Amplify Your Business

Amplify Your Business Truly Financial

For Episode 146 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Sandeep Todi, the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Truly Financial. Truly Financial is an online digital bank, built exclusively for smaller businesses that helps them grow globally. In a world where many businesses - and especially startups - are using business practices that allow them to hire employees anywhere in the world, these organizations are seeking out new and cost-effective ways to pay their employees and handle international transactions. Truly Financial is the solution.
To learn more, visit Truly Financial’s website.

Amplify Your Business Mystica Entertainment

For Episode 145 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Heather McLaren, co-founder of Mystica Entertainment. McLaren is an adrenaline junkie who fell into entrepreneurship through volunteering for event band changeover, which ultimately led her on her journey to co-founding Mystica Entertainment.
 
In our interview with Heather, we talk about her foray into rave culture, the COVID-19 Pandemic, the entertainment industry as a whole, and hear her three things that every entrepreneur should know.
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - What should entrepreneurs know about the entertainment industry?
4:28 - Why did you choose the events business?
9:15 - How did Mystica Entertainment evolve?
11:07 - What impact did Covid have?
12:53 - How did you navigate the impact?
14:47 - How has Mystica Entertainment changed since?
16:48 - How did you scale your business?
19:52 - If you could, what advice would you give yourself when you started?
21:12 - The difficulties of entrepreneurship.
22:12 - What does success look like now?
24:25 - Given the choice, who would you want as your business partner?
26:40 - Outro

Amplify Your Business Manning Canning

For Episode 143 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Christine Manning, the co-founder of Manning Canning, an organization that operates a commercial kitchen that they lease out to other consumer packaged goods businesses. Manning Canning also creates their own line of jams, pickles, and drinks.
 
Christine tells us how she accidentally stumbled into entrepreneurship, her journey from following her mother’s canning recipes in her backyard preserving business to owning a commercial kitchen, and the top three things she thinks every entrepreneur should know.
 
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Top 3 things entrepreneurs should know
2:58 - What inspired Manning Canning?
5:09 - How did the commercial kitchen come to be?
7:53 - How many businesses have grown through your kitchen?
9:18 - How do you build community?
12:30 - What inspired your product line progression?
15:30 - What did you learn through growing your product line?
17:40 - What did you learn dealing with consumer packaged goods?
20:40 - What advice would you give to your entrepreneurs?
24:48 - What advice would you give yourself when you started?
27:00 - Outro

Amplify Your Business: Signature Guest Kerri Twigg

For Episode Career Stories of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Kerri Twigg, Career Contentment Coach at Career Stories. Kerri is the author of The Career Stories Method, a Number One bestseller on Amazon, and is an acclaimed speaker and career coach. After stumbling upon some teachings by American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant, Shinzen Young, Kerri took to coaching others about what she calls the Five Elements of Happiness to help her clients find career contentment.
Kerri spent 25 years coaching people on how to land their dream jobs, but eventually realized that it wasn’t enough. Her clients who had gushed about their “dream job” weren’t actually happy, and neither was she. That all changed after she learned about Shinzen Young’s teachings, and began applying the Five Elements of Happiness to her own life and career. Once she began to use storytelling, mindfulness, and meditation in her own life and career to unleash her “awesome self,” and change her mindset, Kerri was able to teach others to effect that change as well. 
Kerri’s Five Elements of Happiness are Relief, Fulfillment, Self-Understanding, Mastery, and Connection. To learn more about the Five Elements of Happiness and how to use them to find happiness and fulfillment in your career, watch our podcast and then head over to Amazon and buy Kerri’s book.
To learn more, visit Kerri website, buy her book, and most of all, watch our podcast!

Amplify Your Business: Interviews In A Click

For Episode 142 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Adam Gellert—Founder of HiredHippo.As a business owner, your people are investments. But with job boards filled with sterile postings, employees unsure of how to present themselves to young businesses, or costly recruitment services bringing in candidates without long-term vision, the jobseeker market was ready for an innovator. With a “dating app-like approach,” HiredHippo is creating interviews in a click.
 
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Three things Adam thinks every entrepreneur needs to know
4:30 - What is HiredHippo?
10:58 - Building two sides of a market at the same time
13:58 - A new service model
17:31 - What Adam would have done differently when he started his business
20:36 - The most challenging part of being an entrepreneur
22:09 - Outro

Amplify Your Business: Go With The Flow

For Episode 141 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Dorit Smali—Founder of Digital Dorit Agency.What can energy teach us about being better marketers? Today, Dorit Smali of Digital Dorit Agency shares her thoughts with us on abundance, connection, and passion—all of which can help us understand and tell better stories for the businesses we work with. This is a novel and uniquely personable approach to marketing, and we’re excited to share it with our listeners.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - What Dorit thinks every entrepreneur needs to know
4:25 - What problems does the Digital Dorit Agency solve?
6:52 - How to find clients that match your energy
14:31 - What would Dorit say to her younger self about starting a business?
16:20 - The challenges of the entrepreneurial lifestyle
19:30 - Neurodiversity: what is it?
24:37 - Where to learn more about Neurodiversity
26:45 - Outro

Amplify Your Business: Stitched With Love

For Episode 140 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Connor Curran—Chief Laundry Folder of Local Laundry.
 
What is community pride without community? When you put your city front and centre of your brand, you had better stand for it. Connor Curran of Local Laundry shows his company’s pride in spades with local manufacturing, a staggering donation goal, and a vision for tomorrow across Canada. Experience his passion firsthand in this heartfelt episode—we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
 
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - What Connor thinks every entrepreneur needs to know
3:38 - What is Local Laundry?
5:21 - What sets Local Laundry apart?
11:50 - Finding (and maintaining) your niche as a startup in an established industry
15:11 - "Tell everyone else's story, and you begin to tell your own story."
22:57 - The secrets to TikTok for businesses
32:44 - What Connor would say to his younger self about starting his business
37:39 - Outro

Amplify Your Business: A Thousand Words

For Episode 139 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Abi Ajibola of Memoirs Photography.
“Come and be a celebrity for a day.” That’s the motto that helps Abi Ajibola turn everyday shoots into unforgettable portraits for her clients. As a fan of elevating experiences through beauty and connection, she brings joy to her clients that shines through in both her prints and her plans for growing the business—something that’s even more impressive to accomplish as a new Canadian citizen!
 
0:00 - Intro
0:54 - What Abi thinks every entrepreneur needs to know
5:25 - What is Memoirs Photography?
7:11 - The Impact of the iPhone and the art of photography
11:37 - Turning a hobby into a business
15:37 - Overcoming the (seemingly) impossible
20:06 - Branching out and moving up
25:08 - How to start your day off right
28:05 - Outro