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Welcome to the 💫4 AM Report💫 and our centennial episode, the 100th edition of the show! To celebrate, we're talking about all things creative with Allen Gannett. He's the author of the Creative Curve, a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, and a brilliant speaker on creativity. He believes creativity is accessible to everyone, but most of us just don't have the right tools. He shares his insigh...

Hello everybody and welcome back for our 99 th episode of 🎙 The 4 AM Report! 🎙 where we'll be chatting to our guest: 🎺 performer, voice and speech specialist, Joy Juckes, about the power of your voice. Joy is the founder of 'The World of Voice' and her mission is to help you connect with others through your voice. Now that we're all on Zoom, giving webinars, making presentations, having team meet...

Hi everybody and welcome back to the 🎙 The 4 AM Report! 🎙 and what's keeping our guest, Ankita Rao, up at night are burning questions about authenticity. Brands have been so quick to say they stand for something (for example, diversity, equity and inclusion) but are they just jumping on the bandwagon?  How can we know they're being genuine and whether anything they do will be permanent ? How do we...

Welcome to the next edition of 🎙 The 4 AM Report! 🎙 where our special guest is an expert sales coach and the author of Amazon bestseller📖: 'Everybody Works in Sales.'   Niraj Kapur shares how to not suck at sales, drawing from his personal journey to success. He wanted to become the first Indian Bon Jovi and when he failed as a musician, took the first job he could find in sales. Now he's a succe...

Today on 🎙The 4 AM Report!🎙, we're talking LinkedIn and how to set it on fire🔥, whether you are part of a leadership team, a founder or an entrepreneur. Our guest is Dionne Vaz, Marketing Director of IQPC – a large global events management firm – and former ad executive who supports her marketing smarts with data-driven results. She believes that LinkedIn should be a crucial part of any company's...

It's time for another episode of the 🎙 4 AM Report! 🎙 and this time we bring you our Podcast Masterclass (drum roll) an amalgamation of our very best tips and tricks for creating a podcast that converts. You'll learn about:           The anchor theory and how to spin that into as many pieces of content you can 👏         Building content hubs of themed content         Fine tuning your podcast to h...

Welcome back to the 💫4 AM Report💫 and this week, we've crossed the border and gone international. Our guest is the UK's leading expert on heart-centred sales, Catherine Watkin, on how to sell from the heart ♥. She wants to change the paradigm from 'making a sale' to making a  connection . She believes the most important part of the conversation you have with a customer is the value you offer. Ra...

Hello friends, it's the 💫4 AM Report💫 and it's early. Some crazy folk get up at this time, but for most of us, what's keeping us up is that endless inner chatter, the carousel of thoughts that go through the theater of our mind when we so, so desperately want to sleep. Big change coach and consultant Debbie Dimoff has some tips on silencing that mind saboteur. Or at the very least, hitting pause...

It's time for another edition of the 💫4 AM Report💫 and what's keeping us up at night are thoughts around how to empower women and girls. This week we talk to Tiffany Dufu, author of "Drop the Ball", and founder of The Cru. She's the kind of awe-inspiring person who has dedicated her life to helping women realize their goals, and she helped this motley two drop-kick the ball right out of the park...

Welcome to another edition of the 💫4 AM Report💫 and what's keeping us up at night is that hot fart under the covers (aka Dutch Oven). This week we talk to Mairlyn Smith, the Queen of Fiber (and fart jokes) and only professional home economist in Canada who can tell us what to do about that smelly surprise under your blanket. Author of best-selling cookbook  Peace, Love and Fiber and alumnus of t...

Hello friends! It's time for another edition of the 🎧 4 AM Report.🎧   Hope you've enjoyed February because it's 👉 THIS 👈 close to be over!! 🎉💥💫🥶 After a long, dark winter of Covid lockdowns, we wanted this week to be all about wellness – your own, and your employees'. 💪🧘‍♀️🧠💪 And that is Lydia Di Francesco's speciality! 🏆 As a workplace wellness consultant, she helps companies underst...

Hey folks, it's time for another episode of the 💫4 AM Report. 💫   This week, we talk Kolbe, and break down 🕵🏽‍♀️🕵️‍♂️Modus Operandi from the Kolbe system 🕵🏽‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ – with a special focus on teams!    Our two expert guests - Laural Carr , founder and CEO of Toronto-based marketing firm Impagination and a Kolbe certified consultant, and Meredith Malloch , VP of Marketing and Communications at I...

In a special episode of The 4 am Report we speak to Kevin Parent of Ottawa Public Health. The man behind the 'Bruce' tweet that went viral after the SuperBowl. Kevin is as fun as you'd expect him to be. We talk about what spurs wit. The space needed to respond quickly on social. Kevin gives us the scoop including how they pivoted to embrace the engagement they were getting. While the mistaken twee...

Welcome to another episode of the 4 AM Report, folks! 💫💥💫   Ready for Valentine's Day? 💐💘🍷(🦠Covid-19 style, of course. 🦠) Well, we're bringing the love today – 💪and showing you better ways to track REAL podcasting ROI 💪– instead of focusing only on downloads or subscribers! 🛑🛑🛑 Introducing: The 🁡 🁡 🁡 "Domino Effect." 🁡 🁡 🁡 Think:   🔥 How podcast guests help expand your networks. 🔥 B...

Hello friends! In case you hadn't noticed, 🎙podcasts 🎙are our sweet spot! 🍭🧁🍭 Hence why it's been all podcast related content lately on 💫💫the 4 AM Report.💫💫 This week, we do it again! So meta, right? 🧠😂🧠 Want to get 👁ALL the eyeballs 👁on YOUR podcast? Well then, 🔥buckle up. 🔥   ✅ Are there thousands upon thousands of podcasts out there? Yes. ✅ Is it a cluttery mess on the interwebs t...

Hello friends! It's time for another edition of 🗣the 4 AM Report! 🗣 Today, we 💡💡💡flip the switch💡💡💡on last week's episode (have to keep you people on your toes!). 💥😂💥 Instead of chopping your podcast into a bazillion bite-sized pieces , you're going to use it to create 🦖🦕🦖multiple mega-pieces of work 🦖🦕🦖!   Think:   🔥 Building content hubs on your website full of themed content. 🔥...

It's that time again – time for another episode of the 🎙🗣🎙 4 AM Report! 🎙🗣🎙 Hard to believe we're almost a year into this 🦠 pandemic 🦠 and lockdowns are still happening. But here we are.     Whether you have adapted, or you're one of the many who took their businesses online for the first time – either way – you still have to 💫MARKET! 💫 Today, we continue 🥁🥁🥁 banging the drum 🥁🥁🥁 about o...

Hey friends – it's time for another episode of the 4 AM Report! The digital space has never been such a 🚒 firehose of information 🚒as it is today. And one space is 🔥🔥🔥hot and getting hotter 🔥🔥🔥– LinkedIn! But how do you get noticed there if you're not a traditional, "boardroom table business?" 👨‍💼📑👩🏽‍💼 You bring your Instagram game, baby. 🤳📸🤳 You do it tactfully, you tweak your co...

Welcome to 2021 - 🎙the 4 AM Report-style! 🎙 🔥💫💥We are back, and raring to go.🔥💫💥   Today, meet an entrepreneurial couple who b*tch-slapped 🦠Covid-19🦠into a (soon to be) cookie empire. 💪🍪👊👨‍🍳 Chelsea Hearty and "hobby-baker" Ian Moores began baking cookies in their kitchen, as treats for friends. Before you could say "get in mah BELLEH!" Courage Cookies was born. 👏👶👏 Their 2020 stor...

OMG YOU GUYS!! We got through 2020! 💥🎉👏💥🎉👏 What a year. We're looking at YOU Covid-19. 🦠🚨🦠 It's finally 🥂💫🍾 New Year's Eve 🥂💫🍾 – hellooooo 2021!! 🥰 Celebrate safely, yo. Before we went on our holiday break, we each decided to pick our favourite 4 AM Report episode of 2020! So today … 🥁🥁🥁 *drum roll please* 🥁🥁🥁… Susan's pick, Kevin Steinberger!! We've been lucky during this lo...

Happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate! 🎄🎅🎁🦌 For the next two weeks on the 4 AM Report, we each decided to pick our favourite episode of 2020!   Today… 🥁🥁🥁 *drum roll please* 🥁🥁🥁… Will's pick - Eleanor Beaton !!! An award-winning journalist, speaker, executive coach and host of the Fierce Feminine Leadership podcast, she's committed to unleashing the power of women's voices through b...

On today's episode of the 4 AM Report… We. Are. OUTTA HERE!!! 🎉👋💫👋🎉 Seriously folks. After the year we've all just had…? 💀☠️💀 There's no shame in admitting to the biggest B of them all: BURNOUT 🔥🚨🔥 Covid-19 cratered many businesses, caused insane amounts of chaos and border-line PTSD, and dissolved important rituals many of us *koff* used in order to stay sane (in "normal times!" 😂). Ea...

🎶🎶 Food, food, glorious food! 🎶🎶 Welcome to another edition of the 🎙 4AM Report 🎙 and do we have a delicious guest with us today!  Have you been struggling to whip up healthy meals, night after night (after EFFING NIGHT!)? 😤😭😬 Lacking inspiration? Intimidated by your kitchen? Then listen up! Claire Tansey is a literal 🌶🍲🍆 food guru 🥦🍅🥩!! Her cookbooks take the hassle out of haute cuisi...

OMG you guys - it's December! 💫🎄🎅🎁🕎❄️💫 The last month (praise be 🙏) of what has been a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year. But, on a positive note: We did it! 🦸🏽‍♀️🦸‍♂️👏👏 We slogged through and are still kicking. And we feel like celebrating! 💃🍾🕺 Not ourselves though (for a change 🤣🤷‍♀️🤣). No, this week's episode of the 🎙4 AM Report 🎙is dedicated to the Unsung Heroes of M...

It's time for another episode of the 4 AM Report! What's been keeping you up lately? 😴 The looming holidays? 🎁🕎🎄     Covid-19 cases rising? 🦠🛑🦠 Year-end approaching? 🗓🗓🗓   😱😬😱 2021? 😱😬😱 ✅ Check ✅ check ✅ check. AND ✅ CHECK! Let's face it, this year, we're all just muddling through, learning and adapting as we go. Us humans are pretty good at that. 🙏 💫🎉🙌 Team-building getaways...