Amplify Your Business

For Episode 207 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Paul Shufelt, the founder and Head Chef at the Robert Spencer Hospitality Group. The Robert Spencer Hospitality Group runs six restaurants throughout Edmonton: Workshop Eatery, Hayloft, Woodshed Burgers, The Greenhouse Restaurants at Victoria, Riverside, and Rundle.   During his interview, Paul discusses what success has looked like for him...

For Episode 207 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ronak Sheth, the CEO and Founder of LIT Videobooks. Videobooks are a new consumable category that makes reading as easy, accessible, engaging, and fun as watching a movie. In a world where over 100 million Americans haven’t bought or read a non-fiction book in the last year, LIT Videobooks’ goal is to make reading non-fiction books as acces...

For Episode 205 of Amplify Your Business, we’re presenting an ENCORE episode of the Amplify Your Business Podcast, and it’s truly outrageous! For this encore presentation, 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...

For Episode 204 of Amplify Your Business, we’re presenting an ENCORE episode of Amplify Your Business Podcast, and it’s going to be a shocking one. For this encore episode, we’re joined by Lindsay White, the founder of High Voltage Leadership. High Voltage Leadership got its start in 2017 when Lindsay found herself working for a toxic leader at a financial institution. She decided that she couldn’...

For Episode 203 of Amplify Your Business, we’re presenting an ENCORE episode of Amplify Your Business, and it’s just as sweet the second time around. For this encore episode, we’re joined by Trisha Bower, the Chief Baking Officer at Eat My Shortbread.   A discovery of a long-held family recipe one Christmas led to Trisha filling her pockets with delicious shortbread treats and squirreling away to...

For Episode 202 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Morgan McCollum, the managing partner at Shift. Support Inc. Shift. Support has spent the last 12 years trying to change the IT game, trying to change the mentality of their clients and the industry as a whole. They take a proactive approach to managed IT services, rather than a reactive one, to help their clients drive efficiencies in thei...

For Episode 201 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by… Lance Johnson! Yes, the Interviewer Extraordinaire himself is front and center for this very special episode of Amplify Your Business, as he looks back at some of his favourite interviews over the last 200 episodes. To learn more or be a guest on the Amplify Your Business podcast, visit www.amplifyyourbusiness.ca     00:00 - Intro 02:06 -...

For Episode 199 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Sean Collins, the CEO of Varme Energy. Varme Energy develops waste energy facilities built with integrated carbon capture and storage. Essentially, large industrial process facilities that use two-stage combustion technology to combust municipal solid waste that would otherwise be going to a landfill. These facilities burn the waste, extrac...

For Episode 198 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Jason Reposa, the founder and CEO of Good Feels. Good Feels is a licensed cannabis operator in Massachusetts. They produce and sell cannabis beverages and beverage enhancers. Currently, they have five ready-to-drive cannabis-infused seltzers in stock. Their drinks come in a 12-ounce bottle and are made in a variety of flavours, depending on...

For Episode 197 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Nicole Matos, the founder of Oonnie and CEO of Rivet Construction. Oonnie is, essentially, an online farmer’s market. Small and medium sized local food producers can join Oonnie and easily set up their own shops to get their food products online and available for customers to buy quickly, and easily. Customers can then go to a single websit...

For Episode 196 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by our signature guest, Matthew Pollard. Matthew is the author of the Introvert’s Edge book series and public speaker who travels the world teaching introverted people how to be successful salespeople. Matthew is also the National Brand Ambassador for BX Networking, an organization that educates small business owners on how to develop and grow...

For Episode 195 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Andrew Ambrocichuk, the CEO of Hydrasurvey. Hydrasurvey provides hydrographic sludge surveys, wastewater project monitoring, and thermal tank surveys to companies undertaking wastewater projects that include lagoons and ponds to help their clients prepare for remediation. Wastewater ponds and lagoons are designed to hold a certain amount of...

For Episode 194 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Virginia Wornstaff, the CEO of OSP Microcheck. OSP Microcheck is a company that specializes in microbial identification, surveillance, and mitigation in the oil and gas sector. OSP Microcheck works with the global oil and gas industry to develop solutions for the effects of water and its use, and through data-driven analysis, they help comp...

For Episode 193 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Derek Spruill, co-founder and director of sales for Cherry Blossom Hemp. This is the second iteration of the Cherry Blossom brand. Originally called Cherry Blossom Confections, they dealt in the edibles and marijuana candy market. The second iteration then became Cherry Blossom Hemp, and finally, after meeting with a CBD manufacturer out in...

For Episode 192 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Colin Tran, the founder, and president of NXT-GEN at the University of Alberta. At a high level, NXT-GEN was originally founded to bring entrepreneurship to the high school level. It has since evolved into an organization that connects those students - that next generation of Edmonton entrepreneurs - with our city’s rapidly developing entre...

For Episode 191 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ken Bautista, the co-founder of the Public Food Hub, and founder and co-partner of Makespace. The Public combines the community of farmer’s markets with the innovation of drop-shipping to bring delicious food makers and mixologists into industrial kitchens where they can make their wares and food lovers can come to get their favourite dishe...

For Episode 190 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Derek Nolt, the founder, and CEO of Bladeflex. Bladeflex is an upper-body rehabilitation device. Muscles can adapt to the direction in which the force is applied, which is why the resistance on the Bladeflex divide is built right in. Bladeflex helps the shoulders, back, and neck area adapts to better form. The beauty of Bladeflex comes from...

For Episode 189 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Mike Toffan, the founder and executive director of Project Forest. Project Forest is a non-profit organization that helps other companies solve their ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance), CSR (Corporate Social Responsiblity), and carbon reduction challenges. To do this, they identify non-productive agricultural land that’s...

For Episode 188 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Hillary Sweet, the co-founder, and CEO of Kidney-Chek. Anyone who’s ever owned a pet knows that they are very good at hiding when they’re not feeling well. As pets age, vets start to offer regular bloodwork and wellness checks and tests to ensure that everything is still functioning normally. The problem is, many pet owners find these tests...

For Episode 187 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Jim Parsons, the founder, and owner of Equinox Sound & Entertainment. Through Equinox, Jim not only writes, produces, hosts, and entertains through a variety of avenues, but he has also created online courses to teach others to do the same. As well, he helps his clients with all of their video, editing, and content needs.    Through his oth...

For Episode 186 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by PJ Barclay, the President and CEO of Impirica. Impirica develops risk assessment tools for companies to accurately measure impairment risk as it relates to driving and operating in other safety-sensitive environments. Impirica gives organizations and individuals the peace of mind that employees and individuals can operate safely in a given...

For Episode 185 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Evan Wain, the co-founder of Ordr. Ordr is a company that is changing the way we enjoy sporting and local events by affording the public the option for premium service, even in the “cheap seats”.   Following Edmonton Unlimited’s Launch Party 13, we delved into the ups and downs of starting a service-oriented startup in the middle of a pande...

For Episode 184 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Dr. Tom Ingegno, the owner of Charm City Integrative Health. Charm City Integrative Health is a health and wellness center in Baltimore, Maryland, that offers health services that combine both Eastern and Western medical practices to help their clients achieve their greatest level of wellness.    Some of their services include whole-body cr...

For Episode 183 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Jeff Waldman, the founder, and principal of ScaleHR. ScaleHR helps small to mid-size businesses scale their HR and People Operations through strategy and operations advice and resources, tech stack support and help, identifying value props, and growing leadership skills. They also help recruitment tech and HR startups build better solutions...

For Episode 182 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by David Thomas, the founder of BudSense. BudSense is a Software as a Service provider that offers branded, customized cannabis dispensary menus and digital signage that you can change as often as your inventory changes. They take the pain out of having to manually create store menus and tracking inventory with spreadsheets and a sharpie for c...