Phil Chang / Kenny Vannucci
This Commerce Life
A Canadian Podcast, focused on Canadian brands, determined to talk about Canadian success stories. We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.
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Phil Chang / Kenny Vannucci
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Latest episode
Jul 7, 2026
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Episodes
we stop fooling around. Steve Rad prepared to be taken seriously. New merch, new toys, virtual reality kicking up a notch 10.05.2022 57:43
We stop fooling around. Steve Rad prepared to be taken seriously. Abacus Toys has new merch, new toys - virtual reality kicking up a notch. We also bend Kenny's brain with a virtual reality Check out Abacus brands here: https://www.abacusbrands.com/ Find Steve Rad : https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-rad-5959943b/ Help us keep the mic's on: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
Made with Local founder Sheena Russell is serious about creating positive social and environmental impact with every step 03.05.2022 49:14
Shop Made with Local here: https://www.madewithlocal.com/ Find Sheena here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheena-russell-0459b728/ If you like what we do on this podcast and would like to help us out: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
Live At CHFA West...the Knuckleheads take the act on the road. Reactions, trends, some guests 26.04.2022 45:40
You can find Jordan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-james-rogers-ba-dipt-80331b6/ You can find Martino here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martino-ciambrelli-47648836/ Brands that we found and love at the show: https://notco.com/ca-en/ https://nutmegmylk.com/ https://store.threefarmers.ca/pages/about https://www.calgaryheritageroastingco.com/ If you love our podcasts and want to become...
A nutritionist goes tech startup and decides to start her own startup. Founder & CEO of Chiwis, Sarah Goodman talks Kiwis 19.04.2022 53:11
Intuity Performance Whole Person Performance Sign up: https://bit.ly/3OiBHKT Shop Chiwis here: https://chiwis.co/shop/ Find Sarah Goodman here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-goodman-48b89173/ Love what we do? Help us keep the lights on. Head to Patreon and become a patron of the show. https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
A CHFA special - CEO of CHFA Aaron Skelton and Hayden from the Pack Heavy Podcast come on to talk about trends and show topics 12.04.2022 57:34
check out the CHFA show here: https://chfa.ca/en/Events/chfa-2022-events Aaron's Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronskelton/ Hayden Thomson's Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haydenbthomson/ The Pack Heavy Podcast can be found here: https://thepackheavy.podbean.com/
the knuckleheads are going on the road! 05.04.2022 44:25
As mentioned in the podcast - Ange and Scott at Intuity Performance are hosting a Leadership Cohort. Check it out here: https://www.intuityperformance.com/whole-person-leadership Check out CHFA West here: https://chfa.ca/en/Events/chfa-2022-events Shoot us a note if you're going - name, booth number, email : thiscommercelife@gmail.com
Talking healthcare and healthy trends with CEO of Jamieson Vitamins Mike Pilato 29.03.2022 58:06
Find Mike's profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-pilato-b31a75/ Shop Jamieson Vitamins here: https://www.jamiesonvitamins.com/
the opposite of sitting still. Good Juju founders Alexa and Lisa are tired. They came on the show to rest 22.03.2022 1:08:29
To shop Good Juju: https://hellogoodjuju.com/ Find Lisa Karandat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karandat-50b69821/ Find Alexa Monahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexa-monahan-82a73678/
Long time marketer first time podcaster. Chloe Holyman talks natural products, coming from Australia to Canada 15.03.2022 1:08:13
Check out Ener-C here: https://www.tryenerc.com Check out Harmony here: https://www.takeharmony.com/ Check out Ki here: https://www.kihealthdefence.ca/ Contact Chloe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-holyman-7b328656/
CEO of Ange MacCabe talks about helping existing and emerging leaders figure out who they are as leaders. 08.03.2022 1:14:39
Find Ange here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ange-maccabe-67a07616/ Check out Intuity Performance here: https://www.intuityperformance.com/ Want to support the podcast? Become a Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
First time someone compares us to the Beatles. Lorne Craig thinks this time is our Hamburg 01.03.2022 1:00:40
Find Lorne here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lornecraig/ Check out Unicycle Creative here: https://unicyclecreative.com/ Check out Unitoons here: https://www.unitoons.ca/ If you love us, you can support us by becoming a Patron. https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
Games! Everyone loves games. Casey Karls talks about Wilder Games and success during the pandemic 22.02.2022 59:29
Find Casey Karls here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-karls-691b2229/ Shop Wilder Games here: https://www.wildergames.shop/ Support the podcast by becoming a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
Plantable pencils! CEO of Sprout World Michael Stausholm talks about plants and pencils and sustainability 15.02.2022 41:19
Check out Sprout World here: https://sproutworld.com/ Connect with Michael Stausholm here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstausholm/ To become a Patron of the show: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife/ To contact us: https://www.thiscommercelife.com/tclabout or email us at thiscommercelife@gmail.com
Serial Entrepreneur Dean Mosca talks about a lifetime of building businesses 08.02.2022 51:36
Find Dean at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-mosca-34329111/ To become a Patron of the show: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife/
knuckleheads on choosing a distributor, retail trends and whats upcoming for the next few months 01.02.2022 34:00
Just the knuckleheads today. They talk about how Kenny qualifies a distributor, retail trends and what's in store (guest wise) for the show in the next couple of months.
Did we interview him or did he interview us? The host of the Pack Heavy Podcast, Hayden Thomson comes on to talk packaging and sustainability 25.01.2022 55:56
Find out more about Hayden here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haydenbthomson/ Check out his podcast here: https://thepackheavy.podbean.com/
Seeing the business from the other side...CEO of Alive Publishing Group Ryan Benn talks being a partner to the industry 18.01.2022 1:05:55
Find Ryan Benn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-benn-88606b51/ Find the online version of Alive here: https://www.alive.com/
first time guest, long time listener. Sasha Rajamani, Founder of Umy Brands comes on the show 11.01.2022 55:47
Check out Umy Brands and Pokko here: https://www.umybrands.ca/ Find Sasha here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-rajamani-02872618/
Start of the year. The two knuckleheads talk burn out, resting and what's in store this year 04.01.2022 36:51
We'd appreciate it if you took our survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9VG55TC If you want to support us, you can head to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/join/thiscommercelife
Family owned brands teaches us about how success looks different for everyone 21.12.2021 35:07
Just the knuckleheads on this show. We look back at our last bunch of episodes and find that family owned brands have something to teach us. Success looks and feels different in all cases. We have more questions about Social Nature and Annalea and Jessica.
Social Nature founder Annalea Krebs and Marketing Smartie Jessica Malach talk about helping amazing brands 14.12.2021 1:26:22
Contact Annalea Krebs here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krebs/ Contact Jessica Malach here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-malach-she-her-06644316/ You can find Social Nature here: https://www.socialnature.com/ To find Jessica's wonderful use cases here: https://www.socialnature.com/marketing/
Neil is the real deal. Co-founder Neil Sandler talks about the first 200 stores and doing things by hand 07.12.2021 1:01:17
Buy Neil's Real Deal here: https://www.neilsrealdeal.com/our-sauces
Co founder of Yellofruit Andrew Kinnear talks about building a dessert from scratch, understanding unit economics 30.11.2021 53:03
To find out more about Yellofruit: https://www.yellofruit.com/ To reach Andrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkinnear/
Rohan Marley comes on the show to talk football, Marley coffee and finding success 23.11.2021 50:58
Rohan Marley jumps on with us to talk about finding success, avoiding the cold of winter and the choices he had to make to business happen.
A family run restaurant that serves a community for 20 years wonders what they can add to the show 16.11.2021 1:05:15
check out Celadon house here: https://www.celadonhouse.ca/
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