Coming up today on the Secret Life of Entrepreneurs, our guest shares her story of turning a lifelong love into a thriving business. Fat Plant Farm started as an Instagram following built on passion and an authentic appreciation for the value of "green" in our lives.

Whether you need a splash of green in the living room window facing north, or an entire wall of green in the south-facing window, Fat Plant Farm can advise on the healthiest and hardiest indoor plants for your home.

Tune in as she tries to turn my black thumb green!

Connect with Kait @ Fat Plant Farm

https://www.fatplantfarm.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fatplantfarm

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fatplantfarm/

Today's guest is the CEO and co-Founder of Three Farmers Foods; a Canadian brand that provides healthy, wholesome plant-based snacks. (And I can say from personal experience, they are delish!)

Natasha Vandenhurk, her sister, and her dad bring flavours and an approach to our pantries and our palette that are literally popping! Imagine, a Red Seal Chef is helping prepare your Friday Night snack! How ya like them chickpeas?

Tune in to learn more about this Saskatchewan success story, their journey to your pantry, and the different ways you can add them to your family's menu.

Connect with Natasha @ Three Farmers

http://threefarmers.ca/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/threefarmersfoods/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threefarmersfoods/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/threefarmers

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-vandenhurk-61a89b26/

Today's guest is no stranger to clean up, messes, and spills with 3 kids and a busy business. 

When Dianne Beauchamp and her husband, Greg Stephanson, were on the hunt for the right business, they stumbled upon Puroclean, an international network of disaster restoration services.  

They officially opened their doors 2 weeks after the world shut down due to COVID-19 and in hindsight she says, they'd do it again.  Dianne meets people at their worst moments and she prides herself on serving her customers to the full extent possible. Making friends when families are devastated.  Tune in for today's episode!  

Connect with Dianne @ Puroclean Regina https://www.puroclean.ca/sk-regina-pu... 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PurocleanReg...

As the Chief Inspiration Officer (aka President/Owner) of a boutique communications and management firm in Saskatoon, SK, Adele works closely with clients in the agriculture and food communities to meet their individual needs in the areas of communications, public relations, marketing, event planning, and office and association management. She loves connecting with like-minded thinkers and promoting her love of food and farming.

Connect with Adele: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adele-bue...

http://agribiz.ca/

http://agribizcoaching.ca/

Coming up on Ep. 63 of the Secret Life of Entrepreneurs we have Mary Weimer of Conexus Credit Union.

Mary was born and raised in Regina. A University of Regina graduate, she and her husband, Jeremy, have owned the Assiniboia Gallery since 1999. In 2013, Mary took leave from the day-to-day operations of the gallery and joined Hillberg & Berk as its Chief Operating Officer. In July 2018, she joined Conexus Credit Union as its Chief Member Experience Officer.

As Chief Member Experience Officer at Conexus, Mary will lead the design of the future-focused member experience for the organization as well as lead Financial Wellness and the Cultivator – Canada’s first credit union led business incubator.

Mary has been involved in several non-profit organizations over the years as a volunteer board member and is currently the President of the Board of Directors for Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan and a Director on the board for Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce. She was recently appointed to the Saskatchewan Advisory Committee on Women Entrepreneurship.

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Connect with Mary:

http://conexus.ca/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryweimer/

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Today's guest left the corporate world to purse a political dream. She spoke confidently and articulated her vision for our country and our home. In pursuing her dream she discovered she had a talent for bringing people together, creating a shared vision in people, systems and organizations.  

She brings that passion to her work with Silo Strategy; S - I - L - O. Tune in to learn what SILO means (not what you think) and learn more about this fantastic lady who is remarkably passionate about her work.  

Connect with Winter @ Silo Strategy https://silostrategy.ca/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winterfedyk/

Heather is passionate about the trucking industry and is a member of the Board of Directors for both the Saskatchewan Trucking Association (STA) and for the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA).   Before transitioning to her current role, Heather earned degrees in Music and Education and enjoyed a seven-year teaching career in London, England where she led the Music Departments of both inner city and large suburban high schools.  

Upon returning to Canada to become involved in the family business, Heather advanced her education in finance, human resources, business administration, and obtained her commercial 1A driver’s licence.   Heather is also the proud mom of two young daughters and, when not at work, provides a marvellous taxi and snack service to and from daycare, ballet, soccer, swimming, figure skating, and music lessons.

Amber Goodwyn is the acting Executive Director at 91.3FM, CJTR Regina Community Radio on Treaty 4 land / in Regina, SK. Before moving to Regina in 2012 she was the Music Coordinator and Music Librarian at CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, as well as a volunteer host.   

She’s a new member of the Swamp Fest music festival Board of Directors and has previously served on the boards of Girls Rock Regina and Holophon Audio Arts. She has also served on various juries for music and arts funding and has written about music and the arts as a freelancer for Prairie Dog Magazine, Broken Pencil and other publications.   

In her art life she’s a multidisciplinary artist with active performance, film and video, writing and music practices. Currently she plays music in her experimental synth pop solo project Natural Sympathies and in the duo Dialtone, and used to play in the Montreal bands Cobra & Vulture and Nightwood.

Cari ran her first half marathon in 2005, and her first full marathon just one year later in 2006. Since then, she has been committed to training early nearly every morning, and to eating healthy to fuel her body through these workouts. 

Despite her long-time commitment to her physical health, she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, at the end of 2018. Due to a radical hysterectomy to remove most of the tumor, followed by six months of chemotherapy, she was bedridden and unable to run. After being placed in remission in July of 2019, she immediately reached out to her running coach to slowly return to training. On Sunday February 9th, 2020, she ran her first half marathon since beating cancer.

Donna Crooks' personal vision is to make a difference in the lives of others through her work and in her life. She is the Founder & Chief at Brain Snacks Co, a platform business with a mission to help close the gender gap by supporting women with core services, like study and workspace, supervised play for children, networking, career coaching, and professional development.   

Donna's career accelerated early. Despite her success, she found she lost ground in her career when she started her family. When she returned to work from her first two maternity leaves, her position was gone both times.   Donna began to focus on the necessity for women to have choices, financial freedom, autonomy and capacity to weather adversity. Thinking of this problem, she began to wonder how she could diversify her own career and financial stability while designing a business that would help women be successful in managing all the demands of work and family.   Thus, the idea for Brain Snacks Co was born. 

The Brain Snacks Co experience is all about choices for women from all walks of life, mothers and careerists, women on maternity leave, Indigenous women, women of colour, newcomers, and members of our LGBTQ+ communities.   Even the food is inclusive, offering choices for vegan and gluten-free customers as well. Men are most welcome too!  

Connect with Donna @ Brain Snacks Co https://www.brainsnacks.co/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrainSnacksCo/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brainsnacksco/