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Jason is an aerospace engineer from South Africa with an amazing heart for strengthening relationship with a personalized touch. He is also the Co-Founder at TelliGram & Program Manager at Legal Innovation Zone focusing on augmented reality.

Jason immigrated in 2015 after selling his last startup Acquahire. Jason has an interesting career from building aircrafts for airbus and Hamburg? to augmented solutions.

His company, TelliGram is an augmented reality startup that was created 5 to 6 months ago where they look for ways to strengthen relationship using augmented reality.

"Upwards and Onwards" – Brad Feld

EPISODE OVERVIEW:

Augmented reality is the new way to connect and strengthen relationship through marketing or any print media that benefits your business or personal life. TelliGram becomes the bridge in helping you connect in these aspects.

Jason Muloongo AH-HA moment comes when he was looking at a product that he think is cool but is not speaking to him. He then received a Skype video call with his friend that is imposed with the product and the thought that it was what AR (augmented reality) needs to do.

They then started talking to people on what AR can do and people just started to get involved to help them get their business off the ground.

TIPS SHARED:

• Difference between virtual reality and augmented reality
• The sky's the limit
• Failing forward is not actually painful
• Stop holding back and tell it – tell the story/message
• Augmented reality keeps you on your own reality that you are being able to enjoy it
• There are million of things that you can make in AR to make your reality enjoyable
• Don't be afraid to tell people what you are doing to make them collaborate with you
• Talk to people who knows more than you do or people who don't know more than you do
• We are the generation who loves to be spoiled with options
• Know your company's story and be flexible in tailoring it to whatever audience it speaks to
• Go to networking events
• The Rising DMZ – University-based incubator

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Book Recommendation:

• The Design of Business by Roger Martin
• Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris

Productivity tool:

• Asana
• Early morning routine

Hotspots:

• Bloomer's in Toronto – Vegetarian and Vegan restaurant
• Krazy Roll – Japanese Restaurant in Humber Bay

Website: TelliGram

LinkedIn: Jason Muloongo

Instagram: @telligramco

ABOUT TELLIGRAM:

TelliGram is for personalized, warm expressions of gratitude. They enhance the gift giving experience with AR Experiences. TelliGram (pronounced "Telly Gram") is an online store based in Toronto, Ontario, that specializes in Augmented Reality (AR) Technology to help you accomplish one thing.

You shop a gift, upload a personalized video message to a friend, family or loved one, then they wrap it in special packaging and ship it, making sure to really impress. They can also create 3D cinematic scenes around the unboxing/unwrapping of gifts.

They are helping people like you be more expressive with your personal touch.

1. open our app,
2. point your camera to the gift/greeting card.

This simple AR technology allows you as the gift buyer to express yourself in the best way possible to a loved one when you buy them a gift.

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Carmelia Ray is an internationally acclaimed matchmaker for high achieving men and the quality women they're searching for. She's also a renowned TV personality from Mom Vs. Matchmaker, The Real Housewives Of Toronto, and A User's Guide to Cheating Death (Fall 2018). She's also won the 2018 best dating coach award!

She's THE Chief Dating Advisor! With decades of experience and a tireless enthusiasm for online dating and matchmaking, Carmelia has established herself as the go-to attraction expert when elite singles are ready to find, attract, and connect with Mr. or Ms. Right.

In her career, she has helped over 7,000 clients and interviewed over 65,000 singles on the issues, challenges, and successes of how to date, mate, and relate.

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EPISODE OVERVIEW:

Carmelia Ray talks about digital dating and how Woo You App – Date App can help connect people who are seeking for a date faster and arrange their date according to their preference.

WooYou allows you to be the master of your own dating experiences. You propose a unique date idea or choose from hundreds of dates in multiple categories from food & drinks, cultural and activity dates.

Woo You Free Dating Application was created as a response to the overwhelming challenges faced by singles dating and trying to find love in the digital age. She also shared her AH-HA moment and drop some awesome tips!

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Discussing dating digital challenges
• The date becomes the product, not necessarily the person
• Driving the dating centric experience including identifying who pays upfront
• This dating app takes the awkwardness out of the equation!
• Most common dating terms and themes - CatFish, GymRat, KittyFishing, Ghosting, Zombing, Haunting etc... (sooo many terms that I have zero clue about!)
• Senior dating is a growing segment
• Bringing Courting back into Fashion - 'WOO YOU'
• "The most important career decision that you'll ever make is the first person that you marry" – Sheryl Sandberg
• Whatever you're doing... Do it better! Figure out how to constantly improve yourself! Don't get complacent!

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Book Recommendation:

• The Perfect Date Formula by Craig Ballentyne
• White Hot Truth – Danielle LaPort
• I Love Marketing Podcast by Dean Jackson and Joe Polish
• Finding The One: Your A-Z guide to Attracting and Keeping Your Soul Mate

Productivity tool: Scheduling everything in my calendar! Don't forget the reminders!

Hotspots:

• Lamesa – Filipino Restaurant
• Jollibee in Scarborough – #1 Filipino Food Chain

Website: Carmelia Ray Marketing and Coaching and Woo You App

LinkedIn: Carmelia Ray

Twitter: @CarmeliaRay and @WooYouApp

Instagram: @WooYouApp

About Woo Yoo App:

Woo You is designed to help reinforce and provide the stage for both Attraction & Attachment to happen. Attraction is experienced in response to Dopamine, a powerful love chemical released by the brain when we do the things we love and feel good to us. In addition to Dopamine, a secondary Love Chemical; norepinephrine, is released during attraction. These chemicals make us feel giddy, energetic, and euphoric.

Launched, January 2018, Woo You developed native applications designed for both Apple and Android mobile devices. Woo You is available for free download in the Apple App Store and in the Google Play App Store.

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Angela Johnson is the Founder and President of Medical Confidence, a company that help empower individuals to be informed in their health and healthcare decisions. She has over two decades of executive management and business leadership experience focusing on health and healthcare.

Prior to venturing into healthcare leadership, she helped global fortune 500 companies solve complex IT-related business issues.

In 2008, her sister struggled with a very rare neurological condition, an experience which affected Angela which compelled her to focus on helping individuals receive the best care for their health condition. Since 2009, her company has helped individuals become empowered healthcare consumers, enabling them to access the care they need in a timely manner.

Angela is the author of the Step by Step Guide to Navigating Canada's Health Care System & Minimizing Your Wait Time.

Episode Overview:

Angela shares with us her story on how she started Medical Confidence, the benefits of her business and the range of services that Medical Confidence offer. She also considered herself as a "three piece person"; a problem solver, very patient as a person and very persistent.

Medical Confidence works with individuals to help them understand their health-related circumstances, access the ideal physician specialist(s), and ultimately become informed and actively engaged in decisions that will lead to the best possible outcome.

Tips shared:

• We as Canadians are more passive in our nature than our neighbors and we are taught to accept whatever the system gives us we should take and be thankful and grateful for it but she then decide that it was wrong.
• The only thing to keep us healthy is we are engaged, active and involved as participants in our own healthcare.
• If we didn't advocate for ourselves then who are going to advocate for us
• You need to find people to surround yourself that you can rely on to provide you the emotional support, financial support and to be your champion
• Get your elevator pitch right and let the people capture the value of your services. Once you got it right, go networking like crazy
• Don't network like crazy until you get your elevator pitch right
• Try not to do everything yourself
• You need to find a team, you need to trust them and need to delegate to them
• If you try to multi-task you'll get your stuff half done

Resources Mentioned:

Book Recommendation: Angela's book Step by Step Guide to Navigating Canada's Health Care System & Minimizing Your Wait Time and The Broken Brain Documentary Series

Productivity tool: Going to Bootcamp, Academia and The Universe

Hotspots: Georgian Bay (Ontario)

Website: Medical Confedence

LinkedIn: Angela Jhonson on LinkedIn

Twitter: MedConfidence

Company Background:

After learning the hard way about the various "quirks" and challenges in the system, Angela realized many people could benefit from her knowledge.

Medical Confidence provides individuals with access to a level of clinical knowledge and expertise that often is only available through costly private clinics. Engaged patients have more confidence in their treating team of medical practitioners and are more actively involved in their diagnosis, treatment plan and recovery.

Working with Medical Confidence, individuals use the Canadian healthcare system to its full potential.

Medical Confidence espouses the belief that the education of empowered healthcare consumers also benefits employers, insurance providers, associations through reduced benefit costs and minimizing the impact of presenteeism and absenteeism. The Canadian healthcare system also benefits as individuals are better able to navigate the system resulting in increased efficiency.

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Philip Parker, the COO of Coral Health is a data scientist with expertise leveraging diverse data assets to guide operations and marketing strategy. After graduating from Harvard University, Philip consulted for Fortune 500 for pharmaceutical clients and Analysis Group where he led health economics and effectiveness projects across a range of treatments.

Jeremy Mullen is a strategist and a data expert who has spent his entire career advising Fortune 1000 enterprises on data aggregation and strategy. Previous to Coral Health, he served as the director at Research Now, Inc., the global leader in data collection. He is currently the Board of Director for the Toronto chapter of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) and is a member of the data association. He also leads the Coral Health's corporate development strategy and partnership development.

Episode Overview:

This episode is a powerful listen as it delves into the healthcare issues where we find most patient-doctor situation are not able to access their data in time and benefit from the full healthcare delivery.

Coral Health's blockchain-powered solutions accelerates care delivery, automate multiparty administrative processes, and improve health outcomes by enabling secure, real-time, shared access to validated healthcare information. They drive adoption to their system from the ground up with targeted enterprise applications that provide immediate operational benefits to healthcare providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies and labs.

Tips they shared:

• Try to keep it simple
• Start of a business model first
• Put some thoughts into a business problem and try to develop a solution.
• Think of a business model that you are actually solving and need? And does blockchain actually need to be involved at all?
• In blockchain healthcare, ask if it is desirable, viable or feasible then ask if anybody is going to pay
• Just because someone else is doing it doesn't mean you can't do it better than them
• Talk to your clients and validate your ideas before putting a ton of time in building it out

Resources Mentioned:

Connection Recommendation: Anita McGahan

Podcast Recommendation: Decoding Healthcare

Productivity tool: Jeremy - Run in the afternoon

Hotspots: Burger Priest (Toronto)

Website: My Coral Health

LinkedIn: Coral Health Research and Discovery Inc.

Twitter: myCoralHealth

Philip Parker

Company Background:

Coral Health is a healthcare blockchain entity where they build blockchain solution to leverage technology in order to increase primary data exchange within the healthcare industry. The driving empaties behind Coral Health is that they find that patients and doctors spends a lot of time, dealing with frustrations (in terms of getting access to the best care possible), and a lot of it stem from the fact that they can't share their information easily throughout the system. By leveraging healthcare data and medical records, they are able to give the customer a tailored treatment at the point of care rather than a one size-fits-all health care delivery system that currently exist today.

AI provides Foresights - The Holy Grail in AI Companies!

Eli Fathi is the Co-founder & CEO of his seventh start-up, MindBridge Analytics Inc. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance, Startup Canada 2016 Senior Entrepreneur Award for Canada and Civic Entrepreneurship, you name it he's got it. Eli has also been featured in publications such as Huffington Post, Globe and Mail and the Financial Post. He is also active in his community and has provided about half a Billion dollars in job creation!

Episode Overview:

Is big data a problem? Yes, BIG data is a problem but it is also a blessing for AI because big data gives you information that you can mine and provide results. In the machine and artificial intelligence, we cannot detect intent. Error plus intent is fraud. So, fraud is really left in the course to decide the intent but we definitely can detect errors and irregularities in the data.

In this episode, Eli talks about the levels of how MindBridge AI works in regards to hindsights, insights and foresights (the holy grail in the AI companies) and how MindBridge applies it on a near real-time basis. He also tackled on the issue about the damage caused by major frauds and how the 80-20 rule takes place.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how artificial intelligence helps in securing your financial data with the help of MindBridge Ai. Plus, get the awesome tips that Eli shared with us today!

What you'll learn in this episode:

• One of the most important things of small company is FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS.
• One of the most attractive markets from their perspective is the external audit market. The CPA world has been using the same processes for the last hundred years and has not been disrupted to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit process.
• They are addressing the internal and external audit market, with Ai Auditor, their extensible AI platform that can also be used for the financial market.
• Each year, the world loses $3 Trillion dollars due to errors and frauds that are going unnoticed. This is the market that MindBridge is addressing.
• By using artificial intelligence, MindBridge is increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the audit process. By reviewing the data (trees), we can ascertain the overall high-level aspects of the company (forest). "The relationship between the trees in the forest; Sometimes when you look at the forest, you don't see the trees in the forest and vise versa" but the interesting thing is that with artificial intelligence is that by looking at the trees, you can tell what's going on in the forest.

Tips he shared:

• You have to build your own credibility
• Don't look for a manager but look for a leader
• Do good; make a difference
• Ask for forgiveness not permission
• Don't try to micromanage
• Don't criticize but rather encourage
• Empower people to take action and be solution oriented
• Be part of a team
• Don't compare yourself against others
• Never stop learning
• Think out of the box
• Challenge the status quo

• With every customer meeting, 10 minutes before the end of the meeting always ask the question "what is the next step?"

• Always ask for the order and make sure that when you get the answer, stop talking.

Resources Mentioned:

Business Resources: Have a mentor

Book recommendation:

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

Productivity tool: Arleen Fathi (Eli Fathi's wife)

Website: Eli Fathi

Website: MindBridge AI

Hotspots: Baan Thai (Ottawa), Royal Treasures (Ottawa)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-fathi/

Twitter: Eli Fathi

Company Background:

MindBridge Ai is a venture-backed FinTech company based in Ottawa, Canada. Through the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, the MindBridge platform detects anomalous patterns of activities, unintentional errors and intentional misstatements. Using the MindBridge Ai-Auditor, organizations across multiple industries can minimize financial loss, reduce corporate liability and can focus on providing higher value services to their clients. MindBridge launched Ai Auditor, its extensible artificial intelligence (AI) platform in February 2017 and has since enjoyed burgeoning demand. MindBridge Ai has signed over 125 customers in 6 countries and doubled the size of its workforce.

What is GDPR? How to turn GDPR into our next competitive advantage & avoid the penalties!

Today, we are talking about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the due date for businesses to be compliant is fast approaching.. May 25th, 2018.

We chat with Dr. Ann Cavoukian who gives us the low-down on the importance of GDPR, the relevance, the implications and some tools that will enable us to be prepared and turn this into our next competitive advantage.

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world's leading privacy experts. She is currently the Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University. Her Privacy by Design framework is now the International Standard and has been translated into 39 languages. Dr. Ann Cavoukian has won numerous awards such as Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada Top 10 Women in Data Security & Privacy, Power 50 by Canadian Business, Top 100 Leaders in Identity.

Some highlights:

• 40% of companies of are prepared for GDPR
• GDPR will be very positive if you can get ahead of it
• 92% of consumers are concerned about their privacy and loss of control
• Consumers don't want this lack of control
• Lead by telling your customers that you're protecting their privacy
• Make it a win-win prospect, this will build loyalty and customer trust
• GDPR applies to all 28 EU member countries
• It's one overarching regulation
• GDPR raises privacy dramatically and includes privacy by design
• Privacy by design is the strongest form of privacy protection because it's proactive
• Medical model of prevention
• Privacy by default, which is the 2nd privacy by design principle is included in GDPR
• Currently, we need to opt-out, but it's going to change
• It says that the companies need to get customer's positive consent
• Need to make it clear on how we collect people's information, what purpose they use it for and the ways in which they process the data
• Review what you are doing now, identify what customer information that you're acquiring
• Consumers now have the right to have their data deleted at any time if they feel that is not required
• Each element of data collected needs to have a clear purpose and intent, in which consumers have provided their permission
• Need to get the consent from the customer - need to seek their positive consent
• Penalties - 4% of your global revenues
• Imagine 4% of Facebook or Google - it's going to be billions
• GDPR is the starting point, but it will impact everyone globally
• Everyone wants to do business with the EU
• In Canada, our privacy legislation was pretty good, but now, it's no now longer adequate. Canadian laws are going to be updated in order to be adequate and consistent with GDPR
• Personal data is defined as any identifiable information - this includes IP addresses, locations, cookies, preferences etc.. Article: GDPREU.ORG - personal data https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-data/
• Do Privacy by Design - do the 7 principles and it will show that you are acting in good faith the be compliant
• GDPR has been in the process for 5 years, so companies have had lots of time to get ready for May 25th, 2018 deadline
• GDPR is going to take a hard line on this
• You can have privacy and marketing and give consumer options
• Need to revalidate with your existing customers of which data they should be using
• Shouldn't be using and keeping personal data forever, we should be purging
• Security breaches are becoming more and more common

Tools:

• ICO.Org.UK - 12 Steps to take now - https://ico.org.uk/media/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12-steps.pdf
• Privacy by Design - Seven Foundational Steps - https://www.ryerson.ca/pbdce/certification/seven-foundational-principles-of-privacy-by-design/
• Data Protection Self Assessment - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/data-protection-self-assessment/
• Direct Marketing Checklist - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/data-protection-self-assessment/direct-marketing-checklist/
• EU GDPR - https://www.eugdpr.org/
• Article: Data Privacy deadline looms in EU, and yes, Canadian business must comply http://business.financialpost.com/executive/many-canadian-organizations-unprepared-for-the-eus-gdpr-compliance-deadline
• ITPRO Article: GDPR Preparation: 2018 data protection changes - http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/27563/how-to-get-ready-for-gdpr-2018-data-protection-changes/page/0/2
• Article: GDPREU.ORG - Personal Data https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-data/

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Speaker Bio:

Lauren Waldman is a CTDP (Certified Training and Development Professional), has certification in the Fundamentals of Neuroscience (Harvard), is currently working on a certificate in Medical Neuroscience (Duke), is a Designated Communication Coach and Trainer, and is an advisory board member of the NCCA (National Communication Coaching Association of Canada).

She taps into the science, and fun of learning while maintaining a sharp approach with an intense dedication to the success of others. Her current focus in the studies of neuroscience and how the brain learns, has played an eminent role in helping individuals and corporations navigate through the creation of what she calls "Learning Legacies." These studies have also given rise to strategies relevant to the confusions and challenges, of the current cross-generational workforce.

Episode Overview

The pirates followed her throughout her entire life that's the story of how the company and learning pirate happened.

Lauren had been working for so many different magical people and it wasn't until three years ago that she was in a conference for training professionals. She was introduced to the neurosciences through a keynote and she used her pirating skills to commandeer the keynote speaker as her mentor.

Her eyes were opened to the value and the understanding of how learning professionals should be using the science of neuroscience and how the brain learns to create better designs and obviously create better learning experiences for clients and learners. The benefits that we get to it as just humans from brain health alone is quite amazing.

What you'll learn from this episode

• Best advice is always focused on the things that you can really do well and reach out to others. For those that are because it's more valuable for your time.
• There are scientific facts and fundamental truths to how the brain learns.
• Technology has literally changed the way of the brain and it's not necessarily for the better
• There are physiological effects that are changing the composition of the brain because of technology it's something that we need to take seriously and learn how to slow down
• Sometimes you need to speed up to slow down and, in this case, slow down to speed up
• Meditation
• Educators are the part of the only profession that changes brains every day
• Your small stuff is someone else's big stuff.
• Learning Metacognition – thinking about what you are thinking about

Resources mentioned

Book: David A. Sousa – How the Brain Learns

Course: Dr. Barbara Oakley – Learning how to learn

Twitter: @learningpirate

Events: Horse Shoe Tavern

Company Overview:

Learning Pirate provides strategic, forward-thinking learning solutions based on the fundamentals of neuroscience and how the brain learns. It helps navigate the creation of learning legacies within new and growing companies. It expands/grows employees personal and professional minds/cognitive abilities through methodically planned learning experiences. It taps into individual's curiosity seeking minds and helps create the map for their learning journeys.

Speaker Bio:

Sarah stands at the forefront of international trade with expertise in the global logistics industry, working with the private sector to build, develop and increase efficiencies in their supply chains. She has spent the past 20 years working in logistics and supply chain, most recently as Director of Sales and Marketing for ICECORP Logistics Inc, a privately owned 3PL.

Throughout her 20-year tenure in Supply Chain, Sarah has gained a reputation for her passion in helping employees and clients learn about increasing efficiencies and building cost-effective supply chains including international transportation, customs & compliance, cross dock solutions, and warehousing.

Sarah has been a leader and mentor, managing sales and marketing teams through motivation, thought leadership and being hands on. Sarah also created an internship program that resulted in hiring most of the students from the program once they finished school. The program included teaching students about the industry and special projects to be completed during the internship.

Episode Overview:

The supply chain is everything from purchasing to the last mail delivery and everything in between. It is not to be confused with logistics. Logistics is just the small part of that. It is the transportation piece. Sarah explains that they want to come up with a simpler way for shippers to be able to move their goods around the world. This episode talks about different subjects that are relevant to supply chain while revisiting Sarah and Sapna's Cannabis Episodes on their own podcasts. Sarah's episode can be found below while Sapna's episode is linked HERE.

It is good to note that there is a big gap between accelerator and funding programs, especially in Canada. For startups, you need to be at a certain stage to be able to utilize the funding programs where sometimes it's just not possible. The grant side in Canada is not easy to navigate. There is a big gap whether they will provide the grant to your company or not. Those were one of the many challenges startups face. Sarah explains with great enthusiasm the challenges and how to deal with them.

Listen to the episode and learn Sarah's tips on handling accelerator and funding programs. Learn also the difference between Canadian programs compared to it's US counterpart.

What you'll learn in this Episode:

• Excited about working with other innovators in this space and how the players in the supply chain are responding to change
• Hard work and asking a lot of questions pays off. The courage to just ask opens doors that you can't even imagine walking through.
• Get out there, start talking about it and ask people. See what their thoughts are. You're going to get NO's but you're going to get YESSES.
• Most technology company takes a lot of money to be able to start
• Think about your board of advisers. Having an adviser who's been where you are can help you save money with some of the documentation that's needed especially on the startup side.
• On the accelerator side, make sure that you read the fine print and have a discussion with them about every single point why they should be taking a percentage of your company.
• Really make sure to ask questions and that you are comfortable with the company because again, you are giving away some shares in your business. This is going to affect potential investment rounds down the road
• Life is lived forwards and understood backward a quote by Soren Kierkegaard
• Everything happens for a reason.
• Success didn't come until his forties for Stephen Colbert. (Podcast Episode of the show notes).
• List writer - writes lists upon lists but not too many lists. Write tasks for every working day of the week.
• Yoga Morning and a gratitude journal every night is a good morning and evening routine.
• How Meditation helps your focus

Resources Mentioned:

Productivity Tool: Pen, Paper, and an Agenda

Podcast: Let's Talk Supply Chain

Podcast Episode: Let's Talk Supply Chain: The Cannabis Supply Chain

Podcast: School of Greatness – Lewis Howes

Podcast Episode: School of Greatness: Cultivate a Monk Mindset – Jay Shetty

Shows: Oprah's Super Soul Conversations

Show Episode: Super Soul Sessions: Stephen Colbert

CEO: Nova Spivack

Website: Magical

Mentor COO: Ken O'Brien of Gemini Shippers Group

Website: Gemini Shippers Group

Hotspots: Primal Cravings

Email: [email protected]

Website: Let's Talk Supply Chain

Website: SHIPZ Logistics Simplified

Twitter: @LetstalkSChain

Instagram: @letstalksupplychain

Instagram: @be_victoryus

Twitter: @sarahcaroline88

LinkedIn: Sarah Barnes-Humphrey

LinkedIn: Let's Talk Supply Chain

Company Overview:

Sarah's dedication to excellence in the field has resulted from a combination of hands-on experience while obtaining her CITP designation, FIATA Diploma, and CIFFA certifications. Sarah continues this dedication as a Board Member for FITT (Forum for International Trade Training), Certification and Accreditation Committee (CAC) committee member and just recently in 2016/2017 was the chair for the FITT planning committee for their well-recognized 25th Anniversary celebration and conference. In her spare time, Sarah lends her time to her local Habitat for Humanity and has experience with Media, live TV, and interviews.

A Personal Chef is not just for the rich and famous

Speaker BIO:

Gil Eiges was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He has lived in four countries around the world. After graduating from the London School of Economics, he started his career as a management consultant and worked at Amdocs leading various large business and marketing teams. Gil co-founded manjya along with business partner Mia Andrews, which is an online bidding marketplace that connects chefs with individuals and businesses who need catering either at home or for large and small events. He consults and sits on advisory boards for several start-ups. He's also an advisor to the MaRS Institute, a launchpad for innovation based in Toronto.

Episode Overview:

How do you get tasty, healthy food when you don't have the time or ability to do the cooking? Or if you want a special experience to offer to your guests? Or if you want a special date night in your own home without doing the work? You turn to manjya.

It's like having your own Masterchef in the kitchen, delivering a culinary experience that you've designed! A Personal Chef is not just for the rich and famous, it's accessible to everyone!

Gil Eiges co-founded manjya which is an online market for chefs and caterers. Clients just enter their desired experience and their budget, and manjya makes magic happen. Different chefs provide menus based on the clients' requirements. All clients need to do is go online to manjya and post their request, including food preferences, and various chefs and caterers who are available will bid on the client's business. Clients will get to see all of the different offers in one place. Simple, easy and FUN!

manjya, in partnership with the Canadian Personal Chef Association, is helping people host events, follow a diet or just eat healthy exactly the way they want. Submit a request for what you want, when and where you want it, and let the bidding begin.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• People have a lot of food sensitivities and allergies that need to be taken into consideration
• Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans
• Circumstances are going to change, and you've just got to be ready for every change that comes along and take it with a smile
• You can design an experience through food
• Meditation generally helps one to be sane
• Word of mouth is still having an impact
• You can't ignore the personal touch even in a such a modern, automated digital world.

Resources Mentioned:

Productivity Tool: Fiverr

Tool: FULLSTORY

Website: Manjya

Book: The Four Hour Body By Tim Ferriss

Podcast: How I built this by NPR

Podcast: Start-up School by Seth Godin

Hotspots: Bar Buca

Hotspots: Pearl Diver

Email: [email protected]

Company Background:

manjya is an online marketplace that connects businesses and individuals on one side, to chefs and caterers on the other. So if you're having a party, a dinner party, a wedding, an event at the office, or if you just need food for the week because you're too busy to cook, this is what manjya can help you with. Clients don't need to go through a lot of menus and offers, or numerous chefs profiles. Clients can actually go online with their requests and chefs will get back to them with bids which include menus and quotes. You can chat with the chefs, you can negotiate, and then you can choose whatever you like.

Speaker Bio:

Laura Simpson is one of the Co-founders and CEO of Side Door. She is a living large, DNA music pumping through her veins, music industry professional. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also founded the The Syrup Factory, which began hosting house concerts in 2011, offering strategies and services to artists in 2015. She's also been an organizer in the art scene since she was 14 years old going to all ages shows and then eventually taking live music photography and freelancing. She was writing about shows and artists, becoming a journalist for seven years with CBC and Roger's Radio. Eventually, she found her way back to the music world and has been involved in numerous initiatives from working as an Expert Development Program Officer and Communication Manager for Music Nova Scotia. She's also worked with the Halifax Jazz Festival, the CAPACOA, and the East Coast Music Association. In 2015, Laura even mentored with some top tier music marketing team at Blackbox in LA. She's even juried for Music Nova Scotia, The Halifax Pop Explosion, CBC Music Search Light competition and the Juno's. She's now one of the co-founders and the CEO of Side Door, where they have a dream of making things better for touring artists and live music fans.

Episode Overview.

Side Door Access was started with the welfare of the artists and the fans enjoyment deeply in mind. The business is built on tech to make it easier for artists who are trying to find places to tour and to have better profit margins. When it started, they located venues that are low overhead, including houses, cafes, bookstores, churches and people who want to offer that space for a show. The platform offers a split so that the artist gets the majority of the revenue, and a portion is offered to the host to cover costs and then Side Door takes a typical booking fee. Side Door is building the tech so that they can try to create an almost like a Tinder style match between the host and the artist. Using their preferences, they put in the details and instantly they're going to get back basically a match for a show they could play at the location at this time.

it's an automatic contract that's made and the two parties decide what they want to do with that show and they're off to the races. Side Door does all the ticketing, helps with the promotion and, supports them with best practices. One of the founders is a host herself. Laura's Co-founder is Dan Mangan who is a Juno award-winning artist in Canada and he built his career on doing house concerts and now he's doing huge concerts. They have seen both sides of that process. They wanted to find a way to make it a little bit easier for artists who are constantly struggling to make a living with all their touring.

What you will learn in this episode:

• The people are the resources. You don't think about it unless you talk to those people.
• A network can give you ways to structure your business or ways to finance the company.
• The company survives and thrives based on trust by influencers.
• Not every company wants to be a Unicorn but a zebra which is like the strong and steady
• Staying true to your personal philosophy and motivation for doing it.
• Take advantage of scheduling tools to make things easier
• Walk the dog every single day for an hour keeps clear your head
• Moving outside and being outside in the fresh air is close to meditation and makes you more productive later during the day.
• Steadying and maintaining the philosophy and that motivating factor which keeps you going forward.

Resources Mentioned:

Productivity Tool: Podio

Productivity Tool: Calend.ly

Website: Side Door Access

Website: Haligonia

Conference: Dazzle Con

Book: Chris Hadfield's The Astronaut

Book: Tiffany Haddish's The Black Unicorn

Book: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

Hotspots: Agricola Street Brasserie

Hotspots: The Seahorse and The Marquee

Hotspots: Seafood at Nova Scotia

Twiter: @novascotiamusic

Company Overview:

Side Door is a startup in BETA phase. We give audiences instant access to intimate and unique events happening right in their own neighborhoods. Artists match with hosts who turn their private homes, businesses or alternative spaces into venues while we manage the ticketing fairly and transparently.

Our goal is to create a direct-to-audience gigging economy, trimming overhead and making touring financially feasible even for emerging acts. We want to foster connective tissue between people in tactile offline shared experiences.