How do you take the career path of an accountant and make it your own? 

Shalini Dharna began her career in the way many accountants do, at a big firm. The problem was she didn’t like it enough to work in big firm audit her whole life. Today she runs her own business. Yes, it’s an accounting business but because she has made it her own, Shalini has the opportunity to work with and help many other small businesses and entrepreneurs every day.

In this episode, host Greg Martin and Shalini talk about what its like to love and hate your job, the ins and outs of the accounting world and how Shalini found the best place for her, as an accountant.

Episode 6. Are we going to be working from home forever? What has the experiment of Covid-19 taught us about enjoying our job and enjoying our kids?

Anna Stevens is Program Director at a digital marketing agency in Toronto. When Covid-19 hit she fled her downtown Toronto life with her husband and kids and moved North to cottage country - it was a 5 month experiment in a different kind of life.

In this episode, host Greg Martin and Anna talk about how office life and office culture have changed through online, Zoom calls and constant scheduling. They talk about the good and bad this pandemic is doing for our relationships with our kids, family and colleagues. The biggest question - what has Covid-19 taught us and what do we do about it?

Episode 5. How do you know you’re in the right place, doing the right job, in the right city, hanging out with the right people - for you? 

Luis Serrano thought he was on the path to having everything he wanted in life until he lost it all - his job, his relationship, his friend, his purpose. After a bout with depression, he worked with a life coach to rebuild himself.

Now he works with corporations around the world to facilitate team building (Zoom call leader!), and he helps  individuals as a life coach to help people find their “purpose”.

In this episode, host Greg Martin and Luis talk about why all the things we want coming out of university and in our 20s might not be the same forever. We have an image of what we want built from the people around us (parents, friends, mentors) but it can be hard at times to know what's right for you. And the thing is, once you get started on a path, it can be hard to change directions.

According to Luis, finding your "purpose" doesn't mean quitting your job and moving away from everyone you love, it can mean changing your perspective on your day or doing little things you love to make you happy. This episode might just help bring a little more happiness and meaning to your life.

How hard should we work? Is there a work-life balance we should strive to achieve or should the goal be to find work that we’re so passionate about we work all the time?

Ricky Rathore loves his job. He’s a real estate broker and a real estate lawyer and he manages a large team of real estate agents (90-100 agents right now). He works all the time, but loves it because of his passion for his company and his love for the job.

In this episode host Greg Martin and Ricky talk about why he loves his job, his philosophy on work, his goals and why he gets frustrated when people try to pull him away from what he loves (the job). 

Ep 3. However dumb it may seem at first, sometimes when you take the plunge and start something, your dreams come true...more true than you could imagine.

Paul Maxwell operates a concert venue in Waterloo, Ontario. His stage has been graced by bands like Matthew Good Band, The Tea Party, Bif Naked, Classified, Stars, Kiefer Sutherland, Sloan, Big Wreck, and even Nick Carter.

In this episode host Greg Martin and Paul discuss the feeling of having your favourite bands play our own stage and how that balances with the ups and downs of owning a business. 

With over 12 years running his own business in the concert and music industry, Paul is a wealth of knowledge. He discusses what it took for him to leap into his own business at a young age, make mistakes and learn and what that has done to his life. Though some times are hard, Paul talks about his business and how it has done some unimaginable things over the years and how it has made him happy and how it has made him stressed.

Ep 2. The epitome of schooling success is going to Harvard. Why? What does it get you? Does an MBA hold all the answers to career pivots and success? In this case, it was the beginning of a life in Silicon Valley.

Host Greg Martin talks with Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves about his decision to leave Canada, the country he loves, and find out what to make of his life. Both Greg and Nilesh worked in the field of finance in Toronto doing investment banking early in their careers. Since, they've each taken different paths. 

The two talk about the long hours they spent in Bay Street offices and though Nilesh knew he didn't want a long term career in Toronto, he talks about how he used the Harvard MBA program to help him decide on his next career move. 

It's hard work getting into Harvard, the grades, the work experience, reference letters and you have to write one hell of an essay. The two discuss how to get in to Harvard, what's special about the entrance essay and all the things you can get out of business school. In this interview he discusses his happiness with his current job in Silicon Valley working at a new startup company.

Curious about the food business and the feeling of starting a business and having it end? This episode is all about the struggles in the food industry - why it's so exciting, why so many people invest so much, and why the business is so hard.

In this first ever episode, host Greg Martin talks with Chef Kyle Webster about his experiences starting out in the cooking world as a high-end fine dining chef. Kyle's career eventually lead him to work with Greg in creating the casual farm-to-table restaurant called Farm'r, located in downtown Toronto. 

You'll learn about some of the struggles trying to start a new business, along with the challenges of adapting to a post-covid-19 world of food. Over this episode the two talk about what it's like to work in the highest-end restaurants in the world and where chefs find happiness in their jobs. They also talk about many of the troubles with the restaurant industry and impact Covid-19 has on the food world. In the end, they talk about the definition of a successful business, even if it has to close, along with the feeling of getting a bad review as a chef.