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Pick a big industry where you can grow

Business, Finance 0:31:14

“Pick a big industry where you can grow a big business that’s got a lot of runway. Early on in my career I got that advice, and that helped me think about what was the business. The one is it needed to be big.”

Clive Kinross is CEO of Propel Holdings, A seasoned entrepreneur with a history of building successful and innovative technology businesses. Clive founded Propel in 2011 with a mission to provide access to credit for underserved consumers overlooked by traditional banks. Clive is an accountant by trade, but an entrepreneur at heart. Over the last decade, Propel has helped over a million customers access credit and in doing so has achieved profitable, sustainable growth.

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Understand who you are first

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Indigenous 0:25:41

With 30 years of experience in the industry, Deneen Allen understands the unique challenges of Indigenous, rural and remote tourism development in Canada. She’s deeply committed to making stories of place and culture come alive for guests and their hosts. Lodges, camps, glamping, parks, hotels, food concepts, Indigenous cultural spaces and places – these are just some of the businesses that Deneen has contributed her experience to.

Her extensive industry knowledge in tourism and hospitality design, product development, operations, marketing and finance has been parlayed into her two business ventures: Pure North Canada, a leading tourism and hospitality consultancy, and Firecircle, an innovative digital business accelerator and mentorship platform that has helped dozens of individual tourism entrepreneurs in their business start-up and growth.

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On a mission to connect, inspire and empower one billion women

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Writing 0:16:12

Monica Kretschmer is the Founder and CEO of the Universal Womens Network™️️ Inc, Women of Inspiration™️️ and SupportHER™️️. Her mission is to connect, inspire and empower one billion women. Monica is a visionary, global influencer and disruptor with passion and an unwavering commitment to drive change for women to be seen, heard and valued. Her personal story of resilience of the “The Seven Year Journey” in the court system with 4800 hours litigation, 22 days led her to her bigger purpose to create the Universal Womens Network and the Women of Inspiration™️️ Awards to recognize the achievements of women who lead, inspire and motivate. The Women of Inspiration™️️ Awards have grown from single award honoring one woman to celebrating over 1,000 women from diverse industries, ages and stages of life reaching 5 continents. Monica believes every woman has a story. Your story does not define you; it empowers you.

Since 2015, Monica has built a recognizable brand across North America. The Universal Womens Network™️️ is a media company committed to the advancement of women and inspiring change for equality by unlocking the ripple effect to advance women, to strategically partner with companies committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, to welcome men to the conversation as allies and SupportHERs.

She is the creator of SupportHER™️️ (elevating male allies as champions for women in their networks, workplaces, and communities), the host of the Women of Inspiration™️️ Podcast, publisher of the UWomen Magazine™️️ and Women of Inspiration Driving Change Book Forbes Contributor and 2022 LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity.

During the pandemic, Monica published the first edition of the Women of Inspiration – Women Driving Change book featuring 100 inspiring women from diverse industries which coincide with the launch of graphics trucks with the faces of contributors across North America. The second edition of Women of Inspiration™️️ Changemakers will be released in the spring of 2024. Monica is a native Calgarian, proud mom to her son and future SupportHER, dog momma and believes in living life to the fullest.

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La Femme Derrière Le Prêt-à-Boire Bubble Tea!

Business, Communications, Food & Drink 0:43:20

C’est en 2015, suite à ma diplomation de l’Université Laval à Québec, que je débuta ma carrière professionnelle en tant que responsable ressources humaines pour un groupe de résidences pour aînés pour lequel je travaillais depuis 3 ans. Ayant démontré un fort engagement et une persévérance à gravir les échelons, en moins d’une année, je devins responsable régionale du recrutement pour l’Est du Québec. Lors de cette expérience, j’acquiers plusieurs aptitudes dont la gestion de groupe, et ce, dans le cadre de journées de formation pour intégration en milieu de travail. Ayant comme objectif ultime de carrière de devenir directrice de résidence pour aînée, j’obtiens en 2018 une offre pour devenir directrice d’une résidence de 140 résidents.

Au même moment, mon conjoint débuta son aventure entrepreneuriale au sein de COOKIE BLUFF dont j’eu la chance de participer indirectement par mon soutien au niveau administratif.

C’est au début 2020, suite à un changement d’emploi, et constatant les besoins grandissant de mon conjoint, que nous décidons d’unir nos forces et que je fis le saut en tant qu’adjointe à temps complet au sein de Cookie Bluff.

Depuis 2021, nous avons lancés plusieurs sous-produits ainsi que fondé une toute nouvelle entreprise Bobba spécialisé dans la vente de bubble tea prêt-à-boire ainsi que la vente de bulles fusion de première qualité. À peine 2 ans suivant le début des ventes, nous sommes présentement distribués dans plus de 2000 points de vente au Canada ainsi que dans 3 pays dont la France et la côte est des états-unis.

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The road from incarceration to entrepreneurship is lined with popcorn

Business, Education, Food & Drink 0:25:46

Emily O’Brien is the founder of Comeback Snacks popcorn company. It all started when she went to prison. Before, Emily was an entrepreneur and social media professional, having created her own firm at a young age and enjoyed great success. Regrettably, addiction caused her to make some poor choices that culminated in a four-year jail term.

As her sentence began, Emily made it her mission to transform herself, get clean, and make a positive difference during her term. “I didn’t know how I’d make a difference at the time,” says Emily, “but I knew I would find something I cared about that would benefit from a purpose-driven facelift.”

Thus, Comeback Snacks (formerly known as Cons and Kernels) was born.

Upon her release, Emily made a decision to start a popcorn company that used high quality, health-conscious ingredients to create unique flavours inspired by the ones she found in prison. A fun, self-deprecating brand that would also help remove the stigma around people who had prior convictions and provide newly-released offenders with the chance at a fresh start through training, empowerment, and education.

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Don’t be afraid to fail

Business, Tech 0:24:23

Alex Clark discovered his natural talent for programming at a young age, crafting his first video game code at age 12. By 27, he became Chief Technology Officer at Navio Systems Inc.

Alex later started Bit Stew Systems which helped companies within the industrial internet efficiently manage and analyze data from interconnected devices before being sold to GE in 2016.

In 2020, Alex created Quantum Pigeon, Inc. (QP), a platform allowing creators to monetize content, community, and access. By nurturing a direct relationship built on authenticity, QP empowers creators to own their audience and earn a meaningful income. QP’s ultimate aspiration is to become the premier social media platform for creators and influencers seeking to monetize and authentically engage.

Alex’s strong passion, enthusiasm, expertise, and relentless drive for innovation is what powers his entrepreneurial journey.

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Everyone has a story and it should guide how we live, treat each other and find purpose in our humanness

Business, Coaching & Consulting 0:26:17

Caroline Berglund is the founder and Principal of Talk Talk and The One Stop Special Needs Shop. She is a writer, speaker, storyteller, painter, road map-maker, novice calligrapher, lover of 4am’er’, mother, partner and philosopher.

She is a questioner, fascinated by what makes leaders tick, She’s a challenger, talker of all things communication, philanthropist, curriculum designer, lover of the Greek philosopher, squeezer of the last year of her 40s like a dog with her favourite squeaky toy. She has spent ½ of the last 25 years in the corporate world and the other ½ as a philosopher and entrepreneur.

As a philosopher and entrepreneur she’s distilled her lifelong study into three things; the importance of living an autodidactic life, digging into one’s own existential angst at all cost and finally everyone has a story, everyone. This later one is important. It can and should guide how we live, treat each other and find purpose in our humanness.

When she’s not writing, reading, teaching she set up Talk Talk…twice! This is her second run at Talk Talk and her first at standing up The One Stop Special Needs Shop.

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Securing tomorrow’s food supply today

Agriculture, Business, Food & Drink, Tech 0:48:48

In conversation with CFO & co-founder Daniel Cruz and CEO Jay Kallu of Sea to Sky Farms (https://seatoskyfarms.com), an agtech company with a massively transformative purpose – ensuring food security for all. Sea to Sky has their own vertical farms technology in BC and AB, Canada; and offers branding and consulting solutions to land owners and farmers with development of infrastructure, product intelligence, sales, distribution and business growth.

In this podcast, we talk about food production evolution and the opportunity to use less water, less land, diversified labour, less energy, no pesticides or fertilizers to grow fresh, nutritious and reliable produce for local markets. And, we share 3 top ideas to exponentially accelerate to 50% food security in Canada.

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Findependencehub.com – Financial Independence with Jonathan Chevreau

Business, Communications, Economics, Education, Finance, Tech 0:27:02

Findependence Day is a financial primer that uses classic fiction structure to impart core financial concepts to young people just embarking on the working world and raising a family. Findependence is a contraction of Financial Independence, so Findependence Day is the moment sometime in the future when your income from all sources exceeds the income you could get from a single employer.

As an entrepreneur Jon runs FindependenceHub.com, is author of Findependence Day and co-author of Victory Lap Retirement. Personal finance columnist for National Post 1993 – 2012, Editor-in-Chief MoneySense Magazine 2012 – 2014. Currently Investing Editor at Large for MoneySense, Jon also writes its monthly Retired Money column.

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Welcome to FindependenceHub.com!

 

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Inspiring imaginations that will change the world

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Tech 0:33:28

At the core of Ken Merkel‘s work lies a profound mission—to inspire imaginations that will change the world. As Founder of Unlimit and SciFiHive, Ken empowers individuals and organizations to uncover remarkable opportunities they never imagined possible on their own. Now more than ever, we need to rally together to create a better future. Using a pioneering approach – known as the SciFiHive, participants of all ages and places can explore, get excited, imagine, storytell and prototype solutions. If you are clear on the problem you want to solve, you can participate in, sponsor or lead local, regional or global sprint with engaged experts and enthusiasts.

In today’s podcast, Ken Merkel will provide insights on his story, what exponential growth is, the magic of a sprint process – what makes it unique, what results you can expect, use cases, and how you can get engaged to imagine then build your future.

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