Gale Force Wins

Send us Fan Mail A short audio clip from the 50th wedding anniversary of Harry and Catherine Steele June 12, 2004.  video by Gerry Carew creator of www.thenlvideoman.com and co-creator of www.galeforcewins.com  Audio extracted from the video. Used with permission of the Steele Family. Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts e...

Send us Fan Mail Michael joined KPMG in Hungary from his native Vancouver, Canada in 1990. In 2000 he took over responsibility for KPMG Hungary’s Financial Advisory Services department comprising Corporate Finance, Restructuring, Transaction Services, Property Services and Forensic and built up a team of almost 40 professionals in Hungary. While in Hungary, Michael participated in and led numerous...

Send us Fan Mail In 2022 we posted 54 episodes. This video is a collection of snippets from 9 of our 54  guests highlighting their best advice. Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts every Tuesday evening. We continue to do that every Tuesday but have expanded into custom content for clients. We also have perfected a confere...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy is a classical piano producer at New York Carnegie Hall. She has been involved in sold out concerts in UBC Chan Centre (Vancouver), United Nations Day Gala (New York), Carnegie Hall: Weill Hall & Zankel Hall & Stern Auditorium (New York), Tainan Cultural Center, and Asia Pacific.  Cindy specializes in bringing classical pianists to the international stage. She is an...

Send us Fan Mail Robert Gilvesy grew up on a tobacco farm in Canada, near one the Great Lakes named Lake Erie. Thanks to his  Hungarian parents and grandparents, Robert was imbibed with Hungarian culture since childhood. When he was 15 years old, his parents took their family to Hungary, but it never occurred to him that he would someday live there. Europe intrigued him, and in an earlier carrier...

Send us Fan Mail Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Premier Andrew Furey is a passionate orthopaedic trauma surgeon and educator with Memorial University’s School of Medicine. Premier Furey has a diverse education, which includes a Diploma in Organizational Leadership from Oxford University and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from Memorial. His strong work ethic has earned him many l...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins is pleased to present a stream of content focused on family owned business.  “Family owned businesses are a unique breed and often misunderstood” says Laura Campbell. Laura is a strategic planning and leadership development executive with extensive experience coaching, leading teams and cultivating relationships in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Laura bri...

Send us Fan Mail Gerry Carew plays Joy to the World on his trumpet. Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts every Tuesday evening. We continue to do that every Tuesday but have expanded into custom content for clients. We also have perfected a conference and trade show offering where you can receive over 20 videos edited and...

Send us Fan Mail As 2022 comes to a close Gerry and Allan chat for 20 mins about some of the highlights of the year and what's in store for 2023. Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts every Tuesday evening. We continue to do that every Tuesday but have expanded into custom content for clients. We also have perfected a...

Send us Fan Mail Jess Nana started Socially Savvy Studio in 2011 with one goal: to help small businesses grow through an online presence that effortlessly connected them with dream clients. Through planning her own Destination Wedding in 2009, Jess started a wedding blog, Destination Inspirations and quickly found herself connected to the wedding industry.  There was an instant mutual love for des...

Send us Fan Mail Gerard Murphy the founder and president of Barefoot Facilitation Inc joins us as guest host to interview Gerry Carew and Allan Dale the cofounders of #GaleForceWins. Gerard turns the table on the duo asking them to share where they come from, how they started #GaleForceWins and where they hope to take it. Gerard has a 30-year track record of excellence as a facilitator, educator,...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins collaborated with Hungarian native Judit Lovas to interview 12 Canadians living and working in Budapest. Those interviews will be released on our channels in the coming weeks. In the process of moving around the city of #Budapest over 9 days to record these interviews we captured close to 1000 images of the beautiful city and some additional footage in the winery re...

Send us Fan Mail On November 21st, 2022 Eric James posted the following on Facebook: "Alright cards on the table time. I've been on dialysis for coming up on 5 years now. I have been extremely grateful for the care given to me by the good people at Island Health and BC Renal. But the fact of the matter is that my body cannot take much more dialysis. Each run is draining more and more of...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Kelly has a strong family heritage link to Newfoundland and Labrador. Originating from Burlington, a bedroom community of Boston, MA. Steve's family, the Myrick’s, were the Cape Race lighthouse keepers for over a hundred years and it was his Great Uncle that received the initial distress message from the RMS TITANIC. The Myrick Wireless Interpretation Centre at the ligh...

Send us Fan Mail This past summer, Doug Russell completed a 600km, paddle around Prince Edward Island, Canada on his Standup Paddleboard. To his knowledge, the circumnavigation of PEI on a SUP has never been attempted. This adventure was many months in the making and Doug has decided to use the trip to raise money for a very important cause, Soldier On, a charity that supports ill and injured mili...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin graduated with a blistering 67% average from Memorial University of NL with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1992. Upon graduation he smartened up and spent six years with M5 Advertising followed by four years as Director of Marketing and Sales with Labatt Breweries (Atlantic Canada). In late 2001, Kevin Co-founded the IDEA Factory with Ed Roche. Together, with their team, their ag...

Send us Fan Mail Tonya Whittle is Founder & Guide at Wild Soul. Through her own journey of seeking, Tonya has discovered the wild that lives within – the instinctual nature we all have inside, but which is conditioned out by modern and mainstream society leaving no room for the human spirit, the soul. https://www.tonyawhittle.com/ Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode #GaleForceWins sat down with Captain Fred George to discuss his philosophy of public speaking and business communications. Captain Fred raises the bar for himself at every single opportunity and his creation of a $2.4 billion gold mining company is an example of that. Public speaking is no different and in one case Fred memorized the names of 29 graduates and thank...

Send us Fan Mail #GaleForceWins will be releasing a series of Youtube videos on Communication with Fred George. Wednesday October 19th - Best speech opening #137A  Friday October 21st  - How to get a standing ovation in the first 90 seconds #137B Tuesday October 25th - The Art of communication - A chat with Fred in his office about communication #137 “The way to win is not getting someone else to...

Send us Fan Mail Tom is an international award winning senior executive in corporate communication and crisis management, professionally accredited in Public Relations.  He has decades of expertise at senior and executive levels, including internal and external communication, government relations, union and non-union environments, Indigenous outreach, stakeholder management, privately held and pub...

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Giovannini is founder and president of Oceanic Releaf   headquartered on the  Burin Peninsula. With 7 retail locations across the province, Oceanic produces and retails premium cannabis products. Her journey with cannabis started when she began making baked goods to help a relative transition away from opioids to more natural pain medication. She studied the healing propert...

Send us Fan Mail The Saint John Sea Dogs announced the promotion of St. John's NL born, Travis Crickard to the position of Head Coach for the 2022-23 season on August 10,2022. The video footage in this episode was recorded by #GaleForceWins over 3 days August 2,3 and 4, 2022. Travis Crickard joined the Sea Dogs coaching staff in November 2021 as an assistant coach. The St. John’s Newfoundland...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Richards serves his country in the Royal Canadian Navy. But he also serves his community as a volunteer with K9 Partners Assistance Dogs which is a Registered Charity located in Nova Scotia. The mission of K9PAD is to provide high quality Service Dogs at a low cost for those in Nova Scotia diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Autism, and rel...

Send us Fan Mail Barry Lane promised his wife he would build a senior’s home so that she could have a home of her own. It took some time but in 1998 that dream became a reality with a home in Old Perlican. Starting with 13 residents Barry, along with his sons provide for over 1000 residents today. This is an inspiring episode and we hope you take the time to watch it on Youtube or listen where eve...

Send us Fan Mail The Mazol Shriners NL help children across Newfoundland and Labrador to receive emergency medical care via their Patient Transportation Fund. Joining us in this episode is 2022 Potentate Bill Radford and past Potentate Paul Rose. They engage in a wide ranging discussion about the great work the Mazol Shriners do in the province. This conversation was made possible by https://nlca....