ContenderCast with Justin Honaman

ufurnish.com allows you to search furniture and home furnishing ranges from 100+ retailers all on one website. Use our detailed filters to segment the market and easily find what you're looking for. While searching for the perfect item, ufurnish will suggest alternative and similar products, so you can ensure you never miss out on the perfect item. Co-founder Deirdre Mc Gettrick joins Justin to discuss this fast-growing e-furniture business!

Copper Clean™ Antimicrobial Surface Patches are durable, antimicrobial copper stickers that are applied to door handles, push plates, and other high-touch surfaces to kill surface-borne bacteria. Co-founder Benton Allen joins Justin to discuss product engineering, innovation and how copper helps keep surfaces clean.

In a quest to find a healthier alternative to traditional burgers, co-founder, Jason, quickly realized that the grocery aisles were full of imitation meats and veggie burgers but all were either highly processed, frozen, bland or loaded with preservatives. Not to mention they didn't even look appetizing! He was determined to create a better option full of fresh farm-grown veggies and ingredients that were not only healthier, but filling, delicious and colorful. This was the spark that led to the creation of Actual Veggies and its line of chef-created, gourmet, ALL vegetable burgers - Just veggies, actually. Co-founders Jason Rosenbaum and Hailey Swartz join Justin to discuss this "actually" delicious new food brand.

Keith Belling always loved rice. But the empty calories, all the carbs, and that mystery packet of seasoning, started to keep him from eating it as much as he wanted to. When he realized he wasn't the only one, he decided to do something about it. He put together a team of fellow rice lovers and got to work figuring out how to create a dry (shelf-stable) rice grain packed with the power of vegetables. They kept at it, blending different nutritious vegetables until it was just right. Meet RightRice. Keith joins Justin to discuss this awesome new rice offering!

Ayeshah Abuelhiga started Mason Dixie in 2014 to change comfort food for the better. "Homestyle" cooking shouldn't mean settling for cheap, processed ingredients and scary chemicals. She is a first generation American and proudly watched her immigrant parents serve quality comfort food at their small carry-out restaurant and convenience store. After college, she craved that same food but the closest thing she found was fast food - and no decent biscuits! So Ayeshah started by making a REAL biscuit and gave up her corporate job to open a small restaurant people loved. Those same customers inspired her to make biscuits available at home. Today, business is booming across retail for Mason Dixie and Ayeshah shares her story with Justin on today's episode.

Entrepreneur, illustrator, author and working mother Wendy Rouillard took her grandmother's teddy bear and made it into a successful and growing business based on helping children. Today, Barnaby has been on more than 25 adventures and his latest book, WHERE, OH WHERE, IS BARNABY BEAR? releases this month. The Barnaby franchise now include storybooks, coloring books, games, tote bags, back packs, and stuffed bears. Wendy joins Justin to discuss Barnaby!

What began as a cheesecake recipe created by a high schooler in small-town Mississippi is now a business that makes thousands of cheesecakes each month. Mississippi Made – New York Approved. Co-founders Chris Ortego and Shaun Davis join Justin to discuss this delicious brand!

Raised on O'ahu, Hawaii, an island with limited natural resources, Matt Feldman understood the importance of sustainability from a young age. As he began learning about the immense carbon footprint of the meat industry, he gravitated towards plant-based foods. Fast forward to today, Matt teamed up with two renowned culinary experts to develop a delicious jerky that is better for both our bodies and the planet. Matt joins Justin to discuss this exciting new brand!

In 2019, Jeff Lee founded FitTrack, a health technology company that allows users to track and measure their health easily and accurately. Now his health technology brand is one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada. Jeff joins Justin to discuss this high-flying brand!

SPOTMYUV®, a Canadian invention, was created in 2014 because of the genuine need for people worldwide to increase their personal line of defence against harmful UV sun damage. SPOTMYUV® co-inventors Andrew Martinko, Chad Sweeting and Derek Jouppi are graduates of the University of Waterloo's Nanotechnology Engineering program and are passionate about sun protection. With family and close friends impacted by skin cancer, they found a need to bring a product to market that would tell a wearer when to reapply sunscreen and thereby positively affecting sun protection habits. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world and almost 100% preventable when sunscreen is used correctly. CEO Claudia Harvey joins Justin to discuss the business and tips to bring new ideas to life.