Calgary Business Podcast

This is episode 4 in the “All Psyched Up About” series dedicated to the work of clinical psychologist, Dan McMillan, whereby he highlights a variety of issues and topics around mental health. §§§ In this episode, Daniel provided an introduction to the Assured Psychology work with employees from a large oil and gas “Fly-in / Fly-out” camp in Northern Alberta.  Rather than simply providing “Che...

This is the 6th episode of “Crypto Coach”, a series dedicated to providing practical guidance on navigating the emerging technologies surrounding blockchain, crypto currency, digital assets and Web 3.0 §§§ This episode focused on “What is a Crypto Wallet?” with the following links and references that helped to frame the discussion: Investopedia – definition of private keys plus a 2-minute video th...

This is the 5th episode of the Crypto Market update with Mark Magliocco covering the period from 29 August 2022 to 12 September 2022. Cautionary Note: All discussions in this episode are for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets...

This is the second (2nd) episode of the Streakers Weekly Sports Rundown with Craig Weissenfels, CEO and co-founder of Streakers Gaming Inc, covering the week of sports from 5 to 11 September 2022 §§§ Highlights included: NFL football (week 1) Women’s NBA basketball finals and the retirement of 20-year veteran Sue BirdUS Open tennis finals, ESPORTs highlights from the Valorant tournament in Istanbu...

This is the 1st episode in a new series titled “Clint’s Chronicles” whereby high school student, Clint Cadio, shares his passion and creativity around entrepreneurship. In this episode, we look “way back” to Clint’s early days as a middle school student at St Francis of Assisi in Red Deer, Alberta.  For the benefit of the listeners, that was in the range of 3 to 4 years ago! §§§ Some referenc...

This is the first (1st) episode of the Streakers Weekly Sports Rundown with Craig Weissenfels, CEO and co-founder of Streakers Gaming Inc covering the week of sports from 29 August to 4 September §§§ This episode focused on Women’s World Hockey championship (hosted by Denmark) The Gold Medal match saw Team Canada defeat Team USA [2-1]; International Ice Hockey Federation article: https://bit.ly/3Q...

This is the 5th episode of “Crypto Coach”, a series dedicated to providing practical guidance on navigating the emerging technologies surrounding blockchain, crypto currency, digital assets and Web 3.0 §§§ This episode focused on “What is A DAO?” with links to supporting discussions: Investopedia This article provides details on: definition of a DAO; understanding DAO’s; how DAO’s work; benefits a...

This is the 7th episode in the “Errol’s Eye On” series dedicated to Errol Vas providing practical marketing and business advice to startups, small to medium-sized enterprises and large multi-national corporations. §§§ In this episode, Errol highlights a selection of software solutions that are currently used by marketing professionals to support their work 1st | Cold Call Marketing. “Sanas” – real...

This is episode 3 in the “All Psyched Up About” series dedicated to the work of clinical psychologist, Dan McMillan, whereby he will seek to highlight a variety of issues and topics around mental health. §§§ In this episode, Daniel focuses on “Relationships” and why they are so important to everyone.  During our discussions, references were made to two key individuals that have influenced (an...

This is the third (3rd) episode in the series titled “Judith’s Journals On” whereby Judith Virag, the CEO and founder of Clean Club Calgary, sharew her practical advice and suggestions around managing a small business. Episode 3 focused on the three important qualities of customer service centered around three “p”s: professionalism, patience, and a “people-first” attitude. As Judith explained “......

In a rare in person podcast session, I traveled to the storage warehouse of Olympia ATM to chat with President, Jim Wilson and Account Manager, Cam McIntosh.  There is a lot to unpack in this episode as we talked “all things cash” and ATM’s (or automated teller machines). In no particular order we bantered about: Foreign exchange options (USD, Mexican PESO, EUROs) with ATM’s situated at Alber...

This is the 4th episode of the Crypto Market update with Mark Magliocco, co-founder of Crypto528 DAO, covering the week of 22 August to 28 August 2022.   CAUTIONARY NOTE: **** All discussions in this episode are for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to an...

This is the fourth (4th) episode of “Crypto Coach”, a series dedicated to providing practical guidance on navigating the emerging technologies surrounding blockchain, crypto currency, digital assets and Web 3.0 This episode primarily focused on “What is Blockchain?”. §§§ To learn more about the Crypto528 DAO team, in which both Mark and Debbie are co-founders, click on one or more of the following...

This is the 3rd episode of the Crypto Market update with Mark Magliocco covering the week of 8 August to 21 August 2022.  All discussions in this episode are for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should consult your own advisers as to those matters. References to any securities or digital assets are for illustrative pu...

In this episode,  Justin Fox, the CEO and Founder of Backers Network Inc., introduces new platform, a regulated portal allowing startups and small-businesses to raise funding from both accredited and non-accredited investors by utilizing the crowd-funding regulations issued by the Ontario Securities Commission and affiliated commissions across Canada. §§§ Some highlights of our discussion inc...

This is the 6th episode in the “Errol’s Eye On” series dedicated to Errol Vas providing practical marketing and business advice to startups, small to medium-sized enterprises and large multi-national corporations. §§§ Today, Errol narrowed in on the use of Linkedin by corporations (and individuals) who are simply using it as an advertising platform or “Corporate Foghorn”.  Focused on me or us...

This episode follows on from Calgary Business Podcast episode 347 on 28 July 2022, whereby  Sean Crump introduced listeners to his accident that left him a quadriplegic at the age of 19.  In this episode, Sean went into great detail around the origin story of his business, Included by Design. Key companies and relevant links discussed in this episode include: City of Calgary, Advisory Co...

This is the 3rd episode with an entrepreneur from the DriverSeat Inc franchise group.  The first was Rahul Kumar, franchise owner of Driverseat Calgary (episode 120 on 14 April 2020); the second was with Brian Bazely, the CEO and co-founder of DriverSeat Inc. based out of Kitchener, Ontario (episode 123 on 15 April 2020 ) Nasir Awan is the franchise owner of Driverseat Ottawa and as of record...

I was joined on this episode by long time TEC chair, Doug Bouey and we focused on his book, “Fixing Fractures: Restoring Shattered Relations in Business and In Life”.  As Doug so correctly highlighted during our chat, “…virtually everyone will be directly impacted by such relationship fractures in both their personal and work lives…” Doug took inspiration to write this book from a presentatio...

This is the 2nd crypto market update by the team at Crypto528, a web3 startup that is building a Crypto DAO Republik. This market update was provided by Crypto528 co-founder, Mark Magliocco. §§§ The key items discussed during this update included: 1st | Tornado Cash.  US Treasury blacklist due to excessive bad actors Link to CNBC article | https://cnb.cx/3dyAbq4 Link to The Hill article | htt...

This is the third (3rd) episode of “Crypto Coach”, a series dedicated to providing practical guidance on navigating the emerging technologies surrounding blockchain, crypto currency, digital assets and Web 3.0 §§§ In this episode, Debbie shares her own story of not only paying for courses to learn about blockchain and crypto currencies, but also devoting significant time and effort to conduct her...

This is the 1st crypto market update by the team at Crypto528, a web3 startup that is building a Crypto DAO Republik. This market update was provided by Crypto528 co-founder, Mark Magliocco. §§§ The key items discussed during this update included: 1st | The Nomad Bridge hack with links to several articles mentioned during the episode: Nomad Cross-Chain Bridge hack (Bitcoin.com, 3 August 2022) | ht...

This is the 2nd episode of “All Psyched Up About”, a series dedicated to the work of clinical psychologist, Dan McMillan, whereby he will seek to highlight a variety of issues and topics around mental health. In episode 2, Daniel focuses on the role core emotions play in our day to day interactions with others and provides some ideas on how we can take responsibility to notice such emotions, manag...

This is the 5th episode of “Errol’s Eye on”, a series dedicated to Errol Vas providing practical marketing and business advice to startups, small to medium-sized enterprises and large multi-national corporations. §§§ Errol stresses the importance of building trust for companies that conduct business on-line and he highlighted 4 ways in which such trust can be built: 1st | “Trust indicators” – incl...

It is not often that an introduction via email will literally blow me away.  This is one of those occasions!  I had no idea what to expect prior to my introductory chat with Sean Crump and I suspect most of my listeners will feel the same way after listening to the incredible back story to Sean’s business, “Included by Design”. Sean shared an inspiring and heart felt story around becomin...