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- #15 - Amanda WIlson-Ciocci - Mother Of Entrepreneurs
Amanda, founder of The Monarch & Co. is passionate about helping heart-centred entrepreneurs and CEO’s organize, simplify, focus, so they can build, grow and launch their dream business and life. As a cancer survivor and mama of three, she understands the value of time. As a business owner, your most scarce resource is focus and when you work with Amanda she gives you the success tools, experience, and strategies to transform your business and get you from feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, frustrated and lost - to feeling organized, focused, clear and confident. There are massive benefits from having organized systems, a great launch strategy and the right mindset so you can live in possibility and get the work you are meant to get out in this world. If you're looking to take your vision to the next level, Amanda knows how to get you there!
Where to find Amanda...?
Instagram
Website
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28 min - #14 - Rosalyn Morrison - Passionate about the power of communityWe continue our series highlighting great women that are living and working in the Georgian Bay Region.Rosalyn Morrison is passionate about the beautiful Southern Georgian Bay region. Her family has had deep roots in the Simcoe Muskoka district for generations, and she and her husband now live in Craigleith.She is also passionate about the power of community. Formerly, as Senior Advisor to the CEO at the Toronto Foundation www.torontofoundation.ca, she was involved in connecting philanthropy to community needs and opportunities. She was responsible for the Foundation’s research, community convening, and partnerships relating to 100 Resilient Cities, an initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, which focuses on urbanization, globalization, and climate change. She also led the Foundation team on the ground-breaking project to benchmark Social Capital – Trust, Social Networks, Civic Connections, and Neighbourhood SupportRosalyn has also held leadership roles in the arts and culture sector, in particular contemporary craft and design, where she focused on strategy development. She is a recipient of Craft Ontario’s John and Barbara Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement.Currently, she serves as Chair of the Board of Directors, Institute of Southern Georgian Bay and as a Board member of the Blue Mountain Village Foundation.You can find Rosalyn at the Institute of Southern Georgian Bay.**** Questions about ways of working? Book a discovery call now www.thack.ca/links and get answers to your questions! ****32 min
- #13 - Sara Bentham - Superconnector and Superhero
For International Women's Month we will be having an all female lineup of guests on the WoW Podcast!
Today’s guest is Sara Bentham...Superconnector and Superhero to entrepreneurs.
Sara Bentham is the director and creative driving force at The Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre, (HBEC), at Georgian College. Sara’s dedication and enthusiasm to support students and entrepreneurs across Central Ontario with starting, scaling and growing businesses has helped create and roll out successful initiatives such as Xcelerate Summit, XcelerateHER, and Further Faster.
With a long history of working in the Startup Space, Sara has firsthand insights into the type of creativity, commitment and agility required to ensure business success.
Having worked, lived and travelled globally, Sara chose to come back to Simcoe County to bring an informed perspective and global mindset to support strengthening the business ecosystem and to influence sustainable, diverse and inclusive business practices.
Where you can find Sara...
https://www.georgiancollege.ca/community-alumni/entrepreneurship-centre/
47 min - #12 -Terry Geddes - Prominent Community Member
This episode Terry Geddes joins me on the podcast! He is a former acclaimed mayor of Collingwood and former Warden of Simcoe County. Currently Terry serves as the President of SIMTM Consulting Inc. and is Chair of the Collingwood Junior A Blues board of directors.
We discuss the importance of attainable housing, community and its roots and so much more!
Books recommended by Terry...
Autobiographies of Colin Powell and Winston Churchill.
Where can you find Terry? Give him a call - listen to the podcast to get his number.
**** Don’t forget to download your free business agility checklist at www.thack.ca/links ****
39 min - #11 - Marilyn Struthers - Social Change Evangelist
We continue our series focusing on living and working in the Georgian Bay region with our latest guest, Marilyn Struthers! Marilyn Struthers is the principle of M. Struthers & Co. where her work currently includes facilitating, coaching, organizational development and planning for strategic initiatives that support sustainability and leadership in social change organizations. With more than 40 years in many fields of social change organizing, Marilyn has often uses her ‘landscape view’ to reflect on how the sector is working and to document the dramatic changes in financing and collaborative practice as a writer and researcher. Marilyn was the Inaugural John C. Eaton Chair in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University. Before joining the University she spent 14 years as a funder with the Ontario Trillium Foundation, making provincial and national investments in change-the-world organizations enabling new approaches, networks and collaboration to build the social sector’s capacity to innovate. She worked in many grass roots community organizations working on women’s and First Nations issues, mental health, the arts and children’s mental health often with a focus on rural issues. She has lived and worked on the shores of Georgian Bay since 1974. Important reading: Social Finance Primer Where to find Marilyn: [email protected]
**** Don’t forget to download your free business agility checklist at www.thack.ca/links ****
48 min - #10 - Jenn Walker - Dive Heart FirstJenn Walker has kayaked with monkeys in Thailand, sailed the Nile in Egypt, summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, jumped out of a plane twice, and completed a 50-mile UltraMarathon once just to see if she could.She’s studied kinesiology, psychology, and even a short stint in osteopathy. She is a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT), a certified personal trainer and a multiple award winning salesperson. She’s worked with world-class athletes, high-level consultants, international pop stars and even an Everest summiter. She integrates mindfulness and Vipassana Meditation into her daily life, and is also a self-proclaimed Neuroscience nerd.That exuberance for life and education extends to her business, where she helps heart-centered entrepreneurs tap into their limitless power and potential so that they can make the impact they are meant to make in our world.Jenn’s asset is not only her understanding of the mind-body connection, but how integral the connection is for the success of both a healthy business and a healthy life.Her unconventional coaching style integrates standard systems and structures mixed with somatic practices. Jenn says, “Business is simple, but not always easy” — she is here to help with the not-so-easy parts.Whether it be at a workshop, an event or one-on-one, Jenn leaves you inspired, motivated, and armed with tangible actionable tools to take and apply right away.Books...In The Flow - Alyssa VitiDo Less - Kate NorthupOne Thing - Gary KellerWhere can you find Jenn?Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/diveheartfirst/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/diveheartfirst/Web - www.diveheartfirst.com1 hr 3 min
- #9 - Brandon Houston - Lead with Heart, Build with Passion, Live with Purpose
Brandon has grown, bought, and sold multiple successful businesses over his 16 years as an entrepreneur, including his latest The Collingwood Foundry, a coworking community he built to connect and support other entrepreneurs. He actively works with other entrepreneurs to help their businesses grow and has worked with municipal and federal levels of government to form policy for youth entrepreneurship and strategies for economic development. Underlying it all is a constant drive to have a positive impact on his community and the world by connecting and supporting people in following their passion and purpose.
Topics we get into...
Being an entrepreneur, habits, meditation and cold immersion, working in community coworking spaces, business agility, the Georgian Bay and much more!
Books...
1. Yancey Strickler - This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
2. Gino Wickman - Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business
3. David Sax - The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth
Where you can find Brandon...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonhouston1979
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonhouston/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandonh/
Don't forget to download your free business agility checklist - https://www.thack.ca/free-checklist-page
52 min - #8 - Anna Foat - Idea Lover
Anna Foat joins the Ways of Working podcast! A very insightful conversation from an amazing individual recognized as a top woman to follow in technology!
Anna Foat wants to live in a world where changing the status quo isn’t a wild dream, but an achievable reality. An industry expert on sales, marketing and alliances, Anna joined RIM in 1999 pre-300 employees and grew with the company executing deals with IBM, Visa and Mastercard in her tenure. In 2011 when Blackberry had grown to 16,000 employees she left to join IBM as the Worldwide Managing Editor of MobileFirst Platform leading content digital marketing strategy.In 2016 she was invited as the Executive in Residence for the first cohort of the Fierce Founders Accelerator at Communitech. She today works at one of Canada’s major insurers advising the chief transformation officer on the topic of digital transformation. She earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Waterloo and now teaches Design Thinking at Western. She’s a best selling author on the topic of Design Thinking and was named BetaKits top 30 women to watch in tech. When she’s not hustling for the next deal or talking to entrepreneurs you can find her either sipping wine with friends or locked in a hot yoga class trying to find that elusive balance.
How to contact Anna... LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annafoat/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/annafoat
Don't forget to download the free business agility checklist - https://www.thack.ca/free-checklist-page
58 min - #7 - Rory McDonnell - “If you wish for peace, prepare for war.”
Today I am chatting with Rory McDonnell - coach of professional high-performance mix martial arts (MMA) athletes. Rory is one of the owners and coaches at the renowned Para Bellum gym in Oakville, Canada. Once a successful professional fighter, he now sharpens his leadership and coaching skills building high-performance athletes (amateur and professional).
We discuss a slew of topics including - Martials arts + MMA, building high-performance athletes, books for summer reading and so much more.
Some references in the podcast:
Contact Rory - [email protected]
Instagram - @snoopror
Summer reading:
- Shakespeare plays - English history and Richard III
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History - Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Reflections On A Revolution in France - Edmund Burke
- Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
- Enders Game - Orson Scott Card (plus 6 other books in saga)
- Homer and the Illiad
- How to Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Watch ParaBellum Quintet
Don't forget to download the free business agility checklist - https://www.thack.ca/free-checklist-page
1 hr 16 min - #6 - Steve Pereira "The Value Stream Guy"In episode 6, I welcome special guest Steve Pereira! Steve is a colleague of mine and I was very grateful for him joining this episode to talk about how to actually accelerate digital transformation in organizations.—-Steve Pereira is obsessed with making tech human, and helping software delivery teams level up.He is the founder of Visible - boosting team performance with Value Stream Mapping. Previously, he has been founding CTO of Statflo, and a lifetime workflow automator. He also leads the 6000+ member Toronto DevOps community with a regular meetup, events and annual conference.Getting in touch with Steve:https://stevepereira.ca/ - Personal Bio Pagevisible.is - He provides the Visible Value Delivery Program, workshops, remote coaching and tools to enterprise teamsdevopsto.com - DevOps Toronto Community
Original LinkedIn posting that led to this podcast - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamthackeray_activity-6669305676931616768-T468
Ben Horowitz book referenced - “What You Do is Who You are” https://www.amazon.ca/What-You-Do-Who-Are-ebook/dp/B07NVN4QCMDon't forget to download the free business agility checklist - https://www.thack.ca/free-checklist-page53 min
About Ways of Working
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Ways of Working focuses on the stories, insights and experiences of living and working in the Georgian Bay region in Ontario, Canada. It showcases the intellectual capital, the community and the creative nature to unlocking greatness in the region.
Hosted by Adam Thackeray.