Boiling Point Podcast

Our lives are often times built around the work that we do with recent society trends pushing us to be “busy” every hour of the day and creating a stigma of failure or poor leadership when we aren’t. Our guest today Dan Pontefract is calling out this behaviour using his decades of experience in the corporate world to highlight the hypocritical and unhealthy behaviours being found in leadership roles. Dan leads Greg and Dave on a laughter-filled, but thought-provoking discovery where he explains what the work he is doing and the goal of the books he has written is. Dan wants to help people understand that slowing down, taking time to think and being driven by a purpose will lead not only to a productive life, but to overall happiness we should all be striving for.

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Climate change is an issue that is and will continue to affect us. One New Brunswick based company is looking at this challenge head on to find solutions that protect the environment but maintain our ability to access resources. Zach Melanson of Community Forests International joins us in the booth to tell us about their company’s journey from re-foresting an island to giving businesses the ability to offset their carbon footprint by protecting land here in New Brunswick.

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Unconscious Bias can affect how we interact with everyone around us and judge others based on our own lived experiences or perceptions of who they are. Brian Duggan leads us in a conversation to challenge us to accept our own unconscious biases to be more open and create stronger connections and understanding while working in the global world. Brian said we need to “be open to the fact that my experience is my experience, and to wonder about other’s experiences.” as a way of improving our cultural intelligence.

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We go undercover with Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe to learn about her approach called Social Espionage, a way to listen and learn from your audience and then properly plan your strategy and personal branding. With her use of relevant case studies examples from the world’s biggest brands and her openness to share her own life lessons and personal anecdotes gleaned from her grandfather, this episode made Greg and Dave reflect themselves on what they could be improving in their own personal branding efforts.

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In This Episode:

• Greg talks about the Boiling Point Process, a new project they’ve been working on (0:31)
• Alice explains the creative economy (2:14)
• She talks about her mission to solve poverty in New Mexico (4:35)
• Greg and Alice talk about the strengths the creative industry has over other industries and why it is growing so rapidly (9:52)
• Alice explains what the challenges are in creating a creative economy in a particular area (18:07)

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In This Episode:

• Dave talks about having his son be a contestant on Canada's Smartest Person Junior (1:39)
• Greg and Lisa talk about the new project they have been working on called The Mars Collective, a project based around the necessary shift of our education system to better ready children for the future (3:35)
• Lisa explains how she and Greg ended up in Dubai together with some of the smartest people in the world (5:12)
• Greg and Lisa discuss the role they think New Brunswick could have in the future of education (9:45)
• The gang talk about getting over barriers of access and problems within the education system (11:45)
• Greg explains the current state of The Mars Collective (17:30)
• Greg and Lisa talk about how the two of them learned to work together and shared stories from their trip to Dubai (20:27)
• Lisa and Greg talk about what they gained from their trip (28:23)
• Dave and Greg talk about a new project they are working on (36:35)

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• (5:43) They tell of their “leap” into entrepreneurship when developing into an already established business and how they honored it and strive to grow the business for the better.
• (9:55) The Hyslop’s explain why the two are so aligned in their business desires and in their personal and company values, especially in their case of being a married couple, or “Couplepreneurs”.
• (14:28) Our two guests explain their definition of their style of social entrepreneurship, why they see themselves as such, and how they set out to make the kind of company that they themselves would want to work for.
• (26:01) The Two explain how many social entrepreneurs will allow the amazing things they’re doing fly under the radar because of their humble nature. They believe talking about what they do is their obligation as social entrepreneurs because not talking would be discouraging young people to strive for social impact.

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• (2:58) Curtis explains his product and his motivations for starting his company, Vertiball.
• (8:11) We hear how Curtis’ experience with cancer along with his grandfather's influence helped change his career aspirations from wanting to be an astronaut to wanting to be an entrepreneur.
• (14:46) Curtis explains how he’s made his way through the day to day challenges of starting up his company by seeing his growth as a step by step process to get to his end-goal.
• (20:20) Finally, Curtis describes the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone to succeed in your business.

• Curtis Kennedy is a mechanical engineering student at the University of New Brunswick and is the CEO of his own company, Vertiball, where he has been revolutionizing muscle care since 2017 with his suction cup based product.
• His goal is to eventually get into the field of clean energy with a future business venture.

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In This Episode:

• Dave talks about the story behind the "United Breaks Guitars" videos from 2009. The three discuss the deeper meanings behind the videos' popularity and how it affected United Airlines as a company.
• He also talks about how he got started on writing his book, "United Breaks Guitars: The Power of One Voice in the Age of Social Media"
• The three talk about the way social media let's people amplify their voices, and how that can be good or bad.

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In This Episode:

• Greg and Dave sit down with Nelson Terroba to talk about his career as a basketball coach and how he approaches team building and teamwork.
• They cover how we got started, how he ended up in New Brunswick, Canada, and his relationship with The G League.
• Nelson goes over his early loud and continuous model for working as a team.
• He also goes over his favourtie John Wooden quotes that he uses with his team.
• Dave and Nelson talk about the take off of Canadian Basketball in recent years.

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