Canada’s Entrepreneur

Lisa Shelley is CEO of Neal's Yard Remedies , which sells cosmetics, skin care products, and essential oils. Visit  https://www.ebay.ca/upandrunning to open your online shop. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada’s economy. To support Canada’s businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Suzie Yorke is on a mission to bring healthy fats back. A mom, eleven-time Ironman competitor and yoga enthusiast, Suzie spent years adhering to a low-fat diet only to hit a wall in her mid-40s. After reading Nina Teicholz’s best seller, Big Fat Surprise, she immediately shifted to a high-fat, low-carb diet, and felt better right away. While she loved the benefits of her new lifestyle, Suzie found...

Mitch Jacobsen started his career as a Petroleum engineer, managing the design and construction of the first two produced water ponds in Alberta, which has ultimately helped recycle thousands of cubic meters of water and saved thousands of cubic meters of fresh water usage. Working long hard hours in the oil & gas sector, Mitch and colleagues often used coffee and energy drinks for ‘energy kicks’...

Connor Curran is Co-Founder and "Chief Laundry Folder" for Local Laundry in Calgary, a Canadian clothing manufacturer. Visit https://www.ebay.ca/upandrunning to open your online shop. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada’s economy. To support Canada’s businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Cette entrevue a été réalisé avant le départ de François Gilbert à titre de président-directeur général d’Anges Québec. C’est avec passion et conviction que monsieur François Gilbert assure depuis 2008, le rôle de président-directeur général d’Anges Québec ainsi que d’Anges Québec Capital depuis 2012. Il est également depuis 2005, président-directeur général chez FIER Succès, un fonds de capital d...

Christina Barbato is CEO and Co-Founder of SP Nutraceuticals Inc . SP was founded in 2016 to commercialize natural health products. SP Nutraceuticals is a research and development company taking naturally derived molecules discovered to help treat or prevent specific diseases from discovery to conception, development, patent protection, regulatory approval and clinical trials. We then look for com...

Ehsan Rasul , President and Founder of Knowledge & Achievement Inc. , in Calgary talks about his business of training people in the insurance industry and the state of the industry today.

Dès la sortie de son baccalauréat en informatique de l’Université Laval, il fonde à 21 ans, Nexapp en 2014. Ses associés et lui avaient une vision en tête: être la référence en matière de développement logiciel durable. L'entreprise a su attirer multiples talents en mettant la collaboration au centre de ses valeurs et une culture d'apprentissage. Nexapp connaît d'ailleurs une croissance de 100% ch...

Mario Toneguzzi sits down with Jeff Adamson is Co-founder of NEO Financial in Calgary and one of the original Founders of Skip The Dishes . Visit www.ebay.ca/upandrunning to open your online shop. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Andrew Ostro is Co-Founder and CEO of the online insurance platform PolicyMe . Andrew is an emerging young business leader in Canada. He’s taking on the established life insurance industry with honest and transparent advice. It's been nine months since Phil Bliss sat down with Laura McKay, President of PolicyMe so Canada's Podcast invited Andrew to get an update on the company's progress and new i...

Sylvie Bougie a eu la chance de s'entretenir avec Mériane Labrie de Madame Labriski ! On y découvre une femme passionnée qui carbure au défi! #entrepreneur #quebec #alimentation Madame Labriski , c’est Mériane Labrie , la femme qui carbure à la purée de dattes. Entrepreneure visionnaire, elle est auteure de best-sellers culinaires et de romans jeunesse, conférencière en série, marathonienne, maman...

Jose Azares returns to Canada's Podcast to discuss NIDUM , based out of Calgary, Canada. NIDUM's mission is to democratize employment opportunities by creating Virtual Reality (VR) training modules so businesses can save time, money, and stress, but more importantly so they can be inclusive! Visit www.ebay.ca/upandrunning to open your online shop

Mark Tewksbury runs Great Traits , a professional development company in Calgary, with Debbie Muir. Tewksbury is a well-known national motivational speaker and a former Olympic gold medalist in swimming. Visit www.ebay.ca/upandrunning to open your online shop

Mark C. Smith is the President and CEO of Query Technologies Corp. , Query CX, a boutique customer experience consultancy and Query Capital Corp. He serves as a customer advocate, partnering with leaders across organizations to re-imagine the customer experience and ensure their people, process and technologies align to achieve those objectives. The technology company delivers solutions that suppo...

Sylvie Bougie a eu la chance de s'entretenir avec l'homme d'affaires Serge Beauchemin ! #entrepreneur #quebec À 22 ans, Serge Beauchemin décide de démarrer sa propre entreprise avec un capital de démarrage de 40$ dans la grande région de Montréal. Il fonde 3-SOFT, dont la croissance sera spectaculaire. Après l’avoir cédée à sa principale concurrente pour des motifs stratégiques, Serge Beauchemin a...

Kyle Campbell is the founder and CEO of CTO.ai , a platform for rapidly scaling DevOps teams. Kyle founded CTO.ai in 2017, after working with DevOps teams as an investor and advisor to a wide range of technology startups. The company provides an open registry of shortcuts to help technical leads at startups quickly scale developer teams and streamline developer productivity 10x. Previous to CTO.ai...

Alicia Dubois is the first-ever CEO of the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, which was created to in November 2019 to guarantee loans for Indigenous groups to facilitate investment in natural resource projects and related infrastructure. Visit www.ebay.ca/upandrunning by August 22nd.

Chelene Knight lives and writes in Vancouver. She has published essays in the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, and in various Canadian and American literary magazines. Chelene’s work appears in many anthologies including Making Room, Love Me True, Sustenance, The Summer Book, and Black Writers Matter. Chelene‘s literary career includes being managing editor at Room magazine, the Programming Direc...

Sarah Saffari is a fitness entrepreneur, business coach, Health Scientist, and a sales and marketing ninja. As a coach and CEO, Sarah is driven by the conviction that each of us has the potential for greatness and limitless capabilities to create the lives we desire. After 10 years in the fitness industry, she has helped over 5000 men and women transform their health and reclaim their life. She ha...

Sylvie Bougie a eu la chance de s'entretenir avec Alexandre Vézina ( www.alexandrevezina.com ), auteur de 6 livres, entrepreneur-conseil, conférencier et cofondateur de la Clinique d’accompagnement entrepreneurial du Québec. Dans ce podcast on aborde notamment son meilleur conseil aux entrepreneurs, sa routine et son processus d'écriture! A écouter et partager dans vos réseaux" #entrepreneur #Queb...

Roger Haskett graduated from university, he had a BA in History, Professional Certificate for Teaching, BFA in Acting and a Master of Arts in Education. Since graduating Roger created and grew Engagement Unlimited , acted in over 100 TV shows, films and commercials like X-Files, Supernatural, iZombie... and became an international keynote speaker. His award-winning talk, Pressure Cooker Confidence...

Roshni Wijayasinha is a trusted marketing leader with 15 years of progressive experience helping companies bring brands and products to market. Having started her career working on top consumer brands on the agency side, she has built her reputation by bringing creativity and strategic insights to leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, Sony & Kobo. Most recently, she has built out...

Danish Yusuf is based in Toronto, and is the Founder and CEO of Zensurance , Canada's only digital marketplace built for business owners to buy insurance. Danish started his career as a software engineer at IBM, then spent 7 years at McKinsey & Company as a consultant to large insurance companies. He has a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from Harvard Business Sch...

Dr. Eli Rosenberg is the founder and medical director of Pulse Fit Rx , a new fitness facility dedicated to people with heart disease and cardiovascular risk. A cardiologist with an entrepreneurial spirit, Rosenberg is putting exercise and diet at the centre of heart care - providing a unique, highly personalized program for people to maintain their optimal health in a safe, accessible and enjoyab...

Karim Ben-Jaafar , President of  Beanworks , talks about his company's success onboarding the highest number of clients since inception during COVID crisis, and strategies for business owners to consider in a 'bear market' (recession) considering cashflow and anticipated recovery timeframe. With 15 years experience scaling rapid growth tech startups, Karim is a sought-after speaker, coach and lead...