While we were all stuck at home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people took the opportunity to learn something new. Maybe you taught yourself how to bake sourdough or speak another language. Anushka Bhattacharjee, a Grade 4...

Sue Wigston’s entire career has been driven by her passion for people. For over 25 years with Eagle's Flight, she collaborated with various organizations to develop strategy and support tactical effor...

With a 20-plus year career encompassing senior roles in ballet, dance and opera, Christina Loewen has been with the Association for Opera in Canada as Executive Director since 2009. Focussing on helping...

Curtis Carmichael is an award-winning social entrepreneur, technologist, STEM and hip-hop teacher, and computer programmer. He is also the author and mobile app developer for the world’s first augmented reality memoir,

Speaker, author and organizational consultant Joseph A. Michelli encourages leaders and frontline workers to grow and invest passionately in all aspects of their lives. He stopped by the podcast to discuss leadership strategies from some of his...

Amanda Yuill made a counter-intuitive choice many years ago: to become a full-time supply teacher. This career move provided her the opportunity to research gaps she saw in the education system and publish three books. Amanda’s latest book —

Cindy Wagman is the President and Founder of The Good Partnership, a values-driven, social-justice informed consultancy that is working to unlock the potential of small nonprofits through fundrai...

Emily O’Brien returned to Toronto from vacationing in the Caribbean with drugs strapped to her body. She was promptly arrested and sentenced to federal prison. Where her story diverges from what you might expect is in what she did during her ti...

At 23, Candice Schott had already bought and sold her first condo, was working her dream job at IBM and en route to winning a sales award. But she traded that all in to launch her own business as a realtor. Now, after more than 15 years in the ...

Helen Polise knows her way around a camera. For the past 30 years as a TV commercial director, video content creator and social media guru, she has elevated global brands like Sensodyne, Blistex, Conair, Odor Eaters and the NFL. On TikTok she i...

Jeremy Herider is a two-sport professional athlete, productivity coach and life coach. He’s also the founder of Optimal Self, a coaching program and podcast. He stopped by the Leading With Nice I...

Hanna Murray is a labour, delivery and postpartum nurse and doula, who also runs Babytalk, a blog for expectant mothers. She stopped by the Leading With Nice Interview Series to talk about the impor...

One of the most neglected aspects of running a business is the health and safety of its employees. And all too often, it isn't until a tragic event takes place that health and safety training is taken seriously. Tyler Foley, actor, author and m...

Having trust in the person who’s advising you on your financial investments is crucial. Our guest on this episode, Tim Nash, founder of Good Investing, says the key to building that trust is transparency. You’ll find that Tim’s method of using ...

Imagine, if you will, being a kid again and having Toys"R"Us — one of the world's leading retailers of toys — personally ask you to test out the hottest new video games, dolls, action figures, electronics and more. Sounds too good to be true, r...

Over the 24 years that Keka DasGupta spent in the marketing and PR industry, she noticed something to be true: brands don't have low self-esteem! Today, Keka uses powerful, global branding principles to radically transform mental wellness. She ...

The last thing Corey McMullan had on his mind when he scrapped all print advertising in favour of social media marketing for his family's appliance store was that he would become an influencer. But after launching a TikTok account for McMullan ...

Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, novelist, filmmaker and journalist, born and living on the Curve Lake First Nation. An author of 33 books (!), Drew joined us on the podcast to discuss celebrating history and culture th...

How many times did you heard the phrase “mind your manners” as a kid? There’s a good reason for that: manners, simply put, are important. Donald G. James, author, speaker and this week's guest on the podcast,

Eighteen-year-old Conner McDowell was bullied throughout primary school but he never let it defeat him. Instead, he used the experience to fuel his desire to lead and become a beacon of hope for other kids with similar experiences. Today...

Today's global workforce is made up of 50% millennials, and in just a few short years that number is projected to balloon to 75%! The approach to leadership is changing but not fast enough — what we deem important and how we lead needs to catch...

What does it take to overcome the biggest challenge you have yet to face? Brandon Peacock’s road to recovery after a near-fatal drive-by shooting has several parallels that can be applied to your business. In the second part of our inter...

Brandon Peacock was on his way to get his hair cut in June 2020 after work when he was shot three times as he entered the barbershop. He wasn’t the intended target but he ended up the victim. However, Brandon didn’t take to the victim mo...

Tristan Norton is a city kid working in a country world. He grew up in an urban environment and is one of the few visible minorities at Briercrest College and Seminary. As the Director of its Centre for L...

As an owner, founder, CEO or executive director, the amount that rests on your shoulders can seem overwhelming. Richard Walsh owned a contracting company and was experiencing this same burden so he did something about it. After investigating th...