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Canada’s #1 Community for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs. We talk to the entrepreneurs who are making it happen throughout Canada. Finally, a national podcast company that creates an active online community for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs so they can stay connected locally and to let the world know how Entrepreneurs in Canada make things happen. Check us out on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@CanadasEntrepreneur
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Amanda Hamilton is the founder and creative director of Amanda Hamilton Interior Design and Palette Archives. An award-winning entrepreneur and Interior Designer based in Calgary, Alberta working across Western Canada, Amanda is celebrated for her tenacious entrepreneurial spirit and vibrant persona. Her bold and unorthodox approach to design and business has made her one of the most sought-after creative minds in Canada.
Her debut satirical memoir, Not That Likeable: And Other Stories I told Myself was published in the fall of 2022. Amanda Hamilton unflinchingly chronicles her childhood exploits and coming-of-age story, in all their cringey glory. Riotously funny and spirited, Amanda balances unflinching honesty and side-splitting wit in this offbeat memoir for the proverbial outsider.
Amanda has been featured in numerous national publications including House & Home, Style at Home, Western Living, Montecristo, Avenue and FLARE. She has appeared on various broadcast programs, such as The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV, Global and Breakfast Television and was a collaborator for two episodes of The Property Brothers. A gifted and spirited speaker and storyteller, Amanda has delivered keynote presentations, acted as the Master of Ceremony, moderated panels and has sat on various panels covering a broad range of topics ranging from design to business.
Notable accolades include the 2020 WXN: Top 100 Most Powerful Women of Canada, 2020 Calgary Influential Women in Business Emerging Leader Award, 2019 Women of Inspiration Trailblazer Award, 2018 AWE Entrepreneurship Upsurge Award, 2017 Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 Award, 2017 Silver Stevie Female Entrepreneur of Canada, 2017 Calgary Herald’s Most Compelling Calgarians, 2013 Western Living Magazine’s One to Watch and 2012 Mount Royal University Alumni Award.
Committed to supporting and elevating the voices of entrepreneurs, Amanda recently launched a number of internal initiatives including Hard Bar Friday, After Hours Podcast and Office Hours: Open Source Learning.
Amanda received her Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Interior Design from Mount Royal University, received her status as a Licensed Interior Designer through the National Council for Design Qualifications and is also a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Accredited Professional. She is a mentor for the Harry G. Schaefer Mentorship Program and chairs the Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta World of Choices event. In 2016, Amanda launched a Travel Scholarship through her Alma Matter to promote design exploration.
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Quelques années après avoir travaillé dans le secteur de l'aviation, en 1999, Nancy et son mari ont eu l'étincelle pour démarrer un réseau de distribution pour les fromagers artisanaux québécois : Plaisirs Gourmets.
L'entreprise a d'abord démarré avec le fromage Pied-de-Vent des Iles-de-la-Madeleine et rapidement l'intérêt des artisans fromagers et négociants a conduit à la création d'un réseau représentant aujourd'hui une quinzaine de fromageries artisanales, 1 fabricant de fondue et un charcutier.
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Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Founder and Head Designer at MARNIE & MICHAEL, Jennifer St. John, has been involved in art and design since her earliest days. In 2020, Jennifer launched her business, along with a mission to start a mental health initiative and began a retail shop during the peak of the pandemic, taking a risk that has paid off. With an online shop and six retail locations, Jennifer creates and hand sews her own line of high end leather bags and accessories and devotes up to 15% of all profits to mental health initiatives. She just completed her first successful mental health annual fundraiser and fashion show, with proceeds donated to RVH hospital Foundation.
Jennifer’s mom was untreated and undiagnosed with mental illness for her first fifty-two years of life. Growing up in this very unstable environment with her sisters, no one talked about mental health and everyone around her was distracted by her mom’s unhealthy coping strategies. The only constant in her life was instability and shame. The name, Marnie & Michael, is in honour of her parents and her mother's journey – now she is determined to be a part of the conversation and space that is changing the stigma!
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Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Kathy Yuen is an Architectural Technologist and founder of Phase One Design, a residential design firm specializing in designing dream homes for homeowners across Canada since 2006.
Phase One Design has helped over 700 homeowners design their dream homes. They have been recognized for countless awards (26 finalist nominations, 12 awards) and featured in numerous publications across Canada.
Kathy is a recognized business leader, public speaker, and educator for the design and custom home community. She has spearheaded various community initiatives such as educational seminars, and has made regular stage appearances. Kathy has been nominated twice for RBC’s Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.
You can check out her videos on the YouTube Channel ‘Dream Homes with Kathy’.
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Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Isabelle Mercier and Margarita Romano are 'no-nonsense' dynamos, born to catapult heart-centred entrepreneurs and business leaders to build impactful brands, businesses and lives.
Together, Isabelle and Margarita co-founded their first business venture a few years out of their teens, which quickly escalated to become one of Canada's most awarded branding and creative firms; from prestigious international design awards to national entrepreneurs of the year. They are true pioneers in brand positioning, and to this day still continuously re-establish the way people do business. Throughout their careers, they’ve had the opportunity to work with more than 500 companies, including some influential and iconic brands like A&W, Robeez Footwear, Earls Restaurants, IMAX Corporation, and HSBC Investments just to name a few. With over two decades of hands-on experience in branding, marketing and business growth, as well as extensive learnings from traveling the globe, Isabelle and Margarita are more determined than ever to help entrepreneurs and thought leaders all over the world become The First, The Best or The Only.
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Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Dr. Allen Davidoff is the founder and CEO of XORTX. Allen has 15 years of drug development experience across a broad range of clinical, regulatory and senior management roles in pharmaceutical R&D. He has led two investigational new drug ("IND") applications or supplemental IND’s, two phase I studies (four of which were multi-country), seven phase II studies, and one new drug application (NDA). Prior to forming XORTX, Allen was the Chief Scientific Officer, VP Product Development and co-founder of Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. (seven years) ( Trillium TRIL:NASDAQ) and Senior Scientist and Head of Pharmacology at Cardiome Pharma Corp.
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Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Payton Nyquvest is CEO of Numinus Wellness Inc., a leading, integrated mental health care company providing psychedelic-assisted therapies,, Payton has an incredible personal healing story to share about his journey with psychedelics and what led him on this new path of conscious leadership and making psychedelic therapy available and accessible for everyone. Numinus Wellness Inc. is a leading, integrated mental health care company providing psychedelic-assisted therapies, with 13 wellness clinics across North America, four clinical research sites and a bio-analytical research lab. Numinus is one of the top revenue-generating companies in the psychedelics sector, working to address a growing societal need by providing a wide range of proven and innovative therapies to treat and potentially cure mental health conditions. Numinus is the only company in Canada with permission from Health Canada to grow and extract pspsilocybin for research for anxiety, depression and PTSD.
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Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Bryce Weeks is the Founder of clear float spa that began in 2016 with a vision of removing pain, anxiety and stress from people’s lives through the science of float therapy. Since that time, clear float spa has facilitated more than 30,000 float sessions for Calgarians. With a heart for the community, the business also donates thousands of floats to dozens of charities and a variety of essential service providers like healthcare workers, veterans and teachers each year, as well as those impacted by stress-inducing crises or states of emergency such as the pandemic, Fort McMurray wildfires, and the Humboldt Broncos hockey tragedy.
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Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Chloe Smith is the CEO and Co-founder of Mercator AI, a construction intelligence platform that delivers project insights for general contractors, engineering firms, real estate firms, and building project manufacturers. Prior to launching Mercator, Chloe developed market intelligence tools for business developers in the marketing and advertising space, where she helped reduce time spent on gap analyses.
With a strong background in data strategy, big data, AI, and data monetization, Chloe was able to leverage her expertise to create Mercator. Today, Mercator analyzes millions of construction data activities—from conception to post-construction—to enable early project detection, uncover risk signals and surface competitive and client insights in real-time.
Together with her Co-founder, Hogan Lee, who has a background in building high performing multi-disciplinary teams, Chloe is building a company that is at the forefront of industry intelligence and innovation.
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Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Adam Niman has been selling life insurance for more than a decade, and as a result, he is committed to ensuring everyone understands that the insurance policies sold, the buyer's expectations of the policies, and the reality of what the buyer is getting, don't always match up. He is committed to building trust and educating Canadians because he believes that truth and transparency matters. His newest book, "Fortune or Fiction: Why the ‘Be Your Own Banker’ concept is flawed" is available now.
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