Big Idea Big Moves

Caroline Tutakiewicz is the Director, Product Strategy and Innovation with RBC Ventures where she helps early stage ventures build and scale.  Before that, she worked in the bank's Terrorist Financing and Organized Crime departments.

Caroline has been named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network and was recognized as a LGBT+ Furure Leader Role Model by InvolvePeople.org.  She is a strong advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and have given back to many causes including serving as Vice President of the Toronto chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.  

Caroline is currently on the Board of Directors of Sherbourne Health and Start Proud. 

In this episode host Jamie Allison talks with Caroline about how she decided to make significant career change, how a near-death experience now shapes the way she approaches opportunity and her thoughts on we can become more aware of privilege and remove systemically reinforced barriers through new approaches and support.  

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Crystal McFerran is the Chief Marketing Officer for The 20, a business development group for managed service providers.  She has been a marketing leader in various industries with over 18 years experience in agency development,  brand marketing, digital content and public relations. 

Crystal is the Associate Producer of, and a participant on, the Social Movement: Season 2 and is a member and contributing writer on the Forbes Communications Council. 

In this episode, host Jamie Allison speaks with Crystal about her own unique and leading edge career path, digital marketing strategies, building a brand through storytelling and sure-fire tools and tactics.

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(Revisit of Recording from Dec 2019)

Shawn Matthias played 10 years as a professional hockey player in the  National Hockey League.  He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks and Colorado Avalanche.   He also played for Canada at the 2008 World Junior Championships and helped his team win the Gold Medal. 

A couple of seasons removed from leaving the sport that consumed most of his life he has reinvented himself and is building a new career and life on his terms.   He has  founded a hockey content and development company called 4ourthperiod.com.

In December of 2019, host Jamie Allison talked with Shawn about how reflection, planning and developing his own personal brand helped ease his transition from professional hockey to the business and content creation world.  His  candid talk about struggles, challenges and personal development are not to be missed!  If you are looking at a big change in  your own life as we move into 2021, be sure to check this one out.

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Faith Cooke is one of the elite competitors on the 2020 Spartan Games series where she has showcased her prowess in power events and athletic versatility.  Her infectious personality, enthusiasm and desire to inspire a generation of strong, confident women has quickly made her a viewer favourite.  Although Faith is a multi-sport athlete having competed in the CrossFit Open Regionals, marathons and triathlons, her main athletic focus right now is weightlifting.  

She is a dedicated personal trainer, has online training programs, is an active fitness influencer and is a busy mom. 

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Max Fennell was on the path to professional soccer when he suffered a devastating knee injury that derailed his plans.  That is when he turned to triathlon where he excelled and became the first African American professional athlete in the sport.  He has since been a featured athlete on the CBS game show Million Dollar Mile and is currently one of the twelve male competitors on the 2020 Spartan Games series.  Yet another big statement of Max's well rounded abilities is that he is both a successful coffee business entrepreneur and aspiring politician.

In this episode host Jamie Allison speaks with Max about his experience on both CBS' Million Dollar Mile and the Spartan Games, how he is creating change in sport,  his approach to personal goal-setting, and how sports has helped him build a successful business.  

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Tia-Clair Toomey was favoured to win the 2020 Crossfit Games.  She did that in dominating fashion as she was again crowned the Fittest Woman on Earth.  She won 9 of 12 events outright and smashed records along the way.  She became the first female competitor to win 4 CrossFit Games titles - she has managed to win every year since 2017.   She has also set new markers of success in her sport with 6 consecutive event wins and all time event wins with 24. 

Her husband Shane is her coach,  her training partner is the Fittest Man on Earth Mat Fraser and she is the author of the book "How I Became The Fittest Woman on Earth: My Story So Far"

Tia competed in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in weightlifting and was the 2016 Commonwealth Games Gold medalist in Rio.

In this episode, host Jamie Allison talks with Tia about the unique experience of the 2020 Crossfit Games,  how her mindset has changed over years of competition, why Shane is the best coach for both Tia and Mat Fraser and her big plans to represent her country in the 2022 Winter Olympics in bobsledding.

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Annie Thorisdottir is a two time Fittest Woman on Earth - the first woman to accomplish that feat.  She is an 11 time Crossfit Games qualifier with 5 podium finishes.  On top of being one of the most revered and recognizable superstars in her sport, she is now a mother with her eyes on a return to the Games.  

"Iceland Annie" is a co-owner of her own Crossfit gym in Reykjavik where she has paved the way for an amazing amount of young women and men to rise to the top of the sport. 

In this episode host Jamie Allison talks with Annie about experiencing immediate, unconditional love at the birth of her daughter, dealing with negative opinions about her return to training and the impact of her popularity on a generation of young girls.   

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Stacie Mistysyn is best known for her time as the character Caitlin Ryan on Degrassi.  She grew up alongside an entire generation of fans through multiple iterations of the incredibly popular hit show.  Now a mom of two busy kids, Stacie has transitioned her love of learning, fitness and wellness into a coaching and online training business.  

In this episode, podcast host Jamie Allison chats with Stacie about her inspirational journey through dealing with being a young celebrity, her struggles with anxiety and an eating disorder and her journey to wellness through fitness and friends. 

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From world championship ultra-running and wrestling NFLers in the Spartan Games to representing Team Canada on Amazon Prime's World's Toughest Race: Eco Challenge Fiji, Ryan Atkins does it all in sports.  He is the winningest obstacle racer of all time and is married to another legend in the sport - Lindsay Webster.

Ryan is a two-time winner of the Spartan North America Championships and two-time winner of the Spartan Ultra World Championships.  He is also a World Champion Uni-cyclist - so he does, in fact, do it all. 

In this episode, Host Jamie Allison talks to Ryan about his experience on WTR and the controversial finish with the Kiwis, how he gets through tough parts of a long race and how anyone can make fitness an enjoyable experience through habit and intention. 

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Not long before COVID turned the world on its head,  host Jamie Allison sat down with Joe De Sena to  talk about leadership, perseverance, raising resilient kids and achieving BIG goals.

Joe de Sena, Founder and CEO of Spartan has appeared with, or been interviewed by, everyone from Joe Rogan, Richard Branson and Tim Ferriss to Grant Cardone and Gary  Vaynerchuk.

Joe has demonstrated his entrepreneurial drive since his pre-teens.  After building a multimillion-dollar pool and construction business in  college, and creating a Wall Street trading firm, De Sena set his sights  on ripping 100 million people off their couches by creating the Spartan  lifestyle.

Following a successful career on Wall Street, De Sena moved his  family to Pittsfield, Vermont to operate an organic farm, a bed and  breakfast, and a general store for hikers. It was here his passion grew  for ultramarathons, adventure races, and endurance events, and thus the  idea for Spartan was born.

With more than one million annual global participants at more than  200 events across more than 30 countries, Spartan offers heats for all  fitness levels and ages, from beginner to elite and Kids as young as  four-years-old. The brand has transformed more than five million lives  since it was founded in 2010.

De Sena is also the New York Times Best Selling Author of “Spartan Up” and “Spartan Fit,” and recently released his third book, “The Spartan Way.” Throughout his lifetime, Joe has competed in any extreme sports  adventure he could find, testing his mental and physical endurance  against nature. Joe turned an interest in endurance racing into a  passion. His racing resume is the stuff of legend – over 50 ultra-events  overall and 14 Ironman events in one year alone.

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Find out more about Joe and his work at www.joedesena.com