Venture & Gains

Venture & Gains

By D'Arcy McConveyBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Venture & Gains episodes

  • Jordan Anderson: Bitbuy - Crypto Canada, Crypto.

    In this episode, we are in conversation with Jordan Anderson, COO of BITBUY. An episode we're titling Crypto Canada Crypto. Just named to Deloitte's Tech 2021 Fast 50, ranked number 9, their top-down approach to platform building with a super simple and elegant user experience makes buying crypto simple, intuitive and delightful. There's something for everyone, whether you're a trader or a crypto accumulator, as they're called. Keys, wallets, phrases, passwords - Just simplify it, please. Thank you, Bitbuy, it's an awesome story and awesome platform. Keep an eye on this one and try Bitbuy for yourself.



    48 min
  • Ronan Levy: Field Trip Health, The Psychedelic Renaissance
    The Psychedelic Renaissance. Ronan Levy walks us through the Field Trip Health growth story in the emergence of psychedelic assisted therapy and new mental health treatments. Much stemming from Michael Pollan leading the way and on the forefront of this cultural shift as humanity wrestles with the crisis of emotion or a crisis of spirituality. I like to call it the emergence of the clinical Shaman. So many treatments are showing promise in advancing the development of psychedelic therapies. If you're curious about psychedelics or the emerging mental health treatment, I think you'll enjoy this conversation.
    Get to Know Ronan:
    https://www.fieldtriphealth.com/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronanlevy/?originalSubdomain=ca
    49 min
  • Adam Reeds : Ledn - Lend, Borrow and Grow Bitcoin
    Calm, confident and Reassuring. Adam Reeds walks us through the original idea and hyper growth of his digital asset lending company, Ledn. From an idea of building a financial services company on Bitcoin rails to how he's gone about growing a startup financial services company by building trust with consumers, being transparent and working with third party providers and trusted sources. An amazing platform. Adam shares light on where they are today, the value in what they were doing and the open road ahead.
    Get to know Adam:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-reeds-ledn?originalSubdomain=ca
    https://ledn.io/en/team
    https://twitter.com/adamreeds?lang=en
    https://financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/digital-asset-savings-and-loan-platform-ledn-raises-us30m-series-a
    44 min
  • Harry Taylor & Amanda Laine: The Hot, The Cold and The Breath

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    Amanda and Harry were just meant to do this. Together they are creating a transformative business which includes the sauna, the cold and breath work. Hearing Amanda discuss how they turned their idea into a business driven by an overriding mission to build up each other and build up other people is amazing. Then Boom, they landed in the sauna, the hot sauna and the zero-degree cold tub. We go into detail around the program and the mental and physical benefits of the hot and cold. The inward breath work platform is great for people who struggle with meditation. Breath is force. The idea came about organically, grew out of covid, and is now a large and growing membership platform with weekly, quarterly and yearly options. Humans are stressed. Life runs at an incredibly fast pace and the idea of calming the mind and settling down can be hard for many. I couldn't agree more with what Harry had to say, ‘We're not living in our bodies, were just living way too much in our head’. The themes that run throughout are so potent. The sense of community and science, meets spirituality, connecting with nature, swearing in ceremony. This episode really resonated with me and I really think you're on to something. This will be big. Enjoy Harry and Amanda.

    45 min
  • Dean Harder: Conversational Selling, Nursery Rhymes & Fables and Having a Track to Run On
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    Dean just has so much insight to offer anyone in business development, sales or anyone who has conversation for that matter. All of us. Dean walks us through his framework of standardize, improvise, and customize to get the most out of any conversation. There are tons of key things to note during today's episode like; focus on the other person, be human and light but prepared, people like to hear their name. The concept of having a phrase like a nursery rhyme, once upon a time which focuses the conversation bringing in the sense of succinct imagery, imagination. Conversations should be like nursery rhymes. Be specific about your ideal client, the more you hone in on the profile, the more you will attract them. And last but not least, if you help enough people get what they want, you'll get what you want.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Carly Nemtean: Seeing and seizing Opportunity, Design Build and the Collective Workspace
    Carly's passion for design and creating a more collaborative and open design build industry is palpable. It's this passion for her craft that has driven her to create an award-winning design build firm and ‘The Collective’, a first of its kind coworking space for architects, designers and builders. She offers great insight into the ambiguous value of design and the trials and tribulations of building a strong team.
    On a personal note, she defined my design style as midcentury modern with a touch of old Hollywood. Nailed it.
    Check her out at https://www.thecollective.com/ or https://www.carriagelanedesigns.com/. Enjoy this conversation with Carly.
    58 min
  • Roslyn McLarty: Creating Sports Content for Women by Women
    Roslyn McLarty always knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur, the trigger to her life as an entrepreneur came like most good ideas from a personal pain point, a need for a sports media platform that spoke to women today. Roslyn is the co-founder of a rapidly growing sports media brand ‘The GIST’ creating sports content for women by women and empowering underserved sports fans. Everyone wants to be a part of the watercooler chat, for many women, sports can feel like a boys club, exclusionary and intimidating, generally male dominated. Here are a couple stats. Less than 14 percent of sports journalists are female. Less than four percent of sports media coverage is on female athletes, and less than two percent of C Suite executives in major sports leagues are women. Sports is one of our social currencies bringing people together, The GIST strives to make sports more inclusive, relatable and funny, making something that can be intimidating into something fun and approachable for brands. It's an interesting opportunity to align with the growing and interesting demographic and audience. We cover some great topics and have a wonderful conversation. You could find The Gist at thegistsports.com/ and their podcast, The GIST of it.
    Get to know Roslyn:
    https://ca.thegistsports.com/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/thegistnews-ca?originalSubdomain=ca
    https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-gist-of-it/id1496908555
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/roslyn-mclarty-cpa-ca-51058223?originalSubdomain=ca
    https://www.instagram.com/thegistusa/?hl=en
    44 min
  • Debra Jasper: Plain Words are Easily Understood
    The brain science tells us that the average professional has an eight second attention span, we’re more distracted, more distant and more distressed than ever before. And guess what? It's harder for distressed people to listen and learn. How we communicate is more important than ever, but we often communicate to impress rather than inform. As professionals, we should be designing for attention, our scarcest resource. Debra Jasper breaks down critical today skills that we could all use, right for action, redesign how we are presenting, S.O.S emails and of course, the Title Slide - The LinkedIn profile in Google Search Result, where she takes great positioning on how you should appear, not what you do. What you love about what you do for your clients. Debra cuts through the fluff, a storytelling master in a can't miss interview.
    Get to Know Debra Jasper:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/debrajasper
    https://mindsetdigital.com/
    53 min
  • David Nikzad: Psychedelics, Back to the Plants & Emotional Intelligence
    This episode, we dive into the psychedelic space with David Nikzad, the founder and chairman of EI Ventures, where he lays down the groundwork for the therapeutic use of botanical psychedelics. Maybe the answer is as simple as go back to the land, go back to the plants. We discussed synthetic versus natural compounds and psychedelics. David's main objective is to create the new standard of pharma, food as medicine, using products that come from the Earth and whole plant form. We round out the conversation with trying to better understand how people can participate in the growing psychedelic space, how to invest and where to start. Ultimately, EI Ventures stands for Emotional Intelligence Ventures and for David, this psychedelic journey is about establishing empathy for others, as he puts it, viewing people out of other people's lenses. I've learned a lot in this conversation and I hope the same for you.
    Get to Know David Nikzad:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnikzad​
    https://www.ei.ventures/​
    https://www.orthogonalthinker.com/
    49 min
  • Adam Gower: Dr. Crowdfunding…This Will Only Get Bigger
    Welcome to Season 2 of Venture & Gains!
    Adam is a great conversation and a charismatic character, and the English/Texan accent certainly helps. He brings a very interesting and timely perspective to digital marketing specifically as it applies to real estate syndication online. As he notes, this will only get bigger in the idea of creating an automated engine that allows for spending less time raising capital and more time creating value is a powerful concept. The concept applies to almost every market, transferring the spoken word into recordings and content in a way that converts your entire story, uniqueness, history, track record value, prop to attract and convert leads.
    Get to Know Dr. Adam Gower
    https://gowercrowd.com/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/gowercrowd/
    https://twitter.com/gowercrowd?lang=en
    50 min

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