Boiling Point Podcast

In this episode:

• Elizabeth explains why she wrote her book and what inspires her.
• She talks about staying motivated and why some entrepreneurs find their interest in their company going stale.
• Elizabeth talks about showing people how to look at themselves with more compassion.

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In This Episode:

• Connor explains his frustration with the usual freelancer finding websites online.
• He explains how his company, FreeeUp, only allows the top 1% of freelancer applications onto their market and even offers freelancer insurance.
• Connor talks about hiring freelancers vs. employees.
• The three discuss being in control of your business and your assets instead of relying on other companies or services.

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In This Episode:

• Greg and Dave sit down and talk with two of the board members of L’Arche, a chain of communities where people with intellectual disabilities are able to share with each other and explore their gifts.

• Their guests, Jim and Martin, talk about L’Arche’s art galleries and how they help build confidence for people with intellectual disabilities.  They also help people with and without intellectual disabilities connect with each other.

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• Greg introduces Brent Smith who is a Newfoundland chocolate retailer calling in from Las Vegas, Nevada.
• We hear our guest’s personal story of how he and his wife decided to go into the chocolate business.
• Brent explains how part of the inspiration for the company was to afford to get their two sons to Disney World.
• Our hosts hear the story of the Newfoundland Chocolate Company's breakthrough, and how they became a chocolate retail company.
• Brent shares how having no paycheque one Christmas morning inspired him and his wife to grow their own business full-time.
• Listen in to this installment of the Boiling Point to hear the full story!

• Brent Smith is the CCO or Chief Chocolate Officer of the Newfoundland Chocolate Company.
• The Newfoundland Chocolate Company has won a number of awards including the St. John’s Board of Trade’s highest honour, the 2015 overall Business Excellence Award.
• In addition, Newfoundland Chocolates were named the Atlantic Food Product of the Year in 2012. They were named one of Canada’s top chocolates in 2013.
• Prior to his leap into the world of chocolate, Brent worked with and ran several non-profits. This included seven years at Easter Seals Society and five years in tobacco control policy.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

• Ken chats with Greg and Dave about his passion for surfing and how it has become a creative outlet for him to express himself.
• Ken explains the essence of surfing and life lessons you can learn from being out on the water, and how the experience itself can teach you things outside of surfing as well.
• Ken discusses about how he drifted away from surfing, and it came back to him at the age of 40 and he felt the same excitement as when he was 14 years old.
• Ken talks about how he incorporates his love for surfing into his ways of teaching.

BIO:

• As a life long wave-rider, Ken lives his life in motion, more improvised than choreographed.
• Ken Otter presently works as the Co-director of The Leadership Center at Saint Mary's College and Associate Professor in Leadership.
• Ken's educational background includes studies in somatic, counselling and organizational psychology, expressive arts therapy, adult development and learning, and leadership.
• Ken designs and facilitates innovative and transformative learning experiences for people, individually who want to use their role and work to catalyze meaningful systems change in their world.

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IN THIS EPISODE: 

• Jaclyn chats with Greg and Dave about her book "33 Days: A Parenting Program to Strengthen Your Family", and describes how the Law Of Attraction inspired the start up of her book.
• Jaclyn talks about becoming more relaxed by becoming less busy and enjoying other experiences outside of work.
• Jaclyn discusses how her therapy is not structured like usual therapists, she reads and collects things that she thinks might help them. 
• She describes her office as having natural elements such as rocks, fountains, trying to bring the grounding and calming energy indoors as much as possible.
• Jaclyn explains the importance of what she does and how she can make a positive impact on the world.

BIO: 

• Jaclyn Trecartin is a Certified Canadian Counsellor and a Licensed Counselling Therapist, working with children, families, and adults.
• Jaclyn currently runs a private therapy practice in Saint John, New Brunswick.
• She has published one book incorporating theories of the Law of Attraction with her experience as a therapist, in a flexible and creative workbook entitled 33 Days: A Parenting Program to Strengthen Your Family.
• She believes in the power of nourishing our inner light and expanding it outward and has a newsletter dedicated to this belief, the Shine Revolution.

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IN THIS EPISODE: 

• Bethany chats with Greg and Dave about creating SomaDetect agriculture farming company, which is helping farmers provide better care for animals and providing good quality milk.
• Bethany talks about completing a PHD in biology, and how it has helped immensely with the start up of SomaDetect.
• Bethany discusses how she helps farmers diagnose low quality or contaminated milk and providing nutritional needs for farmers with their farms.
• Bethany tells how the idea was actually born from her father, and how he was a biophysicists who worked on applications involved with the innovation behind SomaDetect.

BIO:

• Bethany Deshpande is the CEO of SomaDetect. She is a scientist turned entrepreneur who is providing dairy farmers with the information they need to produce the best possible milk.
• Bethany has experience in community engagement, Northern environmental science, mathematics, and data analysis.
• Bethany set out to commercialize the technology developed by her dad over the past several decades.
• SomaDetect represents a significant innovation within the dairy industry.

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In this episode:

- Richard explains the impact on broad lateral thinking that comes with training or schooling in architecture.

- Richard and Greg give examples of the qualities of architecture being transferable to different jobs.

- They explain parallels between architecture and film.

- They speak on monument building in the light of old monuments getting taken down.

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In This Episode:

• Bridget Oland discusses how she got to her position as the marketing director and recipe developer of Crosby's Molasses
• Greg, Dave and Bridget all share their best molasses stories
• Bridget explains how molasses is made and what a versatile product it is

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