Calgary

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A trailblazer as a financial professional

Finance, Investment 0:24:39

Filomena May, a native Calgarian, Senior Wealth Advisor and Chartered Investment Manager, international speaker, entrepreneur, mother, and founder of Filo Financial Solutions of Raymond James Ltd. Filomena operates across Canada, helping clients turn investments into successful portfolios. Her secret? Filomena is not only passionate about building wealth, but also educates on how to strategically protect it. Using a customized approach with attention to detail, she creates a unique financial roadmap for her clients based on their values and goals, while providing ease of mind and balance along the way.

Filomena began her career in 2002 at age 24 and beat the odds in an industry where only 5% of women were advisors at the time. Filomena is a trailblazer and sought out financial professional in her industry. She’s a contributing author of two amazon best sellers, podcast speaker, has appeared on BNN, CTV and “The Wealthy Life” show, and is in The KNOW Calgary volume three and Best of The KNOW Global. She is also President of her Italian Cultural Society “Calgary Calabrese Cultural Society” and enjoys the community work that she does in the city.

Watch our first interview with Filomena here.

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From oilpatch layoff to successful entrepreneurial journey

Business, Oil, Gas & Mining, Retail, Sports & Athletics 0:24:08

In 2017, Sean Alexander and his family built a home in the new community of Harmony, a lake community just west of Calgary. For a side business, outside of his oil & gas career, Sean began importing Standup Paddleboards (SUPs) to sell to his neighbours out of his garage in late 2019, branding them KAILANI. Shortly after that, he realized not everyone wanted to paddleboard, so he expanded his product range and began manufacturing and importing brightly coloured coolers and started initially selling them to his Friday night shinny hockey team. In early 2020, he found himself laid off from his job in the oil and gas sector, and that’s when he decided to go all in on his idea of starting an outdoor lifestyle company.

Eight months later, following a 7-day road trip through the interior of BC, he had secured $130,000 in purchase orders for his colourful collection of coolers, landing him a $1M investment with an Alberta-based private equity group. On November 2, Sean appeared in episode 7 of Season 18 on Dragons’ Den and secured a $1,000,000 deal with Wes Hall, $500,000 for 15% of his company and an additional $500,000 as an Operating Line of Credit. You can view the segment at https://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/pitches/kailani.

Today, he is selling coast-to-coast in over 200 retailers, 120 Pro Shops, 50 Promotional Marketing Companies and successfully selling in his Amazon Canada Storefront. He is an Official Partner with PGA Alberta and as of Nov 28th, 2023, and just signed a 3 year Agreement as a National Partner with the CPRA, Canadian Professional Rodeo Association, which is the sanctioning body for Pro Rodeo Events in Canada with 1100+ Athlete Members.

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From engineer to some Monki business

Business, Coaching & Consulting, Food & Drink 0:23:20

Aditya Dutta, Co-Owner of Monki Breakfast Club & Bistro in Calgary, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has led and helped startups in the hospitality, fashion and real estate industries. An engineering graduate of McGill University, Aditya loves innovation and is now following his childhood passion of revolutionizing the hospitality industry in Calgary, Alberta. A Management Consultant by trade, he worked for more than three years in the Business Strategy and Transformation teams encompassing many industries.

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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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