Let's Talk With Coach Che Marville

In today's episode, Che had the opportunity to speak once Investment Broker on Wallstreet, now Founder of  The Clear Insight Program Mark Fornasiero. He spent twenty-five years in the investment banking industry on both Bay Street and Wall Street. Mark is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and invested in several start-up businesses in the tech, consulting, fashion and manufacturing industries. He is the co-founder, with his wife, Nancy, of ACE Coworking and now has launched The Clear Insight Program. He trains business leaders in mindfulness meditation practice and uses the skill to create change and make better decisions. Mark discusses how his journey, around meditation and mindfulness informed by the ancient vipassana tradition, changed how he saw the world and himself in the world. He became curious about the impact of one's inner life on one's identity, values and how that influences their decision-making processes. He shares some of his own stories and what he saw as a struggle for clients; in working on business issues, day to day, business is personal and requires us to dig into the core of who we are in order to have fulfilment. The program is not about therapy but awareness; he designed it to help people create a meaningful and lasting change in their business and personal lives. The question is, are people equipped to look at their identity and values in relation to their business process? Mark contends that learning to be aware can profoundly impact your performance and business. Please take a listen to Mark's insights, share the show and tell us what you think.

A month ago, Che had a chance to speak to the very busy CEO Michele Bailey about her new book, The Currency of Gratitude: Turning Small Gestures Into Powerful Business Results. Michele is the President and CEO of the award-winning Blazing Group, a communications agency founded in 1994 and her new company, My BIG IDEA®. Although she grew up worldwide, with a French Canadian Mother and Haitian Father, she chose to make her life in a small town in Ontario and built a world-class advertising agency that serves clients globally. Her dad was an economist, a world-class physician who spoke six languages, and she grew up with three competitive brothers. And although she was always shy, she also had a fierce need to prove herself, and from the age of eight, she started creating her little businesses. Candidly, she discusses how surviving a devastating employee betrayal almost cost her company, the disruption prepared her for the chaos of the pandemic and inspired her commitment to the value of spreading gratitude as a business tool. Her guiding light through the pandemic was keeping her team intact, looking after their clients and training business leaders in the faculties of gratitude. And she also shares who and what fueled her to take a chance on herself and how important is it to go where your energy will be replenished. Take a listen, tell us what you think and share the show.

Che had the privilege to speak to very busy MD Dr. Nauman Naeem; he is a pulmonary and critical care specialist who has been on the front line of the Pandemic for the last sixteen months working in ICUs and ER rooms in Toronto, Canada. He is a conventional physician with an unconventional interest in human behaviour and how it impacts reaching the highest potential. Dr. Naeem candidly shares some of his experiences with childhood racism, negative thinking, fear, and overcoming the pain of those experiences to fulfill his life's work. And although he sees the painful impact of Covid firsthand daily, he also believes that the Pandemic has been a  transformational invitation to delve deeper into our consciousness and collective humanity.

During his career, he noticed that many patients did not heal and remained trapped in the paradigm of chronic disease. This insight propelled  him to dive deeper into the roots of true healing, culminating in the writing of his first book, 'Healing From the Inside Out: Overcome Chronic Disease and Radically Change Your Life.' He encourages them to think not only about their pain but to pay attention to their subconscious beliefs, personal stories and emotional blocks.  He is committed to creating a bridge between conventional medicine and a more holistic multi-dimensional approach to healing. Please take a listen, share the show and tell us what you think.

In today's episode, Che had a very extraordinary guest, Damayanti (Rani) Gupta; she was the first female engineer with an advanced degree to be hired at the Ford Motor Company In Detroit in 1967. She was the first female engineer student at her university that she attended; when her friends were going to secretarial school and preparing for marriage, she rode her bike one and a half miles to use the restroom because there was no bathroom for females students because they had no female engineering students.  She was born in 1942 in a small village in India, and overnight her family became refugees when India was divided into two countries in 1947. Rani shares what drove her to succeed and how her mother and grandmother's aspiration for her to be an educated woman was more significant than their ambition for her dowery. Her mother and grandmother encouraged her from a very young age to put her education first. When she was 13 years old, she heard the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, speak in an open field about the importance of education and the need for women engineers. That day changed her life and begun her path to America. Take a listen to the story of this delightful modern-day warrior, driven by vision and unwavering courage.  Please subscribe to Let's Talk, share the show and send us your feedback. 

In today's episode, Che had the privilege to speak with Dr. Paul Kortenaar, CEO of the Ontario Science Centre. He is on a mission to make the virtual and physical science centre experience more accessible, fun, inclusive and engaging and he shares how he and his team are navigating through the pandemic experience.  Dr. Kortenaar is not new to the Science Centre, he actually was a teacher in the Science School in 1995 and was Director of Education from 2008 to 2012. He then went on to be the CEO of SciWorks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and most recently was the Founding Director of the El Paso Children’s Museum in Texas.

He is excited about the dynamic multi-dimensional team working at the Science Centre and all the new ways that they are discovering how to advance access to science education while also building new avenues to different audiences, and establishing a global brand as a trusted source of information, education and inspiration. He has a firm commitment to bringing the Science Centre experience to their embedded communities, the province and visitors from around the world. The pandemic has not stopped Paul and the team from creating in fact it has pushed them to design and develop more digital tools, resources and social channels that have no geographic boundaries. Most recently, the Science Centre produced a new website resource, https://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/what-s-on/digital-disinformation-plus-covid-19 to help to stop the spread of disinformation and confusion about COVID-19 because of the epidemic of information overload, which scientist now refer to as an “infodemic” to describe the overwhelming amount of information, "some good and some bad, that is shared online". 

Take a listen, visit the science centre's website here https://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/  and share the show.

In today’s episode, Che had the great honour to speak to visual artist Winsom Winsom from her mountain top home in Belize, she is a Visual Artist who fuses identity, spirituality and activism into her inspired work as an artist and teacher. She considers herself a child of the universe,  belonging nowhere and everywhere and is informed by her evolving spirituality and ability to experience the world through her senses and time. She knew from a very young age that she was different and could communicate with plants and animals, her name came from a dream her mother had and she always wanted to be an artist, she finished school early and volunteered at the YMCA in Jamaica where she became a tutor to Bob Marley, she has had a remarkable and life and she shares some of her insights and experiences on Let’s Talk. Take a listen, share the show and tell us what you think.

In todays’ episode, Che had a chance to catch up with busy Entrepreneur and Lawyer Salima Alibhai. She is the Co-Founder & ALT Recruitment Partners. Che and Salima met many years ago in the schoolyard of their children’s primary school. Salima shares how mothering motivated her to look at her work differently and ultimately co-found a legal recruitment firm. She is confident that the pandemic has brought in many new human rights issues like having a vaccination passport and questions about our fundamental human rights. She predicts that the global pandemic has created more work for lawyers as there is a new depth of problems that require innovative solutions. Her perspective is diverse and inspired by her experience of coming to Canada at a very young age as a refugee from Uganda. Che and Salima discuss the experience of assimilating in Canada and the role of diversity in terms of interpreting the law. Please take a listen to their conversation and share the show with your friends.

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Che had an opportunity to speak to Producer, CEO and Founder of Buck Productions, Sean Buckley in today's pop-up episode. Sean went to the school of hard knocks; he felt the calling to tell stories so deeply two decades ago that he sold all his worldly goods and took a leap of faith to travel around the world to find great stories. He came home a changed man and founded Buck Productions, which is an international content creation house; who have an expansive portfolio of award-winning feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials. 

Buck is now considered one of the most diverse production houses in North America. Their most recent projects include the feature film ASTRONAUT starring Richard Dreyfuss that is currently in its festival run, Under Pressure: 9K an innovative series on Discovery's new digital platform MotorTrend, hit horror-comedies WOLFCOP and ANOTHER WOLFCOP, horror film MAKING MONSTERS with award-winning creators Justin Harding and Rob Brunner, and the just released 40-Year-Old Property Virgin for discovery+. He has come a long way from the boy who made up stories and played with toy soldiers, now he sees the future in the next generation and is more inspired than ever to produce great stories and share them with the world. Take a listen to the episode and share the show with a friend.

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On today's show, Che had the privilege to speak to tech innovator and pioneer Lorien Gabel, CEO & Co-founder of Figment while he was out for a run. At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long-term success of the Web 3 ecosystem.

This third generation of internet services for websites and applications will focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and semantic web. The ultimate goal of Web 3.0 is to create more intelligent, connected and open websites. Lorien has been ahead of this time for the last thirty years, Che had a chance to talk to Lorien about simplifying blockchain and democratizing access to a new generation of web creators and developers. And what it was like to quit law and run his first internet company Interlog the brainchild of his younger brother Matt who was still in high school at the time, Interlog. Together they grew Interlog into one of Canada’s first commercial ISP’s, with over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and profitability, then selling to a large multinational telecommunications provider. Take a listen to their conversation, tell us what you think and share the episode. 

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Che had the opportunity and privilege to speak to Wes Hall, the newest Dragon on Dragon's Den on Let's Talk today. Wes is an established innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. As Executive Chairman and Founder of Kingsdale Advisors, he has been repeatedly named one of Canada's most influential people by The Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, Toronto Life and Maclean's. He is also the owner of QM Environmental, Titan Supply, Founder and Executive Chairman of Black North Initiative, an organization dedicated to ending anti-black systemic racism in business and opening doors for Black Canadians. He shared what it was like growing up in a tin shack in St. Thomas, Jamaica, being raised by his grandmother in his formative years and then living on the streets at the age of thirteen to escape the abuse of his mother before coming to Canada at the age of sixteen to live with his father. He has a picture of the shack he grew up in sitting on his desk, and he shares stories about grandmother Julia Vassel, a woman of tremendous fortitude and strength and how she inspires to this day. Julia Vassel raised fourteen grandchildren in a tin shack while working on sugar cane plantations. Wes has a harrowing story that takes you from the streets of St Thomas, Jamaica, to the suburbs of Toronto, to a job as a chicken catcher, to an inner-city security guard, to the corner office on Bay Street looking over the city. In addition, you can find Wes on Dragon's Den, a Canadian Television Reality show -based on the internationally franchised Dragon's Den. In this franchise, entrepreneurs take a chance and pitch their startups to a panel of venture capitalists, hoping that they will get funding. Take a listen, follow the Let's Talk Podcast and share the show.

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