British Columbia

Kim Pickett is the creative principal of KIMBO Design, an award-winning Vancouver design firm…. Ranked number 86th in the 17th annual W100 list of Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneurs, she has been featured by TELUS Talks Business, and Arlene Dickinson’s YouInc dot com. Download this episode (right click and save)

Since 2003, Laurel has helped thousands of people net better results from their online marketing. CEO of the Google Partner agency The New Media Group, and an accomplished speaker, author and consultant, Laurel has been featured on CNN, CTV, ShawTV, Amazon and Entrepreneur.com. A completely self taught former sales professional, Laurel is uniquely positioned to understand just how overwhelming web marketing can be. Her mission is to empower entrepreneurs to get web marketing, which she does through her weekly YouTube videos and regular online and in person training courses. Laurel lives in Victoria, BC with her husband Clayton, their 3 children and their big red dog Moe. Download this episode (right click and save)

Matt is an internet marketing expert and the  Founder  of Web Friendly. He started Internet Masterminds which is the largest internet marketing meet up in the world. Matt helps people start careers as internet marketers and created the social media director certification program.  He also works with business owners to get them involved into their online marketing initiatives and makes them successful. Download this episode (right click and save)

Arita is an award-winning entrepreneur whose career in business has ranged from Silicon Valley start-ups to the Burnaby weight loss centre Vital Body she runs today with her partner Zan. Amrita’s accomplishments have been recognized by Chatelaine and Profit Guide’s 2015 – 100 Top Female Entrepreneurs awards in the Rising Star category, and most recently as a Top 5 finalist for Best Company in the 2016 Small Business BC Awards. Amrita is an avid proponent of the entrepreneurial virtues of simplicity, values-based business and solid organizational systems, which she loves passing on to others through her educational program, Zen Productivity, as well as in her capacity as a mentor for the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs.  Download this episode (right click and save)

COO of Vancouver based start-up, ParcelPal. Kelly is a restauranteur turned management consultant, turned entrepreneur. He co-founded ParcelPal in 2015 and hasn’t looked back ever since. ParcelPal is an on-demand delivery service that is changing the way people are sending and getting the goods they love. ParcelPal’s story is straightforward; they believe all aspects of package delivery should be a hassle free process and experience. They are aiming to transform the everyday experience of how businesses and customers send and receive their goods by empowering them with their game changing technology.  Download this episode (right click and save)

Rosalyn is the Founder & CEO of The Conscious CEO Experience™, the world’s first integrated business training and coaching company. She guides and supports CEO’s and business leaders in birthing and growing a profitable business that aligns with their true power and purpose – ultimately creating extraordinary success from the inside out. Rosalyn has 13 years’ experience starting and growing innovative, pioneering projects and ventures that leave a lasting legacy. Rosalyn loves books, kids and cats, and she can pretty much be bribed into doing anything involving her first love, which is food.  Download this episode (right click and save)

No stranger to the personal growth scene, native Vancouverite –Sarah Edmondson has been seeking the foremost tools to help people be their best for years. Whether it was through physical health and wellness or community initiatives, Sarah has devoted herself to helping others reach their personal and professional goals. After taking her first training with Executive Success Programs she discovered the way to realize her true potential was an internal journey, not an external one. A successful actress and a regular in the voiceover industry for over 20 years, Sarah has appeared in numerous films and on television. She is a mom and energizer bunny actress turned entrepreneur. Download this episode (right click and save)

A Sales Professional for over 40 years, Joe has grown from a college student selling encyclopedias door to door to growing and leading many multi-million dollar sales teams. He has uncovered the many secrets to Sales Success and now teaches them through The Highrise Concept. Joe shares his experience and knowledge with fellow professionals to significantly increase their sales and gross profit margins. His passion and goal is to mentor individuals with their professional challenges by shortening the learning curve and showing them how to grow into their own success. Download this episode (right click and save)

David is the owner of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation. It was The Hancock Wildlife Foundation that pioneered much of the live streaming from cams to the Internet in bald eagle nests and in underwater salmon habitats. He is both a wildlife biologist and publisher of Hancock House Publishers Ltd. and, also a researcher, writer, photographer and lecturer. David also guides many wildlife film crews, tours and safaris, particularly to bald eagle, bear and orca destinations along the British Columbia and Alaska coasts, and to other parts of the world.  Download this episode (right click and save)

Suzanne is from Ottawa, Ontario, trained as a psychotherapist at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. After that she moved back to Vancouver in 2010 and opened a private practice in West Vancouver. Her most recently published book, “Shedding the Myths We Grew Up With”, is based on ten of the most common negative self-beliefs that she has witnessed in clients and worked with over the years. She has now developed a workshop for those who are ready to ‘shed’ their particular myth(s), and it’s based on the program that she offers in Part 3 of her book. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ray moved to Vancouver from Jamaica at age 7. Upon graduating later on from Ryerson University, he didn’t even have a background in advertising yet he made his way to the top of the corporate ladder through determination, hard work and long hours. Once up, Ray realized that there was a serious lack of education and transparency in the fast growing digital industry. He therefore left his senior role and started Digital AdLab, an educational service partnered with Google’s DoubleClick platform to provide proper hands-on training to today’s digital talent. Digital AdLab works with educational institutions, students, marketers, agencies and advertising professionals and offers a solution in response to the demand for increased programmatic talent in today’s digital media industry. Download this episode (right click and save)

Sheila is a certified Life and Relationship Coach, professional educator, inspirational speaker and most recently, Amazon International best-selling author. She is the creator and host of the podcast, Reignite Your Purpose. Sheila is a ‘should’ disturber, where she focuses on taking the selfish out of self-care, and inspiring people to unearth themselves from under the weight of the judgment and expectations of others, to live a more authentic, connected and vibrant life. Download this episode (right click and save)

Mila is an Intuitive Business Coach for Spiritual Entrepreneurs. She’s a results driven and heals businesses through her Mila by Your Side Intensive Coaching Program: Taking Entrepreneurs from zero to 5 figures in less than 90 days. Mila a former Home Stager in beautiful Vancouver BC started her entrepreneurship journey in 2008 until she went full time with Tarot and Business Coaching in 2011. Since then Mila has helped 1000’s of people through her Intuitive Readings worldwide. Her current Mission is to Inspire Spiritual Entrepreneurs to Build a Thriving Profitable Business. Download this episode (right click and save)

Marissa is a passionate and highly driven leader with over 12 years of experience in the field of finance. As Co-Founder of Capital Core Financial, Marissa helps her clients overcome their emotional limitations around money, and guides them towards a path to sustainable wealth. With a company goal to redirect one billion dollars from CRA to the non-profit, Marissa is on a mission to help people implement charitable giving into their financial plan. Marissa currently sits on the board for A Better Life Foundation, a non-profit providing food security, education and employment training in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  She’s also involved abroad, sitting on the board for Run For Water and One Girl Can, helping raise funds for clean water projects in Ethiopia, and helping fund education and scholarships for girls in Africa. Download this episode (right click and save)

Lee is the founder of Community Tutorial or Cotuto.com an online marketplace for local classes for all kinds of subjects including cooking, fitness and arts and crafts. His past work experience includes serving as the campaign director of a public transit advocacy coalition in the Lower Mainland and as the co-founder of WSA Winnipeg, an elite amateur soccer club in Winnipeg that helps young players become professional soccer players. Download this episode (right click and save)

Almira is a seasoned, senior communications professional, with over 17 years of experience creating powerful narratives for domestic and global brands. She is the cofounder of Jive PR + Digital, an award-winning, top Public Relations firm specializing in Social Media Marketing Services with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Los Angeles. She is a recipient of Enterprising Woman magazine’s 2016 Women of the Year Award, PROFIT and Canadian Business W100. Almira is a thought leader on issues affecting the PR Industry and frequently appears as a commentator in the media. Her clients include Granville Island Brewing, Flight Centre and TELUS. Download this episode (right click and save)

Praveen has been a principal of Varshney Capital Corp., a Vancouver based merchant banking, venture capital and corporate advisory services firm, since 1991. He is a director or officer of various publicly traded companies including Mogo and Hempco Food and Fiber Inc and Co-Founder of G-PAK and former CFO of Carmanah Technologies Corp. which became Canada’s largest solar company.  He also was Co-Founder of a predecessor of Mountain Province Diamonds the largest new diamond mine in the world & De Beers’ second-largest producer behind its Jwaneng mine in Botswana and a past recipient of Business in Vancouver’s 40 Under 40 Awards. Download this episode (right click and save)

Michael is the CEO of You N Me Productions Corp the parent company with 6 productions in development. Greanwold Interactive Inc was incorporated in 2010. The parent company, You N Me Production Corp has invested $1.0M in character development, art, animation, web games, stories, film script, 1 paperback book, 2 E-books and is production ready. GW Interactive owns worldwide registered copyright to the Greanwold and Minosaur brands. Over 1,500 Greanwold books have been sold and many 1,000’s of E-Books have been given away. Download this episode (right click and save)

Annalea is a social entrepreneur and two time founder with a passion to bring natural products to the masses! She started her first company ethicalDeal (a “Green Groupon” like site) at 25 years old and sold it five years later. At age 30, Annalea launched Social Nature with a new approach, introducing people to natural products through social media reviews. Annalea believes the future of marketing is peer-to-peer and is excited to harness the power of consumer influence to inspire people. Enjoy the interview! Download this episode (right click and save)

Nelson has been a well known entrepreneur in Vancouver for over 40 years. Nelson found his way from engineering into the real estate business, conducting high-risk deals through the 70s and 80s that took him from billionaire to bankruptcy and back again. He has owned Sawmills, breweries, art galleries, theme parks, motorcycles, mineral companies, renewable energy and water research companies, plastic companies, 7 restaurants, 9 hotels and 10 different sports teams and is known for signing 17 year-old Wayne Gretzky to his first professional hockey contract in the World Hockey Association. He loves the excitement, variety and education that comes with being an entrepreneur. Download this episode (right click and save)