In this episode, I chat with Sabrina, co-founder of Spirit Redefined. The goal of Spirit Redefined is to bring a positive light and awareness to mental health through street wear. Proceeds from all purchases go towards making mental health services more accessible.  As a marketing professional, fitness coach and the co-founder of Spirit Redefined, Sabrina explains how she prioritizes her own mental health and a few  daily non-negotiables she has that ensures she makes time for herself.

Sabrina describes her relationship with her sisters, as they are the other co-founders to the company. We talk about our differences in opinion on working with family, but how they ultimately make it work. In our lightning round, Sabrina shares more about the significance behind the Spirit Redefined animal representations, which animal she identifies with the most and  how it can change day to day.

On this episode, I chat with Gaelen, the founder of Titan Athletics. He takes me through his journey as a high level, collegiate athlete and how this experience as well as his overall passion for sports, inspired him to start his own fitness and athletics company. Titan offers a variety of services all starting with helping local group fitness and personal trainers gain exposure and work collaboratively to enhance their skills. There are a variety of fitness classes, yoga sessions and sport specific training offered all currently via Zoom.

We delve deep into how living the life as an athlete helped equip Gaelen with the necessary tools it takes to build his own business. He shares his vision for the company and through our lightning round, how making money shouldn't be the ONE reason you start your own business.

On this episode, Laura from Laura’s Language Lounge and I talk about her passion for language and where it stemmed from. She describes herself as constantly wanting to learn not only to assist her clients in learning English as a second language, but learning from her clients and the various cultural backgrounds they come from. We discuss how she took the bull by the horns to start her business in a simple yet effective way and all the while managing a full time job and raising a 10 year old. Super mom is not even the word!

In our lightning round of questions, we get an inside look into Laura’s daily routine, her advice to her daughter as a potential business owner and the one thing she thinks you cannot go without when starting your own business.

On this episode, Hannah from Needless to Soy chats about her inspiration behind her business and how being a part of an already established business helped boost her confidence in creating something of her own. She describes her time during the pandemic as one that helped her take her hobby and transform it into an online candle business. We delve into her f**k it approach mentality and how starting a business can lead to so many open doors in terms of diversifying that one idea and allowing it to open the doors to so many opportunities. Just go for it! 

As we end the episode with a lightning round of questions, Hannah shares her vision for her new found business, her business role model & the surprising place she had to visit first after her town came out of lockdown.