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Mark is an EPIC SHIT Creator! With over 30 years of work experience in a variety of business models, Mark has seen it all and been through it all. His three kids and two step kids between the ages of 12 and 22 have also greatly contributed to his learning. It is his deep understanding that enables him to quickly connect with his clients, whether they’re entrepreneurs, middle managers, or CEOs. He’s passionate about connecting people, building strong foundations and guiding success. Mark holds an ACC credential and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. Mark works with individuals, teams, business leaders, thinkers and those that are stuck to build foundation, set direction and reshape their personal and business vision. The right time is RIGHT NOW! Download this episode (right click and save)

Sam has mentored hundreds and engaged with thousands of students over the last many years and as a result, is Co-Founder and Chief Motivating Officer of GradusOne, an organization to help high school/post-secondary and recent graduates in their life and career. Added to this, Sam is an accomplished speaker and storyteller. As a result, he helped create and speaks for SoapBox Speakers. Either as a mentor/coach to a single student or speaking to hundreds as a keynote speaker, he shares his experiences through storytelling and has helped thousands in the pursuit of their dreams. Download this episode (right click and save)

Ilya Goldman, has been in the internet marketing industry since 1996. He started his own web design and online marketing company, Internet-Exposure, in 2001 with a goal of bringing more businesses into the world wide web. He has worked on over a thousand web projects. His clients include huge organizations such as UBC Press, McGill Press, and the BC Liberal Party, as well as very small companies with self employed individuals. Lately his company has been working with many charities and non profits helping them to take advantage of a special grant from google for $10,000 month to advertise. Download this episode (right click and save)

Copywriter and content marketer, Dave Barton, has been writing professionally for the past 12 years. He cut his teeth in B2B PR and has since worked his way across marketing, communications, advertising, and social media. Dave now operates as a freelancer from his native UK and continues to work with a number of startups and tech businesses from around the world; doing everything from blogging, content writing, and copy, developing their brand voice, communication plans, and social media campaigns. Download this episode (right click and save)

Angela Hamilton is the VP of Business for Quupe, a peer-to-peer rental startup based in Vancouver, B.C., where she met her three international co-founders in the MDM program at the Centre for Digital Media. Prior to moving to Canada, she lived in Cape Town, South Africa for a short time, and before that, worked as a digital news editor for The McClatchy Company. She loves traveling, writing, carpentry, and playing guitar, and lives in Mount Pleasant with her partner, Grant, and their dog, Woodrow. Download this episode (right click and save)

Bert TerHart is the CEO of NextGenSeo and is a search, social media and online marketing expert. He’s a soldier turned sailor, adventurer and geek. While helping build and managing a large medical clinic, Bert became increasingly frustrated with technology and how best to use it. Realizing it’s better to master technology than become a slave to it, he built one of the first computerized patient diagnostic and treatment tools. That tool helped health care practitioners manage the treatment of hundreds of thousands of patients. For the last 19 years, Bert has sweated in the trenches helping business owners and professional corporations leverage technology. From just-in-time inventory, to lab testing and reporting to clinic management to patient compliance, Bert has helped clinicians to implement, use and ultimately master technology. Download this episode (right click and save)

Adam Hart, CEO and founder of “Power of Food”, has spent the past 13 years providing forward thinking organizations with his blueprint for optimizing people performance. As a bestselling author & highly engaging keynote speaker, having performed over 400 presentations in the past 10 years, Adam has guided thousands of people to reclaiming their health while becoming more efficient with their time. He has been featured in numerous print and online publications and has appeared on CTV, Global, National Geographic, Dragons Den, Breakfast Television, CBC Radio 1 and more. He is also the creator and host of the Shaw Cable cooking show “Power of Food”. Download this episode (right click and save)

Carol Simpson has worked in the IT field for over 30 years, managing departments with 60+ IT professionals and project budgets of $50M. Her career began in Vancouver as a programmer at IBM Canada and moved on to operate her own software development shop. She now runs Focus Professional Services and is one of a handful of individuals in Canada who has successfully placed and hired individuals with autism into full-time careers that afford them solid, middle-class lifestyles.Download this episode (right click and save)

At age 22, with no previous business experience, Adam left his day job to chase the dream of business ownership. He started out by peddling Gmail address’ by the bundle. Today, he leads a team of 30+, remote team members, runs 2 successful companies (is currently building 3, 4 & 5) and hosts The Steele Entrepreneur Show. When not working his face off, he can be found rolling on the Jiu Jitsu mats, tinkering in his garden or with his nose in a book. Adam’s mission is to share his experiences, past and present, with anyone audacious enough to want to be great.Download this episode (right click and save)

Widely known as “DA” and the owner of DA Top Talent. Doug has helped over 500 hundred business owners over the past 35 years. His passion is to provide world-class business advisory services for entrepreneurs and business owners and is dedicated to helping people achieve and succeed. DA has a world-class assessment system that helps identify potential problems in hiring and staffing. He uses world-class materials to help implement change and develop internal systems and offers ongoing mentoring to ensure new plans are implemented and followed through for as long as it takes to reach success.Download this episode (right click and save)

Casey A. Miller, President of 6 ½ Consulting has 15+ years of business experience including roles of CEO, VP Business Development, and VP Strategy. And he is on a mission: to create thriving workplaces, relationships, and communities where people value one another. In his business life, this means helping organizations create teams that thrive on healthy conflict, emotionally intelligent leadership, and shared purpose. An expert in strategy and leadership development, Casey is charismatic and energetic, lending his clients perspectives on execution, team building, and ultimately, how to create workplaces where employees are intrinsically motivated to come to work.Download this episode (right click and save)

Bob Neudecker is the founder and president of Ten5 CRM, which specializes in consulting, implementation and training for Salesforce.com and Zoho CRM, two of the most popular web-based CRM applications. Bob helps small businesses manage their sales, marketing and customer service using a CRM system as the hub to send highly targeted marketing campaigns, track customer communications and follow-ups, and gain visibility to make effective business decisions through accurate metrics and reporting. When not at his desk, Bob takes advantage of Vancouver’s easy access to skiing and water sports with his family, as well as kitesurfing at Squamish and tropical locales whenever possible.Download this episode (right click and save)

Zac Cohen is an experienced business leader focused on strategic planning and execution, corporate management, risk management, and operational efficiency. With nearly 10 years of start-up and tech experience – primarily in the compliance space – Zac has built and scaled companies by applying a proven people-systems approach of collaboration, ownership, best practices, and accountability. His passion remains technology and its ability to impact the world. Zac is currently the General Manager at (Truly you) Trulioo – a hyper-growth Vancouver start-up – solving global identity problems associated with international compliance obligations, including cross-border AML & KYC.Download this episode (right click and save)

Andy Tsai is the president and cofounder of Reflex Wireless. Andy received his degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 2010, and cofounded ReFleX in 2011 to provide IoT devices and data analytic platforms for healthcare and industrial applications. With his leadership, ReFleX is currently offering wireless solutions for geriatric care, remote sleep monitoring and chronic illness management. His goal is to make small wireless medical sensors that will make healthcare more accessible and affordable to everyone in the world. Download this episode (right click and save)

Keith Roy has been selling real estate in Vancouver for over 10 years. Born in Vancouver and raised around BC, he graduated from high school at Vancouver College, holds a BA in political science from the University of Guelph and a post graduate diploma in Sales and Marketing from the Sauder School of Business at UBC. Keith has been featured in every major Canadian media outlet giving commentary on matters relating to the local and national real estate markets, trends in real estate sales, the City of Vancouver’s building code, house building and new construction. Keith recently started the Vancouver UnReal Estate Show – a podcast featuring interviews of real estate thought leaders and policy makers on housing issues facing our city.Download this episode (right click and save)

Annee Ngo is the founder and President of San Francisco-based startup ProtoHack – an organization dedicated to empowering the non-technical community with the tools and resources to solve big problems through technology. They offer events in over 20 cities across the globe including Milan, New Delhi, Dubai, and Sao Paolo. She’s a non-techie, law school drop out, part-time poker player, and BC Business’ 30 Under 30.Download this episode (right click and save)

Dr. Bijan Nasiri is a retired physician from Iran, an entrepreneur with over 2 decades of experience in project management and business consultation related to homelessness, addiction and HIV/AIDS. He now hosts a popular podcast called “Entrepreneur Roadmap” with more than 140 episodes, has interviewed well-known guest speakers from all over the world. Today he has taken on a role of teaching entrepreneurs, families and individuals on how to make an informed decision about the most important game in their life: Money game and how to demystify it, using universal simple language.Download this episode (right click and save)

He and his company, VanCity Life Coach Inc., are on a mission to “evolve the human experience…” Originally from the UK, Terry left a prosperous career in Marketing in order to seek genuine fulfillment of his own. Terry moved to Vancouver 6 years ago, and started blogging about his ideas on how people can navigate their lives into a healthier and happier direction. As his blog grew, he found himself connecting with people from around the globe seeking to fulfill the same emotional experience in life. Focused on this one desire we all have in common, Terry developed a fully comprehensive coaching program designed to help us find the fulfillment we’re all looking for in our lives, thus, VanCity Life Coach Inc., was born. Download this episode (right click and save)