Today we’re talking with Venus, the founder of Ethereal Aura, a handmade soy candle brand that started right from her home kitchen. She shares how a simple hobby turned into a thriving small business, the challenges of creating eco-friendly candles, and her tips for anyone dreaming of starting their own candle brand!~ Follow this podcast:
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Deanna is a reiki practitioner based in San Francisco. She comes on today to discuss her journey to becoming vegan, how she quit her corporate job and began work in energy healing using reiki, what the healing process entails, patient testimonials and more. You can find her on Instagram @reiki_with_deanna.
Today's episode is an interview with Heinz Plaumann, an adjunct professor of Chemical Engineering at Wayne State University and the founder of QuantumQik Careers, a career consulting company. He comes on to discuss his journey in the chemicals industry, as a professor and tips for working in the engineering industry.
Jacqui is a full-time food blogger and photographer based in Utah. She comes on today to discuss moving from Germany with a food influence from a young age (her dad is a chef!), then moving to the Utah, going vegan and then starting up her food business. You can follow her on Instagram @thesimplesprinkle and check out her website at thesimplesprinkle.com.
LingLing is a vegan food blogger from Vancouver, Canada. She comes on today to discuss how she became vegetarian at age 10, how she got started as a food photographer, how to land brand sponsorships, find unique food props and more. You can follow her on Instagram @foodbylingling and check out her website at foodbylingling.com.
Rohan is an electrical engineer and vegan bodybuilder based in New Jersey. He comes on today to discuss why he went vegan, how he switched over his diet while still building muscle, how he saw improvements in his training, how to incorporate vegan proteins for muscle gain and more. You can follow him on Instagram @soination, where he shares information related to building muscle on a vegan diet.
Globally Local is Canada's first all-vegan fast food chain - located in London, Toronto and now recently in Windsor. Today we talk with Kelly Neuber, co-owner of Globally Local, who shares how and why she went vegan, the journey of growing the Globally Local brand, and her involvement with animal activism. Follow the restaurant @globallylocalfastfood on Instagram, or at globallylocal.ca.
Sanctuaries and companies mentioned in the episode: Charlotte's Freedom Farm (charlottesfarm.ca), Beagle Freedom Project (bfp.org), Toronto Pig Save (torontopigsave.org).
Today's guest is Roniya Rojan, a recent graduate with a Public Health degree from Detroit. In this episode, we discuss her shift in career paths - from wanting to become a doctor (even writing the 8-hour MCAT!) to enrolling in a 3 month coding bootcamp, which kickstarted a career in software development.
Today's guest is Andrea Ciavaglia, an aspiring math teacher and recent graduate in Mathematics and French Studies. In this episode, Andrea discusses her teaching aspirations, the curriculum required to complete an undergraduate math degree, as well as possible future careers for those with a Math background.
Simrit is a Public Health major who comes on today to discuss the impacts of various public health nutrition topics on global health. The topics range from promoting healthy behaviour changes and the effect of social norms; public food accessibility; animal agriculture and its effects on climate change; reducing food waste; and how these issues cannot be successfully solved until adequate education is provided.
Safa is a vegan artist currently living in Oregon. She comes on today to discuss why she went vegan, challenges she faced on her journey, where her art inspiration comes from, the Oregon forest fires and how they impacted her life, and more.
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Today's guest is Michael Crawford, co-founder of the educational online platform EdSpace. EdSpace is the next evolution of virtual collaboration, where members engage in asynchronous conversations online by posting short videos on topics of interest (e.g., topics, events, publications, etc). Think Slack meets LinkedIn meets Instagram Stories! Michael is here to tell us all about the journey, as well as his own educational background and where he was before EdSpace.
Check out EdSpace at https://www.edspace.live/
Connect with Michael at his website, www.mjcraw.com, on Twitter (twitter.com/mjcraw), and on his podcast series consideranew (anchor.fm/mjcraw)
Today's guests are Brothers David and Stephen Cote, and Sarah Ageli. They are all on here today to discuss their careers - Stephen and Sarah in the paralegal industry, and David on working around the world as an immigration lawyer, then settling in Canada and opening his own practice.
Update: Unfortunately by the time this episode was posted, David had to shut down his business - but he continues to work in the field as a lawyer.
Today's guest is Samir Tendulkar, founder and CEO of Cooking Platform Khal. Recently named the Most Influential CEO of NJ by CEO Monthly magazine, Samir joins me today to discuss the idea behind starting his own company, as well as the journey behind his previous businesses. From teaching himself to code and getting a multimillion dollar dropshipping business shut down, to creating board games and making handmade purses to ship across the world, he now runs Khal.com. Khal is a cooking platform designed for everyone to show off their cooking skills, gain incentives for doing so, and even use their profile as a sort of "LinkedIn" for the food industry.
You can check out the company and join the platform on the website Khal.com, follow the company on Instagram @_khal.com_
Geoff join us today to tell us all about his vegan non-profit organization, Vegan on the Map, where he wants to make a global impact by helping businesses grow their brands, as well as starting up a vegan hop-on, hop-off world tour, available for anyone to join (and to live the digital nomad life, partake in vegan cuisine exchanges, road trip with vegan chefs, connect with other vegans and more)! He also shares his story of becoming vegan 45 years ago in the UK, and the shifts he has seen over the years in the vegan community, to now living in Paris. All information is linked on the website, veganonthemap.com, or on the Instagram page, @veganonthemap.
Today's guest is Swarith Reddy, a 16-year-old high school student who is the founder of three businesses and organizations: Crown Smart Mirror, The Peace Syndicate and Reddy Prep. Swarith comes on today to share his entrepreneurial story and on how he plans to revolutionize the fashion industry through creating smart mirrors for retail stores that try on clothing for the customer, as well as his other entrepreneurial ventures. To kick off his vision, he has created a home smart mirror that is currently selling online.
Find Crown Smart Mirrors: https://crownsmartmirrors.com/products/crown-personal-kiosk
