Lifetime at Work: Finding the Meaning in Our Careers

What do we want to leave our children? Definitely things like good lessons, inspiration, knowledge and maybe something to remember you by. We also want to leave them a world that isn’t overly pollute…

Episode 19. What happens when you have to give up a career you always wanted? How do you find a new career and the fulfillment you need when it’s time to start something new?

EB Sanders always wanted …

Episode 18. Joan Fisk is learning a whole lot as a non-profit CEO of the United Way in the Waterloo region. It has given her a unique perspective around the “underbelly” of the community and a chance…

Episode 17. Phil Winters began his career trying to change the world. After leaving his work with community and political campaigns and a career in the solar industry he bought a farm with his wife a…

Episode 16. One of the big tradeoffs we make as parents is how much time to spend with kids and how much to focus on work. In many cases that means a career taking a back seat to the new family, but …

Episode 15. Jordan and Chelsea run an outerwear fashion brand called CAALO. The two are life partners who also run a business together. 

Starting and running your own business is never easy and brings…

Episode 14. Khalid Pasha is a cardiologist who found himself working at a hospital in New York City in early 2020 when Covid-19 hit. He could never have predicted what would then happen, but the jour…

Episode 12. What are the career options for lawyers when they want to move on from a big firms? Two options we explore in this episode include corporate in-house counsel and of course, the entreprene…

Episode 11. Andrew Poje is a 3 time Canadian champion, 3 time world medalists and 2 time Olympian in ice dancing with his partner Kaitlyn Weaver. After spending decades in the figure skating world, h…

When we’re consumed by work, our mental health in the workplace can become all that’s important. If we live for work, we better be happy there - or at least create the right environment for everyone.…

Being laid off from a job you love can be a tough. It especially hurts when it’s in the career field you’ve always wanted and dreamed about succeeding. It’s even worse when it happens twice.

In this e…

Episode 8. Social media began as a way to stay connected with our friends - it used to be all about the “social”. Now social media is used to grow businesses, sell brands and sell people as brands.

Ar…

How do you take the career path of an accountant and make it your own? 

Shalini Dharna began her career in the way many accountants do, at a big firm. The problem was she didn’t like it enough to work…

Episode 6. Are we going to be working from home forever? What has the experiment of Covid-19 taught us about enjoying our job and enjoying our kids?

Anna Stevens is Program Director at a digital marke…

Episode 5. How do you know you’re in the right place, doing the right job, in the right city, hanging out with the right people - for you? 

Luis Serrano thought he was on the path to having everything…

How hard should we work? Is there a work-life balance we should strive to achieve or should the goal be to find work that we’re so passionate about we work all the time?

Ricky Rathore loves his job. H…

Ep 3. However dumb it may seem at first, sometimes when you take the plunge and start something, your dreams come true...more true than you could imagine.

Paul Maxwell operates a concert venue in Wate…