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Turning a passion for fitness into a business – Calgary, Canada’s Podcast
Sandra Bueckert-Davison is an industry-recognized, award-winning personal training pioneer in the city of Calgary. In the eighties, unlike now, personal trainers were a luxury for celebrities and movie stars.
In 1989, 23-year-old Sandra Bueckert wondered: what if she used her knowledge as an award-winning athlete to show regular, everyday folks how to get better results in the gym—One-On-One?
Sandra was no stranger to hard work, and she saw a need. “When I was working out, people would constantly ask me for advice,” she says. “Eventually I realized that maybe I could turn my passion for fitness into a business.”
One of her first clients was a chef who had gained 40 pounds. After helping him to trim down, his wife asked her to help her get her body back post-pregnancy. The referrals kept coming. It didn’t hurt that Sandra was funny, finds people fascinating and had a natural way of connecting with them.
She also has personal familiarity with her clients’ experience. She had had two sons and weighed well over 200 pounds during her pregnancies. Losing the weight allowed her to empathize with her clients. She knows what it’s like to run a business, have children and struggle to find time to exercise and eat well. She dropped 70 pounds in 2005 and returned to the competitive arena after a 15-year layoff! Competing also helped her handle her mother’s death from breast cancer. She won her class, earned her pro-card and CTV awarded her the Athlete of the Week. Sandra is widely known for her appearances on CTV and for the acclaimed X-weighted television series.
“I won’t sacrifice someone’s health for results,” she says. Celebrating 34 years as Calgary’s original personal trainer, 57-year-old Sandra and her talented trainers love working with clients who want to fight aging every step of the way.
Accolades:
Besides being a fitness expert for CTV, Sandra has been interviewed by QR77 Radio, CBC Radio, Breakfast Television, The Globe and Mail, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce magazine, CityScope magazine, Avenue magazine, IMPACT magazine, and the Calgary Sun. One On One Personal Fitness was featured in a twelve-week series by the Calgary Herald. Sandra has also appeared twice on the front page of the Calgary Herald Real Life section. Most people recognize Sandra from the X-weighted television series on the Slice network. She was also featured in the LA Times. In July of 2023 Sandra was the guest on Hit Play Not Pause: Feisty Menopause podcast.
Instagram: @oneononepersonalfitness
Facebook: www.facebook.com/oneononeYYC
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-bueckert-davison-26149631
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Pick a big industry where you can grow
“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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Why adopting “Weology” should be your #1 innovation strategy
In today’s podcast, we talk about ‘Weology: How everybody wins when we comes before me’, based on themes in The Globe and Mail’s bestseller book authored by Peter Aceto.
Peter Aceto is a globally recognized and respected business leader, author and speaker, currently focused on reversing the epidemic of quiet quitting through caring, compassionate leadership. As a founder and investor in multiple technology companies, Peter devotes much of his time to the technology, innovation and startup ecosystem by serving as a mentor and advisor to Canadian startups.
Peter just completed a 2 year “turning around” of the operations of one of Canada’s largest mortgage brokerages, The Mortgage Alliance Company of Canada – rebuilding its management and sales teams, implementing operational processes, making significant technology enhancements and leading the company to its best financial performance.
Previously, Peter was a founding member of Tangerine (formerly ING DIRECT)’s senior leadership team helping transform ING Direct from a monoline savings bank to Canada’s most preferred “everyday” bank, ultimately leading to the 2012 $3.1 billion acquisition of ING DIRECT by Scotiabank. Peter also had a short tenure leading a Canadian medical cannabis company, is a Board member of the Sinai Health System Foundation, was a member of the Council of Governors of iCanada dedicated to helping Canada become a world leading “intelligent nation.”
We invite you to follow Peter on Linkedin.
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteraceto
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteraceto
Twitter: https://x.com/peteraceto?s=21&t=jsHgN06uZ6uA8St0YD96mQ
Categories: Business, Coaching, Finance
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Surrounding myself with good people – Toronto, Canada’s Podcast
“Surrounding myself with good people, creative people, optimistic people has been the key. They’re telling me things all the time that motivate me and keep me going.”
Shane Murphy is CEO of Ownr, a venture of RBCx that makes it easier and more affordable for businesses to incorporate, register and confidently handle ongoing legal compliance, for Canada’s Podcast as I think he’d be a great fit. With almost a decade of experience as a lawyer, Shane initially co-founded Founded Technologies in 2017 as an innovative, all-in-one technology platform that provided businesses with the ability to automate sophisticated legal tasks such as incorporations, equity management, and legal agreements. Founded was acquired by Ownr in 2020, with Shane moving into the role of COO. He has since moved into the role of CEO. To date, Ownr has helped over 100,000 Canadians launch a small business.
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Findependencehub.com – Financial Independence with Jonathan Chevreau
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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