Let's Talk With Coach Che Marville

Let's Talk welcomes Andrew O'Brien, CEO, Co-Founder of Obie & Ax and serial entrepreneur, into the pod. The Pandemic didn't stop him from building a full-service podcast firm producing podcasts for leading brands, charities, and government agencies. A globally respected leader and member of the Forbes Business Council, he has successfully grown and sold four companies. He was a Partner and Chi...

In today's episode, Che spoke with the Founder and Principal of Mending the Chasm, Leena Sharma Seth. In a deep diver conversation about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Che and Leena tackle the diversity backlash, the trucker convoy, resilience and cancelling Joe Rogan. As a DEI strategist, she and her team work with clients to build inclusive, equitable, accessible, and anti-racist cultures from...

In today's episode, Che had the opportunity to speak to globe-trotting celebrity personal trainer Jim Barcena. He has been in the business for thirty-two years,  trained celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz.  Take a  listen to the show, share the show and tell us what you think.

In today's episode, Che spoke with Background Talent Agent and Singer Petergail Williams. Petergail explored her unlikely rise in the Canadian entertainment business and how it feels to be the only Black agent in the room. The pandemic forced her to slow down and to be an agent of change in the watershed moment of diversity in the entertainment business. Petergail was born in Jamaica but came to C...

In today's episode, Che spoke to award-winning writer-producer-director and passionate storyteller/activist Alison Duke. Alison is committed to telling stories of resistance and change. Alison Duke has made life telling the stories of others, she rarely talks about herself but in this conversation, Che had a chance to discover some of the motivations behind this great Canadian Filmmaker, Storytell...

In todays' episode, Che has a conversation with the renowned novelist Katherine Govier. Katherine has published eleven novels, three short story collections and two anthologies of travel writing. She has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Engel/Findlay Award for a writer in mid-career. She is a Distinguished Alumna of The University of Alberta, one of York University’s “Famous Fifty” alumn...

In today's episode, Che speaks to renowned Psychoanalyst Dr. James Hollis, a Jungian psychoanalyst and best-selling author of seventeen books. Dr. Hollis taught Humanities for twenty-six years in various colleges and universities before completely changing his life and becoming an analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich in 1982. He is a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washingt...

Che had a pop-up conversation with Cameron Bailey, the Co-Head and Artistic Director of TIFF and the Toronto International Film Festival®. He is responsible for TIFF's programming, curatorial vision and maintaining relationships with the Canadian and international film industries. He is a Chevalier in France's Order of Arts and Letters. For nine consecutive years (2012–2020), Toronto Life magazine...

In todays' episode, Che shares an emotional conversation from early July 2021 with Jann Arden. A Canadian Icon, Jann is a multi-platinum, award-winning singer, songwriter, actor and author. In 2020, she was an inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame; she has been inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, has a Star on Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded the Order...

In today's episode, Che had an opportunity to speak to an exceptional Physician Dr. Melissa Lem, MD, CCFP, FCFP and PaRx Director. She believes that nature is a pillar of health and she is committed to prescribing nature to her patients. She is based in Vancouver but grew up in Ontario. She is a family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. As President-elect of...

In today's episode, Che had an opportunity to speak to the inspiring Political Theatre Director and York University Professor of Dramaturgy, Aleksandar Lukac. Che studied with Professor Lukac at Glendon College. 20 years ago and found him to be one of the most exciting and compelling teachers she had ever encountered. His obsession, the exploration of human absurdity is relevant now more than ever...

In today's episode, Che had an opportunity to speak to Iconic Singer-Songwriter Billy Newton Davis. He was a member of the Canadian super singing group, The Nylons.  Billy grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio but has lived in Canada for thirty years, and as a teenager, he was one of two lead singers in a local soul band called "The Illusions." After receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from...

In today's episode, Che had an opportunity to speak to Mortgage Broker and Co-Owner of The DLC Forest City Funding Group. Sarah came to North America on a student visa from Ukraine and decided that she never wanted to experience the devastation of poverty that she experienced as a child. She decided to become an Entrepreneur in the financial industry and built has now built a multimillion-dollar b...

Did you know that Canada is the home of the most diverse black populations outside of the continent of Africa, representing a hundred and sixty-one groups in the Black Diaspora? Che had the honour of speaking with Professor Dr. Notisha Massaquoi; she is wild about data and is a tireless advocate for Black women's healthcare in Canada for over thirty years. Dr. Massaquoi holds a Ph. D. in Social Ju...

Che had the privilege of speaking to Courtney Copoc-Hopkins; she is a proud Lenape person of the Delaware Nation (Eelünaapéewi Lahkéewiit), Turtle Clan the Hopkins family. Courtney is a first-generation university graduate, an intergenerational cycle-breaker, traveller, thrill-seeker, and unapologetic dreamer. As an intuitive urban Indigenous woman, Courtney shares a deep-rooted passion for s...

Take a listen to today's episode; Che had the most beautiful opportunity to speak, laugh and cry with international producer and professional DJ Cozmic Cat.  At the beginning of the pandemic, DJ Coz lost most of her work and her eighteen-year-old dog KALI passed away. The pandemic challenged her on every level, identity, passion and livelihood. She unplugged entirely from social media and gav...

In today's episode, Che had the opportunity to speak once Investment Broker on Wallstreet, now Founder of  The Clear Insight Program Mark Fornasiero. He spent twenty-five years in the investment banking industry on both Bay Street and Wall Street. Mark is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and invested in several start-up businesses in the tech, consulting, fashion and manufacturing indus...

A month ago, Che had a chance to speak to the very busy CEO Michele Bailey about her new book,  The Currency of Gratitude: Turning Small Gestures Into Powerful Business Results . Michele is the President and CEO of the award-winning Blazing Group, a communications agency founded in 1994 and her new company, My BIG IDEA®. Although she grew up worldwide, with a French Canadian Mother and Haitia...

Che had the privilege to speak to very busy MD Dr. Nauman Naeem; he is a pulmonary and critical care specialist who has been on the front line of the Pandemic for the last sixteen months working in ICUs and ER rooms in Toronto, Canada. He is a conventional physician with an unconventional interest in human behaviour and how it impacts reaching the highest potential. Dr. Naeem candidly shares some...

In today's episode, Che had a very extraordinary guest, Damayanti (Rani) Gupta; she was the first female engineer with an advanced degree to be hired at the Ford Motor Company In Detroit in 1967. She was the first female engineer student at her university that she attended; when her friends were going to secretarial school and preparing for marriage, she rode her bike one and a half miles to use t...

In today's episode, Che had the privilege to speak with Dr. Paul Kortenaar, CEO of the Ontario Science Centre. He is on a mission to make the virtual and physical science centre experience more accessible, fun, inclusive and engaging and he shares how he and his team are navigating through the pandemic experience.  Dr. Kortenaar is not new to the Science Centre, he actually was a teacher in t...

In today’s episode, Che had the great honour to speak to visual artist Winsom Winsom from her mountain top home in Belize, she is a Visual Artist who fuses identity, spirituality and activism into her inspired work as an artist and teacher. She considers herself a child of the universe,  belonging nowhere and everywhere and is informed by her evolving spirituality and ability to experience th...

In todays’ episode, Che had a chance to catch up with busy Entrepreneur and Lawyer Salima Alibhai. She is the Co-Founder & ALT Recruitment Partners. Che and Salima met many years ago in the schoolyard of their children’s primary school. Salima shares how mothering motivated her to look at her work differently and ultimately co-found a legal recruitment firm. She is confident that the pandemic...

Che had an opportunity to speak to Producer, CEO and Founder of Buck Productions, Sean Buckley in today's pop-up episode. Sean went to the school of hard knocks; he felt the calling to tell stories so deeply two decades ago that he sold all his worldly goods and took a leap of faith to travel around the world to find great stories. He came home a changed man and founded Buck Productions, which is...

On today's show, Che had the privilege to speak to tech innovator and pioneer Lorien Gabel, CEO & Co-founder of Figment while he was out for a run. At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long-term success of the Web 3 ecosystem. This third generation of internet services for websites and applications will focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a...