Brian interviews Dmytro Popinako. Dmytro is Founder and Managing Partner of Innoware, a Ukrainian tech company. He had to escape from his house north of Kiev in the first days of the war, travelling across Ukraine, his family became refugees in Poland and then Germany before returning to Kiev a few months ago. He stayed in Kiev, describes his daily life and how he has kept his business going in the face of amazing odds with his workforce spreading out across Europe and Ukraine. This is a heart breaking conversation about how war effects your day to day life, your family, your business and your life a year plus after the Russian Invasion.

Brian interviews Andrew Perez. Andrew is a Public affairs strategist, freelance writer, and Liberal Party activist and commentator. Andrew talks about the prospects for the Ontario Liberal party after their recent convention. They believe they are the alternative to Doug Ford, had a record turnout at their convention, are doing much better than the NDP in polls, but don’t have a leader and don’t know when they’ll elect one.

Brian speaks with Howard Brown. Howard is co-founder of Brown and Cohen, a PR GR firm in Toronto. Howard is also a public relations and government affairs consulting expert. He talks about an International PR conference he attended last week in India and what he was reminded were the secrets to success in networking and business building.

Brian interviews Joseph Iannicelli. Joseph is the former President of Standard Life, an actor, yoga instructor, and now a published author. He just published his first book called "Unleash Your Best Self: Discover the multiplier effects to your success".

Brian speaks with Neil Seeman. Neil is an author, Internet entrepreneur and mental health researcher based at the University of Toronto – and the author of Accelerated Minds: Unlocking the Fascinating, Inspiring, and Often Destructive Impulses that Drive the Entrepreneurial Brain. We discuss his book and also his most recent column in the Toronto Star on “moral injury in the workplace”. What is an example of moral injury and why is it important to pay attention to?

Brian interviews Scott Simms. Scott is currently President & CEO of The Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy. He was a Member of Parliament for 17 years from 2004 to 2021. Before that Scott was a TV weatherman at The Weather Network anchored in Mississauga and now Oakville. We discuss:

- What have been some of the biggest changes in politics over seventeen years.
- What is the state of politics in this country? The positives and the negatives.
- Voter turnouts have decreased. Why and how can we change this?

Brian interviews Rosemary Thompson. Rosemary is the Executive Director for the Coalition for a Better Future in Canada. It is a diverse group of Canadian leaders and organizations – across business, labour and civil society – working together to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable and prosperous Canada. They say we need a stronger economy to produce rising incomes, afford social programs, and finance Canada’s transition to a cleaner environment. We discuss anemic growth in real per capital median incomes, no improvement in productivity, poor education and employment scores for youth and many more issues.

Brian speaks with John Rapley. John is an award-winning academic, author and macro-analyst with a focus on applied research in geopolitics, global political economy and policy studies and is a political economist at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies. John Rapley talks about his recent article: “If the economy crashes, let it burn – in fact, we got here by intervening too much”. We discuss the current banking crisis, housing vs productivity and innovation, the economy, jobs, interest rates, the stock market, and government policies.

Brian speaks to Frank Newman. Frank is the Founder and CEO of Newman Human Resources Consulting Inc. For over 47 years, Frank has worked in Human Resources to create great working environments where the best people want to come to work every day. In our interview tonight Frank shares his perspective on what’s happening in the world of work today. He shares his insights into how the work environment is changing and what you can do to survive, either as an individual or a company. We discuss the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, the Great Breakup and Revenge Hiring among other issues and trends coming out of our collective COVID-19 experience.

Brian speaks with Dr. Brett Thombs and Dr. Danielle Rice. Professors and clinical psychologists Dr. Brett Thombs and Dr. Danielle Rice talk about their comprehensive study which found that mental health did not decline during COVID-19 pandemic! The researchers found that the mental health symptoms of the population as a whole changed very little from before the pandemic to during the height of it when restrictions, curfews, lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports and other policies were in place. Thombs said that the study shows the resilience of people, no matter where they live, to navigate changes to their routines and sometimes even thrive when shifted out of their routines.