Matt + Steph take the mic this week to riff on the idea of change. When is change hard and when is it easy? Why do we resist change? When is it time to make a change and to disrupt the status quo? Change is easy when it moves us closer to our goals. When something we thought was impossible becomes possible. The work in change management, is to paint a picture of the future that is worth living into. Change doesn’t need to be hard or easy, but rather an unshackling of what has been.Matt explains why the idea that we need to have it all figured out before we take the leap, results in stagnation and inaction. And for this reason, the time to act is always now. The time is now, because the perfect time doesn’t exist. We never know what the result of change will be, or where our decision will take us, but the unknown shouldn’t result in paralysis, because these disorienting dilemmas are key to true transformation. Resources:Snag your seat for DisruptHR YVR on June 6th! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupthr-yvr-2019-tickets-54379646988Seth’s Alt-MBA:https://altmba.comManager Start Line: https://thecorkercompany.com/manager-training/

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Erin is a wellness coach and podcast host of ‘Raw Beauty Talks’. Raw Beauty Co. began as a project to photograph women without make-up, photoshop, or filters. Providing a platform for women to show up as they are, and to talk about what happens behind the scenes and below the surface. ‘Raw Beauty Talks’ today is an ongoing conversation about beauty, confidence and self-love. Erin acknowledges that, for her, and for the women she is in conversation with, this is an ever changing and evolving journey. “Over the years I have come to understand that I can create space between the thoughts in my head, and now I can observe them, and that alone can reduce my reaction to them. It can allow me space and time to shift the narrative in my head into something that is more empowering. And I am at a totally different place now with my body, where I can view it as a tool that allows me to experience life”.Self-love isn’t just an emotion we feel — it takes work, attention, and nurturing. “I like to think of self-love as a verb or an action we take towards ourselves rather than just an emotion we are waiting to feel ... If we look at it as a verb or an action it becomes something we have control over”. Ultimately, Erin wants us to become empowered around our health and well-being, to know what works for us and what doesn’t, without additional stress or obsession about whether we are doing it “right”.Keep up with Erin:http://www.rawbeauty.co@rawbeautytalksCheck out Erin’s favourite people and brands for health and body positive inspiration:Angi Fletcher: @angigreeneSarah Nicole Landry: @thebirdspapayaWell + Good: @iamwellandgoodwellandgood.com

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Bradly Hall, owner of ‘Savary Island Pie Company’, chats with Steph this week and shares the courageous story of how his Mom, Eileen, founded a baking business out of necessity over 30 years ago. The ‘Savary Island Pie Company’ started from humble of beginnings, but allowed Eileen to survive as a single mother, and to emerge from poverty as a female business owner. The company continues to thrive in it’s second brick and mortar location on Marine Drive, just across the street from its original store front beside ‘Bean Around the World’, where Eileen enjoyed an strong cup of coffee with her slice of pie. Although Eileen has given the reigns of the business over to family, her legacy remains, and her perfectly flawed (and controversial) reheating instruction remain on the pie boxes today. Keep an eye out for the Savary Island Pie Company’s second location opening in Tofino this summer. Visit them in North Van, in Tofino this summer, order online, or find them in your local grocery store!! http://savaryislandpiecompany.com

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“If you’re going to write something, leave blood on the page. If you’re going to share a story from the stage, let it show your humanity” — James Altucher Matt + Steph are back together this week on the pod for a life-update and to discuss the power of vulnerability, and the importance baring our humanity when you take the stage (or the mic). They take the time to recap the stages and start lines from the last few months. From the Re/Form Conference in Squamish, to W North in Whistler, to their experience together at the Boston Marathon, with Steph at the start line, and matt on the cheer line. The episode didn’t feel complete without sharing the sticky stuff, the messy bits amongst the highs. Matt opens up about his ongoing journey to starting a family with his husband Chad. The lessons learned around managing expectations, the surrogacy process, and what it feels like to be a gay couple navigating outdated medical forms and language. Steph shares about her health struggles, and how it has been affecting her training and racing. She describes her upcoming surgery, her fear around the unknown, and the challenge in changing her mindset around training, to focus on rest and recovery. Listen to get to know a little more about the duo behind The Corker Collective — as they leave some blood on the stage.Resources:James Altucher's 10 Rules About Blogging: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/10-rules-about-blogging/

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Cicely is a diversity and inclusion consultant and activist in Vancouver. Steph and Cicely riff on how we can cultivate more inclusive workplaces, how people in leadership positions can become more diverse, and how the hiring process can change to make this a reality. “I like to take people on a journey through D+I. Its not as simple as a one hour work-shop here and there. Its not a box-checking situation, which I think diversity and inclusion can become if its not done thoroughly or genuinely.”Cicely explains that the definition of diversity and inclusion is changing from tolerance in the workplace to the celebration of individuality, where we genuinely want diverse humans at the table. Evidence and research shows that diversity is beneficial to a business’ scalability, longevity, and profitability. She challenges us to have the hard, vulnerable conversations in which we acknowledge that we don’t live in an inclusive world, and that unconscious bias exists and that it often prohibits a diverse workplace. Because, ultimately, these conversation are beneficial for not only humans, but for bottom-lines. “5% of CEOs in Canada are female. Even less are women of colour” D+I can be overwhelming and it can be hard to know where to start. Cicely suggests making a distinct effort to make meaningful connections with people who are different from ourselves. Because if we keep surrounding ourselves with the same type of people, we will never understand anyone else’s experience. “One small thing everyone can do is to be more compassionate with other peoples’ experience” Check out Cicely’s important work: https://www.cicelyblainconsulting.com Follow her inspiring content on instagram: @cicelyblainconsultingTake a look at the apology MEC CEO wrote about their failure to show diversity in their campaigns: https://www.mec.ca/en/article/outside-is-for-everyoneThe National Geographic recently acknowledged their racist past: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/from-the-editor-race-racism-history/

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“I think I’m still struggling with a loss of identity around athletics … It was very much results driven, now-a-days there isn’t as much of that … When you are racing it’s easier to quantify your results and you can base your success on where you place, or your time, or how your workout went. In regular life there is not as much opportunity to quantify your success. So it’s a combination of a loss of identity and not being able to track success — the success for me now is being able to pursue a growing business that I love” As a ‘gravel junky’, doting father, wife to a high performing athlete and passionate entrepreneur, Trav is learning to embrace the power of ‘and’. Steph and Trav discuss his change in personal identity from ironman to entrepreneur, the importance of taking time to dedicate to being a dad, and the power in supporting his wife in her own athletic pursuits. Trav is founder of InnerVoice, a platform to share the unique, interesting and inspiring stories from the world of endurance sports, and a trusted source for athletes to openly share the struggles, the joys and their journey. Trav is driven by the desire to show the human side of high level athletics. His focus has shifted from performing as an athlete to developing as a creator AND a doer, with the goal of becoming an “executer”, a professional at creating and doing. For Trav, in the time of instant gratification, a proffesional executer is someone who is thoughtful about what, when and why they show up. Keep up with Trav: https://www.instagram.com/travmckenzie/?hl=enCheck out InnerVoice for inspiration and motivation:https://www.instagram.com/innervoice.life/?hl=enhttps://anchor.fm/innervoiceaudioexperienceSBT GRV race: https://sbtgrvl.com

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“The political is personal. The personal is practical. The practical is related to embodied daily life” Dages and Matt sit down to discuss her evolving role as a yoga teacher, author and radical feminist. New York is where Dages found Katonah Yoga and her teacher Nevine Michaan, but she has taken what she learned across the pond to her new home in Paris, France and continues to plant seeds across Europe with her teacher trainings and intensives. For Dages, Katonah Yoga is an open source methodology that can be applied to any yoga practice and to life, a “Philosophical Milieu” of embodiment. Matt and Dages explore the importance of “learning to play your own instrument”, of recognizing and working with our “first and second natures”, so that we can play well with others. Yoga means union, or to yoke, and by knowing our own habits, tendencies, perspectives and biases, we are able to join the orchestra. “We have to listen to each other, we have to see each other, we have to touch eachother — otherwise there is no opportunity for the symphony to come together”. Keep up with what Dages is doing/where she is teaching: https://www.dagesjuvelierkeates.comInstagram: @dagesjuvelierkeatesPick up her first book: Radical Acts of Embodiment: https://www.katonahyoga.com/shop/radical-acts-of-embodiment-by-dages-juvelier-keatesDage’s Teacher, Nevine Michaan:https://www.katonahyoga.com/nevine-michaanLearn more about Katonah: https://www.katonahyoga.com

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“You just mentally have to make that commitment. Everyone’s busy, from a work ad a life perspective, but you just have to commit. And if it means getting up at 5:30 and getting on the trainer, or getting to the pool, you can find the time”. This week Steph sits down Chris Guillemet, CEO + Founder at Velofix. After taking a break from racing Triathlons to start a wildly success mobile bike shop company + to focus on his young family, Chris is courageously stepping back up to the start line. Chris and Steph talk comebacks, balancing work, life, and training, and finding gratitude in it all. Resources: https://www.velofix.comhttps://www.challengedathletes.orgFollow Chris: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-guillemet-b9a77aa/?originalSubdomain=caInstagram: @chris.guillemet

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Naitik began his entrepreneurial journey in 6th grade when aunt taught him how to use a graphic design program. At age 13 he was hired by a start up to do their design work, and from there he built up a roster of freelance clients. By the time he was in high-school, Naitik started his own design studio with his brother, working with clients around the world. Naitik then travelled from India to Vancouver to study at Emily Carr, without knowing much about Canada or what he was getting himself into. During his first internship at Microsoft, Naitik has the opportunity to work with a visually impaired engineer named Kartik, who was denied from India’s top tech university due to his disability. He went on to receive a full scholarship from Stanford University to study Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning, and is now a full-time engineer at Microsoft. Together Kartik and Naitik began to discuss the need for support for disabled people in the tech industry, and so they decided to start ’Next Billion’ to fill the gap. ‘Next Billion’ has grown from a side project to a full-blown entrepreneurial endevor to connect people with disabilities who work in engineering, product design, data science, and product management to mentors in the industry and employers willing to hire inclusively. Naitik’s ultimate goal is to eradicate the need for ‘Next Billion’, and that disabilities no longer carry stigma in the hiring process. “There are 1.3 billion people in the world who have a disability, and in the US and Canada this population makes up 15 % of the workforce. They are at least 2.6 times as likely to be unemployed due to the stigma and the barriers that they face. However, there are so many advantages to hiring people with disabilities. They have an 85% higher job retention rate, because they value employers who are willing to hire them, and they are proven to be equally, or even more productive compared to employees without disabilities…There is this huge population that is skilled, and is not being given equal access to opportunities” Sign up for AWOL: A Weekend of Leisurehttps://www.movement108.com/goawolResources:Spring Accelerator Programhttps://spring.isNext Billionhttps://www.nextbillion.org Where Naitik loves to eat: Honey Doughnutshttps://www.honeydoughnuts.comBandidas Taqueriahttps://www.bandidastaqueria.comSala Thai http://www.salathai.caNubahttps://www.nuba.ca

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Dave became interested in food and nutrition from a young age, as his athletic career took off in high school and he started to look for ways to optimize his performance and recovery. Dave began his career as an elite cyclist, racing in Vancouver while studying food science and nutrition at UBC. He went on to race in Europe, where he was inspired by their simple, no-nonsense attitude towards food and nutrition to create the ‘Prima Bar’, a whole-food solution for athletic fuel.Dave’s cycling career came to a close, but he brought with him his passion for whole foods, and love of simple European cuisine, to create two businesses focused on authentic and delicious pizzas. He is co-owner of Il Castello Pizzeria, which serves arguably the best pizza in North Vancouver, and Holy Napoli, which brings Neapolitan Pizza to your local supermarket freezeraisle.Tune in to hear Dave and Steph talk all things nutrition, food fads, entrepreneurship and time-management.Resources: Holy Napoli Pizza: http://holynapoli.comIl Castello Pizzeria: https://www.ilcastellopizzeria.com

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