Owners Circle

Find out how entrepreneur Joelle Faulkner of Area One Farms is partnering with medium size farm operations to ramp up their growth. See why her investors take an uncommonly patient and long term approach that gives her a unique edge in agriculture.

Ken Hitchcock, the third-winningest coach in NHL history shares his valuable experiences having coached the Dallas Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, St. Louis Blues, and most recently the Edmonton Oilers. Hitch shares lessons he learned from other sports including NFL football coach Andy Reid and Hall of Fame baseball manager Tony Larussa.

In this episode, Ken reveals how you know when you have a winning team, what it takes to motivate the players, and one of his top coaching decisions he made the year Dallas won the Stanley Cup.

• Keith shares his thoughts on what it's like to own a true family run business (3:10)
• How COVID-19 impacted Keith and his family's business (4:00)
• How a shift in marketing impacted the business (5:14)
• Customer loyalty is attributed to great staff and personal relationships (7:24)
• What it takes to keep skilled staff in a high-turnover industry (10:17)
• Keith and his wife share different traits that make them work well as a team (11:30)
• What the future holds for the family business (13:16)
• Keith's experience with minor hockey (14:57)
• How skills gained during hockey have helped Keith in the restaurant industry (16:54)
• 18:09 Random Rapid Fire Response

• Dylan's family's history with Lethbridge Ironworks goes back to the 1930s (1:35)
• What has changed for foundries in the last 100 years (2:29)
• Focusing on the company's future is why Lethbridge Ironworks has thrived over the years (5:05)
• Dylan shares memories of family mentorship and leadership (6:30)
• Dylan describes the combination of how his polar opposite uncle and dad worked so well together (7:28)
• Lean manufacturing and how it's impacted Lethbridge Ironworks (9:52)
• Dylan lists what the company is focused on to satisfy customers (12:25)
• The future for Lethbridge Ironworks (13:38)
• Dylan describes the "brotherhood" (19:11)
• Random Rapid Fire Response (20:47)

• Kim started his business back in 1994 in the basement of his home (2:14)
• Mentors who have contributed to Kim's success along the way (3:22)
• Some of the misconceptions around high-level tax planning (5:24)
• Kim shares his conversation with Pierre Poilievre, a Canadian Member of Parliament and finance critic (9:53)
• The common traits of successful entrepreneurs (12:03)
• Kim's advice to new entrepreneurs (13:27)
• How Strategic Coach has impacted Kim approach to unique challenges facing entrepreneurs (14:19)
• Kim shares what it's like working with professional athletes (19:17)
• Rapid Fire Response (20:30)

From South Africa, Moulaye knew what it looked like to have nothing. Loving soccer, he always felt that he would remain loyal to the sport, that is, until he was introduced to basketball. However, as he grew into a young teenager, he wasn't able to purchase a pair of size 13 shoes in his town, let alone play professional basketball. That is, until he met Greg Winston.

Join us as Moulaye shares his journey of leaving South Africa, becoming an NCAA athlete, and leaving his career in basketball to begin working in finance.

Key Highlights in this Podcast

• Reveal of who introduced Moulaye to basketball (4:26)
• How Moulaye gained the opportunity to come to the United States from South Africa (6:20)
• How Greg Winston, retired professional basketball player, had a profound impact on Moulaye (8:00)
• How leaving South Africa to learn and playing basketball in the US impacted Moulaye (11:30)
• Recruited by Kansas Jayhawks in his senior year (12:44)
• What it's like playing for respectable and highly notable coaches and leaders (14:07)
• Moulaye shares values that he gained while playing under Roy Williams and Bill Self (16:03)
• How an injury affected Moulaye's basketball career (18:34)
• Why academics became so important to Moulaye (23:41)
• Advice Moulaye has for other children in similar situations (25:00)
• Random Rapid Fire (26:51)

While Jeff and his partner were working as nutritional consultants, they noticed a very specific need that their customers had, which wasn't being filled within the industry. After reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy, Jeff began to understand how the feed industry was locked into repeating the same process, rather than innovating - opening the opportunity to start a company More Than Just Feed in "open waters."

Join us as Jeff shares how he took the leap from a safe career to an opportunity that would forever change the feed industry.

Key Highlights in this Podcast

• The story behind More Than Just Feed (1:18)
• Jeff shares the challenges that he and his partner encountered when starting the company (4:25)
• What it took for Jeff to take the leap as an entrepreneur (6:20)
• The biggest challenge that Jeff overcame(9:40)
• Consolidation with the industry being nimble to meet customer needs (10:36)
• Jeff explains why they recently underwent a name and brand update (12:23)
• Advice that Jeff would give his younger self about taking the leap (13:58)
• Random Rapid Fire (15:48)

Having worked for Reebok in his early career, Justin demonstrated the drive that it took to grow within the industry. However, when Adidas took over Reebok in 2006, Justin found himself laid off and at a crossroads in his career. Seeing the slide market share increasing, Justin came up with the concept of ISlide, a company that allows customers to customize slides, to provide more meaning to their footwear. He is now the founder and CEO of a multimillion dollar company.

Join us as Justin shares his journey from Reebok to ISlide and how he turned a layoff into an opportunity to change his life, and his career, for the better.

Key Highlights in this Podcast

• How Justin began within the footwear industry (1:44)
• Justin's entrepreneurship journey began when Adidas took over Reebok (3:25)
• As a startup, Justin quickly learned how to be resourceful (4:39)
• Justin shares how he competes in the current market (6:08)
• 'Stand In What You Stand For' and how ISlide has so many influencers wearing their products (7:31)
• How Justin developed the concept of ISlide (10:06)
• Advice Justin has for budding entrepreneurs (11:34)
• Justin shares his nonprofit which has used basketball to bring connection and health practices to children (15:10)
• Rapid Fire (18:05)

• A fire in Fort MacLeod brought Mike's dad John home to start their entry into the auto business.
• The dynamic of working in the family business motivated Mike to work hard and ensure he wasn't labelled the "entitled dealers son"
• All the brothers worked for many years in the business until they became managers and eventually shareholders
• Entry into other businesses varied from necessity to finding a great business partner who wanted to stay involved and grow with a like minded partner
• All the businesses have a partner or a future intent of having a owner on the ground in each community they operate.
• The groups 4 core values are teamwork - family - integrity - community
• Central services looks after all the accounting, IT, call center and HR/payroll for all the separate entities
• Dad's mentor style was to lead by example and do what is right all the time, correction came if you strayed from the core values.
• Mike got paid a fair salary for the work he did in the company which as value he hopes to pass down to his kids of the 4th generation
• It wasn't about drawing dividends, it was an intentional decision to take out less so they could grow and acquire more businesses over the years
• Do something you love and you'll never be clock watcher
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In this episode we sit down with Lynn Thacker of LTAC Farms, a specialty crop producer from Bow Island, Alberta

In this episode, we talk about:

• Lynn's business partner and wife Ute Thacker's impact and role as such an integral part of their operation
• The evolution of pivot irrigation and how that allowed their farm to grow more innovative crops
• The Canadian Wheat board's monopoly and how it forced farmers to diversify into other crops to avoid their stifling regulation
• Lynn's dad George encouraged Lynn and his brothers to experiment and take some creative chances over the years
• Specialty crops demand quality
• Research about the negative effects of fossil fuels impact on climate change needs to be scrutinized and verified against it's source
• Science isn't done through consensus, many of the world's best scientist's like Albert Einstein had consensus against them in the past

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