Dan Laxer and Katherine Korakakis
Minding Your Business: The ProMontreal Entrepreneurs Podcast
Success stories from startups, and words of business wisdom from ProMontreal Entrepreneurs, the Montreal-based mentor-driven accelerator, a program of Federation CJA.
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Dan Laxer and Katherine Korakakis
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Apr 15, 2026
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Episodes
Episode 13: Navigating AI for Business 15.04.2026 37:27
Moshe Yalovsky is a tech expert with more than 20 years' experience. As his website says, “After two decades in technology, Moshe Yalovsky has dedicated himself exclusively to exploring and building with AI, with a singular mission: to make this transformative technology accessible and empowering for business leaders.” Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 12 - Self-Care for Entrepreneurs 27.03.2026 27:18
How important is self-care to entrepreneurship? It’s so important to today’s guest that she created a business around it. Erica Diamond, self-care expert, bestselling author, certified life and career coach, and the host of the Erica Diamond Podcast, has been helping leaders prevent burnout and create sustainable success for the past fifteen years with her signature Thrive360™ System. Minding Your...
Episode 11 - The Business of Occupational Therapy, with Sydney Wajcman 11.03.2026 34:29
Sydney Wajcman is the founder and CEO of Accompagner à grandir which is, quoting from her LinkedIn page, “a private pediatric therapy clinic that provides holistic and inclusive services for neurodiverse children and their families.” This is the story of how she went from working within the system to founding a multidisciplinary and neuroaffirmative pediatric clinic that supports families with exp...
Episode 10 - The Value of Employment for All: The Story of JEM Workshop 25.02.2026 27:16
The JEM Workshop is a business that caters to other businesses. It’s a packaging outfit that has been around for more than 75 years, where they hire, empower, train, and support individuals with diverse abilities. This is the story of its past, its present, and its future. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 9: Serial Entrepreneur Tatiana Romano 10.02.2026 29:11
Tatiana Romano’s LinkedIn profile describes her as a Multilingual and dynamic Senior Leader in Project & Change Management. She started out as an architect, but is now – among many other things – a holistic wellness coach. Tatiana Romano, welcome to the Minding Your Business podcast. In 2022 she opened her home to Ukrainian refugees. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing i...
Episode 8: Why the Big Paws? The Dogged World of Mobile Pet Grooming with Jonathan Abitbol of Mobispaw 22.01.2026 27:56
What's inside the Mobispaw van? This episode we re-introduce to the entrepreneur who inspired this podcast, and the expanding company that brings the pet grooming studio to your home. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 7 - Jessie Horowitz of Friday Night Dinner 17.12.2025 35:43
Can there be a more heimish phrase than Friday Night Dinner? It conjures up nostalgia for those of us who grew up with, well, Friday night dinners, and resonates with those who maintain the tradition of Shabbat with family. In this episode we introduce to the founder of a company called Friday Night Dinner, Jessie Horowitz. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 6 - Eli Lallouz of Vision 770 14.11.2025 31:27
Divinity school wasn’t for him. So, Eli Lallouz became an optician. Not just because he wanted glasses that wouldn’t break. A born entrepreneur, he and his wife built Vision 770, a veritable eyeglass empire. Listen in to find out what led to his success at such a young age. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 5 - Harnessing the power of AI for success 20.10.2025 34:17
Ben Rodier is the co-founder of two companies that help others find success through AI. One is Salesfloor, and the other is Frontline IQ. In this episode of Minding Your Business, Rodier reassures listeners that, to quote him, it isn't about robots replacing us, "it's about building stuff that works with us, to improve life in ways we're only beginning to understand." Mind...
Episode 4 - Healthybud 09.10.2025 42:08
In this episode, Katherine and Dan talk with Dana Ben David and Kyle Feigenbaum of Healthybud, a company they founded because they wanted other dog parents who wants to be able to give their dog the healthiest and longest life possible. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 3 – Failures, Lessons, and Logic: Serial entrepreneur Marlee Rabin 22.08.2025 33:37
In this episode we talk with "serial entrepreneur" Marlee Rabin about what she's learned along the way, and how she applies to every new thing she does. Learn more at https://www.marleerabin.com/ Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
Episode 2: If the Ear Buds Fit, Wear 'Em: The Story of Revols 26.05.2025 36:25
Daniel Blumer and Navi Cohen invented Revols, the ear buds that mold to your own ears in just 60 seconds. Their Kickstarter campaign was the largest in Canada history! They've since sold to Logitech. But the story of how Revols came to be, with the help of ProMontreal Entrepreneurs (and maybe even Stevie Wonder) is amazing. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to l...
Episode 1 - Not so humble beginnings 24.03.2025 20:48
PME Founders Stephen Bronfman and Jimmy Alexander sit down with hosts Katherine Korakakis and Dan Laxer to talk about the program's beginnings. Plus, words of business wisdom from mentor Dr. Earl Azimov. Minding Your Business. ProMontreal Entrepreneurs. Bringing ideas to life.
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