Olympian, world champion, broadcaster and author of ‘My Mother's Daughter’ Perdita Felicien speaks with humour and insight on her lessons growing up under difficult conditions but with a mother’s love and compassion which taught her what it truly means to win. In this candid and animated conversation, Felicien shares insights on turning failures into learning experiences, discovering your own strength, relishing the pursuit of your goal, why you should put yourself out there, understanding the difference of where people start in life, and how cutting corners will only get you so far.

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Prolific author and Canadian Senator David Adams Richards has explored courage, integrity, morality, and human nature throughout his life. In this fascinating, inspiring, and emotional conversation, the esteemed and highly decorated storyteller shares memories of his remarkable grandmother fiercely fighting for her theatre, his unwavering relationship with his wife, and his call to the Senate. He provides lessons on the difference between moral courage and physical courage, getting the small things right, why battles are almost always internal, how outrage feeds a famine in people's lives, choosing between good and evil, forgiveness, and why you don't say no to your Queen.

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Could war be solved in our lifetime? Human rights activist, author, and War Child Canada founder Dr. Samantha Nutt believes we have the power, the resources, and the capacity to make peace possible. In this inspiring and stimulating conversation, Dr. Nutt shares heart-wrenching stories from her time in war-torn countries and how she built a different kind of humanitarian organization that empowers developing communities. She shares unique and valuable insights on why we should not steer from a place of assumption, how to be a disruptive force, understanding geopolitical privilege, who truly benefits from well-intended humanitarian actions, identifying priorities, facilitating leadership, and what we can learn from extraordinary people pushing against huge odds in extreme circumstances.

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Hassan Al Kontar was living in Dubai when civil war broke out in his home country of Syria. Unwilling to fight his own people and unable to stay in the United Arab Emirates, he eventually found himself trapped in a Malaysian airport, where he stayed for more than seven months. He survived on the kindness of strangers. And using the power of social media, he attracted attention and support and eventually found refuge in Canada. In his new book, and in this conversation, Al Kontar shares the lessons of his journey: how giving up is a result, not an option; the difference between survivors and fighters; why we don’t own our destiny; how hope is the main motivation in life; how we can manufacture our own luck; and why who you become as you work towards your dream is more important than the dream itself.

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How many times do you have to show up at-bat before you get lucky? NYC-born serial entrepreneur and founder of Fellow.app Aydin Mirzaee believes the secret to success is irrational optimism, and that great managers are made, not born. In this conversation, Mirzaee speaks about his profound business relationships and what makes them unique, why skills trump passion, questioning your default behaviours, managers being the highest point of leverage of your organization, the importance of building a team for a lifetime, cultivating respect for other people’s domains, and why every organization should implement a ‘No agenda, no meeting’ policy.

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When accomplished investor John Ruffolo was struck by a transport truck while cycling in September 2020, emergency officials feared he wouldn't survive. In the months since then, he has applied his strength and determination to not only his physical recovery, but his plans to launch Maverix Public Equity, which he calls the pinnacle of his life's work. Ruffolo shares the powerful lessons he's learned about overcoming pain, appreciating the simple things in life, surrounding yourself with a great team, separating needs and wants, and how a life-threatening event doesn’t have to deter you from your mission to help change the future of this country. 

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Author, Order of Canada recipient and Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips shares the lessons he's learned from a lifetime of storytelling and engaging audiences. Phillips has turned his fascination with weather history and trivia, his infectious enthusiasm, and his communications expertise into a platform for promoting and practicing environmental sustainability. In this engaging conversation, he talks about how to develop a passion for what you do, the solution to the climate crisis, how entertainment opens the door to hard news, and why he has no plans to retire. He also shares his favourite weather stories from a collection of 33,000, including one profound moment in Canadian weather and political history.

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In the summer of 1980, Darrell Fox left high school early to join his big brother Terry in New Brunswick for the Marathon of Hope. And since then, for more than four decades, he has been following in Terry’s footsteps in the fight against cancer. In an intimate, emotional conversation, Darrell relives that pivotal time on the road, the gratitude he felt as an eyewitness to Terry’s determination, the profound feeling of togetherness, and how by focusing on the positive you will gain more than you lose. He also shares lessons on coping with loss, protecting core values, the rewards of incremental accumulation and breakthroughs, appreciating what you have, how setbacks make you stronger, and finding your own path to fulfillment.

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Football hall of famer, three-time Grey Cup winner, broadcaster, and now assistant coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, Henry Burris leads teams to championships through discipline, devotion, and a positive attitude. In this conversation, he talks about overcoming early setbacks in his career, proving people wrong, determining your own outcome, being scrutinized as a Black athlete, finding a source of motivation, having a winning mentality, the payoff to investing in yourself and others, and the principles behind his family's hustle award. He also shares the momentous story of the last pass of his playing career, and why he wears his wedding ring instead of his three Grey Cup rings.

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Canada's most-respected health care journalist and author André Picard has become an indelible voice in Canada's fight against COVID-19. In this episode, he discusses how the research behind his new book Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic drove him to action, and shares insights on developing a humanist approach to aging and elder care, how money is the best and worst-prescribed drug, the keys to taking care of our future selves, avoiding judgment, why we should stop mythologizing the Canadian health care system and his top three recommendations to improve it...at no extra cost.

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