Phil Chang / Kenny Vannucci

This Commerce Life

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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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29 sep 2026

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Liza Amlani talks about Retail X, the first in person retail conference of the year in Chicago 31.08.2021 1:03:14

To reach Liza: https://www.themerchantlife.com/ The article we were talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/style/cotton-totes-climate-crisis.html Some of Liza's tweets from Retail X: https://twitter.com/i/status/1430273345690419206 https://twitter.com/i/status/1430166923355074566

Will and Shoshauna Routley, Founders of The Functional Beverage Group come to talk dreams 24.08.2021 1:08:36

To find out more about Will and Shoshauna and the Functional Beverage Group: https://funbevgroup.com/

Kerrie Hansler, co-Founder of Sweet Reads Box talks about building an experience around novels 17.08.2021 1:10:09

check out Sweet Reads here: https://sweetreadsbox.com/ To find Kerrie: https://sweetreadsbox.com/pages/contact

Two and a half knuckleheads tonight. Kenny and Phil talk about the podcast, where they'd like to see it go 10.08.2021 55:21

We'd love to hear from you. You can reach us at thiscommercelife@gmail.com - we'd love to know what you think of our plans, if you'd support us.

Neha Charnalia, co-Founder of SwitchGrocery talks about finding great products and building an online grocery store 03.08.2021 1:15:24

To find SwitchGrocery: https://www.switchgrocery.com To find Neha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-charnalia-a1193612/

We finally get an accountant on. Denise Wong straightens up the knuckleheads 27.07.2021 1:07:49

You can find Denise here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-c-wong-cpa-ca-2a28519/ Check out Denise and DSquared: https://www.dsquaredgroup.ca/ Z0vV6hVtJxt60pZ9Kkmx

What would you do if you could have the retail intelligence you need in 48 hours? General Manager Jeff Doucette comes on to talk about helping brands QUICK and often. 20.07.2021 1:05:40

To find out more about Field Agent: https://www.fieldagentcanada.com/ Contact Jeff here: https://www.fieldagentcanada.com/contact-us or https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-doucette-72b3556/

The Merchant Life comes back to talk a retail smorgasboard: 3D printers, ketchup chips, the future of shopping malls and much more. 13.07.2021 1:10:16

Find Liza Amlani here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizaamlani/ Sign up for The Merchant Life here: https://www.themerchantlife.com/

"If you knew you couldn't fail, what would you do? " Tim Dumas, Dreamer, Leadership Coach and Speaker comes on to talk about figuring out how to do what you love. 06.07.2021 1:06:47

To find out more about Tim: www.servusleadership.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU8ZOAFq1u8&t=3s

The Justin Timberlake of snacks, Jake Karls from Mid-Day Squares comes on to talk new categories for snacks and taking this as far as it can go 29.06.2021 1:01:33

To find Mid-Day Squares: https://www.middaysquares.com To find Jake: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-karls-653106ba/

Shelfgram evolves, Bram comes on to talk improvements, usages and how brands, brokers and retailers are taking advantage of pictures of planograms 22.06.2021 1:01:34

To find Bram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bramw/ To find Shelfgram: https://app.shelfgram.com/feed

Laser focused on a second career. John Antulov talks about turning a retail career into Professional Soccer 15.06.2021 1:03:55

Find John here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-antulov-0441a8a2/ Check out Thompson River University Soccer here: https://gowolfpack.ca/sports/mens-soccer

President and CEO of CHFA, Aaron Skelton comes on to talk about pandemic effects on health food retail. 08.06.2021 59:09

Find Aaron here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronskelton/ Find out if CHFA is for you by clicking here: https://chfa.ca/en/

He retired, then unretired. Then he did it one more time. Now, he's a driving force in making Remedy Brands a recognized leader 01.06.2021 59:35

If you worked CPG, and spent any time in Vancouver, you probably know Alan, met Alan or heard of Alan. He's a local legend of sorts. You can find him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-bates-88b2b332/ Find out more about Remedy Drinks here: https://www.remedydrinks.com/ca/

Fardad Moayer comes back! We talk re-branding, re-launching products and the impact of supply during the Pandemic 25.05.2021 1:26:20

Check out Parissa Labs here: https://parissa.com/ Find Fardad here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fardadm/

She wanted to work for no one, but wanted to get paid fair, good money. Serial Founder Colleen Imrie comes on to talk Nooks Canada 18.05.2021 59:29

To find out more about the Nooks: https://thenooks.ca/ The Linkedin Page that she doesn't want you to check out: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleenimrie/

Peter Rodriguez, Built Brand Igniter and now he's back to talk about the next step to building your own brand 11.05.2021 1:24:36

To find out more about Peter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-rodriguez-marketing/ To find Brand Igniter: https://www.brandigniter.ca/webinar

Special Episode: Kyle Ewing, Founder of Terraslate comes on to talk about the persistence required for success 07.05.2021 1:00:25

To find Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleewing/ Kyle's company and waterproof paper: https://terraslatepaper.com/ To find out more about ClearAngel: https://angel.clearbanc.com/

VP of Partnerships & Insights of Social Nature, Jessica Malach talks about the half-million natural shoppers and their discovery platform 03.05.2021 1:08:35

We also talk agencies, when to use an agency, when to leave and strike out on your own, what brands should expect from agencies. To find out more about Social Nature: https://www.socialnature.com/ To find Jessica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-malach-she-her-06644316/

The founders of Good Juju, Alexa and Lisa come on to talk zero all-natural, plastic-free home & body products 27.04.2021 1:23:04

What a great brand! We were fascinated by what Lisa and Alexa have built. We were equally appalled at how these two wonderful founders have been viewed - anything other than wonderful people and brillant business people. Check out Good Juju here: https://hellogoodjuju.com/ Find Lisa on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-karandat-50b69821/

President and Founder of Hippie Snacks, Owner of Left Coast Naturals Ian Walker 20.04.2021 1:14:34

A great conversation with a Natural Foods Industry Icon. Happy belated Birthday to Ian Walker and Happy Birthday to Kenny! (he's still not 60 yet) To find Ian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-walker-a8725318/ Hippie Snacks: https://www.hippiesnacks.com/ Left Coast Naturals: https://www.leftcoastnaturals.com/

The Shoplands make and appearance and they have news! (Laurie and Jimmy!) 13.04.2021 1:09:04

You can find the Shoplands here: https://laurieshopland.com/ https://shoplandhealth.ca/

Just the knuckleheads - Kenny and Phil talk what it costs to be in a Canadian retailer 09.04.2021 1:19:39

This episode was inspired by the article below. https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/the-reasons-behind-a-bitter-battle-between-food-makers-and-canadas-big-grocers

Co-Founder & CEO at Clearbanc Andrew D'Souza comes on to talk about Clearbanc and the launch of ClearAngel 06.04.2021 50:29

We owe this podcast to Kent Fenwick in more ways than one. Kenny talks about his Covid experience. Philly complains about his boss. (himself) Find out about Clearbanc here: https://clearbanc.com/en-eu/ Think you could use investment? ClearAngel is here: https://angel.clearbanc.com/ Andrew's Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdsouza/

A recast of an older episode, Peter Rodriguez MBA, Chartered Marketer joins the boys. They talk about personal brand marketing, and why it's so important. 30.03.2021 1:00:44

We don't have a new episode this week - Kenny hasn't been feeling well, but in light of how popular Trevor Baker's episode was, we thought personal branding is something critical to anyone facing career changes. This episode first aired Feb 10, 2020. --- Peter Rodriguez MBA, Chartered Marketer, comes on the show to talk about his Award-Winning Brand Igniter™ Peter is a former CMO, Ex Kellogg’s, P...