The CAST

Pei Li, Co-Founder of Venue is making waves in the online hosting platform industry. He shares over 9 years of business experience having worked both at financial institutions like Wealthsimple and computer science companies like IBM. Pei has mastered the art of building startups from scratch and shares a wide variety of industry knowledge from coding to management. Aspiring entrepreneurs from everywhere can learn something from Pei.

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Sheilagh Croxon, Founder & Director at SyncEffect and Olympic Coach, shares over 24 years of leadership experience. Having worked at with both business professionals and athletes,  Sheilagh has mastered the art of growing individuals into high performers. Sheilagh has collaborated with many types of students and offers a wide variety of industry knowledge from consulting to competitive sports. Aspiring business leaders from all walks of life can learn something from Sheilagh. 

Coleen Wafer, Learning & Development Specialist at Deloitte, shares over 9 years of leading global business knowledge and industry experience. Having worked at both Deloitte as a specialist and at Tim Hortons as a Manager or Operations, Coleen has collaborated with many types of teams. With a wide variety of experience from business to art history, listeners from all career paths can learn from Coleen.

Just Cakes Bakeshop was the brainchild of Raveena Oberoi. She is a pastry chef, baker, cake designer, and business owner. She has been baking for thirteen years and, up until 2016, she learned on her own. She enrolled in the Ecole Belloeut Conseil in Paris, France in 2017 and graduated as a pastry chef. Since then, she has earned multiple accolades for her cake-making prowess, including the "Best Cake Challenge" prize from Van Foodster, the "Big Bake Championship" title from Food Network Canada, the Surrey Board of Trade's Top 25 Under 25, and "Young Entrepreneur of the Year."

Jensen Liu is the Chief Operating Officer at HomeOptions. HomeOptions pays owners to be their future real estate broker. Jensen and his team raised over 9 million dollars USD in seed funding and are thriving in the tech startup sphere. Jensen will share today about the importance of developing key skills and attributes that will help you be prepared and thrive in the future of work.

Alina Huang the CEO and Founder of Illuminate Universe interviews Tomiwa Ademidun who is the CEO and Founder of Atila. Tomiwa has a dual degree in software engineering and business from Ivey Business School at Western University. Tomiwa has also worked as a software engineer at the Royal Bank of Canada and Wealthsimple. Atila is a national company that is dedicated to helping students achieve academic success. Along with their tutoring services they also help hundreds and thousands of students from high schools and universities across Canada win scholarships and succeed in school and beyond.

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Christal Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Shimmer, a mental Wellness Group support platform that bridges science backed methods like CBT and DBT. With the power of peer support and accountability ADHD can be your advantage. Everyone is born to Shimmer. Shimmer was accepted into the Y Combinator one of the best and world-class startup accelerators. Crystal will share today about the importance of developing key skills and attributes that will help you be prepared and thrive in the future of work.  

Christal was pursuing her dual degree in MBA & MPH from University of California Berkeley Haas when she was diagnosed with ADHD & took a leave to start Shimmer. She is all things social impact & consumer — she’s worked as a Consultant at Bain & Co. advising fortune 100 companies on social impact strategy and launched consumer startups all over the world. Now, she’s finally where she belongs at Shimmer where she is helping others make ADHD their superpower.  

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In this episode of The CAST, Raaj Chatterjee, the CEO of MeaningfulWork, is interviewed by Netanya Castillo, a Program Coordinator at Illuminate Universe. Raaj examines the various stages he took to discover his long-term passion and develop into the success story he is today. This week's listeners will love hearing about Raaj’s career trajectory and how he managed to take a non-linear path by working hard in the non-profit sector.

In this episode of Illuminate Universe’s podcast - The Cast, Illuminate founder Alina Huang interviews business superwoman: Jessica McNaughton.   Jessica is both an entrepreneur and an ‘intraprenuer’. She shares her inspiring and captivating professional journey and how she created her own consulting firm and startup memoryKPR - a digital time capsule. Listeners will enjoy hearing Jessica’s advice on how to find your passions and strategies to demonstrate high performance while leveraging emotional intelligence in any professional work environment.

In this episode of Illuminate Universe’s podcast, Illuminate’s director of business development Richelle Nitelet and Brandon a Student Regional Lead at Illuminate Universe interview Mashruf Chowdhury who is a cyber risk advisory analyst at Deloitte. Listeners this week will enjoy hearing advice that Mash has for students both starting University and leaving university ready to start their professional careers, they'll learn about the increasing importance of leadership skills in the workplace and recommendations for managing a proper work-life balance.