Kari is the founder and president of Leoganda Financial & Insurance Services Inc., a full-service financial planning company that specializes in Estate and Retirement Planning for over 25 years.


Join Felicia and Kari as they journey through Kari's unique method of addressing her clients' needs in order to provide realistic financial strategies to manage their resources.

I've always said that you spend more time with the people you work with, than the people you love. So it's wonderful, if you can love working with the people that you do. So that's why I try to make it a place that people want to work at. - Laura Hansen

Join Felicia and Laura for this Vision Casting Best Episodes replay as they talk about the kind of heart it takes to build, sustain and scale as an entrepreneur.

Laura shares her bread for the entrepreneurship journey:

 
Communication is key.Celebrate the small things.Love the people you work with.Ask help in your discomfort zone.

Felicia welcomes Laura Hansen, president of Image Group Inc., a promotional products company that has won numerous awards under her leadership. Among the most notable of these is the Promotional Products Distributor of the Year, Western Region 1999- 2007, 2009-2014.

Join Laura as she shares her remarkable journey in achieving success for the company by internal and external foundational building: “instilling a dynamic culture of partnership and mutual support internally and by maintaining strong relations with a network of suppliers spread across the continent.”

Begin with the end in mind. What do you see yourself becoming? - Lisa Will

In this 2015 Vision Casting episode, join Lisa Will as she fashions Stonz Wear into reality. With her unwavering resolve to smart design to meet the niche of kids' wear, she has created a brand that has stood out in quality and authenticity - and continues to do so.

 How did Lisa realize her vision for Stonz Wear? 
Solid Purpose: begin with the end in mind.Solid Financials: know your numbers.Solid A Team: build a like-minded tribe.
Lisa founded her million-dollar company from the need to find her young son a suitable footwear that stayed on. 10 years after the company's initial conception in 2004, Stonz Wear has grown into a thriving business in worldwide wholesale and retail markets. The company has been awarded the Canadian Pediatric Seal of Approval in 2012 and honored by organizations such as Mom's Best, National Parenting Center, iParenting, and Creative Child Magazine Awards. Lisa earned the RBC Women Entrepreneur of the Year Western finalist in the year 2010. And most recently, she was nominated for the Ersnt & Young 2014 North American EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. 

Today, Stonz Wear has extended its reach from Canada, to the US, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Scandinavia, UK, and Europe, from the miraculous beginning of one stall at a Vancouver gift show in 2004.

Lisa Will, founder of Stonz Wear Inc., shares in this episode how her million-dollar company grew from her need to find her young son a suitable footwear that stayed on. 10 years after the company's initial conception in 2004, Stonz has grown into a thriving business in worldwide wholesale and retail markets. The company has been awarded the Canadian Pediatric Seal of Approval in 2012 and honored by organizations such as Mom's Best, National Parenting Center, iParenting, and Creative Child Magazine Awards. Lisa earned the RBC Women Entrepreneur of the Year Western finalist in the year 2010. And most recently, she was nominated for the Ersnt & Young 2014 North American EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. 

 

Walk with Lisa in her journey to build an authentic, excellent and wonderfully thriving company through:
Purposeful Vision: begin with the end in mind.Solid Financials: know your numbers.Committed A Team: build a like-minded tribe.
 

Persistence is key in the entrepreneurial path that Lisa took to create Stonz Wear. Today, her business has extended its reach from Canada, to the US, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Scandinavia, UK, and Europe, from the miraculous beginning of one stall at a Vancouver gift show in 2004.

 

 

 

 

The first rule of sales is that people do business with people that they like. – Julie Stephens

 

What is your vision for your company? And how will you get there? Jump that gap to a more profitable business with Julie Stephens, CEO of Exclusive Association Management, Inc. in this 2015 Vision Casting feature replay. Julie brought to vision her million-dollar company in the real estate of her very home: the basement. This year, they celebrate their 10th year anniversary as a million-dollar company! Their formidable milestones include: record-breaking sales year after year, within 5 years. They have sustained the 1M mark for the past 3 years. Julie also formed 5 additional companies in the last 5 years to create additional revenue streams.

 

Journey with Julie in unlocking such an amazing and solid growth through:

 

Leadership that perseveres and builds upon clarity.Sales that utilizes one’s sphere of influence.Systems that incorporate technology fit for the nature of the business.

 

You start out by yourself but you don't end up at a million dollars in sales by yourself. Julie’s 3 foundational keys has provided the amazing growth of profitability, sustainability and expansion to her company. Join us for this 2015 Vision Casting feature!

Plan the type of business that's best for you. Julie Stephens, author and serial entrepreneur, brought to vision her million-dollar company Exclusive Association Management Inc., in the very real estate of her home: the basement. Today, they celebrate their 10th year anniversary as a million-dollar company. Among their most amazing milestones is Julie leading the company to record-breaking sales year after year, within 5 years. They have sustained the 1M mark for the past 3 years. Julie has also formed 5 additional companies in the last 5 years to create additional revenue streams.

 

How did she sustain such an amazing and solid growth? Journey with Julie as she builds her basement millions through:

 

Leadership that perseveres and builds upon clarity.Sales that utilizes one’s sphere of influence.Systems that incorporate technology fit for the nature of the business.

 

You start out by yourself but you don't end up at a million dollars in sales by yourself. Julie’s foundation on these 3 keys has provided the amazing growth of profitability, sustainability and expansion to her company. Join us for this very inspiring episode!

What is the soul of a social entrepreneur? Madeleine Shaw, co-founder and creative director of the East Vancouver-based Lunapads, talks about founding the revolutionary product that marries her passion with purpose to produce a thriving corporate culture.

 

Your corporate culture, as Madeleine insightfully notes, “will define so much of everything that goes on in your business.”

 

Join us in this 2015 Vision Casting feature replay with Madeleine, as we journey through:

 

Your Purpose:  think about what that means to you in terms of what your business is about and then how you communicate that to your customers.

Your Finances: make sure you’ve got capital before you need it.

Your Systems: it comes down to people and the motivation they have to use those tools well and to achieve a certain kind of goal.

 

As a social entrepreneur, Madeleine’s mission-based venture has been able to support the provision of sustainable hygiene supplies to over 300,000 girls in 18 developing nations to support their school attendance. Knowing the why of one’s business does matter indeed. To know more about what Madeleine is up to, check out her website for teen empowerment on G Day for Girls.

Allow yourself the mind space and the physical space to create that new version of your company. Janet Nixon, president of the Canadian-owned Allworld Packaging Supplies, shares how she jumped the gap from being a consultant and certified general accountant to the owner of a customer-based, quality-care company.

Allworld, under Janet's leadership, continues to be an ever-expanding business while mainting their level of quality service. How does one jump the gap to a more fulfilling business as she has? 

Janet shares her 3 key tips in nurturing the growth and sustainability that your company needs through:

 Connect: join an entrepreneurial tribe Check: monitor your error margin  Collect: set up a system that tracks your customers' feedback 

Sharpen your vision for the company by tracking your metrics. Putting these 3 keys in place allows your business to thrive for you to see your company transform from 1.0 to 2.0.  In the words of Janet, "Try to get outside the box and look at the grand global vision."

"Your corporate culture will define so much of everything that goes on in your business." Madeleine Shaw, co-founder and creative director of the East Vancouver-based Lunapads, talks about founding the revolutionary product that has changed how women find the comfort that fits their very need. Lunapads has been specializing in delivering natural personal care products for 22 years. The business practice that Lunapads champions through the registered nonprofit society United Growth of the World,  has been able to support the provision of sustainable hygiene supplies to over 300,000 girls in 18 developing nations to support their school attendance.  

Join us in this episode as Madeleine shares her golden nuggets on:

Your PurposeYour FinancesYour Systems

As Madeleine advises, knowing why you do what you do matters. It determines the course of where your company will go, which people you will take in and what values of the company the team will embody in the collective commitment of providing more excellent quality service and better lives for people. So join us for this fresh new episode and together we will build a profitable business that is not only sustainable and scalable but most importantly: brings you fulfillment!