The Northern Sentinels Podcast

On this episode, I speak with the founder and CEO of Nordsapce, Rahul Goel. At 32 years old, Rahul has achieved more in the business world than people twice his age. Born and raised in Toronto, he started his first company during the daily commute to university. His first customer paid him 50 bucks to use his software and this launched his company PheedLoop. Although he started as a business school student at York, he was attending classes in physics and math instead. After a short stint at York, he was accepted into the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto. When he graduated, he lived around the world trying to figure out where to put down roots that would get him closer to people working in the space industry. He founded Nordspace with the vision of building a truly domestic Canadian space capability - a space vehicle designed, built, and launched in Canada with a Canadian payload. Rahul is an impressive human who has deliberately chosen to pursue his passions in ways that will benefit Canada and Canadians.

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Rahul Goel is a person who lives his values. Instead of taking his space company to the US, he has made a conscience decision to stay in Canada to build our domestic capabilities. Listen to why this was important to him on this NSP Short.

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How do you go from loving airplanes, space, and science as a kid to building your own rocket company? It takes a vision, a lot of hard work and money, and a deep-seated passion. On this NSP Short, Rahul Goel explains why he wanted to build NordSpace.

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On this episode, I speak with Canadian entrepreneur, business mentor, and veteran, Brice Scheschuk. Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, he was adopted at birth and had a wonderful childhood with a loving family. He knew in high school he wanted to do something in the business world and, upon graduation, went to the University of Regina. Before starting university, he joined the Naval Reserve and fell in love with the profession of arms. This motivated him to take a gap year to finish his Navy training and then he transferred to Dalhousie University to finish his education. After graduation he got the entrepreneurial bug and was involved in numerous startups over the years culminating with the co-founding of Wind Mobile. After a selling the company, Brice has focused his time and energy on investing in and mentoring new companies to help them succeed in business.

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Canadians have been frustrated for decades with the expense of wireless plans in Canada. Ever wonder why we are in this situation? Listen to Brice Scheschuk, one of the co-founders of Wind Mobile, explain how the Canadian telecom oligopoly has made Canadian wireless some of the most expensive in the world.

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Imagine if the only way you could succeed at business was to be the next Uber or AirBnB? There is an unhealthy narrative around these unicorn companies that needs to be debunked. On this NSP Short, Brice Scheschuk talks about how he mentors entrepreneurs to ensure they understand there are many ways to succeed in business.

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On this episode, I speak with Canadian businessman and philanthropist, Wayne Goranson. Wayne is the fifth generation of his family to be born and raised on the family farm in Weyburn Saskatchewan. He went to university for engineering and since then has been involved with defence, oil and gas, agriculture, and data and information management. Along the way he has spent a significant amount of time and money giving back to those in need. He has done this around the globe and in his own backyard in Saskatoon. He is truly a great Canadian and I’m grateful he took time to share his story.

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As I often say, there are many ways to serve. During the pandemic, Wayne Goranson started to make meals at home for those less fortunate in Saskatoon. On this NSP Short, he shares the story of feeding 27 children during this challenging time for many families.

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When Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in 2016, Wayne Gornson was building an agricultural enterprise in the Dominican Republic. When asked if there was a way he could help the affected population, he jumped in to action. Listen to the amazing story on this NSP Short.

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On this episode, I speak with the CEO of Invictus Games Vancouver - Whistler 2025, Scott Moore. Born in Montreal, but raised in Toronto, Scott grew up in a family where most were in the financial sector. This was not to be his path and he focused on one of his passions, sports. Scott became one of Canada’s most prominent sports broadcasters. He was one of the first employees at TSN in the 80s, helped start Sportsnet on CTV, ran CBC Sports, and eventually became the President of Sportsnet and NHL at Rogers media. Scott came out of retirement to lead the organization and execution of Invictus 2025. The opening ceremony for the games is on 8 February so I hope you take the time to not only listen to this episode, and episode 23 with Invictus athlete Alaina Mundy, but to watch the games later this month.

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