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HealthTech GrowthDriving Growth in HealthTech: Miracle Mobility's Strategy for SuccessCommencing on the journey of health tech innovation, this episode reveals Miracle Mobility's mission to enhance personal mobility with independence and ease. We're diving into CEO Dan Guthrie's innovative solutions and gleaning wisdom on reshaping business challenges into opportunities for growth.What you will learn:🚀 Dan Guthrie's inspiration behind Miracle Mobility and the revolutionary foldable electric wheelchairs.💡 Addressing the business hurdles of inventory management and financing in a specialized market, with expert advice from Nola Heale.📊 Tactics for surmounting financial challenges and boosting cash flow to promote business expansion and scala...2024-04-0913 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingPaul Mercer| Inspiration, Education and Passion in Portable Power TechnologyPaul Mercer, serial entrepreneur and conqueror of personal medical and business challenges, sincerely believes that a large part of the secret in founding and growing a successful business lies in the thinking. The crystalized vision, the strategy (both financial and operational), competitive and market strategy and planning; clear forward picture of what the business will look like in 5, 10 and more years into the future.Growth then occurs through passion and the confidence to deliver. Part of the secret sauce in his business is the education that the Portable Power Technology team provides to customers and prospects. For lar...2022-11-1653 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingKavita Ganesan| Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Avoid Failure, Enhance CompetenceKavita Ganesan has assisted many clients to gain the advantage of split-second humanlike thinking, from a computer. Her secrets even assist when it is hard to get from concept to starting the project due to inadequate data.She cautious that in many situations AI is wasted, it does not work, and people believe they need AI but in fact do not. However, the examples of the potential value to be derived where AI is appropriately deployed are fascinating, and should spark initiative to identify places to apply AI in every business.Human-level thinking required? Not a...2022-10-1939 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingBryan Clayton| Teenage Chore Becomes Successful Technology BusinessBryan Clayton used many of the lessons learned in his first business to grow the second, but he did find that the nature of the business has a big impact on how you achieve success. It was difficult to switch from growing a lawn care business to building a technology business because a tech business is mostly inventing something new; never seen or used before.One of the secrets to growing your business is to focus on one level at a time, and look to gain knowledge or experience from multiple sources in order to build your o...2022-09-0833 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJohn Cuomo | Leadership Refined by FireJohn Cuomo planned to become an electrician, so how did he land developing a deep love for serving in, and developing leadership for, the fire service?It was in fire academy that John found his passion, and even competing for a job for two-and-a-half years did not deter him. Early in his career John noticed that the role of everyone in the fire service is about leadership – leading within the service and taking charge of situations that are overwhelming the community. He spent his career learning from as many business and community role models, and books, as poss...2022-08-3147 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingCici Castelli | Mindset Unlocked – What Others Can’t, Won’t, Don’t DoWhy would a senior executive interpreter in American Sign language with Spanish and English want to leave and start a new career, as a single parent to small children, on the other side of the country? Well, because she sees it as an opportunity, and because most people would not do that. Cici drove herself hard, burnt out a few times, and had to learn to plan personal activities and business tasks in her calendar, but still achieve what she set her mind to.Through implementing her three step process of Identify, Influence, and Implement Cici now l...2022-08-2438 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingStacey Brown Randall | Focus on the Relationship, Don’t Request Referrals, SucceedAfter four successful years in business Stacey Brown Randall learned a hard lesson. Without the right approach to business development the business has no future. You cannot hope your business into success and being in all the places all of the time, constant networking, is exhausting.  It would be magic if the sales pipeline could fill itself as you do what you do best. Well with the right referral strategies it can! Referrals that flow naturally and consistently. When not attached to compensation they work especially well is a relational business, where there is a sizeable client inves...2022-08-1743 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingPurush Cannane | Creating comprehensive value – paper replaces single-use plastic, through immigrant employment, and environmentally friendly production at Greenii Inc.Purush Cannane creatively combined his engineering skill, passion for solving environmental problems, and his drive to help vulnerable communities when he founded Greenii to create paper bags from waste paper. Avoiding post-consumer paper in order to bypass the need for additional environmentally unfriendly chemicals and processes, he sources high quality paper, offers employment to recently immigrated women, and has now sold thousands of carrier bags in Canada and the USA to replace single-use plastic bags.Not stopping yet, Purush has gone on to invent equipment to facilitate growth in production volumes, and is expanding into box packaging a...2022-08-1050 min
Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingCarol Sanford | Indirect Work to Exceptional ImprovementThinking and questioning originated in Carol Sanford’s childhood; through influences from indigenous, white supremacist, and even fundamentalist Christian customs and beliefs. How we are in, and view, the world drives our engagement and impact.  From the contradictory, perhaps clashing, cultural influences Carol developed a drive to think, question, and write. Influenced also by studying and observing the success of basketball coach Phil Jackson’s model that cultivated role models and excellence through indirect work Carol wrote her latest, sixth book, Indirect Work. She seeks to stimulate thinking and develop inquiry; to encourage readers to overcome paradigms, to esc...2022-07-1355 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingDarby Vannier | Being and Developing an Indispensable LeaderDarby Vannier would never have imagined his career could have taken him through human resources, operations management, coaching and so much more. He certainly never dreamed the experience could be gained in industries as diverse as movie theatres, print and copy, and even alpaca livestock.Through his diverse experience Darby observed effective and ineffective business leaders. People are naturally more inclined to be either a manager or visionary but, as further explored in his book “The Indispensable Leader”, the two are never mutually exclusive. Most people are naturally stronger in one than the other, but the best leaders...2022-07-0651 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingDevin Durrant | Focus on Priority Values to Create The Values DeltaDevin Durrant believes talent, drive and having the right coaching helped him to achieve his childhood dream of playing in the NBA. But a year later he was cut and this was what allowed him to start his real life’s work - adding value to real estate, and lives.  Well grounded, supported, challenged and encouraged in his youth provided a foundation to call on in order to reassess, stretch and grow through the difficult time. He leaned on what was important and valued in his life, used values learned in athletics, and applied them in life....2022-06-2939 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJulie Broad | Capture Your Voice … The Missing Piece is Always Action, and Knowing HowJulie Broad harnessed her entrepreneurial fabric to succeed in real estate investing even when circumstances were not idea, and then told the stories in a self-published overall #1 bestseller.  That experience now makes the road smoother for other self-published non-fiction authors. Two wins. The authors keep 100% of their book sale proceeds. And the upfront marketing plan ensures the book is more successful from the start - sells more copies, included in more libraries, nominated for and wins more book awards, and appears on more podcasts and live events.Julie reminds all aspiring authors that writing a book...2022-05-1845 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingKelly Ruta | Becoming Limitless - Get Out of Your Own WayKelly Ruta decided she would not become a statistic after her early life sexual abuse. Instead she works on her own success, and became first a psychotherapist helping adolescents, and then followed her calling into raising the bar in coaching limitless entrepreneurs. Although she works with clients of all genders Kelly has a special focus in helping smart, driven, women entrepreneurs in the interface between mind, emotion and behaviours.  Unlearning social paradigms and gender learned biases that don’t allow being the best version of themselves activates the entrepreneurs to lead themselves, their teams and the business to gr...2022-03-231h 08Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingRyan Margolin | Grow into the person you need to be in order to have the business you want, as modeled by Professional Hair LabsChemical poisoning from her work in the industry she loved, including in her own studios, drove Ryan Margolin’s mother into early retirement. This was the catalyst that spurred his family to found Professional Hair Labs and substantially improve the industry. Today so much more is driving their growing success – their safety first, people first model finds additional niche expansion and growing enthusiasm from their team.It has not always been without challenge - in 2011 their international expansion failed dramatically, in 2017 counterfeit started and expanded rapidly. But they have pivoted and escalated when required, and today Ryan and his...2022-03-0248 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingKristina Shea | Finding and Enjoying a Life in Full Spectrum at BlueSkys LifeKristina Shea had her life changed, or even turned upside down, a few times through events in her work and personal life. Then, collapsing in the Toronto financial district was the wake-up call she needed. Kristina worked to address serious health conditions, and her own holistic wellness. She found natural replacements for chemicals and drugs. She studied CBD and continues to engage with groups to bring positive change for women, breaking down barriers and stigmas. The culmination of much of this was Kristina’s launching BlueSkys Life to focus on women’s natural health and wellness.Non-toxic thinking...2022-02-2356 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJustin Cochrane | Exceptional Investment in Environmental Enhancement That Benefits AllJustin Cochrane applied his knowledge and experience from the investment banking world, specifically in royalties and streaming, to create a vehicle for investors to target focus to creating a net-zero carbon future. The appetite of investors is large and in two years Carbon Streaming Corp has grown from around two-hundred thousand dollars to one-hundred-thirty million in next assets, and more. Investors are enthusiastic to advance and accelerate carbon-reduction and climate-advancement projects around the world. Justin’s team creates a cycle of benefit - invests capital in the projects, markets the greenhouse gas (GHG) credits and return the proce...2022-02-1640 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingDaniel Major | Excellence in ESG Now Moving to Develop a Uranium Mine At GoviExHaving entered the world of mining in part by accident Daniel Major has accumulated impressive experience in the operations, financing and management sides of the industry. Going full circle from uranium in Africa, through platinum, gold, mergers and acquisitions, and even investment banking in parts of Africa, Russia, South America, and Canada he returned to African uranium as CEO of GoviEx.  GoviEx is well positioned to take advantage of the move to clean energy, and specifically nuclear energy, that is more reliable, cleaner, and safer than alternatives. Their first uranium mine, in Niger, West Africa, one of the...2022-02-0942 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingMickie Kennedy | Creativity and Passion Drives Client Success at eReleasesWas it a “baptism of fire” as a new graduate, or a fortuitous start to a career that Mickie Kennedy took advantage of? Early in his career Mickie identified the need for smaller organizations and individuals to be able to access the media, but at an affordable price. Journalists, in turn, want news flow in a useful and timely format, and eReleases fills that gap. Press releases for smaller organizations at an affordable price.  eReleases is the perfect fit for those in the niche from start-up to several million dollars in revenue.  Using a couple of efficiency tools and...2022-02-0246 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJim Pakulis | Plant-based Nutrition and Investors Potential at Boosh FoodsJim Pakulis has turned his sights from successful corporate growth in the cannabis industry to plant-based protein. Seeing potential for significant growth in this industry, he and his team acquired and took Boosh Plant-Based Brands through initial public offering in 2021.  Boosh’s plant-based, gluten-free and non-GMO heat-and-serve bowls and meals, mac & cheese, pate, and non-dairy cheese are well received by the health-conscious, special diets and flexitarians alike. This is just the beginning, this team has their sights set on dominating frozen, refrigerated and shelf stable categories.Jim believes in keeping the team as small as possi...2022-01-2635 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingMax Porterfield | Timely Discovery, Calm Decisions, and Exceptional Location Deliver ReturnsMax Porterfield started his career with an opportunity to work in global resource company investment, and then gold and uranium, before taking over Callinex Mines. A unique opportunity to explore for minerals in Canada, in areas well served by infrastructure, with no geopolitical risk, and potential to benefit remote communities.  Because government policies are requiring a shift away from hydrocarbons and there are very large infrastructure projects ongoing or planned in the world, the demand for base metals is forecast to increase exponentially. However, minimal investment in new exploration over the past decade means the current mines are...2022-01-1941 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingPieter K de Villiers | Use Superior Process and Automation to Stop the Cancer of Two Minute TasksPieter K de Villiers proved in his own business that automation could free up people to perform value added tasks. Macanta CRM evolved to remove the need for a person to perform certain repetitive, but business critical tasks, and in the process complete them more efficiently and consistently. The secret however is to ensure the tool fits the business, with functionality for data manipulation, interconnected relationships, email and SMS, notifications and more.The no-code Macanta software enables the business to easily create a bespoke CRM with full process and workflow automation without the need for costly, risky, cu...2022-01-1244 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingBrandi Garden | Fungi Replace Pharma for Health Benefits, Mental Agility and Immunity at Eversio WellnessCuriosity triggered passion for Brandi and Craig Garden, founders of Eversio Wellness. Inside of eighteen months they discovered the health and wellness benefits, and enhanced the product quality, of functional mushroom supplements. Now the journey continues in a licensed facility with research in quality and efficacy for the psilocybin mushroom industry. Consumer enthusiasm is growing. Significant evidence is available that mushroom products of an extremely high quality deliver advanced health and wellness through making available all of their immune-modulating, anti-oxidant and secondary metabolite compounds.  Brandi’s personal experience of radical health improvement, the Garden’s family wellness experience, and client’s...2021-12-2242 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingPierre Leveille | Entrepreneurship is Challenging in Exploration but Perseverance does PrevailAfter starting his career as a stock broker in Canada and developing the ability to fund mineral projects Perre Leveille found an opportunity to focus on mine development in Africa. Later electing to sell the first opportunity back to the majority partner, due to conflicts that existed between the partnership agreement and need to disclose information in compliance with public company regulations, Pierre identified an opportunity in copper mining in Namibia, Southern Africa. Deep-South Resources is now focused on the Haib Copper project in Namibia, and working to identify other opportunities in stable countries that also have accessible infrastructure.  2021-12-1538 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJohn Briggs | Exchange Value, Avoid Burnout and Drive Cash FlowsJohn Briggs became an accountant because he really loved accounting. But he grew to dislike the traditional CPA time billing model where clients pay for inflated billable hours. So he created a service where clients pay only for valuable service received, and clients can access a broad portfolio of services. Incite Tax has a high focus in micro-gyms, but serves a diverse clientele.John implements the Profit First system in many of his clients. It is an effective method to manage business growth and avoid burnout that results if they have run the equivalent of a business mar...2021-12-0837 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJohnathan More | Combining Luck and Smart for Return at Starr Peak Mining LtdJohnathan More found his start as the paper shredder in the office of a stock broker. He went on to become a highly successful broker with a focus in mining and now identifies exceptional candidates to take public. Anticipating sale at the right time to a major mining entity, he is building a star performer in Starr Peak Mining.Located in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt in Quebec, Starr Peak Mining geologists prioritized an area that is plumb centre between Amex Exploration, who hit gold in 2019, and the past-producing, Normétal Mine (that Starr Peak also owns). They hit...2021-12-0146 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingAnne Hill | Efficiency Promotes Entrepreneurial Genius at Hilltop Virtual SolutionsAnne Hill’s lifelong desire to help other people is driving growth and success for her clients.With placement of superior, right-fit talent, implementation of exceptional procedures and systems, and targeted assistance on strengthening the back-office and strategy, Hilltop Virtual Solutions enables genius.  Clients focus in their zone of genius and delegate non-core tasks for even better completion and propel the business forward.Anne Hill notes that it is essential to ensure additions to the team are an excellent fit, and that systems and procedures are in place to ensure success for all – team members and t...2021-11-2438 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingChris Kenney | Clients’ Reasons for Buying are Inside of Them Not Inside of You! Convert No to Heck Yes!Chris Kenney was an excellent contributor in a sales organization, but burnt out by how they managed producers, so he became even better …. for himself! He presented a low-priced class to a group of twelve people and transformed it to be multiple six figures.  Today, having identified and overcome his own “money-rules” Chris is paying it forward by teaching entrepreneurs the secret to rapidly accelerating income. A big believer in “sell it before you create it”, obtaining feedback as he went along allowed Chris to hone his training to exactly what the customers wanted and to develop his own skill...2021-11-1639 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingIvan Bebek | An Exploration Focus and Contrarian Investing Thesis Deliver Significant Returns in MetalsIvan Bebek started his career as a stock broker and developed an interest in contrarian investing as practiced by Warren Buffett. He focused on mining companies but found there was limited reward in tracking several companies; he wanted instead to focus extensively on one or two stocks. This intense analysis and focus led to Ivan’s significant success in Ghana - Cayden Resources, sold to Agnico Eagle in 2014 for $205 million, and Galiano Gold that continues to operate the Asanko gold mine in joint venture with Gold Fields.Ivan now has his drills focused on discovering new mines in...2021-10-2850 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingBrent Lane and Brett Jones | Powerful Automotive Marketplace Functionality in an Approachable Purchaser Platform at HeyAutoFriends and business associates Brett and Brent came together to solve legacy challenges of the automotive industry. The launch of their technology platform could not have been more timely. Canada headed into the pandemic lockdowns, and both dealers and customers required a new way to do business.  The Hey Auto platform is a super approachable technology solution that facilitates a superior experience for both dealers and customers.  The marketplace aggregates dealer inventory across Canada, sends purchasers to the dealer’s own site for information gathering, provides an opportunity for purchasers to reduce greenhouse gases, and even incorporates functi...2021-10-0747 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingAnthony Milewski | Nickel Mining and Environmental commodities; Coexisting within the Green TrendAnthony is the chairman of Nickel 28, one of the largest suppliers in the world of MHP, a battery concentrate used by the growing battery industry. He combines this with a pursuit of sustainability principles that offset the carbon footprint of the mining, and mankind’s modern demand patterns and lifestyle. Anthony invests in both regulated exchange traded credits and the voluntary carbon market.Voluntary carbon markets are considered fascinating as they direct private financing to climate-action projects. That is, they combine diverse nature-based solutions, e.g. saving forests and reforestation, operating a protection habitat or sanctuary, preserving blue...2021-09-2931 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingTommy Zizian | Demonstrating Fun is Timeless, Profitable and Social Enterprise is the Future at Sock RocketEarly in his career Tommy Zizian observed that the power of the internet afforded a significant opportunity to work remotely and earn an income. He did follow advice to “have several revenue streams” and attributes his success, having become involved in several businesses, to the fact he is goal-motivated, driven to achieve objectives and does not try to pretend to know everything. The career he describes as a work-in-progress currently invests a lot of his time focused in social enterprise. Sock Rocket designs and markets funky socks around the world and then, for every pair sold, donates three p...2021-08-1159 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJessica Lunshof, Madison McBay and Rukia Mire | TAMVOES Expedited by a Pandemic and Validated by Appreciative AdoptionEmpowering the Individual with their health information, and empowering professionals with client management is the mission of TAMVOES. They deliver! A secure, confidential platform that places the power in the hands of the individual to manage their health information and share it with a team they approve.Motivated by personal experience Jessica Lunshof identified an urgent need for an individual focused system that could efficiently save and share medical history, records, and notes, even instructions, in a confidential way between patients, their family and caregivers. The bridging of medical silos, removal of repetition, and accumulation of comprehensive r...2021-08-0352 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingPaul Harrietha and Holly Catalfamo | A simple way to increase business profitability by 15% and more. “The Invisible Rules - What’s really holding women back in business and how to fix it”In much of the world companies, and various special interest groups, have since at least the middle of the 20th century been working on the issue of gender equity in business. At least 50 to 60 years! Yet statistics show that little progress has been made. There remains significant lack of diversity at the senior management and board level. Many would describe it as Not yet having moved past the problem of “like hires like”, andA need to challenge, in a more forceful way, a range of embedded assumptions.We need to acknowledge and deal with gender and inclusion as the b...2021-07-0650 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingDavid Garofalo | Developing Premium Gold Returns and Advancing Developments in the Gold Industry at Gold Royalty CorpDavid Garofalo believes the world is poised for a significant bull run in base and precious metals prices. Strong fundamentals combined with supply deficits in gold and copper will cause significant appreciation in prices. Investors can participate in this upside through investing in vehicles like Gold Royalty Corp, a royalty and streaming company that IPO-ed in March 2021 with capital to invest in exploration and development juniors at lower finance cost, and boasting an executive and board hat are experienced as industry operators.Several factors point to higher prices: gold benefits during quantitative easing and hyper-inflation, gold remains a...2021-06-2435 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingBrandon Carbol | Top of the Line Quality, Performance and Pushing the Envelope on Environmental Enhancements in Construction Coatings at Weatherskin CorporationWeatherskin sees every need for top of the line, heavily tested, environmentally engineered construction coatings as a wonderful challenge, and opportunity to continue to grow and adapt.  Every project presents a nuanced opportunity to add to the service offering, keep the team driving forward, and continue the success.Smart business sense, careful consideration of application specifications, return on investment, and training the customer - engineering, architectural, or large general contractor firm - have ensured that project risks have been avoided and premium outcomes achieved. The Weatherskin team prides themselves on the ability to push the envelope on wh...2021-06-1743 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJaeson Cardiff| Profitable Micro-scale Carbon Capture and Beneficial By-product Processing at CleanO2As a plumber and HVAC fitter Jaeson Cardiff cared about the greenhouse gas emissions from building heating systems, and felt the industry could do better. So he and his team invented a unit to capture the carbon in a commercially viable way. He now leads a highly successful company that supports the circular economy – flue gas is captured in their CARBiN-X(TM) units, CO2 scrubbed and in turn converted to a component for the cleaning materials the company then makes. The heat generated during the process reduces the energy consumption of the building, and even the CARBiN-X(TM) unit is fu...2021-06-1038 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJon Trask| Emerging Technology, and Simple Beautiful Useful AgTech Delivered Globally at Blockchain Guru and DimitraHaving developed a taste for cryptography and security right after school Jon Trask honed his skills in logistics and supply chain. He then moved into emerging technology creating Blockchain Guru with a focus in software development, training and consulting in blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IoT). In 2020 Jon, with his team at Dimitra, began focusing in the global Agricultural Technology (AgTech) niche with a mission to help small farmers around the world. They plan to enhance farm productivity, improve food safety and enable food security by placing technology and information efficiently in farmer’s hands.Blockchain offer...2021-05-2648 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingBen Jones| New Surface Technologies, Long Term Solutions, and Even Year-Round Dial-a-Pothole-Repair at Warhorse MaterialsWhat do high end architectural floors, antimicrobial sport floors, indestructible industrial surfaces, and pothole repairs that are not season restricted have in common? They are among the spectrum of surfaces researched, supplied and fully warranted by Warhorse Materials.Whether 80,000 or 350 square feet, and a seamless architectural resin floor, high wear industrial floor, exterior surface, or simple sealer, Warhorse Materials and CEO Ben Jones work with multiple formulators to create proprietary flooring systems that perfectly fit the requirements, and are sustainable. They support the architects and designers with a guarantee against deterioration of any kind when used for th...2021-05-0556 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingMarina Phillips| A Visionary Honouring and Serving Parents with a Personal Touch, and a Growing Diversifying Business at Bébé StationMarina Phillips wants to honour mothers who have babies and toddlers, by providing one aspect of the village it takes to raise a child; in the process she has created a very successful business. Prior to the pandemic Bébé Station was active in Ontario but the post Covid-19 model will be a significant expansion to encompass franchise opportunities available to other women across Canada, and possibly licensing in the USA. Watch also for Bébé Station vending machines coming to malls and public places.  A visionary who has successfully used logic to overcome challenges and roadblocks thrown...2021-04-2841 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingLisa Gareau| A Lighthouse for Event Planners Providing Connection Strategy and Making a Difference at Candy Event ConsultingLisa Gareau has been a connector for most of her life; more recently as a connection strategy coach rather than running her own events. She prefers to see the impact of her work on a wider scale as people connect authentically in person. Lisa finds inspiration in the grace given and received over the last year, the success by which the formerly behind-the-scenes aspects of events became front and centre, and the growth in content, technology and worldwide support.  She does highlight that mistakes in the virtual format tend to be more apparent but also how event pla...2021-04-2143 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingJake Hirsch | The Leap is the Hardest Part. Find Your Passion and Follow It, the Rewards will Follow, as Demonstrated at Jake Hirsch Entertainment Group.A pivot from a career in law enforcement, in the USA, led Jake Hirsch to discover his passion in live entertainment. More specifically, his experience in interviewing people allowed him to speak with fascinating people and dive deep into the entertainment business.Jake is, and has been, active in many different aspects of live entertainment, including talent management, podcasting, promotion of events, video production, ticketing, touring, and even creation and promotion of virtual events.Not content to wait, Jake took advantage of his entrepreneurial spirit to develop and maximize a “pandemic plan B” to offer enter...2021-04-1446 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingChantel Cabaj | Encouraging Openness to Potential from Governance and Diversity, and Enhancing Team-based Board Performance at DirectHer Network and BoardWellGovernance, which is effective decision making, is gaining increasing recognition as ESG measurement and reporting becomes more mainstream. Boards of directors are being held increasingly accountable to fully perform their strategic and governance role for their organizations; no longer serving a purpose to rubber-stamp management decisions where they are called to serve the best interests of the organization and stakeholders. But how does an organization access a diverse pool of qualified board candidates and perform at their best with a united vision of their strategy and operation? Enter DirectHer Network to open governance to a broader community, wit...2021-04-0843 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingSerese Selanders| No Regrets as ORA and SolusGuard Fill the Growing Market Need for Discrete Personal Safety and Employee SecurityPersuading her MBA class to work on solving a need she had identified set Serese Selanders on a highly successful entrepreneurial journey. Despite not personally having the technical qualifications necessary for the task Serese developed a technology solution with significant market demand that is successfully growing two companies, simultaneously.  Serese had searched for a discrete personal panic button or safety device that could be used by the older adult demographic, and determined one was not available, so she invented one. Little did she know at the time how versatile her solution was or that it would be dra...2021-03-1646 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingDr. Ingemaud Gerber| Inspiring Amazing Lives through Preventive Care and Prioritized Total Health ManagementAfter moving to Canada “for a few years” of post-qualification exploration and experience Dr. Ingemaud Gerber found her passion in the proactive and holistic health space. Combining her practice in health-span, quality of life and aesthetic care, with service in both acute and long-term care she especially enjoys the ability to work with patients who make informed decisions for a healthy life.Dr. Gerber’s anecdotal evidence suggests it may take up to three years for patients to make healthy changes to their habits. Mindset is the most important factor that promotes or inhibits change – until or unless a p...2021-03-0932 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingLeah Fink| Enhancing Self-Awareness and Increasing Mental Resilience through Experiential Programs at All ThriveHaving herself been exposed to personal development Leah Fink is passionate about helping people develop skills in self-awareness and mental health. She is especially enthusiastic about developing youth on the journey because of the benefit she derived from similar experience, and because it provides an exceptional foundation from which to benefit throughout life. The programs bring together self-awareness, mental health resiliency, and skills development before the person requires those skills in a stressful, or crisis, life situation.Experiential programs, ideally outside of the “familiar” environment, potentially in the wilderness, very effectively develop strength within people, solidify relationships and pr...2021-02-2341 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingLindsay Blackett| Curating, Incubating and Accelerating Companies in the Cannabis and Hemp Industry for more than CBD and THC, at PeakTerra Ventures Inc.Lindsay Blackett founded PeakTerra Ventures as an entity that curates complimentary businesses that are engaged in, or a supplier to, the cannabis and hemp industry. Bringing a collection of craft growers, processors, producers, and complimentary suppliers together in a business park to share expertise, enhance proficiency and develop depth in the industry. Quality product grown and further processed into products for the medical, health and aesthetics industries. Even extending as far as relevant professional services, insurance, regulatory applications and retail.PeakTerra seeks to build a more sustainable infrastructure for premium quality cultivation, and the non-plant facing aspects of...2021-02-161h 01Unlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingKent Burkholder| Guiding Clients to Effectively Avoid Human Bias and Make Quality Strategic and Project Decisions, at Decision FrameworksKent Burkholder uses a practical team-based approach combined with proprietary decision support software to guide, and teach, clients to enhance their risk analysis and decision processes. As a done-with-you or done-for-you project Decision Frameworks significantly elevates the quality of the corporate strategy and asset decisions clients make, while decreasing the time required because of the discipline inherent in the process.Clients learn to practice quality decision-making as an ongoing habit. They learn to consider as wide a group of alternatives as possible, encourage diverse thought and questioning to attain common ground, avoid group think and confirmation bias, bu...2021-02-0942 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingKathy Mendham| Removing the Overwhelm, Enhancing Seniors Health and Lifestyle Options and Outcomes, and Connecting Information Silos at Proactive SeniorsThrough personal experience Kathy Mendham discovered the significant, challenging, shortcomings of acute-focused seniors care and restricted information exchange. So she did something about it … a service to fill the gaps and deliver cost effective, customized care specific to the individual needs of every client.  The team at Proactive Seniors propose and recommended a collage of free and for-fee services, and provide information specifically identified for the individual health, wellness and assistance needs, preferences and ability of each individual senior. The multi-disciplinary team helps families to achieve their individual goals, manage risks, provide personal assistance and enable their client...2021-02-0236 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingMurray Malley| Radical Streamlining of Payroll, Benefits, People Management, and Records through SaaS at HR-and Inc. MediDirectMurray Malley, during a career in which he turned companies around to profitability identified a significant need for a streamlined efficient people system. So he did something about it!  Hr-and Inc. MediDirect developed a single system that entirely avoids duplication of records, data entry or master files. Data input at source (often by the employee) is captured once for:records required by the human resources team, running the payroll, detailed accounting, including time input to project costing and customer invoicing, direct reporting for insurances, andmanaging staff schedules and attendance (with timesheets if required).All accomplished while...2021-01-2640 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingAmanda Hall| Cutting-Edge Nanotechnology Lithium Extraction with Significant Reduction in Emissions and Cost at Summit Nanotech.Amanda Hall, as a professional geophysicist and CEO at Summit Nanotech, is a steward of the earth and believes she has a responsibility to contribute as society learns from the mistakes of mankind and endeavours not to repeat them. Progress and development should be smart and sustainable.Summit Nanotech is breaking boundaries using unconventional cutting-edge nanotechnologies to offer cost effective green solutions to lithium production. They supply the direct lithium extraction plant (no client capital expenditure) that delivers product with reduced CO2 emissions, less use of fresh water, keeps the reservoir charged, and can produce lithium from di...2021-01-1925 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingMelanie McClare| Solving Tough Wastewater Problems with Distinctive Flow, a Collaborative Approach, and Less Processing Energy at Swirltex Inc.Melanie McClare and her team at Swirltex are collaborating with customers to field test their portable tubular membrane filtration system with impressive success in some of the water that is the hardest to clean – airport runoff, tailings ponds, food & beverage waste, oil extraction wells, and more - the potential applications are numerous.The service Swirltex delivers to customers is consistent high quality filtered water for reuse or water conservation purposes, removal of contaminants, ability to avoid disposal surcharges, increased dissolved oxygen concentration … and more. All done with less energy consumption.Melanie sees a bright future in cl...2021-01-1221 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingTrevor Prentice| The Art of Extracting Enhanced Business Value and Revenue with Intellectual Property at The IPTrevor Prentice has had a life-long fascination with all things learning, fun and entrepreneurial. Today he uses his passion for the benefit of others - both in securing and optimizing intellectual property assets of business clients and in sharing stimulating parenting ideas for raising future bright minds.  As intellectual property strategist at The IP Link Trevor assists his clients to refine their intellectual property strategy, register optimally targeted patents, and to maximize their licensing revenue. His service fills the gap between the business inventors and the lawyers, translating the language of developers and executives into patentable legalese tha...2021-01-0535 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingWendy Giuffre | Uncomplicated People Management, and Trusted HR Advice at Wendy Ellen Inc.Wendy Giuffre and her team are a valuable part of their small to midsized business clients’ teams. Their practical whole service model, and recently added subscription model for start-ups and small business, offer professional care of clients’ most valuable resources, remove complexity in optimizing their people management, and deliver a trusted advisor in challenging circumstances.Wendy suggests that, having embarked during the COVID-19 pandemic on a new version of “the work day”, there is excitement from an HR perspective in the opportunity ahead. Flexibility, autonomy, enhanced self-motivation, a hybrid workforce ….. we discuss these and a lot more.Tune in...2020-12-2026 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingShelley Kuipers | Serial Entrepreneur and Activist Activating Untapped Female Wealth at The51By 2030 65% of wealth will be controlled by women!Shelley Kuipers is building the world she wants to live in. As an activist in business, entrepreneurship and investment, Shelley is hell-bent on taking the status quo and transforming it with more equitable, feminist, corporately sound and ecologically sustainable options.  Believing that engaging with existing venture investment funds would not alone be adequate to change the status quo, Shelley co-founded The51 to activate women’s capital and invest in more women’s business. An accomplished entrepreneur and investor herself, through crowd-sourcing company Chaordix, software development and marketing firm S...2020-12-1519 minUnlocking Business Growth - exploring achievements, challenges and what's interestingTrailer - The Unlocking Business Growth PodcastThe Unlocking Business Growth podcast brings together successful executives, entrepreneurs, experts and their advisors within interesting and emerging companies and industries to share their achievements, challenges, and what makes them successful.Tune-in each week as Nola Heale interviews a new inspirational leader. 2020-12-0401 min