In the latest Huddle "Home Office" podcast, Mark Leger chats with the entrepreneur and community fundraiser about the power and inspiration of women coming together to help people in their community.

The serial entrepreneur from Saint John chats with Mark Leger about her career in business and the fintech company that now employs more than 30 people and has more than 3,000 financial advisors using its platform.

In the fourth and final chat about the three-month "Electric Summer Social Tour" of New Brunswick, Jason Gallant and Mylène Theriault speak with Mark Leger about how their journey of discovery would continue long after the tour ended.

On the latest in a series of conversations about their Love For Local New Brunswick "Electric Summer Social Tour," Jason Gallant and Mylène Theriault chat with Mark Leger about their latest adventures on the road, including a trip to Jason's favourite campground in Woodstock and Mylène's first trip to McCain country in Florenceville.

Marcel LeBrun is best known as a tech entrepreneur, a former executive at Radian6 and Salesforce. But he’s also a social entrepreneur and joins host Mark Leger for a chat about plans to build an affordable housing community and social enterprise centre on the north side of Fredericton.

The Harvest Music Festival in Fredericton has a lot to celebrate this year. It's the 30th anniversary of the popular late summer festival and it's back after a year off because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meghan Morrison is the chair of the organizing committee. Jeff Richardson is the general manager. They're also longtime fans of the festival and join Mark Leger to chat about their favourite memories of past festivals and what to expect this year.

On the latest in a series of conversations about their Love For Local New Brunswick "Electric Summer Social Tour," Jason Gallant and Mylène Theriault chat with Mark Leger about their night at an old Dorchester jailhouse turned into an Airbnb; a tour of the lush Kingsbrae Gardens in St. Andrews; and the raucous Acadian Day celebrations in Caraquet.

Jason Gallant and Mylène Theriault have dream jobs for those of us feeling cooped up during the pandemic. They’re travelling the province promoting small businesses and organizations in 104 communities, as part of Love for Local New Brunswick’s “Electric Summer Social Tour.” Huddle is a media partner for the tour. That doesn’t mean Mark gets to go along for the ride, but he can connect with them on the road and live vicariously through their adventures.

As an elementary school kid, he learned to create prize-winning software. As a teenager in Fredericton, he sold hockey cards and made enough money to buy a car, and then launched an arcade and pool business. On this week’s episode, Mark Leger talks to Jody about how he went on to work for and launch many tech startups. He’s now the founder and CEO of Introhive, a software company that employs around 350 people in the Maritimes, U.S. Europe and India. And it’s poised to grow even more with a recent $100-million (U.S.) investment.

The Saint John-based company has an innovative product - a tea flash-frozen within hours of being picked that is the best way to preserve freshness and maximize antioxidant properties. Huddle has covered the various stages of Millennia’s growth, from their appearance on Dragons’ Den, to a venture capital raise of more than $500,000, to the tea being sold in Sobeys and Safeway stores across the country. When Mark Leger heard the news that Millennia TEA would be sold in Whole Foods Canada stores, he decided it was time for a chat, fittingly, in the old Red Rose Tea factory in Saint John.

The publishing and entertainment company has 90 million monthly users and stories on its platform that have been published as books and turned into shows and movies for places like Netflix and Hulu. Mark Leger chats with the co-founder and CEO about Wattpad being acquired by Naver for more than $600-million (U.S.) and its plans for accelerated growth of the company and its Halifax headquarters.

Mark Leger has been a fan of Dartmouth's Joel Plaskett’s for 20 years, listening to his albums and going to his live shows in small suburban coffee shops and arenas with The Tragically Hip. Joel also runs a production studio where he’s worked with Maritime musicians like Jimmy Rankin, David Myles and Mo Kenny. He runs a local coffee shop and record store run in partnership with Taz records. He’s an entrepreneur, a Juno and ECMA-award winner, and a really interesting guy to talk to about music, family, the challenges of the pandemic, and life in the Maritimes.

Jennifer Wagner is the president of CarbonCure, the Dartmouth-based company on a mission to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry. It has developed a system to inject carbon dioxide into the mixing process. The Co2 is converted into a mineral, makes the concrete stronger and reducing carbon emissions. Through venture capital funds, CarbonCure has received investments from Amazon, Microsoft, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg. And Amazon is also a CarbonCure customer, using the technology in the construction of its new buildings.

In this edition of The Quick Huddle, associate editor and staff writer Cherise Letson reads her piece "How Skinfix Is Taking The Skincare World By Storm From Halifax".

The Halifax-based entrepreneur suffered from anxiety as a boy growing up in a small village outside Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It went untreated for years until he finally asked for help in Grade 12. Joel eventually made a lasting breakthrough in therapy years later and ultimately left his job as a financial analyst to pursue something more aligned with his values and passions. His startup Tranquility is an online platform that helps people manage anxiety and depression.

Do I need to be wearing a mask at work or not? Outside or not? In a restaurant seated at a table or going to the restroom? What if I don’t look down and see the arrows on the ground? What if there are no arrows?! Mark Leger admits he's still confused more than a year into the pandemic.

There’s been a lot of talk about people moving to the Maritimes to escape the rising housing costs and fast-paced life in the bigger cities. But it takes a real sense of adventure to pack up your family and move east in a pandemic. On this week’s episode, Mark Leger chats with Jordan and Jess Owens, who moved from Toronto to Saint John last fall with their daughter Irie and the family dog. They’ve been chronicling their new life in a series of popular YouTube videos.

Once an old-school newspaper guy, Mark Leger is now a fully digital creature, as a consumer and producer of news and current affairs content for web sites, e-newsletters and his now-favourite medium, podcasts.

Here's a preview of Huddle's newest show: Insights with Don Mills and David Campbell. First episode drops April 8. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.

There have been bumps along the way for the growing cannabis industry in New Brunswick. Cannabis NB lost money in its first year and was almost privatized. Homegrown companies like Organigram had ups and downs. But industry leaders say a sector that now employs 2,000 people is primed for growth. Mark Leger wanted to know what that future looked like, so had a chat with Brennan Sisk the New Brunswick Cannabis Office and Tanner Stewart of Stewart Farms.