How I Did That

Globally Local is Canada's first all-vegan fast food chain - located in London, Toronto and now recently in Windsor. Today we talk with Kelly Neuber, co-owner of Globally Local, who shares how and why she went vegan, the journey of growing the Globally Local brand, and her involvement with animal activism. Follow the restaurant @globallylocalfastfood on Instagram, or at globallylocal.ca.

Sanctuaries and companies mentioned in the episode: Charlotte's Freedom Farm (charlottesfarm.ca), Beagle Freedom Project (bfp.org), Toronto Pig Save (torontopigsave.org).

Today's guest is Roniya Rojan, a recent graduate with a Public Health degree from Detroit. In this episode, we discuss her shift in career paths - from wanting to become a doctor (even writing the 8-hour MCAT!) to enrolling in a 3 month coding bootcamp, which kickstarted a career in software development.

Today's guest is Andrea Ciavaglia, an aspiring math teacher and recent graduate in Mathematics and French Studies. In this episode, Andrea discusses her teaching aspirations, the curriculum required to complete an undergraduate math degree, as well as possible future careers for those with a Math background.

Simrit is a Public Health major who comes on today to discuss the impacts of various public health nutrition topics on global health. The topics range from promoting healthy behaviour changes and the effect of social norms; public food accessibility; animal agriculture and its effects on climate change; reducing food waste; and how these issues cannot be successfully solved until adequate education is provided.

Safa is a vegan artist currently living in Oregon. She comes on today to discuss why she went vegan, challenges she faced on her journey, where her art inspiration comes from, the Oregon forest fires and how they impacted her life, and more.

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Today's guest is Michael Crawford, co-founder of the educational online platform EdSpace. EdSpace is the next evolution of virtual collaboration, where members engage in asynchronous conversations online by posting short videos on topics of interest (e.g., topics, events, publications, etc). Think Slack meets LinkedIn meets Instagram Stories! Michael is here to tell us all about the journey, as well as his own educational background and where he was before EdSpace.

Check out EdSpace at https://www.edspace.live/

Connect with Michael at his website, www.mjcraw.com, on Twitter (twitter.com/mjcraw), and on his podcast series consideranew (anchor.fm/mjcraw)

Today's guests are Brothers David and Stephen Cote, and Sarah Ageli. They are all on here today to discuss their careers - Stephen and Sarah in the paralegal industry, and David on working around the world as an immigration lawyer, then settling in Canada and opening his own practice.

Update: Unfortunately by the time this episode was posted, David had to shut down his business - but he continues to work in the field as a lawyer.

Today's guest is Samir Tendulkar, founder and CEO of Cooking Platform Khal. Recently named the Most Influential CEO of NJ by CEO Monthly magazine, Samir joins me today to discuss the idea behind starting his own company, as well as the journey behind his previous businesses. From teaching himself to code and getting a multimillion dollar dropshipping business shut down, to creating board games and making handmade purses to ship across the world, he now runs Khal.com. Khal is a cooking platform designed for everyone to show off their cooking skills, gain incentives for doing so, and even use their profile as a sort of "LinkedIn" for the food industry.

You can check out the company and join the platform on the website Khal.com, follow the company on Instagram @_khal.com_