Uncorked: The Podcast

Dr Yvonne McSkimming is the Executive Director of Synergy, a community-based organization that builds partnerships with local Vancouver charities to support cooperative programming and to help sustain community programs. They put on local events that celebrate and showcase West coast artisans while strengthening community. Synergy is run purely by volunteers dedicated to community capacity buildin...

Desiree is an author, registered dietitian, recipe developer, app developer, and TV host. Her latest book ‘Eat More Plants: Over 100 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes for Vibrant Living’ is a #1 best selling cookbook. The book focuses on plant-based, anti-inflammatory recipes for people who love to eat, and want to do it healthily. Desiree and Steph discuss the (2 year!) process of writing a cookbook, and...

Katie Ruddell is the founder of Kokomo, a local vegan restaurant with locations in Kitsilano, Chinatown, and coming soon to North Vancouver. Katie’s love for food came from her experience healing herself with an anti-inflammatory, plant-based diet. She began to express her creativity in the kitchen and fell in love with food.“One of my biggest strengths as a leader is knowing what I don’t know, an...

Matt and Steph Corker, brother-sister duo behind The Corker Collective, are back on the mic together this week. They sit down to discuss “the life hacks and habits of Matt Corker” that allow him to get it all done, whilst avoiding overwhelm and maintaining a healthy body and personal life. They cover how to identify when you have taken on too much, how to manage your life so that you don’t reach t...

Lisa Bentley is a speaker, author, and 11-time IRONMAN champion. She is one of the most decorated Canadian triathletes, and has remained heavily involved in sport since her retirement from professional competition in 2010. Lisa is known for her contagious smile, and describes how she found joy in the hard stuff; “I’m not saying racing was an easy thing. But at the core of it, I loved what I did. I...

Alicia Woodside is the founder of Teffle Waffles, an accomplished ultra-runner, and a technical writer for a local tech company. She is the epitome of what it means to hustle for your dreams. Her day job funds her entrepreneurial dreams of bringing nutritionally dense and protein rich frozen teff-waffles to grocery stores. When she isn’t writing about tech, or slinging waffles in her industrial ki...

From Patagonia, to co-founding The Honest Company, to Founder and CEO of Prima, Christopher Gavigan has stayed committed to his core values of feminism, environmentalism, and innovation throughout his career. “Outside of the work I do for the environment, and for health, the third leg of that stool, and probably the most important, is how do I uplift the female and the feminine in today’s world.”C...

Behmann is a leader of community in his life and in his work for Native Shoes. In order to cultivate community, Behmann asks the question: How do we create meaningful and memorable events? Now that we live and socialize through our technology, how do we create real-life connections?“With what I do personally and professionally, the goal is to create environments and settings that bring people toge...

Shanique Kelly is a DJ and event producer in Vancouver, she runs Intersessions YVR, and throws her own monthly parties in Vancouver. Shanique began her DJ career by attending the first ever Intersessions workshop, a series which aims to bring light to the gender disparity in electronic music. Since this serendipitous beginning, Shanique has gone on to run the Vancouver Intersessions Workshops, and...

Nikki Sanchez is a Media Maker, Decolonial Educator, Wild Guide and PhD. Nikki spends her days doing many important and impactful things. She creates documentary and educational media and designs programs to support and foster emerging indigenous filmmakers. She is a wilderness guide and ecological educator — doing land-based work with indigenous and non-indigenous people to help them reconnect th...

“You are not your job title. You are a multi-faceted human”Lizzy Karp is a community activist, connector and ‘baby’ DJ. She spends her days as a Senior Manager at TELUS STORY HIVE and is committed to using story telling as a vehicle for human connection. Matt and Lizzy first connected at ‘Rain City Chronicles’, an event Lizzy cofounded after moving to Vancouver 10 years ago. She had spent alot of...

Steph sits down with Sandy Gunn this week, a fellow recruiter and podcast host, to discuss what it means to be a jerk at work, and why we all need to be a little more human in the office. Sandy decided to start a podcast as a way for 3 friends in HR to sit down together and to share their stories and the lessons they had learned with a wider audience. The ultimate goal of the pod is to help others...

“Today is the slowest things are going to be”On this week’s episode of Uncorked, Steph sits down with the outgoing CEO of Mountain Equipment Co-op, David Lebistour, to look back at what came before his 11 years as CEO, and to look forward to life after MEC. David’s career was not one he could have foreseen, but one common denominator throughout his life has been his openness to change. “If you are...

“As an athlete you would never just build. You recover. You work hard, and you recovery hard.” Matt and Steph are back at the mic this week to talk summer vacation and summer goals. TeamCorker is OOO (Out of Office, or Only Operating Outdoors) this week, and the pair reflect on why we decided to commit to one week offline. There is something beautiful about shutting down. When a weekend doesn’t fe...

“Life is ultimately how you spend your time. What are you saying ‘yes’ to and what are you saying ‘no’ to?” This week Steph sits down with Coach and Guide for impact leaders and entrepreneurs, Urszula Lipsztajn. Urszula describes her journey from dissatisfaction in her corporate job, to living a life of purpose as a successful entrepreneur. In 2011, she was in what she thought was her dream job. T...

#TeamCorker has been working hard behind the scenes for the last few months to put on our largest annual event. We bring together 400 people at Science World here in Vancouver to talk about the future of work and how we can disrupt the status quo. Matt and Steph sat down at the mic to reflect on this years event, to discuss the ways we decided to disrupt how events in the city are usually run, and...

This week on the pod, Avni joins Steph to talk all things entrepreneurship. After working in the corporate sphere for 10 years, Avni made the jump from working for Adidas in Shanghai into the fast-paced world of start-ups. Avni’s first venture gave her a crash course in entrepreneurship, and over those first ten months, the seeds for her next project, ‘Poppy’, we sown. Anvi explains that entrepren...

“I don’t think that many of us are truly honest about pain. And about the fact that we truly do experience pain, if not daily, weekly… The most useful thing that I can share is normalizing pain, so that we can soften into it. So that when we experience psychological pain, instead of wanting to push it away or wanting to attack it with strategies, we can soften into it and create space and capacity...

“My vision for the future is that we need more and better leaders”Jacqueline Jennings joins Steph on the pod this week. Jacqueline is coach to conscious leaders, business consultant, a group facilitator and a facilitator of decolonization practices. Steph riffs with Jacqueline about her ‘Soulful Entrepreneur: Ranch Retreat', how they came to be, and how they fit within he along-term vision. Jacque...

Matt + Steph take the mic this week to riff on the idea of change. When is change hard and when is it easy? Why do we resist change? When is it time to make a change and to disrupt the status quo? Change is easy when it moves us closer to our goals. When something we thought was impossible becomes possible. The work in change management, is to paint a picture of the future that is worth living int...

Erin is a wellness coach and podcast host of ‘Raw Beauty Talks’. Raw Beauty Co. began as a project to photograph women without make-up, photoshop, or filters. Providing a platform for women to show up as they are, and to talk about what happens behind the scenes and below the surface. ‘Raw Beauty Talks’ today is an ongoing conversation about beauty, confidence and self-love. Erin acknowledges that...

Bradly Hall, owner of ‘Savary Island Pie Company’, chats with Steph this week and shares the courageous story of how his Mom, Eileen, founded a baking business out of necessity over 30 years ago. The ‘Savary Island Pie Company’ started from humble of beginnings, but allowed Eileen to survive as a single mother, and to emerge from poverty as a female business owner. The company continues to thrive...

“If you’re going to write something, leave blood on the page. If you’re going to share a story from the stage, let it show your humanity” — James Altucher Matt + Steph are back together this week on the pod for a life-update and to discuss the power of vulnerability, and the importance baring our humanity when you take the stage (or the mic). They take the time to recap the stages and start lines...

Cicely is a diversity and inclusion consultant and activist in Vancouver. Steph and Cicely riff on how we can cultivate more inclusive workplaces, how people in leadership positions can become more diverse, and how the hiring process can change to make this a reality. “I like to take people on a journey through D+I. Its not as simple as a one hour work-shop here and there. Its not a box-checking s...

“I think I’m still struggling with a loss of identity around athletics … It was very much results driven, now-a-days there isn’t as much of that … When you are racing it’s easier to quantify your results and you can base your success on where you place, or your time, or how your workout went. In regular life there is not as much opportunity to quantify your success. So it’s a combination of a loss...