29 - Dianne Martin: A nursing leader's thoughts on the pandemic and where we're headed

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29 - Dianne Martin: A nursing leader's thoughts on the pandemic and where we're headed

I had Dianne Martin (the CEO of WeRPN) on the podcast just a few months ago and we had a great chat but pretty much everything has changed since then, particularly around the world of healthcare. While our first podcast interview was done in person at WeRPN’s offices in Mississauga, we had to do this one virtually because of the continuing lockdown. We chatted about the handling of the pandemic so far, the debate about wearing masks for the general public, the state of the economy, challenges facing nurses during these strange times and much more.

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Episode 16: Liv B - Halifax-based YouTube sensation and author of Vegan on a Budget

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Episode 16: Liv B - Halifax-based YouTube sensation and author of Vegan on a Budget

A little over two years ago, Olivia Biermann started posting videos on YouTube about how to make healthy, inexpensive vegan recipes. She slogged away, making those weekly videos for about eight months, for a relatively small audience of faithful viewers. Then, something happened that could only happen in this era of social media. One of her videos went viral, garnering over 90,000 views within a few days. The rest, as they say, is history. Although that story is still being written.

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Episode 15: Carly Weeks - An episode affectionately titled 'Spoiler Alert'

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Episode 15: Carly Weeks - An episode affectionately titled 'Spoiler Alert'

Carly Weeks is a health reporter and columnist at The Globe and Mail in Toronto. Before working at the Globe, she worked as a Parliamentary reporter specializing in consumer issues for the now-defunct CanWest News Service. Today, she spends most of her days tracking down stories related to healthcare, writing about issues that touch the lives of Canadians. In a time when the public is increasingly surrounded by myths, misinformation, lies and fake news, Carly has made it her mission to find the ‘hidden’ stories that some organizations and individuals would rather not be told.

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Episode 7 - Terry O'Reilly: The host of CBC Radio's 'Under the Influence'

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Episode 7 - Terry O'Reilly: The host of CBC Radio's 'Under the Influence'

After a very successful career as an ad man (he’s created over 10,000 ads and won scores of awards), Terry O’Reilly became the host of a radio show called Under the Influence. In that show, which has more than a million listeners per week (in addition to more than 25 million podcast downloads), Terry gives listeners a

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Episode 5 - Barbara Rybicka: Profile of a Medium

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Episode 5 - Barbara Rybicka: Profile of a Medium

What happens after we die? Is death the end? Or do we and our loved ones live on some way? And if their souls do continue to live on, is it possible for us here on Earth to communicate with them? Today's guest would say our souls absolutely do continue to live on and that yes, we can definitely communicate with our loved ones after they've crossed over…

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Episode 2 - Sarah Johnston: How her worst day in business became a major turning point

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Episode 2 - Sarah Johnston: How her worst day in business became a major turning point

There are thousands of realtors in Canada but Sarah Johnston's story is a little bit different than most. After having been in the industry for 10 years and at the beginning of a downturn in her local market of Calgary, Alberta, she had a bad day. A really bad day. Two deals that she had been working on for months crashed and burned almost simultaneously. It was, as she describes it, the worst day of her professional career. But a seemingly inadvertent series of events one night in October of 2015 led to the birth of Sarah's personal brand and became a huge turning point in her career.

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