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Episode 5: Laid Off to Finding His Purpose with Life Coach Luis Serrano
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Episode 5: Laid Off to Finding His Purpose with Life Coach Luis Serrano

How do you know you’re in the right place, doing the right job, in the right city, hanging out with the right people - for you?

Luis Serrano thought he was on the path to having everything he wanted in life until he lost it all. Now he works with corporations around the world to facilitate team building, and he works with individuals as a life coach to help people find their “purpose”.

In this episode, host Greg Martin and Luis talk about why all the things we want coming out of university and in our 20s might not be the same forever.

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Episode 4: Loving a Non-Stop Work Ethic with Lawyer & Broker Ricky Rathore
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Episode 4: Loving a Non-Stop Work Ethic with Lawyer & Broker Ricky Rathore

How hard should we work? Is there a work-life balance we should strive to achieve or should the goal be to find work that we’re so passionate about we work all the time?

Ricky Rathore loves his job. He’s a real estate broker and a real estate lawyer and he manages a large team of real estate agents (90-100 agents). He works all the time, but loves it because of his passion for his company and his love for the job.

In this episode host Greg Martin and Ricky talk about why he loves his job, his philosophy on work, his goals and why he gets frustrated when people try to pull him away from what he loves (the job).

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Episode 3: Concert Guy Paul Maxwell on a Music Passion to a Music Business
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Episode 3: Concert Guy Paul Maxwell on a Music Passion to a Music Business

Paul Maxwell operates a concert venue in Waterloo, Ontario. His stage has been graced by bands like Matthew Good Band, The Tea Party, Bif Naked, Classified, Stars, Kiefer Sutherland, Sloan, Big Wreck, and even Nick Carter.

In this episode host Greg Martin and Paul discuss the feeling of having your favourite bands play our own stage and how that balances with the ups and downs of owning a business.

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Episode 2: Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves on MBAs, Overworking and the Silicon Valley Life
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Episode 2: Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves on MBAs, Overworking and the Silicon Valley Life

The epitome of schooling success is going to Harvard. Why? What does it get you? Does an MBA hold all the answers to career pivots and success? In this case, it was the beginning of a life in Silicon Valley.

Host Greg Martin talks with Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves about his decision to leave Canada, the country he loves, and find out what to make of his life. After an investment banking career (where he cross paths with Greg), Nilesh worked at Goldman Sachs and then used his experience to get into Harvard.

The two discuss how to get in to Harvard, what's special about the entrance essay and all the things you can get out of business school. In this interview he discusses his happiness with his current job in Silicon Valley working at a new startup company.

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Episode 1: Chef Kyle Webster on Covid, Closing His Business and the Restaurant Dream
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Episode 1: Chef Kyle Webster on Covid, Closing His Business and the Restaurant Dream

Curious about the food business and the feeling of starting a business and having it end? This episode is all about the struggles in the food industry - why it's so exciting, why so many people invest so much, and why the business is so hard.

In this first ever episode, host Greg Martin talks with Chef Kyle Webster about his experiences starting out in the cooking world as a high-end fine dining chef and how that lead to the feelings of success and failure with his own restaurant, Farm’r.

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