It is with mixed feelings we say good-bye to the Business Dharma podcast. It has been an awesome ride and we are very grateful to all our guests that have shared their wisdom, insights, and precious time. We also want to thank our network for their continued support. Now we invite you to buckle up for the final ride where we share our reflections, learnings, and plans for the future. Please stayed tuned as we refresh our storytelling methods for 2023.

JeLisa and Ny are fashion industry veterans focused on sustainability, conscious living, and change. As curators and hosts of The Conscious Cut podcast, they elevate the voices of BIPOC creatives, fashion industry disruptors and change makers to help us all think consciously about where our clothing comes from and what our personal responsibilities are in facilitating change.

Through many conversations and lived experiences, they have discovered how challenging it is for women of color to build fulfilling careers within the industry and to stay healthy in the process. After a period of traveling, then resting, they decided to document this process while continuing to forage their own sustainable paths within the industry.

In this episode, JeLisa and Ny take us into the fashion industry showing us the underbelly and the true cost of fashion as a system. As thought leaders, they skillfully hold the tension between industrial responsibility and consumer responsibility, calling for change on both ends while providing a glimpse at the sustainable future that lies ahead.

Adrienne is a business lawyer who believes in the power of combining logic with intuition in the application of law! She started The Gentle Lawyer in 2022, with a focus on maximizing both healthy feminine and masculine qualities to guide, teach and empower entrepreneurs and business owners. After years of noticing so many talented humans feeling unsure of how or when to engage a lawyer when launch or growing their businesses, Adrienne began a mission to show others how law – both common and natural – can work in their favour, in a way that is accessible, relatable, and entirely affordable.

Adrienne grew up on a grain farm in St. Brieux, Saskatchewan and achieved degrees in business and law before taking a very winding career path through private practice, in-house counsel, entrepreneurship, and government in the areas of law, professional photography, and healing arts.

Lindsay Austin is an entrepreneur, certified executive coach, podcast host, mother, and wife. As the owner of LA strategy consulting LTD. she brings passion, positivity and enthusiasm to organizations and clients, co-creating unique solutions to empower change. In addition to being a super talented coach she was recently ranked as one of Calgary's top 16 coaches of 2022.

She's also a fierce business mind with 15 years of experience in Human Resources and leadership with Crescent Point Energy and currently the VP of Ripa industries LTD, an industrial fabrication business founded with her husband and his family. Talk about a busy lady. In this episode, we discussed the journey of entrepreneurship, exploring how it differs from traditional employment and the self care tools required to not only survive, but also thrive on the rollercoaster of self-employment.

How do you work in a modern world that gives meaning and purpose? What makes work meaningful?

Kim and Tanner sit down for a special live edition of the podcast, celebrating the 25th Business Dharma podcast episode. They discuss all things related to the concept of work, including the great resignation, unfulfilling jobs, employee retention and their personal experiences regarding good and bad work.

In June 0f 2022, Business Dharma host, Kimberly Schmitke was featured on the Every Little Model Podcast to discuss her favourite model, the Change Equation by David Gleicher and how this helps us to navigate change in our teams, organizations, communities and lives.

Thanks to John and Tricia for so generously sharing your content. 

Audrey Stretch is a wise woman, world traveler, mother, grandmother, student of life, teacher, and true elder. Audrey has lived her life saying ‘Yes’ to adventure, following her intuition, and embracing the differences amongst people, cultures, and races.

As a self-proclaimed octogenarian (person living in their 80’s) Audrey left a small rural Alberta farming community in her early 20’s accompanying the love of her life (Allan Stretch) to foreign lands including Montreal, India, Jamaica, and Israel. She delivered her first child over 50 years ago, away from family and friends, in India, creating home through deep relationships and an expanded definition of family.

When she returned to Calgary, Alberta in the early 80’s she jumped into a career as a teacher’s assistance for troubled youth. Here she learned the importance of using your hands and body to process trauma spearheading an art program (that was before its time) to support youth in using creativity to heal.

Audrey reminds us that “our intuition is good”, encouraging us to see past our differences and prejudices reaching for our shared humanity. Echoing the wisdom that we all seek connection, and that true belonging starts with feeling at home in our own skin.

I have been blessed to know Audrey as Aunty A witnessing her world travels and learning from her well read, well observed, lens on life, love, and personal strength. Aunty A taught me at a young age “Not to ‘should’ on myself or let others ‘should on me’. I have taken this lesson into my life to form boundaries as well as share this reflection with numerous clients, who like all of us, hold a propensity to be a just wee bit hard on ourselves.

In this episode, Aunty A and I sit down to a cup of tea. Meeting for the first time since before the pandemic to muse, reflect, and connect. I feel blessed to have this wise woman in my life and grateful for this and all our conversation throughout the years.

Thank you, Aunty A, I love you. Your time, care, and sharing has made such a difference in my life and impacted the woman I am today.

Angela is an entrepreneur, writer, transformational life coach, and ex-petroleum engineer. After an international career in oil and gas where she and her family lived in The Netherlands and Brunei Darussalam, Angela came home to Saskatoon to raise her young family and start a new chapter in her life.

She specializes in introducing engineers and other science-based professionals to their inner world so that they may lead more meaningful and satisfying lives. She is working on creating a digital membership for the fall of 2022 as well as finishing her book.

She lives on an acreage south of Saskatoon with her husband, three children and one cat.

Angela can be contacted through www.angelajamieson.com.

Grant Strem is chairman and CEO of Proton Technologies Canada, an industry disruptor focused on producing vast amounts of zero emission hydrogen at a low cost. Born, raised, and educated in the Oil and Gas hub of Calgary Alberta, Grant holds a B.Sc. in Geology and an M.Sc. in Reservoir Characterization. He has spent his career working in the industry as a reserve’s evaluator, Petroleum consultant, research analysis and business owner. In 2015 Grant’s life changed when he co-founded Proton Technologies with Dr. Ian Gates.

Grant RETURNS for a larger than life discussion where we dream big and talk the next renaissance of humanity.

Scott Marchinko is the Vice President of Delco Water with more than 20 years of experience in the water treatment industry. Scott’s career has included extensive experience in all aspects of the business including Strategic Planning, Sales, Design, Commissioning, Project Management (PMP), Operations, Maintenance, and Optimization of Municipal and Industrial Water Treatment Equipment.

In this episode Scott shares his recipe for inspired leadership. From spending the time to uncover hidden passions, listening empathetically, and believing in the abilities of people to achieve beyond what they thought was possible. His secret recipe, is grounded in self care, knowing experientially that great teams are most alive when leaders are thriving and giving themselves time and space to think clearly.

I have known Scott for over a decade as a colleague, friend, and now client. During this time, I have immensely enjoyed watching him grow into the inspired leader he is today. When it comes to the topic of leadership, Scott is insightful, reflective and inspiring, walking the walk of creating magic inside teams.