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Amplify Your Business Insight Psychological

For Episode 159 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Cory Hrushka, CEO of Insight Psychological, a psychological and counseling practice that services adults, children & youth, marriage and couples, families, and businesses.
 
Insight Psychological recently launched a tool, MyPsychPulse, for businesses to allow their employees to take an online screening test to evaluate where they are in regard to their own mental health. The screener is completely confidential and the business will only get aggregated data so they can get some statistics on how their company is doing from a mental health standpoint and find areas that they may need to pay attention to. Employees will get their own personal results, and they can take steps to engage Insight Psychological from there if they so choose.To learn more about Insight Psychological, visit their website, or for businesses or entrepreneurs interested in their new tool, visit MyPsychPulse.
 
Government grants mentioned in the podcast:
Technation
 
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - What are some insights you’ve learned about entrepreneurship in your journey?
06:09 - Tell me about your business and how you’ve achieved so much success.
11:12 - In your practice, are you hearing a lot about the struggles entrepreneurs have been facing since the Pandemic started?
13:57 - What can entrepreneurs do to manage the ups and downs of entrepreneurship to maintain good mental health?
15:53 - What are some routines or best practices for entrepreneurs to maintain optimal mental health?
18:01 - Is there any advice you could give to entrepreneurs to ensure their employees are maintaining good mental health?
19:58 - How do employers or companies access your MyPsychPulse tool?
20:57 - What are the keys to your 25 years of success?
23:28 - Knowing what you know now, is there anything that you could have done differently to fast-track your growth?
27:23 - What advice would you give to entrepreneurs about hiring the right people?
30:06 - Tell us about the things you do to help other psychologists and businesses to give back to your community.
32:51 - How has your definition of success changed since the beginning of your career?
33:51 - What keeps you motivated to continue growing your business?
37:11 - How can people contact you?
38:04 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Beam.city

For Episode 158 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Zeze Peters, the founder and CEO of Beam City. Zeze has a degree in aerospace engineering from Cornell University, which he’s leveraged to fill his website full of hilarious space-themed puns. Beam City is the world’s first AI-based advertising automation platform. Through the use of algorithms and AI, Beam City helps its clients to plan and optimize their ads on all of the top ad channels, as well as “multi-location and personalization at scale.”
Zeze’s aerospace background has given him the unique ability to figure out complex systems, simplify them, and make them work. He’s applied this training at Beam City to create their growth coordination platform that allows you to maximize results from advertising, email campaigns, and social media all in one place.
To learn more, and for all the space puns your heart desires, visit Beam City. Stop tab jumping and blast your business to the stratosphere.
 
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - What three pieces of advice would you give budding entrepreneurs?
03:28 - What does Beam City do?
05:39 - Blast your business to the stratosphere with AI.
08:07 - Why did you pivot from aerospace engineering to marketing?
09:49 - How long have you been developing this platform?
11:27 - Starting this company during COVID, what has been your biggest challenge?
13:34 - If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would you say?
16:02 - How do you know when your product is ready for commercialization?
18:00 - Was AI built into your platform from Day One, or was it added later?
20:14 - Did you move right from creating digital shopping malls to Beam City?
22:44 - If you had started Beam City with a suitcase full of money, what would you have done differently?
24:07 - If you could choose any entrepreneur to go on this journey with you, who would you choose?
25:59 - Did you start with an advisory team?
27:02 - Is your board of advisors a formal board or an informal board?
30:09 - How can someone interested in Beam City contact you?
30:51 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Prime Capital Group

For Episode 157 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Angela Armstrong, the president and founder of Prime Capital Group. Prime Capital is an organization that leases equipment or tools of their trade to small and large businesses at a fraction of the price it would have cost them to buy them outright. This allows small businesses to get the tools they need  while staying cash rich so they can grow their businesses through agile financing.
 
In our conversation with Angela, she shares some deep thoughts on health matters, time management, self-reflection, her definition of success, and the importance of setting boundaries.To learn more, visit Prime Capital Group.
 
00:00 Intro
01:53 - What are three things that every entrepreneur should know or be doing?
08:18 - Healthy from the inside out. 
11:53 - How do you set your day up for success?
19:18 - What tools or methodology do you apply to setting up and tackling your daily tasks?
24:41 - How long ago did you start Prime Capital Group?
24:55 - What would you say to your younger self?
26:32 - What does success look like to you?
28:52 - What are the most challenging aspects of entrepreneurship?
30:01 - Where do you find the time to do everything that you do?
31:25 - What do you do for fun?
32:33 - If you could have a do-over on anything in your career, what’s something you would have done differently?
36:44 - What does Prime Capital Group do?
39:03 - How can people reach you?
41:03 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Copperstone Technologies LTD

For Episode 156 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Craig Milne, the CEO of Copperstone Technologies. Unlike the majority of our guests on Amplify Your Business, Craig Milne is not the founder of Copperstone Technologies, but he was brought on in the early days as the CEO and has helped to scale the business to where it is today.
 
Copperstone Technologies is a company that builds robots for hazardous site investigation. These robots provide mission-critical data from hazardous environments.To learn more, visit Copperstone Technologies LTD.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - What should entrepreneurs consider when hiring a CEO?
5:17 - Is offering equity in the business part of the CEO hiring strategy?
7:45 - What does Copperstone Technologies do?
12:22 - When did you sign your first deal?
14:23 - The differences between a founder CEO and a hired CEO.
18:03 - Would you do anything differently knowing what you know now?
19:48 - What drew you into the world of robotics?
22:32 - The challenges of transitioning from entrepreneur to hired CEO.
26:06 - Would you define success differently in this position?
28:29 - How you can learn more about and connect with Copperstone Technologies
29:53 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Medicine Hat Brewing Company

For Episode 155 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Kaiden Vancuren, the owner of Medicine Hat Brewing Company. In our interview with Kaiden, he tells us the three things he thinks every entrepreneur should know, how Medicine Hat Brewing survived the “Valley of Death,” what it’s like to break into other provinces as a brewing company, and much more.To learn more, visit Medicine Hat Brewing Company’s website or Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - What 3 things should every entrepreneur know?
2:12 - Medicine Hat is a hidden gem.
2:47 - How have you survived ‘The Valley of Death’?
4:43 - How are you navigating the various liquor regulations across Canada?
5:35 - How many different beers has Medicine Hat Brewing Company created?
7:41 - Distribution management
9:23 - What was your inspiration for becoming a brewer and starting Medicine Hat Brewing Company?
11:59 - If you had received a million dollars when you started, how would you have spent it?
14:08 - Managing growth and expenditures.
16:16 - What would you write in a letter to yourself when you started?
18:31 - The craft beer industry is very collaborative, why is that?
21:18 - How would you define success?
22:33 - If you could pick a celebrity co-entrepreneur, who would it be?
24:05 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Leduc Physio

For Episode 154 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Tenielle Magee, the owner and CEO of Leduc Physio, Navisess, Compression Care, and Physio@Home. In our discussion with Tenielle today, she tells us the three things she thinks every entrepreneur should know, blows us away with how she manages to run four businesses and still has time to sleep, talks about opening Physio@Home during the pandemic, and explains how she deals with supply chain issues.To learn more, visit her websites, Leduc Physio, Navisess, Compression Care, and Physio@Home.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:05- Top 3 tips for entrepreneurs.
3:21 - What is the backstory to you starting four businesses?
6:13 - Where do you find the drive and capacity?
7:36 - How do you manage change and uncertainty?
9:05 - Staying grounded in business.
11:05 - What advice do you have for your young self starting out?
13:56 - If you received one million dollars in the beginning, what would you have spent it on?
15:02 - What are the biggest challenges?
17:09 - What does success look like to you?
20:00 -Outro

Amplify Your Business Yelo’d Ice Cream

For Episode 153 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ailynn and Jason from Yelo’d Ice Cream, a mom-and-pop ice cream joint that blends Asian and Philippino flavours with one of Canada’s favourite desserts: ice cream.
 
Yelo’d got its humble start in the home kitchen of Jason and Ailynn, where they would whip up different flavours of ice cream for their children. After one of their daughters remarked that they should open an ice cream shop, the pair got to work to make it a reality. Through the power of social media, word of this one-of-a-kind ice cream parlour made the rounds, and soon, Ailynn and Jason had crowdfunded enough capital to open Yelo’d!To learn more about Yelo’d Ice Cream, visit their website or check out what crazy flavours they’re cooking up next on their Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - The idea behind Yelo’d Ice cream.
5:01 - What role did social media have in starting Yelo’d Ice Cream?
7:30 - What led to your success on social media?
9:22 - What makes your ice cream unique?
11:20 - Get the exclusive flavours while you can!
18:00 - What challenges did your first winter bring?
20:00 - The impact of Covid-19.
24:50 - What social media platform performed best for you?
26:33 - 20k followers and counting!
29:55 - Advice for gaining followers.
31:39 - Starting your food truck vs food delivery services.
40:35 - The concept of a ghost kitchen.
44:51 - What lessons have you learned and what would you do differently?
47:14 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Bitcoin Well

For Episode 152 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Adam O’Brien from Bitcoin Well. Bitcoin Well, formerly Bitcoin Solutions, began with O’Brien buying and selling Bitcoin through ads on Facebook and Kijiji, and eventually led to having 115 Bitcoin ATMs across Canada. They are now one of Canada’s leaders in buying and selling Bitcoin in a non-custodial fashion.To learn more, visit the Bitcoin Well website or follow them on Instagram @thebitcoinwell.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:48 - Introduction to Bitcoin Well.
3:44 - What made you persevere?
8:43 - What is your business model?
10:20 - How does one use Bitcoin Well?
12:08 - Where can clients find your ATM’s?
13:12 - Growing organically vs acquisitions and lessons learned.
17:33 - What do you owe your success to?
18:42 - How does the value of Bitcoin relate to demand on your machines?
21:03 - Why ATM’s and not online transactions?
23:16 - Are online transactions in the near future?
28:24 - What is next for Bitcoin Well?
31:09 - Going Public!
33:03 - What advice do you have for your younger self?
25:51 - How to connect with Bitcoin Well.
43:55 - Outro