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Episode 8: Social Media, a Lifestyle and a Business with Ariel Niu
Social media began as a way to stay connected with our friends - but now is used to grow businesses, sell brands and sell people as brands.
Ariel Niu went to business school to study marketing. The field has lead her to the world of digital marketing, helping grow other brands while growing her own brand. Her goal - to grow enough of a following to make running her own person brand a full time job. Can she do it?
In this episode, host Greg Martin and Ariel talk about our relationship with social media and all the things it is good and bad for in our lives. The discussion focuses on Instagram, TikTok, Youtube and how Ariel has grown her following to tens of thousands of people in a short time.
Episode 7: Finding the Accounting Job For You with Shalini Dharna
How do you take the career path of an accountant and make it your own?
Shalini Dharna began her career in the way many accountants do, at a big firm. The problem was she didn’t like it enough to work in big firm audit her whole life. Today she runs her own business. Yes, it’s an accounting business but because she has made it her own, Shalini has the opportunity to work with and help many other small businesses and entrepreneurs every day.
In this episode, host Greg Martin and Shalini talk about what its like to love and hate your job, the ins and outs of the accounting world and how Shalini found the best place for her, as an accountant.
Episode 6: Juggling Kids and an Intense Career During Covid with Anna Stevens
Are we going to be working from home forever? What has the experiment of Covid-19 taught us about enjoying our job and enjoying our kids?
Anna Stevens is Program Director at a digital marketing agency in Toronto. When Covid-19 hit she fled her downtown Toronto life with her husband and kids and moved North to cottage country - it was a 5 month experiment in a different kind of life.
In this episode, host Greg Martin and Anna talk about the good and bad this pandemic is doing for our relationships with our kids, family and colleagues. The biggest question - what has Covid-19 taught us and what do we do about it?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.