The Stephan Dyer Podcast

Alejandro Egea is a CEO On Demand who is passionate about supporting business owners improve their operational results and quality of life through strategic, technical and emotional support. Alejandro joins The Stephan Dyer Podcast to discuss achieving a “Life By Design”, what it means to be “man enough”, his father’s last years and how he found happiness after being diagnosed with a critical illn...

Daniel Gómez is an engineer turned backpacker and lifestyle entrepreneur. He describes himself as an explorer of life, science communicator, amateur nature photographer, consciously confused individual who was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in Bogotá until age 15 when he moved to Canada with his family. He studied Engineering Physics at Queen's University and has worked in the automotive, nuc...

Isabella Anés is a Venezuelan high-performance athlete and varsity basketball player for the Lancer’s Women’s Basketball Team at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Canada. She’s played basketball since the age of 6 both at the Venezuelan national and international junior levels. Isabella joins The Stephan Dyer Podcast to discuss growing up in Venezuela, why she started playing Basketball at age...

Maricel Saenz is the CEO of Compound Foods , a food-tech startup focused on creating coffee without coffee beans through precision fermentation. We discuss her fascinating career path through Costa Rica, Vancouver, Singularity University, and currently San Francisco, the future of coffee, becoming a founder, achievement versus fulfillment, work-life integration, the weakness of the strength, why h...

Jorge Umaña Vargas es el Cónsul General de Costa Rica en Toronto, Canadá y autor de 8 libros sobre la historia de Costa Rica.  En este episodio celebramos los 200 años de independencia de Costa Rica (1821-2021) y conversamos sobre los orígenes de cosas que caracterizan Costa Rica: el pura vida, la abolición del ejército, el himno nacional, Limón, las direcciones, la erre, flora, fauna, los Tú...

Alan Ganev is a Toronto-based art gallery owner at Taglialatella Galleries Toronto, cultural producer, art curator and most of all, a truly gifted artist.  Taglialatella Galleries and Yorkville Murals are his pride and joy as these two businesses present most of his ideas. One of his latest projects is a 120’ floor mural he produced in Yorkville for Nina Chanel, an artist who recently made th...

Cathey Armillas is a TED coach, international speaker, marketing expert who wrote the award-winning book The Unbreakable Rules of Marketing: 9 ½ Ways to Get People to Love You. We discuss how to end boring presentations, what it takes to rock a TED talk, how she went viral early in her career under the most unorthodox circumstances, and WE EVEN WORKSHOP A TED TALK IDEA - Live on Air!!! Cathey also...

Steve González & Yindra Liska are restaurant entrepreneurs who quit their jobs in Toronto in the middle of the pandemic to start a restaurant on the beaches of Costa Rica. Yindra was a server and Steve the Executive Chef at Toronto's popular King West restaurant Baro. They have opened +17 restaurants (combined) and are currently the proud owners of Restaurante Montezuma Latino Beach Food locat...

Andrea Sampson is a TED Trained Speaker Coach and Co-Founder, CEO & Executive Speaker Coach at Talk Boutique. She is a former Strategist and Consultant and has spent over 25 years working in marketing and advertising, presenting and developing strategies for Fortune 100 companies. With a natural talent for developing compelling stories and persuasive content, Andrea is sought after in assistin...

Kim McPherson is an EFT Tapping Therapist and specializes in Weight Loss, Emotional Eating and Trauma Release Therapy. Her 6 and 12-week programs are designed to help stop emotional eating using the most powerful tools in modern psychology. She works with clients to reprogram their limiting beliefs about themselves and their body so they can lose weight without cutting calories or depriving themse...

Erin Bury is the co-founder and CEO at Willful , an online estate planning platform that makes it easy for Canadians to create a will in less than 20 minutes. We talk about setting up a will in less than 20 minutes, how Kevin (her husband) “recruited” her for Willful, what’s it like to work with her partner, why becoming an entrepreneur makes you a horrible employee, detaching self worth from net...

Amar Saron is the co-founder of 366FIT, ClubHouse Toronto and Taha Academy in Ontario. Amar is also a Distributor for Herbalife Nutrition, an institution he speaks very highly of. Amar joins The Stephan Dyer Podcast to discuss growing up in Scarborough in a single parent household, working at age 12, getting arrested for the time, dealing drugs, the car chase that changed his life, the impact goin...

Angel Yau is an Asian American stand-up comedian, storyteller, actor, and filmmaker from Queens, New York who openly talks about living with OCD, anxiety and bipolar disorder in her art. We talk about growing up Asian-American, escaping competition through authenticity, detaching self-worth from money and career, finding the courage to perform, speaking up about mental health in her art and feedba...

Celso Borges Mora es un futbolista costarricense que juega como centrocampista en la Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, de la Primera División de Costa Rica y en la Selección Nacional de Costa Rica. [Disfruta este episodio en YouTube video aquí ] Conversamos sobre crecer bajo la sombra y mentoría de su padre Alexandre Guimarães, su video viral tocando la batería con mi hermano Kurt Dyer , el shock cultur...

Renzo Casapía is the Managing Director at Cengage Latin America and teaches Business Transformation and Data Analytics at EGADE (Tec de Monterrey), Hult Business School in Boston and EADA Business School in Barcelona. [Enjoy this episode on YouTube here ] Renzo shares his journey Arequipa, Peru all the way to Mexico to Canada and back to Mexico, the email batch that changed his life, escaping comp...

Mark Brown, CSP is the 1995 Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking. He also a keynote speaker, trainer and consultant. [Watch this episode on YouTube here !] We talk about becoming the 1995 World Champion of Public Speaking [watch his Championship Winning Speech here !] after reaching the finals the previous year, the value of mentorships and showing up, how to prepare for speaking engagem...

Kurt Dyer es un cantante, comediante y escritor peruano-costarricense. [Disfruta el episodio en video en YouTube aquí ] Hablamos de su niñez en Perú, sus inicios en la música y comedia, su relación efímera con el éxito y las metas, nuestra triste inhabilidad de extrañar, dinámicas familiares, su excelente rol de padre, film directing y más. Llegó a Costa Rica a los 7 años proveniente de Perú. Desp...

Juan Camilo Galindo es un guerrero y ejemplo de vida colombiano viviendo en London, Ontario, Canadá. [Disfruta este episodio en YouTube aquí ] Después de 45 cirugías, se une al Stephan Dyer Podcast a contarnos sobre lo que ha sido esta odisea de salud y nos comparte aprendizajes en el camino. Conversamos sobre sus momentos más felices, la mentalidad para afrontar desafíos, aprendizajes como inmigr...

Sal Velez Jr. (Black Summer, The Way Back, Gente-fied, Savages) is an American actor and one of today's most versatile actors. [Watch the episode on YouTube here ] We discuss growing up Puerto Rican in Chicago, quitting the steelworkers union to pursue acting, what it takes to be successful in Hollywood, balancing parenthood and acting, how to enjoy the process, pandemic lessons, and more! A secon...

Dayana Rebolledo es una coach ágil certificada con más de 7 años de experiencia empoderando a jóvenes profesionales para que alcancen su máximo potencial. [Disfruta este episodio en video por YouTube aquí ] Conversamos sobre emigrar a los 17, el crecimiento personal y profesional a través de Metas Ágiles, diversión sin culpa, tips para relaciones de larga distancia, y más. Italo-venezolana que emi...

Coach Andreína Atencio es Coach Ontológico, Coach de Coaches y Coach de Líderes. [Disfruta este episodio en YouTube aquí ] Conversamos sobre el éxito sin sufrimiento, el Síndrome del Impostor, la evolución del rol de la mujer latinoamericana, la relación entre la gratitud, la culpa, la identidad y el autoestima, el poder del lenguaje que usamos diariamente, y más. Coach Andreína es Licenciada en C...

Bernardo Riveros es un coach y estratega colombiano viviendo en Toronto, Canadá. [Disfruta este episodio en YouTube aquí ] Conversamos sobre marketing y estrategias para emprender, cómo rescatar un matrimonio, la espiritualidad como eje, la curiosidad como motor, lecciones para migrar exitosamente y sugerencias para mejorar el sistema educativo. Bernardo ha sido galardonado con los premios  “...

Julio Cañas es un estratega financiero, asesor y educador promoviendo bienestar, crecimiento y libertad con orden e inteligencia financiera. Julio tiene 16 años de experiencia en la industria financiera.  [Mira el episodio en video en YouTube aquí ] Es Economista con estudios de postgrado en inversiones y servicios financieros, además de contar con amplia formación continua en gestión de patr...

Max Rangel is the Global President and CEO of Spin Master Corp. (TSX:TOY), a leading global children's entertainment company with over 1,800 employees in 28 offices globally. [Watch this podcast episode on YouTube here ] Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, GUND®, and others, and distributes products in more than 100 count...

Kristal Au-Yong is currently the Head of Customer Experience at Thomson Reuters. [Watch this episode on YouTube here ] As a senior leader, she strategic experience in Data Analytics, Customer Experience, Financial Services and Emerging Technologies. Prior to this role, she was at Scotiabank, where I worked with her years back, where she was responsible for integrating advanced analytics and innova...