Relationships Rule

My interview with Jordan Kipnes, VP Student Works Painting, has so many nuggets about what you can learn from a summer job and how you can turn it into a career. Jordan is a true entrepreneur, getting his business degree at Simon Fraser University in just that. He ran a painting franchise for 8 summers and worked his way up the corporate ladder to now being one of the two VPs running the company over 3 Canadian provinces...

Lynette Hoy, a successful publicity campaign expert for many years, has returned to the podcast to share her new revolutionary program, PR with H.E.A.R.T. After interviewing 100 CEOs about their employees and clients she built a program to teach them how to improve communication with both more effectively. She teaches how to leverage who their clients and employees really are and how to ignite their bottom line exponentially. Listen in and hear what PR with H.E.A.R.T...

Digby Leigh is a lawyer with 40 years’ experience practicing the law. He brings a practical, cut-to-the-chase, people-oriented approach to any solution. He founded Digby Leigh & Co. over 15 years ago, and recently launched “Frank Fee” - an innovative new approach in the legal industry, eliminating hourly billing to agreed upfront pricing. He always knew that the current status quo needed to shift...

Jennifer Tamborski is a digital marketing strategist who loves teaching business owners the skills and strategies needed to create, build, and grow profitable online businesses. In this episode, Jennifer & I talk about “marketing with a matchmaker’s personality”! Jennifer takes us through the phases of marketing as if we are dating our prospect. She thinks like I do – building and nurturing the relationship with your client is a key component of the marketing process.

As founder of Gain The Edge, Jim Padilla is known in the personal development and business coaching world as the Go-To-Guy for all things SALES. In this episode, Jim shares his story with me and how he has built his successful sales system and sales force. He is a master collaborator whose purpose is to help others scale their businesses so they can impact the world the way they intended. Jim is living proof that if you can sell you can not only survive but you can thrive!

Dorie Clark is a modern renaissance person … author, speaker, business educator, podcaster, Broadway investor, lyricist, and all round entrepreneur. Dorie helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded noisy world. In this interview, Dorie talks about her journey to success through self-reinvention and persistence. We discussed her books, and in particular her new one, The Long Game, How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World...

Tallal Gondal is the author of TurboCharged Networking, a book which shares the message that care, value and service are the 3 key elements to building human connection and human connection is critical to networking and building authentic long-term relationships. He is passionate about spreading the word and it’s his mission to help people cultivate the mindset and develop the skillset to become world class networkers. He speaks on this topic globally...

Michael Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises which helps thoughtful givers become thought leaders by making their brands referable, their messaging memorable, and their ideas unforgettable. He is also the host of the podcast Access to Anyone which shows how you can get to know anyone you want in business and in life using time-tested relationship-building principles...

Andrea Waltzis the co-author of the best-selling book, Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There. For almost two decades, Andrea has been teaching people in virtually every business and industry how to think and feel differently about failure, rejection and the word “NO”, to achieve their goals and dreams. The Go for No strategy has been featured in online and offline magazines and journals, including Success Magazine, Inc., Forbes and many others...

When it comes to his bio, Dustan Woodhouse is a man of few words. 1,695 funded files Brokering from 2008-2018, to the President of Canada’s 5th largest Broker Network in 2019. When it comes to the Mortgage Industry in Canada, he is a sought after, well-respected, and most knowledgeable leader. Dustan has written a trilogy, Be The Better Broker series which is how many people learn and improve the best practices for their businesses...