Season 4, Episode 41: Say What You Mean

John Ruffolo is a father, son, a first generation Canadian, an avid cyclist, and member of Les Domestiques a philanthropic cycling team. He is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

In the business world, John joined OMERS Pension fund over a decade ago, and founded OMERS Ventures, a private equity fund established to back promising Canadian companies Notably Hootsuite, Wattpad and Shopify. However, the pension fund rules capped the growth potential of those investments.

Season 3, Episode 36: Knowledge of Self

Dr. Lanysha Adams is a sister, daughter, mother, academic and entrepreneur.

She is a first-generation college student and the very first in her family to obtain a PhD.

Through her experience defending her doctoral thesis, she identified a need to help doctoral candidates get through the often cut throat world of academia.

Season 3, Episode 33: Just Keep Going

Lyle is a son, brother, husband and father. He’s a bass guitar player and blogger.

He’s in the process of writing his first book - a memoir about his rocky introduction to fatherhood, the powerful love he has for his family and the incredible challenges he’s faced.

Season 3, Episode 32: Do It Anyway

Gail’s the author of 19 books, she’s been a regular contributor to the Globe & Mail and Chatelaine magazine, among others. She’s the Gemini award winning host of TIL DEBT DO US PART, as well as PRINCESS and MONEY MORON.

Episode 29: Empathic Bond

Jule Kucera is an author, podcaster, and educator who believes that stories have the power to make us smarter. After a successful 30-year career, she now spends her days doing what she used to do only on nights and weekends. She blogs at julekucera.com, podcasts at Hard Times & Hope, teaches part-time at the University of Cincinnati, and volunteers as board secretary for Homebase. After publishing her memoir, Sweet Baby Lover, Jule is at work on her first novel.

Episode 21 - Blue skies

This is Part 2 of my conversation with Miranda Kamal where we share more of her story and some of mine.

Miranda is the Head Coach and Executive Director of the Mentoring Junior Kids Organization or MJKO for short. She’s been through a lot. She’s a sexual assault survivor, and an aspiring competitive boxer who suffered a career ending back injury.

Episode 20 - Listen to your best coach

Miranda Kamal is a daughter, sister and wife. She’s an entrepreneur, a former competitive boxer, and International Boxing Association 2 star boxing coach.

She’s the Head Coach and Executive Director of Mentoring Junior Kids Organization (MJKO) which she founded in 2010 with her now husband, Ibrahim “Firearm” Kamal, a former eight-time Canadian National Boxing Champion.

Season 2, Episode 18 - Comic resilience

Stephan Dyer is a former banker turned comedian, TEDx Speaker and speaking coach with +300 shows in 8 countries, 18 cities. He is the proud cofounder of MalPensando, a bilingual school that helps people become funny, confident speakers.

Season 1, Episode 15: Accepting uncertainty

Pamela Mala Sinha is an accomplished actor, multi award-winning playwright, writer, screenwriter and classically trained Indian dancer.

Season 1, Episode 14: Solving Healthcare and everything else.

Known as “Dr. Kwodwo” or “ Dr. K.” he is the father of 3 beautiful boys, a husband, a critical care and palliative care doctor, a researcher, an assistant professor