Lifetime at Work: Career Advice Podcast
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsCareer advice from leaders in the business world.
Lifetime at Work features interviews with industry leaders across the business world as they share career advice and lessons learned along the way. This podcast provides insight into varying career paths while helping with the tough choices we each face. The hope is that by hearing about the experiences of others it can help each listener understand their journey better and bring more meaning, purpose and joy to their work. If you're a professional in any industry or an aspiring student, this podcast will help you.
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Episodes
The Reasons to Start Your Own Business with Jordan & Chelsea
January 25, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBEpisode 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 lots of challenges, but the couple is driven trying to build a brand they can be proud of that looks great is made sustainably. In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with the couple about the ins and outs of the fashion industry and how they were able to create their brand to be carried in s...
The Years It Took to Be a Doctor During the Pandemic with Khalid Pasha
January 11, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBEpisode 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 journey to get there and to have the opportunity to save people was grueling. Doctors go through lots of school, lots of test, lots of practice, lots of good and lots of bad to get where they are. Over the course of the interview Khalid talks about how naive he was entering the medical field in the ...
Happy New Year and My Restaurant Post Covid with Host Greg Martin
January 04, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBEpisode 13. A solo episode to start the new year where host Greg Martin discusses his new Youtube channel and the start of a multi-part series on the experience of starting a new business. There is lots to say and tell around owning a restaurant amid covid-19, this is the start of telling that story. In the episode he also talks about the art of storytelling and some of the inspiration for starting the series.
One Lawyer’s Path Beyond the Big Firms with Adam Armeland
December 21, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBEpisode 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 entrepreneurial route. Adam Armeland started his career working at a big law firm working long hours on major real estate transactions. Despite being absorbed by that world, after 3.5+ years he left and decided to explore an industry job. As the pace slowed down his mind kept racing towards even more alte...
How an Athlete Can Build a Second Career with Olympian Andrew Poje
December 14, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBEpisode 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, he’s working towards a new career. A next step. In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with Andrew Poje about his career as an athlete. He’s already achieved his childhood dream of going to the Olympics, twice - but since then he’s developed new dreams and new ambitions outside of the skating wo...
Caring About Workplace Mental Health with Michael Stroh
December 07, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBWhen 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. In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with Michael Stroh, a psychotherapist who works with K-12 education and workplace mental health, about what it means to be in control of your own health and be able to recognize troubling signs in others. Over the episode they talk about what companies ...
Losing Your Job and Designing a New One with Dyonne Fashina
November 30, 2020 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBBeing 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 episode, host Greg Martin talks with Dyonne Fashina about what she did after losing two corporate jobs in the interior design industry. She now owns and runs her own design firm called Denizens of Design, and in many ways the drive, inspiration and concept was driven out of losing her job. In t...
Social Media, a Lifestyle and a Business with Ariel Niu
November 23, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBEpisode 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. Ariel Niu went to business school to study marketing. The field has lead her to the world of digital marketing, helping grow other brands while growing her own brand. Her goal - to grow enough of a following to make running her own person brand a full time job. Can she do it? In this episode, ho...
Finding the Accounting Job for You with Shalini Dharna
November 16, 2020 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBHow 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 in big firm audit her whole life. Today she runs her own business. Yes, it’s an accounting business but because she has made it her own, Shalini has the opportunity to work with and help many other small businesses and entrepreneurs every day. In this episode, host Greg Martin and Shalini tal...
Juggling Kids and an Intense Career During Covid with Anna Stevens
November 09, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBEpisode 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 marketing agency in Toronto. When Covid-19 hit she fled her downtown Toronto life with her husband and kids and moved North to cottage country - it was a 5 month experiment in a different kind of life. In this episode, host Greg Martin and Anna talk about how office life and office culture have cha...
Laid Off to Finding His Purpose with Life Coach Luis Serrano
November 02, 2020 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBEpisode 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 he wanted in life until he lost it all - his job, his relationship, his friend, his purpose. After a bout with depression, he worked with a life coach to rebuild himself. Now he works with corporations around the world to facilitate team building (Zoom call leader!), and he helps individuals...
Loving a Non-Stop Work Ethic with Lawyer & Broker Ricky Rathore
October 26, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBHow 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. He’s a real estate broker and a real estate lawyer and he manages a large team of real estate agents (90-100 agents right now). He works all the time, but loves it because of his passion for his company and his love for the job. In this episode host Greg Martin and Ricky talk about why he loves...
Concert Guy Paul Maxwell on Music Passion to a Music Business
October 19, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBEp 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 Waterloo, Ontario. His stage has been graced by bands like Matthew Good Band, The Tea Party, Bif Naked, Classified, Stars, Kiefer Sutherland, Sloan, Big Wreck, and even Nick Carter. In this episode host Greg Martin and Paul discuss the feeling of having your favourite bands play our own stage and ...
Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves on MBAs, Overworking and the Silicon Valley Life
October 12, 2020 12:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBEp 2. The epitome of schooling success is going to Harvard. Why? What does it get you? Does an MBA hold all the answers to career pivots and success? In this case, it was the beginning of a life in Silicon Valley. Host Greg Martin talks with Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves about his decision to leave Canada, the country he loves, and find out what to make of his life. Both Greg and Nilesh worked in the field of finance in Toronto doing investment banking early in their careers. Since, they've...
Ep 1: Chef Kyle Webster on Covid, Closing His Business and the Restaurant Dream
October 05, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBCurious about the food business and the feeling of starting a business and having it end? This episode is all about the struggles in the food industry - why it's so exciting, why so many people invest so much, and why the business is so hard. In this first ever episode, host Greg Martin talks with Chef Kyle Webster about his experiences starting out in the cooking world as a high-end fine dining chef. Kyle's career eventually lead him to work with Greg in creating the casual farm-to-table r...