Host Ron Haik is joined by Arts Umbrella President and CEO Paul Larocque, Associate Artistic Director of Theatre, Music & Film Andy Toth, Arts Instructor Riba Kalb and Ben Waters, a dance student with the Arts Umbrella Post-Secondary Program.

They discuss what it means to have access to the arts and the value of an arts education. They also discuss how Arts Umbrella was able to improvise to allow students to perform and sing together safely throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and how working in and with the arts has made an impact in all the guests lives and their communities.

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Host Ethan Astaneh speaks with Kristina Boyer, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Canuck Place Children's Hospice. Kristina explains who Canuck Place helps, how specifically they provide a safety net to children in their care, how they overcome the challenges of providing support in remote locations and throughout the pandemic, and how our listeners can contribute in an impactful way.

Canuck Place Children’s Hospice is the pediatric palliative care provider for children in BC and the Yukon, looking after some of the most medically complex and fragile children and their families in Western Canada with life-threatening illnesses.

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Host Mark Therriault speaks with Ben Jang, Portfolio Manager at Nicola Wealth focused on debt instruments. In today’s conversation, they discuss preferred shares, which has been a hot topic over the last several months because of changes in the marketplace.

Ben gives a breakdown of this asset class and explains how the changes in the marketplace in the last several years have impacted it. He also touches on the new issue that RBC recently came out with that could potentially replace preferred shares as a whole, explaining the key differences between this new issue vs. rate resets (the predominant player in the current preferred shares market).

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Jessica Arakgi, Nicola Wealth Financial Advisor, speaks with Dr. Peter Adamson. Dr. Adamson is a Head and Neck Plastic Surgeon. He is recognized both nationally and internationally for his surgical techniques, teaching, and leadership.

In 1996, he founded the Face the Future Foundation and has since been leading medical missions to treat advanced medical cases in the developing world. For nearly 25 years, Face the Future has been providing life-changing facial reconstructive surgery to disadvantaged youth around the world.

In today’s conversation with Jessica, Dr. Adamson discusses how and why he founded Face the Future, what the medical missions he goes on are like, and why he does (and continues to do) the work that he does. Dr. Adamson also offers some invaluable wisdom for those looking to make a big impact in the world and shares some of the biggest lessons he has learned through leading his foundation.

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Host Ron Haik, Senior Financial Advisor and Ontario Regional Manager at Nicola Wealth, is joined by Geoffrey Pegg, Director of Sustainability, Utilities and Energy Management at TELUS.

Geoff shares how he began his career within the industry and how it has evolved over the years, how companies can have a greater impact with their sustainability efforts, and his thoughts on what responsibilities corporations hold with regards to working towards sustainability.

Geoff also gives advice for those looking to make a career in this fast-growing sector, how he sees corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives headed in the future and his suggestions on how corporations can face the current challenges and constraints in the sustainability sector.

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Rob Edel, Nicola Wealth Chief Investment Officer, joins host Ethan Astaneh to provide a recap of the markets in the second quarter of 2020.

He discusses the unexpectedly quick recovery of stock markets, the upcoming US election, geopolitics, and some of the long-term challenges still facing us in the aftermath of COVID-19. He also addresses how the US-China trade relationship has developed, the unique challenges we are facing in Canada, developments in the energy markets, and how the current dynamic between China and Hong Kong may impact financial markets.

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Host Mark Therriault is joined by Margaret Mason, a lawyer with 35 years of experience advising donors, charities and other tax-exempt organizations and their boards. 

Mark and Margaret discuss the similarities and differences between donor-advised funds and foundations and how to create giving strategies for individual families. Margaret also shares invaluable insights on the importance of timing when it comes to giving, the variety of services that provide assistance to donors, what you should consider with regards to due-diligence when looking to give to charities, and what you need to know about tax benefits.

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CEO John Nicola, interviews Dr. Daniel Crosby; a Psychologist, behavioral finance expert, and New York Times best-selling author who helps organizations understand the intersection of the mind and markets.

In their discussion today, they talk about the markets so far this year; it's effect on investor behavior, including the perversity of risk; and the psychology behind success. Dr. Crosby explains the four consistent types of behavioral risk, the three pieces we need to have in place to be able to make real changes in our behavior, what cognitive dissonance is and how it applies to the way investment decisions get made, and how someone can objectively measure how successful they are as a behavioral investor.

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Nicola Wealth CEO, John Nicola interviews actor, theatre and opera director Christopher Gaze.

Christopher is the founder, and current Creative Director, of Bard on the Beach — a Shakespeare festival set on the ocean in Vancouver, which has grown into one of the largest professional theatre companies in Canada. Additionally, Christopher has lent his voice to numerous animated films and TV series and hosts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s popular Tea & Trumpets series.

In their discussion, John and Christopher discuss his personal journey, the arts sector in Canada, what it is like to be a theatre and voice actor and how COVID-19 has impacted the arts.

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Jay Seabrook, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Enriched Academy joins host Mark Therriault to discuss how he and his team are working to fill that gap in Financial Literacy. In this episode, Jay shares his incredible story of entrepreneurship, from being in immense debt, to teaming up with his co-founder, Kevin Cochran, and appearing on Dragons Den. They also discuss his motivation for starting Enriched Academy, how it has developed over time and the importance of financial literacy at a young age. 

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