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Mickey Mouse can never have a bad day

Business, Coaching & Consulting 0:33:29

Brad Warren is the CEO and Founder of Our Invisible Empire, a company dedicated to assisting entrepreneurs and small businesses. His passion revolves around helping entrepreneurs surmount challenges, with a strong belief that solutions can be found for almost any business problem. Brad’s leadership principles emphasize self-awareness, working diligently, remaining adaptable, and executing consistently!

In Brad’s own words, Our Invisible Empire is on a mission to “keep as many small businesses alive as possible, so that all of our kids aren’t working for Amazon in 20 years from now!” Brad and his team embarked on this journey starting out in a pandemic and a recession, with a clear objective of simplifying the path for struggling business owners and emerging entrepreneurs.

Brad’s own personal journey highlights his dedication to entrepreneurship and business support. He began his career with an opportunity to transition from hands-on work to a management role at a young age, working closely with his mentor, the founder of a retail service business, for nearly a decade. This experience exposed him to various aspects of business, from sales and operational management to financial data tracking, forecasting, marketing, and scaling. As the company expanded across different cities and provinces, Brad’s role grew, eventually leading to his position as a shareholder and General Manager, with scaling and expansion becoming his passion.

Brad’s path took a significant turn when he partnered with his wife, who is a CPA accountant and Founder of White Raven Accounting. Recognizing the combined breadth of their expertise in small business needs, they established Our Invisible Empire. Their motivation is evident — to create opportunities and support small businesses in Alberta’s competitive market.

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Creative storytelling and cultivating relationships to enhance brands – Calgary, Canada’s Podcast

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Public Relations 0:26:40

Melanie Nicholson is an award-winning communications strategist with nearly 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, public relations and broadcast journalism. She has excelled in roles within post-secondary education, tourism and the ski industries, with a primary focus on creative storytelling and cultivating relationships to enhance a brand. She’s the owner of MLC & Co., a boutique communications agency in Calgary, Alberta. Melanie has received several awards for her communications work, including a Gold Award of Excellence from the Canadian Public Relations Society, a Gold Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators, and recognition from PR Daily’s Nonprofit PR Awards.

https://www.melanielynncommunications.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlcsocial/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mlcsocial
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/melanie-lynn-communications

 

Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-a-theory/id1682081431

https://open.spotify.com/show/6NBchSqVbQ0DScaYrsNZvc

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9OQXBBcU92cw

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d9cd5ed1-6db8-451a-b0b4-11ab8c507b3e/it’s-a-theory

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Business leader, advice to help you succeed! – Calgary, Canada’s Podcast

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Education 0:23:47

Business leader, executive presence coach and master storyteller with advice to help you succeed!

Building on over two decades as a corporate leader and CEO, Callie B. Elwayns founded BOLD & VISIBLE, where she offers life-changing programs and mentorship to catapult women into bold new levels of leadership presence, visibility, and business success. Callie works with accomplished entrepreneurs, leaders, speakers, coaches, and consultants from around the globe. She is the creator of the Bold & Visible Monologues, a TED-style stage for women’s transformational stories – and the Somatic Transformational Story Method®️️

Website https://boldandvisible.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/calliebelwayns/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/boldandvisible/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/boldandvisible/

YouTube Youtube.com/@calliebelwayns

 

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Turning a passion for fitness into a business – Calgary, Canada’s Podcast

Coaching & Consulting, Health and Wellness 0:24:28

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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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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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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Defying the odds and building a thriving business

Automotive, Business 0:18:42

Chris Schellenberger, CEO of Purr.ca, is an inspirational entrepreneur who defied the odds and built a thriving business. With a background in sales and a keen understanding of the automotive industry, Chris developed Purr to empower sellers and revolutionize the way cars are bought and sold in Canada.

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Revolutionizing the way you sell homes

Education, Real Estate, Tech 0:24:59

Jason Hardy is the Co-Founder & CEO of the leading real estate e-commerce software, Ownly. Jason has spent the previous 17 years serving the real estate development sector in both Canada and the United States. An industry thought leader and speaker, Jason previously held the position of President / Managing Partner at Chatterson, a boutique real estate marketing firm headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Jason is an instructor of Real Estate Marketing at the Haskayne School of Business’ Real Estate MBA program at the University of Calgary and holds the role of Executive Director of the Real Estate Development Institute of Canada. Jason also sits on the Management Advisory Committee (MAC) and Proptech Advisory Committee at the Haskayne School of Business and serves as Committee Chair at the Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies.

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Using short-form content videos on social media to drive business

Legal 0:22:47

Diana Saunders is the accomplished owner of Aerora Transcription, a distinguished business that specializes in providing exceptional legal transcription services to court reporters and court reporting agencies. With a deep passion for her craft, Diana has taken it upon herself to shed light on the lesser-known art of legal transcription through engaging short-form content videos on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Her efforts have garnered a dedicated following of over 40,000 individuals, and she actively collaborates with aspiring individuals who aspire to enter the field and embark on their journeys as legal transcriptionists. Diana’s commitment to her profession and her determination to educate and inspire others make her a true trailblazer in the industry.

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Bringing a bold and unorthodox approach to design and business

Architecture, Design, Real Estate 0:28:35

Amanda Hamilton is the founder and creative director of Amanda Hamilton Interior Design and Palette Archives. An award-winning entrepreneur and Interior Designer based in Calgary, Alberta working across Western Canada, Amanda is celebrated for her tenacious entrepreneurial spirit and vibrant persona. Her bold and unorthodox approach to design and business has made her one of the most sought-after creative minds in Canada.

Her debut satirical memoir, Not That Likeable: And Other Stories I told Myself was published in the fall of 2022. Amanda Hamilton unflinchingly chronicles her childhood exploits and coming-of-age story, in all their cringey glory. Riotously funny and spirited, Amanda balances unflinching honesty and side-splitting wit in this offbeat memoir for the proverbial outsider.

Amanda has been featured in numerous national publications including House & Home, Style at Home, Western Living, Montecristo, Avenue and FLARE. She has appeared on various broadcast programs, such as The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV, Global and Breakfast Television and was a collaborator for two episodes of The Property Brothers. A gifted and spirited speaker and storyteller, Amanda has delivered keynote presentations, acted as the Master of Ceremony, moderated panels and has sat on various panels covering a broad range of topics ranging from design to business.

Notable accolades include the 2020 WXN: Top 100 Most Powerful Women of Canada, 2020 Calgary Influential Women in Business Emerging Leader Award, 2019 Women of Inspiration Trailblazer Award, 2018 AWE Entrepreneurship Upsurge Award, 2017 Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 Award, 2017 Silver Stevie Female Entrepreneur of Canada, 2017 Calgary Herald’s Most Compelling Calgarians, 2013 Western Living Magazine’s One to Watch and 2012 Mount Royal University Alumni Award.

Committed to supporting and elevating the voices of entrepreneurs, Amanda recently launched a number of internal initiatives including Hard Bar Friday, After Hours Podcast and Office Hours: Open Source Learning.

Amanda received her Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Interior Design from Mount Royal University, received her status as a Licensed Interior Designer through the National Council for Design Qualifications and is also a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Accredited Professional. She is a mentor for the Harry G. Schaefer Mentorship Program and chairs the Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta World of Choices event. In 2016, Amanda launched a Travel Scholarship through her Alma Matter to promote design exploration.

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