Amplify Your Business

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

Amplify Your Business RGE RD

For Episode 151 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Caitlyn Fulton, owner and Chief of Operations, and Blair Lebsack, owner and Chef at RGE RD, a restaurant and butchery in Edmonton. RGE RD espouses the concept of farm-to-table, doubly so when they opted to open up their own butchery right next door to their original restaurant, despite the fact that neither owner had ever worked in retail food service before.To learn more, visit RGE RD’s website or Instagram, and the butchery’s website or Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
2:45 - The concept behind RGE RD.
5:13 - What makes RGE RD unique?
9:52 - What impact did Covid-19 have?
14:56 - Was getting back to full capacity overwhelming?
16:36 - Lessons learned along the way.
19:24 - The Chef’s Table Experience.
21:25 - Introducing the butchery.
23:17 - Supporting local industry.
24:13 - what inspired the butchery expansion?
25:23 - Lessons about starting a business in the pandemic.
29:28 - What is next for RGE RD?
30:34 - Outro

Amplify Your Business SOHO

For Episode 150 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Darren Pelechaty, partner and General Manager at SOHO, a restaurant, pub, and live music venue in Alberta, where the 70s New York punk scene meets modern-day downtown Edmonton, and inclusivity reigns supreme.To learn more, visit SOHO’s website, https://www.sohoyeg.com/, or check them out on Instagram.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Where it all began
3:34 - What inspired the design?
8:00 - What are your plans for entertainment?
10:20 - What’s on the menu?
11:53 - The challenges of opening during Covid-19.
14:32 - Were there benefits to starting when you did?
15:44 - We’re open for Take-Out!
17:59 - Punk, Pizza, and Good Times!
19:08 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Clavis Studio

For Episode 149 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Aby Aiyeleye, the Co-CEO of Clavis Studio. This year, Clavis Studio won the newcomer Entrepreneur Award of Distinction from the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction, presented by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce. 
 
Clavis Studio is an online design platform that marries the fun of designing a space with the functionality of doing it online. Clavis Studio allows you to recreate whatever space you’re trying to design in their app, and provides you the furnishing that you need to put together your dream space before you commit to buying anything.To learn more, visit Clavis Studio’s website at https://myclavis.ca/ 
 
0:00 - Intro
2:45 -  What makes Clavis Studio unique as a design tool?
6:45 - Did this tool take an extraordinary amount of work to put together?8:00 - What angle did you come at the gap from? What background did you come from?
9:30 - What do your collaborations look like?
11:15 - Tell us about the newest developments and when they go live?12:05 - What was your entrepreneurial journey?
15:05 - What is the background of your business partner?16:00 - Was the concept for the business yours, or was it a collaboration?
16:50 - What lessons have you learned in your entrepreneurial journey?
21:32 - How to connect with Clavis Studio.
22:05 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Your Brand Marketing

For Episode 148 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ben Baker, the founder and CEO of Your Brand Marketing. Ben is also a seasoned podcaster, with 350 episodes of his current show, the Your Living Brand Live Show, under his belt. In our discussion with Ben, he talks us through the three things he thinks every entrepreneur should know, how he started Your Brand Marketing and a lot about podcasts.To learn more, visit the Your Brand Marketing website, and check out Ben’s current podcasts here.
 
0:00 - Intro
3:28 - Three things every entrepreneur needs to know.
5:25 - What is Your Brand Marketings’ ‘Why’?
9:47 - What solution do you offer?
11:20 - Communication - Are things getting better or worse?
13:53 - Have companies improved communications by leveraging tech?
17:17 - How to effectively use data.
20:33 - What adjustments have you made to consulting?
26:07 - Work from home communication styles.
27:55 - The internal podcasting process.
36:18 - The ideal internal podcast formula.
40:10 - Connect with Your Brand Marketing.
40:32 - Outro

Amplify Your Business eWebinar

For Episode 147 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Melissa Kwan, co-founder and CEO of eWebinar. eWebinar is a product for people who hate running webinars. Born out of Melissa’s own hatred of running webinars, eWebinar aims to fully automate the process of running a webinar through giving clients the ability to turn any video into a webinar that they can automate on a recurring schedule or make available on demand so you never have to do the same one twice.
 
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Key insights for new entrepreneurs.
4:14 - Did sales come naturally to you or was it learned?
9:13 - Is ‘Do what you love.’ fair advice for those starting their journey?
13:27 - What problem is eWebinar solving?
17:36 - Who is your audience?
21:41 - Did eWebinar benefit through Covid-19?
24:23 - It’s been said that webinars are dead, how do you respond?
25:50 - Advice you would give your younger self.
30:35 - The definition of success for eWebinar.
35:35 - How to connect with Melissa Kwan.
36:53 - Outro