Lifetime at Work: Finding the Meaning in Our Careers
Your career is more than just a job—it’s a chance to create an impact and find personal fulfillment. This podcast explores the journeys of business leaders, uncovering how work shapes our lives, the world, and what makes a career truly meaningful.
Hosted by Greg Martin, a Toronto-based investment banker and M&A advisor, the show dives into the deeper questions behind our careers—why we work, what drives success, and how our professional lives shape the world around us. In an era of AI, career freedom, and globalization, the meaning of work is evolving, leaving many to question its true purpose.
Through conversations with founders, business leaders, and investors across private equity, public markets, and venture capital, the podcast uncovers insights from those who have built, grown, and influenced some of North America's most successful companies. It also features advisors, consultants, and investment bankers who help shape the future of business, sharing lessons from their wins, losses, and defining career moments.
Episodes
100 episodes
Exploring Healthy Entrepreneurship, M&A and Private Equity with Peter Moore
Episode 100. Investment bankers can be helpful people to talk to because they’ve seen many business succeed and fail and have often had a mix of success and failure in their lives as well.In this episode of the Lifetime at Wo...
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Episode 100
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47:38
Failure, AI and the Changing Definition of What Success Means at Work with Minyang Jiang
Episode 99. What is your definition of success? What happens when we fail? What is the impact of AI on our work, goals and ability to fail or succeed.In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Miny...
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Episode 99
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52:15
How Underdogs Turn Their Struggles into an Advantage with Quang X. Pham
Episode 98. Does having privilege help or hurt you in gaining success in your career? What if being an underdog actually helped?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work Podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Quang X Pham, a Vietnamese...
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Episode 98
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43:54
Lessons on People from Working with the CEO of Mexico Walmart with Carlos E. Marin
Episode 97. We can learn a lot from other people’s experiences. Sometimes the journey and struggles of a CEO can teach us something about ourselves and our own situation.In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Ma...
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Episode 97
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41:14
Understanding Why Housing Prices and Cost of Living in Canada Feels so High with Paul Musson
Episode 96. For the current generation of young workers in Canada, the feeling that housing and everything else is a little more expensive than the prior generation is present. Why?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work Podcast, h...
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Episode 96
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50:59
Beating Up Hockey Players and the Beat-Up of Entrepreneurship with Dave Burnett
Episode 95. We tend to glamorize the entrepreneurs out there. The ones we follow and hear about are usually wildly successful and have made it many times over. But that isn’t quite the story of most business founders.In this episod...
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Episode 95
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49:10
Leaving a Career at Google to Find the Missing Dimension of Life with Carolina Lasso
Episode 94. At first the definition of success can seem pretty easy, but over time what success means to each of can change. Sometimes to get it we also have to change the path.In this episode of the Lifetime at Work Podcast, host ...
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Episode 94
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44:53
Building a 100-Person Agency, Selling It and the Future with John Ghiorso
Episode 93. What’s an agency business and what do you do after building one to 100 people and then selling? Retire?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews John Ghiorso, founder of Orca Pacific, ...
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Episode 93
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48:56
Working with Icons and the Power of a Coffee Meeting with Marc Reede
Episode 92. Networking never goes out of style and hasn’t changed, it all can start with a cup of coffee which has certainly helped Marc Reede across his career working with many Hollywood icons.In this episode of the Lifetime at W...
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Episode 92
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41:48
From Big Tech to AI Company Founder with Brooke Hartley Moy
Episode 91. A wealth of experience comes from someone who joined the tech world with experiences at as such places as Google, Slack, Salesforce and most recently Humane. Not surprisingly, the experience eventually leads to becoming a foun...
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Episode 91
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43:50
Think Big: From Rockets, to Social Media, to VR, to the Movie Business with Mary Spio
Episode 90. Mary Spio has a very impressive background. She’s a rocket scientist who turned to the movie industry to transform how the industry delivered content. She built a virtual reality platform while also working to let content crea...
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Episode 90
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41:52
How to Become Really Good from the Founder of San Francisco’s Leading Restaurant Group with David Steele
Episode 89. It’s hard to create one successful business, but if you can take what you learn from doing one thing and apply it to another the opportunities are endless. They key: getting really good at one thing.In this episode of t...
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Episode 89
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36:49
A Journey in Finance, to at Mission Fixing Homeownership with Frank Rhode
Episode 88. How do you put yourself in the position as a founder to solve a really big and complex problem—while building a great company along the way?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Fr...
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Episode 88
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52:04
Building and Buying E-Commerce Businesses with Neil Twa
Episode 87. Neil Twa has built the type of business that can be repeated again and again. He’s in the world of e-commerce and has lots to share after trying again and again, failing and finding the way.In this episode of the Lifeti...
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Episode 87
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49:48
Don’t Waste Time, Work That’s Worth It with Georgina Enthoven
Episode 86. If we each have 90,000 hours to work in our lives, what’s the best use of this time? What is the best way to balance the “feel good” part of your work with the “making money” park?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work...
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Episode 86
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46:24
Going to Work at a “Rocket Ship” Startup to Make it Rich with Nahed Khairallah
Episode 85. Finding a fast growing business that is ready to grow like a rocket is tough, but we’ve all heard the stories of employees who join early and cash-in big with stock options on an exit. The nuances behind finding, nurturing and...
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Episode 85
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49:36
Mastering the Future of M&A and Deals with DealRoom Founder Kison Patel
Episode 84. M&A is an ever evolving world that we can always keep learning from. It’s a world based on relationships, but technology is creeping in more and more leaving lots to discuss with two M&A junkies.In this episode ...
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Episode 84
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39:33
The Myth and Reality of Passion at Work with Drew Ingle
Episode 83. Pursuing a passion is common career advice we all hear, but is it good advice we should be preaching?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Drew Ingle, author of 'Pride Over Passion...
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Episode 83
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46:00
Relationships as the Most Important Part of the Job with Casey Jacox
Episode 82. Some of the most important things to us are relationships and family. Winning at both can mean the difference between success or struggle.In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Casey Jaco...
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Episode 82
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50:14
What We’re All Missing to Be Successful at Sales and Like It with Gui Costin
Episode 81. Sales is the engine of any successful business, yet many professionals are afraid of sales, struggle to do it well without a proper system. What separates top-performing organizations and people from everyone else?In th...
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Episode 81
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45:31
Comparing Life as an Operator vs. Investor vs. Advisor with Robert Levin
Episode 80. The professional careers of many impressive people have spanned some combination of investing (or private equity), operating (and/or founding a business) and advising. But when and how do we consider the right balance and the ...
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Episode 80
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51:17
Embracing or Fighting the Big Changes from AI with Matt Leta
Episode 79. AI is transforming the workplace at a rapid pace—some see it as a threat, while others embrace it as a tool for unprecedented productivity. But what does it really mean for knowledge workers like us?In this episode of <...
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Episode 79
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55:17
How to Win When AI is Coming for Your Job with Greg Shove
Episode 78. AI can be both a scary development and a great advancement to improve productivity - but what does it mean for us as workers in the knowledge economy?In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin int...
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Episode 78
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54:32
A Career Investing and Making an Impact with Mike Winterfield of Active Impact Investments
Episode 77. We’re all driven to have an impact of some sort or another at work. Likewise, when we invest, having an impact is a very nice bonus as well. In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, host Greg Martin interviews Mike Win...
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Episode 77
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43:17
Starting a Venture Capital Career with a Founder and CTO Mindset with Mistral’s Raif Barbaros
Episode 76. Those with careers in Venture Capital live an exciting life, trying to discover young founders who can create the next great product and company to drive incredible returns. In this episode of the Lifetime at Work podcast, Gre...
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Episode 76
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