After 12 years chasing Olympic dreams as a competitive alpine ski racer, a career-ending knee injury at 19 sent Gabrielle Szynkarsky's life in an unexpected direction. In this episode, the founder and designer of Montreal-based luxury womenswear brand BRIELLE shares how she channeled the discipline, precision, and drive of elite athletics into building a fashion house now worn by the likes of Madonna, Kourtney Kardashian, and Paris Hilton. From her early days in a womenswear design program to shipping to over 38 countries worldwide, Gabrielle opens up about reinvention, resilience, and what it really takes to turn a personal setback into a global brand.

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Listen to Raegan Steinberg, of Arthur’s, talk about her journey and discuss her evolution, from Arthur’s to Romy’s, to Arthur’s Dinette, and everything in between.  Hear from the woman who’s creating all of these new Montreal restaurant icons!

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Moshe Yalovsky is a tech expert with more than 20 years' experience. As his website says, “After two decades in technology, Moshe Yalovsky has dedicated himself exclusively to exploring and building with AI, with a singular mission: to make this transformative technology accessible and empowering for business leaders.”

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How important is self-care to entrepreneurship? It’s so important to today’s guest that she created a business around it. Erica Diamond, self-care expert, bestselling author, certified life and career coach, and the host of the Erica Diamond Podcast, has been helping leaders prevent burnout and create sustainable success for the past fifteen years with her signature Thrive360™ System.

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Sydney Wajcman is the founder and CEO of Accompagner à grandir which is, quoting from her LinkedIn page, “a private pediatric therapy clinic that provides holistic and inclusive services for neurodiverse children and their families.” This is the story of how she went from working within the system to founding a multidisciplinary and neuroaffirmative pediatric clinic that supports families with expertise, compassion, and creativity.

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The JEM Workshop is a business that caters to other businesses. It’s a packaging outfit that has been around for more than 75 years, where they hire, empower, train, and support individuals with diverse abilities. This is the story of its past, its present, and its future.

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Tatiana Romano’s LinkedIn profile describes her as a Multilingual and dynamic Senior Leader in Project & Change Management. She started out as an architect, but is now – among many other things – a holistic wellness coach. Tatiana Romano, welcome to the Minding Your Business podcast. In 2022 she opened her home to Ukrainian refugees.

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What's inside the Mobispaw van? This episode we re-introduce to the entrepreneur who inspired this podcast, and the expanding company that brings the pet grooming studio to your home.

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Can there be a more heimish phrase than Friday Night Dinner? It conjures up nostalgia for those of us who grew up with, well, Friday night dinners, and resonates with those who maintain the tradition of Shabbat with family. In this episode we introduce to the founder of a company called Friday Night Dinner, Jessie Horowitz.

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Divinity school wasn’t for him. So, Eli Lallouz became an optician. Not just because he wanted glasses that wouldn’t break. A born entrepreneur, he and his wife built Vision 770, a veritable eyeglass empire. Listen in to find out what led to his success at such a young age.

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