The Gyst Life

The Gyst Life

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  • 107-More Financial Advising, Less Selling | Over Drinks with Spencer from Sagium
    Financial Advisors...
    They have a direct impact on the livelihoods, future life experiences, and overall emotional wellbeing of their clients. 
     
    Unfortunately, the financial industry as a whole has taken some big hits in the trust space. And it’s brought a level of caution with how we proceed going forward. 
     
    Never mind bringing people together around an aligned cause and purpose in any arena that typically has only the best interests of the few at heart. This takes something. 
     
    But people like Spencer and organizations like Sagium are doing the hard work of making things right and ensuring their client's best interests are served, not the shareholders of the industry. 
     
    On this episode Spencer shares his journey; those actions he took that got him to where he is now and what the leadership team at Sagium has been doing to keep growing strong and succeeding as an organization during uncertain times.
    33 min
  • 106 - Keeping Small Business Viable Through Space Activation and Place Making | Over Drinks with Adrian at The BLOX

    What do you do with an empty concrete canvas that has 12 decades of history weaved through it?


    How do keep small businesses viable in the shadow of corporate giants? How do you break down years of status quo as you re-create and reconnect a community back to its electric roots at the same time embracing what's next?


    Adrian Urlacher, Amanda Weightman from The Beltline BIA and Geoff Hughes from Park Digital talk about what it takes to nurture and strengthen the human to human experience in business and the future of space activation and placemaking in Calgary.

    We want community, yet struggle to create it around ourselves. They fill our tank and give meaning to our lives, and the connection gap is widening. It really does take something to build community in today’s world. And all it takes is one energetic visionary with the courage to step forward with an idea to become a catalyst.

    The Beltline BIA (formerly known as) is a new BIA blazing a new trail, and building a brand that will take everyone within their community walls into the future and having a lot of fun doing it.

     

    Episode takeaways:

    • A jack of all trades is a master of none? 
  • The power of being part of community
  • The tragic reality of what it takes
  • What does a clear vision of the future open up?
  • The best time to start?
  • Who do you have in your corner?
  • alignment of values and people
  • Say yes and how and not no and why
  • Uncommon sizzle that's electric? Yes please!

    • The Beltline online:

    https://www.thebeltline.ca/

     

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    36 min
  • 105 - Good Mentorship Makes All The Difference | Over Drinks with Jayson Lowe at Ascendant Financial

    My guest today has a unique lens to the world of being human and doing business.

    His name is Jayson Lowe, CEO of Ascendant Financial.

     

    He will be the first to admit that it is because of the mentorship and leadership of others that has gotten him to where he’s at in his life. 

    And while he could never articulate the gratitude that’s necessary to honour them.

    He is passing on the lessons he’s learned and continues to uncover to those who are ready and listening.

    We all need good mentors in our life and it’s been an honour to be able to know him.

     

    Follow Jayson Lowe

    Curious about becoming your own banker?

    Listen to the Wealth Without Bay Street Podcast

     

    25 min
  • 104 - So I Married an Entrepreneur (E4)

    A friend shared something really personal last week.


    She did a great job of leading the charge on how to embrace your vulnerable human side powerfully. 

    She got real and raw and it was needed. Not just for her to do but for the reminder that it provided us. Namely how important it is to have a community of people around you, holding you up when you need it.

    And it’s not easy in this COVID world.
    Where before my calendars were filled with meetings and I certainly got better at having them be meaningful and not stuck up at the surface. It wasn’t enough. Isn’t enough to truly build community.

    And now we’re zooming everywhere.
    Responding to the “how are you’s” with “good” and “fine” which we all know is a load of crock, but we all got shit to do and it’s that much easier to miss or ignore.

    Welcome to the new normal, you think you were lonely and disconnected before…

    Ok...now how are our young people handling all of this?
    How do you even find out?
    They’re literally living inside of a different reality.
    One we have a little context for or experience in.
    Not to say there is zero relatedness, but like your parents and your parents, parents It’s a new version of an old problem.

    Therein lives the opportunity...nay the responsibility.

    We must re-calibrate our families, and not from the typical top-down dictation but in collaboration with our young people.

    To do the deeper work...
    To have everyone contributing and co-creating the necessary alignment so we can all keep working towards what makes the difference for us as a family.

    And remove the assumptions that everyone agrees with what you’re doing.

    31 min
  • 103 - So I Married An Entrepreneur (E3)

    Today on E3 we share about:

    • My last speaking gig at i4 and some of the elevated self-awareness that showed up.
  • Zoom calls! Talking heads is now the new normal and how do we ensure we don’t get too comfortable in it.
  • Multitasking vs focused effort.
  • The building blocks that are helping us set stronger foundations for our businesses and our family
  • The new relationship to finances and the process of taking back control of our money.
  • Homeschooling! And our journey of going back to school, again! And the opportunity we’re seeing it’s creating to deepen our relationship with our kids in other areas, like SEX. Fuck me…
    • 40 min
  • 102-So I Married An Entrepreneur (E2)

    In today's episode we talk about:

    • Physical wellbeing
  • The practice of doing nothing
  • The process of going from good to great (and being ok with sucking during the process)
  • When ego shows up as you work towards your aspirational goals for the future
  • Doing what you love doing, and having it become a viable business
  • Finding your tribe

    • ___________

    Maya and David have been in business together for as long as they’ve been married. They are into their 13th year, have been through 6 iterations of their businesses to date, are proud parents of twin 9-year-olds (which they’ve now homeschooling in our “new normal”).

    They share what it’s taken to keep their relationship just as much a priority as their family and business ventures.

    The strategies they’ve crafted and curated to manage the stress, the inevitable conflict, differences of opinions and facing their fears together...

    39 min
  • 101 - So I Married an Entrepreneur (E1)

    Maya and David have been in business together for as long as they’ve been married. They are into their 13th year, have been through 6 iterations of their businesses to date, are proud parents of twin 9 year olds (which they’ve now homeschooling in our “new normal”).


    They share what it’s taken to keep their relationship just as much a priority as their family and business ventures.

     

    The strategies they’ve crafted and curated to manage the stress,the inevitable conflict, differences of opinions and facing their fears together....

     

    Join them on E1 of So I Married an Entrepreneur

    33 min
  • 100 - Are You Ready?
    What a shit show. Your life as you remember it is no longer as it was. And likely never will be. 
     
    What are you doing to be ready for the next chapter of your story? How prepared are you?
    What are you doing to grow and expand yourself?
    How are you taking on the inner critic that is there, right on queue to tell you how much you suck, that what you’re doing won’t work, so why bother?
     
    Who do you want to be known as and know yourself to be?
    Therein lies the opportunity.
     
    Are you ready to meet the stranger that lives within? 
    Are you ready to meet the strangers out there as you venture forth on your new path?
     
    It’s a process and it sure is fulfilling when I’m listening to understand myself.
    46 min
  • 99 - Honor Your Higher Creative Self

    On today's episode, Alison Masniuk, a Calgary based digital content strategist and I have dig into where she's at with her career. What's working and what's not. 

    Your life is a game. The game is to become better than you of yesterday. In the beginning, you will not be extraordinary, and that is ok. Excellence, mastery, confidence, certainty are all by-products of playing the game The challenges you face are your biggest opportunities for growth, and doubt and uncertainty is inevitable. There is no shortcut, only focused committed attention to your craft.

     

     

     

    44 min
  • 98 -The Law Of Attraction: What Does That Actually Mean?

    You have a choice. Every day you encounter a myriad of choices, some that you are aware of, others that you are not.

    All of which take you down an inevitably predictable path. The actions you take outline the past, define your present, and determine your future. Everywhere you look you'll find exactly what you are looking for.

    Read that one more time.

    If you want to see the negativity and disaster in the world you can look and you WILL find it. But equally so if you want to experience a positive, happy, rewarding life you have to look for the opportunities around you to uncover those things.

    You get to make the decision. You have the power to take the actions. What kind of life do you want?

     

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    1 hr 13 min

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Creativity is imperfect by nature. This show navigates the everchanging flow of our thoughts, ideas and experiences that shape our lives, our work and our relationship to creativity.