Boiling Point Podcast

Introducing Rivers Corbett:

• Rivers Corbett, MBA, is an award winning serial entrepreneur, international speaker, startUP entrepreneurial thought leader, and author of"13 Fears of Entrepreneurs."

In this episode:

• Greg is back hosting the boiling point! Big thanks to Wayne Jagoe for filling in for Greg for the past few weeks!
• Rivers informs Dave and Greg about his career portfolio and endeavours.
• He talks about his involvement with Opportunies New Brunswick and how he wants to create a more entrepreneurial environment throughout the province.
• Rivers explains how the education system needs to be more business oriented, offering the youth a more in-depth understanding of entrepreneurialism and business management.
• The Boiling Point talks about the importance of private enterprise and how it most likely is the key for New Brunswick’s economic recovery.
• Greg and Dave discuss how they plan on having Rivers back on the show in the near future. Stay tuned!

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Introducing Dave Wolpin:

• Dave owns Kredl’s Corner Market and Dave’s product packs.
• Both businesses have grown exponentially over the past few years, including an 8,000 square foot expansion for Kredl’s.
• Kredl’s Corner Market is a regionally represented grocery store that has the largest organic produce selection in the Maritimes.
• Dave runs Driver Dave’s in Halifax which delivers organic produce around the city to the customer’s house.
• Dave recently made national headlines through his close fight with bankruptcy. Because of his drive and determination Dave prevailed and got investors on board as well as raising money to save his business.

In this episode:

• Wayne Jagoe is hosting the show in for Greg once again this week.
• Dave Wolpin explains his career journey of going from a Kredl’s employee all the way to owning the local grocery store and expanding it over the years.
• He also briefly explains the brief history of Kredl’s after being founded in 1980.
• Dave talks about how he decided to stop selling unhealthy corporate pop and chips, and decided to go into the health food industry.
• Dave elaborates the definition of the word poison and how modern genetically altered food matches that dictionary definition, especially when it comes to high fructose corn syrup.
• Dave talks about his journey working on creating non-GMO chicken grain/feed after having a bad experience trying to access non-GMO chicken feed that was affordable for the customer in New Brunswick.
• Dave starts telling his tale of perseverance through the terrifying times of his company almost going bankrupt.
• Dave elaborates on the lessons he has learned during this great trial in his life, and how he learned the true importance of complete transparency and honesty when running into problems in life.
• Wayne and Dave Veale give their reflections on the episode and the lesson learned about resilience.

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Introduction:

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Introducing Deborah:

·         Has worked for CBC as a journalist since Highschool.

·         After being a seasoned journalist for over 20 years, Deborah decided to form her own media company, Canteen Media. Which offers media training.

·         She is now a media consultant, veteran journalist, communicator, and an entrepreneur.

In this episode:

·         Wayne Jagoe guest hosts the Boiling Point for his third time.

·         Deborah talks about her amazing time working for CBC.

·         Dave shares his memories growing up always listening to the CBC, and how it formed who he is today, and how it always kept him informed.

·         Deborah fills us in about how Canteen offers media training as one of her services and how she went down that road in her career after being advised to do so by her sister.

·         Deborah talks about how an audience can instinctively tell how scripted a podcast or speech is and how an audience appreciates a more genuine message instead of an overly structured or contrived message.

·         Dave and Wayne share their post interview reflections with Deborah.

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Introducing Paul Campbell:

• Paul is a former amateur hockey prospect who had high hopes to making into the big leagues until a tragic car accident on Christmas of 1987 left him in a coma for 51 days, due to this he could never really play hockey again.
• He has since become a teacher whose motivation in life is inspiring others and making a positive impact in people’s lives.
• After the death of his brother he was inspired to finally publish his book about his life, that being Goodnight Paul. The Journey to My NHL: Living the Dream.
• His book has been read and endorsed by Chris Hatfield and Don Cherry.
• Though Paul came close to death he considers himself to be the luckiest man alive.

In this episode:

• Paul shares with us with his hilarious story about how he got here before this interview.
• Paul shares his positive physical change since his coma in 1987.
• Dave explains how he was introduced to Paul through Email and drawn in by Paul’s amazing story.
• Paul shares how he started skating since he was 16 months old and grew up to be a very strong hockey player. How he led his high school and junior teams in scoring.
• Paul tells Greg and Dave how he had a verbal agreement from the IHL’s Peoria Riverman the St.Louis Blues’ affiliate that he could tryout once he was finished playing university hockey.
• Paul explains how he got into his car accident on Christmas night in 1987 and how he didn’t know he was in a coma for 51 days until he awoke in March of 1988.
• Paul says that after his concussion he couldn’t skate very well, which devastated him because being a hockey player was his dream that he worked so hard to achieve.
• Paul sadly tells the Boiling Point that he lost his best friend Frank in the car accident and that he thinks of Frank every day since then.
• Paul shares his own “never give up philosophy” to inspire others.
• Paul shares about his book Goodnight Paul. The Journey to My NHL: Living the Dream.

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Introducing Mike and Jan George

• Jan is a Finance Manager, Mike an IT Consultant, both are married with three children.
• They have received strong media attention around their 25-year-old son Ben, who has a disability caused by a virus known as cytomegalovirus, or CMV.
• CMV is the leading cause of disability in newborns.
• Mike has written a book about the struggles that they have subsequently gone through with helping Ben as well as raising awareness about this devastating virus.

In this episode:

• Wayne Jagoe co-hosts the show to fill in for Greg.
• Dave and Wayne welcome on Jan and Mike George, both parents of Ben who was born disabled caused by the virus CMV.
• We discuss how the virus CMV is largely unknown by the mainstream but yet is the number one cause of disability in newborns. This virus attacked Ben’s neurological system and caused multiple severely inhibiting symptoms when he was only an infant.
• We discuss Mike’s book about their experiences and journey raising Ben, the book is called Third Time Lucky.
• Mike and Jan fill us in on their website and movement called Soaring Families. Which both serves to help families that struggle with the emotional hardships of disabilities and also to share information to help ease the experience of those going through similar situations.
• We hear about Jan and Mike’s experience and how they use their experience to offer tools towards helping others who are now going through the same scenario or those that are similar.
• Mike shares with us that Ben is now going to University communicating through his electronic communications device.
• You can read more about Ben’s amazing story here.
• Wayne is inspired by this incredible story describing it as “surreal”.

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In this episode:

· Bruce fills in the hosts about organizational culture in business and how it can make the biggest impact for a company’s product differentiation and giving a company a competitive advantage.

· Bruce talks about how people don’t quit their company, they leave their boss. Having strong organizational culture in business helps for companies to retain their employees for the long term.

· Bruce discusses the biggest systemic challenges organizations are met with, an example of this is companies having too strong of a command and control mentality.

· Bruce explains how HR expertise can really help bring about change in culture for a business to thrive and succeed.

· He elaborates how if a company usually is late for all of its meetings it’s more reflective about the company’s culture.

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Breaking Down The Story

Introducing Craig Norris and VideoBand Productions 

We have all heard about the doom and gloom in regards to the environment and climate change, but what would get us engaged to be a part of the solution? Many have tried to spur us into action or at least gain our attention (some more successfully than others). One way we can take any heavy subject more interesting is to convey the facts in the way of a story. So, what makes a story captivating? Today’s Boiling Point guest is showing us how to take big problems, break them into smaller problems, and turn them into an engaging story.

Craig Norris is a previous Boiling Point guest and is back with us this week to bring us up-to-date with what he has been up to. Since we last spoke to Craig, he and his company VideoBand Productions have been busy creating engaging stories that tackle real environmental problems. Craig’s “secret sauce” in creating intriguing content that is both entertaining and educational is fairly simple. He looks to tell a story where you find an interesting person in an interesting place doing something interesting. Using this formula in his recent film, Kokota: The Islet of Hope, Craig was honoured with three awards, including Best Short Film on Sustainability at the world’s largest eco film festival, The DC Environmental Film Festival.

Check out this episode of the Boiling Point to see how you could make your next story something truly great.

In this episode

• We are reacquainted with Craig.
• He tells us about his recent trip to Washington, DC and his win at the DCEFF.
• Craig tells us the story behind, Kokota: The Islet of Hope as well as a few of his other great films.
• There is a discussion about how to tackle huge problems by breaking them down into smaller problems to tackle and achieve a great deal.
• We learn how a cross-cultural exchange between Canada and Pemba, Tanzania offered inspiration and information for both countries.
• Craig breaks down how he is able to tell such great stories.
• There is a discussion on how humor is a great way to leave a long-lasting impact on someone’s mind, even with dry or heavy material.
• Craig tells us about a time before filmmaking when he was in a job that didn’t match his values and how he made a change.
• We discuss how a lot of stress and unhappiness can emerge from having roles in businesses that don’t match our personal values.
• Craig talks about how following your passion is not easy but worthwhile and how you might end up working harder, but sleeping better.
• Greg is inspired by how Craig is able to do work in line with his values.
• Dave loves how Greg and Craig don’t treat each other as competition but as colleagues and how Craig is able to break down what makes a great story.

Links

- VideoBand's Website

- VideoBand on Facebook

- VideoBand on YouTube

- VideoBand on Vimeo

- Craig's Previous Boiling Point Episode

- Community Forests International

- Tideland Doc Fest

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Charitable Confirmation

Introducing Jay Whitelaw and Givesome

We are all asked to give to charities and groups on a daily basis. Sometimes it is through adding a dollar to your supermarket total, or maybe a television commercial, or a girl scout at your front door. At the same time, many of us have become cynics when it comes to charitable giving because we don’t know where all the money is going and we often only hear from the charity or group when it comes time to give again. This cynicism has boiled over to a point where less Canadians are making charitable donations and giving less of their income according to 2014 Canadian Revenue Agency data. Today’s Boiling Point guest has taken notice of this dilemma and hacked the process of donating. 

Jay Whitelaw is the creator of Givesome, an app that changes the game for charitable donations in a few key ways. Firstly, there isn’t a question of how much of your money is going to a given charity; it’s 100%. Jay developed his system so that corporations and brands partner with him in order to pay for any operational costs in exchange for branding opportunities. This allows all funds given by person donators to go directly to the initiative they are supporting. The app also tackles another problem many fundraisers overlook, which is to show the direct impact of your donation. Givesome shows you exactly how your money was used through notifications of any project you financially support and gets funded. This way you can actually see the impact you are making with a small donation. 

Check out this week’s episode of the Boiling Point to see how you can be inspired to give.

In this episode

• We meet Jay and get inspired by the way he is giving back.
• Jay tells us why it is so much more meaningful to actually see our charitable dollars at work.
• We hear a recent example of how Givesome works, and how an initiative was funded in less than 2 hours.
• We hear how give a little and see the good works.
• Jay tells us how he got brands and corporations to fund all operational costs so that your charitable funds aren’t “taxed”.
• Jay tells us about an important piece he received that involved asking for “beatings”.
• We hear how a chance meeting with a man from Namibia changed his life forever.
• Jay explains how charitable giving without seeing the impact is like buying a Christmas gift for a kid and not being there when they open it up.
• Greg appreciates how Givesome doesn’t put too much pressure on either donators or brands.
• Dave like the practical applications of “taking beatings”.

Links

- Givesome's Website

- Givesome at the App Store

- Givesome on Facebook

- Givesome on Twitter

- Givesome on Instagram

- Givesome on Vimeo

- Jay on Linked In

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Solving Complex Problems with the Catalyst Innovation Program

Introducing Mark Breen of Enterprise Saint John and Patrick Parent of Moosehead Breweries

Innovation creativity is not a destination, but a journey. We know that most companies have to be innovative to stay relative. However, if pace of your innovation isn’t quick enough you risk your business fading away. Often companies get complacent over time and a sort of “group-think” sets in where processes and company culture are little changed over time and the result is a lack of creative thought. Today’s guests have tackled similar problems and have come out stronger and more innovative on the other side.

Mark Breen is an economic development officer with Enterprise Saint John, an economic development agency in New Brunswick, Canada. After looking at statistics gathered by Statistics Canada and the Conference Board of Canada regarding how innovative specific regions, Mark learned that New Brunswick was last on the innovation scorecard. To tackle this Enterprise Saint John sought input from a number of industries and found that many companies didn’t have a methodology for solving complex problems with innovative ideas. The result was the formulation of the Catalyst Innovation Program. One company that signed on to try to tackle is energy sustainability problem was Moosehead Breweries. Patrick Parent is Moosehead’s vice president of operations and human resources and he is with us today to describe how his 150 year old company was impacted by the Catalyst Innovation Program and how its process helped to solve their energy sustainability problem.

Check out this episode of the Boiling Point to see how the Catalyst Innovation Program could help you learn how to solve complex problems in your business.

In this episode

• Dave and Greg reflex on their time apart and with Monica Adair and Stephen Kopp.
• Dave announces the birth of his new baby.
• We are introduced to Mark Breen and Patrick Parent.
• Mark tells us where the idea of the Catalyst Innovation Program came from.
• Patrick tells us about the 150-year-old brewery and how the program helped Moosehead Breweries with their energy issues.
• We discuss the steps of the Catalyst Innovation Program and how the process allows you to think differently about tackling opportunities.
• Mark tells us why certain initiatives don’t stick when consultants are brought in for a few weeks to look at an issue.
• We use Moosehead as a case study of how the program works.

Links

- Enterprise Saint John Website

- The Catalyst Innovation Program

- Enterprise Saint John on Twitter

- Enterprise Saint John on Facebook

- Enterprise Saint John on Linked In

- Mark Breen on Linked In

- Moosehead Breweries Website

- Moosehead on Facebook

- Moosehead on Twitter

- Moosehead on Instagram

- Patrick on Linked In

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