How many of you have a broken screen on your phone?

Today our guest tells us that it’s not our fault! It’s the result of bad design. Paul Rowan, the founder and genius behind the legendary Canadian brand UMBRA, joins us. We talk about design, commoditization, entrepreneurship, and harmonicas, and that’s just the beginning! This is a beautiful interview with the birds chirping in the background, all the way from Columbia, have a listen now.

On this podcast we’re so excited to have Ilana Ben-Ari with us. The founder of Twenty One Toys, Ilana was first featured on TEDx with her multi-award winning empathy toy years ago and now she is running workshops and training programs for all ages, helping leaders learn empathy. On our podcast she talks about how the circus contributed to her career and what it’s like to be an entrepreneur. She’s also talks about what I call a ‘focus group’ and what happened when she left one of her toys at a table in a teachers conference. We’re so excited to have her with us on the podcast, listen in below.

You can find Ilana Ben-Ari and Twenty One Toys here:

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How many of you like to cold call? I mean really like to cold call? Well our guest today has built his entire company on them. Frank Cianciulli is the chairman and CEO of the Wish Group. Frank started out selling newspaper subscriptions over the phone in his early years, and these skills formed the basis for his company today and eventually his win for Entrepreneur of the Year. Frank talks about the freedom, struggles, and surprisingly the self-talk that made him the success he is today. Take a listen below.

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Scent Obsession…Can’t wait for you to listen to my interview with Carol-Ann Granatstein. Carol-Ann is the founder of Aromacentric, a natural line of aromatherapy products known for its chic packaging, natural ingredients, and memorable Scents with Benefits TM. It was her obsession with scent that led her to study herbalism and aromatherapy while keeping her day job as an associate producer at CBC and later as a marketing and communications executive and consultant.

Join us as we discuss climate change, what she does with her king size bed and juggling the BJ  – Bridge Job – a term coined by Marie Forleo.

We both also agreed that at 48 and 49 respectively, we are just starting to figure it out.

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Brian Scudamore is a serial entrepreneur and a passionate people-person. You will know him as the pioneer of the professional junk hauling business, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?

Brian is a regular contributor to Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and The Globe and Mail, offering industry expertise and advice for small business owners.

Today Brian is going to talk to us about his go-dark policy, why he takes Mondays and Fridays off, and his WTF office policy. Listen to the full podcast below.

Ema Dantas is CEO and Founder of Language Marketplace. She’s an International translation expert who provides rapid, accurate and ISO certified translation services for corporations and Government agencies. The company’s ‘other language’ niche is often sought out because more than 75% of the world doesn’t speak English or French. *

A former journalist, Ema is an award winning entrepreneur: a multiple recipient of Canada’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs from PROFITmagazine as well as leading her company to the Profit 500 list in 2013 of Canada’s Fastest Growning Companies. She was also the recepient of the the President’s Award in recognition of her Public Policy work to benefit fellow WBEs by WBE Canada.

She’s an author, and speaker who’s had numerous interviews for International television and print. An entertaining and passionate personality, Ema has spoken at Journey2success, Keys2accelerate, Imintera, to name a few. Her personal passions of adventure and philanthropy play out in her business. Each year, her team have elected to donate the sum of their personal bonuses to a rotating charity of their choice.

Recently she founded Peaks for Change Foundation. Her goal for the foundation as a charity is to fund-raise for a major cause, which at the moment is to help #endstigma about Mental Health, but also sprinkle their support to other causes as they work towards #leadingchang.

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You can find Ema, Language Marketplace and her Peaks for Change Foundation here:

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When Mark called his wife from a coffee shop to tell her he’d just written a business plan and wanted to quit enterprise, she applauded him. He launched In the Funnel that day. Join us today as we talk about salmon running, the power of the 4 a.m. start and at the 37:10 mark, he shares with us the 3 P’s of selling. You will also get some great sales verbiage and tips for those of us that hate to sell. Mark is eloquent, funny and full of sales knowledge. Jump in now and listen.

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You may not know her today, but you will very soon. When Rachel Fox found herself cutting her own bra up and reconfiguring it to get the best support for herself, she realized that there was a huge gap in the clothing market for sexy, voluptuous, curvy women. Rachel is about to launch her new bathing suit line for real women’s bodies, IIS-KA. With no formal credentials or education in the fashion space, she’s pushed past her fear to bring beautiful bathing suits to women in life’s most revealing moments. Rachel has grace and guts.

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Check out our very first podcast with guest Julie Cole, Co-Founder of Mabel’s Labels. This busy mom of 6 and her business partners went from having big traditional careers to working out of the basement. Ten years later Avery Labels bought them. Listen to her story of how masking tape led to a multi-million dollar Canadian entrepreneurial success story.

You can find Julie and Mabel’s Labels here:

Website: mabelslabels.com

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website: truthanddare.ca