Building a business is hard work and all encompassing. There’s no one size fits all, and no perfect way of doing things. She Talks Business dives into all aspects of what makes a business work—strategy, marketing, finance, operations and more. Many entrepreneurs fantasize about building a 7-figure business. But reaching that elusive milestone of success can seem unattainable. She Talks Business is a podcast that shares the strategies that are necessary to start and scale your business beyond ...
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Lessons in Leadership - Stockroom to the Boardroom. Brought to you by www.marcpetitpas.com
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Want to hear the stories of leadership and life from those who have taken that path and continue to? I bring you lessons in leadership - from the stockroom to the boardroom. This is about the real stories of growth from people and leaders who care just like you.Upcoming Guests Confirmed :Kate Beirness -TSN Richard Peddie - Former CEO Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Bob Hunter - Former C suite exec at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and CEO Toronto Wolfpak Lisa Larter - Owner , The Li ...
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Are you struggling with delegating? Do you feel that you’re holding your business back from growth due to your lack of letting go? If you answered yes to any one of these questions, then this podcast is for you. The Unbottleneck Your Business podcast will help you get out of your own way so that you can grow your business. It’s your resource for all the things that you need to help you begin to delegate like a pro. Hosted by delegating strategist and long-time entrepreneur, Tonya Thomas. Thi ...
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Ep. 187 - Owning What Makes You Great with Nick Nanton
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51:49Why Clarity, Not Confidence, Is the Key to Your Next Level This week on She Talks Business, I’m joined by the extraordinary Nick Nanton—someone who’s built a career on doing work that only he can do. Nick is a 22-time Emmy Award–winning director and producer who has created more than 60 documentaries and worked with some of the most iconic names in…
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Ep. 186 - The Love Thief: From Creative Detours to Surrendering Control with Arielle Ford
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39:59How A Self-Publishing Nightmare Turned Into A Hay House Book Deal What if the breakthrough doesn’t come until you make space for it? This week on She Talks Business, I’m welcoming back Arielle Ford, a bestselling author, love alchemist, and passionate guide for women ready to find love, keep love, and be love. Arielle has helped thousands of people…
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Ep. 185 - Vitamin J, Cortisol & Midlife Mojo: The Health Fix You Didn’t Know You Needed with Dr. Anna Garrett
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42:13Burnout Isn’t Just Busy: Why Women Are Tired for Real In this episode of She Talks Business, we’re diving into a topic every woman needs to hear, especially if you’re a business owner, leader, or someone who is always “pushing through.” My guest is Dr. Anna Garrett, a functional medicine expert and clinical pharmacist who has spent decades helping …
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Ep. 184 - Hooked In 3 Seconds: The New Content Game with Mari Smith
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47:28Human-Centered Marketing in a Tech-Driven World This week, we’re welcoming the queen of Facebook, Mari Smith, to She Talks Business! Known as the premier Facebook marketing expert, Mari has long shared insights on the evolving landscape of social media, human design, and the power of authenticity. For nearly two decades, Mari Smith has been widely …
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AI isn’t the enemy. Indifference is. This week, I’m diving into a topic that’s quietly sabotaging a lot of great businesses: trust. More specifically, how we’re eroding it every time we let AI pretend to be us. I’ve seen it too many times lately, where auto-comments go wrong, written DMs and videos sound and look like they’ve been created by a robo…
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Ep. 182 - Audacious Authenticity: Winning The AI Marketing Game with Mark Schaefer
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47:29Why Being Real Beats Being Perfect in the Age of AI This week, I’m joined by one of the most respected voices in marketing today: Mark Schaefer. With 11 bestselling books under his belt, his latest being Audacious: How Humans Win in an AI-Marketing World, Mark has helped shape how some of the world’s biggest brands show up and stay human in an incr…
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Ep. 181 - Pitch Slapped: Why Cold Outreach Is Hurting Your Brand
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18:43Stop selling. Start caring. That’s how you win. I opened LinkedIn, saw a connection request, accepted it, and BOOM! Within seconds, I got a sales pitch in my inbox. I just got pitch-slapped. And if you’re on social media, I know you’ve experienced this, too. These messages are everywhere. They’re generic, impersonal, and painfully obvious in their …
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The 5/25 Rule: A Simple Strategy for Massive Success Are you spreading yourself too thin, trying to do it all? Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule is a game-changer for entrepreneurs who want to stop chasing every idea and start making real progress. In this episode, I’m breaking down how this deceptively simple rule can help you hyper-focus on what truly m…
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Ep. 179 - 9 Simple Rules That Changed Everything
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25:27Simple, Actionable Mindset Shifts to Up-Level Your Life and Business This episode is short, packed with value, and filled with nine simple yet powerful lessons that have fueled my (and can fuel your) personal and professional success. These are the habits, mindset shifts, and investments that keep me moving forward, even when motivation runs low. A…
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Ep. 178 - Think Bigger, Reach Further, Grow Faster
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30:57What It Takes To Achieve Your Vision Tune in to this episode of She Talks Business to learn my proven formula for achieving exponential growth, including the game-changing fourth element I’ve recently discovered. Drawing from my experiences over the past year, I am breaking down how these four fundamental pillars work together to create unstoppable…
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Ep. 177 - Small List, Mighty Results: A High-Touch Strategy for Email Growth
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33:54List-Building Tactics For Email Growth So how do Tim Ferriss and James Clear do it? How do they get millions of people on their email lists and, most importantly, how do they keep people subscribed? I believe a small email list of engaged subscribers and active buyers outweighs a large email list any day, but we have a lot to learn from these two m…
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Ep. 176 - 2025 Marketing Strategy: Authentic, Automated, or AI-Driven?
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36:53Make this year the one you market yourself more than you ever have before with the help of AI Class is in session - are you ready for your marketing efforts to be graded? This episode is all about creating a thorough marketing strategy with the 2025 landscape in mind. Tune in as I walk you through my 10-question assessment to help you determine whe…
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Ep. 175 - Lights, Camera, Authenticity: Elevating Your Video Content Strategy
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35:38Our best video cheat codes to capture attention and answer the questions your audience is already asking. In the final episode of our Strategic Marketing For Your Business series, we’re sharing our best advice on creating one of the most powerful types of content today—video. First things first: You need a content plan If you want to get the reps i…
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Ep. 174 - The Podcaster's Guide To Avoiding Pod Fade
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29:28Learn how to plan, commit to, and produce a podcast to promote your thought leadership and expertise. One of the telling signs someone is an expert in their field is if they are able to confidently chat about their topic of genius with little to no preparation. That's why I love to help my clients create podcast strategies to distribute their exper…
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Ep. 173 - Build Your Business On Expertise: Protect & Promote Your Thought Leadership
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38:31Thought Leadership vs. Content Marketing: Fueling an audience who knows, likes, & trusts you Let’s answer all of your questions about thought leadership! This week, we are diving into what it is, where it should go for your audience to find it, how to keep it safe, and how to repurpose it for your preferred social media channels. We even address a …
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Ep. 172 - 10 Website Power Moves That Drive Real Results
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43:09Take your website from good to Google-worthy. Welcome back to the second episode of our “Strategic Marketing For Your Business” series where this week, Cass Bald, my Senior Team Manager, and I are talking you through our top 10 recommendations to start having your website work for you. Our discussion ranges from simple, quick fixes to more complex …
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Ep. 171 - Build Unshakeable Trust with Your Branding
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28:36Your customer experience starts with your positioning and messaging Take a peek behind the curtain of what it's like to work with us as your marketing team! I'm here with my Senior Team Manager, Cass Bald. We're starting a new series where we walk you through five of the key elements of creating a marketing strategy for your business using the same…
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Ep. 170 - Ask Me Anything with Kathleen Mundy
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59:20Navigating Transitions, Pivots, & Retirement of the Modern Entrepreneur We are back with one of my favorite types of episodes - an Ask Me Anything! This week, Kathleen Mundy is taking over the microphone to guest-host and ask me all the questions she can about how I've approached the many pivots in my business, selling a business, and how to do it …
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Ep. 169 - Unconventional & Highly Effective Writing Tips with Best Selling Author, Michelle Weger
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31:25Capture Inspired Moments and Finally Finish Your Book Welcome back Michelle Weger with our second podcast in a row with her! In the previous episode, we celebrated the release of her new book, Don't Snooze Your Dreams: Lessons from Life with Narcolepsy. Now, we're going to talk about how Michelle was able to write her book so quickly and even manag…
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Ep. 168 - Don't Snooze—Make Your Dreams Real with Michelle Weger
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45:28Deconstruct the Fears Holding You Back Welcome back for a very special episode! We're celebrating the release of Michelle Weger's book, Don't Snooze Your Dreams. Michelle and I have been working together for 7 years now, and I've seen her do some really hard things. I'm so proud of her for writing this book and sharing how she reframes fear to acco…
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Ep. 167 - AI-Powered Customer Experiences: How to Delight and Retain Clients
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35:44Add value to your user experience without alienating clients and prospects It’s time for the finale of the Leveraging AI series with Mary Fearon! We're wrapping up with a final discussion on improving customer service with AI. When to Start & Stop with AI Automation Chatbots and automated messaging systems are the most common AI solutions for custo…
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Ep. 166 - Beyond the AI Easy Button: Smart Strategies for Authentic Content
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36:05The Perks & Risks of AI for Content Creation Welcome to the fourth episode of our Leveraging AI series! Mary Fearon and I are back to share our perspectives and experiences using AI in our businesses. Missed the introduction to this series? Go back and listen to episodes 163, 164, and 165! In today's episode, we talk about one of AI’s most common u…
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Ep. 165 - Save Time with Powerful Prompts: AI for Idea Generation
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34:34Cut Out the Heavy Lifting—Use AI To Gain Momentum For Your Ideas Welcome back to week 3 of our 5-week series, Leveraging AI: Proven, Practical, & Tactical Approaches to Using AI in Your Business. Today, we're diving into how we use AI for idea generation and our top tips for writing powerful, time-saving prompts. This series is in collaboration wit…
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Ep. 164 - AI Is Your Secret Weapon For Meetings
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34:17Our favorite AI tools, user tips, and privacy considerations Mary Fearon and I are back with the second episode of our AI series! In this series of conversations, we deep-dive into how we use AI in our businesses, and today's episode is all about how we use AI in meetings. If you missed it from last week, Mary is the founder and CEO of On Prpose, a…
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Ep. 163 - AI: Introducing Your New Unpaid Team Member
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44:46Turns Hours of Work Into Minutes with AI Welcome to the first episode of a new season in collaboration with Mary Fearon! For this series of conversations, Mary Fearon and I will be talking all about AI. Mary and I both run marketing agencies, and we've started introducing AI into our team workflows and personal lives. If you're a small business loo…
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Ep. 162 - Ask Me Anything with Adan Kovinich
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53:09Dial into your employees’ superpowers to help them on their journey Adan was formerly the Marketing Team Manager and Marketing Strategist for the Lisa Larter Group and once served as a special guest host for six episodes of "She Talks Business" with our current Team Manager, Cass Bald. In this episode, Adan puts me in the hot seat for one of my fav…
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Ep. 161 - Love Creates the Infinite Impact with Amber Vilhauer
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46:35Gut Instincts and Common Sense Over an MBA Any Day We are so lucky to have an amazing woman who also happens to be an incredible businesswoman join us on the show this week! Amber Vilhauer and I started our businesses only one year apart in 2007 and 2008, so I wanted to ask her some questions focused on longevity and what she believes are the reaso…
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Ep. 160 - Ask Me Anything with Samantha Moonsammy
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51:34Business, Legacy, & Bucket Lists—We Cover It All I am beyond thrilled to have my long-time friend, colleague, client, and co-conspirator, Samantha Moonsammy, acting as our guest host in this edition of Ask Me Anything! If you remember the Oprah in Ottawa event I referenced a few episodes back, Samantha is the woman who I worked with to bring that e…
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Ep. 159 - Are You Really A Visionary? With Justin Breen
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36:20Not all business owners are. This episode of She Talks Business is out of the ordinary because it's not for the average person. In fact, I'm going to tell you right now—this episode isn't for 99.9% of you. Today, our guest, Justin Breen, is only talking to true visionaries—a special group that makes up only 0.1% of the population. Justin's purpose …
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Ep. 158 - Go for Magical, Never Transactional with Giovanni Marsico
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46:00Exponentially Increase Your Impact with Genuine Connections Welcome back to She Talks Business! Today, we are sitting down with someone I look up to so much, Giovanni Marsico. I've been attending his event, Archangel Summit, since 2016, and I’m so glad he is joining me today. We have so much to learn from someone who values relationships more than …
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Ep. 157 - Ask Me Anything with Richard Citrin
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45:34From Wiener Dogs to Dropping Out of High School to Going into Business 100% for Myself This edition of Ask Me Anything was such a blast to do with my new podcasting BFF, Richard Citrin. Richard, if you don't remember from my previous episode with him, helps people successfully navigate the inevitable happenings of life. Whether they are wins or fai…
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Ep. 156 - Mental Agility at Any Age with Phil Holberton
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47:04Be the Best You Can Be Joining us this week on She Talks Business is a very special guest, Phil Holberton. He is an incredible example of how mental agility can help you overcome some of the biggest physical and mental challenges you face in life. With many decades of specialized expertise in strategic planning, business development, operations, an…
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Ep. 155 - Strengthen Your Resilience Muscle with Richard Citrin
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53:24It's Hardwired Into You. If you've ever felt defeated, like you shouldn't have even started your business or taken on that project, or maybe you just can't get over grief in your personal life, then you need to listen to this week's special guest, Richard Citrin, an expert on resilience. Richard views and talks about resilience in a way I hadn't co…
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Ep. 154 - Stop Underestimating Your True Potential with Ray Zahab
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46:13From Directionless to Navigating Deserts & Frozen Tundra This might be the best episode we've ever done of She Talks Business. I'm stoked to have special guest and old friend Ray Zahab on the show to talk about his incredible transformation from a pack-a-day smoker to an ultra-distance runner and explorer. We even dive into how he applied the same …
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Women Lead Differently In the Best Way Possible Our special guest on She Talks Business this week has had a profound impact on some of the most accomplished female entrepreneurs of our time, guiding them to reach new heights in their businesses. We are incredibly lucky to have Kris Plachy on the show, as she is busy doing so many amazing things and…
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Ep. 152 - Wellness for Mind, Body & Business with Annie Wright
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41:03Heal Your Mind to Heal Your Business This week, we're talking with special guest Annie Wright, LMFT, a psychotherapist, about relational trauma and mental wellness and how it affects your business. Annie founded and runs Evergreen Counseling, a boutique trauma-informed therapy center in Berkeley, California, where she practices therapy and oversees…
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Sharpen Your Business Systems for Success This week on She Talks Business, I’ll be recording the second “My Take” series where I will give you my opinion and what I took away from my most recent read. We’ll be talking about Nick Sonnenberg’s Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work. The short version: This …
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Ep. 150 - Mind Magic, Not Woo with Tracy Litt
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55:27Energy & Emotional Wellness in Your Business Let's sit down with Tracy Litt, a renowned teacher of science and spirituality and the founder of The School of Becoming. In this episode, we're talking about science and spirituality on a business podcast because I believe the more connected to yourself you become, the more work you do on yourself, and …
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Ep. 149 - Public Speaking and Media Mastery with Kathryn Janicek
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46:58Strategies for Powerful Communication This week’s special guest, Kathryn Janicek, helps people overcome something many of us fear more than death - public speaking. I loved this conversation because she shared so many valuable tips to improve in so many speaking scenarios, including presentations, interviews, and meetings - so much more than just s…
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Ep. 148 - Applying Human Design to Your Business with Jamie Palmer
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52:53Your Business Doesn't Have to Suck the Energy Out of You Exhausted from running your business? You're not alone. Successful entrepreneur Jamie Palmer discovered Human Design and transformed her work. Curious how? This week, you'll explore human design, a tool that can help you build a fulfilling business based on your unique design. Learn how human…
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Episode 19 - Bill Manning President Toronto FC and Toronto Argos
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57:08Send us a text How do you go from selling tickets for the pro soccer team you are playing on to being an executive in the NFL, NBA and ultimately as a MLS cup and Grey Cup winning president ? Listen in to learn from a great leader and even better person. Bill Manning . President of Toronto FC and Toronto Argos at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment…
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Ep. 147 - A PR Pro’s Perspective On The Future Of Marketing with Debbie Lu
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53:20Building Brand Credibility in the Digital Age This week's episode on She Talks Business is a thought-provoking and insightful conversation with Debbie Lu, where you'll hear about the evolving landscape of business, the impact of AI on marketing, the significance of public relations, and the power of strategic relationships. Driven by a passion for …
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What To Focus On So Your Business Succeeds Something new is starting for She Talks Business this week, and I'm excited to share it with you. I recently did a season with my niece, Mackenzie, and I had so much fun answering her questions about owning and running a business. So, I called out on Facebook and asked if anyone else would be interested in…
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Ep. 145 - Franchise Excellence with Ashley Gundlach, President of British Swim School
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49:30Build Your Own or Franchise Your Dreams? This week on She Talks Business, we have a new guest, Ashley Gundlach, president of British Swim School, a North American Learn to Swim franchise. Unsure if you should build your business from scratch or use the support of a franchise? This episode will help you discover the pros and cons of owning a franchi…
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Lessons in Leadership - Ep #18 with Earl Cochrane - CEO , Kinova Solutions - Previously General Secretary of Canada Soccer
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1:20:16Send us a text Wow. What an amazing episode you are in for with our guest Earl Cochrane. Earl has left a mark on "The Beautiful Game" at every stop as a leader. From his early days at DC United to Toronto FC as GM and Managing Director to leading Canada Soccer as the General Secretary in a very challenging environment to now the impact he plans to …
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Ep. 144 - My Take on Million Dollar Weekend
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35:17A Valuable Resource for All Business Owners This week on She Talks Business, you'll hear a new type of episode called My Take. These episodes are my opinion on things I am reading and find interesting. You'll listen to what I liked about what I was reading, and then I'll give you my take on it. This first episode is fascinating because it features …
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Ep. 143 - From Task Force to Trailblazer with Chris Kolenda
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54:26A Conversation that Will Change Your Leadership This episode of She Talks Business is with the respected Colonel Chris Kolenda, a retired army colonel with an extensive background in leadership and advisory roles. Throughout this, you'll learn about Chris' background, experiences, and transition to a leadership consulting business aimed at making a…
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Ep. 142 - Energetic Alignment For Business with Makhosi
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45:08Flow, Energy Audits, and Business Alignment Feeling the familiar tug of work draining your energy? Buckle up because, in this episode of She Talks Business, the limitations that you have in your mind are about to shatter. This episode's special guest, Makhosi, is a 7-figure entrepreneur, leader, and spiritual high-performance coach. After listening…
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Ep. 141 - The Retail Revolution with Liza Amlani
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53:12Is Your Store Stuck in the Stone Age? In this episode of She Talks Business, you'll learn about the dynamics of retail and business innovation with Liza Amlani, the principal and co-founder of Retail Strategy Group. Explore retail, technology, and consumer behavior, and gain valuable advice. Building Relationships in Marketing Liza Amlani, with her…
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Ep. 140 - Cycle Synching with Mackenzie St. Laurent
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32:35Understanding Your Cycle, Managing Symptoms, and Thriving Welcome to another episode of She Talks Business. In this episode, my special guest, Mackenzie St. Laurent, a menstrual wellness counselor and young entrepreneur, joins in to share how she helps women understand and manage their menstrual health from a holistic perspective. Shifting the Narr…
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