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Trevor Hamilton has a passion for design, persuasion, and business success. He is the founder and president of The Story Web Design & Marketing.

Trevor regularly works with small businesses to help them understand and explore what will enable them to succeed in digital marketing. 

Before starting The Story, Trevor had a successful career in sales and marketing with technology companies.  

In addition to his work with The Story, he is also a husband and father of 2 young boys.

Corey is a Counsellor in private practice in downtown Toronto. His practice primarily aims to make counselling more approachable for men who wouldn’t normally consider it.

Corey completed his Master of Science degree in Psychology with the University of Liverpool and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology with Yorkville University. He’s a member of the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals, the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, the Canadian Positive Psychology Association, the American Psychological Association and its division for the study of Men & Masculinities, and the National Anger Management Association.

He is also authorized by the Gottman Institute to use the Gottman Relationship Checkup and method in his work with couples.

Ashley Brockelbank is the Tourism Officer for Perth County. Ashley has been working in economic development & tourism since 2018, after graduating with an honours degree in Media, Information, and Technoculture from Western University. 

She is passionate about creative marketing and loves devising new and unique ways to promote her rural region. In her first few years in the industry, Ashley has helped manage several innovative, award winning campaigns and initiatives in her role with Perth County.

When she isn’t crafting clever social media posts or out on the road meeting with business owners, you can find Ashley exploring the local food scene, in the stands at a hockey arena, or enjoying time with friends and family in her charming hometown, Listowel.

Nikita Brown is the content curator, social media strategist and planner at Travel Agent Collective. Her best self is when she is sitting in her yoga pants with a messy ponytail in her office cooking up engaging and interesting online content for clients so they can achieve their business goals.

She spent 4 years in school studying communications and public relations and over the past 7 years, she has helped companies scale their brands and their revenues by harnessing the power of social media!

She’s here today to add a new perspective to the social media world, help you free up some of your time, and get your business seen on social media so that you can attract engaged followers!

Raj Dhiman is an activist of the ‘hustle’. From tutoring to make ends meet after completing his PhD to running sales teams, the global pandemic has allowed his hustle to shine. With building an app to help customers find groceries and shopping local, hand-crafting furniture for friends, launching his "Small Business Hustle" newsletter, consulting for small businesses as a side gig while co-launching a mask vending machine company - Raj is the guy that hustles.

He started his sales career showing SMB's how to build their own loyalty programs. In his day job, he helps small businesses partner with airlines to offer reward miles as a loyalty incentive. In his experience, he has seen first hand how small businesses can benefit through loyalty.

Raj is also the world’s (self-proclaimed) biggest dog lover and wants to own a farm so that he can adopt 100 dogs. He may need to choose between his dog farm and his future wife but for now we will focus on his love for loyalty.

Today, we welcome Steve Toth to the show.

As a resiliency expert, author and media commentator, Allison Graham shares her problem-solving framework to build resilience and amplify capacity. She’s been engaging audiences since 2006, speaking for Fortune 500 companies and coaching leaders to get out of their own way and step into their full potential.

Her books include Married My Mom, Birthed a Dog: How to Be Resilient When Life Sucks, Busy is a Bad Excuse and From Business Cards to Business Relationships. Allison’s latest online program is called Take Back Your Weekends: A Better, Less Stressful Way to Get It All Done and How to Build an Online Course, Even if You Suck at Tech.

You may have seen her featured by media outlets like Global News and Fast Company or heard her Resiliency Ninja podcast.

Today on the podcast, David and Jason sit down to discuss Facebook changes, and a very unfortunate situation that happened to David's social account that had an impact on our business. 

Roberto Gennaro is the Chief Digital Officer of Redtag.ca - TravelBrands Inc. group of companies, one of Canada’s leading retail travel agencies where he leads the overall digital strategy, analytics, mobile app, website development, and social media. 

Roberto is also a Public Speaker on digital transformation, analytics, conversion optimization, ML + AI.

He’s credited for having transformed the digital future of the company and driving growth by converting traditional to digital, with more than 17 years of experience.

Meet Beth Marchant, CEO & Lead Brand Designer at The Marchant Co.

With a long history in graphic design and small business branding, Beth has developed a solid love of watching brands market their business through well rounded strategies and social communities.

She is certified in Social Media Marketing through the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada and holds a high honours diploma in Visual Merchandising Arts from Sheridan College. She loves webinars and online courses, and knows it would be naive to think she knows enough about anything to stop learning. She lives for the work from home life, and thoroughly enjoys the multi-tasking of freelance work and family with her partner and children.