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The Bacon Bits 'n' Bytes Podcast
The Bacon Bits 'n' Bytes Podcast is where a bit of business and byte of technology come together. This podcast is like the bits n bytes party mix for your listening pleasure. Karen Swyszcz, the host, (founder of Makinthebacon) chats with various entrepreneurs on what it's like to run your own busin...
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Ep. 043- Lori Chai: How One UX Designer Transitioned From Travel To Tech
In this episode, I chat with Lori Chai - a UX Designer and Co. Lab Alumna, about her experience living and working abroad in Japan (one of my bucket l...
Ep. 042 Ali Shah - TapeReal: Where human connection, authenticity and meaningful content come first
Note: This episode was recorded in March 2022.
Hi everyone! This is the final episode for 2022. I'm hoping to get back into a podcasti...
BONUS EPISODE: Checking In With a Life Update and Reflecting on My Podcasting Journey Thus Far
*Correction: I have been in my current role as a Product Manager at an e-commerce startup for just over a year now. The previous year and a bit, I was...
Ep. 041 - Alexander Morsink: How Equivesto is Leveling The Playing Field in The Angel Investing Arena
NOTE: This episode was recorded back in February 2022
The idea of helping people who never considered themselves to be investors, to be individ...
Ep. 040 - Unlocking the Potential of Human Longevity with Cole Kirschner of Age Rate
In this episode I chat with the CEO and co-founder, Cole Kirschner of longevity tech company Age Rate. We chat about how AgeRate began as a capstone r...
Ep.039 - Beau McCoy: Disrupting and Decentralizing The Education System
Note: This episode was recorded back in the end of August.
Imagine a world where teachers are doing Tik Tok inspired videos to educate their st...
Ep. 038 - Kishan Vasani: Leveraging Food Science and AI to Predict The Future of Food
"Food is a choice we make 3,4 times a day, what to eat, when we're hungry. We do it every single day of our lives and that is a very personal choice f...
Ep.037 - James Mulvany: How To Leverage Audio For Your Brand and Business
NOTE: This episode was recorded back in May 2021
That feeling when you get to interview the creator of a product you are absolutely in love with...
Ep.036 - Amira Polack: Elevating Music-Inspired Fitness Experiences
Amira Polack is the Founder & CEO at Struct Club, an app for fitness instructors who design motion to music - and their fans, starting with spin (indo...
Ep. 035 - Breaking Into Tech By Thought Diversity, Community & Collaboration
Note: This episode was recorded during the beginning of April 2021.
After having recently gone through the Product Management track of Co.Lab,...
Ep. 034- Lena Sesardic: Build Stuff That Solves Your Own Problems
Lena is a product manager turned entrepreneur, writer and speaker. After running an innovation lab as a product manager and getting her first taste of...
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Ep.033 - Journeying Into The World Of XR with Eugene Capon, Social Media Futurist
A social media futurist, Eugene's forward thinking attitude towards how we connect using technology has been at the forefront of his mission to connec...
Ep. 032 - Connecting People Through Shared Passions
UPDATE: The Passionfruit App is now available on both The App Store and Google Play app store and can be found by searching for "Passionfruit."
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Ep. 031- Making Work, Work Better For Everyone
Jennifer Hargreaves is the Founder and CEO of tellent. tellent is a flexible work recruitment and social impact organization with a mission to create...
Ep. 030 - Empowering Women To Rise In Entrepreneurship
Women entrepreneurs account for only 16% of business owners in Canada. It's time to invest in change. ELLA is a community and an accelerator for wome...
Ep. 029 - What It Really Means To Be An Entrepreneur
"You never know what the market wants until you go and talk to them' - Ardalan Benam, AI scientist and serial entrepreneur. Ardalan is someone who rea...
Ep. 028 - How To Master Your Money
Being a former personal finance blogger, but still a personal finance nerd, I loved having this type of discussion with Sandy Yong, Keynote Speaker an...
Ep. 027 - How To Conquer Anything
Lee Chambers is one amazing individual. He is a Wellbeing Consultant, Workshop Facilitator and Sleep Specialist. Through relearning how to walk after...
Ep. 026 - Breaking Down The Barriers Around Financial Literacy
From online banking to digital payment processing, the fintech industry has evolved and continues to evolve tremendously.
In this episode, I hav...
Ep.025 - How To Be A Great Leader, Entrepreneur and Run A Bootstrapped Business
Adam Mendler is the CEO of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, the...
Ep. 024 - How Founders Space Became A Global Leader For Startup Innovation Hubs
Note: This conversation with Steve Hoffman (aka Captain Hoff) was recorded back in May when there were still many restrictions in place during the loc...
Ep. 023 The Importance of Sharing And Celebrating Our Failures (aka Fuckups)
*Note: This episode contains explicit language*
In this episode, we're talking about the F-word. Failure or as others like to call it "A fuckup"...
Ep. 022 - Shining Your Light And Enabling Others To Shine
Entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert Tawana Anderson tells her story of growing up in a rough neighbourhood and becoming a teen mom. She shares these...
Ep. 021 - Developing Your PR Strategy During A Pandemic
Due to self-isolation and the current social distancing rules, it's no doubt that people are spending even more time online on social media, surfing t...
Ep. 020 - Arlan Hamilton: The Woman Who Built a Venture Capital Fund From Scratch While Homeless
Arlan Hamilton is the incredible woman who built Backstage Capital from the ground up while homeless. Backstage Capital is a fund that is dedicated to...
Ep. 019 - Diversity in Tech and How Online Education is Changing The Way We Learn
Interesting fact: This episode was recorded the day before the COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by WHO. In addition to discussing diversity in...
Ep. 018 - Blooper Reel
Listen to some of the bloopers from recording Ep.018 with some of the team members from 6initiative.
Ep. 018 - How To Adapt, Engage and Inspire Your Community During Times of Uncertainty
The entrepreneurial journey has many ups and downs, sometimes on the same day- which is why it's so important to find a community that can support you...
Ep.017 -Demystifying The World of Esports: A Billion Dollar Industry
There have been many misconceptions of competitive gaming, also known as Esports, but it is a billion-dollar industry with millions of people playing...
Ep. 016 - Defining Leadership and What It Means To Be a Woman In Tech
In this episode, I chat with Shann McGrail, the executive director of Haltech -- a non-profit organization based in the Halton Region that works with...
Ep. 015 - Investing In the New York Tech Startup Scene with Tribeca Venture Partners
Whenever I think of venture capital and investing in early-stage companies, the shows Dragon's Den and Shark's Tank come to mind.
In this episo...
Episode014 - Increasing Student Academic and Professional Success with Motify
Episode 14 kicks off Season 2 with an interview with the founder of Motify (idea came from combining the words "motivate" and "simplify"), Shauna-Kay...
Episode 013 - Empowering Creative Entrepreneurs Through E-Commerce
Sarah Killins is an adventurer turned entrepreneur.
Using her skills she learnt working on Shopify's Support team, she now leads her own communi...
Episode 012 - Changing The HR Landscape in a Technology-Driven Era
This episode showcases how one HR consultant - Stefani Blazevic of infloHR is changing the HR landscape through the introduction and use of online too...
Episode 011 - Amplifying Your Content's Reach Through Klusster
We've all the saying before that Content is King. If Content is King, then distribution would be the queen. In this episode, I interview Laura MacHar...
Episode 009 - Kevin Peters: CTO of AgeRate and Business Mentor at The Forge Incubator at McMaster University
In this episode, I chat with Kevin Peters, who unlike me, is putting his science degree to good use as a CTO at a biotech startup, Age Rate. Age Rate...
Episode 010: BONUS EPISODE -Bloopers With Kevin Peters
This episode is the first bonus episode for the podcast. It's a short one that highlights the many bloopers that happened during the recording of this...
Episode 008 - She Podcasts: The Podcast About Podcasts. For Women. By Women.
This has probably got to be the funniest episode I have recorded thus far. Every time I have listened to it, I have laughed out loud. I am so honoured...
Episode 007 - Craftic: Created By A Love for Crafting and Technology
In this episode, I chat with someone who I had originally connected with through the Shapr networking app. Jen Refat's background is software engineer...