Gale Force Wins

Send us Fan Mail Tom Powell joins us to discuss his journey into the pizza business. Tom started Pizza Express around 2004 and has employed over 30 people in that time. When asked to give a piece of advice Tom said "just buy the Gum Ball machine!" You will have to watch this episode to understand what he means. #GaleForceWins has new episodes every Tuesday evening on Youtube and audio wh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode #GaleForceWins interviews the Coxswain of HMCS Windsor Jason Thompson followed by PO2 Marcus Hibbert who is the senior Sonar Technician. We then chat with the Executive Officer Lt. Jay Finlayson and finally the Commanding Officer, CDR. Drew Matheson. We were on location on a barge just across from the sub itself and if you visit our Youtube Channel you will see the...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins was in invited by https://genoadesign.com/ to attend http://defsecatlantic.ca/ to interview a selection of attendees. In episode #62 of #GaleForceWins we interview the most senior sailor in The Royal Canadian Navy.  Rear-Admiral Santarpia enrolled in the Canadian Forces Officer Candidate Training Plan as a Maritime Surface Officer in 1986. His operational postings o...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins interviews the Commanding officer , Nicole Robichaud and the operations officer Natalia Borszczow of HMCS Margaret Brooke from the bridge of the ship in Halifax harbour. Two inspiring women leaders in charge of one of Canada's newest RCN ships. New episodes every Tuesday evening on Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also visit https://galeforcew...

Send us Fan Mail In this exclusive trip #GaleForceWins sails aboard HMCS Toronto from St. John’s to Halifax and records conversations with sailors from all parts of the ship. This is an exciting look inside HMCS Toronto and the conversations with the people that make the ship work. This was shot on video and you can watch it here . This is part 2 of 2. New episodes every Tuesday evening on Youtube...

Send us Fan Mail In this exclusive trip #GaleForceWins sails aboard HMCS Toronto from St. John’s to Halifax and records conversations with sailors from all parts of the ship. This is an exciting look inside HMCS Toronto and the conversations with the people that make the ship work. This was shot on video and you can view it here . This is part 1 of 2. New episodes every Tuesday evening on Youtube...

Send us Fan Mail Scott is a self-made entrepreneur who has grown diverse businesses from the ground up or from acquisitions in varying industries including beverage alcohol , motorsports promotion and most recently human resources.  Scott is a visionary and started his first business thirty years ago as a food broker and became a best-in-class leader in the beverage alcohol industry. Scott has exp...

Send us Fan Mail Judit was born in Hungary living her early childhood behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ taught her to be resourceful and overcome unique challenges. Regardless of her circumstances, she has always wanted to achieve more than what seemed to be attainable. After high school, she was laser focused on completing a doctorate degree in law. When she achieved that, she was determined to become th...

Send us Fan Mail Sheldon has been providing Small, Medium and Fortune 100 companies forward-thinking digital marketing campaigns for over 18 years. Prior to starting www.newfoundmarketing.ca/ Sheldon was the Digital Marketing Director for M5 Communications and has spent time in Montreal and London where he planned and delivered sound Digital Marketing strategies to Fortune 100 clients Hewlett Pack...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff LeDrew founded Jumping Bean Coffee as a full service coffee roaster, grocery wholesaler, and cafe system. They import the finest single origin and blends from around the world and roast them with a unique ECO2Roast process at their facility in Atlantic Canada. Their coffees are shipped out across around Eastern Canada, from the Maritimes to Ontario, at major and independent g...

Send us Fan Mail William C. Malone was born in the central Newfoundland town of Buchans. He spent his formative years in Mount Pearl and upon graduation from high school he attended St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree. In 1988 he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and served in the provinces of N...

Send us Fan Mail Maria French is the Founder and President, of Terra Nova Solutions . She is well-known and regarded in the health information management field, having served nine years as an elected Director of the Clinical Documentation Industry Association (CDIA). Gender equality and women empowerment are the very core of her principles. She is a member of the Women’s Executive Network (WXN), W...

Send us Fan Mail Gill Whelan has been coaching for 25 years. Her work in coaching clients in the fitness and wellness realm first began about 11 years ago. She studied under and trained with experts in fitness, health, nutrition, mindset and overall wellness, all over the world. Whelan Wellness Virtual Bootcamp is an online wellness-focused program, with a comprehensive 360-degree approach to well...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Heather Morrison was appointed Chief Health Officer for PEI in July 2007. As PEI's first female Rhodes Scholar, she completed both a Master's and Doctorate degree at University of Oxford in Comparative Social Research and Social Policy with a thesis dissertation in health policy decision-making. Dr. Morrison returned to Canada for her medicine training, completing he...

Send us Fan Mail Elias Kanaris is an author, professional keynote speaker, executive coach, leadership trainer, and entrepreneur. He has been a regular keynote presenter and he has frequently spoken to audiences in the I.T., telecommunications, insurance, financial services, real estate, and education sectors across thirteen countries on four continents. Since the early 1980s, Elias has been using...

Send us Fan Mail Larry Pittman, is very proud to have served his country, as a uniformed military officer at the military base in Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada for a three year posting in the early 1990’s. Larry was the CEO/Airport Manager at 5-Wing Goose Bay Airport on September 11th, 2001. Goose Bay Airport had to make quick, tactical decisions to house and accommodate 1000 stranded passengers in...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Tuerff's experience as a 9/11 stranded airline passenger in Canada inspired him to develop Pay it Forward 9/11 in 2002, and it has been growing each year. Today he serves as founder and volunteer president of Pay it Forward 9/11, Inc. His 9/11 story is one of the true stories inspiring the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical Come From Away. The character 'Kevin T&a...

Send us Fan Mail Born in a small town in the Rhondda Valleys of South Wales. At the young age of 16 he joined the British Army where he completed a 22 Year distinguished career, seeing service all over the Globe including Operational Service in Northern Ireland, Eastern Europe, Africa, The Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan before retiring in December 2013. He moved to Newfoundland in 2013 and fell...

Send us Fan Mail Corina is a certified coach, author, speaker, and the CEO of Shift People Development Inc. Throughout  a 12-year career she designed creative learning solutions to solve problems for clients and stakeholders. In 2013 however, she found herself at a crossroads. The organizations she worked for didn’t always have an appetite for bigger thinking or new ideas. So, after 12 years of gi...

Send us Fan Mail In 2017, mother-daughter duo, Kim Hickman and Katie Thompson saw that there was a gap in the market when it came to a sleek, professional, functional backpack for women. Their problem was simple: most women’s bags suck.  Immediately they got to work. Surveying over 400 women both online and in their home about what makes a ‘perfect backpack’. These ‘backpack yaks’ as they called t...

Send us Fan Mail On July 16th HMCS Oriole visited St. John's and #GaleForceWins went aboard to chat with the captain and some of it's crew. New episodes every Tuesday evening on Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also visit www. GaleForceWins.com To message Gerry visit: www.linkedin.com/in/gerrycarew/ To message Allan visit: www.linkedin.com/in/allanadale/ Gale Force Wins...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Gallagher worked in construction in Ireland with his dad at the age of 14. Sadly his dad passed away when he was a teenager but his incredibly strong mom kept the family together and instilled a work ethic that serves him well to this day. During university Jay and his brother, while still teenagers started a second hand import auto parts company in their mother's garage....

Send us Fan Mail Bill Butler started his career in traditional media advertising with The Telegram in St. John's. While working there he came across an opportunity to pursue self employment with his own company www.oilfiltrationsolutions.com in 2002 by representing an emerging Oil Filtration technology that reduces oil consumption and waste. Bill has continued to grow his customer base and ha...

Send us Fan Mail Bev is an award-winning advocate, a best-selling author, an entrepreneur, a former model and fashion designer, and most importantly, a loving mom and wife. But once upon a time, she was an innocent little girl living a life of abuse and torture in a “perfect” house behind a white picket fence. For more than a decade she was sexually, physically, and mentally abused by her adopted...

Send us Fan Mail As CEO of Genesis, Michelle leads the management team in handling day to day operations of the Genesis Group and establishes long-term relationships with key stakeholders in the community. With the leadership of the Board of Directors, she develops and implements the Genesis Group strategic plan. With more than a decade of experience advising technology companies, Michelle is pass...