Amplify Your Business

For Episode 156 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Craig Milne, the CEO of Copperstone Technologies. Unlike the majority of our guests on Amplify Your Business, Craig Milne is not the founder of Copperstone Technologies, but he was brought on in the early days as the CEO and has helped to scale the business to where it is today.   Copperstone Technologies is a company that builds robots for...

For Episode 155 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Kaiden Vancuren, the owner of Medicine Hat Brewing Company. In our interview with Kaiden, he tells us the three things he thinks every entrepreneur should know, how Medicine Hat Brewing survived the “Valley of Death,” what it’s like to break into other provinces as a brewing company, and much more. To learn more, visit Medicine Hat Brewing...

For Episode 154 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Tenielle Magee, the owner and CEO of Leduc Physio, Navisess, Compression Care, and Physio@Home. In our discussion with Tenielle today, she tells us the three things she thinks every entrepreneur should know, blows us away with how she manages to run four businesses and still has time to sleep, talks about opening Physio@Home during the pand...

For Episode 153 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ailynn and Jason from Yelo’d Ice Cream, a mom-and-pop ice cream joint that blends Asian and Philippino flavours with one of Canada’s favourite desserts: ice cream.   Yelo’d got its humble start in the home kitchen of Jason and Ailynn, where they would whip up different flavours of ice cream for their children. After one of their daughters r...

For Episode 152 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Adam O’Brien from Bitcoin Well. Bitcoin Well, formerly Bitcoin Solutions, began with O’Brien buying and selling Bitcoin through ads on Facebook and Kijiji, and eventually led to having 115 Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. They are now one of Canada’s leaders in buying and selling Bitcoin in a non-custodial fashion. To learn more, visit the Bitco...

For Episode 151 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Caitlyn Fulton, owner and Chief of Operations, and Blair Lebsack, owner and Chef at RGE RD, a restaurant and butchery in Edmonton. RGE RD espouses the concept of farm-to-table, doubly so when they opted to open up their own butchery right next door to their original restaurant, despite the fact that neither owner had ever worked in retail f...

For Episode 150 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Darren Pelechaty, partner and General Manager at SOHO, a restaurant, pub, and live music venue in Alberta, where the 70s New York punk scene meets modern-day downtown Edmonton, and inclusivity reigns supreme. To learn more, visit SOHO’s website, https://www.sohoyeg.com/ , or check them out on Instagram .   0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Where it all b...

For Episode 149 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Aby Aiyeleye, the Co-CEO of Clavis Studio. This year, Clavis Studio won the newcomer Entrepreneur Award of Distinction from the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction, presented by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce.    Clavis Studio is an online design platform that marries the fun of designing a space with the functionality of doing it onli...

For Episode 148 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ben Baker, the founder and CEO of Your Brand Marketing. Ben is also a seasoned podcaster, with 350 episodes of his current show, the Your Living Brand Live Show, under his belt. In our discussion with Ben, he talks us through the three things he thinks every entrepreneur should know, how he started Your Brand Marketing and a lot about podca...

For Episode 147 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Melissa Kwan, co-founder and CEO of eWebinar. eWebinar is a product for people who hate running webinars. Born out of Melissa’s own hatred of running webinars, eWebinar aims to fully automate the process of running a webinar through giving clients the ability to turn any video into a webinar that they can automate on a recurring schedule or...

For Episode 146 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Sandeep Todi, the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Truly Financial. Truly Financial is an online digital bank, built exclusively for smaller businesses that helps them grow globally. In a world where many businesses - and especially startups - are using business practices that allow them to hire employees anywhere in the world, thes...

For Episode 145 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Heather McLaren, co-founder of Mystica Entertainment. McLaren is an adrenaline junkie who fell into entrepreneurship through volunteering for event band changeover, which ultimately led her on her journey to co-founding Mystica Entertainment.   In our interview with Heather, we talk about her foray into rave culture, the COVID-19 Pandemic,...

For Episode 143 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Christine Manning, the co-founder of Manning Canning, an organization that operates a commercial kitchen that they lease out to other consumer packaged goods businesses. Manning Canning also creates their own line of jams, pickles, and drinks.   Christine tells us how she accidentally stumbled into entrepreneurship, her journey from followi...

For Episode Career Stories of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Kerri Twigg, Career Contentment Coach at Career Stories. Kerri is the author of The Career Stories Method, a Number One bestseller on Amazon, and is an acclaimed speaker and career coach. After stumbling upon some teachings by American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant, Shinzen Young, Kerri took to coaching...

For Episode 142 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Adam Gellert—Founder of HiredHippo. As a business owner, your people are investments. But with job boards filled with sterile postings, employees unsure of how to present themselves to young businesses, or costly recruitment services bringing in candidates without long-term vision, the jobseeker market was ready for an innovator. With a “da...

For Episode 141 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Dorit Smali—Founder of Digital Dorit Agency. What can energy teach us about being better marketers? Today, Dorit Smali of Digital Dorit Agency shares her thoughts with us on abundance, connection, and passion—all of which can help us understand and tell better stories for the businesses we work with. This is a novel and uniquely personable...

For Episode 140 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Connor Curran—Chief Laundry Folder of Local Laundry.   What is community pride without community? When you put your city front and centre of your brand, you had better stand for it. Connor Curran of Local Laundry shows his company’s pride in spades with local manufacturing, a staggering donation goal, and a vision for tomorrow across Canada...

For Episode 139 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Abi Ajibola of Memoirs Photography. “Come and be a celebrity for a day.” That’s the motto that helps Abi Ajibola turn everyday shoots into unforgettable portraits for her clients. As a fan of elevating experiences through beauty and connection, she brings joy to her clients that shines through in both her prints and her plans for growing th...

For Episode 139 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Arden Styles of Crypto Cache.   When tech goes smaller, it often goes smarter. Crypto Cache sees this trend through to the finish for cryptocurrency mining by uniting software, power handling, and lightweight weather-resistant enclosures that allow companies to add to their digital wallets anywhere, anytime. As a veteran of highly adaptable...

For Episode 136 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Julie Shipley-Strickland—Senior Wealth Advisor at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth and owner of JSS Wealth & Risk Management. Risk can equal reward when it comes to running your business—you just want to make sure you have someone like Julie keeping an eye on the horizon. Risk management involves the present as much as it does the future, an...

For Episode 135 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Gay Derk of Bridal Fantasy. A lot of business is impersonal—needs being satisfied by the most efficient or cost-effective means the market allows. But for something as personal as a wedding, the entire focus needs to be on the client and their desires. That’s what makes Bridal Fantasy such an interesting company—they do the work behind the...

For Episode 137 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Tatiana Soldatova—Co-Founder and Principal of Syllable, Inc.   Big thoughts (and designs) can come in small packages as Tatiana Soldatova tells us. Syllable, Inc. takes the best parts of a mindful and future-focused entrepreneur into the architectural design space, resulting in both happier clients and communities. If you’ve been looking fo...

For Episode 134 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Trish Tutton, Speaker & Mindfulness Teacher. Trish Tutton is on a mission to create calmer, happier workplaces and employees. With training programs designed to help us thrive in the present moment (and all those unpredictable ones to come), it’s no wonder she is trusted across Canada as an empowering coach who helps elevate speaking and li...

For Episode 133 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Lea Carr of Tilr.   As an entrepreneur, you’re always looking in new places to grow your business. But what about looking inside your organization? It is critical for staff to understand the unique impact they can offer their place of work in as many ways as it is important for managers to understand the team of problem-solvers they have. C...

For Episode 132 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ted Kouri of Incite Strategy. Marketing your business through an acquisition is a challenge not many think of—it’s not so much taking the ball and running as it is remapping the entire playing field. For outside-the-box considerations around the biggest transaction of your professional life, it takes outside-the-box thinkers. From pre-empti...