Gale Force Wins

Send us Fan Mail Tonya Whittle is Founder & Guide at Wild Soul. Through her own journey of seeking, Tonya has discovered the wild that lives within – the instinctual nature we all have inside, but which is conditioned out by modern and mainstream society leaving no room for the human spirit, the soul. https://www.tonyawhittle.com/ Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode #GaleForceWins sat down with Captain Fred George to discuss his philosophy of public speaking and business communications. Captain Fred raises the bar for himself at every single opportunity and his creation of a $2.4 billion gold mining company is an example of that. Public speaking is no different and in one case Fred memorized the names of 29 graduates and thank...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins will be releasing a series of Youtube videos on Communication with Fred George. Wednesday October 19th - Best speech opening #137A  Friday October 21st  - How to get a standing ovation in the first 90 seconds #137B Tuesday October 25th - The Art of communication - A chat with Fred in his office about communication #137 “The way to win is not getting someone else to...

Send us Fan Mail Tom is an international award winning senior executive in corporate communication and crisis management, professionally accredited in Public Relations.  He has decades of expertise at senior and executive levels, including internal and external communication, government relations, union and non-union environments, Indigenous outreach, stakeholder management, privately held and pub...

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Giovannini is founder and president of Oceanic Releaf   headquartered on the  Burin Peninsula. With 7 retail locations across the province, Oceanic produces and retails premium cannabis products. Her journey with cannabis started when she began making baked goods to help a relative transition away from opioids to more natural pain medication. She studied the healing propert...

Send us Fan Mail The Saint John Sea Dogs announced the promotion of St. John's NL born, Travis Crickard to the position of Head Coach for the 2022-23 season on August 10,2022. The video footage in this episode was recorded by #GaleForceWins over 3 days August 2,3 and 4, 2022. Travis Crickard joined the Sea Dogs coaching staff in November 2021 as an assistant coach. The St. John’s Newfoundland...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Richards serves his country in the Royal Canadian Navy. But he also serves his community as a volunteer with K9 Partners Assistance Dogs which is a Registered Charity located in Nova Scotia. The mission of K9PAD is to provide high quality Service Dogs at a low cost for those in Nova Scotia diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Autism, and rel...

Send us Fan Mail Barry Lane promised his wife he would build a senior’s home so that she could have a home of her own. It took some time but in 1998 that dream became a reality with a home in Old Perlican. Starting with 13 residents Barry, along with his sons provide for over 1000 residents today. This is an inspiring episode and we hope you take the time to watch it on Youtube or listen where eve...

Send us Fan Mail The Mazol Shriners NL help children across Newfoundland and Labrador to receive emergency medical care via their Patient Transportation Fund. Joining us in this episode is 2022 Potentate Bill Radford and past Potentate Paul Rose. They engage in a wide ranging discussion about the great work the Mazol Shriners do in the province. This conversation was made possible by https://nlca....

Send us Fan Mail Blindfolded golfer Fred George wins $50,000 for charity. With Bill Clinton & a room full of CEO's looking on Fred executes an unbelievable drive blindfolded.  #GaleForceWins visited George at his summer residence in Bedford, Nova Scotia where he recounts that amazing shot. Two weeks prior to this shot Fred could not hit the ball off the tee. He told the former president t...

Send us Fan Mail Ken is a media consultant and content creator for https://www.higherdesign.com/ in Summerside, PEI, specializing in video and web content.  Ken and Kirk Arsenault came together to form https://www.sofistofish.com/ . Ken says he loves to see a project result in measurable returns. After family, it's really important for him to see those results and act upon them accordingly. B...

Send us Fan Mail Passionate about people, community development & engagement. Bill Schurman is an energetic change agent who by experience understands partnerships, collaboration planning and process. To quote Bill "Throughout my career I have learned the goal of going from good to great is always within reach". #galeforcewins is an inspirational podcast with New episodes every Tuesd...

Send us Fan Mail Rube & Rake’s new album begins with an ode to family and friends— togetherness—as Josh Sandu declares, against a hopeful bluegrass backdrop, “somewhere there’s a place to lay my head.” Nine songs later, over a gently plucked guitar, he sings, “I won’t go picking it up, the weight of the page is just too much.” Following the award-winning 2017 debut Back and Forth, the St. John...

Send us Fan Mail An impromptu trip to Nashville in 2019 set the wheels in motion for the sophomore record from Americana Folk duo, Quote the Raven. The sounds filling the Nashville airways reinvigorated the Newfoundland duo’s inspiration and they found a new home in the Americana genre. Their upcoming record titled Can’t Hold the Light, is a summation of the journeys that the pair have experienced...

Send us Fan Mail Ife Alaba (Born Ifeoluwa Alaba on June 10, 1999) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. She grew up in South Africa with a strong musical background spanning from being in choirs, orchestras, undergoing opera training, and undertaking the trombone. Ife began her music career after moving to Canada, as a performer at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2017. She later released...

Send us Fan Mail King Sway (Born Farai Gwasira on January 6, 1999) is an award nominated rapper, singer, songwriter, TV Personality and producer based in Canada. He is known for his witty wordplay, curious sound, and creative style that combine stories of pain throughout his life and a sense of uneasiness with melodies that hit the heart at just the right spot. Sway's sound transcends any par...

Send us Fan Mail A native of the island of Newfoundland, off the east coast of Canada, Duane grew up exposed to the island’s mélange of cultural influences and his development as a guitarist reflects that. After graduating from the Jazz Studies program at St. FXU with honours, Duane spent several years studying contemporary music composition at the Conservatoire International de Paris and at the C...

Send us Fan Mail Ritche Perez is a photographer based in Portugal Cove - St. Philips and St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. He has been doing graphic design for twenty five years. Growing up reading through his parent's magazines, he was fascinated by the photographs in magazines such as Life, Time, and National Geographic. He enjoys capturing moments in street photography, travel, portra...

Send us Fan Mail Justin Garland is co-owner and general manager of one of St. John's most popular restaurants https://sjfx.ca/ His interest in business started at a very young age when he would tag along with several real estate agents that he knew. His best friends father, Rob Moore, owned numerous restaurants throughout the city and he took an interest in those restaurants and asked lots of...

Send us Fan Mail Alan Thomas Doyle (born May 17, 1969) is a Canadian musician and actor, best known for his work as one of the lead singers of Celtic band Great Big Sea. Doyle was born to Thomas and Regina Doyle in Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, his mother was a piano teacher who taught him. Doyle attended St. Kevin's in Goulds, NL just outside Petty Harbour. Doyle has a brother, Bernie, and tw...

Send us Fan Mail TJ Gear own Gear's Gains Fitness Center in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. TJ is a Gold medalist at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship. TJ works hard and pushes past limits. With national and international level training certifications he brings a versatile training style to his fitness center. Gear's Gains Fitness Center offers Weight Lifting and Cardio Equipment, Fitne...

Send us Fan Mail Pierre was born and raised in Arnold’s Cove, NL, a small outport community a little more than an hour from St. John’s. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic he had been teaching English and traveling in Asia for the better part of a decade, with the last 4 and a half years spent in China. But the pandemic separated him from his life in China while he was on vacation and now, a little mor...

Send us Fan Mail Kim Paddon is one of a new breed of business owners. With her signature glasses and passion for pink, this fashionista operates https://www.whinkinc.com/ with sense and style. Kim has always been creative and studied to be a graphic designer at Holland College. After graduation, Kim returned home to St. John’s, NL to be closer to her family and began working in retail and graphic...

Send us Fan Mail Fred George is an extraordinarily successful businessman, a proud Nova Scotian, and one of Canada’s greatest philanthropists. Mr. George immigrated to Nova Scotia when he was 19, with a dream of making a better life for his family. He grew his Halifax mining company into the largest gold and silver producer in Mexico. He is listed among Canada’s top ten CEOs, receiving numerous bu...

Send us Fan Mail Ian Wood is a highly personable team builder with 35+ years of leadership and management expertise in international, national, civilian, military, diplomatic, and academic organizations. Ian is a skilled communicator, facilitator and has a strong sense of humour. Ian has authored a broad spectrum of academic and professional publications. He was the Naval Attache at the Canadian E...