancouver…Canada’s leading hotspot for innovation and technology. In 2012, Ray co-founded Launch Academy. Designed to provide an open and collaborative environment for early-stage entrepreneurs to share ideas, receive mentorship and grow. To date, Launch Academy has helped over 350 companies to collectively raise over $45 million, and created over 500 jobs in the local economy. In 2014 Ray was named Entrepreneur Mentor of the Year for British Columbia and the Forty Under 40 list by Business In Vancouver. Download this episode (right click and save)

Nadia is a web content writer who moved to Vancouver in 2010 from Australia. She promptly fell in love with Canada and with a Canadian. After a decade of making TV shows and commercials, she switched to Communications and PR, but quit her job to do things her own way. She now specializes in web content for women entrepreneurs. She loves Vancouver’s easy lifestyle, its obsession with yoga and eating well, and the opportunities for small business owners. Download this episode (right click and save)

Myke is the Founder and Program Director of Social Man Project. 

His mission is to help shy guys become socially confident so they can create the dating life they deserve. His work has been featured in Breakfast Television, Calgary Herald, Notable and Shaw TV. Check out his interview: Download this episode (right click and save)

Cathy is a Naturopathic Doctor with the Cornerstone Health Center is a Bowen Practitioner that specializes in Pain Management, Women’s Health, Menopausal Issues and Digestive Issues. Her goal is to help people solve their health problems, feel empowered and feel confident that their body knows how to be healthy, if given the right circumstances. Cathy also speaks publically on health topics of interest on a monthly basis at the Cornerstone Health Center and she has frequently to spoken to large groups and organizations: Download this episode (right click and save)

William is the CEO and Founder of the The Arazas Group, a Global conglomerate  focused on building hyper-growth startup companies. They are on a mission to build an insanely great company. William has been a serial entrepreneur for over 10 years now with experience running humanitarian projects and hyper-growth companies around the world. Check out his interview here: Download this episode (right click and save)

From Pacific Chartered Advisors Ryan has over thirteen years of experience within the accounting and finance industry, from beginnings with TSX Venture exchange resource based companies during the early 2000’s to working with high-net worth individual clients and private corporate groups. Ryan’s personal experience from the resource, brewing, manufacturing and construction industries allows for greater insights with his clients. Download this episode (right click and save)

Lise is the founder of Lise Lavigne Coaching and is the author of Enough is Enough: transform yourself and find the freedom to love. After years of living with low self-esteem, guilt and shame, as well as attracting bad relationships all as a result of childhood sex abuse and physical abuse, Lise reached out for help and realized that she could find hope and happiness after all. Today, as an author, abuse recovery coach and public speaker, Lise shares with women around the world her message: their past is not their fault, they can overcome their difficulties, restore their peace of mind and build a life they desire. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ken is a Number 1 Best Selling Amazon author. He co-wrote the book “SOLD” on Internet Marketing for real estate agents and brokers with Dan Lok, his business partner. Who’s also been on our show. Ken’s opinion on marketing issues has been repeatedly requested by and published in Business In Vancouver. As well he published the Vancouver Island Tourist Guide magazine for a number of years in conjunction with the Government of BC – which was sent around the world. He’s been running StandardMarketing.com…Internet Marketing for Small Business in BC since 1999. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ricky is the owner of DaddyBlogger.com and the YVR Media Group. He is an Amazon Best Selling author of a book about fatherhood called “Wisdom from Daddies” which was released globally on Father’s Day. The book contains the collective wisdom of over 100 dads from around the world on issues that every dad faces during their journey through fatherhood. Ricky also runs a series of Conferences, Workshops, and Events in Vancouver about Social Media, Blogging, and Internet Marketing. Download this episode (right click and save)

Isabelle from LeapZone Strategies is a ‘no-nonsense’ gal, born to catapult passionate entrepreneurs to build infectious and impactful brands, businesses and lives. As one of North America’s Top Small Business Influencers; best-selling author and TV show host, Isabelle’s sole purpose is to empower ONE Million Entrepreneurs to rock their businesses and lives into shape by creating a worldwide “My Life, My Biz, My Way” Movement. She will also be speaker at TEDx Stanley Park on Saturday May 28th at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Download this episode (right click and save)

Manny is an Entrepreneur, Educator, Angel Investor, and Philanthropist based in Vancouver, B.C. He is the founder of New Avenue Capital, a global firm and the Managing Director of PM Search Partners, a boutique search firm with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and London. A self-made entrepreneur who built his first multi-million-dollar company at age 26, Manny is dedicated to providing education and mentorship to today’s youth. It is Manny’s personal mission to build 1,000 schools and to educate more than 1 million people worldwide.Download this episode (right click and save)

Sibo is a Communication Director at Adai Network, a non-profit tech start-up aiming at revolutionizing how volunteer events are organized in Greater Vancouver. Sibo came to British Columbia in 2011 as an international graduate student. Now, as a PHD Candidate at the School of Communication, at Simon Fraser University, he strives to transferring his expertise in new media and consumer culture to the entrepreneurial landscape. Download this episode (right click and save)

Our latest interview is with Michela from Q Consulting. She is the Managing Director of the eWomenNetwork here in Vancouver.  Her Business Development Coaching is a proven and powerful process that reconnects women entrepreneurs to their purpose and provides them with the focus, clarity, accountability, and business development tools they need to turn their expertise into a values-based, purpose-driven, profitable 6-figure business. She’s passionate about helping service professionals get the focus and clarity they need to catapult their business forward. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ryan is the CEO & Co-Founder The Intimate Lifestyle and Modern SexTalks Podcast.  After serving 11 years in the Canadian army, Ryan dealt with low self-esteem and low confidence, and used sex to build himself up and encountered several sexual challenges that he had to overcome on his own, because he realized there aren’t any quality resources out there. That’s when he found how to help others and built a company to provide the training and education that he always wanted and needed and felt others did too. He now provides the training, support and knowledge on self-esteem, sexuality, sexual pleasure and intimacy.  Download this episode (right click and save)

Roger manages the weekly events for  Vancouver Business Network Meetups for entrepreneurs. His vision is to produce the critical Meetups that will assist entrepreneurs fuel an upward spiral of business quality, business success and stakeholder rewards. He believes this spiral will produce robust solutions for customers’ problems, massive job and wealth creation for society and fulfillment, fun and fortune for entrepreneurs. Once a year he produces the TEDxStanleyPark event. This event will be on Saturday May 28th…and introduces innovative and optimistic ideas about humanity’s tough challenges to open curious minds searching for ways to make a difference.

Darryl came from a long line of well-known, local real estate developers and began his professional career by naturally entering the family business of real estate development before venturing to London to pursue investment banking, and later Beijing where he founded his own company. Coming back to Vancouver, Darryl has found opportunity within Vancouver’s growing demand for alternative workspaces and launched SpaceKraft. SpaceKraft located in Burnaby BC, is a dynamic shared community that offers entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small business owners the support of a traditional company, while creating new opportunities and fostering creativity. Download this episode (right click and save)