After Hours Podcast

Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Aman Adatia is the Co-founder and CEO of FARE Group, a multifaceted real estate organization focused on building the urban neighbourhoods of tomorrow. He is extremely passionate about creating a just and equitable society through developing neighbourhoods with inclusive prosperity in mind. He insists that by thoughtfully curating people's connection points - to affordable food, housing, and lifestyle necessities - it will transform communities for generations. When it comes to his education, he has studied in the areas of science, Entrepreneurship, Pharmacology and the Culinary Arts at U of C, Mount Royal University, the U of A and Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. In addition to his work with FARE, he remains committed to community through board and volunteer positions at Smart Sustainable Resilient Infrastructure Association, Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association and Look Forward Calgary. 

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Over the years, Michelle Gault has built a successful career for herself by creating innovative consumer products for brands like Herschel Supply Co., FGL Sports Ltd. (Sportchek), INTERSPORT Group, WESTBEACH and Kona Bicycle Company. One of her accomplishments consists of Scaling a new apparel line to $1M in sales in just under 2 years at Kona Bikes. In addition to her work life, Michelle has an involved 16-year volunteer career with Big Brothers Big Sisters Canada. Most recently, Michelle took part in altMBA, a 31-day intensive online workshop for e-learning providers with best-selling author Seth Godin.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Philippe Lucas PhD is a psychedelic and cannabis researcher and President of SABI Mind, a clinic group providing access to psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of mental health, pain and problematic substance use. Philippe was founder and Executive Director of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, one of Canada’s first medical cannabis dispensaries, a founding Board member of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies Canada, and co-founder of the Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies. More recently, he worked as VP, Global Patient Research & Access at Tigray, where he oversaw a comprehensive international clinical and observational cannabis research program. Philippe has received a number of accolades for his patient research and advocacy, including the Americans for Safe Access Researcher of the Year Award 2021, the Cannabis Council of Canada Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Kaeyae Alo (@kaeyae.alo) is a Zimbabwean born, Calgary-based musician that seriously inspires all the feels with her smooth + moody vocals. After a series of singles, Kaeyae recently released her first EP, titled 17times (which after listening to the podcast you’ll come to understand has significant meaning). At 13 minutes, the EP feels like a poetic reflection – which it is – but it’s only a fraction of the depth of Kaeyae, which I learned through her story in this month’s podcast.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Linda has a sharp business acumen honed from years of experience as an entrepreneur, from driving growth to euphoric highs, to developing the resiliency and courage needed to manage the lows. Linda founded and scaled Triple Flip, a retail apparel brand that was a disruptor in its niche for pre-teen girls. From its beginnings in Calgary, Triple Flip grew to 13 stores in five provinces across Canada and claimed Linda the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Today, she is a next-gen CEO Whisperer, taking that skillset and empathy to build a business coaching and consulting practice that is helping dozens of entrepreneurial businesses to launch, pivot, reinvent and thrive.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Fellow interior designer Jennifer Mehalko joins us today on the podcast as we discuss the intersection between creativity and business and how to build community in all of our entrepreneurial experiences. We discuss the intention behind her expansion into fashion and the latest evolution of her brand, Environments, and how she navigates these two entities.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Today we talk strategy - about why strategy always comes first + the novel idea of Zugswang with entrepreneur + creative Doug van Spronsen – or as I like to call him, Douggie. Given the shift in consumer buying habits that happened during the global pandemic, we discuss strategy as it relates to the consumer, creating self-serve options to streamline the client experience and the future of technology as it relates to business growth.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Anyone else confused about when to motion, how many times to motion or even just how board work? Sitting on a few myself, I am stoked to be chatting with Chantal Cabaj (Sa-bye) to chat board 101, the value of having women on boards and investing time, money and energy in female led businesses. In today’s podcast, the 411 about boards, you are sure to leave feeling a bit more ready for your next seat at the table.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Let’s talk about eating strategy – for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. Dare I even say, for dessert? On today’s podcast, we chat with strategy expert Alison Geskin about creating systems in your business that allow for growth and creativity. Tackling process, implementation and how to measure it all, you are sure to have a few more tools in your entrepreneurial tool belt to level up your business and create meaningful connections with your clients.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Today we speak with one of my favourites, Allison Dunne, who I met through the hospitality industry in my hometown of Calgary. Speaking to breaking down barriers and promoting inclusivity, Allison shares her intimate experience as a queer woman of colour in the workplace, the challenges she has faced and the opportunities she sees for businesses to create environments that honour varied cultural practices and backgrounds.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Sharing in my indulgence and passion for spreadsheets, building enduring rituals and living an intentional life, today’s guest, Jeff Neufeld provides insightful and tactical insights on how to create action and nail your goals. We chat about the ideas around work life balance, managing commitments to business and family and staying accountable to ourselves.

Jeff Neufeld is the shareholder and president of Neuhoff Capital Corporation, a long-term value investment company that owns a number of operating businesses involved in manufacturing metal construction products and industrial racking and shelving, alongside private and public investments in logistics, infrastructure, insurance, technology, humans, and community. He began his investment career in grade 8 with the purchase of 2 Union Pacific shares and founded Neuhoff in 2010 with the purchase of a small Calgary manufacturing operation. In the last decade, NCC has expanded operations from being Calgary-centric to operating across Western Canada, employs about 50 people (from 2!) and has tripled the revenue. Jeff has thoroughly enjoyed the transition to business after a first career as a concert artist, has a family that he loves being around, and community involvement that brings him tremendous joy.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

For those of you in the pitch process, specifically with respects to raising capital to get a Startup off the ground, you’ll love today’s podcast – The Art of the Perfect Pitch. Lauryn Vaughn talks to us about her experience raising capital for not one but TWO startups, the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

In today's podcast, the very charming and spirited Jameela Ghann talks to us about how to scale your business into something that you love but is also profitable. In her experience, she has done all of this while enduring major life transitions and maintaining gratitude for her community by making time to give back to herself. 

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Today we are back on the topic of financial feminism with a focus on investing, saving and reclaiming our female competitive edge. Our guest, Julie Shipley-Strickland talks about women-led businesses, her experiences in a fairly male-dominated industry and how she balances her edge in business and at home. 

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Oooh-weee! It’s been quite the year… year? I think I’ve lost track – has it been two years? In today's podcast, we are speaking with Lourdes Juan about entrepreneurship in a global pandemic. Managing several unique businesses, we will chat about the balancing act of entrepreneurship and the challenges they have each faced during uncertain economic times. 

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

In the spirit of trending investment categories like Fintech or Agtech, today’s podcast is all about Wotech — Women in Tech. Today’s guest, Sheenah Rogers, is making waves with her new startup, ari, that provides transparency and connection in the buying process. We will also discuss Sheenah’s varied experience in fundraising, along with tips and tricks for any of you looking to raise capital for your own entrepreneurial adventures.

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

Today's podcast gives me alll of the feelings! We chat today Alice Lam about how she has merged her passion for business with a desire to feed her community. Pun intended! We will chat about technology in the non-for-profit space, vertically stacking these pursuits and how she keeps it all together.

Alice is the Founder of Volly App, Tigerstedt Flea Pop Up Market and most recently, Good Neighbour Community Market. She is also the Co-founder of the Calgary Community Fridge, a 24/7 outdoor fridge that provides food for those who need it. 

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Hello and welcome to After Hours with your host, Amanda Hamilton. After Hours is a platform for conversations with some of Canada’s most dynamic creative entrepreneurs. Driven by open, honest conversations, we dig into what makes businesses survive and thrive, giving you tactical insights and takeaways to fuel success, create enduring rituals and well, crush it in life and business.

While my career-focused grandmother taught me never to depend on a man for my financial freedom, I grew up with limited financial literacy and learned some hard lessons along the way. As such, this is a topic that I feel very personally compelled to discuss and share with other entrepreneurs and women who are inspired to take more control of their finances. In our first episode, we chat with Shelley Kuipers, Co-founder of The51, chat about the tools and education available to help women achieve financial freedom and independence.

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