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.
Lifetime at Work: Finding the Meaning in Our Careers
Building a Soccer Club and Legacy in Your Career with Brenda Ha
Episode 62. A good career always starts one way and ends another. As you get older, not everything comes about moving up and more money, eventually the goal of legacy becomes the focus.
Brenda Ha began her career in the corporate world, but when she started a family and started craving more flexibility, she decided to start her own business—a concierge service called Check Box Services. Building a business that suits her personal life has helped her create the kind of balance in her life that she values.
The topic of legacy is something that has come up often in Brenda’s work. During the episode, she discusses what she’s learned about her own legacy and values since starting her business. She also shares great tips for those people in the initial stages of growing their career and how the older clients she has today are all striving for legacy and impact in their work.
Key Takeaways and Discussion
- Brenda’s educational background and the experience she had in consulting and IT before starting her own company.
- How her life changed when she had kids and what she realized she needed to do.
- What they do at Check Box Services and who their typical client is.
- Why she’s made the intentional decision to keep her team small.
- How she becomes like family to her clients and why it matters.
- How working for yourself differs from working for another business.
- Why legacy is important to Brenda and what it inspired her to get involved with.
- The importance of having role models who resemble you when you’re young.
- The most translatable skills you can have in the workplace and how Brenda used them.
- Opportunities that you should keep your eyes open for as you start your career.
- Brenda’s advice for figuring out what you want to do for work if you aren’t sure.