Gale Force Wins

Send us Fan Mail In these WinGust episodes or 'Moments' of the #GaleForceWins podcast we will be reflecting on some of our favourite moments in what we call 'WinGusts'  On December 29th 2020 we were privileged to have Tina Smith on episode #5 to talk about her son Kirk Taylor who tragically lost his life in Afghanistan on December 30, 2009 while serving his country. Tina's...

Send us Fan Mail In these WinGust episodes or 'Moments' of the #GaleForceWins podcast we will be reflecting on some of our favourite moments in what we call 'WinGusts'  Alan Mulholland round the world solo sailor was in fact our very first guest. It was episode #2 because episode #1 was an introduction to the podcast.  Alan shares his most important takeaway is to have a plan....

Send us Fan Mail Guest host Fatemeh Mohammadi interviews Dr. Susan E. Murray Fatemeh is a business student at Memorial University who was born in Iran and grew up in Dubai. She brings a fascinating perspective to life in NL. She credits Susan with making her experience in NL much more rewarding. Dr. Susan Murray is a globally recognized advisor and expert on leadership. After two decades as a seni...

Send us Fan Mail In these WinGust episodes or 'Moments' of the #GaleForceWins podcast we will be reflecting on some of our favourite moments in what we call 'WinGusts'  Gina Pecore joined us very early on episode#20 when the pandemic was still raging. Her advice to 'take the risk, know what is the lowest bar that you can tolerate if the risk fails, if you can accept that t...

Send us Fan Mail In travelling around the province with #GaleForceWins,  Gerry and Allan have heard story after story about the optimism that surrounds the economy. In this short video we didn't even talk about the opportunities in Labrador. Business people are by their very nature optimistic. That being said there have been some encounters we have had with people that have showcased cynicism...

Send us Fan Mail Natasha Hart is from St. John's. Her parents were tremendous in her upbringing. Her dad is a photographer and is a huge influence in her creative journey. Her mom was in the travel industry and went on to work in women in entrepreneurship and had the fierce idea that you can do whatever you want. Travel was also an inspiration from a young age. Natasha got  into theatre in hi...

Send us Fan Mail In these WinGust episodes or 'Moments' of the #GaleForceWins podcast we will be reflecting on some of our favourite moments in what we call 'WinGusts'  Craig Tucker joined us very early on episode#18 when the pandemic was still raging. His thoughts around working together are still relevant today. Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast r...

Send us Fan Mail a 'Moment' or what we call a 'WinGust' from tonight's 3rd anniversary episode #194 on #GaleForceWins This is a snippet of a brainstorming session recorded November 25th, 2020 in which Allan hears the name Gale Force Wins for the first time.  Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts eve...

Send us Fan Mail GALE FORCE WINS was born during the global pandemic, where the only goal to start was to create a podcast that featured positive and uplifting conversations with business leaders and change-makers to INSPIRE. This episode contains a short introduction to our third anniversary episode recorded in early October 2023 in Turks and Caicos followed by a brainstorming chat about what Gal...

Send us Fan Mail With over 800 interviews on our Youtube channel we have a lot of Moments of inspiration or what we call "WinGusts" and this is a selection of them. If you don't have time to listen to full episodes we will be posting shorter episodes called "Moments" or "Wingusts" on our audio channels. Episode #193 is a compilation of some of the inspiring momen...

Send us Fan Mail Don Fitzpatrick grew up in Freshwater Placentia Bay and has been on the board of Perchance Theatre since 2018 and he has know Danielle Irvine since 1991. He went to university in 1982 to study marine biology and education. He eventually got into medical school and in his words he "fluked" into plastic surgery. He once wanted to be Jacques Cousteau but a collapsed lung pu...

Send us Fan Mail Vinod has worked on 6 different Caribbean islands and is passionate about the Caribbean culture and people. He loves the island's beautiful beaches and diversity of the work forces friendly people. He is an accomplished operations executive, who began with Hilton Corporation and assumed increasing responsibilities with in hospitality industry as a Bell Captain, Front Desk Age...

Send us Fan Mail Aiden Flynn is an actor, director, writer, producer living in St. John’s, NL. Recent appearances at the LSPU Hall include The Father (dir Courtney Brown), Poison (dir Charlie Tomlinson) Fun Home (Best Kind Productions) and The Weir (Team Broken Earth), and other recent appearances include Three Days of Rain (Sweetline Theatre), A Steady Rain (Rabbittown Theatre), and The Pillowman...

Send us Fan Mail In July of 2023 #GaleForceWins brought Chuck to St. John's to speak publicly. This recording is the address Chuck delivered titled "This much I know!" Chuck is principal of Laurent Maxime Consultancy, a management consulting firm specializing in organizational strategy, growth and leadership development. His career has taken him to the U.S., the United Kingdom his n...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole Hand (B. Mus) is a woodwind instrumentalist from CBS, Newfoundland. You might spy her in the back row of the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, at a wedding with special event band 709 or downtown with ECMA-award winning saxophone group Ouroboros. A big believer in school music programs, Nicole also works as Executive Director of the Rotary Music Festival, the largest non-com...

Send us Fan Mail Founder  BIBLIOnomics · "Optimizing the Cultural Economy" Developing customized technology and offering strategic consulting for the Canadian book publishing and retailing sector. Focused on digitizing the location relativity of books and designing processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of collective marketing campaigns for related trade associations. Alex...

Send us Fan Mail Andy Jones was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. He is one of the founding members of the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall. Besides performing in theatre productions across Canada, Andy was notably a member of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, in incarnations both theatrical (4 theatre pieces) and television (38 episodes). He has also writt...

Send us Fan Mail Joshua Mcintosh is a Turks and Caicos entrepreneur operating numerous businesses. Known locally as Big Josh Mcintosh he was born in Kew, North Caicos. He built a bakery because that is what he knew but a beer company approached him to sell beer and so he built a bar. He has worked in the hotel industry for decades with Pine Cay: a secluded private island on the edge of the world’s...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Newton was born on Bell Island and is an accomplished engineering entrepreneur and volunteer board member of Perchance Theatre. Bill worked with two or three engineering firms but felt he could do it on his own and created Newton Engineering in 1982. “One thing in business is you have to have the right personality and don’t burn any bridges. That was key... and hire the right...

Send us Fan Mail Director General Maritime Equipment Programme Management, Flag Officer, Chief Engineer of the Royal Canadian Navy, and proud Newfoundlander. Gale Force Wins exists to help individuals and companies tell their stories and inspire more optimism in people, products, our economy and our lives. The podcast focuses on conversations with leaders, business owners and change-makers THAT IN...

Send us Fan Mail Mary Walsh created and starred in This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC’s wildly popular take on current affairs. The series earned her many of her numerous Gemini awards and showcased her dynamic range of characters, including the flagrantly outspoken ‘Marg Delahunty’. Walsh wrote, produced and starred in the Gemini award winning series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which returned...

Send us Fan Mail Geoff Cunningham graduated in 1983 from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador with a Bachelor of Commerce. He has been in the oil and gas industry since 1987 where he started in the downstream in his capacity as Industrial Sales Manager (Newfoundland and Labrador) for Petro-Canada through Harvey’s Oil, Petro-Canada’s Newfoundland partner. In this role he was responsible...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we speak with 14 year old Danya Russell. She was recently crowned Miss Teen Grand Turk 2023. We met her by chance after a meeting and she spoke to Gerry saying she liked his Royal Turks and Caicos Golf Shirt. Of course that's all Gerry needed to hear, someone interested in golf, so a conversation began. When we found out how articulate she was and saw a video...

Send us Fan Mail Wayne Power is Manager of Power’s Ambulance Service Limited, a family business which has been providing Emergency Medical Services to the Placentia Region since 1984. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Memorial University and has completed numerous leadership and professional development programs through the Regional Cadet Instructor School, Fire and Emergency Se...

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan studied political science and sociology at MUN.  He started out his career working as a special advisor at the house of commons in Ottawa and then moved into senior roles in the departments of health and justice.  Then he spent 7 years in the policing division of the department of justice. Jonathan was elected as a St. John's city councillor and worked with Nunacor D...