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.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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 e…
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,…
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 inte…
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 Lifet…
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 o…
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…
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 th…
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 G…
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 …
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 experi…
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 platfor…
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 …
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 podcas…
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 …
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 thi…
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. T…
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…
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 Ing…
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, …
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 an…