The Riff Raff Podcast

The Riff Raff Podcast

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The Riff Raff Podcast episodes

  • Across the Desk: Degroote, Deep Thoughts and Digital marketing
    How often do you schedule time to learn in your business? Do you even see that as part of your business? Or do you think you know enough? Lots of questions I know.
    Today I had the chance to attend a great event at the DeGroote School of Business here in Burlington and get some answers. The event was a panel discussion on the advent of digital marketing and how organizations need to keep the conversation going. It was a great opportunity to reinforce what I already know but to also remind me how important learning is for your clients.
    Today? Today I learned the importance of creating thumb stopping moments. Curious? Have some questions? Well let's provide some answers shall we?
    24 min
  • SparkCafe - Meet Karen Chovan
    Karen’s mission statement:
    “To engage, educate and enable people working in projects and organisations, so that their individual efforts can make a positive impact.”
    Over the past decade, Karen has worked with various groups within the mining and project management sectors. Karen is a geological engineer, project manager, sustainability expert and change agent with 20 years of experience based out of Saskatoon in Canada; someone who believes that the greatest value can only be derived through common goals, healthy engagement and collaboration to reduce wasteful practices.
    Karen is a strategic forward thinker with strengths in binding together data, information and people, to identify risks and opportunities to solve complex challenges including leading teams through transformational change.
    Karen’s topic at Spark the Change: Design to engage and align for project success
    Spark Theme: Unleashing people
    22 min
  • Across the Desk: Badass At Making Money by Jen Sincero
    I'd like to tell you this is an interview with Jen Sincero and I'm all fancy like that. But it's not. What I can tell you is that I've just finished reading her latest book, You Are a Badass at Making Money, and it's freaking awesome.
    Wise Words on Across the Desk is an opportunity to give honest feedback about some of the crazy number of books I read and either recommend or advise you to steer clear.
    It could be said I'm the cattle prod of book reviewers ... If Jen Sincero can be the cattle prod of motivational speakers and get rich, then hey, why not me too?
    Take a moment to get inspired to get your financial mindset under control. One day, when I'm feeling brave, I'll read you the letters to money that I wrote and you'll see what change is possible.
    Universal Intelligence: show me the money!
    28 min
  • SparkCafe - Meet Sunil Mundra
    Sunil, working as a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks, is a Pragmatic Agile & Lean Evangelist and Systems Thinker. He has extensive international experience in consulting with organisations on the path of Lean Transformation and Change.
    Sunil’s topic at Spark the Change: Infuse Life, Embrace Change
    Spark Theme: Disruption and Change
    20 min
  • SparkCafe - Meet Rich Batchelor
    Rich is an international Change Management Professional from Canada. He is also a founding member of the Association of Change Management Professionals. He has successfully delivered change for over 25 years globally. His legacy also includes developing the change delivery model for the UK government.
    Rich is an international speaker and has also been involved at Spark the Change in Toronto, his recent-most involvement being this year where I also had a chance to say hello to Rich over the Robot that I participated from at the Spark Toronto conference. 🙂
    21 min
  • Across the Desk with guest Holly Simmons
    If you're an entrepreneur, and especially a solopreneur, then you know the challenge of trying to reach a goal on your own. it's easy to create the goal but achieving it? Sometimes it's easy to have it slip down the list.
    Meet Holly Simmons. She's a Burlington based Family Enterprise Adviser and Thinking Partner. I met Holly last year through a mutual friend and have not only gained a friend but a respected colleague. I've been fortunate to receive coaching from Holly and it was this experience that inspired me to create the Making Shift Happen program for members of my women in business group, Ballsy.
    Holly and I sat down today to talk about the value of building an accountability program, how you can create a beneficial partnership to achieve goals and why talking it out can create new goals you never even considered.
    26 min
  • Across the Desk: Drive by Daniel Pink
    We've all heard how we should focus on the "why" behind our business and make sure that we lead, produce and create with the why in mind. But have you ever considered what drives your why? Why sometimes, even with the best of intentions, your why gets derailed when constraints get wrapped around you like a boa constrictor?
    Daniel H. Pink dives in to Drive to help us understand what motivates us to succeed, why managers should stop buying so many carrots and the truth behind what creates motivation and what sends us in to the ever popular state of not being engaged with our job.
    Why is this important? Well if you run your own business - it's crucial to understand what makes your team tick. It means you keep paying the rent and stay in business or you keep hiring new team members until the exhaustion of training kills your business. Or if you manage teams for an organization, it can mean the difference between delivering on a project and meeting your deadline or explaining to your boss why that won't be happening. And no amount of carrots is going to make that better.
    18 min
  • Across the Desk: What Drives You?
    Do you sometimes step back from your business and think, "What in the hell am I doing this for?" I have. Lots. And then I figured out why. I wasn't listening to what drives me. That little voice that says, "Hell yes! This is what I was born to do!"
    I was born to teach. Took me many years to figure that out. I was also born to solve problems and put out fires. I love it. Makes me do the Mambo when I get to do that. One way I feed that habit is by being an event planner. Nothing says run like a lunatic like being in charge of a team of people delivering an event with hundreds of attendees. It blows my kilt up in a big way :)
    But if you haven't found your drive, or at least what drives you on certain aspects of your business, maybe it's time to take a look at why. Or better yet - who can you give those jobs to that rob you of your drive so that you can get back on track!
    Interested? Listen on.
    19 min
  • Across the Desk: Who the Hell is That?
    A lot of people struggle with liking photos of themselves. Why? I've no idea. I know I did until a few years ago when I opened my own business. I knew I'd have to have some good shots of myself. Why? Because people buy you and your business. If you come across shifty, incompetent or unfriendly, you've just done yourself out of some business.
    Decisions about people through their profile photo are made in 40 milliseconds. Yep. That fast. And most people aren't even cognizant of having weighed, measured and found you wanting. They just know they aren't going to do business with you.
    So if your profile photo space is blank -it's the same thing. What are you hiding? Why aren't you visible for your business? Are you telling the truth about who you are and what you can do? So much pressure in this selfie laden online world.
    Take some of these tips, get a friend with a steady hand and for the love of all that is holy don't use a selfie and add a profile photo to your social media platforms, website and wherever else it can go. Your business will thank you for years to come.
    8 min

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