Podcasts

Mila is an Intuitive Business Coach for Spiritual Entrepreneurs. She’s a results driven and heals businesses through her Mila by Your Side Intensive Coaching Program: Taking Entrepreneurs from zero to 5 figures in less than 90 days. Mila a former Home Stager in beautiful Vancouver BC started her entrepreneurship journey in 2008 until she went full time with Tarot and Business Coaching in 2011. Since then Mila has helped 1000’s of people through her Intuitive Readings worldwide. Her current Mission is to Inspire Spiritual Entrepreneurs to Build a Thriving Profitable Business. Download this episode (right click and save)

Marissa is a passionate and highly driven leader with over 12 years of experience in the field of finance. As Co-Founder of Capital Core Financial, Marissa helps her clients overcome their emotional limitations around money, and guides them towards a path to sustainable wealth. With a company goal to redirect one billion dollars from CRA to the non-profit, Marissa is on a mission to help people implement charitable giving into their financial plan. Marissa currently sits on the board for A Better Life Foundation, a non-profit providing food security, education and employment training in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  She’s also involved abroad, sitting on the board for Run For Water and One Girl Can, helping raise funds for clean water projects in Ethiopia, and helping fund education and scholarships for girls in Africa. Download this episode (right click and save)

Lee is the founder of Community Tutorial or Cotuto.com an online marketplace for local classes for all kinds of subjects including cooking, fitness and arts and crafts. His past work experience includes serving as the campaign director of a public transit advocacy coalition in the Lower Mainland and as the co-founder of WSA Winnipeg, an elite amateur soccer club in Winnipeg that helps young players become professional soccer players. Download this episode (right click and save)

Almira is a seasoned, senior communications professional, with over 17 years of experience creating powerful narratives for domestic and global brands. She is the cofounder of Jive PR + Digital, an award-winning, top Public Relations firm specializing in Social Media Marketing Services with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Los Angeles. She is a recipient of Enterprising Woman magazine’s 2016 Women of the Year Award, PROFIT and Canadian Business W100. Almira is a thought leader on issues affecting the PR Industry and frequently appears as a commentator in the media. Her clients include Granville Island Brewing, Flight Centre and TELUS. Download this episode (right click and save)

Praveen has been a principal of Varshney Capital Corp., a Vancouver based merchant banking, venture capital and corporate advisory services firm, since 1991. He is a director or officer of various publicly traded companies including Mogo and Hempco Food and Fiber Inc and Co-Founder of G-PAK and former CFO of Carmanah Technologies Corp. which became Canada’s largest solar company.  He also was Co-Founder of a predecessor of Mountain Province Diamonds the largest new diamond mine in the world & De Beers’ second-largest producer behind its Jwaneng mine in Botswana and a past recipient of Business in Vancouver’s 40 Under 40 Awards. Download this episode (right click and save)

Michael is the CEO of You N Me Productions Corp the parent company with 6 productions in development. Greanwold Interactive Inc was incorporated in 2010. The parent company, You N Me Production Corp has invested $1.0M in character development, art, animation, web games, stories, film script, 1 paperback book, 2 E-books and is production ready. GW Interactive owns worldwide registered copyright to the Greanwold and Minosaur brands. Over 1,500 Greanwold books have been sold and many 1,000’s of E-Books have been given away. Download this episode (right click and save)

Annalea is a social entrepreneur and two time founder with a passion to bring natural products to the masses! She started her first company ethicalDeal (a “Green Groupon” like site) at 25 years old and sold it five years later. At age 30, Annalea launched Social Nature with a new approach, introducing people to natural products through social media reviews. Annalea believes the future of marketing is peer-to-peer and is excited to harness the power of consumer influence to inspire people. Enjoy the interview! Download this episode (right click and save)

Nelson has been a well known entrepreneur in Vancouver for over 40 years. Nelson found his way from engineering into the real estate business, conducting high-risk deals through the 70s and 80s that took him from billionaire to bankruptcy and back again. He has owned Sawmills, breweries, art galleries, theme parks, motorcycles, mineral companies, renewable energy and water research companies, plastic companies, 7 restaurants, 9 hotels and 10 different sports teams and is known for signing 17 year-old Wayne Gretzky to his first professional hockey contract in the World Hockey Association. He loves the excitement, variety and education that comes with being an entrepreneur. Download this episode (right click and save)

Arran was born in 1944 and was raised on Vancouver Island. His parents pioneered sustainable farming in the 1950’s and advised Arran to “leave the earth better than you found it.” After pursuing art and having several successful exhibitions of his paintings in NYC, SF and Vancouver, Arran left for India to study meditation and spirituality with his revered teacher, Sant Kirpal Singh in 1967. Returning seven months later with only $7, a $1,500 loan and blessings, he opened the Golden Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant. He returned to India the following year and married his Life-partner Ratana. Together, they began Nature’s Path Foods in 1985, which, after many struggles, became North America’s largest organic breakfast foods company, employing hundreds at three facilities in US & Canada. In an age of sell-outs, Nature’s Path remains fiercely independent and family-owned. Their children and valued team members are carrying on the torch, with Arran and Ratana serving as mentors. Download this episode (right click and save)

Sam is a serial entrepreneur with prior experiences in print, politics, tech and mobile games. He is the founder of V2 Games, a mobile game studio with offices in Vancouver, Canada and New Delhi, India, and has spearheaded projects that have had over 10 million combined downloads on iOS and Android devices. He is also a Director at Immersive Experiences, a Vancouver-based real-world game experiences company, and the Founder of SmartShare Solutions, which aims to create smarter cities through its flagship product Garage, which enables the shared economy for the parking industry. He is a recipient of the 2014 BCBusiness Top 30 under 30 award, and was nominated for the 2015 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant awards. He routinely talks at various startup events and universities around entrepreneurship. Download this episode (right click and save)

Today we are with Terry McBride who is the current CEO of YYoga and one of the three founding members of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride’s apartment in 1984, Nettwerk has corporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Hamburg and London. Since 1984, Nettwerk has released over 500 albums and sold over 150 million copies worldwide. Download this episode (right click and save)

Skai graduated with distinction from the Ivey School of Business and Western Engineering programs. He then founded a very successful tour company called Whistler Tasting Tours that has hosted thousands of guests and driven Millions of dollars in revenue. He’s now leveraging his experience to build a digital gift card company, called Guusto (pronounced Goose – toe), that allows users to send thoughtful items – like a drink, a bottle of wine or night at the movies – that can be redeemed at thousands of locations. Download this episode (right click and save)

Neil is an experienced technology entrepreneur with a background in real estate. Born in the United Kingdom, Neil has been an entrepreneur since the age of 14, running his parent’s corner grocery store while still in school, and then later opening his first business, a car garage. He has founded a number of successful businesses in Canada and overseas and has provided advisory service to businesses of all sizes on financial management. He has held senior management roles for over 20 years, and CEO for over 10 years. Neil is currently the Founder and CEO of Kabuni, an omni-channel marketplace for designers, makers and clients in the home design space. He is a family man and an avid cricket fan. Download this episode (right click and save)

Bosco Anthony is a digital strategist and storyteller. His background in the corporate sector provides wisdom on thought leadership, business growth and critical thinking ideology. Bosco spends much time on research, trends and is an idea rebel at heart. He is recognized for his mentorship, entrepreneur spirit and passion for strategy. Bosco thrives in a collaborative playground and is known for being an influence to the business and digital community. Download this episode (right click and save)

Cybele is the CEO and Co-Founder of Webnames.ca, Canada’s original .CA Registrar and accredited registrar for hundreds of domain extensions as well as provider of webhosting, email and web development and many other services. The multi-million dollar company has an impressive client list including many Fortune 500 companies. She’s also a four-time winner and Hall of Fame Inductee of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, BC Business Top 50 Most Influential Women, BIV Influential Women in Business as well as Top 40 Under 40 winner and nine-time winner of PROFIT W100. Cybele is a columnist for Business in Vancouver, the national Profitguide and speaker at over two dozen events each year including TEDx. Download this episode (right click and save)

Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, and he’s a Speaker, Business Coach and lifestyle entrepreneur. Before founding ManTalks, Connor pursued his passion as an Opera singer which allowed him to sing in Europe, China and North America. He then went on to work with the largest company in the world, Apple, leading high performance sales and operations teams. Connor currently runs ManTalks which has expanded to Toronto and Los Angeles. ManTalks supports men who are looking to achieve greatness in their life by connecting them with like minded individuals and giving them the tools to grow their desired area of life. Connor also recently spoke at the TEDx Stanley Park event at the Queen Elizabeth theatre.Download this episode (right click and

Melanie is the founder and president of Gutsy Lady Travel. A company that empowers mature women to be more, to do more, and to see more through travel. She’s also known as ‘gutsy lady’ solo travel expert, author, speaker and photographer. Her mission is to empower mature women through travel across the globe. Her Amazon’s Bestsellers’ book is titled “Gutsy Lady Travel – How To Build Unshakeable Confidence By Travelling”, and she shares her story of how she became empowered at the age of 40 on an unexpected solo journey through Egypt. She wants to inspire women to become who they truly are – to do more, to be more and to put the fire back in their lives. Download this episode (right click and save)

Through overcoming one of his biggest fears, public speaking, Graeme Lea has grown to accept a challenge and embrace a fear that many hold. Starting without experience, his journey led him to become President of the BCIT Toastmasters Club where he earned the Competent Communicator and Competent Leader designations. He graduated with a Diploma in Business Management and swiftly took on a demanding sales job with Ledcor. Helping people grow and develop their public speaking was Graeme’s next priority, which led to the opportunity of SoapBox Speakers. Ever since then his quest has become to push his own and the speakers of SoapBox Speakers’ boundaries to become the best. Download this episode (right click and save)