Lifetime at Work: Career Advice Podcast
61 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 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
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...