Episodes
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Be A Conduit For What's Next For Others | Over Drinks with Brian Kroeker
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
How can leaders make a bigger difference in their employees lives?
Should leaders be quiet in the shadows and notice what is going on in order to empower whom they are leading? As Leaders, we need to lead by example. If your employees don’t see you living, breathing and acting on your vision; it is not effective, and it’s not empowering.
It all revolves around building trust, and trust lives in the actions that you take.
Join me today, as Brian Kroeker, President of Little Rock Printing, shares his insights on being relentless with expectations, the work needed to get where you need to go and his vision for providing the right opportunities for growth for his employees.
Key Takeaways:
- How can we help our employees move up in their careers even if it’s not with us?
- The contrasting experiences of losing and winning shapes our trajectory
- Step back and let others find the way things work best for them.
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Thursday Jul 08, 2021
So I Married an Entrepreneur (E5)
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Who Do You Need To Be To Build Resilience For The Future
Maya and I talk about the last quarter. The projects we were working on and the lessons they presented. The gapple with trying to get it right, the power of just going with the flow and the benefit of implementing custom systems and structures that supports (not constraints) creativity.
I know it all sounds like a big contradiction.
WELCOME TO YOUR LIFE.
Each of you listening has the ability and the freedom to create a possible future. When we’re able to flex the muscles of adaptability, resilience and intuition at a moment’s notice, your ability to navigate the unpredictable seasons of the future improves.
New opportunities present themselves.
It’s just whether we’re paying attention and willing to embrace and implement the systems of support to build, pivot or keep going.
There’s work to be done to define, understand and articulate who you are, what you stand for.
You’re here to be of service and make a difference.
You’re here to bring value.
You’re here to push boundaries and create new possibilities.
To explore new positions, new areas of focus and new directions to take.
I believe all of us are visionary and that it's time for you to create what’s next, leading yourself and others into the emerging future.
The question is...what are you waiting for?
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Entrepreneurship, Fast Cars & Fat Bank Accounts | Overdrinks with Marty Park
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
The game of entrepreneurship keeps you driven and hungry.
Busy building and doing, and rarely with a clear plan.
At the beginning that's a good thing!
What better environment to figure things out but rolling up your sleeves and digging in.
While there is always a part of us that wished we would have had MORE support, insight, awareness, mentorship.
Would it have really made the difference?
Would you have lost interest too soon?
Do you think you would have committed as much to doing the necessary work?
Being a leader and building anything is a practice and an evolution.
There is a moving towards and when the time is ready, the desire for a more clearly defined picture of the future (your vision) will emerge.
Join me, as Entrepreneur Advisor, Trainer, Coach & Bestselling Author, Marty Park, shares his insight on VISION, CULTURE and BRAND.
Key episode takeaways
- The influences of our parental figures with their passions.
- Advantages of public speaking at a young age.
- The dream of fast cars and fat bank accounts, the turning point.
- Getting to the point of being ready to think bigger, slowing down and taking the time to define what it was they wanted to create (What inspired and motivated them)
- You can only ever start small to go big. Create the critical touch points to keep the dream alive so you’re ready for the next opportunity.
- When you’re ready to build, collaborate with others to make it happen.
- Providing the opportunity to shape society and the future of business.
- Action comes before motivation, purpose from creation
- Culture exists, but who’s banging the drum?
- Stop the checking off or trying to fit in the box
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Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
Friday May 21, 2021
What do you do to keep going?
How do you avoid the trap of quick money and the long term cost of taking shortcuts now?
Join me as I speak with Erik Hytonen as he shares his journey.
Like all of us, there are unique lessons and experiences Erik’s acquired over time, and he shares what’s worked and what hasn’t.
What’s kept him going and what he had to get out of his way if he was to succeed as a leader in this changing environment and highly commoditized industry.
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Tuesday May 04, 2021
87. How To Be With Your Spicy Self
Tuesday May 04, 2021
Tuesday May 04, 2021
I have a cat in heat for a second time (back to back with a very short, 2 week buffer).
If you’ve experienced this before, you will understand.
If you haven’t, you’ve been warned.
And be ready to accept responsibility for how it’s going to go.
How aware are you of those nagging voices that are constantly crying out?
Constantly demanding attention, not knowing why they are demanding your attention yet continuing to demand your attention.
Do you ever have those voices, those thoughts that pull on you in multiple directions at once?
How many times do we abdicate that control over to those “powers that be?.
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We have our ideal picture of how our days or our life, or our conversations should go.
We love it when it goes the way we intended.
It feels good.
We feel fulfilled. And we look forward to the next time that happens.
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But what about those moments when they do not go the way you pictured.
Like not even close to it? At all.
What then?
Who are we in that space?
What do we do, how do we carry ourselves in those moments and what do we make it all mean?
Remember this (if you want):
You are more than your reactions in that moment.
Give yourself space to just be.
Get a different perspective.
Create yourself newly while still being with those chaotic thoughts and being ok with it all.
It is possible.
You are a human being who is aware of “it”.
You understand that you impact not just yourself but everyone around you.
And that you have a responsibility to steward yourself.
Because you are not a cat.
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
More Financial Advising, Less Selling | Over Drinks with Spencer from Sagium
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Apr 28, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
What do you do with an empty concrete canvas that has 12 decades of history weaved through it?
How do keep small businesses viable in the shadow of corporate giants? How do you break down years of status quo as you re-create and reconnect a community back to its electric roots at the same time embracing what's next?
Adrian Urlacher, Amanda Weightman from The Beltline BIA and Geoff Hughes from Park Digital talk about what it takes to nurture and strengthen the human to human experience in business and the future of space activation and placemaking in Calgary.
We want community, yet struggle to create it around ourselves. They fill our tank and give meaning to our lives, and the connection gap is widening. It really does take something to build community in today’s world. And all it takes is one energetic visionary with the courage to step forward with an idea to become a catalyst.
The Beltline BIA (formerly known as) is a new BIA blazing a new trail, and building a brand that will take everyone within their community walls into the future and having a lot of fun doing it.
Episode takeaways:
- A jack of all trades is a master of none?
- The power of being part of community
- The tragic reality of what it takes
- What does a clear vision of the future open up?
- The best time to start?
- Who do you have in your corner?
- alignment of values and people
- Say yes and how and not no and why
- Uncommon sizzle that's electric? Yes please!
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Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
My guest today has a unique lens to the world of being human and doing business.
His name is Jayson Lowe, CEO of Ascendant Financial.
He will be the first to admit that it is because of the mentorship and leadership of others that has gotten him to where he’s at in his life.
And while he could never articulate the gratitude that’s necessary to honour them.
He is passing on the lessons he’s learned and continues to uncover to those who are ready and listening.
We all need good mentors in our life and it’s been an honour to be able to know him.
Curious about becoming your own banker?
Listen to the Wealth Without Bay Street Podcast
Friday Nov 13, 2020
So I Married an Entrepreneur (E4)
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
A friend shared something really personal last week.
She did a great job of leading the charge on how to embrace your vulnerable human side powerfully.
She got real and raw and it was needed. Not just for her to do but for the reminder that it provided us. Namely how important it is to have a community of people around you, holding you up when you need it.
And it’s not easy in this COVID world.
Where before my calendars were filled with meetings and I certainly got better at having them be meaningful and not stuck up at the surface. It wasn’t enough. Isn’t enough to truly build community.
And now we’re zooming everywhere.
Responding to the “how are you’s” with “good” and “fine” which we all know is a load of crock, but we all got shit to do and it’s that much easier to miss or ignore.
Welcome to the new normal, you think you were lonely and disconnected before…
Ok...now how are our young people handling all of this?
How do you even find out?
They’re literally living inside of a different reality.
One we have a little context for or experience in.
Not to say there is zero relatedness, but like your parents and your parents, parents It’s a new version of an old problem.
Therein lives the opportunity...nay the responsibility.
We must re-calibrate our families, and not from the typical top-down dictation but in collaboration with our young people.
To do the deeper work...
To have everyone contributing and co-creating the necessary alignment so we can all keep working towards what makes the difference for us as a family.
And remove the assumptions that everyone agrees with what you’re doing.