The Mad Chatter

The Mad Chatter

By Cassandra HuiSociety & Culture
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The Mad Chatter episodes

  • Money Talks: The good, the bad, the ugly
    Anne Arbour is a financial educator who is passionate in both talking about money and in helping people. In this episode, Anne sets the baseline of separating the emotion from the math and really knowing your own current money situation, money habits and money goals. Anne also gets real and talks about the mindset behind the fear and loathing of money fuelled by our social media obsessions. You'll (re)learn the financial basics, what the real number is behind credit card debt and how getting organized with your planning will set you up to achieving your big financial dreams.
    Want to find out more about financial literacy or reach out to Anne?
    Website for non-profit Credit Counselling Society
    (nomoredebts.org) financial education and resources (mymoneycoach.ca). Or email Anne directly: anne.arbour @ nomoredebts.org
    **Like Anne says, take financial advice from others with a grain of salt. The opinions provided are not meant to give a set financial direction. Please consult Credit Counselling Society or Anne for individual counselling.
    47 min
  • Entrepreneurship: What to expect when you're expecting (to be an entrepreneur)

    Glorie Averbach is an entrepreneur, business coach, mentor, founder, women-in-tech advocate and she's just getting started! Glorie started her career plans with the intention of being a lawyer but accidentally fell into tech which led to her owning and selling a successful home tech automation business. Now, Glorie owns a coaching business (my ceo.ca) helping other leaders and entrepreneurs in the process while also making time to develop and mentor people in the tech space. In this episode, Glorie shares with us the must-haves for anyone getting into entrepreneurship (hint: it's a lot more about knowing yourself than you think), what it means to "play-up" by the people you surround yourself with and what changes she has witnessed for women and for leaders in the tech space.   Also, you're going to love her final pieces of advice!

    32 min
  • Live your heart out: sharing the best advice from Season 1

    What a ride! 1-year ago I wanted to share the inspiring stories of people I knew who decided to live a life according to their personal rules and standards. Through their stories, I can believe that everything is possible and that people will find a way to accomplish what their heart desires. A year ago, I wanted to do this in the best way I knew how and in a way that respected my guest's stories and allowed them to author their own tales to each person who listened, and so, @the mad chatter podcast was born. To celebrate the end of Season 1, I took my favourite key learnings and put them together for you. I hope there is some wisdom that resonates with you. 


    To everyone who has listened to any moment of these episodes, thank you. Thanks for taking the journey with us, I look forward to what stories Season 2 brings. 

    14 min
  • Feast on this: wisdom for the culinary adventurer
    Lindsay Anderson is one half of the duo behind Feast: Recipes and Stories from a Canadian Roadtrip and how she got there is one hell of a story. Among the backdrop of a noisy restaurant, Lindsay talks about how her love of food and invention led her away from a traditional food industry career into a 5 month adventure across Canada. Find out why she says Canadian food is just as diverse as our people, why you only find out what you're capable of by being brave and how a simple road trip can teach you more about business acumen than you know
    30 min
  • Cancer before 40: Stop living a deferred life

     In this episode, I speak with my sister Cindy who alongside our eldest sister Stephanie were diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2017. Thankfully to a genetic test, doctors were able to catch the cancer early but both sisters underwent surgery to remove their breasts and ovaries and had both went through chemotherapy treatments. Cindy by coincidence was also the same age that our mother had been when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and we were just children. We chat about her views on most people living a “deferred life of maybes, one day and some time”, on what she remembers from our mother’s cancer diagnosis and finally on the value of self-care. Here is her story.  

    25 min
  • Cancer before 40: Stop living a deferred life

     In this episode, I speak with my sister Cindy Hui who alongside our eldest sister Stephanie were diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2017. Thankfully to a genetic test, doctors were able to catch the cancer early but both sisters underwent surgery to remove their breasts and ovaries and had both went through chemotherapy treatments. Cindy by coincidence was also the same age that our mother had been when she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and we were just children. We chat about her views on most people living a “deferred life of maybes, one day and some time”, on what she remembers from our mother’s cancer diagnosis and finally on the value of self-care. Here is her story. 

    25 min
  • Our world through the eyes of a travel writer
    Mark Sissons is a travel writer who has been featured in publications like National Geographic and Nuvo Magazine. In this episode, Mark shares his stories from seeing the world in a mosaic of experience ranging from the ultra luxurious to the ultra poor. He shares a particularly moving story about how travel has given him an ability to witness miracles in other parts of the globe. Listen in and experience our world through the eyes of a travel writer.
    30 min
  • How to make work more than just a job

    In this episode we talk to Cheryl Tansey, a personal and professional development coach about making work be more than just a job. As she embarks on a journey that will take her to conferences in multiple cities across the world, she shares with us her personal story about being a world-wide student, teaches us about finding supporters at your job and the importance of sharing knowledge. But most importantly, Cheryl reminds us that at work as in life, it’s all about taking care of one another.

    22 min
  • Dollars and debt: making money work
    Jeffrey Asirifi is a humble and down-to-earth guy with a serious respect for money. For Jeffrey, it's not about the actual dollars but about dreaming big and making your money work towards those dreams. He tells us what a person needs to know about taxes, how we should look at cryptocurrency and answers the question "are weed stocks are really that dope?"
    Most importantly, listen to what Jeffrey says is critical in shaping your relationship with money (hint: it's about knowing yourself, knowing your purpose, and knowing how to be grateful to those who came before you).
    *NB: the rule of 72 which Jeffrey refers to in this talk is a formula used to determine how long it will take an investment to double.
    32 min
  • Running @awaywithstacy
    Turning a love of luxury travel and exploration into a blog, Stacy shares what she's learned about staying travel curious, collaborating with others and everything it takes to be running @awaywithstacy.
    29 min

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