Canadian Podcast with ZAK

Shaun Taylor, a founding member of Tier 1 JTF2 (Joint Task Force 2), Canada's elite special forces, shares insights with ZAK on understanding the greatness within us.

What would it take to unlock your potential and achieve your goals? How do you find the greatness within yourself?

Expect to learn how Shaun's time as a sniper, pathfinder, and JTF2 operator shaped his view of greatness, and what his journey can teach you about reaching your goals.

Follow Shaun:
Instagram: instagram.com/shauntaylors1
Podcast: A Digital Pathfinder Podcast
YouTube: youtube.com/@shauntaylors
The Collective: the-collective.ca

Building a great team starts with self-reflection. Justin Havre, Team Leader of Justin Havre & Associates of RE/MAX First, Canada's #1 RE/MAX Large Team in Closed Transactions since 2018, shares how self-reflection, understanding, and mentors shaped his team.

What makes a great team? How do self-reflection and the right mentors change the way you lead?

Expect to learn how Justin built a team of 60+ advisors, why his team's 5 core values drive consistent success, and how online marketing through CalgaryHomes.ca and Calgary.com changed Calgary real estate.

CalgaryHomes.ca: calgaryhomes.ca
Calgary.com: calgary.com

Travis Bader, host of The Silvercore Podcast, joins ZAK to talk about the benefits of the outdoors and understanding your why, from a uniquely Canadian perspective.

Why do you head outside? What would it take to make the outdoors a bigger part of your life?

Expect to learn how Travis connects hunting, hiking, and outdoor adventure to success and health, and why knowing your why matters.

Silvercore Instagram: instagram.com/silvercoreinc
Travis Bader Instagram: instagram.com/bader.trav
Website: silvercore.ca

Tammy Peterson grew up on the prairies of Alberta, built a career as a massage therapist, and became a foster parent, before devoting her time to supporting her husband Jordan Peterson on tour and as an advisor. In this conversation, she shares how illness led her to find herself through a higher power.

How do you hold onto faith when illness turns your life upside down? What does it take to find yourself again through a higher power?

Expect to learn about Tammy's prairie upbringing, her years as a massage therapist and foster parent, and how illness changed her perspective on life and faith.

Jeff Depatie served 15 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, from airborne infantry to Tier 1 JTF2 as an assaulter and sniper. After leaving the military, he formed the Special Forces Experience, built on the belief that challenge and adversity can be a springboard for growth.

How does a tier-one operator define a good man? What can adversity teach you about reaching your potential?

Expect to learn why Depatie sees adversity as a springboard for growth, how he maintains peak physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual shape, and what human optimization means to him.

Steven Watkins is an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer in Saskatchewan who created the "Real Cops Reel Life" YouTube channel as a resource for first responders and those aspiring to serve.

How is modern technology changing the job of a first responder? What does it take to serve in the RCMP today?

Expect to learn how Steven's channel supports those who serve, what modern-day technology means for policing, and why he wants to help the next generation of first responders.

YouTube: youtube.com/@RealCopsReelLife

Ellen Parker, founder and CEO of PARKER PR and PARKER Media in Calgary, joins ZAK to talk about building community with passion and people.

What does it take to build a stronger community? How can your passion and your people make a difference where you live?

Expect to learn how Ellen built a PR and media firm serving clients across Canada, why volunteerism earned her the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, and what community leadership looks like in practice.

Learn more: parkerpr.ca

Scott Hewlett is a 23-year, second-generation firefighter in Southern Ontario who has worked through PTSD to find purpose in life. He joins ZAK to share his story.

How do you work through PTSD and come out the other side? What gives your life purpose after the hardest calls?

Expect to learn how Scott's years in technical rescue and as a medic shaped him, why he co-led his department's Peer Support Team for over a decade, and how his Multiple Calls Podcast gives firefighters a place to tell their stories.

Carina Huggins brings a deep background in personality and behavioural analysis to a conversation about cognitive optimization and the gift of adversity. She works with high-performance individuals on behavioural and mindset optimisation.

How do you turn adversity into an advantage? What would it take to optimize the way you think?

Expect to learn how Carina's work in intelligence analysis and psychometric assessment translates to human optimization, why self-awareness is the foundation of growth, and how post-traumatic growth turns adversity into a gift.

Broadtree is a pop-country duo, Nicole McCafferty and Armand Antony, who use their music to break the norms of the genre and keep an open line for anyone wishing to discuss mental health and illness. They join ZAK to talk about reducing the stigma around mental health in modern life.

How do we reduce the stigma around mental health? What would it take for you to start an open conversation about it?

Expect to learn how Broadtree blends stylized storytelling with catchy pop country, why they speak out on causes from racial equality to LGBTQ+ rights, and how music can open up conversations about mental health.

Learn more: broadtree.bandcamp.com
Instagram: instagram.com/broadtreemusic
Facebook: facebook.com/broadtreemusic