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Erik McLaren host of Religious Wars, a history podcast about conflicts in faith. He has also worked as a journalist for media outlets like VICE, the Torontoist, TechVIBES, and HERB where he covered everything from... Source

Ami Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Peekapak, an award-winning social-emotional learning platform that engages elementary and middle school students to learn skills like self-regulation, empathy and teamwork and reaches over 450,000 educators and students. Peekapak does this using stories, evidence-based lessons, and game-based learning. Behind-the-scenes, teachers, and administrators receive real-time reports showing a student's progress and emotional state.  This empowers educators to be proactive in helping curb future mental health issues. Educators can share pre-written class updates, activities, and stories with families to reinforce learning at home in English and Spanish. Peekapak is backed by; Silicon Valley-based accelerator, Imagine K12, the Edtech vertical of Y Combinator and the Unreasonable Institute. Ami has earned an MBA from INSEAD, a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and is passionate about improving youth education, and has previously taught in K–4 classrooms and advised & volunteered at education-related non-profit organizations. Ami has been featured on Toronto Life, Flare, TechVibes, CBC and numerous other outlets.  Ami has also spoken on topics such as social-emotional learning, student well-being, and mental health and education technology. Ami has spoken at conferences such as SXSWedu, Future of Education Technology Conference, LearnLaunch, ASU GSV and many more. Overcoming the barriers Interviewed over 300 educators to find out if SEL is actually important. It's really hard to fit this in if it's not required. Weren't taught this, how am I expected to teach this to my students Shouldn't parents be teaching this? How to involve parents in SEL. Family Well-being nights How to be a transformative principal? Help people feel heard. Sponsors Pikmykid Improve your school dismissal and safety response with Pikmykid, the Schools Safety and Dismissal Platform. Help move your dismissal from chaos to calm, get kids to their families faster and safer.  Visit pikmykid.com/be to learn more Transformative Principal Mastermind Lead a school everyone can be proud of. Being a principal is tough work. You're pulled in all kinds of directions. You never have the time to do the work that really matters. Join me as I help school leaders find the time to do the work they became principals to do. I help you stop putting out fires and start leading. Learn more at https://transformativeprincipal.com

Hey you wild women! Joining me on today's episode is Diana Goodwin, Founder & CEO of MarketBox. Her company is a sales and scheduling e-commerce platform-as-a-service designed to boost sales for service businesses with mobile and virtual workforces. Diana initially founded AquaMobile, an on-demand swim lesson provider that is now the largest of its kind in North America and Australia. The AquaMobile software gave her the opportunity to spin out MarketBox. Originally from Toronto and currently riding out the COVID-19 pandemic in South America, Diana is considered a tech innovator and thought leader in marketplace businesses, the gig economy, and scaling businesses internationally. She can regularly be seen at speaking events, sharing her knowledge with both corporate and entrepreneurial audiences. Diana has been profiled in Forbes Inc., Huffington Post, Techvibes, and Dragon's Den, to name a few. She has won numerous business awards including Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year and the Telus $100,000 Small Business Challenge. In this episode, you will learn about: Why Diana's favorite quote is “just do it” How her biggest pain point at AquaMobile become her greatest asset Creating in-house technology for automation and growth Why the best business advice Diana has ever been given is to focus  What Diana learned from spending money on the wrong marketing and the wrong people The benefits of investing in failure The pivotal role empathy and understanding plays in negotiation Why Diana started MarketBox Chasing personal fulfillment and overcoming stagnation How AquaMobile has fared against the COVID-19 pandemic Navigating the ever-changing lockdown restrictions across multiple countries Who the “rebel customer” is and how you can win them over The importance of adapting to online selling Creating a good customer experience in your virtual store The necessity of having a seamless buying process for e-commerce businesses What MarketBox is and how it is helping service-based businesses Understanding customer pain points and how they can lead to new opportunities Utilizing technology the right way to grow your business How Diana balances family time with her businesses How to schedule your day in a way that works for you Fostering habits every day for success Resources: AquaMobile website: https://aquamobileswim.com/ MarketBox website: https://www.gomarketbox.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianagoodwin/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianamgoodwin?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamgoodwin/ Public Shout Outs: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss What it means to be a WILD woman: “Don't be apologetic. Go for it, do what feels right, and do no harm in the world. Too many women feel like they have to apologize for being big and having big ideas and for wanting to shine bright in the world. Don't apologize, just go for it.” -Diana Goodwin ______________________________________________________________________ Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego. She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer. Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast "I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread."

Born and raised in Squamish BC, Mike Schwarz went on to graduate from UBC Sauder School of Business with his Bachelor of Commerce degree (Marketing) in 1999. Since then, Mike has been self-employed, working on internet start-ups for over 18 years. Mike now has a rich history of successful dot-com exits including Clubvibes.com, Techvibes.com, The Massive Tech conference, DiscoverVancouver and clubZone.com. Mike's current focus is building out myZone Media, who's mission is to help event promoters operate more efficiently. Subsidiary businesses of myZone including myZone Printing, myZone Marketing, myZone Web Development, myZone Ticketing (aka ticketZone.com) and myZone Merch. Mike loves to travel and spends several months per year on the road working remotely. His latest start-up is his growing family including a wife & son. Recognized in 2005 as a BIV top 30 under 30, Schwarz has also spoken at numerous conferences and is passionate about building creative work environments that enable both work-life balance. In this episode, Mike discusses "why it's essential to find out what part of your business is virus proof", and stresses the importance of pivoting your business offerings online during this tumultuous time. Mark also talks about how his businesses thrives within a remote work-from-home culture, and offers insights and tools he uses to connect with his domestic and international team members. Mark sheds light on the impact COVID-19 is having on the event industry specifically. With the current outlook, which is changing daily, Mark anticipates events should be postponed until at least the Fall, if not the Spring.

If you've wondered about what it takes to build your business internationally, you're going to love listening to Canadian business superstar, Diana Goodwin.  We met at the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Conference and I was amazed by how she uses technology to build her company with so many people spread far and wide.  Diana Goodwin is Founder and CEO of Toronto-based AquaMobile, an on-demand at-home swim lesson provider, the largest of its kind in North America. AquaMobile has grown to over 2500 instructors operating across Canada and in 25 states in the U.S and has been profiled in Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, and Techvibes to name a few. Diana has won numerous business awards including Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, and the $100,000 Small Business Challenge.  Diana is considered an innovator and thought-leader in “Bootstrapping”, finding the most cost-effective ways to market and scale her business model to over seven figures.

Hi! I’m Ryan Lazanis. I’m a CPA by trade but definitely don’t consider myself a normal accountant. I identify more with being an entrepreneur and I love innovative technologies and disruptive business models. What I’m really passionate about is helping to modernize the old, archaic, traditional accounting firm model. After spending many years in public practice at a small CPA firm, I decided to start Xen Accounting in 2013. The firm was one of the first of its kind in Canada. 100% online, totally paperless, fully cloud-based & leveraging the latest technology to automate processes for the firm and its clients. The firm was comprised of a team of geeky CPA’s, bookkeepers and technologists. We looked at what millennials (employees and clients alike) hated from the traditional accounting firm and turned that on its head to offer a new service in the country. After 5 short years, Xen Accounting was acquired by Equiom, an international corporate services firm, thanks in part to the tech-oriented, scalable model that had been created. On a personal level, in those 5 years, I also learned a heck of a lot about starting, crafting and running a modern, automated, online accounting firm that provided customers with an exceptional customer and experience and team members with a modern work environment. Future Firm is an extension of my experience in the world of modern, technology-driven, forward-thinking accounting. With Future Firm, my aim is to help firms think about the future of their firm and to help them adopt a model that’s more geared towards the digital age. Something that’s more automated, more virtual, one that takes into account changing client expectations, is more visible online and caters to the upcoming millennial and Gen Z generations. I also like writing & speaking on the subject of technology & accounting. I’ve been a writer for Techvibes, featured in international publications and have spoken at various events around the world.

If there is one industry that exemplifies the extraordinary disruption and change we have undergone over the past couple decades, it might just be the news. The way we produce, deliver and receive the news is changing fast, and social media is just one of many forces that upends this cornerstone of democracy. How can journalists and newsmakers compete? Joining Ben is Jessica Vomiero, National Online Journalist for Global News, who is also studying "media disruption" at Ryerson University in Toronto. Read the blog post for this episode. Sources and Links Here are a few sources mentioned in this conversation: JSource: J-Source/ProjetJ is a publication of the Canadian Journalism Project, a venture led by the journalism programs at Ryerson University and Carleton University and supported by the post-secondary journalism programs at member institutions of J- Schools Canada/EcolesJ (j-schoolscanada.ca) as well as by a group of donors. Niemen Lab, Harvard University: The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age. About the Guest Jessica is a National Online Journalist with GlobalNews.ca. Jessica has been a journalist since the age of 15, when she talked the editors of a local paper into giving her a monthly column. Since then, her work has been seen in outlets like TechVibes, MobileSyrup, the Financial Post and CBC Radio, among others. In 2017, she graduated from the Ryerson School of Journalism, where she specialized in multimedia journalism. She’s worked in a wide variety of digital mediums and most recently spearheaded the Business section for Canada’s largest technology news site, MobileSyrup.com. During her time there, she wrote often about Canada’s innovation policy, the changing face of Canadian transportation through ride sharing and autonomous cars, and the relationship between digital streaming and Canadian content. She’s interested in technology, entrepreneurship, politics, and the different forces at work in the market today. Learn more about Jess or follow her on Twitter (@JessicaVomiero).

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by The EdTech Shop - Copywriting & Marketing Strategy for Education Startups. Get more schools to sign up and buy with The 5-Day Copy fix. Click here to enroll for free. ### On this episode of the podcast, I talk to Ami Shah. Ami is the CEO and Co-founder of Peekapak, an award-winning social-emotional learning platform that engages elementary students to learn skills like self-regulation, empathy, and teamwork and reaches over 200 000 educators and students. Using stories, evidence-based lessons, and game-based learning, Peekapak empowers educators to be proactive in helping curb future mental health issues. Ami has earned an MBA from INSEAD and has previously taught in K-4 classrooms and advised and volunteered at education-related non-profit organizations. After gaining marketing experience through roles at Procter & Gamble and driven by her passion to improve youth education, Ami made the jump to entrepreneurship and has since been featured on Toronto Life, Flare, TechVibes, CBC, and numerous other outlets. Ami and I take a deep dive into SEL & serving elementary schools. Highlights include: The mission for Peekapak Ami's TED talk - She talks about our real answers to the question "how are you?" I'm curious about how a tech platform can help build social-emotional skills. Ami explains how that's possible. The dynamic relationship between early childhood education and parental involvement when it comes to Peekapak and SEL Serving elementary schools, teachers, and students is special in EdTech - Ami tells us why. Ami has interviewed over 300 teachers. Here's what she's learned. The importance of modeling as the leader of a company. How teachers can get started with SEL (Ami recommends casel.org) Say hello to Ami on Twitter: (@amishahdotca) Try Peekapak: www.peekapak.com If you liked this episode then please subscribe on iTunes, leave a review, and share it with a friend. Thanks for listening! Gerard Dawson    

Nikolas Badminton (@nikolasfuturist) is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity; The Sharing Economy; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; Education; The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business; and Predictions for humanity from 2017 to 2030, and beyond.Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media.  You can listen right here on iTunesIn today's episode we discuss: * The reason the world's most valuable company has yet to be created * Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists * The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them * Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West * The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way * What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting * How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains * Why the singularity is and isn't almost here * The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out * Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren't something that worries Nikolas * How to address the issues social media * Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictableMake a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The DisruptorsThe Disruptors is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate

Warren Levitan is co-founder and CEO of Smooch, the omnichannel conversation platform for enterprise software makers. He previously served as CEO of Radialpoint, which was acquired by AppDirect. Founded in 2015, Smooch connects any business software to all the world’s messaging channels for a more human customer experience. It was named New Startup of the Year at Techvibes’ sixth annual Canadian Startup Awards and a 2018 CIX Top 20 company by the Canadian Innovation Exchange. Episode overview: This week, Warren  shares his vision and insights on what is happening in customer experience and how messaging is going to make all of our lives easier by connecting  consumers to businesses in a more personal and convenient way. He will also be dropping sales and marketing tips, the story on how Smooch came about and the lessons that he learned throughout his journey as an innovator. Smooch is about building relationships between consumers and brands. Smooch is not a bot platform. Smooch is helping businesses build new channels of communication with customers through their own websites and mobile apps, plus the messaging apps consumers are already using to connect with friends and family. Businesses can handle these conversation via their existing customer experience software using live human agents or ring on automation with chatbots. Customer intimacy (getting to know your customer and being very personal with them) - building an emotional connection between consumers and brands. Warren and his team don't want the new digital channels to turn into a crap where you are stuck or when you are  just typing to your agents or something but instead it is really about the connection between brands and where the consumers are and you can layer bot on top of that. “It's really hard for brands today to compete on their products.” As consumers interact with brands, we generally don't know everything we need to know to place an order or acquire something. Sometimes we do but most times we don't and brands have traditionally pushed us through forms and flows that make sure they get all the information from us. “As a consumer all you want is to engage with the lowest effort in the places we're already are and not jumping through hoops.” How the idea of Smooch come about: Warren shared a story about his last business delivering technical support for telcos around the world. Experiencing it firsthand, Warren realize that no matter how good they want to be in helping their customers and assisting them with their problems, by the time the call reach them, the customers are already angry. That is why he thought that this situation could be prevented. They would have solve this customer's problems so much easier if they were their first interaction. And that is where the idea for Smooch was born. Warren also shared about their venture and partnership with the biggest messaging platform, WhatsApp. What makes this a Canadian Innovation or Innovative thinking? Montreal-based Smooch is changing the way businesses create, nurture and grow one-to-one relationships with their customers. The Smooch Conversation Cloud allows brands to engage with users on all the world’s leading messaging apps and voice assistants, with support for both live agents and AI, revolutionizing and humanizing how people interact with businesses and technology. Smooch powers the conversational products and experiences of global leaders such as Zendesk, Oracle, Genesys, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Betterment and Bird. Resources Recommendation: Restaurant: Dinette Triple Crown  Book: Summary of Principles by Ray Dalio Company Mission: At Smooch, our mission is to humanize the relationships between businesses and their customers. With over 4 billion messaging accounts worldwide, people spend more time messaging than any other activity online. This shift, combined with the power of conversation at scale, creates an opportunity to make interaction with the brands we trust more useful, more immediate, more intimate, and ultimately more human. "The future is already here it is not just evenly distributed" As consumers grow to demand personal and human communication on a wide variety of channels, businesses are looking to their software vendors and partners to innovate and deliver these customer experiences. “Transformative change takes time” All great changes takes longer you might have imagined the best part of it is dance to be bigger and what you have imagined Sales and marketing tips : Make sure you're focused on your customers problem and not your solution Productivity tool: Messaging Slack Smooch WhatsApp Hot spot: Dinette Triple Crown in Montreal Jazz fest during summer Connect with Warren: Website: https://smooch.io/ Twitter: @SmoochLabs and @wlevitan Facebook: Smooch LinkedIn: Smooch.io Thanks again for tuning in! To help out the show: Please leave an iTunes review or post a comment below. Your help is greatly appreciated. If you know any Canadian Innovators whom you like us to feature, please feel free to email us. Listen to more innovators who are crushing it here. I’m still channeling Gary Vee! Ratings and reviews are my oxygen! Have you seen the new CanInnovate resources & tools page, that provides different offers and discounts. Who doesn’t love to save money? We are a big supporter of Unsplash.com photos. Special thanks to Ross Findon!

Nikolas will give you essential insights into the way the future world will work. In this episode, he speaks about the "Fourth Industrial Revolution": communications, energy, and transportation. He dives deeper into the topics of genomics (including CRISPR), adoption and timelines for electric and autonomous vehicles, smart cities (including Google Sidewalk Labs projects), and big data. • About Nikolas Badminton • Nikolas is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Renewable Energy, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Gene Editing and Personalized Healthcare; Work Productivity; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; and The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business. Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media

A podcast surveying Tech, Startup and Venture Capital News. This episode reads news from Betakit, Montreal in Technology, Techvibes, VentureBeat,TechCrunch, Engadget, and Business Wire. Featuring Ontario Government, eSight, Corl, Polymath, Solar Brokers, Durham College, Google Venture, Fano Labs, Ripcord, Digital Genius, Samsung, Ooma, Butterfleye, Bixby, Fluenty, CLARA Analytics, Cancord, AImotive, Xcell Biosciences, Quartet, Intel, Google, MedChart. Background Music: Didi Le Fou - Come Back JaZZ Sleepless – Ponder Guggenz - Beautiful Day

A podcast surveying Tech Startup and Venture Capital News. This episode reads news from The Globe and Mail, Betakit, Techvibes, VentureBeat, Axios, and Reuters. Featuring Rubikloud, Vecima Networks, Concurrent Technologies, Stingray Music, Qello Concerts, Spotify, Didi Chuxing, and Vou de 99. Additionally, Market Study by Canadian Competition Bureau on Fintech. Background Music: Preposition – Presto MAXGONZ – Lost In Your Eyes

A podcast surveying Tech Startup and Venture Capital News. This episode reads news from Betakit, Techvibes, VentureBeat, and BusinessWire. Featuring Buddybuild, Apple, Microsoft, Evere Systems, Terminus, BrightFunnel, Advanced Symbolics, Government of Canada, Showpass, BlackBerry, Baidu, Critical Diagnostics, and AEGEA Medical in HealthTech. Background Music: xPanda - 1994uv Sick Pabzzz - Lazy Mood Members of Toronto’s cryptocurrency community are banding together for the Merry Merkle initiative to raise $5,000 for a Syrian refugee family that just arrived to Canada. The fundraiser for the family will be hosted until the end of January, and only accepts Ether or ECR20 tokens. Donations can be made on the official website: https://merrymerkle.com/

A podcast surveying Tech Startup and Venture Capital News. This episode reads news from Techvibes, VentureBeat, and MoneyTree Report provided by PwC Canada and CB Insights. Featuring Netflix, Samsung, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Donald Trump, US Postal Service. Background Music: Sleepless - Spaces Paul Grape - Jazz Legacy (Part I)

AquaMobile, an on- demand at-home swim school which is now the largest of its kind in North America. AquaMobile uses cutting edge technology that allows customers to go online, key in their pool address and be matched with a certified instructor who will travel to their home. My guest was just 19 years old when she started her swim school business,  which she grew with a single $3000 investment that she received from a government grant. AquaMobile has now grown to 1500 instructors operating across Canada and in 25 states in the U.S, and has been profiled in Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post and Techvibes to name just a few, and had also pitched on CBC's Dragon's Den.  Diana has won a number of business awards including Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, and the $100,000 Small Business Challenge. Show note and links: www.theinnerchangemaker.com/podcast/121 Podcasting Training: https://bitly.com/freetrainingwithjay LINKS -- Join the Legacy Driven Entrepreneurs Community (it's FREE): http://www.theinnerchangemaker.com/tribe Are you enjoying the podcast? Listen to the episode here and leave us a review: Apple: http://apple.co/1JUHcG9 Android: http://bit.ly/2nuoGpl TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2BjY0gU Breaker: http://bit.ly/2BRwOCb iHeartRadio: http://bit.ly/2BhMr9L Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2BbuWEg Want to grab my NEW audio training? Grab a FREE copy of "How To Be The Leader You Truly Are": http://www.theinnerchangemaker.com/leadership Launching a podcast? Grab my Podcast Creation Roadmap: http://www.theinnerchangemaker.com/roadmap

Nous discutons avec Jean-Luc David des vêtements connectés, mieux connus sous le nom de wearables.  Voici quelques exemples de vêtements connectés: Apple Watch, FitBit, Microsoft Band.  Jean-Luc is a senior software developer & technology executive, specializing in web, mobile, and wearable technologies such as Google Glass. He’s a team player, having worked at both small startups and large corporations such as Microsoft and Yellow Pages Group Canada.  Jean-Luc's work has been featured on TechCrunch, Engadget, CNN, BetaKit, TechVibes, Wired, Mashable, New York Observer, MSN, Facebook's Official Blog, CTV News, CBC News, and the Montreal Gazette. He's been a speaker at events around the world, and has written five technical books and dozens of articles for Wiley Publishing, CNET, TechRepublic, and Builder.com. Liens Le Prince Charles portant des Google Glass  Interview TechCrunch

In our fourth episode we skype with David Quail, the man who wrote a controversial article on Techvibes about why startups should choose Canada over Silicon Valley. Discussed is Dave's opinion and some of the criticism he received. In the second half of the podcast I spent an evening at the home of Ian Jeffrey and I spoke to him and his wife Emma about moving from Montreal to San Francisco to run a company and Ian's return to his hometown to run the FounderFuel program.

In episode two we hung out with CEO Andrew Sider of Bunch. Andrew is a no-nonsense, kick-ass dude who's first job was selling vegetables from his farm, to his treachers, when he was 6 years old. He would eventually become a founding team member of BandPage, the San Fran music sharing startup that gained 12 million users and over $18 Million in investment. Now Andrew heads up Montreal-based startup Bunch. Check it all out here.