In conversation with the fascinating Sara Francis, Peak Performance Coach living in Toronto, Canada.  Her background in spirituality & psychology has helped her design the Flow State Blueprint.  Sara's zone of genius is in helping you release limiting beliefs, dissolve the inner blocks holding you back, and tap into your state of flow - unlocking consistent productivity, energy, creativity and enjoyment in your daily life & business."

In this episode we talk about entrepreneurship; the importance of mindset; living intuitively and bringing mindfulness practically into our every day lives especially in times of adversity.  We all need a place to draw strength from and the practice of mindfulness helps us to find our triggers and bring attention to our inner aliveness.  Enjoy this episode!

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In conversation with the fascinating Marcelo Lu, Senior Executive at BASF.  As President, he chairs BASF Canada’s Executive Committee and heads BASF Canada’s Leadership Team.  Marcelo leads BASF Canada’s internal business support groups including: Communications, Human Resources, Legal, Finance, and Market and Customer Development and orchestrates all of BASF’s businesses in Canada. He is also responsible for the implementation of the company’s global and regional strategies in the country. . . In this episode we talk about importance of career pivots; mentorship; the role of science and technology to assist in this current environment for the good of humanity; and all that jazz that makes our lives so exciting.  Enjoy this episode!

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In conversation with the Fabulous Pamela Hyatt living in Peterborough, Ontario Canada. Pamela Hyatt is a content marketing specialist at the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT), a freelance copywriter, social media manager, and a mom.  Her specialty is building relationships and finding the most interesting and valuable aspects to any story.   

In this episode we talk about the importance of marketing yourself; how to overcome epic failure and how businesses can market in times of crisis.   Enjoy this episode!

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Note: The audio on this one is a bit rough but the content is fantastic.

Featuring the amazing Sumithra Suresh, Data Scientist living in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada.  As a Data Scientist, Sumithra works extensively with deep learning neural network models to transform insights into foresight, and help with high-priority business initiatives, through predictive and prescriptive analysis of data.  Her  specialities include text analytics, operational research and analytics and statistical and quantitative techniques to analyse data.

In this episode, we talk about her journey transitioning from university to corporate; her experience working in the STEM field, her epic fails and epic wins along the way.  Enjoy this episode!

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Featuring the fabulous Levonne Louie, a Renaissance woman who sees her life’s purpose is to Guide, Educate and Mentor (G.E.M.) with grace, integrity and style. Her newest book: "Blazing Trails: A Lifetime of Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Staying True to Myself: Stories of Guidance for Women to Succeed in the Business World on their Own Terms" is a major step in helping her to achieve this purpose.  Levonne is an authority in the field of mineral rights and land ownership, and shares her knowledge through writing, speaking and teaching.

Possessing almost 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, she has published two books to fulfill what she sees as part of her mission: to demystify the oil and gas industry. In this episode we explored her journey as a C-Level executive; the importance of mentors along the journey, her new book and what she does to stay grounded. Enjoy this episode!

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Featuring Carolina Silva: Forest Engineer, Entrepreneur and Community Volunteer living in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.   She is absolutely amazing, working 45 hours as a full-time Forest Engineer by day and she spends evenings working on her side hustle business, as a Young Living Distributor.  Carolina has a beautiful way to make work life integration easy by getting back to nature and unplugging on the weekends.

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In conversation with the extraordinary Ramona Dunlap, a New York based start-up  entrepreneur.  Ramona Dunlap worked in corporate sales and marketing for some of the world’s leading intimate apparel brands. Her friends and family have deemed her a “bra connoisseur” because of her passion and wealth of knowledge on all thing’s lingerie.  Ramona was raised by a family of strong women, each of whom was beautiful in her own way.  This upbringing inspired her to create Alika.

In this episode She gives you a view into her life and how her career pivots brought her to A-L-I-K-A (Meaning: Most Beautiful). Enjoy this episode!

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Welcome Listeners! I am super exciting to start my podcasting journey combining business and media my two loves!

This podcast is designed to inspire you take action in your epic life journey. You will hear epic stories of people from Canada and all over the world who pivoted; experienced epic failures and epic wins. We also explore what they love and what gives them a pep in their step! Enjoy season one.

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