Amplify Your Business

Amplify Your Business: Prosperous Woman Coaching

For Episode 103 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Janet Key of Prosperous Woman Coaching. Her approach blends the spiritual and the practical, the familiar and the novel, all in search of empowerment. How do we trust ourselves and grow? How do we find our best selves in a business world that can quickly suck up an entire personality? For advice, tips, and perhaps a bit of magic—listen in!

Amplify Your Business: Hungry For Change

For Episode 102 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Jeff Ball of Thrive Provisions.
 
In his own words, Thrive Provisions was “born out of necessity.” That necessity? A lack of great backpacking snacks. With a ranch, entrepreneurial spirit, and hunger for change, Ball turned the everyday into a new way of refueling in the backcountry.
The unique view of Ball’s business—literally from conception to finished product—may provide other entrepreneurs a chance to think of their product in terms of how it affects a community. For Jeff, he is rejuvenating land as he works. What are you rebuilding when you launch your business? What kinds of hidden needs are you fulfilling?

Amplify Your Business: Well La Dee Da!

For Episode 101 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Jo Anne Torrance, Mary Marino, and Marlow Italiano of La Dee Da Sauces—the reigning Sauce Queens!When you see passionate ownership like this, you have to wonder if it's their fire that keeps the sauces simmering. In pairing Italian roots with entrepreneurial aspirations, these ladies blazed a path of their own in bringing their hopes for better locally-made products into reality—join us as they talk about the exciting twists and turns the business took as it grew from side dish to main venture!

Amplify Your Business: Healthy Genie

For Episode 100 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Maryam Munaf of Healthy Genie—a snack company focusing on recipes built around organic dates. A taste of home can mean as much to you as it does to your customers. It’s even better when that product opens the door for North American consumers to try healthier meals. With children on the way and a business ready to boom, it was all about big choices and even bigger plans for the future. Listen in for tips on scaling, pivoting, and finding yourself in the chaos.

Amplify Your Business: Brew’ed Biscuits

For Episode 99 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Barb and Heather—co-founders of Brew’ed Biscuits. The journey these two entrepreneurs took involved educating themselves as fast as they educated their customers. Talk about teaching an old dog new tricks! With spent grains being a nutritionally dense and low-sugar byproduct of the beer brewing process, Brew’ed Biscuits takes waste out of the equation with dog treats that are worth the buzz. In today’s episode, Barb and Heather walk us through the transition from hospitality to retail, the challenges in consumer education, and all the distracting fire hydrants they had to pass along the way.

Amplify Your Business: Healtea

For Episode 98 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Leila Kairns of HealTea. When you’ve steeped on a problem for long enough, maybe it’s time to launch your own business. Since late night drinks often force you to choose between sugar, caffeine, or alcohol, Healtea offers you an alternative—healthy, refreshing, and packed with entrepreneurship in every bottle. What’s not to love?

Amplify Your Business: Cedar Valley Selections

For Episode 97 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Ameen Fadel of Cedar Valley Selections—Canada’s first retail fattoush manufacturer. As a business owner at 16, Fadel (now 22) offers us a unique glimpse into the future of Canadian entrepreneurship. Our questions today involve the ups and downs of scaling a business from a young age.

Amplify Your Business: Epic Experiences

For Episode 96 of Amplify Your Business, we’re joined by Yuliya Cruikshank of Epic Experiences—an online service that aggregates unforgettable experiences Canada-wide! Our questions today involve building on existing services to make them simpler, streamlined, and more profitable.