Uncorked: The Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Corker Collective
Team Corker goes behind the mic! Real talk, sweaty ambitions, transformational stories, and a bit of banter—listen in weekly to hear it all in short and sweet 20-minute episodes.
On this week's episode of Uncorked, we're diving into the life and adventures of Noah Bloom, co-founder of RunGo. But before he was changing the way we explore the world through an app, Noah was just a guy you might have bumped into at a bike shop in Vancouver. Flash forward to today, and he's racing long distances, promoting RunGo at running races, and leading a tech company.
But this pod isn't just about the tech journey. It's about the heart and soul behind it. Steph and Noah chat about Noah's love for running, wellness, and his deep appreciation for the power of conversations. From rowing in Montreal to running marathons in North Vancouver, Noah's journey is all about pushing boundaries and finding joy in exploring new places and experiences. They delve into how RunGo is reimagining fitness and travel post-pandemic, focusing on wellness, authenticity, and trust. And amidst all the hustle, Noah finds inspiration in his kids, the creators on his platform, and the amazing people he meets in the hospitality industry.
So if you're ready to be inspired to explore your world, prioritize your well-being, and embrace the power of conversations, tune in to this episode with Noah Bloom. And hey, don't forget to hit the trails with RunGo to discover new adventures right at your fingertips.
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Noah Bloom: LinkedIn
RunGo: Website
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
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We have a very special guest, the one and only Dr. Julie Colwell, aka Dr. J! Dr. J is a psychologist (student of the psyche, aka the soul) who has spent her career developing and refining methods for individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations to shift out of energy-draining power struggles into reconnection, innovation, and flow. Steph and Dr. J are delving into the transformative power of therapy, personal responsibility, and conscious relationships and SO much more goodness.
In this convo Dr. J shares insights from her years of work as a psychologist, emphasizing the importance of living above the line and taking 100% responsibility for our actions and experiences. Steph and Dr. J explore the journey from reactive to creative brain, highlighting the joy and liberation found in embracing life's challenges with curiosity and openness. Their conversation dances through topics like the essence of play, the evolution of relationships, and the power of asking transformative questions. Dr. J's own journey from blame and criticism to appreciation and personal accountability serves as a beacon of hope for anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of human connection with grace and authenticity.
Tune in and dive into what it means to live a life of conscious intention and relational harmony. When we commit to showing up fully and taking ownership of our experiences, the possibilities for growth and connection are limitless!
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Julie Colwell: Website / LinkedIn
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
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Steph is sitting down with a very special guest this week, Dr. Russell Kennedy aka the Anxiety MD! Dr. Russell is a physician, neuroscience expert, somatic intuitive, certified yoga instructor and a meditation teacher and also one of the leading voices on how to deal with anxiety!
Steph and Dr. Russell are diving deep into all things anxiety including Dr. Russell's own personal journey of dealing with anxiety and trauma, the importance of addressing the root cause of anxiety, which he believes is often stored in the body rather than solely in the mind, why we should reconsider traditional approaches to therapy, the significance of connecting with one's body and emotions to heal from anxiety, his own experiences and insights gained from somatic therapy and psychedelic experiences, his approach to self-care, which includes meditation, yoga, and spending time with his dogs. He also reflects on the challenges of trusting joy and safety, especially for those who have experienced childhood trauma or instability.
We are so grateful to Dr. Russell or this convo and sharing so many tangible tools for understanding our own anxiety and how we can take steps towards "healing". We know you will absolutely love this one friends!
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Dr. Russell Kennedy: Website / Instagram
Anxiety RX by Dr. Russell Kennedy
Body Aware by Erica Hornthall
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Welcome back to another episode of Uncorked! Today, we've got someone on the mic who's got us totally hooked – Anessa Fike, the genius shaking up how we see work and its impact on our lives. You know those moments when you stumble upon someone online, and you just vibe with their energy? That's exactly what happened with Anessa. We've been following her work, and let me tell you, it's revolutionary stuff.
We dive deep into the whole midlife crisis scene, retirement dreams, and the new wave of folks forging their own path in the work world. Anessa's insights are like a breath of fresh air, seriously. She breaks down the whole idea of fractional work, and let me tell you, it's a game-changer. Imagine having the flexibility to work on your own terms, make a bigger impact, AND boost your income? Yep, that's what Anessa's all about. And her take on the future of work? Mind-blowing. With Gen Z stepping up and saying "no thanks" to the old way of doing things, the game is changing fast. But what really gets Anessa's heart racing? It's the thought of creating a better world for the next generation. Seriously, her passion for making work more humane and meaningful is contagious.
So, if you're ready to join the revolution of work, give this episode a listen. And hey, if you dig what you hear, don't forget to drop us a review – it helps us keep the conversation going. Thanks for tuning in!
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Anessa Fike: Website / LinkedIn
The Revolution of Work by Anessa Fike
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This week we have a bit of a throwback for you, a very, very special throwback! It's a throwback to when Brian Tracy jumped on our Goal Club two years ago and it is just too good not to share with you all. If you aren't already familiar with Brian, he is a world renowned motivational speaker and self development author of over 80 books! He has a lifetime of expertise in goal-setting and personal development and is sharing it with us all in this episode!
Steph and Brian riff on his journey from "rags to riches", Brian shares insights on achieving success, overcoming fear of failure, and nurturing relationships. He also emphasizes the power of setting clear goals and reaffirms the importance of self-esteem and positive reinforcement in parenting and personal growth. Brian helps to illustrate the transformative potential of focused intention while sharing the simple yet profound practice of writing down goals daily that just may change your life.
So grab your pen, a 10 cent pen, and your 1 piece of paper out and get ready to take notes and jam on your goals. And your wildest, wildest dreams. May they all come true!
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Brian Tracy: Website
Corker Co. Coaching: Website
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We are so excited to have returning Vancouverite Amy Chan on the pod today! Amy is a relationship expert, entrepreneur and author of the best incredibly popular "Breakup Bootcamp" as well as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the relationship and lifestyle website, Heart Hackers Club .
Amy is sitting down with Steph to dive into so many aspects of her life and journey that you may not find on the internet! They talk about her evolution from being achievement-driven in New York City to prioritizing creativity and fun in Vancouver, the importance of staying unattached to specific outcomes while pursuing goals, drawing from her own experiences of career pivots and plot twists, cultivating a calm nervous system through mindfulness and intuition. She also shares insights on navigating challenges, including job layoffs, and encourages embracing discomfort as a catalyst for growth.
This convo is so fun and chalked full of wisdom that will help you move from "mediocrity" to thriving! We know you will love it.
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Amy Chan: Website
Breakup Bootcamp: Book
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Happy September friends! Steph and Cecily are back on the mic this week talking all things new season, new intentions and new habits. September really does feel like a fresh start for many of us as the kids go back to school and the days get a bit cooler and shorter and we love to see it as a new opportunity for implementing changes! It's really the perfect time to ask yourself questions like "what habits are you injecting to make this season wonderful?" and "what can you do this month or today that scares you?"
Cecily and Steph dive into all this September goodness and speak about the healthy habits they are bringing into autumn, how to navigate your kids going back to school, why setting a 5am alarm clock may just be your new favourite thing, how to create smaller moments in your day and SO much more. We hope you enjoy this one friends and may you all find new habits, new patterns and new intentions as we move into this season of change.
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
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We are SO excited to share today's episode with the perfect September guest, the one and only May Globus. May is so many things, including a producer and host of The Craft podcast and a founder and certified sound therapy practitioner. This episode is just so fitting as we roll into the back to work/school energy of September as we talk about career transitions, taking leaps of faith and embracing new chapters and identities.
May and Steph dive into May's journey from the corporate world to following her heart to pursue a healing practice of sound medicine that helped her so much in a time of stress and illness. They also speak about May's relationship to listening to her curiosity and soul's calling, the fear and doubt that accompany new chapters, coming into sync with nature, the balance between the masculine and the feminine and so much for goodness.
We know you will be as inspired as we were by this conversation and May's openness and curiosity. And be sure to
share this episode with a someone who may need a push to take their own leap of faith or to help them on their own healing path. Enjoy friends!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Oto Healing: Instagram
The Craft Podcast: Listen
May Globus: Instagram
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More Good Media: Website
Podcast: Diary of a CEO with will.i.am
may new chapters, new opportunities and a journey of following your heart and what your heart beats faster - dedication ot devotion of self - sounds like she has found her dharma
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This week our favourite head recruiter, professional connector and unofficial mayor of Kerrisdale is back on the mic with Steph to riff on what it looks like heading back to work and school after a summer hiatus. Lana and Steph are diving right into what the current job market looks like and may look like come September, the power of community while looking for work, the next cohort of or Now What Club, why we may be settling for mediocrity in our work, spaces and places where coming together may be advantageous in your life and SO much for goodness!
If you are unsure of what job you are going back to in September, if you're stoked or not so stoked, if you're ready for change, this episode is for you. The job market is a wild ride out there friends and Steph and Lana are here to guide you as you navigate what's next. If you are looking for some extra support 1:1 on your next career move you can reach out to Lana via our website for career counseling or send us a message if you are interested in joining the next community cohort of our Now What Club.
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
1:1 Career Counselling with Lana: Sign Up
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
More Good Media: Website
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We are so honoured to have the incredible Judy Brooks on the pod today!! Judy is a Vancouver legend through and through and has worked with many brands for many reasons - she has founded, built, and successfully sold three companies - including the global consumer brand, Blo Blow Dry Bar. Judy is also known for doing the really deep work with many special people from all walks of life and always does business and inquiry by being so truly herself and living in her own truth and the human and heart experience.
Steph and Judy dive deep into inquiry on this week's episode and speak about Judy's recent accident and what it has taught her, the apprenticeship of recovery and healing, sitting in reality rather than desire, what nervous system alignment looks and feels like for Judy, the beauty of the 'messiness' and SO much more goodness.
If you are touched or moved to do more work with Judy, which I know you will be, you can check out her Instagram and website to connect and find out more about the amazing intensive experiences she leads around the world and also right in our backyard here in BC. We are so grateful for Judy's time and wisdom and we know you will love this one!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Judy Brooks: Instagram / LinkedIn
Immerse Yourself: Website
A Little More Good podcast with Judy: Listen
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We are SO stoked to have the one and only Kendall Barber on the pod today!! Kendall is the co-founder of the amazing Poppy Barley, a brand that is changing the shoe, accessory and apparel game! Kendall's approach to living a full life, running a business with intention and just being a full human is downright inspiring.
In this episode Kendall is giving us a glimpse into the woman behind the brand. Kendall is sharing what fun looks like for her, how she is staying inspired to try new things and set goals for herself, the evolution of Poppy Barley from a custom shoe business to what it is today, how Poppy Barley stay committed to sustainability, why she wakes up at 4:45am everyday and SO much more goodness.
Kendall is truly an inspirational human and is paving the way for other female founders in her industry and beyond. We hope this conversation sparks some curiosity into what new versions of you are out there and inspired you to find those new dimensions of yourself! And if anything else we know that Kendall's story about her kids participating in a triathlon will make your heart beat a little faster:)
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Kendall Barber: LinkedIn / Instagram
Poppy Barley: Website
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This week Steph is sitting down with a very old friend from the original Lululemon days, Vanessa Foerster! Vanessa is so many things including an incredible Mental Endurance Coach, and obsessive dog mom and a passionate triathlete! This episode is extra special as it is a two parter, we connected with Vanessa before and after the finish line of a very important race in Vanessa's life - the IRONMAN Coeur d'Alene!
In this episode Steph and Vanessa dive into so much goodness including Vanessa's work as a life coach for endurance athletes, setting "scary" goals, what it means to take up space differently, giving yourself permission to live a fully expressed life, how goals in sports translate to life, her feelings about her recent IRONMAN and SO much more!
Vanessa is such a special human and we are so grateful that she was able to sit down and share her story as a fully expressed version of herself, during Pride month! What a beautiful conversation and moment! Make sure to follow along Vanessa's endurance adventures via her IG and if you're an athlete in need of coaching head to her website to connect 1:1 with Vanessa!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Vanessa Foerster: Website / Instagram
1:1 Mental Endurance Coaching with Vanessa
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This week Steph is hopping on the mic with the one and only Juno Kim! If you are from Vancouver, or even if you are not, you may know Juno from his previous work as a renowned chef, photographer and all around creative being. But these days Juno is exploring a life beyond labels and considers himself a “Generalist” which we absolutely love. Juno is diving into so many incredible depths with Steph in this episode including the evolution of leaving a career behind and walking into who is today while not losing where he came from. Juno reminds us of the power we have to constantly reinvent ourselves while maintaining the very essence of who we are.
Juno and Steph also dive into “the felt sense” and connecting to all of your experiences, how mindfulness doesn't have to be a chore, the fluidity of “self”, holistic well-being & hormones, what moving your body looks like now for Juno and SO much more goodness. Juno is such a beautiful soul and we are so grateful for his intentionality and the incredible nuggets of wisdom he shared with us. We hope this conversation gives you permission to reflect on what is real for you now while allowing it to be fluid - may you never be put into a box!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Juno Kim: Website / Instagram
Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
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This week Steph and Cec are jumping on the mic to contemplate some questions worth asking this summer season.
Questions like..
What is going on for you?
If I had all the time in my day today, how would I want to spend each moment?
What is it time to let go of?
If I wasn’t scared, what would I do?
And so many more. They are diving into how self reflection in the summer can create space and clarity to move into your fall season more grounded and awake to how you truly want to move through your life. These questions feel important and relevant and are really just a jumping off point into getting more clear about how you can bring more of yourself to the table and to your life! And how you really want to be spending your days!
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Cecily Elmas: Instagram / Coaching
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This week on Uncorked, Steph is sitting down with a new and special friend, Tara Robertson. Tara is someone we are in awe of. We absolutely love the way Tara speaks about the work she is doing and how she is showing up in the world and for what really matters. Tara is a DEI coach, a leadership coach, a mentor and a beacon of light and hope for women of colour and everyone else. We were left with so many points for reflection and contemplation after this conversation including ..
What is my relationship with an apology?
What is my relationship with grace?
Who do I need to forgive?
In this conversation Steph and Tara dive into Tara's work with diversity & inclusion, cancel culture, pleasure, the power of grace, how we need to get comfortable being uncomfortable in conversations around diversity in the workplace and life, how growth happens during "failure" and so much more goodness. We feel so grateful to have had this conversation with Tara and to learn from her. Make sure to check our Tara's LinkedIn profile for an amazing Bingo card, on how to form your own "Personal Board of Directors" and check out her website for all of her incredible offerings.
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Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Tara Robertson: LinkedIn / Website
"Personal Board of Directors": Bingo Card
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We are SO excited to have four women on the podcast, Liz, Olivia, Kayley and Meghan that are doing something so cool in the world. These four women make up the quad tandem world championship women's team, the only women's team and team Corker is super stoked to be behind them in this year's quest to ride 800 kilometers in the name of raising money and awareness for mental health that kicks off July 15th! This ride is put on by Wirth Hats, which is an organization near and dear to us!
Steph sits down to talk about the “Why” behind their ride and wow it was so refreshing and inspiring to hear from this younger generation on what makes their hearts beat faster and what is lighting them up. We know that you will find even a glimmer of hope and inspiration as you listen to this convo. You can visit wirthhats.com to see how you can get involved and support this incredible event for an amazing cause!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Wirth Hats: Website
Quad Tandem World Championships: Get Involved
More Good Media: Website
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This week Steph is hopping on the mic with an incredible human being, Kristina Simmons, the founder and managing partner at Overwater ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that helps founders turn breakthrough technologies that better the health of people and the planet into scalable businesses people love! Kristina and her story were recently featured in Forbes magazine and we just had to get her on the pod to dive into this and beyond. Steph and Kristina riff on Kristina’s shared past over working at Lululemon in the early days and her amazing impact on how Lululemon created their digital voice, her early work with so many incredible companies including Air Bnb and Coinbase, turning adversity into fuel, the origin of the name “Overwater” and how Kristina aims to help founders at a more holistic level, the amazing projects Overwater is currently funding including many focused on women’s health, longevity and climate impact and SO much more goodness!
This podcast will hopefully inspire you to ask yourself questions like..
How do you flex your possibility muscle?
How do you stay positive and optimistic in a sky that might not always be blue and in fact, it
might be a little bit smoky?
Who are you partnering with? And how are you doing it?
And most importantly what makes your heart beat faster?
We absolutely loved this conversation and know we will definitely be coming back to this one in the future to remember the power of getting comfortably uncomfortable!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Kristina Simmons: LinkedIn
Forbes Article:How a Spotify Playlist helped startup Vet Kristina Simmons raise a 20 million dollar fund
Overwater Ventures: Website
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This week Steph has the incredible Kristen Hamilton on the mic with her. You may know Kristen from her many titles and accolades, as a Tech Industry veteran Kristen has worked with countless companies including Microsoft and World Learning and is a maven in the world of start-ups and entrepreneurship while also raising 8 rounds of funding! But what you may not know is the woman behind the 'LinkedIn Labels', the adventurer, the athlete and the hustler with heart who tries to inject joy into all that she does. Steph is diving into Kristen's intentionality to slow down post-pandemic and the practices she uses to help with anxiety and mental well being. They also get into how to find and harness inspiration to create the projects you want to put out into the world, finding joy in cold plunging, and why practicing gratitude in the midst of something challenging may just help you conquer your fears.
This conversation made our hearts beat faster and reminded us that there are so much more to all of us than LinkedIn. This convo also may have made us, dare I say, finally commit to the daily cold plunge! Give it a listen and let us know what you think via our IG or send us a note through our Website.
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Kristen Hamilton: LinkedIn
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This week Steph is sitting down with Corker’s own professional connector and Head of Recruitment, Lana Bradshaw, to riff on a hot topic right now which is the current landscape of recruitment and the job market. Our inbox has been flooded with messages from candidates, fellow recruiters and founders who are all feeling a sort of trepidation with the job market but have no fear Lana is here to put our minds at ease and maybe even insert some positivity and hope while you tread the waters of the job and candidate search this summer!
In this episode Steph and Lana dive into best practices for job searching this summer, leaning into opportunity over fear, current trends away from remote work, how you can network during the summer months, how to wrestle with uncertainty in the job search and she even lets us in on what she is packing in her picnic basket this summer. And we are taking notes. Most importantly Lana reminds us that we are all humans and work is just a part of what we do as humans, so lets try not get caught in the fear spiral and maybe even find some joy in the job search, while we also enjoy the simple pleasures of summer of course;) Enjoy this episode friends!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Lana Bradshaw: LinkedIn
1:1 Job Seeking + Professional Counselling Session with Lana
Book Recs by Lana
Wellness:
Outlive, Peter Attia
Beach or Meadow Read:
The seaplane on final approach, Rebecca Rukeyser
Inciting joy, Ross Gay
My Murder, Katie Williams
Business:
Burn the boats, Matthew Higgins
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This week Steph is jumping on the mic with legend in the sea to sky region, Julia McCabe! Julia may just be responsible for putting yoga on the map in the Squamish region. She is a renowned yoga and wellness leader and is also completing her Masters in Neuroscience!
We are diving right into her journey from yoga in Whistler to around the world, to around the world, to coaching thousands of yoga teachers and students through her online platform and how her recent fascination and study of neuroscience has helped to compliment her overall wellness practices and teachings. Healthy bodies, healthy brains! We also get into how Julia chose power over fear during the pandemic and opened up her own digital online studio that is still thriving, how we can support our brain health, how to stay inspired and relevant as teachers or coaches, the power of slowing down and SO much more heart-centred goodness. We know you will love this one!
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Jessica McCabe: Instagram / Website / LinkedIn
Online Digital Studio : Breathwork | Asana | Feel better studio
The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
Gabor Mate : Website
Elizabeth Gilbert: Website
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On this week’s episode of Uncorked Steph is sitting down with Will Guidara, restaurateur extraordinaire and author of the incredible book “Unreasonable Hospitality”! Steph just had to have him on the podcast after reading what she calls “the best business and leadership book I read in 2022”! Amazing!
In this episode we are diving into “hospitality” in all senses of the word. Will believes that we have an opportunity to create hospitality in every interaction we have and that the more people who start to pursue life and relationships through the lens of hospitality the happier we will be and the better our businesses will be. And we couldn’t agree more! We also talk about how we can redefine hospitality, “why our work matters”, pursuing life through the lens of hospitality and so much more goodness.
Will’s book truly shakes up, in the best possible way, what we consider the world of business to be and reminds us of the impact that sprinkling a little bit of magic around the folks you serve can have on ourselves, others and even the bottom line. We hope this conversation will make your heart beat faster.
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Will Guidara: Instagram
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
The Welcome Conference
Thank You (Hospitality Agency)
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This week we have a VERY special episode! Our dear friend, Seth Godin, is back on the pod and it is landing on a very exciting day, the release of his latest book, "The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams"! It would be impossible to note all of the incredible projects Seth has touched or describe him as one thing so in his own words "I am a teacher, and I do projects." Many projects in fact .. Seth has written 20 worldwide bestsellers that have changed the way that people think about work. Everything that Seth creates is truly an inspirational work of art and he has made such an impact on our lives and the lives and of so many. And we could no be more excited to do a deep dive into his latest book this week!
"The Song of Significance is a rousing contemplation on work: why it is the way it is, why it's gotten so bad, what all of us–especially leaders–can do to make it better. Economic instability and the rise of remote work have left us disconnected and disengaged. This is a book to share with bosses and co-workers, to discuss and put to action. No matter what our role, it’s within our power to change. Because, as Godin writes, Humans aren’t a resource. They are the point.” In this episode we also get into the impetus behind Seth's latest book, how we can learn from bees and their hive, building work that is worth volunteering for, who really profits from the idea of a "carbon footprint" and why everyone should be getting a dog!
We know that this book will resonate with you and your work and we hope this episode will too! Head to your local bookstore to pick up a copy today. And listen to this episode on Apple, Spotify or wherever you find your podcasts.
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
The Song of Significance by Seth Godin
Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late
Seth’s Blog
Akimbo a podcast from Seth Godin
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This week we are bringing “Ask Lana” to the mic! The modern career version of “Dear Abby;). If you don’t know Lana already, she is the Head of Recruitment over here at Corker Co. and is truly an expert on all things ‘job seeking’! Lana spends her days with clients hearing about the stories and the career struggles we all go through and answering the questions you might be afraid to ask. And today she is sharing (with confidentiality of course) some of your most asked career questions. We dive into the yays and nays of networking, cover letters, remote work vs. a hybrid work model and why job sharing may just be the answer to many career conundrums! Lana and Steph also share a little about the “why” behind our latest “Now What Club” specifically for parents and dive into imposter syndrome, lack of confidence and identity crisis with changing careers as parents. This is a JUICY one friends.
As always Lana’s directedness, knowledge, honesty and humour is SO appreciated and we know you are going to gain so much from this episode! If you are on your own career journey and need some extra 1:1 support you can reach out to Lana via our website. And our “Now What Club” for Parents starts on May 31st, spots are limited, sign up via our website!
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LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Lana Bradshaw: LinkedIn
1:1 Sessions with Lana: Connect
“Ask Lana”: Instagram / LinkedIn
The Now What Club (Parents Edition): Register
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We are diving right back into “Money Mindset” this week with our incredible new friend Eva Forde! We were introduced to Eva from our favourite friend, Seth Godin. And when Seth says “this woman has a heart to change things” and speaks of her with so much love and respect we just HAD to have her on! And wow are we happy we did. This conversation left us with goosebumps and broke our hearts wide open.
Eva takes us on a journey of how and why she changed her own money mindset and started to create wealth in her life and how she is now helping others do the same. This conversation goes SO many places that we know will inspire you. We speak about the innate interconnectedness of all of us, the power of having support and accountability friends in your life, the support resources in Eva’s toolbox and SO much more goodness. We know you will be equally inspired by Eva and this conversation.
LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:
Corkboard Newsletter: Sign Up
Eva Forde (@richsocialworker): Instagram / Website / Youtube
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaka
Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor
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We are kicking off the month of May with a special episode of Uncorked acknowledging Mental Health Awareness month with our very own Cecily and Steph! We are diving right into mental well being, togetherness, belonging and how we are all truly connected. As always, Cecily leaves us with beautiful questions of consideration and reminders of how we can all stay connected through our journey. We also get into mindfulness, what kindness can look like, intentionality > ‘doingness’ and so much more mental health goodness. This episode is the warm hug of togetherness we all need. And speaking of connection and togetherness we must mention that it is officially Day 2 of “40 days of Yoga” being offered by One Yoga in North Van. It is the perfect way to stay connected to others, show up for yourself and create a new habit in community. It’s not too late to join the community and start your 40 days:) Head to @oneyogacan to learn more!LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/the-corkboardOne Yoga North Van (40 days of yoga) - https://oneyoganorthvan.ca/40-days“Think Again” by Adam Grant - https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Think-Again/Adam-Grant/9781984878106Quote - Writing out a plan for your life “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”- Adam Grant, Think Again
We are continuing our deep dive into our love of females rocking their finances with this week’s guest Katie Dunsworth-Reiach. Katie is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Talk Shop. But you probably know her as one of the founders of “Smart Cookies”, the company that started as a “money club” for five best friends wanting to take their financial education into their own hands, and has grown into an education platform and community for more than 50,000 Smart Cookies from all over the world! They were also featured on Oprah and have written two incredible books! In this episode Katie is giving us all her “hot tips” for how to get real about your finances and how to make and save money differently! We also get into what it’s like being a “money mom” and how to inspire your kids to save, money communication in relationships, the power of sharing your money goals in community, the importance of getting real about your finances and SO much more real money talk we all need to start living a life free of financial stress. Katie brings so much lightness and joy into a conversation we too often avoid and really shows us how making and saving money can be fun and help you to live life in total alignment with your values and what you want! Sounds kinda amazing right!? Let us know what you think of this one friends!Want to connect with us? Visit our Website https://www.thecorkercollective.com/LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/the-corkboardKatie Dunsworth-Reiach: https://instagram.com/katiedunsworthreiach?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Talk Shop Media: https://www.talkshopmedia.com/The Smart Cookies' Guide To Making More Dough And Getting Out Of Debt: https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Cookies-Guide-Making-Getting/dp/0385342470/The Smart Cookies’ Guide To Couples And Money: https://www.amazon.ca/Smart-Cookies-Guide-Couples-Money/dp/0307357996/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Get ready to get into a “money flow” friends. This week we are diving into the neuroscience of money and how our spending habits are connected to our emotional state with the amazing Bri Firestone. Bri helps women+ eliminate money stress, pay off debt, and design a badass life they love, and we are here for it all. In this episode Bri shares the power of going a whole year without any frivolous spending! We also unpack how to find and change our own patterns and beliefs around money, how to manage your money, mindful spending, money as a value system, rewiring our subconscious thoughts around money and SO much more financial goodness. This episode with Bri was a wonderful reminder that it’s never really about money. There is so much more behind our habits around money and equally as much opportunity to rewire our brains and habits to align with our values. And this episode with Bri is a beautiful way to get started or continue on your money journey friends! Enjoy this one. Want to connect with us? Visit our Website https://www.thecorkercollective.com/LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/the-corkboard Bri Firestone: https://www.instagram.com/theschoolofbetty/The School of Betty: https://www.theschoolofbetty.com/work-with-me
On this episode, Faris Khalifeh and Steph bring attention to those who might not openly seek it: we’re talking introverts! What happens when we let those quiet introverts lead? Turns out, it’s a beautiful thing. If you’re an extrovert, be an extrovert. If you’re an introvert, be an introvert. All that we ask is that you be your most authentic self.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Emilie Wapnick’s Ted Talk on "multipotentialites": https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_callingQuiet Leadership: www.fariskhalifeh.comQuiet by Susan Cain: www.amazon.ca/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153
Do you have what it takes to be happy? More importantly, do you have what it takes to be you? Casey Chung and Steph hit the mic to talk about this lil’ big thing called the journey to self. This journey goes beyond our thoughts, our feelings, and our actions. It is the essence of who we are and who we want to be. So, who do you want to be?LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Coaching: www.thecorkercollective.com/coaching/1-1-coachingNotion App: www.notion.so
Cecily flips the script and talks to Steph about being a student herself. She got curious about what she longed for in her community, in her life, in the environment and in politics. What are you missing? What do you want to make happen? Waiting for “one day” might never come so what is it time for? The very thing we long for could be the thing that gives us a new leadership opportunity.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8David Ji – 40 Days of Transformation Challenge: https://davidjimeditationacademy.com/product/your-40-days-of-transformation-online-course/Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinekt: https://www.amazon.ca/Leaders-Eat-Last-Together-Others/dp/1591848016Huberman Lab Podcast on the Topic of Water: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-optimize-your-water-quality-and-intake-for-health/
We bring Jacki Carr back onto the pod. However, this time she is free from social media! The addictiveness of the ‘gram started to rub up against Jacki’s values, her beliefs, and how she wanted to operate and live in community with the world. A lesson in how it can take a disconnect to truly connect.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Jacki’s Website: www.jackicarr.comOptional Optimism Substack: https://jackicarr.substack.com/
This week, our very own Creative Director, Lily Shmil, hosts a special episode dedicated to love. If you've ever wanted to get to know someone a little more, these questions might give you some ideas to take back to your loved ones. Inspired by The New York Times' Questions that Lead to Love, you might just fall a little more in love with the one and only, Steph Corker, as she answers these questions live and up close.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac836 Questions That Lead to Love by The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.htmlJay Shetty Tour: https://jayshettytour.com/David Ji – 40 Days of Transformation Challenge: https://davidjimeditationacademy.com/product/your-40-days-of-transformation-online-course/“Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” by Bob Dylan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv7K9ghgcgACory Muscara: www.instagram.com/p/CmMQTZPuSpL/?hl=enRun Victoria Marathon: www.runvictoriamarathon.com/
Cec and Steph hit the mic to talk about their passions around goals. Cec has doubled down on her goal to read books this year: from 20 to 40 books! What would it look and feel like if you doubled your goals? When you’re in the act of your goals, you never know the ripple of just how inspiring it will be for other people.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Impac by Al Etmanski: www.amazon.ca/Impact-Patterns-Spread-Social-Innovation/dp/0968046231Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman: www.amazon.ca/Good-Girl-Woman-Running-World/dp/0593296788Ikigai by Héctor García: www.amazon.ca/Ikigai-Japanese-Secret-Long-Happy/dp/0143130722
Lauren Fleshman, author of “Good for a Girl,” has what it takes to challenge the scripts set forth for us by society. (And she’s not afraid to let us in!) In fact, she sees everything in our world as a work in progress. Discover what might be getting in the way of your most authentic self. In other words, stick with her and you might just find out how you can stick with yourself.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Good for a Girl: www.amazon.ca/Good-Girl-Woman-Running-World/dp/0593296788Picky Bars: https://pickybars.com/Nobody Asked Us Podcast with guest Lauren Fleshman: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-chat-with-lauren-fleshman/id1664629953?i=1000597423519Lauren on NPR: www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/10/1147816860/sports-world-still-built-for-men-elite-runner-wants-to-change-thatThe Daily Stoic Podcast with guest Lauren Fleshman: https://dailystoic.com/champion-distance-runner-lauren-fleshman-on-the-power-of-sport/
Can you write a list of 10 absolutely wonderful things you’ve done as a human being? How about for your partner? Linsey Corbin got curious about who she was, and what she was going to do next after retiring a 17 year career training as a Professional Triathathlete. This is a glimpse into her path to self discovery and how it pays to have someone close to you that can be honest with you no matter what. Saying yes to life’s big and small adventures along the way to get to know herself all over again.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Find Linsey on the Gram: www.instagram.com/linseycorbinLinsey’s Partner, Chris, on the Gram: www.instagram.com/corbinbrands
Caroline Carter speaks on the reduction in the tech sector human workforce and communicating as a leader around these reductions. The human experience has to be at the forefront of everything you’re saying and doing. In North America, our identities are so closely tied to what we do for a living that when we lose that, how do we find more of ourselves regardless of our work? How great would it be if we all reimagined our relationship to hustle culture and how is AI contributing to it all?LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8CSuite Content: https://csuitecontent.com/Caroline Carter: www.linkedin.com/in/carolinejcarter/Jacqueline Jennings: www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinejennings/Paulina Cameron: www.linkedin.com/in/paulinacameron/Jennifer Maloney: www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermmaloney/
Wes Felix has lived through many seasons in his lifetime. This is a story you won’t want to miss of what it takes to ultimately using your voice to create change and impact people’s lives whether that’s on the track or on the sole. How does your relationship with time impact your journey? Our years don’t make our lives, it’s the experiences we have in those years that make the difference.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Executive Coaching: www.thecorkercollective.com/executive-coachingWes Felix: www.linkedin.com/in/wesfelixAllyson Felix: www.instagram.com/allysonfelixSaysh: https://saysh.com/en-ca
Lana Bradshaw and Steph Corker talk about the world of networking in Canada right now. How are women investing in their development and building their community? This is a really interesting conversation about executive women in the workplace or who want to get into the workplace, how they spend their time, who they spend their time with, and what that looks like. Hint hint: it doesn’t have to revolve around alcohol, skirts, or nylons.LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8The Recruitment Upgrade Blog Post by Lana: www.thecorkercollective.com/blog/the-recruitment-upgradeJob Seeking Consulting Sessions with Lana: www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/jobseekerForum For Women Entrepreneurs (FWE): www.theforum.caPaulina Cameron: www.linkedin.com/in/paulinacameronJudy Brooks: www.linkedin.com/in/judebbrooks
Does imposter syndrome, perfectionism, people pleasing, and burnout sound familiar to you? Then we have JUST the podcast episode for you. Jessica Metcalfe talks about how she pivoted from her life mapped out to retire as a dentist, to plans for a full fledged book tour! Buckle up, and keep your arms (and heart) in the vehicle at all times. See you at the next U-turn!LINKS TO TOPICS WE TALK ABOUT:Corkboard Newsletter: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?id=df7e96c1ee&u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8Jessica’s Book – Speak Kindly, You’re Listening: www.amazon.ca/Speak-Kindly-Listening-Jessica-Metcalfe/dp/1958714410
It’s 2023 and we’re back! Cec and Steph dive into the new year with new visions. We talk about cherishing every moment, focusing less on the resolution and more on how we want to feel this year, and being intentional with our choices. How does vision boarding support the goal of falling deeper in love with yourself this year?LINKS:Manager Essentials: www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/manager-essentialsFind Your Unicorn Space By Eve Rodsky: www.amazon.ca/Find-Your-Unicorn-Space-Creative/dp/0593328019
From film camps to tree planting camps, what can’t Winger do with her precious time on this earth? Andrea Wing, now an award-winning film maker, talks about how you can recover from what’s asked and needed of you as a human being. As a creative, sometimes it’s worth stepping away from the computer screen to go to a place that revs your thinking up, whether that’s a “thinking couch” or a walk with your dog. How do you manage your creative energy?LINKS:Winger’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/andrea_wingWell Travelled Production Company: www.wearewelltravelled.comMMGY Origin: www.mmgyglobal.comThe Trapline (Whistler Film Festival): www.whistlerfilmfestival.com/film/?id=63544089c8fea20023ec9f49
What do rain, neighbours and community have in common? Listen to this week's pod to dive into a few essential questions that were spurred on by a great CEO sharing her story of where she is from — and most importantly, why that matters. Steph was touched by the conversation and needed to dive deeper with Cec. This is a road-trip worthy pod and family appropriate!
Emily-Ann King started Backpack Buddies with her Mom 10 years ago. This conversation gives light as to why they started what they did and why it all matters. Because no child should go (to school) hungry. Backpack Buddies has found a dignified method across the province of delivering food to those in need. On this pod, she shares their vision of where they are going and why it matters to them. On this giving Tuesday, we hope you will consider giving to those who have created structures for people who need your support.
LINKS: Backpack Buddies: www.backpackbuddies.ca
Our lead recruiter, Lana Bradshaw, hops on the mic with Sam Struan to riff on what their take is on the current job market, what the current vibe is in the candidate space, as well as traits they see in those who are able to find work faster than anyone else. You can control the narrative that is your career, especially with people like this on your side. We’re rooting for you. We’re here for you.
LINKS: Sam Struan on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/samthescot Job Seeker Advising with Lana Bradshaw: www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/jobseeker
This episode with Gretchen Bellamy is on the hottest topic around: DEI. It’s not just for HR, it’s for everyone everywhere no matter what department. DEI is the kind of thing that ripples out beyond your work station. It is the most important, the most impeccable, the most essential training for any human to experience.
LINKS: Bellamy Management Consulting: www.bellamyconsulting.com Class Rebel’s Insta: www.instagram.com/classrebel/
Cec and Steph riff on the abundance of time after daylight savings. Do you feel like you never have enough? Or do you feel like you have too much? Remember that choice is abundant. Also, the people, places and the things that you love are abundant and there for you. So never forget that our relationship with time is but a mirror to our relationship with many other things. Here's a list of Cec and Steph's favourite 5 ways they like to spend time to hopefully get your creative juices flowing for yours.
Cecily's 5 favourite ways to pass time: 1. Meditating 2. Making soup 3. Walking in the forest 4. Yoga 5. Writing
Steph's 5 favourite ways to pass time: 1. Reading 2. Pickling vegetables 3. Baking squash (or any root vegetable!) 4. Painting rocks 5. Podcasts on repeat
LINKS: Manager Essentials Program: www.thecorkercollective.com/development/manager-essentials Louise Hay: www.louisehay.com
This is a throwback episode to a conversation that I had with Darius Sam from June of 2020. June of 2020, Darius had completed his first 100-miler and within 48 hours we had him on the mic recording the real story. And now, 2.5 years later, the New Yorker has recently released a documentary of what went into that project. By the way, since then he’s accomplished a 240 mile race in Moab that took 99 hours. Enjoy this re-release!
Darius Sam — a 19 year old Indigineous man — joined Steph 48 hours after running 100 miles to raise money for his local food bank. At the end of 2019 Darius was still using drugs and alcohol heavily, but he began 2020 with determination and a new vision of what is possible. He moved home, created a rigid sleep and work-out routine, and found a renewed sense of determination and purpose. 6 months later, and Darius is still pushing himself to find the edge of what he can accomplish.
So far, Darius has completed a self-made Ironman distance triathlon — completing only one week of training prior. After becoming inspired by a youtube video, Darius decided his next challenge was to run 100-miles for a cause. After visiting his local food bank, and recognizing the need in his community — he began raising funds. He surpassed his goal of $1000 dollars, raising over $80,000 by the time he completed the run.
His 100 mile run is a story of persistence and grit — and as his grandfather wisely said — “This is where you find out who you are.” Tune in to hear what feat Darius is taking on next — because there is no limit to what he can accomplish.
LINKS: Rich Roll Podcast with Hilaree Nelson: https://www.richroll.com/podcast/hilaree-nelson-364/ An Ultramarathoner’s Hundred-Mile Run for Mental-Health Awareness | The New Yorker Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5z8VyRd1G0 Darius’ Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/nicola-valley-food-bank-fundraiser The Original Vancouver Sun Article: vancouversun.com/news/local-news/indigenous-teen-overcomes-past-and-raises-5000-for-local-food-bank-with-ultra-marathon
We're putting on an event called The Collective Upgrade! Join The Corker Collective at Werklab ft. The Collective You on November 16, 2022 for an: Upgrade! Whether it be a photo, an idea, a relationship, or a job! Healthy nibbles will be provided. Community will be present. All proceeds from the photoshoot will be donated to Backpack Buddies.
LINKS: The Collective Upgrade on November 16. RSVP!: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-collective-upgrade-tickets-441984315987 The Collective You: www.instagram.com/thecollectiveyou Salted Cycle: www.saltedcycle.com Becky Jasper: www.instagram.com/beckyjojasper Angela Manuel-Davis: www.instagram.com/angelamanueldavis
Inspired to create her own culture by starting a business, Anna Kerevan shares a behind the scenes look at entrepreneurship and then leading with your values. It’s ok to not be the one in charge. It’s ok to not be the one with all the responsibility. It’s ok to take it seven years at a time. How do you want to feel at work today?
LINKS: The Now What: www.thecorkercollective.com/the-now-what Anna’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/annakerevan/
What are you full of and what are you grateful for? Cec and Steph riff on questions you can ask yourself and the loved ones in your life. Of course, we are always grateful for you.
LINKS: Manager Essentials: www.thecorkercollective.com/development/manager-essentials Victoria Marathon Weekend: www.runvictoriamarathon.com Cayley’s recommended book – Find your Unicorn Space: www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/find-your-unicorn-space-reclaim/9780593328019-item.html
Most of the time if you are a business owner, you will have some sort of identity that is tangled up in the business. What do you do and who do you call when you want to make plans to leave (as we all eventually will)? Do you have a will for your business? Joe Markovitch is here to eliminate the regret that might come a year after you've left. Business with no regrets is possible.
LINKS: Joe’s Website: www.joeco.ca
Quietly Quitting is the trending topic of the day with Cec and Steph. People who are feeling exhausted by the "mediocre" view of "meeting expectations" are resigning to only giving an average of 3 hours of their workday to actually getting work done. Quietly. We are here to say how excellent it is to be meeting expectations at your job. Doing what you say you are going to do needs to be celebrated so that we don't feel like reaching our goals at work isn't enough.
LINKS: Manager Essentials 12-Week Course: www.thecorkercollective.com/development/manager-essentials Journey Inward Journal: www.thecorkercollective.com/journey-inward Job Seeker Advising with Lana: www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/jobseeker
Did you know that only 9% of what goes in the recycling bin, actually gets recycled? Sam Rayner did. She decided that the world deserved a shift towards Better Basics. Once we destroy mother nature, there is no buying another one. The goal is not to have zero waste, the goal is to reduce our waste. Let's talk about how we can do that in a way that works for everyone, including mother.
LINKS: Better Basics: www.betterbasics.co Samantha's Website: www.samantharayner.co
Annnnd we're back! Steph Corker here popping in to say hello. Welcome back from summer vacation. I share a bit about what I've been up to and what we have in store for you in the coming weeks. Fall, here we come!
LINKS: Upcoming Programs: www.thecorkercollective.com/development
We're getting ready to peace out of the office and want to ensure you are ready to do the same. Whether you are taking a long time, a short time or simply a weekend out of your inbox this summer, Cec + Steph riff on how to turn off in order to best turn back ON. Inspired by much of how the Europeans take summer holiday, they do so in chunks of time and they do it together. Team Corker is taking a page out of their life lesson book!
LINKS: Land Studio: www.instagram.com/landstudioandcafe/ The Corker Co Website: www.thecorkercollective.com
Taylor Loren is a household name across social channels for showing up authentically, honestly and vulnerably. From her self-proclaimed "hot mess" days on Twitter to her strategic content creation love of TikTok, Taylor has sage advice on showing up (or not!) online. It's always special to meet someone on the mic behind their handle and Taylor was no exception!
LINKS: Taylor’s Website: www.taylorloren.co Taylor’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/taylor.loren/ Taylor’s TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@taylor_loren_
Dr. Roselle Gonsalves is a very special soul who riffs on creating elastic spaces for our brains to expand – and continue to expand. She is a force who reminds us that yesterday's tools will not build tomorrow's structures. Most of all, she is one of our most favourite leaders of curiosity asking the question of, "how do I create this space with more intention?" Please listen to this one with an open heart and be prepared to see things through a different lens.
LINKS: Roselle’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmgonsalves/
Meet Jody Polishchuk! We met over a decade ago when he was the King of Juice. After many life moments and changes, he is now reinventing the most addictive cookie in the world — the OREO! Creating a keto, low carb, no sugar added cookie meant to evoke memories like you may remember: of eating cookies on Sundays with great joy. In this podcast, Jody shares the entrepreneurial journey of bringing a CPG invention to life, of making choices aligned to values and most of all, still having fun!
LINKS: Sundays Cookies: https://eatsundays.com/ Rats Addicted to Oreos Study: www.huffpost.com/entry/oreos-more-addictive-than-cocaine_n_4118194
Meet Esther Ayorinde! This week on Uncorked we celebrate the wildly successful recovering professional who has chosen to take her life and her health back into her own hands. After achieving quarter over quarter, quota over quota, Esther realized that something wasn't quite fulfilling her in her big life. This conversation she shares her rock bottom, her tools for success and most excitedly – her newest business venture. Please take a quiet moment to enjoy this one, take stock of your own health metrics and be sure to follow her work.
LINKS: Esther and her partner’s instagram: www.instagram.com/siliconvalleycouple/?hl=en High Performer’s HQ: www.iamahighperformer.com Oura Ring (Sleep measurement): https://ouraring.com/ Lumen (Metabolism measurement): https://www.lumen.me/ Vessel Health (Wellness Test): https://vesselhealth.com/
Meet Carla Grimann, the fleet supervisor for the Vancouver Board of Parks + Recreation. As a licensed automotive mechanic by trade who started working for the City of Vancouver 23 years ago, Carla truly has a remarkable story of being one of the first females to carve an admirable path in the industry. In a world where female leadership is/was not often seen, Carla shares her sparking passion and the joy she experienced from being surrounded by people who truly believed in her. By jumping into numerous job opportunities in her career, Carla gained insight in realizing some newfound skills and abilities that drove her to want and ask for more in her career. Listen to hear how her commitment, perseverance, and patience led her to accomplishing her goals.
LINKS: Talk It Forward Podcast with Carla: https://vancouver.ca/people-programs/talk-it-forward-podcast.aspx
What’s in a home? Meet Simon, the President of Real Estate Works (REW). This week, Steph + Simon discuss the hot topic of real estate as well as what truly matters in the places that we live in. What truly, is the cost of a life well lived? Simon also shares his stories of living in multiple countries and in various professional roles, stories which simply cannot fully be highlighted on a LinkedIn profile. This conversation opens us up to asking the important questions in life. This episode is one to listen to!
Stay consistent, stay the course, stay committed, or change your mind. We’ve uncorked 200 stories through conversations that we wouldn’t otherwise have had. In these cases, staying the course is a very beautiful thing. Finding ways to tweak and elevate while staying committed is what got us to 200 (and it will get us to 200 more.) We’ll see you there.
LINKS: Four Thousand Weeks: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/539763/four-thousand-weeks-by-oliver-burkeman/9780735232464
Join Steph Corker and April Hicke in a conversation around the stigmas specifically with women around alcohol. How can we be of greater contribution to have everyone feel welcomed at the table? Are you considering the non-drinkers when hosting your gathering? And most of all, what are the ways in which you celebrate beyond-the-bottle?
LINKS: Learn about Goal Club: www.thecorkercollective.com/goalclub Join Goal Club: https://thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8&id=231847b4a0
Time pays back. Meet Emily Chang: a thriving executive, author, speaker, AND mother of 17(!) who has taken the time to open her home and heart to serve others. She believes in the power of bringing people together and of finding joy and fun in all areas of life. She is a woman who is willing to deviate the norm and follow her passion if it will enrich others in life. Be sure to listen!
LINKS: The Spare Room: www.amazon.ca/Spare-Room-Intentional-Authentic-Purpose/dp/1642937622
This week, Steph + Cecily riff on what it means to be ready to take flight in all areas of our lives. The two talk about the development of leaders and what strong leaders do to make their teams thrive. It’s all about leaders who take their people to the next level by celebrating self expression and truly committing to developing and growing themselves and others. No matter what is happening in one’s life, the importance of holding space and supporting one another is crucial. Let’s hop on this proverbial plane together and take flight. Are you ready?!
This week on Uncorked, Steph speaks with the Founder of one of our clients, Yarrow + Angie of Harmonic Arts. The pair share their story of humble beginnings along with their deep desire to bring tools, access, and connections to support people on their journey into herbalism. They emphasize the importance of carving out a physical nourishment practice that one loves to do. Tune in to hear more about all of the love and impact this incredible team is making in the world!
LINKS: Harmonic Arts: www.harmonicarts.ca Angie Willard’s Insta: www.instagram.com/wild_angelica/ Yarrow Willard’s Insta: www.instagram.com/herbal_jedi/
On this week of Uncorked we talk to our Lead Recruiter at The Corker Co, Lana Bradshaw. Steph and Lana dive into common questions that Lana had come up during her AMA office hours. The two talk about the current job market, how candidates can be successful when asking for what they want in a role they are applying to, and how candidate customization can be used to integrate into both home life and work life. Whether you are looking for work, curious about the job market, or what to make a change in your career, this episode is for you.
LINKS: Hot Jobs: www.thecorkercollective.com/recruitment/hot-jobs
Today is book release day! These moments feel as enormous as giving birth — to a proverbial child known as an idea, a story deep within that has taken humungous effort to make its way into the world. Steph Jagger's second book is nothing short of truly incredible – you will laugh, you will cry, you will relate on SO many levels to the journey of aging parents. It takes courage to tell stories; it takes another level of guts to put your heart and soul onto the pages for the world to read. This book is worth picking up; this pod will give you every reason to do just that. Bravo Steph — TeamCorker are huge fans of your heart.
LINKS: Everything Left To Remember: www.stephjagger.com/everything-left-to-remember Unbound: www.stephjagger.com/unbound Uncorked Episode 108 : https://soundcloud.com/uncorkedpodcast/108-what-is-it-time-for-now-w-steph-jagger
Open Sesame or Hope + Sesame – it all depends on how you say it! This week on the pod we are joined by the Co-Founder of The Planting Hope Co. who's life mission is to eliminate the green-washing and nutrition-washing of what we think is "good for us". Spoiler: not all milk alternatives are really what they say they are. She has rallied a team to put sesame milk on the shelves and they are having a lot of fun making it happen. Warning that this episode may make you re-consider your next almond milk purchase.
LINKS: Planting Hope Company: www.plantinghopecompany.com RightRice: www.plantinghopecompany.com/products/right-rice/ Hope and Sesame Instagram: www.instagram.com/hopeandsesameco/
We might not ever be ready, because we don’t always know what will happen. If we practice, if we do the work, then we’re ready for whatever might come up, whenever it might show up. Everything we do has a purpose, we just might not know it yet. Come learn with Cec and Steph IRL at the YES Assembly on Galiano Island May 10–12.
LINKS: Yes Assembly on Galiano Island (May 10–12): www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/yes-assembly
This week on Uncorked, our special guest is Dr. Liz Wilson. Liz is a powerhouse female CEO, strategist, researcher and remarkable keynote speaker. She speaks on the notion of inclusiveness and how certain processes can be implemented in workplaces to meet the needs of EVERYONE. With a PhD in human behaviour, decision making, and leadership, Liz provides insightful tools that her listeners can integrate into their daily lives. This episode is a must listen, no matter where you are on your diversity and inclusion journey.
LINKS: Include App: www.include.software 8 Specific Needs of All People: thedrliz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Specific-Needs-of-All-People.pdf Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.dr.liz/ The Wedding Video That Went Viral: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6tww4_r97Q
Jian shares about his life as a leader and how he chose to become the human that he would have once needed as a child. Life changes, we adapt, and move onto the next chapter of our lives however, one thing you can count on are those ocean waves to keep kissing the shore.
For the love of love + leadership, Danielle LaPorte joins us on the podcast this week to riff on just that: heart centered leadership in an unprecedented time of change. We appreciate that her approach to goal setting has evolved and today she shares about manifesting for the greater (and greatest!) good first and foremost. This is a conversation you won't want to miss!
LINKS: Heart Centered Leadership Program: https://daniellelaporte.com/about-heart-centered/ Danielle’s Podcast: www.daniellelaporte.com/listen-podcasts Find her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/daniellelaporte
Cec and Steph hop on the podcast one more time before Cec heads off to Mexico for March break. We are all a little rusty when it comes to travelling #pandemic. Tune in if you need a refresher on what it takes to travel or if you are here to find out what secrets lie within our luggages, that’s cool too.
LINKS: Subscribe to the Corkboard: www.thecorkercollective.com/the-corkboard
Meet one of #TeamCorker's favourite lawyers! Because Cat knows how to lead with heart, is trauma-informed and a mindful leader. She is committed to self-development (how many lawyers say that?!) and creating a life she truly loves. We hit Cat up with 3 unique scenarios to gain the legal-lens and definitely left newly informed!
LINKS: Forte Law: www.fortelaw.ca/team/catalina-rodriguez-profile Reach Cat Here: www.linkedin.com/in/catatforte
Your mindset is so powerful and spreads vibrations out into the world. Join Steph + Cec for a conversation riffing on their highlights from the first Goal Club with special guest Brian Tracy.
LINKS: More on Brian Tracy: www.briantracy.com Join The Next Goal Club: www.thecorkercollective.com/goalclub
Sunny Lenarduzzi joins this episode where we speak about the amazing life that awaits you just on the other side of failure. Being authentic is more than a way of life, it can be a business strategy that changes lives. In the words of Sunny, “Test. Fail. Learn. Grow. Repeat.” I couldn’t agree more.
LINKS: Sunny's Website: www.sunnylenarduzzi.com Sunny's Instagram: www.instagram.com/sunnylenarduzzi Sunny's Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/SunnyLenarduzzi
It’s the day after LOVE day! Cec and Steph are talking about how their relationships with objects impact their relationships with people. Love is so much more than just our lovers and our partners. We can love things, we can love experiences, and ourselves in really deep intimate ways.
LINKS: Attached Audiobook: www.audible.ca/pd/Attached-Audiobook/0593171667
Connecting Humans with Lana Bradshaw. Our favourite recruiter, Lana Bradshaw, lets us in on what exactly “The Great Resignation” or “The Great Reorganization” is all about. If you are wondering where exactly people are finding work these days, this episode might be for you. Lana speaks to both sides; she educates us on what hiring managers should know AND what candidates need to know as well.
LINKS: For Recruiting: www.thecorkercollective.com/recruitment For Candidates: www.thecorkercollective.com/recruitment/hot-jobs Lana’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/lanabradshaw/
Cec and Steph back on the pod! This time they discuss how the choices they make in every “room” of their house reflect other areas in their lives. In a pandemic where we are under one roof for everything now, how can we compartmentalize so that each one of these spaces mean something to us? Welcome home!
LINKS: Journey Inward Journal: www.thecorkercollective.com/journey-inward
Join Kelsey as she shares a bit about her work as a hypno therapist who helps us go beyond our thinking brain and into our feeling brain. When's the last time you've tapped into your 7 year old self, filled with imagination and free from constraint. Do not miss this episode if you're craving tapping into your personal creativity.
LINKS: Find her on Insta: www.instagram.com/prairiehypnosisandyoga Prairie Hypnosis & Yoga: www.prairiehypnosis.com Kelcey’s Podcast – Anxious as F*ck: www.podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/anxious-as-f-ck/id1596008400
Where are we on autopilot and what needs to be removed? We dive into the relationship of removing what’s not feeling us, the notion of slowing down in January to say what are you willing to remove from your life in 2022? Perhaps it’s safer to be on autopilot. Steph asks the powerful questions, "Is there room in my life for all of this to flow in? Is there space for a renovated relationship with what we want to make time for?" We can do alot and we may not be able to do it all. Are you up for discovering what you want to intentionally remove?
Meet Jenna Herbut, founder of MakeIt! – my original favourite craft market of sorts in Vancouver. Jenna has been at the entrepreneurial journey for such a long time that she has the stories to prove it and more importantly, the muscle to change it. 2021 brought about serious change in her world and it feels only fitting to launch into 2022 with perspective of the wild unknown!
LINKS: Jenna Herbut website: www.jennaherbut.com Make It Show: www.makeitshow.ca Conscious Lab: www.consciouslab.ca Make it happen: www.amazon.ca/Make-Happen-Creative-Entrepreneurs-Transforming/dp/0995266530 Robin Clements Breathwork: www.breathwave.net
The last 'cast of 2021 with Cec + Steph. We riff on the completion of the year and the reflection toward 2022. TeamCorker has always been committed to celebrating a finish line and the year-end is as great as any. We have some special questions worthy of consideration for yourself and your people. We hope you will take time, stay curious and be ready for some kinda wonderful in 2022. We'll see you then!
Meet Alexandra Plante – an engineer, a student of the future and a creator out of chaos. Alex has worked with leading brands in creating a future that would otherwise not exist while caring deeply about the impact on mother earth along the way. She has recently survived COVID, delivered a baby and is rethinking the future of her own work with the launch of her new consulting business – the Playbook for Innovation.
LINKS: Playbook For Innovation Website: www.playbookforinnovation.com Playbook For Innovation LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/playbookforinnovation Alex’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alexandraplante Alex’s Article on ‘What is Innovation?’: www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-innovation-mean-new-flavour-spaceship-playbookforinnovation Lego Block Challenges: www.youtube.com/channel/UClsFdM0HzTdF1JYoraQ0aUw The Innovation Behind COVID Vaccines: www.time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/5911391/mrna-vaccines Podcast on Re-Invention in Nature: www.podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ologies-with-alie-ward/id1278815517?i=1000532247440 Documentary about Alex’s Current Inspo – Regenerative Agriculture: www.kissthegroundmovie.com World Economic Forum Instagram: www.instagram.com/worldeconomicforum Tackling Climate Change Through Innovation: www.drawdown.org
It's been a hot minute yet we are back on the mic with a brilliant old-soul who has been around the publishing world for a long time. She has been a pioneer and experienced enormous change – who knows what is next? She is wise and for that, this conversation is so enlightening as we all navigate changes in our lives, in our jobs and in the world. Thank you Myriam for joining us!
Be here now. Take a breath before your next meeting. Close your eyes before your log onto zoom. Meditate with us.
TeamCorker is committed to Generating-Joy for the last 100 days of 2021. Join the #corkerco100 on September 22nd to find, create and make a moment of joy every darn day. Today, Cec + Steph riff on where they find joy and most of all, why joy matters. They also share what gets in the way of more joy in their lives. This just may be an episode that you can relate to or hopefully that will give you pause for thought on your joy-journey as well. We hope you will join us September 22nd onward to the finish line of this calendar year!
LINKS: Sign up for the #CorkerCo100 Newsletter: thecorkercollective.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2dc48234230c1819c88546ac8&id=3133e79f6c Get your Journey Inward Journals here: www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/p/journey-inward
Celebrating Susanne Conrad's New Book – Get There Now. Many of you know the leadership guru that is Sus; not all of us know the stories of the decades that have gone into this book. Buy it on Amazon – or buy 3 copies on Amazon and share it with your friends who want to get THERE now!
LINKS: Susanne’s Website: www.susanneconrad.com Get There Now Book: www.amazon.com/Get-There-Now-Transform-Listening/dp/1632993996
As we wrap the summer in a bow and feel the crisp fall air, Steph jumps on the mic to riff about the interesting people she met along the way of her summer adventures.
LINKS: Camping Vehicles: www.northirn.com
TeamCorker is so excited to bring our first IRL gathering to life November 1–3 at Bodega Ridge. This week on the pod, Cecily + Steph reflect on the summer thus far – how Cecily is sunbathing in her choices to consciously create her life every day. Steph is galavanting on adventures that fuel her soul. Together, they are finding moments to make memories that matter to them. Looking forward, they are really committed to the ESSENTIALS that make life meaningful. It starts with self – it starts with you. Check out this conversation on what’s to come in November and get on the waitlist before it sells out. Invest in yourself to create your future; you’re worth it.
LINKS: Details on 'Your Essential Self' Gathering at Bodega Ridge: www.thecorkercollective.com/development/bodega Follow What We're Up To: www.instagram.com/thecorkerco
LINKS: Britt's Instagram: www.instagram.com/brittmaughanrd/ Feed the Machine: www.feedthemachine.com/team/athlete/31
Known for being one of the worlds greatest skiers of her time, Allison had a career-ending knee injury that forced her to retire in 2008. Since then, Allison has translated life as an Olympian to her career as a Brand + Marketing visionary for several apparel companies who have been committed to getting people to move. Currently, she leads the Brand team at Stoko – the world’s first functional tight. Allison also leads a Safe Sport initiative to help bring to light the unsafe coach-athlete relationships among certain sports. She reminds us that her purpose is to create happy, healthy, humans and none of that comes from WHAT you do, yet rather WHO you are.
LINKS: Allison Forsyth Instagram: www.instagram.com/allisonforsyth/ Stoko: www.stokodesign.com ITP Sport: www.itpsport.ca
They are breaking the myths of business and doing it on their terms. Once upon a time room mates, turned best friends and now thriving business partners, Ainsley and Hannah are creating life on their own terms. Londre Swimwear started as an idea on the beach and is now an incredibly successful brand – not just in the bank, yet for our planet and the relationship women have with themselves in a bathing suit. They are committed to working differently, taking care of themselves and never photoshopping a beautiful human in a suit!
LINKS: Londre Bodywear: www.londrebodywear.ca Ainsley Rose Instagram: www.instagram.com/ainsley_rose/ Hannah Todd Instagram: www.instagram.com/hannahmareetodd/
There is a trend that we want to see someone else go first. We want someone to pave the way to show us what is possible.
Kahla was bored one day and began reading electrical manuals when she discovered that this could be a trade of great interest to her. However, when she couldn’t find another female to apprentice under, it made her question, “Where are all the women at?" Following her passion, finding her way and sharing the stories – with comedic relief included – have made for one heck of an electrician. It’s safe to say: she is not your average tradesperson!
She has gone so far as to draw comics and publish them. You can find her work online on the ‘gram or through her site if you’d like a published version.
LINKS: Step Program BC: www.stepbc.ca Kahla Lichti Standup Comedy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=87scsd5xr20 Kahla’s Shop Talk Trade Comics Book: www.secretlifeofanapprenticeellectricia.ca/trade-comic-book/ Shop Talk Trade Comics Instagram: www.instagram.com/shoptalktradecomics/ Shop Talk Trade Comics Facebook: www.facebook.com/shoptalktradecomics/ Secret Life of an Apprentice Electrician Blog: www.secretlifeofanapprenticeellectricia.ca/ What’s So Funny About Being a Female Electrician Zine: www.secretlifeofanapprenticeellectricia.ca/924-2/ BCCWITT: www.bccwitt.ca/
If you show up to ultra-endurance cycling events, you know Alexandera. This cycling legend has broken records, won races, travelled across North America on her single-speed steed and made an effort to not show up in the media. Her life is precious and who she chooses to share her time and her stories with really matters to her. This makes this episode even more special to understand the life beyond bike racing for this incredible first nations human! If you want to hear about life on the other side of her most recent 300mile bike race – which included nearly 100 miles of walking her bike, this episode just may leave you wildly inspired.
LINKS: An excellent documentation of Alexandera's story can be found here: https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a30689528/alexandera-houchin-endurance-cycling/
Ericka walked into a yoga studio and didn’t see anyone else like her. She looked for yoga teachers and again, didn’t see anyone like her. It was a pivotal moment in conversation with a dear mentor who inspired her to consider being the first black woman to lead classes in NY that made her question: where else do people not show up in life when there is no one like them? You can find Ericka on the ‘gram and also in The Corker Co Skills Studio for a moment of meditation.
LINKS: Ericka's Instagram: www.instagram.com/ericka.jones_ 13-minute Self-Love Meditation: www.the-corker-collective.mykajabi.com/meditations
Kerri and I worked together at lululemon over a decade ago. Kerri appeared as the “perfect American woman”. Fast forward to turning 39yrs old, when she began questioning everything. Instead of becoming small, Kerri took this moment in life to truly: expand! She shifted and changed, her priorities did as well. Naturally, this caused some relationships to end and made space for new – bigger – juicier ones to arrive. If you are 40 years old (+/- 10 years!), this podcast will provide hope and possibility that creating your life is the most important act of self-care, regardless of your age. You can find Kerri on the ‘gram and her new project The Vessel as well.
LINKS: Instagram: www.instagram.com/kerrikeaton/ The Vessel: www.instagram.com/the__vessel/
It all began in kindergarten when her teacher didn’t understand that Lily was too booksmart and too bored. Since then, Lily has been on a quest for creative expression, excellence and at times, void of emotion. The Corker Co is lucky to have her lead Graphics + Creative. Together, we are learning about the impact of school experiences in the workplace and powerful communication. This is a must-listen to episode for parents, students and creatives alike. You may just learn a lot thru the life of Lily!
LINKS: Lily's Website: www.lilyshmil.com Lily's Dog 'Cheese': www.instagram.com/cheesethemighty
Co-founder of Wirth hats based in Vancouver, BC, Ben shares the story of how one friend who had one dream of creating one hat has become a movement of mental health awareness. Having lost two dear friends to suicide, he committed to creating a space and an access point for everyone to have the ability to speak to professional help. For every hat purchased, a counselling session is provided for someone in need. Ben also shares his perspective of having a “close 3” whom you can count on when things are tough. It’s okay to not be okay, so long as to know who to turn to in these moments. Most of all, remember that you are not alone.
LINKS: Wirth Hats Website: www.wirthhats.com Wirth Hats Instagram: www.instagram.com/wirthhats Mental Health Resources: www.wirthhats.com/pages/mental-health-resources
Hailing from Nigeria, Tobi set out to create a side hustle after having a personal experience called: landing your dream job. He interviewed with Shopify 7 different times. He witnesses his younger, smarter sister have enormous challenges in landing a job. He was convinced there was a different way to help immigrants find work they love in Canada. And it all began by wanting to help only 5 people. Now, 100s of jobs later and a community with 1000s, he is clearly making an enormous impact!
LINKS: Three skills: www.the3skills.com Three Skills instagram: www.instagram.com/the3skills Tobi’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamthetobi
Dr. Stacy Sims has dedicated her life’s work to uncovering the differences of men and women as it relates to sport science. Research is typically done on men and spread across “everyone”. Yet women don’t fit the mold of “everyone” and Dr. Stacy and her team continue to uncover the incredible differences. Today, we riff on two important trending topics: Cold Plunging and COVID as it relates to the impact on women. It would be remiss of us to not include the links to find more of Dr. Stacy online.
LINKS: Stacy's Website: www.drstacysims.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/drstacysims Learn More About Endometriosis: www.naturalwomanhood.org/commonly-asked-questions-about-endometriosis-causes-treatments-cures-napro-technology-a-natural-womanhood-endo-faq-2020/
Upon becoming a Mother, Cayley had many questions – one of which was: how do I live my purpose and spend my time with my new son? A clear distinction was made that she would not return to corporate work as she knew it and soon thereafter, her business was born. Created to support Mothers in all phases of becoming, thriving, surviving and transitioning to the greatest promotion of all time. Cayley's consulting practice exists to be of service to mothers and those who wish to support mothers. This episode drops just in time for us to wish all mothers a very happy mother's day!
LINKS: Cayley's Website: www.cayleybenjamin.com Cayley's Instagram: www.instagram.com/cayleybenjamin
Meet serial entrepreneur, father, husband and co-founder of Spiritual Gangster. Ian started Spiritual Gangster when his beautiful partner had a vision beyond the yoga studio. He has since devoted his life to creating the highest vibration possible for his family, his friends and his community. I have been in awe at his daily habits from afar so couldn't wait to jump on the mic to chat about what it is really like.
LINKS: Spiritual Gangster: spiritualgangster.com Energy for Success App (Apple): apps.apple.com/ca/app/energy-for-success/id1498585127 Energy for Success App (Google Play): play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.efsil.efs&hl=en_CA≷=US
It’s not taboo, it’s not talked about over dinner and it’s time to end the stigma of sex workers. Our very own Operational Genius lives our core beliefs of "AND is the future". Steph Sia is an incredible pole dancer, stripper and sex worker who is here to destigmatize and bust your myths that you may believe to be true simply because a lack of education, awareness or industry. We’d love to hear your thoughts, your feedback and learnings from this episode.
LINKS: Instagram: instagram.com/strippedbysia | instagram.com/siasteph WISH Vancouver: wish-vancouver.net PACE Society: pace-society.org Pivot Legal Society: pivotlegal.org Butterfly: Support Asian and Migrant Sex Workers: butterflysw.org Maggies Toronto: maggiesto.org
Katy Chan is the co-owner of several cafes in Toronto, a grocery delivery service and now a new bakery. Well before there was a podcast and a restaurant, Steph and Katy were the best of friends during elementary school. Our days of youth have clearly brought us to exactly where we are meant to be today. Katy is an incredibly creative soul who has never felt compelled to follow a path laid before her. Instead, she has followed her heart and her desire to spend her days, her way. This has taken her to design school, culinary school, all over the world and right back to downtown Toronto! It was both wildly nostalgic and very sweet to reconnect with such fond childhood-memories-gone-grown-up!
And if you ever find yourself in Toronto, be sure to check out Cafe Neon or the new bakery.
Links: Bar Neon Restaurant: https://www.instagram.com/bar_neon/ Cafe Neon Restaurant: https://www.instagram.com/cafe_neon/
Jillian Brown is a wild adventurer who found her heart and peace of mind beside a river. Yet the road to that tranquility was nothing short of incredibly rocky and nearly life-threatening. She has been very open and honest about her story across her own social channels, which inspired us to reach out to learn more.
Today, Jillian and her business partner run a camp in an unknown destination in the middle of BC called “Camp My Way” – a safe space for medical professionals to go to recover from PTSD from the workplace. She shares how because of her experiences, she is now able to hold the space for others to experience wild transformation outdoors.
This is definitely a podcast to put all things in life quickly into perspective.
Links: Camp My Way: campmyway.com Jillian's Instagram: instagram.com/jillianabrownphotography
It’s only appropriate on a day like this to pass the mic to both educate and celebrate what it means to be a trans person in the world today. I’m so stoked to have Amil host this conversation with James where they chat about the experience and the importance of being visible. Together, they share heaps of great resources and perspectives for all of us to consider on our journeys in life together – less assumptions, more compassion seems to be a beautiful place to start.
Links: James is an Executive Director at: peakhouse.ca Low-Barrier Wellness Services: cwhwc.com Trans Care BC: phsa.ca/transcarebc James Kelly's Website: jamesalexanderkelly.com The Boy and the Bindi: vivekshraya.com/projects/books/the-boy-and-the-bindi
Known as one of the world’s most special yoga teachers (we said it!), Ryan approaches his yoga practice with the same energy he approaches his life with – honest vulnerability, a mind of a student and a passionate desire to live his truth. He started One Yoga for the People, he resides on Treaty 6 Territory land and has other offerings including his non-profit organization, Vinyasa Yoga for Youth, the international One Yoga studios and is a Global Yoga Ambassador for lululemon to support all people, from all places having access to yoga. He shares his big goals with us and we can already see the seeds of possibility planted in rich soil of YES!
LINKS Practice Yoga with Ryan Leier: oneyoga.ca One Yoga's Instagram: instagram.com/oneyogalions Ryan Leier's Instagram: instagram.com/ryanleier Here’s to the Crazy Ones (Apple): youtube.com/watch?v=-z4NS2zdrZc
Once known as a power-executive in Vancouver, BC, Michele currently resides approximately 7hrs and 3 ferry rides away from the corporate life she once knew to be the daily grind. When the pandemic hit, she lost her job and went to find herself. Little did she know that a trip to Hornby Island would inspire a complete shift in life. She found the last piece of property available on the island and convinced her partner that going coastal was worth a shot. She shares her relationship with goal setting, vision boards and most of all, manifesting the most beautiful foxy-morons that only make sense to her.
It was a true delight to connect with Michele who not only is thriving on island-life, yet is also the Head of Marketing for an incredible adventure brand called VSSL.
Links: VSSL: vsslgear.ca
Michael is a musician, a socialist and a soul-ist. He is a father, a husband and a total soul-rocker! He believes that music can change your life, truly. And he has dedicated his craft to creating more love and more humanness in the world. It is no secret that Steph has been a raving fan of Michael for a very long time. It was a true dream to catch up early one morning while Michael was still at his hotel, Soulshine in Bali. He offers perspective on the last year, shares his trials and tribulations and most of all, shares hope for us to all keep the light on in our hearts!
LINKS Instagram: instagram.com/michaelfranti Michael's Website: michaelfranti.com Soulshine Bali Hotel: soulshinebali.com
I met Doug Evans at his last start up in SF, where he spent his days full of crazy ideas and walking on his standing desk treadmill way before standing desks were a thing. You might know Doug from previous vegan pursuits like Organic Avenue in NYC or Juicero, yet what he really wants you to know about is the accessibility and nutritional availability of sprouts. Full stop. Sprouts are Life! He has gone on to write a book – The Sprout Book, currently on it’s 6th edition, having never finished college. He speaks about the challenges of his writing ability, the procrastination struggle and best of all – how he dances with big, daunting dreams! It’s impossible to not be inspired by such a brilliant, wild man who lives in the desert and mediates in the hot springs. PS – please go buy his book today.
LINKS: The Sprout Book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Y73BW8X/
Why Coaching for strengths matters! Why hiring a coach will help you get better at the things you are good at. Investing in your strengths vs. constantly developing weaknesses.
LINKS: Group Coaching: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/offerings/better-you 1 on 1 Coaching: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/coaching/1-1-coaching Book a Discovery Session: https://calendly.com/cecily-elmas/discovery-session
Dr. Sukhi Muker has lived many lifetimes and has the stories to prove it. You can read all about his journey online, yet this episode was meant to capture the grace through which he has emerged out the other side of rock bottom. He has spent the last 3 decades obsessed with human potential – yours and mine – to raise the frequency through which he moves through the world. He is disciplined in his belief that everything is energy and has designed his life around his core values, with no expectations or excuses.
LINKS: Dr. Sukhi's Website: www.drsukhi.com
Meet Grace Kennedy, the Founder and General Manager of LivLite — Vancouver’s first zero-waste grocery delivery. She started this business while on maternity leave and quickly realized that travelling with a baby, on her bike, to refill her glass bottles was hardly going to be sustainable. Less than a year later, she launched LivLite in an attempt to leave this planet treaded on slightly lighter for the next generation including her 2 year old son.
LINKS: Green Vancouver: www.vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/zero-waste.aspx Livlite: www.livlite.co
It started as a side hustle, out of the side of a local kitchen, to a group of Mom’s who helped spread the word in Whistler, BC. Ed, a passionate or dare we say, obsessed baker has turned the side hustle into one of our favourite local vegan bakeries with the support of his partner, Tash. Churning out over 150 loaves of sourdough a day, this is not simply a “pandemic hobby” — this is a new way of life. And when having the chance to speak with entrepreneurs who are crafting their way to making a dent in the universe, one loaf of a bread at a time, we can’t help but get excited! Tash put it so well: “We are selling happiness” — and it is indeed the most delicious version of happiness in the village.
LINKS: Ed’s Bred Website: www.edsbred.com Ed’s Bred Instagram: instagram.com/eds_bred Ed’s Bred Facebook: facebook.com/EdsBReD
Desirée Dawson is a yoga teacher, recording artist, songwriter and producer from Vancouver BC. Desirée is very passionate about music’s role in collective healing, by encouraging listeners to find a connection within themselves and the people and land around them. A CBC radio favourite, Desirée has been featured on numerous CBC programs, has her songs on regular rotation and won the CBC Searchlight contest in 2016. She recently released her new song “To Be Me” to inspire us all to step out into the anthem on your own soul.
LINKS: Desirée Dawson's Performance (jump to 34:36 to see her): thecorkercollective.com/corkerco100 Desirée’s Website: desireedawsonmusic.com
Self-proclaimed goal-junkies, Cecily and Steph continue to wrestle with the “old way” and stretch into new ways of proclaiming their future. The act of goal-setting is a constant state of living into the future, yet it can easily leave one not present to the moment at hand. If 2020 taught us all anything, it was just how precious each fleeting moment is. To compliment that, these two ladies dove into a conversation of declaring intentions. Like putting on a fluffy pair of slippers or lacing up racing flats, the intention is set when your feet hit the sole of whichever shoe. Cecily reminds us that intentions set the way and show you the path; the goal is always simply a guiding light.
LINKS: Braiding Sweetgrass Book - milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass Less is Now Documentary - www.netflix.com/ca/title/81074662
Inspired by meeting this beautiful stranger, Steph caught up with Dominik on his tales of the last decade. As a student who failed his pilot’s license exams, he decided to make it through high school only long enough to get out and head straight to Spain for the hike of a lifetime: the camino de santiago. 800km later, he spent 30 days hiking and only took one day of rest for his weary, blistered feet. He recorded his journey and after 7 years of writing, has published his first book! During that time, life has taken him on it’s own adventure moving to Canada, taking up running and exploring new passions. It’s impossible to not be inspired by people taking action.
LINKS Ultreya on the Camino: amzn.to/2WeoQ2g More About the Author: dominik-trottier.de Book Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=F0lREOb6eK0
This is an episode you don’t want to miss. Serving it up straight and true is what we have always counted on Michelle for. This conversation was just that. From her previous days as a lawyer in Vancouver, to following a different path in London before investing and starting a bike rental company in Provence, France — Michelle is never short of interesting stories. However, once you slow this wild woman down, you will uncover a part of her heart that is quite soft and gentle. She shares the secret of how going long and hard all begins with being kinder to ourselves. And of course, always being brave.
LINKS Bike Rentals: francebikerentals.com
2020 has been a big year for so many and us included, in our own ways. Most notably, Matt Corker transitioned from leading a yoga retreat in Bali in February, to lockdown in March, to leading the business through the initial phases of COVID before being promoted to Dad in August. It’s always inspiring to hear from Matt and be reminded of the power in being ready for change. While no one can predict what the future holds, what we do know for sure is that Matt will be ready for whatever will be next!
Jessica has found ways to create a niche in the market when it comes to creating sustainable and healthy homes. Despite COVID, she was able to pivot her offering online and Steph had an inside peak into room by room of our homes — what to get rid of and what to replace the old with. As we are spending more time in lockdown and in our homes, it felt like the perfect conversation to be sharing. We hope this episode inspires you to make even a few simple changes before the clock strikes 2021.
LINKS: Jessica’s Website: jessicachristin.com Bamboo Bedsheets: simplyorganicbamboo.com Jess’ Favourite Blanket: sleepartisan.com
Cecily and Steph are serial goal setters, though that doesn’t make goal getting any easier for them. Committed to the journey of setting big goals, also means stumbling along the way, sharing vulnerable dreams and finding the right team to support big conversations. Together, they riff on what this process has been like for each other. Some tips include: holding some goals close to our hearts, having the right cheerleaders in your corner and of course, being willing to fail along the way.
This week we talk to David Vertesti – known for his incredible musical prowess as the bassist of Hey Ocean, he has also been a cornerstone in the Vancouver Arts and Music scene. He created a beautiful event called Sing It Forward, performing at events of the likes of the Junos and was also the creative spirit behind the Vancouver Mural Festival. And he has also walked away from those creative endeavours. He has a really refreshing relationship with what it takes (read: all consuming!) to start something. Since the birth of his first child, he has realized that his brain never truly turns off and in order to be fully present, he had to decide where to spend his time. Despite COVID-19 derailing the Mural Festival in it’s original intent, he still found a way to bring it to life in 2020, creating arguably one of the most successful art expos of the pandemic. We are grateful for his perspective of letting go to create room for something new – even when you have no idea what that newness will be.
LINKS: David Vertesi: davidvertesi.com Hey Ocean: heyocean.com Vancouver Mural Festival: vanmuralfest.ca Creative Mornings: creativemornings.com
This week we talk with Brooke Harley, CEO and founder of Class Rebel. Brooke shares her perspective on living a life littered with failures and risk, all while trying to overturn conventional education and remove the barriers that exist to serve the very elite few.
Early into our discussion, Brooke poses the question, “would we construct our education system the same way knowing we are living a “hundred year life”?” With contemporary education ending at 21, and much of what one learns obsolete years after they learn it, Brooke is driven to reinvent this model and offer opportunities to become a lifelong learner without the lifelong debt. Speaking of money – her next course offers learners around the world the opportunity to become comfortable in the language and logistics around raising money in order to start their entrepreneurial journey on their own terms.
LINKS: Website: classrebel.com Fundraising 101 Course: classrebel.com/registration/fundraising-101/
On this week’s episode of Uncorked, we circle back to move forward with Aaron De Jong, owner of Movement 108 and founder/CEO of Movr, a mobile interface designed to prescribe safe movements for every unique body. In this timely conversation, Aaron shares how Covid-19 forced him to make tough decisions in the fitness space inhabited, and what important lessons he learned from saying good-bye to the old “normal.”
As Aaron moved from brick-and-mortar to an online fitness studio, he faced what many small business owners are going through as we speak – The inability to fully capture what his former company brought to his, and his clients lives. A realist, Aaron soon realized he wouldn’t be able to replicate the kind of connection with the community he fostered previously, and he had to reevaluate what space he wanted to take up in the world. His journey echoes what so many are currently experiencing, and his approach to letting go can certainly be of help to those in his industry, and beyond.
EPISODE LINKS: Movr App: https://movewithmovr.com/ Movement 108: https://movement108.com/
On this episode of Uncorked, we talk with Makenzie Chilton, Founder of Love Your Mondays and creator of the Monday Method. Makenzie shares how her career evolved from being an onsite therapist for medium to high risk violent offenders in the prison system, to a career coach celebrating clients who are stepping into the role they are meant to be in.
After finding herself laid-off from what she thought of as her dream job, Makenzie dug deep into her entrepreneurial spirit and laid the foundation for a career helping others find the kind of fulfillment they deserved. In our chat, she explains how she uses her values as a means to learn to say no to things, how the ocean fits into her selfcare regime, and how as women, we need to take the humble out of the brag and learn to celebrate our accomplishments.
PODCAST LINKS: Love Your Mondays: https://www.loveyourmondays.co/ Charles & Ray Eames Chairs: https://www.eamesoffice.com/ Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast: http://revisionisthistory.com/ Mark Groves Podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/mark-groves/playlists/podcast
In this week’s edition of Uncorked, we dust off our Canadian tuxedos and join Everett Bumstead in celebrating one of our beloved practices in this country: tree planting. Everett’s new documentary, One Million Trees, challenges our assumptions about the job and the highballers who share a passion and joy for life outside the 9-5.
No two tree planters are the same. It’s a fact Everett lays bare at the outset of the conversation. In his 7-year career (in which he alone planted over 500,000 trees), he’s spent time on the block with lawyers, models, and triathletes alike. Throughout the discussion, he shares a love and appreciation for all the skilled labourers who traverse the land, their value measured in the work they do. His biggest fear? It’s not the long hours, the unpredictable weather, the swarms of mosquitos or the extreme solitude… it’s being tethered to a job he can coast in.
One Million Trees Documentary: https://gem.cbc.ca/media/absolutely-canadian/season-20/episode-23/38e815a-0134fc83a86
Treeplanting terms: https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/top-10-tree-planter-terms-everyone-should-know#:~:text=A%20highballer%20is%20a%20planter,the%20shortest%20period%20of%20time.
“Give yourself permission to change and unfold…and to find joy.”
With beautiful intention, Arielle Estoria wears many hats (and swimsuits!). But most importantly, the one of virtual storyteller is what encompasses them all. Through her spoken word poetry, to her self-love advocacy, Arielle searches for connection, collaboration, and time to be alone with her thoughts.
In this week’s edition of Uncorked, Arielle tells us about a moment she shared with our very own Cecily, a pinnacle point in time where a major self-transformation occurred, and she realized she was deserving of glorious opportunities. Her awareness that her belief in herself must be trusted in order to achieve her dreams is a major eye-opener for those of us struggling to believe that we are worthy of our accomplishments.
This week, professional Triathlete, Alyssa Godesky explains how the number is not the motivator. Instead, she finds that the mindful and realistic work it takes to achieve her goals is the driving force behind her achievements. She talks us mere mortals through the concept of loving the journey, and finding fulfilment in dealing with the inevitability of pain and loss. Through a constant eye on the overarching goal of being the best human she can be, Alyssa stands by her decisions, enduring suffering with the knowledge it passes. She is a pragmatist, a visionary, and a blessing to have on Uncorked.
This past July, Trav McKenzie took on “The Calendar Club” – running the number of miles corresponding to the day on the calendar each day of the month. After being called out on a Zoom meeting as someone who “used to be an athlete” Trav decided to reclaim the term, and his body. He set a goal knowing it would take everything in him (and some help from his wife) to accomplish, and willed himself along on a 496 mile journey. From fundraising to family, FaceTime and a lobster roll, Trav tells us what fuelled him, and what comes next in his incredible life.
This week on the pod we introduce our new General Manager — Cecily Elmas!
Matt, Steph, and Cec first crossed paths at Lululemon — before Matt and Steph started The Corker Co and before Cec embarked on her own entrepreneurial journey. Steph and Cecily discuss her journey from professional dancer, to a 15 year career at lululemon, to becoming a mom and starting her own business, to now joining The Corker Collective.
From her goal of being the best dancer in Canada, to retiring and falling in love with helping people feel better about themselves — Cec reflects on her relationship with time and how motivations and priorities change as we grow older.
The duo discuss life after lululemon — and how maternity leave helped Cecily find the space to come into her own, and to move away from her identity as ‘Cecily from Lululemon’ to ‘Cecily’.
Cecily isn’t constrained by the limited beliefs others place on her, or dictated by competition: “I can’t compete against anyone because no one is me” — she embodies the belief that anything is possible and finds joy in repetition on the quest to mastery.
Tune in to hear Cecily’s goals — small, big and juicy. And reach out to hello@thecorkercollective.com to work with Cec — because Cec’s ultimate goal is: “For all human beings to live a full life — where they are heard and they feel like it has meaning and purpose.”.
Show Links:
Cec on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/cecilyelmas/ 1:1 Coaching with Cec: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/1-1-coaching
Amil Reddy is a Equity & Inclusion Speaker and an incredible educator. They join Steph at the mic this week to talk about equity in the workplace, the power of pronouns, and how allies can better show up for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities.
“My diversity training and culture of competency training is not about vocabulary and what to say or do … my training and my work with teams and executives is how not to be an asshole.”
Amil shares strategies to start the conversation around equity and inclusion, and ways to stop making folks feel othered. They also highlight the need to create space for people to grow and change. Whether someone wants to change their pronouns, or to correct a mistake — there is space for it all.
“I’m a huge fan of beautiful mistakes if you are in a learning environment, in a space of growth.”
The language and scope of diversity and inclusion work has evolved over the years — but Amil explains that all are valid and important — because systems need to change.
“When it comes to working to elevate equity seeking groups or to gain equity, it’s not about a hierarchy of needs, to me it’s about a holistic approach of looking at what we need to do to change our systems, to change systematic oppression.”
Tune to hear Amil’s advice and guidance around being a better, more inclusive human.
Show Links:
Amil on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/reddyornot/
Laura Melling is the founder and creative director of Laura Melling Studio, a Vancouver based interior design firm she started in 2010. She designs beautiful spatial experiences for residential and commercial clients and is passionate about making space feel good. Beyond her creative practice, Laura is a community creator. She is a connector of like minded people and a devoted ambassador for anything or anyone she believes in.
“Yes it’s about how it looks — but we try to take it one step back — and think about: ‘how does it feel to be in space?’ — and ‘how can that impact your wellbeing?’”
Laura and Steph riff on starting a studio, balancing being a creative and a business owner, and why being a community connector is at the heart of it all.
“My purpose — the reason I am on this planet — is to be a community creator.”
Laura co-created the Changemaker’s Market — where over 140 women-led small businesses, entrepreneurs, and artists from across BC came together in support of women's health. The Changemakers Market raised over $45,000 for the full spectrum of women’s health — all during a global pandemic.
Listen in to hear where Laura is getting inspiration now, and what she hopes to achieve through design.
“I never want spaces to feel exclusive — I want them to feel inviting and inclusive.”
Show Links:
Laura Melling Studio on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/lmelling/
Laura Melling Website: http://lauramelling.com
Changemaker’s Market: https://www.bcwomensfoundation.org/event/cmm/
Jenn Harper is an Ojibwe entrepreneur and Founder + CEO of Cheekbone Beauty. Jenn began her entrepreneurial journey in 2014 after becoming sober and receiving inspiration from a dream. She launched her business in 2016 without any experience in the beauty industry — but with a burning passion to create representation of Indigineous youth.
“I don’t think I understood how important representation was at the beginning — even though I knew that’s what we wanted to do — I didn’t get the power until I’ve gotten the feedback from people in our community.”
As Jenn was building her business, she simultaneously dove into her healing journey — finally embracing her identity as an Indigineous person. She had been estranged from her family because of shame, and struggled with her identity having a white mother and Indigenous father. As she repaired her relationship to her family, she dove into the history of Indiginous language and culture. After the suicide of her brother, Jenn’s “burn in your belly passion” to help her community took on new meaning.
“Our brand is created to help every Indigenous kid on the planet to see their enormous value in the world.”
Tune in to hear Jenn’s incredibly inspiring story — how she moved from shame to pride in herself, her culture, and her business.
Show Links:
Cheekbone Beauty: https://cheekbonebeauty.ca
Cheekbone Beauty on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/cheekbonebeauty/
Steph flies solo on the pod this week, giving you a peak behind the scenes into her love of baking, glass jars, and a clean home. She lets us know how she is coping through COVID and what gets her excited outside of sport. From her favorite gravel rides to what Matt Corker is like IRL — tune in to get to know Steph Corker a little better.
Show Links:
Steph on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/steph_corker/
The Now What — a program developed by Steph Corker to help you gain clarity on what you want next: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/signup/the-now-what
Emily Schromm is a creator, serial entrepreneur and author helping others empower themselves by way of food, movement and business. She recently published her first book, The Process, and launched EMPRESS, a digital publication filled with workshops, video, audio and written content, live classes and more.
Other ventures include EmFit: online nutrition and exercise programs; Evolved Motion: a backpack-turned-weight-training invention to make the world your gym; Element Tea: an herbal tea line; and Platform Strength: a 24/7 access strength gym in RiNO, Denver.
Emily joins Steph on the pod this week to talk online personas, letting go of food guilt, and pivoting in both health and career. She reflects on how we limit our identity to what shows up online, and how it can be a detriment to our self development and evolution — because we become so attached to this precious version of ourselves on the internet.
Emily reveals how her attitude towards health and fitness have changed, and how she has embraced major pivots in her businesses. Now she asks herself in her work: “Can I help people — especially women — with guilt?” From letting go of ego in training, to removing the association between guilt and food. She recognizes that athletes “don’t have a problem with moving — we have a problem with stopping.” This realization came when she acknowledged that her view of wellness was warped, and that she didn’t want her clients to feel the burnout she was experiencing.
“All I was doing was beating my body up — and setting standards I was never able to satisfy. I want to be better everyday — but at what point does that affect your psychology in saying — ‘I am never enough’.”
Show Links:
Emily on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyschromm/?hl=en
Emily on the web: https://emilyschromm.com
Scott Morgan is a Canadian Olympian and Founding member of Stoko — an athletic apparel company that offers joint support equivalent to a rigid brace.
Scott and Steph riff on the pod this week on life after gymnastics — and what it means to let go of his identity as an athlete. From being coached from a young age, to leading a team as an entrepreneur — the constant in Scott’s journey has been the support of those on his team and behind the scenes.
Zach, CEO and co-founder of Stoko, has inspired Scott with his belief that “When one door closes, another one opens — but you need to make the conscious effort to walk through the open door”
Listen in to hear the story behind how Stoko was born and why it is making Scott’s heart beat faster.
Show Links:
Stoko: https://www.stoko.ca Scott on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/scottmorgan_/
Darius Sam — a 19 year old Indigineous man — joined Steph 48 hours after running 100 miles to raise money for his local food bank. At the end of 2019 Darius was still using drugs and alcohol heavily, but he began 2020 with determination and a new vision of what is possible. He moved home, created a rigid sleep and work-out routine, and found a renewed sense of determination and purpose. 6 months later, and Darius is still pushing himself to find the edge of what he can accomplish.
So far, Darius has completed a self-made Ironman distance triathlon — completing only one week of training prior. After becoming inspired by a youtube video, Darius decided his next challenge was to run 100-miles for a cause. After visiting his local food bank, and recognizing the need in his community — he began raising funds. He surpassed his goal of $1000 dollars, raising over $80,000 by the time he completed the run.
His 100 mile run is a story of persistence and grit — and as his grandfather wisely said — “This is where you find out who you are.”
Tune in to hear what feat Darius is taking on next — because there is no limit to what he can accomplish.
Show Links:
Darius’ Go Fund Me: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/nicola-valley-food-bank-fundraiser
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/indigenous-teen-overcomes-past-and-raises-5000-for-local-food-bank-with-ultra-marathon
The brother x sister duo are back at the mic together this week to talk about the art and power of an introduction. They recognize our tendency to play small and vague when introducing ourselves, and we (often women) feel that strong introductions will be perceived as arrogant.
Matt suggests that we should get more specific, and come equipped with stories. And Steph commits to stop playing the comparison game when introducing herself among peers. The purpose of an introduction is to provide context that is quick and accurate. The goal is to communicate to the audience what authority you have to speak, and why your voice matters. And if you haven’t been specific or generous in your introductions before, there is power in knowing that you can always re-introduce yourself.
“It is a powerful thing to say — this is who I am and this is why my voice matters.”
Show Links:
I Am Not An Easy Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bFHdkzqSZA
Nate is the CEO and Co-founder of Rhone — a men’s athletic apparel company with the mission to inspire men to be better while also producing great product. Nate joins Steph on the pod from New York City amidst COVID protocols and Black Lives Matter protests to talk about why company culture matters and recruiting beyond a resume.
“Recruiting off of a resume and telling that person to go to a top 5 business school — I have no interest in that.”
When Nate approached Steph to recruit for open roles at Rhone — he requested that she recruit for kindness. His desire was to create a culture where kindness was expected and fostered.
“My job and my responsibility as a leader is to set up a culture that makes it easy to be the best version of yourself”.
Listen in to hear how Nate is building a world class business with kindness at its core, and why vulnerability in business matters.
Show Links:
https://www.rhone.com
** Today’s podcast makes reference to violence and microaggressions towards racial and minority communities. If you are not in a place to hear that — please choose a different podcast episode. When you are ready to confront white violence against racial communities and minority groups — take a listen.
Matt and Steph meet at the mic this week to reflect on the Black Lives Matter movement — coming off of mute and joining the conversation. They speak on the roles they want to take on in the fight against racism, what they are learning, and how to put perfection aside in order to continue to show up.
“Perfection is part of oppression”
The duo discuss white centering, racism in Canada, microaggressions and how to talk to friends and family about anti-racism. As leaders of The Corker Collective, they remain committed to getting uncomfortable, doing things differently, and remaining in the Black Lives Matter conversation.
Show Links:
Racial Equity Resource Guide: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/blog/racial-equity-resource-guide
Dianne is the founder of Dope Mom Life — a creative content agency creating social media videos and strategy for brands while cultivating a relationship with multicultural communities.
“Anything that I do with the rest of my life will be of service to my community.”
Dianne was born and raised in Colorado, was an olympic hopeful, and is now a dope mom. Dianne explains to Steph what it was like growing up black in a conservative and predominantly white community, why she left corporate america to start her own business, and the challenges of being a black athlete who loves to be outdoors.
“When we don’t see ourselves in certain spaces, we don’t believe we can do it.”
Dianne is passionate about holding allies accountable after the hype has diminished on social media — to ensure that white people continue to use their voices when they see racial injustices and to continue to demonstrate that Black Lives Matter.
“It’s time for us to continue to hold our allies and accomplices accountable to continue this fight long after this has died down … this is a fight that we have to continue to hold people accountable to because we can never get away from it … the main conversation I’ve been having outside of my community is that I am not new to this, I am true to this, ya’ll are just now seeing this.”
Show Links:
Dope Mom Life: Creative Content Agency: http://dopemomlife.com
Dope Mom Life on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/dopemomlife/
Fund Black Businesses! https://ifundwomen.com/projects/how-support-fund-black-businesses
Aaron De Jong is the founder of Movement108 and founder and CEO of movr. Aaron and Steph riff on the transition of Movement108 online, where his businesses are at as BC begins to reopen, and what Aaron predicts will happen in the health and wellness world in the months to come and beyond.
Aaron dives into the possibility in uncertainty, and his vision for the new normal. The meaning of place is transforming as fitness moves online, and health and wellness is no longer tied to a physical space. Aaron has used this time as an opportunity to consider his role in this shift: “I want Movement108, and I want movr, and I want all of the things that I touch to be a part of helping people in the process of building a new normal.”
As the world is constantly changing - Aaron remains optimistic and excited for what is to come - but recognizes the need for grounding and rest: “It’s allowing yourself to move into those zones of recovery, and actual rest, that will all of a sudden spark something that you didn’t know existed.”
Steph and Aaron riff on motivation during COVID, and why touching your toes matters: “Do what you can with the information you have available. And then tomorrow do the same. And then the next day do the same. We should apply this to our health and to our movement practice — that is our motivation”.
Tune in to hear why Aaron believes “studio and gym life is dead” and what he thinks will matter in the future.
Show Links:
movr: https://movewithmovr.com
Movement108: https://www.movement108.com
Stef Hanson is the Chief and Founder of WITSUP — a multimedia platform with everything you need to know about women in triathlon globally. Stef is usually the one asking the questions on the WITSUP Podcast, but this week we flip the script and get to hear her story.
Steph and Stef riff on what sparked the beginning of WITSUP 10 years ago — and how the representation of Women in sport in the media has (and hasn’t) changed in the last decade. Stef reveals her most impactful interview, and who her dream interview subject would be.
Listen in to hear how Stef is handling not knowing what is next, and how she is leaning into the unknown. As Stef is searching for drive in uncertain times, she is grounded by her purpose in constant education and discussion of women and sport in her mission to shift culture.
“I don’t know [what’s next]... Some days I wish I knew, but then I look back on how I got to WITSUP, when I was… doing stuff because I loved it and knew it would lead somewhere, but I didn’t know where — and then it hit me, so I need to trust in the process.”
Show Links:
WITSUP pod: https://www.witsup.com/witsup-podcast/
WITSUP on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/witsupcom/
Stef on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/stefhanson/
Christine is an Intuitive Coach and Business Owner. She joins Steph on the pod this week to talk about how to manage life with less distractions. She describes what it means and feels like to have a rumble — and how a rumble can be used as a tool to tap into our intuition. As we have less to do and fewer ways to be distracted — the volume on the rumble is getting louder. Listen in for the techniques Christine uses to sit in the discomfort that arises in these times.
Some of Christine’s favourite journal prompts to help you connect to yourself and to delve deeper into your intuition:
“What would you have me know?” “What am I so afraid of?” “What is the rumble?” “What do I know that I am not listening to?” “What would my life look like if I was in total freedom?”
Show Links:
https://christinebanno.com
Christine on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/christinebanno/
Matt and Steph are back on the pod together this week to discuss how they are individually navigating the limitations of COVID. From how they are eating, hosting online dinner parties and sourcing supplements, to their favourite ways to sweat, to the things they miss the most about pre-COVID physical proximity.
“The reason I loved teaching in a studio was because people were coming for something more than just the forms, just the breathing practices, just the meditation — those were always available to them online. They were coming for community, they were coming for connection, they were coming for that sense of accountability. There was something else about a class — I really miss people in the flesh. I really miss teaching”.
Both Matt and Steph have experienced the range of emotions related to the pandemic and they talk through how they are coping with the day-to-day and leading through the stages of uncertainty.
“My consistent practice is to practice what I preach, and so finding ways to recover faster, finding ways to be more responsible — that is the practice that I am in — and it’s nice to be walking the talk”.
Tune in to catch up with the brother sister duo and visit us at thecorkercollective.com to keep up with all the ways The Corker Collective can support you and your team.
Show Links:
Practice with Matt online: https://linktr.ee/matt_corker
Coaching + Support from Team Corker: https://www.thecorkercollective.com/1-1-coaching
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker — https://www.amazon.ca/Art-Gathering-How-Meet-Matters/dp/1594634920
Matt on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/matt_corker/
Steph on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/steph_corker/
Ange Hartman is the General Manager at Turf and instructor of The Class by Taryn Toomey. Steph and Ange riff on the many big, courageous changes in her life to date — and the parallels between those times of transition and her experience of change amidst COVID.
Ange spent 10 years living in the US - from Texas, to LA, to New York. In each place, she moved through uncertainty and loneliness, to establish routines and a feeling of home. In these experiences, she learnt how resilient she was, that everything is part of a bigger journey, and that “Home is where I am”.
In all periods of change Ange has experienced similar stages of uncertainty. She moves from denial, frustration and sadness to surrender. In this allowing, she is able to move forward in the work.
“As soon as I allowed that process to happen, a new way of being opened up for me”.
Ange has worked with the TurF leadership team in handling the disappointments of COVID-19 — letting go of the hope of how things should be and creating space for new possibilities:
“It’s that feeling of not being attached to what’s supposed to happen, and then from that place, everything starts to feel like a win.”
Ange reflects on her connection to The Class, how she got started, and bringing the practice to Canada at Turf. Especially now, she acknowledges the importance of being at home in our bodies:
“We process things through the body, for me, being engaged in my physical body allows me to be fully present.”
Listen in to hear how Ange has moved through the anger and disappointment of COVID and into a place of creativity and learning — refusing to put self-development and her goals on hold, and transitioning into the next phase of possibility.
Show Links:
Ange on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/ange_hartman/
TurF on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/turfliving/
Groceries from TurF: https://turfgrocery.square.site
Workout online with TurF: https://www.ourturf.com/pages/classes
Lana and Steph — two passionate recruiters — discuss the changing recruiting landscape, why we need to take the shame out of getting fired, and designing a life you love based on whatever circumstances you are in. Ten years ago, when Lana began her career in recruiting, things worked a little differently. Networking was done face-to-face, or “belly-to-belly”, and you were expected to get to know candidates beyond the job description. Lana and Steph continue to love their work, and are committed to keeping candidate searches human.
Lana has made a practice of embracing change, and she reflects on what candidates need to consider in the current economic landscape during COVID-19:
“There will be change. Some of it you can control, and some of it you can’t. Now is an opportunity to get really clear on what matters to you — whether you are in the right role, or with the right company, or with the right team. Whether or not you want to shift careers entirely… Now is the time to embrace all of these changes, and these thoughts, and be really raw and honest with yourself”.
Tune-in to listen in on how Lana stays inspired, how she embraces life’s shifts, and where she goes for her source of hope and positivity.
Show links:
Lana (and Jack) on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/lanabradshaw/
“Kids laugh up to 300 time a day. Adults laugh up to 17.” and Greg Kettner is on a mission to change that.
For over 12 years Greg has engaged brands including SAP, Coco-Cola, Ford of Canada, Business Objects, 2010 Winter Olympics, and the Vancouver Canucks.
Greg now speaks with companies to lower employee stress and to increase profit and productivity through improving company culture with humour.
Steph and Greg dive into his start in sales and his many career pivots that have brought him to his job in humour today. Greg has lived life with the attitude that, “If you don’t ask you are never going to know”. From landing his job at the Canucks with no experience, to performing in front of a crowd of 3,500 people 6 months after starting stand-up comedy — Greg is not afraid to take a chance and to ask for what he wants.
In a time when many of us are required to pivot, to create, and to look for what’s next — Greg is an example of what is possible when we take a chance.
Show Links:
Visit Greg’s website: www.gregkettner.com The Humor Lab: https://tinyurl.com/humorlab
Kellie Davidson is the founder of Fare Well and an entrepreneur committed to living the good life her brand promotes. Fare Well is an insulated products brand, designed for your next adventure.
Kellie and Steph chat about weathering COVID-19 as a new business owner, why she moved from Vancouver to California, and the difference between building brands for large companies and being an entrepreneur.
Fare Well was born from eco-anxiety and the levels of obesity Kellie observed living in the United States. Her hope is to inspire people to eat and prepare whole foods. Her products are Vegan, BPA free, and designed for ultimate functionality. Kellie’s business and life are fuelled by intentionality, and driven by service.
Kellie, you inspire us with your willingness to take on challenges with clarity, passion, and enthusiasm!
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” — Walt Disney
Show Links:
Kellie on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/kelliedavidson/
Fare Well on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/farewellco_/
Check out Fare Well online: https://farewellco.com
Mark is the man behind the IG @createthelove and podcast host of ‘The Mark Groves Podcast’. From a pharmaceutical rep to a human connection specialist, committed to providing no BS relationship advice, Mark riffs with Steph on identity, change, and how our behaviour differs between work and home.
Mark and Steph explore the beginnings of Mark’s transition into entrepreneurship, and how he came to embrace ‘love’ in the brand of his business; “When I woke up in a relationship and asked; ‘How did I get here?’ that led to me to ask; ‘How did I get here?’ in everything. You start to see: ‘Is this my story or the story I was taught to want?’”
Mark analyzes our need to fit in, and how it is evolutionarily programmed into us to want to belong — this is why rejection feels so painful. Our attempt to avoid this pain response leads us to abandon parts of ourselves in order to be accepted. Marks believes that becoming conscious of this is part of an awakening. It is terrifying to declare what we want - in life, in work, and in a relationship - because others may not approve of it. This is why entrepreneurship is so terrifying. It is a vulnerable act of putting oneself out into the world.
“So much healing occurs in the vulnerability that is required to put yourself out there”.
Tune in to be inspired to be vulnerable, to embrace change and to find a little more self-acceptance.
“When we have a hard time accepting the transitions of someone else, and who they were — it’s because we haven’t held space for who we are”.
Show Notes:
Mark on IG: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove/
The Mark Groves Podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/mark-groves
Matt on The Mark Groves Podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/mark-groves/matt-corker-are-you-real-at-work
What Mark is reading: Taking Sexy Back —How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationships You Want
Mark’s favourite IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/cabinporn/
Matt and Steph are back on the pod together this week to discuss navigating uncertain times. They cover how to lead others through uncertainty, as well as managing our relationship with ourselves and our goals as the world becomes increasingly unpredictable.
Matt talks leading through uncertainty; A lot of the content available online is recycled tips on how to work remotely, but “there is a difference between leading remotely and leading through uncertainty”. And the reality is that “we’ve always led with uncertainty, yet we were under a veil, thinking that we knew how to predict the future”. There is no rule book for your business, and now we no longer have past-based evidence to give us confidence in business decisions. It is time to step into our conviction and leadership when making difficult decisions.
Steph asks: What can we create in or communities to work together? “If you have the means and the resources to support and uplift other people, now is the time to do it, now is the time to raise your hand, now is the time to press send”. Because the changes that you make now will be necessary for the economy and our communities on the other side.
Discouraged with delayed by-when’s and cancelled events? Tune in to hear Matt and Steph’s take on getting courageous and creative in response. Some things are being cancelled or postponed, but new digital events and opportunities are abundant — pivot, don’t give up.
Show Links:
Check out our bonus Corkboard for tips on leading from home: https://mailchi.mp/thecorker.co/leadfromhome
Kyle and Brent Pease are Ironman triathletes, authors, and co-founders of the Kyle Pease Foundation. The pair competed in the 2018 Kona World Championships - becoming the second ever able + disabled duo to cross the finish line.
The Pease brothers started racing together in 2011 with the St. Anthony’s Triathlon in Florida. They raced for 7 years as a pair before competing in Kona, completing 3 Ironman races along the way. They discuss what it’s like being on the journey together:
“That’s what we love so much about this. We get to be on that journey together, and training is a big part of it. We decided early on that this was not going to just be: ‘How strong can Bret get to carry a human?’ but: ‘How strong can both of us get mentally and physically?’”
Brent trains 25 hours a week, training over-distance to account for the extra time it takes on race-day to complete the course together. Tune in to hear how Kyle prepares for race day, and how he takes on the role of coach to support and encourage his brother across the finish line.
Kyle and Brent founded the Kyle Pease Foundation two months after completing their first triathlon. They were overcome with the feeling of crossing the finish line, and immediately began thinking of ways to support others to join them. They have since supported 84 individuals across 500 finish lines.
Listen to hear what is next for the brothers, how their journey has impacted their lives beyond sport, and what is making their hearts beat faster.
“Worry about 9 seconds at a time. The 3 seconds you just finished, the 3 seconds you’re in, and the 3 seconds you’re about to start.”
Show Links: https://www.kylepeasefoundation.org
https://www.instagram.com/walkingwithkp/
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Finish-Brent-Pease/dp/1643073982/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=beyond+the+finish&qid=1556563507&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Steph Jagger is the author of ‘Unbound: A Story of Snow and Self Discovery’ — a memoir about how she skied around the world, and discovered who she was.
“During my ski trip, the mountains both broke me and rebuilt me. It was the avalanche of my life. A rush, a burial, and a resurrection. I went from being a participant, a do-what’s-expected kinda gal, to a woman who holds court in her very unrestrained life.”
Jagger and Steph riff on how she tunes into her intuition to live an intentional life, while still running a company. She describes what it’s like simultaneously being confronted by the most beautiful landscapes and her darkest inner demons, and the resulting shift in her relationship to her ego.
Since completing the massive goal of skiing around the world, Steph felt the pressure of the question “what’s next?” — she has since reframed her goal setting and asks “what is it time for now?”
“If the goal is to be and feel a certain way in life, the question becomes how do I step into that in this very moment?”
Show Links: https://www.stephjagger.com
Unbound: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062418104/unbound/
Jagger on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/stephjagger/
Joss Biggins is a Socially Responsible Investment Advisor, fellow podcast host, and really good young person. Steph and Joss riff on why age is a variable, social media, and how he takes care of himself so that he shows up as his best.
“It’s really hard to be a really good ‘old person’, but it’s really easy to be a really good ‘young person’” — tune in to find out why!
As a human in his early 20s, Joss has had to renovate his relationship to social media. He discusses the rules and parameters he sets for himself for his mental wellbeing, while acknowledging the opportunity to connect and craft your narrative when social is used as a tool. His current focus is on creating vs. consuming, adding value to the space without scrolling mindlessly.
Joss is committed to hygiene beyond the basics, and encourages listeners to reconsider baseline health to include the physical, mental, and emotional.
Tune in to hear all of Joss’ tips and lifestyle hacks to live a successful and fulfilling life in your 20s.
Show Links: Joss on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/jossbiggins/?hl=en Think Space Pod: https://www.instagram.com/thinkspacepodcast/?hl=en
Steph met Josie earlier this year at the nuun retreat in California, where the two cycled together, and Steph was blown away by Josie’s speed, power, and agility - all achieved with one hand on the handle bars.
Steph and Josie dive into what it feels like growing up with one hand, and how she coped with feeling different and like an outsider. In the end, Josie wouldn’t want it any other way, and credits her disability with her independent spirit and self-assurance today.
In an act of courage, Josie quit her job to chase an enormous dream - to go to the paralympics only a year after picking-up a bike. She attributes her progress and success as a cyclist to her friends, who encourage her to push her limits. Josie discusses prosthetics, and why she is considering trying one again after writing them off as a young person due to the limits of technology.
Tune in to be inspired by this incredible athlete and to hear how she is overcoming her limiting beliefs, and owning her abilities and superpowers.
Show Links:
Josie on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/sandy.egg.jo/
Kristen is a 3x All American, 2 x Big 10 Athlete of the year at the University of Iowa competing in both Field Hockey and Basketball. A 7 year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team and one of the most successful coaches in Ivy League history, having won 12 league titles in 13 seasons and a National Championship at Princeton University …before leaving Princeton for Whoop!
Kristen and Steph dive into why Kristen thinks WHOOP is an important tool and her draw to the company. WHOOP can be used to understand “how the body is actually working, and how you can leverage the signals that are being sent to you and apply those to your daily life and your behaviour, and to build habits that ultimately lead to a happier and healthier existence”
Kristen has always been in the business of supporting athletes achieve and harness their truest and highest potential. In joining WHOOP, she has found a team with a shared passion for unlocking human performance. WHOOP has provided Kristen the opportunity to confirm what she suspected about the factors which support human performance, while gaining her access to medical teams, tactical athletes, as well as meaningful data on the athletes she has been working with for years.
Listen in to hear why sleep is so important to human performance, and how we can optimize our rest to live happier, more effective lives. Kristen may just convince you that it’s okay to be a little selfish to achieve a more balanced and proportional daily life so that you can show up fully for the people you love.
Show Links:
Steph’s favourite WHOOP podcasts: https://www.whoop.com/the-locker/podcast-5-kristen-holmes-vp-performance-ncaa-champion-coach/ https://www.whoop.com/the-locker/podcast-50-holiday-travel-hacks-nutrion-reduce-stress/ https://www.whoop.com/the-locker/podcast-57-naps-improve-recovery/
WHOOP: https://www.whoop.com
Lorie and Matt are at the mic this week to talk all things love, acceptance, and company culture. Lorie is co-founder and CEO of Spark Creations, with a mission to bring more love and compassion into the workplace. Lorie works with teams and individuals to create company cultures that allow humans to feel more loved and included in the workplace.
She began her personal journey 10 years ago, which led to her facilitation of women’s retreats. The feedback she received was that the conversation and connections that were happening on the retreats, are needed in the workplace. Lorie left her career, and began her work on bringing love into company culture.
Lorie’s heart-beat-inducing project is her book: Love First, The Rest Will Follow. Her hope for the book is that it will leave the reader feeling more connected to their true love, themself.
Listen in to hear why it is important to bring your whole self to work and why intention matters.
“If people loved and had radical acceptance of who they are and they lived from a place of pure love, they can then share that love with others”
Show Links:
Keep up with Lorie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loriecorcuera/ https://www.instagram.com/loriec8/
BC Workplace Culture Scan Report http://sparkcreationsinc.com/culture-report/
DisruptHR YVR https://www.thecorkercollective.com/portfolio_page/disrupt-hr-june-6th/
Marika is a personal and private chef and Kundalini yoga teacher. A rebel at heart, Marika got her start after visiting an underground restaurant and falling in love with the experience. A lover of food and dinner parties, Marika decided to start her own underground restaurant in Vancouver, bringing people into her home and connecting over food.
“Cooking for other people is more satisfying that just cooking for yourself”.
When Marika discovered kundalini yoga, she committed fully - quickly moving from student to teacher. “It is the thing I can hold onto when I’m having a bad day, or super anxious or stressed out”. Yoga became Marika’s life-raft, and she was eager to share that with others.
Listen in to hear how Marika stays in a place or curiosity, her daily rituals to be grounded, and how she deals with procrastination as a creative entrepreneur. // Into the Wind
https://www.urszula.co/retreats/intothewind
https://www.urszula.co/blog/takingrisks
Are you spending time putting out fires, battening down hatches, and being slowed down by strong winds that are blowing you off course?
Now’s the time to press pause. Join us for Into The Wind, a leadership intensive for leaders who often forget to develop themselves and invest in their own vessel. You do a lot for your team and you do a lot for your business. Take the opportunity to develop yourself outside of the boardroom.
// Show Links:
https://www.instagram.com/paprikamarika/
Taryn Eyton, the human behind the instagram @happiestoutdoors, joins Steph on the pod this week to talk transitioning careers, the hustle of doing what you love, and the importance of acknowledging the barriers many communities have to getting outdoors.
Taryn followed a traditional career path, studying geography, and then earning a law degree. She found herself working inside all day, feeling depressed and unfulfilled. Despite living a life she now loves, Tarynn honestly describes her departure from working in law, and why is wasn’t without difficulty and feelings of regret; “The reality for me, and the reality for a lot of people, is that it was really hard. It was really hard to know when to make that decision, to know if it was the right decision, to know if it was actually a thing that was going to make me happy. To know if I had sunk too much of my life and my money and my energy into something — could I just leave it?”
But despite hustling to make it work, Taryn knows she made the right move; “You have to do what you love because then you will feel okay about working hard to do it”.
Taryn is in the process of writing a guide book about backpacking near Vancouver. The five year process has been a labour of love, with a focus on outdoor ethics and how the book can help hikers ‘leave no trace’.
Listen in to hear Taryn’s favourite hike near Vancouver, what snacks she packs to fuel her adventures, and how she hopes to elevate her business in the next 5 years.
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Show Links:
Into the Wind: Accelerator for Entrepreneurial Leaders https://www.urszula.co/retreats/intothewind
Are you spending time putting out fires, battening down hatches, and being slowed down by strong winds that are blowing you off course?
Now’s the time to press pause. Join us for Into The Wind, a leadership intensive for leaders who often forget to develop themselves and invest in their own vessel. You do a lot for your team and you do a lot for your business. Take the opportunity to develop yourself outside of the boardroom.
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Taryn: https://www.instagram.com/happiestoutdoors/ https://happiestoutdoors.ca
Ed, Founder of Open Dialogue, long-time friend of the Corkers, and DisruptHR 2019 speaker, joins Steph at the mic this week. Ed spends his days creating space for people to explore and get to know themselves. Ed explains Open Dialogue as a “blending of human led coaching with a piece of technology — an artificially intelligent chat-bot, that you can chat with kind of like a human, and it just listens and interprets what you are saying. It then responds to you with questions and prompts and guides you through a self-reflective process”. Ed explains that the AI isn’t meant to replace humans, but rather act as a mirror to highlight our own humanness. His goal with Open Dialogue is to keep us in a state of contemplation longer and more often.
Ed and Steph dive into how his business was born from burnout, how his path to self-discovery was sparked by a 90’s computer program, and what it’s like working with family.
When Ed isn’t driving his company forward, he is a passionate kite surfer. Listen in to hear why hobbies and interests outside of work matter, and why it’s okay to satisfy the longing to try something playful and new, even as an adult.
Show Links:
Ed on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/iamedwardmjb/
Open Dialogue: https://www.instagram.com/opendialogue.ai/
https://www.opendialogue.ai
James and Steph became fast friends in December on the last bus travelling to the start line of the California International Marathon. The duo chat about what it’s like to run your first marathon when things don’t go to plan, how to deal with contradictory advice, and why it’s beneficial to start something new without the context of what everyone else is doing.
James is a lawyer currently living in L.A. and was told as a teenager that he would never be able to run a marathon. Despite time and physical barriers, he persisted and accomplished something he is proud of. With his first marathon in the books, James can’t wait for #2 in 2020, just before his new baby arrives in the spring.
Tune in to hear about the joys of being a beginner, and why it’s okay to not always do what you “should” be doing.
Matt and Steph kick-off 2020 together at the mic, talking goal setting, avoiding guilt and shame around the new year and why the context of your goals matter.
“How do we set goals so that are not fixing the past — but so that we are creating the future we want to live into.”
Matt and Steph riff on what it means to change our relationship with judgement, accepting the tough moments, while having the vision to see what is possible in the future. What Matt sees in many of his coaching clients is the desire for freedom, and therefore goals can go beyond weight loss or making more money and rather focus on what will get us unstuck and living into possibility. The context in which we make our goals matter - if we are in a place of fear, doubt, guilt or shame, we will be driven by our desire for approval and our goals won’t serve us.
Tune in to hear when and how Matt and Steph set goals, why we shouldn’t make goals out of personal development work, and how to unleash your strengths this year.
Show Links:
https://www.culturallydefined.com
https://www.instagram.com/culturallydefined/
Ashley Brodeur is the founder of feelosophy and is currently based in Toronto after starting her business in Vancouver. Ashley and Steph discuss the process of moving a business from the west coast to the east coast, the power of goals, and the importance of rest.
Ashley explains her thinking around rest days, and changing our mentality from just resting our physical bodies, to resting our mental and emotional selves as well. Even when we skip the gym, we are often still turned-on and mentally stimulated — we can take these days to break our patterns and to put away our phones and computer.
“You create your own reality in terms of what you choose to digest in the way of content”.
When Ashley moved from Vancouver to Toronto last year, she found freedom in the reality that feelosophy will continue to thrive in Vancouver while she builds it up in Toronto.
“I never wanted feelosophy to be about Ashley Brodeur, I wanted it to be about rest, and connection, and slowing down, and touch. And because of that other people can teach it, it doesn’t just have to be me”.
Being in the yoga and wellness space, Ash talks about avoiding the comparison trap by using her 5 year vision to re-focus on herself and what she is working towards.
Listen in to hear about Ashley’s year of growth in 2020 and where you can find the feelosophy space in Toronto.
Show Notes:
https://thefeelosophy.com
https://www.instagram.com/the.feelosophy
https://www.instagram.com/ashernoelle/
https://www.instagram.com/sweatfeels/
Jacki Carr is a goal coach and motivational speaker. Jacki and Steph met 10 years ago, when Jacki was creating the vision of the life she lives today. Tune in to hear her describe how she lives into her goals and vision, while remaining spontaneous and present for her loved ones. They riff on Jacki’s ability to create so much and so often, and why busy doesn’t always need to carry a negative connotation;
“I do well being busy. Busy is only a bad word when I have exceeded my time limit in a certain domain, i.e. career, and not spent time with my family. Or busy when it’s out of alignment with my values”.
Jackie attributes her ability to create so prolifically to honouring her weird, honouring her busy, and honouring her relationship which supports her in doing it all. Despite this love of being in the flow, she still gets stuck all the time;
“When I get stuck, I have to ask myself: am I being of service, am I honouring my whole self?”
They talk what it means to have a goal and vision, and how to embrace when it changes and evolves - failing up, and deciding what’s next. From morning routines, to spontaneity as ritual, Jacki is living her bliss and we hope she inspires you to do the same.
Show Links:
https://www.jackicarr.com
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByczL0mgNU_/
Matt and Steph are back behind the mic together for an ‘ask us anything’ edition of Uncorked.
They discuss the perception of TeamCorker as ‘so dang positive’, but offer that they both relate more strongly to a commitment to the world of possibility rather than positivity. Matt explains that we can think positively, or manifest our dreams, but urges listeners to consider the work in between the meditation cushion and the attainment of meaningful results.
“The practice of seeing people, situations, and circumstances through a lens of possibility — I resonate more with. It gives me not only the ability to see something differently, but it also gives me the responsibility. It’s my job to see the possibility of it.”
The brother and sister duo recognize that life gets tough, and it’s not all unicorns and rainbows, but possibility is a tool we can choose to navigate it.
Despite Team Corker’s commitment to crafting lives we love, sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do. Matt challenges us and listeners to ask ourselves:
“How can we play to and offer our strengths? Strengths being the things we are good at and we find fulfillment in — it doesn’t mean they are easy”.
Matt explains that it’s about managing our weaknesses well — using our strengths to manage our weaknesses. And they riff on the importance of asking for help, using the strengths of those around us to avoid the overwhelm that can occur between the start and finish line.
Tune in to hear what goals Steph and Matt are hoping to cross of the list before the end of the year, and of course the things that are currently making their hearts beat faster.
Thom Brennan, friend of TeamCorker, challenged Steph to flip the script and field the questions on this week’s pod. Steph agreed to sit in the hot seat, letting us into her world and revealing the things we won’t find out about her online. We know Steph lives a life full of training, recruiting, and coaching, but tune in to hear what Steph does to wind down and to feel as though life is in balance.
Thom dives into Steph’s strategies to remain upbeat when things get tough, how she feels reflecting back on 5 years of The Corker Collective, and the ups and downs of starting a business.
“I think what doesn’t land on the vision, are the tough times. You don’t wish for things to be hard. And sometimes you don’t really know how they’ll turn out, or what they will look like. It would be remiss for me to say it’s always been easy, because it hasn’t.”
Steph is known around town to be relentlessly positive and an exceptional cheerleader in supporting others in accomplishing their goals. But she reveals that she doesn’t feel like she is always positive, but rather focuses on staying in her own lane, avoiding comparison and doing good work her way.
“It’s a lot easier to be positive and remain positive when you are on top and when you are winning. The responsibility of running a company feels enormous and while I totally choose it, it can be hard — because you look around and wonder … where are the other cheerleaders?”
Steph talks about moving through fear in creating something new, and relates it to The Corker Collectives latest offering, ‘The Now What’— taking on the challenge of creating a course that allows people to move from feeling stuck to feeling like things are totally possible.
“The law of gravity pulling us down to be mediocre, or to settle, or to not create something new is really real.”
Show Links:
The Now What:https://www.thecorkercollective.com/portfolio_page/3258/
Steph on the ‘gram: https://www.instagram.com/steph_corker/
Akeem Pierre is the founder of Rich Sol Foods, selling ancestral healing products from St Lucia. Akeem found the healing powers of plants after he suffered from a basketball injury as he was meant to be reaching peak performance. Since then, his knowledge of healing products have expanded into a business, a plant-based lifestyle, and a reconnection with his roots in St. Lucia.
Akeem and Steph riff on how his relationship with movement, food, and mindfulness have evolved since his days as an athlete, and how he has become more attuned to his body and his desires. He distills it down to asking yourself the questions:
What are you eating? Is it in-line with how you want to feel? What are you thinking? Is it in-line with how you want to feel? How are you moving your body? Is it in-line with how you want to feel?
Show Links:
A fav podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/million-dollaz-worth-of-game/id1460157002
IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/princedonnell/
Favourite places to eat in Vancouver: https://www.chowatchau.ca http://ramendanbo.com
Akeem on the 'gram: https://akeempierre.com Check out Akeem’s retreats and healing products: https://akeempierre.com
Jeremy Powers, a highly decorated and recently retired cyclocross racer, sits down at the mic with Steph this week to talk life in his first year of retirement from professional sport. They riff on the transition out of professional racing, and how his values and priorities have shifted as he embarks on his new career. Jeremy was powerful in his yes’ and no’s as an athlete, through the lens of optimizing his performance. Listen in to hear how he prioritizes his life now to optimize his life experience.
He reflects on why it felt like the right time to retire, the joy in having passions that aren’t connected to income, and his opinion on the future of women in sport.
Show Links:
A fav podcast: https://www.whoop.com/the-locker/podcast-23-jeremy-powers-cyclocross-national-champion/ https://audioboom.com/channels/5008985 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/king-of-the-ride/e/55365159
How I build this: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i-built-this/e/51949855?autoplay=true
Dinner with DJ AM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_AM
IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/kateplusfate/
Ellen Noble: https://www.instagram.com/ellenlikesbikes/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Powers
Jer on the 'gram: https://www.instagram.com/jpows/
Dr Yvonne McSkimming is the Executive Director of Synergy, a community-based organization that builds partnerships with local Vancouver charities to support cooperative programming and to help sustain community programs. They put on local events that celebrate and showcase West coast artisans while strengthening community.
Synergy is run purely by volunteers dedicated to community capacity building. Yvonne believes that “in order for people to have a sense of empathy, a sense of place, and a sense of belonging, you have to come to the table not with you hand reaching out for something, but your hand extending to give something”.
Yvonne’s deep belief in the power of connection has kept her committed to Synergy and their mission.
“We need to spend time with each other, we need the face-to-face. You need to break bread with people … you need to spend time with people to understand that everyone brings something to the table”
Check out the rad work Synergy is doing: http://www.synergycollective.ca
Desiree is an author, registered dietitian, recipe developer, app developer, and TV host. Her latest book ‘Eat More Plants: Over 100 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes for Vibrant Living’ is a #1 best selling cookbook. The book focuses on plant-based, anti-inflammatory recipes for people who love to eat, and want to do it healthily. Desiree and Steph discuss the (2 year!) process of writing a cookbook, and practices to balance work, life, and family through it all. Desiree is a self-proclaimed introvert, and shares her tips for managing stress and anxiety and how she finds space to recharge.
“My 30s were a grind, and I really feel like I clawed my way to where I am now. I am really looking forward to releasing that in the next decade. I want to find the flow. I don’t want to achieve less, I don’t want to give up on the dreams that I have, but I think there is another way to do it.”
Desiree’s 3 tips to ‘Eat More Plants’: Fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables Eat more beans. Start your day with a smoothie.
Show Links:
Eat More Plants https://desireerd.com/books/eat-more-plants-cookbook/
Unjunk Your Diet (Desiree’s first book) https://desireerd.com/books/un-junk-your-diet-book/
Desiree’s Website: https://desireerd.com
Keep up with Desiree on instagram: @desireenielsenrd https://www.instagram.com/desireenielsenrd/
8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power — by Dr. Andrew Weil https://www.amazon.ca/Weeks-Optimum-Health-Program-Advantage/dp/034549802X
Katie Ruddell is the founder of Kokomo, a local vegan restaurant with locations in Kitsilano, Chinatown, and coming soon to North Vancouver. Katie’s love for food came from her experience healing herself with an anti-inflammatory, plant-based diet. She began to express her creativity in the kitchen and fell in love with food.
“One of my biggest strengths as a leader is knowing what I don’t know, and knowing what I do know. I love what I know — those are the things I love to do. And for the other things — I’m never afraid to ask for help.”
Katie and Steph talk about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, balancing short and long term goals, and how to make summer a state of mind as the rainy season begins in Vancouver.
“Using my energy to create an experience for people will be something I do for the rest of my life”.
Show Notes:
Katie’s morning routine: I am… I will… statements for the day. A warm tonic (check out her instagram for recipes) Exercise
Kokomo: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/heykokomo/ Website: https://www.heykokomo.ca
Katie on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katieruddell/
Matt and Steph Corker, brother-sister duo behind The Corker Collective, are back on the mic together this week. They sit down to discuss “the life hacks and habits of Matt Corker” that allow him to get it all done, whilst avoiding overwhelm and maintaining a healthy body and personal life. They cover how to identify when you have taken on too much, how to manage your life so that you don’t reach that point, and how to streamline your schedule to accomplish your goals. For tips on managing to-do lists, online calendars, travel, nutrition, sweat, and sleep, tune-in to this week’s episode.
“When someone is exhausted they are putting something out into the world that is not their best and there is a cost to that. Just as a car exhaust has a cost to the environment, there is a cost to the exhaust we expel when we are exhausted.”
Show Links:
StandOut — Strengths-based coaching https://www.tmbc.com/coaching/
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity — by: David Allen https://amzn.to/33dsI5t
Fed Meal Club https://fedfedfed.com
Why we Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams — by: Matthew Walker https://amzn.to/2odNBih
The Now What is a 7 day program designed for people who quit their job, lost their job or what a new job. You may be super clear on what you’d like your next job to be or you might not have a clue. You may be really stuck in the thought pattern around “I hate my job, yet I need to pay rent.” - both of those things might be true; we can help. You may have lost your job (for a variety of reasons, because this happens!) and are feeling frustrated, hopeless or even lacking confidence in where to go next; we’ve got you!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/74898939745
Lisa Bentley is a speaker, author, and 11-time IRONMAN champion. She is one of the most decorated Canadian triathletes, and has remained heavily involved in sport since her retirement from professional competition in 2010. Lisa is known for her contagious smile, and describes how she found joy in the hard stuff; “I’m not saying racing was an easy thing. But at the core of it, I loved what I did. I would get to the start-line, or wake up on race-day and say to myself, there is nothing else I would rather be doing”
Lisa and Steph riff on how Lisa has stayed involved in the sport she loves during retirement, and how the lessons she learned as a professional athlete translate into her life today. For as long as she can remember, it was ingrained in Lisa not to quit. She attributes this lesson to much of her success in sport, but also acknowledges that she has had to learn to be kinder to herself, loving herself enough to sometimes let herself off the hook. She hopes to see people love triathlon as much as she does, and hopes that people don’t lose their joy in becoming too regimented. Lisa gave Steph the advice years ago to “Run the mile you’re in”, and both Steph and Lisa find this lesson to hold true in all aspects and stages of life.
Show Links:
https://www.lisabentley.com https://www.instagram.com/lisa_bentley123/
The Now What
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/74898939745
The Now What is a 7 day program designed for people who quit their job, lost their job or what a new job. You may be super clear on what you’d like your next job to be or you might not have a clue. You may be really stuck in the thought pattern around “I hate my job, yet I need to pay rent.” - both of those things might be true; we can help. You may have lost your job (for a variety of reasons, because this happens!) and are feeling frustrated, hopeless or even lacking confidence in where to go next; we’ve got you!
The Course begins October 15th and will wrap on October 21st.
Alicia Woodside is the founder of Teffle Waffles, an accomplished ultra-runner, and a technical writer for a local tech company. She is the epitome of what it means to hustle for your dreams. Her day job funds her entrepreneurial dreams of bringing nutritionally dense and protein rich frozen teff-waffles to grocery stores. When she isn’t writing about tech, or slinging waffles in her industrial kitchen, Alicia is running amongst the trees, preferably fast, and with a teammate by her side.
Her most recent accomplishment is her FKT (fastest known time)of the West Coast Trail, covering 75km or terrain in 11.5 hours. This run, along with her FKT of the Howe Sound Trail are her two proudest athletic accomplishments, because of her speed, but also because they were completed with a friend and teammate by her side. Alicia firmly believes that a teammate makes her runs more fun and meaningful, and also result in her best times.
Alicia credits her career path to asking herself the question; “What would I do for free … what would I commit to doing every weekday for the next ten years that I’d be willing to do without getting paid”.
Look out for Alicia’s Teffles in the Nester’s freezer aisle as she makes the jump from local farmer’s markets to major grocery stores.
Show Links:
Keep up with Alicia’s adventures on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funtimes.woodside/?hl=en
Alicia’s recap of running the West Coast Trail: https://notrunningforgold.com/2019/06/24/running-the-west-coast-trail-tara-and-alicias-2019-female-fkt/
Teffels Waffles: https://www.teffles.com https://www.instagram.com/teffles_waffles/?hl=en
Book Alicia is reading: Alone on the Wall — By Alex Honnald https://www.amazon.ca/Alone-Wall-Alex-Honnold/dp/0393353176
Podcasts she Loves:
How I Built This https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297
Work, Play, Love https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/work-play-love-with-lauren-fleshman-and-jesse-thomas/id1368711150
Alicia’s favourite race: http://www.goldenultra.com
Her favourite trail: https://www.greatcanadiantrails.com/Newfoundland-and-Labrador/East-Coast-Trail?gclid=CjwKCAjw2qHsBRAGEiwAMbPoDOO5m-HXlqnCCIsvtkgJn0IKx3gnmzyXMrw3LmNu6A5ni3jzaPM6MBoCxqIQAvD_BwE
From Patagonia, to co-founding The Honest Company, to Founder and CEO of Prima, Christopher Gavigan has stayed committed to his core values of feminism, environmentalism, and innovation throughout his career.
“Outside of the work I do for the environment, and for health, the third leg of that stool, and probably the most important, is how do I uplift the female and the feminine in today’s world.”
Chris is fiercely passionate about what we put in, on, and around our bodies. The Honest Company was started to provide families with safe products that perform. Chris’ latest business venture, Prima, is an innovative, clean, and sustainable hemp-CBD company. It is a brand that reflects Chris’ evolving knowledge of science and his shifting perspective on what wellness truly is. Prima works to combat the unavoidable stress of living in the modern world with formulas that contain meaningful levels of active ingredients.
“Stress is a social toxicant. Its wreaking havoc on our bodies, and our brains, and our relationships, and we live in a modern day world and culture where we can’t modulate against certain types of stressors”.
Show Links:
Keep up with Chris on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopher_gav/?hl=en
Prima: https://www.instagram.com/prima/?hl=en https://www.prima.co
Honest: https://www.instagram.com/honest/?hl=en https://www.honest.com
Behmann is a leader of community in his life and in his work for Native Shoes. In order to cultivate community, Behmann asks the question: How do we create meaningful and memorable events? Now that we live and socialize through our technology, how do we create real-life connections?
“With what I do personally and professionally, the goal is to create environments and settings that bring people together who might not otherwise meet, but who could end up forming some sort of partnership or relationship”
Steph and Behmann riff on the importance of working for a company whose values align with your own, what it means to show up authentically online, and how we can leverage the digital realm to create and cultivate real-life connection.
Show Links:
Juice Truck Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juicetruck/?hl=en Tight Club Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Tightclub/ Jacki Carr on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackicarr/ Strava App: https://www.strava.com
Shanique Kelly is a DJ and event producer in Vancouver, she runs Intersessions YVR, and throws her own monthly parties in Vancouver. Shanique began her DJ career by attending the first ever Intersessions workshop, a series which aims to bring light to the gender disparity in electronic music. Since this serendipitous beginning, Shanique has gone on to run the Vancouver Intersessions Workshops, and now produces her own parties, ‘Level Up’, a monthly queer rap, hip hop and r&b dance party.
Shanique’s passion is in creating safe spaces for people who are part of marginalized communities, whether they are people of colour or part of the queer community. After DJing for other event producers and club owners, Shanique noticed the trend of tokenism, and was inspired to create her own event with a focus on hiring people of colour and members of the LGBTQ+ community. By curating these events thoughtfully, and purposefully, her parties have become spaces for people who don’t always feel safe or comfortable.
Listen in to hear Matt and Shanique chat about dealing with imposter syndrome, how to avoid tokenism, and the importance of representation.
Show Links:
https://www.instagram.com/softieshan/ https://www.instagram.com/intersessions/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/level_up.yvr/
Nikki Sanchez is a Media Maker, Decolonial Educator, Wild Guide and PhD. Nikki spends her days doing many important and impactful things. She creates documentary and educational media and designs programs to support and foster emerging indigenous filmmakers. She is a wilderness guide and ecological educator — doing land-based work with indigenous and non-indigenous people to help them reconnect themselves to the land and to simultaneously heal themselves and the landscape they live on. Nikki is also currently completing her PhD looking at immersive visual media and indigenous ontology. All of Nikki’s work is interconnected and contributes to her work as a Decolonial Educator.
“It’s not accidental that I have chosen to focus a lot on the educational work I do on decolonization, because I truly believe that the world views and economic systems that were enacted as part of the colonial project of nation building are the root and crux of why we are globally facing potentially catastrophic climate change impacts and completely unsustainable and unviable, not only environmental systems, but economic and social systems as well.”
Tune in to hear Nikki and Steph talk climate change, decolonization, the crisis in Mauna Kea, and how it’s all connected.
Show links:
Nikki on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkilaes/ Nikki’s Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9x1NnCWNY
Mauna Kea Article: http://looselipsmag.com/features/mauna-kea-what-it-is-why-its-happening-and-why-we-should-all-be-paying-attention/ Mauna Kea IG to follow: https://www.instagram.com/puuhuluhulu/
“You are not your job title. You are a multi-faceted human”
Lizzy Karp is a community activist, connector and ‘baby’ DJ. She spends her days as a Senior Manager at TELUS STORY HIVE and is committed to using story telling as a vehicle for human connection.
Matt and Lizzy first connected at ‘Rain City Chronicles’, an event Lizzy cofounded after moving to Vancouver 10 years ago. She had spent alot of time around the music and comedy scenes in Toronto, and had come to realize that she often found people in the audience to be more compelling than the characters on stage. So, in a new city where she knew no one, Lizzy decided to create an experience where everyday people could have the opportunity to share their stories. The goal was to create live story-telling nights that were accessible, inclusive and fun-spirited.
“We are all content creators. So that gives us the opportunity to practice visibility. How can we own our story and tell it for people who are watching us, for the people who are listening to this conversation, for the people who need to hear it. That really excites me. On the other hand, when does it become too much? When are we commodifying our own story?”
Lizzy reflects with Matt about how people are becoming more critical about who is telling what story, and the importance of reflecting on whose voice isn’t getting heard? And who is getting asked to tell the same story over and over again?
Lizzy also helps to produce an annual event called ‘Loaded Bow’ in Palm Springs. ‘Loaded Bow’ is a gathering for self-identified women to come together to learn and to meet one another in a space that is designed for people to truly connect over conversation. It acts as an opportunity for entrepreneurial-spirited women to fill up their soul-points for the rest of the year in an inclusive environment. The program is peer-lead, and removes the conventional hierarchy usually present between speaker and audience, emphasizing the reality that we all have a story to tell and experiences that others can learn from.
Notes + Links:
Connect with Lizzy
@lizzypearl on Instagram Email: lizzy.karp@telus.com Playlists: https://itunes.apple.com/profile/lizzypearl
STORYHIVE — community powered film fund for new storytellers: https://www.storyhive.com/
Intersessions: https://www.facebook.com/Intersessions-990265887708291/?fref=ts Intersessions is workshop series aimed to put the spotlight on gender disparity in electronic Music, and this is where Lizzy learned to be a “baby” DJ!
A couple of mixes Lizzy created with Phil Walmsley: https://www.mixcloud.com/thefawns/
When thinking about too much TED, watch this Thought Leader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A (it’s my Lizzy’s husband, BTW)
Even though Lizzy makes fun of TED, here’s her favourite talk of late - Decolonization for Everyone by Nikki Sanchez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9x1NnCWNY
Watch? Fleabag on Amazon, The Other Two on Comedy Central
Podcast? Hey Cool Life by Mary H.K. Choi: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hey-cool-life/id1448378735 and my partner’s latest “fake true crime” series: This Sounds Serious https://www.thissoundsserious.com/
Books? Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown + an amazing list for your beach reads: http://readthissummer.com/
Inspiring Instagram? My dear pal Nikki (see Tedx Talk above) posts about Indigenous issues and climate change. She’s incredible. @nikkilaes
Song on repeat? Forever loving all Lizzo but my summer song is Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas.
Biggest, juiciest goal? I will launch a podcast incubator for womxn & non-binary folks, so they can create projects important to them (like this one!)
Steph sits down with Sandy Gunn this week, a fellow recruiter and podcast host, to discuss what it means to be a jerk at work, and why we all need to be a little more human in the office. Sandy decided to start a podcast as a way for 3 friends in HR to sit down together and to share their stories and the lessons they had learned with a wider audience. The ultimate goal of the pod is to help others become better workplace humans, and to ask the question “How am I being a jerk at work?”.
Check out Sandy’s pod ‘Don’t be a Jerk at Work’ (hosted w. Tara Kemes and Sarah Markwick) www.dontbeajerkatwork.ca
Q + A w/ Sandy
- Favorite podcast you listen to?
Show Your Work + The Knowledge Project
- Must-read book?
So many must read books! Here are 2 (I'm so indecisive!): Becoming — Michelle Obama + Educated — Tara Westover
- App that you would NOT delete from your phone?
The NY Times Crossword app
- Summer vacation plans!?
Big trip (Japan) has already been checked off the list this year. This summer, we have a weekend away in Kelowna (to celebrate a wedding) and a weekend away on Hornby Island.
- One big 2019 juicy goal that you have left to cross off the list?
Successfully completing my learning experience at Royal Roads (Executive Coaching Program) - I finish on November 29th
“Today is the slowest things are going to be”
On this week’s episode of Uncorked, Steph sits down with the outgoing CEO of Mountain Equipment Co-op, David Lebistour, to look back at what came before his 11 years as CEO, and to look forward to life after MEC. David’s career was not one he could have foreseen, but one common denominator throughout his life has been his openness to change.
“If you are open to life as it comes at you, it gives opportunities to go to places that you would never had dreamed of”
From his early aspirations of becoming a professional surf-sailor, to working as a designer in South Africa, to immigrating to Canada in his 40s and struggling to find work, to eventually finding a career than aligned with his passion at MEC, David has lived a life full of unpredictable change and adventure, and he has no plans to slow down. Since surrendering to the reality that a career as a professional athlete was not in the cards, David has remained committed to continue learning into adulthood. He has taken on a new athletic pursuit every 5 years since moving to Canada, embracing the activities that British Columbia has to offer.
“If I look back on my life, I’ve always striven to be of use, utility, and value, but at the same time, I’ve always maintained a very strong passion in my life. And those two have very seldom been the same thing. My career and my passion have not always aligned, but I’ve always had a very strong passion for the activities that have been part of my life the whole way through … MEC is probably the only time in my life where my passion + my career have lined-up”.
David’s Book Recommendation:
Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
https://www.amazon.ca/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X
“As an athlete you would never just build. You recover. You work hard, and you recovery hard.”
Matt and Steph are back at the mic this week to talk summer vacation and summer goals. TeamCorker is OOO (Out of Office, or Only Operating Outdoors) this week, and the pair reflect on why we decided to commit to one week offline.
There is something beautiful about shutting down. When a weekend doesn’t feel like long enough to recharge, its time to extend the break, and come back feeling fresh. A change in routine and a period of rest can be an opportunity to re-evaluate or recommit to the goals you set in January.
Time off means different things to different people. “Do whatever allows you to feel recharged, to generate new ideas, and to give yourself space both physically and mentally to dream, to meander, to get lost. Because that is so healthy for us as humans, especially in a constantly connected environment.”
June is 6 months into 2019 and it’s a great time to reflect. You have 6 months left for your 1 year goals. “All of those good intentions that look like goals, now need to either be put into action to become goals, or taken off the list. Because a good intention has no space on a goal sheet.” What can you celebrate? What have you have accomplished that gets you closer to your 5 year vision? What goals have you not accomplished yet that are still important to you? What goals can you take off the list that are no longer a priority? “Are the goals left on the goal sheet worthy of the next 6 months? Or do they need to be evaluated?” And if you didn’t achieve a goal in the first 6 months, but it is still important to you, its not time to give up on that goal, but to recommit and decide what you need to double down on. A goal you haven’t accomplished, is only a goal you haven’t accomplished YET.
How do we renovate our relationship with time to have access to the outdoors this summer? What tweaks can you make to maximize the next couple of months of glorious sunshine?
“Life is ultimately how you spend your time. What are you saying ‘yes’ to and what are you saying ‘no’ to?”
This week Steph sits down with Coach and Guide for impact leaders and entrepreneurs, Urszula Lipsztajn. Urszula describes her journey from dissatisfaction in her corporate job, to living a life of purpose as a successful entrepreneur. In 2011, she was in what she thought was her dream job. To a bystander’s eye Urs was thriving, but in reality she had the early stages of an ulcer, her hair was going grey, and her relationship was struggling, all while she was working 70+ hours a week. Urs decided to take a risk, and to make the leap into entrepreneurship. Her first iteration of this was in instructional design and learning program work. She quickly discovered the reality of the financial highs and lows of entrepreneurship, and that doing the work she was doing didn’t fill her up.
Since her time living in a 600 m2 apartment with her partner in East Vancouver, to living in Squamish with an abundant garden, Urs’ business and lifestyle have transformed dramatically, but this growth did not happen overnight. “If I see something that matters to me, I make it happen, no matter how terrified I am, or how empty the bank account is, or how much I can’t sleep. I just see it, and I need to do something about it”. Urs recognized, with the help of a coach, that her gift was in helping people in moments of vulnerability. People would come to her in personal crisis, and she was able to guide them quickly to a breakthrough, and she realized how amazing she felt afterwards. Urszula’s reminds us that “the greatest gift we are can give the world is to be ourselves. Because when we are ourselves we are able to serve the world in the way we are here to serve”.
Urszula’s 3 most important values include:
- Time
- Trust
- Legacy
“If you are able to trust yourself, you are able to spend your time on the things that most matter to you. And ultimately this results in the culmination of your legacy”.
How can you spend you time today, so that you are proud of the legacy you leave?
Q + A w/ Urszula
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Your favourite podcast to listen to? ‘That’s Not How That Works’ ‘Uncorked’!
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Your must-read book? Honouring High Places by Junko Tabei (She’s the first woman to summit Mount Everest!)
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Your go-to inspirational follow on the ’gram? @the_lab_of_meditation
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Song on repeat? Gimme Hope Jo’anna by Freshlyground
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Biggest, juiciest goal you are almost too scared to say out loud... :wink: (but you can do it! we believe in you!) I host my first international retreat in Costa Rica by November 30 2020!!! (I already found a venue!)
Links: IG: @urszulalipsztajn Trust Retreat - Oct 3-6 2019 Take Off Entrepreneur Course Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat - also a must read!
TeamCorker has been working hard behind the scenes for the last few months to put on our largest annual event. We bring together 400 people at Science World here in Vancouver to talk about the future of work and how we can disrupt the status quo. Matt and Steph sat down at the mic to reflect on this years event, to discuss the ways we decided to disrupt how events in the city are usually run, and to highlight some of the truth bombs dropped from the stage by our incredible speakers. We love being the ones to host this conversation, and this event is our way to give back to the HR community and beyond. We choose to open up the speaker applications for Disrupt HR YVR, allowing us to highlight some of the visible and invisible diversities that exist amongst the thought leaders of HR. As a result, our speakers weren’t chosen because of their title, or role, or their relationship to the Corker Collective, it was about selecting an idea that made our hearts beat faster.
This year’s incredible line up included:
- Urszula Lipsztajn | @urszulalipsztajn
- Tru Wilson
- Gavin Dew | @gavindew
- Saleema Chaudhry
- Kelsy Trigg + Darryl Stickel | @kelsytrigg
- Kevin Rutherford | @clean_lantern
- Emma Bradford | @emmagracebradford
- Jodi Rai | @heyhumantis
- Ed Blunderfield | @iamedwardmjb
- Seth Godin! | @sethgodin
Power Panel: Jessica O’Dowd, Cobie Klein Damsel, Paulina Cameron, Colin Pal
This week on the pod, Avni joins Steph to talk all things entrepreneurship. After working in the corporate sphere for 10 years, Avni made the jump from working for Adidas in Shanghai into the fast-paced world of start-ups.
Avni’s first venture gave her a crash course in entrepreneurship, and over those first ten months, the seeds for her next project, ‘Poppy’, we sown. Anvi explains that entrepreneurship is like walking a tight rope between curiosity and discipline. The obsession with the concept of ‘Poppy’ stemmed from the idea that “everyone says it takes a village to raise a child, but none of us have a village anymore. And so, what would it take to leverage technology to be able to build some semblance of a village”.
After 4 years of Poppy, the scalability of the business broke down, and she decided to call it. Anvi reflects that, “sometimes it is the better and right thing to call it. And that doesn’t mean everything is lost … This is what trying looks like. You have a bold vision in your head, and you give it a shot, you give it your all in the most responsible way you can. And sometimes it doesn’t work”. While quitting is often the hardest thing to do, Avni remains obsessed with answering the question: “How do we make the lives of working mothers easier?”, and her heart is beating as she dives into her next entrepreneurial pursuit.
Follow along with Avni on her blog to see what she is up yo next: http://avnipatelthompson.com
“I don’t think that many of us are truly honest about pain. And about the fact that we truly do experience pain, if not daily, weekly… The most useful thing that I can share is normalizing pain, so that we can soften into it. So that when we experience psychological pain, instead of wanting to push it away or wanting to attack it with strategies, we can soften into it and create space and capacity for it".
Hiro is a registered clinical counsellor, a certified expert in the use of neurofeedback and biofeedback, a positive physiology master, and a brain enthusiast. This week she sits down with Steph to talk about pain, Mondays, what gummy bears mean to her, and why we all need to meditate and slow down. Hiro uses the word lab because she believes in the power of curiosity. She explains that to be curious, we need to slow down and say no — “In slowing down I will get there faster”. Hiro has discovered that it is not the meditation itself that brings advantages, but the curiosity that we cultivate through meditation that brings about the benefits, the decreased stress, the improved sleep, and the increased levels of psychological wellbeing. And Hiro is now truly interested in discovering how those benefits for the self can be used to impact community as a tool for social justice; using mediation to become less preoccupied with the self and more interested in helping others.
“The more I surrender and soften within pain, the more I create capacity to be resilient and ultimately to be joyful and compassionate. So it is a message of life, of flow, of flourishing”.
Resources:
Follow Hiro on Instagram: @inthelabwithhiro
Check out Hiro’s Brain Lab and Meditation Training: www.vancouverbrainlab.com www.thelabofmeditation.com
Join us at Disrupt HR YVR! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupthr-yvr-2019-tickets-54379646988
“My vision for the future is that we need more and better leaders”
Jacqueline Jennings joins Steph on the pod this week. Jacqueline is coach to conscious leaders, business consultant, a group facilitator and a facilitator of decolonization practices. Steph riffs with Jacqueline about her ‘Soulful Entrepreneur: Ranch Retreat', how they came to be, and how they fit within he along-term vision. Jacqueline’s ultimate mission is to support people in remembering that we are not separate from each other, from nature, or from the source, and her retreats are an extension of this goal.
“It’s hard to let go of limiting beliefs because they serve us, and there of lots of reasons why they show up. But there is a simplicity to letting them go, and then seeing what is possible when we are coming from a place of wholeness. It’s mind-blowing”.
Listen to the full episode to hear why Jacqueline thinks we are all leaders, how she is raising a little human to be conscious in today’s world, and why she made the shift in her career from a successful Executive Assistant to her current role working with soulful entrepreneurs and businesses.
Q + A w/ Jacqueline
Your favorite podcast to listen to? That's Not How That Works Podcast
Your must-read book? Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
Your go-to inspirational follow on the 'gram? @seedingsovereignty
Song on repeat? I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) - The Weeknd
Biggest, juiciest goal you are almost too scared to say out loud... ;) (but you can do it! we believe in you!) We have Lululemon and MEC as Decolonizing Practices clients for year long engagements by October 2019 (Eeeeeeeeeee!)
Resources:
Follow Jacqueline on instagram: @jacqueline.d.jennings
Soulful Entrepreneur: Ranch Retreat: http://www.jacquelinejennings.com/se-retreat-ranch
Decolonizing Practices: https://decolonizingpractices.org/
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown https://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Activism-Politics-Emergent-Strategy/dp/1849353263
Join us at Disrupt HR YVR! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupthr-yvr-2019-tickets-54379646988
Matt + Steph take the mic this week to riff on the idea of change. When is change hard and when is it easy? Why do we resist change? When is it time to make a change and to disrupt the status quo?
Change is easy when it moves us closer to our goals. When something we thought was impossible becomes possible. The work in change management, is to paint a picture of the future that is worth living into. Change doesn’t need to be hard or easy, but rather an unshackling of what has been.
Matt explains why the idea that we need to have it all figured out before we take the leap, results in stagnation and inaction. And for this reason, the time to act is always now. The time is now, because the perfect time doesn’t exist. We never know what the result of change will be, or where our decision will take us, but the unknown shouldn’t result in paralysis, because these disorienting dilemmas are key to true transformation.
Resources:
Snag your seat for DisruptHR YVR on June 6th! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disrupthr-yvr-2019-tickets-54379646988
Seth’s Alt-MBA: https://altmba.com
Manager Start Line: https://thecorkercompany.com/manager-training/
Erin is a wellness coach and podcast host of ‘Raw Beauty Talks’. Raw Beauty Co. began as a project to photograph women without make-up, photoshop, or filters. Providing a platform for women to show up as they are, and to talk about what happens behind the scenes and below the surface. ‘Raw Beauty Talks’ today is an ongoing conversation about beauty, confidence and self-love. Erin acknowledges that, for her, and for the women she is in conversation with, this is an ever changing and evolving journey.
“Over the years I have come to understand that I can create space between the thoughts in my head, and now I can observe them, and that alone can reduce my reaction to them. It can allow me space and time to shift the narrative in my head into something that is more empowering. And I am at a totally different place now with my body, where I can view it as a tool that allows me to experience life”.
Self-love isn’t just an emotion we feel — it takes work, attention, and nurturing. “I like to think of self-love as a verb or an action we take towards ourselves rather than just an emotion we are waiting to feel ... If we look at it as a verb or an action it becomes something we have control over”.
Ultimately, Erin wants us to become empowered around our health and well-being, to know what works for us and what doesn’t, without additional stress or obsession about whether we are doing it “right”.
Keep up with Erin:
http://www.rawbeauty.co
@rawbeautytalks
Check out Erin’s favourite people and brands for health and body positive inspiration:
Angi Fletcher: @angigreene
Sarah Nicole Landry: @thebirdspapaya
Well + Good: @iamwellandgood wellandgood.com 
Bradly Hall, owner of ‘Savary Island Pie Company’, chats with Steph this week and shares the courageous story of how his Mom, Eileen, founded a baking business out of necessity over 30 years ago. The ‘Savary Island Pie Company’ started from humble of beginnings, but allowed Eileen to survive as a single mother, and to emerge from poverty as a female business owner.
The company continues to thrive in it’s second brick and mortar location on Marine Drive, just across the street from its original store front beside ‘Bean Around the World’, where Eileen enjoyed an strong cup of coffee with her slice of pie. Although Eileen has given the reigns of the business over to family, her legacy remains, and her perfectly flawed (and controversial) reheating instruction remain on the pie boxes today.
Keep an eye out for the Savary Island Pie Company’s second location opening in Tofino this summer.
Visit them in North Van, in Tofino this summer, order online, or find them in your local grocery store!!
http://savaryislandpiecompany.com
“If you’re going to write something, leave blood on the page. If you’re going to share a story from the stage, let it show your humanity” — James Altucher
Matt + Steph are back together this week on the pod for a life-update and to discuss the power of vulnerability, and the importance baring our humanity when you take the stage (or the mic). They take the time to recap the stages and start lines from the last few months. From the Re/Form Conference in Squamish, to W North in Whistler, to their experience together at the Boston Marathon, with Steph at the start line, and matt on the cheer line. The episode didn’t feel complete without sharing the sticky stuff, the messy bits amongst the highs. Matt opens up about his ongoing journey to starting a family with his husband Chad. The lessons learned around managing expectations, the surrogacy process, and what it feels like to be a gay couple navigating outdated medical forms and language. Steph shares about her health struggles, and how it has been affecting her training and racing. She describes her upcoming surgery, her fear around the unknown, and the challenge in changing her mindset around training, to focus on rest and recovery.
Listen to get to know a little more about the duo behind The Corker Collective — as they leave some blood on the stage.
Resources:
James Altucher's 10 Rules About Blogging: https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/10-rules-about-blogging/
Cicely is a diversity and inclusion consultant and activist in Vancouver. Steph and Cicely riff on how we can cultivate more inclusive workplaces, how people in leadership positions can become more diverse, and how the hiring process can change to make this a reality.
“I like to take people on a journey through D+I. Its not as simple as a one hour work-shop here and there. Its not a box-checking situation, which I think diversity and inclusion can become if its not done thoroughly or genuinely.”
Cicely explains that the definition of diversity and inclusion is changing from tolerance in the workplace to the celebration of individuality, where we genuinely want diverse humans at the table. Evidence and research shows that diversity is beneficial to a business’ scalability, longevity, and profitability. She challenges us to have the hard, vulnerable conversations in which we acknowledge that we don’t live in an inclusive world, and that unconscious bias exists and that it often prohibits a diverse workplace. Because, ultimately, these conversation are beneficial for not only humans, but for bottom-lines.
“5% of CEOs in Canada are female. Even less are women of colour”
D+I can be overwhelming and it can be hard to know where to start. Cicely suggests making a distinct effort to make meaningful connections with people who are different from ourselves. Because if we keep surrounding ourselves with the same type of people, we will never understand anyone else’s experience.
“One small thing everyone can do is to be more compassionate with other peoples’ experience”
Check out Cicely’s important work: https://www.cicelyblainconsulting.com
Follow her inspiring content on instagram: @cicelyblainconsulting
Take a look at the apology MEC CEO wrote about their failure to show diversity in their campaigns: https://www.mec.ca/en/article/outside-is-for-everyone
The National Geographic recently acknowledged their racist past: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/from-the-editor-race-racism-history/
“I think I’m still struggling with a loss of identity around athletics … It was very much results driven, now-a-days there isn’t as much of that … When you are racing it’s easier to quantify your results and you can base your success on where you place, or your time, or how your workout went. In regular life there is not as much opportunity to quantify your success. So it’s a combination of a loss of identity and not being able to track success — the success for me now is being able to pursue a growing business that I love”
As a ‘gravel junky’, doting father, wife to a high performing athlete and passionate entrepreneur, Trav is learning to embrace the power of ‘and’. Steph and Trav discuss his change in personal identity from ironman to entrepreneur, the importance of taking time to dedicate to being a dad, and the power in supporting his wife in her own athletic pursuits.
Trav is founder of InnerVoice, a platform to share the unique, interesting and inspiring stories from the world of endurance sports, and a trusted source for athletes to openly share the struggles, the joys and their journey. Trav is driven by the desire to show the human side of high level athletics. His focus has shifted from performing as an athlete to developing as a creator AND a doer, with the goal of becoming an “executer”, a professional at creating and doing. For Trav, in the time of instant gratification, a proffesional executer is someone who is thoughtful about what, when and why they show up.
Keep up with Trav: https://www.instagram.com/travmckenzie/?hl=en
Check out InnerVoice for inspiration and motivation: https://www.instagram.com/innervoice.life/?hl=en https://anchor.fm/innervoiceaudioexperience
SBT GRV race: https://sbtgrvl.com
“The political is personal. The personal is practical. The practical is related to embodied daily life”
Dages and Matt sit down to discuss her evolving role as a yoga teacher, author and radical feminist. New York is where Dages found Katonah Yoga and her teacher Nevine Michaan, but she has taken what she learned across the pond to her new home in Paris, France and continues to plant seeds across Europe with her teacher trainings and intensives.
For Dages, Katonah Yoga is an open source methodology that can be applied to any yoga practice and to life, a “Philosophical Milieu” of embodiment. Matt and Dages explore the importance of “learning to play your own instrument”, of recognizing and working with our “first and second natures”, so that we can play well with others. Yoga means union, or to yoke, and by knowing our own habits, tendencies, perspectives and biases, we are able to join the orchestra. “We have to listen to each other, we have to see each other, we have to touch eachother — otherwise there is no opportunity for the symphony to come together”.
Keep up with what Dages is doing/where she is teaching: https://www.dagesjuvelierkeates.com Instagram: @dagesjuvelierkeates
Pick up her first book: Radical Acts of Embodiment: https://www.katonahyoga.com/shop/radical-acts-of-embodiment-by-dages-juvelier-keates
Dage’s Teacher, Nevine Michaan: https://www.katonahyoga.com/nevine-michaan
Learn more about Katonah: https://www.katonahyoga.com
“You just mentally have to make that commitment. Everyone’s busy, from a work ad a life perspective, but you just have to commit. And if it means getting up at 5:30 and getting on the trainer, or getting to the pool, you can find the time”.
This week Steph sits down Chris Guillemet, CEO + Founder at Velofix. After taking a break from racing Triathlons to start a wildly success mobile bike shop company + to focus on his young family, Chris is courageously stepping back up to the start line. Chris and Steph talk comebacks, balancing work, life, and training, and finding gratitude in it all.
Resources: https://www.velofix.com https://www.challengedathletes.org
Follow Chris: Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-guillemet-b9a77aa/?originalSubdomain=ca Instagram: @chris.guillemet
Naitik began his entrepreneurial journey in 6th grade when aunt taught him how to use a graphic design program. At age 13 he was hired by a start up to do their design work, and from there he built up a roster of freelance clients. By the time he was in high-school, Naitik started his own design studio with his brother, working with clients around the world. Naitik then travelled from India to Vancouver to study at Emily Carr, without knowing much about Canada or what he was getting himself into.
During his first internship at Microsoft, Naitik has the opportunity to work with a visually impaired engineer named Kartik, who was denied from India’s top tech university due to his disability. He went on to receive a full scholarship from Stanford University to study Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning, and is now a full-time engineer at Microsoft. Together Kartik and Naitik began to discuss the need for support for disabled people in the tech industry, and so they decided to start ’Next Billion’ to fill the gap. ‘Next Billion’ has grown from a side project to a full-blown entrepreneurial endevor to connect people with disabilities who work in engineering, product design, data science, and product management to mentors in the industry and employers willing to hire inclusively.
Naitik’s ultimate goal is to eradicate the need for ‘Next Billion’, and that disabilities no longer carry stigma in the hiring process.
“There are 1.3 billion people in the world who have a disability, and in the US and Canada this population makes up 15 % of the workforce. They are at least 2.6 times as likely to be unemployed due to the stigma and the barriers that they face. However, there are so many advantages to hiring people with disabilities. They have an 85% higher job retention rate, because they value employers who are willing to hire them, and they are proven to be equally, or even more productive compared to employees without disabilities…There is this huge population that is skilled, and is not being given equal access to opportunities”
Sign up for AWOL: A Weekend of Leisure https://www.movement108.com/goawol
Resources:
Spring Accelerator Program https://spring.is
Next Billion https://www.nextbillion.org
Where Naitik loves to eat:
Honey Doughnuts https://www.honeydoughnuts.com
Bandidas Taqueria https://www.bandidastaqueria.com
Sala Thai http://www.salathai.ca
Nuba https://www.nuba.ca
Dave became interested in food and nutrition from a young age, as his athletic career took off in high school and he started to look for ways to optimize his performance and recovery. Dave began his career as an elite cyclist, racing in Vancouver while studying food science and nutrition at UBC. He went on to race in Europe, where he was inspired by their simple, no-nonsense attitude towards food and nutrition to create the ‘Prima Bar’, a whole-food solution for athletic fuel.
Dave’s cycling career came to a close, but he brought with him his passion for whole foods, and love of simple European cuisine, to create two businesses focused on authentic and delicious pizzas. He is co-owner of Il Castello Pizzeria, which serves arguably the best pizza in North Vancouver, and Holy Napoli, which brings Neapolitan Pizza to your local supermarket freezer aisle.
Tune in to hear Dave and Steph talk all things nutrition, food fads, entrepreneurship and time-management.
Resources:
Holy Napoli Pizza: http://holynapoli.com
Il Castello Pizzeria: https://www.ilcastellopizzeria.com
“The most disruptive thing you can do in the world today is be yourself” —Urszula Lipsztajn
Rachel is someone who unapologetically shows up herself. She is a strong woman who doesn’t necessarily feel feminine; a talented musician and creative human, and a “genetics nerd” with two graduate degrees, and as an advocate working in the sexual health space. She has also been racing triathlon professionally for over a decade. Spoiler: this podcast is not about race results and training tribulations. It is a conversation about the opinions on gender, on sport and being your most authentic self from one of triathlon's most interesting women in the world!
Keep up with Rachel:
https://www.rachelmcbride.com// https://www.instagram.com/rachelmcb/
Information on a low FODMAP diet if you want to run fast too:
http://cart.gesa.org.au/membes/files/Consumer%20Information/Low%20FODMAP%20Diet.pdf
triathlon #ironwoman #professionalathlete #genderroles #podcast #beyourself #disrupt
Matt takes on the role of host this week and chats with his good friend Anton while at The Sacred Fig Yoga Teacher Training in Bali. Anton is owner of The Sacred Fig — hosting yoga teacher trainings and beautifully curated retreats world-wide, and next month he is opening the doors to Cocoon, his first retreat centre, located on the coast of Portugal.
Anton gives insight into his process from attending his first training in India where he realized his life’s purpose, to developing the Sacred Fig, to working through doubt and purchasing the perfect property in Portugal, to finding a partner who embraces and compliments his non-conforming and unconventional way of being.
Tune in to listen in on the friends chat about the power of articulating our goals, the scary, mucky work of self development, staying in the practice, and the joy of facilitating the growth and transformation of others.
The Sacred Fig: https://www.thesacredfig.com
Cocoon: https://www.cocoonportugal.com
Upcoming Sacred Fig Trainings:
Portugal 75hr: August 31 — September 7, 2019 Portugal 200hr: April 26 — May 20, 2019 Pantelleria 75hr: June 9 — 16, 2019 Bali 200hr: February 1 — 24, 2020
Upcoming Sacred Fig Retreats:
Portugal: September 28 — October 5, 2019
“My M.O. in life right now, is being fully present and fully engaged and doing everything with my whole heart and all of my energy, until I’m not doing that particular thing anymore, and then I move on”.
Ashley is the Chief People Officer at Freshii, a Canadian food empire now in 18 countries, with a mission to make healthy food affordable and convenient. Ashley has a Masters in Counselling Psychology, and uses her knowledge and understanding of people to inspire individuals and organizations to think differently about culture, human resources, leadership and people development.
Ash dives into the role of mindfulness in harnessing her energy and allowing her to remain present and effective as a single mom with a thriving career as an female executive. She shares her balanced approach to life and food, her love of bread(often paired with avocado), and how she satisfies her drive to learn while doing it all.
Ash’s Favourite Books:
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility — Patty McCord https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1939714095/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_39mxCb9VN6E7V
- Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself — Michael A. Singer https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1572245379/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_K.mxCbEB1MSTN
- Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1408856778/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_3bnxCbEWBWFRJ
- Tools of Titans : The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers — Timothy Ferriss Ferriss https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1328683788/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_EcnxCbWTD0XX0
Ash’s Favourite Podcasts:
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Is Valentine’s day worth celebrating, or is it truly just a Hallmark holiday? Regardless of the time of year, how do you fill your own cup, without relying on a partner? Matt and Steph chat this week about cultivating connection with yourself and with your partner with intention and without succumbing to expectations or socialized pressures.
Resources:
Feelosophy Yoga: https://thefeelosophy.com
What’s your love language? https://www.5lovelanguages.com
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters — Priya Parker https://www.amazon.ca/dp/024197383X/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_0UIwCbPPSGJ1Y
Irie Smith is a rad 17-year old student in Whistler BC, who took on a 1-year zero waste challenge for her 12th grade project. Irie is committed to reducing her waste to the confines of a 500ml mason jar for the full 12 months.
Irie and Steph discuss the challenges of going zero waste, strategies to reduce your waste, and how her commitment has changed the way she eats and shops.
Resources:
Nada Grocery — https://www.nadagrocery.com
The Soap Dispensary — https://thesoapdispensary.com
Mason Jars — https://www.amazon.ca/Bernardin-Regular-Mouth-500ml-Jars-Box/dp/B00593JWSO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1548716377&sr=8-3&keywords=500+ml+jars
Travel Utensils — https://www.tentree.ca/collections/hydration/products/mizu-cutlery-set?HI-RISE
Beginners guide to Zero Waste — http://trashisfortossers.com/a-beginners-guide-to-zero-waste-living-ps-it-doesnt-happen-overnight/
Caro Burckle is a 2008 Olympian, a curious creator, and co-founder of Rise Athletes — a platform for Olympians to mentor and empower the next generation of youth athletes. Rise focuses on offering an avenue for Olympians to remain purposeful after the games, while providing youth athletes with the tools they need to succeed in sports and beyond, while maintaining a positive mindset and overall mental wellbeing.
Steph talks with Caro about her own battle with mental health after retirement, and how she has regained a sense of purpose and identity through her work, and through her desire to create imperfectly.
“I remember knowing that I wanted to be more, and knowing that I was down to struggle, but I didn’t know what that looked like. But I knew that I had to sign up and subscribe to it, because that was the only way that I could take myself to where I wanted to go”.
Follow Caro’s adventures on insta: @caroburckle
And keep up with Rise Athletes: On Insta: @riseathletes On the web: www.rise-athletes.com
Join Matt and Steph on this week’s episode as they discuss quitting. When is quitting hard, and when is it necessary? When things get hard, will you stick with it or will you quit? Why is it so difficult to quit old habits?
“Creating new habits for ourselves tends to be easier than giving up old habits”
People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers. Facilitated Manager Start Line helps your people managers manage themselves, manage their teams, and drive organizational results.🥇
Join Matt as he takes you through the online program. Enjoy the flexibility of online training, with the added accountability of a coach. ✨✨ Tomorrow (Wednesday January 23rd) is the last day to register to join the winter 2019 Cohort!
Sign up at the link —> https://bit.ly/2MibLj4
Join Matt and quit single-use cups in 2019! Check out his favourite travel mug: https://kintostore.ca/collections/travel-tumbler/product-type_tumbler
“There are a lot of people working in this model looking for companies that are not just hiring them as straight up contractors, as cogs in a wheel — they are looking for something more than that”
Steve Rio is founder and CEO of Briteweb, a social impact agency delivering strategy, branding and digital, and more recently the CEO and founder of Nature of Work, helping people achieve more productivity, creativity and wellness in their lives.
Steve lives a unique life for a tech entrepreneur, splitting his time between his small hobby farm on Bowen Island and his apartment in the heart of Brooklyn. He spends his spare time engineering and building out his property, working on his orchard, hunting, taking long walks in the woods and jumping in the ocean whenever possible.
Tune in to hear Steve and Steph riff on how to find balance and wellness as an entrepreneur, while simultaneously optimizing productivity and impact with a distributed workforce.
Follow Steve on Instagram and Twitter @SteveRio
Check out Nature of Work:
www.natureofwork.co
@natureofwork.co on instagram
“The most important part is that you are sharing in the struggle, and you are able to help someone out of their bad day and into a better spot, into a better light”
While Max Lattimer is a 2015 Pan Am gold medalist and 2016 Olympian, younger brother Aaron is incredible in his own right, and currently holds the 10,000 m erg world record.
On this week’s podcast, these remarkable brothers reflect on what it’s like to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics together, with an insatiable drive and love of the sport, but with no guarantees.
Follow Max + Aaron on Instagram, and stay up to date on their journey to 2020
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Max on IG: https://www.instagram.com/maxwelllattimer/
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Aaron on IG: https://www.instagram.com/alatts_quick/
How do remarkable leaders structure their lives to generate remarkable results?
“Management and leadership are really different things. Leadership is what we call it when we do something that may not work, and when we are not worried about compliance, but we are worried about change instead. And so I have tried very hard to organize my life where I can’t spend much time managing, because if you can spend your day managing your email and telling people what to do, it is safer than leading”
This week on Uncorked, Seth and Steph rif on how food choices, movement and reinventing the team meeting can make you a more remarkable leader in 2019.
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Resources:
- Seth’s Kitchen Essentials:
- The Dosa — https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017153-classic-masala-dosa
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A good Knife — https://seths.blog/2018/11/an-inconvenient-shopping-list/ 3/ An outdoor pizza oven, or baking steel to use in your regular oven for better at-home pizza — https://shop.bakingsteel.com
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Seth’s Latest book : http://a.co/d/cjVROYr
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Check out Linchpin Jobs, where Seth has collaborated with TeamCorker on their first few Job Posts — https://linchpinjobs.com
This week on Uncorked, Laura Siddall gives us a sneak peak into the life of a full-time Ironman athlete. She has created a lifestyle that is less than ordinary in order to chase her dreams (which includes Soda Streams across several continents). As we wrap up 2018 and look forward to the New Year, it feels so inspiring to hear Laura's honest take on what life on the road, while training like a champion, is really like.
May you never feel stuck — in a rut, in a goal, or in a zip code
May you always make your house feel like a home.
And most of all, as Laura says best, "May you never die wondering".
Follow Laura along on her adventures on Instagram : @lmsid
Some of our favourite posts for you to check out:
- what Laura looks like at the airport: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqF_B1rBotv/
- Laura in her home in NZ: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqeaXzmDAFX/
- Laura living the Spanish dream: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnwfjuTFVxa/
Don’t wait until 2019 to start manifesting your best, most conscious, thriving self.
This week on #Uncorked, Matt + Steph break down the behaviours, actions and habits that one can cultivate to #finishstrong, and to enter the new year feeling refreshed, prepared and excited to tackle those juicy 2019 goals.
Matt + Steph’s tips to stay on top of your game this Holiday Season:
- Stick to your movement routine, stay consistent, and take advantage of any extra opportunities to get up and move.
- Travel with your running shoes + fit in what you can. Be kind and forgive yourself if your training sessions aren’t what you are used to.
- Make nourishing food a priority. When you are not at holiday parties or social gatherings, be extra mindful of what you put on your plate.
- Clean up your space before travelling — come home to a clean home + office.
- Stock your pantry with healthy staples + order fresh groceries to be delivered for when you return home.
- Cut back on animal products and be mindful of consumption in all areas.
- Focus on conscious gift giving, avoid trinkets, and prioritize experiences over things.
- Send a sweet note in the post and let someone know you care.
- Donate to your local homeless shelter as temperatures plummet.
- Reduce waste and avoid single-use plastic. Don’t make it the season of excuses, plastic cutlery, and paper plates.
- And if you only do one thing, stay present.
Resources:
Help the Homeless this Winter: http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/how-to-help-homeless-winter-vancouver-2016
Eat more plants, change the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwoL6hWd4l0
Keep your gatherings more sustainable: https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/planning-a-sustainable-holiday-party
A healthy bar to keep you fuelled through the festivities: https://www.mynewroots.org/site/2018/03/cacao-hemp-crispy-treats/
MOVR — rad new personal training app available at the end of December — stay active when the studios close: http://www.moveasyouare.com
“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so” — William Shakespeare
Brené Brown says; “stay in your lane. Comparison kills joy and creativity”, but this week on #Uncorked, twins, Liam and Angus Todd challenge this notion, and describe how a life of comparison has allowed them to challenge their perceived limitations and to ultimately become better versions of themselves. The duo recognize the inevitability of comparison, and choose to use it as a means of improvement, while remaining humble and recognizing their place as one (or two) in 7.5 billion.
** For sensitive ears — some f-bombs are dropped alongside #truthbombs throughout this episode
Resources:
Grit — by Angela Duckworth
The Gifts of Imperfection — by Brene Brown
This or That | Quick-fire Questions with the Todd brothers! Angus // Dog or Cat? Dog Netflix or YouTube? YouTube Phone Call or Text? Call While walking: Music or Podcasts? Podcast (Audio book) Form or Function? Function Pop or Indie? Pop Big Party or Small Gathering? Small Gathering Work Hard or Play Hard? Work Hard What’s worse: Laundry or Dishes? Laundry Bath or Shower? Shower Sneakers or Sandals? Sandals Receive: Email or Letter? Email (see question 5) Passenger or Driver? Driver Most important in a partner: Intelligent or Funny? Intelligent Car or Truck? Truck Money or Free Time? Free Time Coke or Red Bull? Red Bull Coffee Cup or Thermos? Coffee Cup Train or Plane? Plane Iced Coffee or Hot Coffee? Hot Meat or Vegetables? Meat
Liam // Dog or Cat? Dog Netflix or YouTube? Youtube Phone Call or Text? Call While walking: Music or Podcasts? Podcasts Form or Function? Function Pop or Indie? Pop Big Party or Small Gathering? Small Work Hard or Play Hard? Hard Work What’s worse: Laundry or Dishes? Laundry? Bath or Shower? Shower Sneakers or Sandals? Sneakers Receive: Email or Letter? Letter Passenger or Driver? Driver Most important in a partner: Intelligent or Funny? Intelligent Car or Truck? Truck (duh) Money or Free Time? Free Time Coke or Red Bull? Red Bull Coffee Cup or Thermos? Cup Train or Plane? Plane Iced Coffee or Hot Coffee? hot Meat or Vegetables? Meat
"What do you want in your life, and what do you want to create with your life?"
Team Corker is no stranger to intentionally looking back and planning ahead. In this episode of Uncorked, Matt and Steph share the questions they ask themselves as the year comes to a close — giving tips on how they reflect to keep improving and growing, and what they do in order to plan for the future of The Corker Co.
Re(Treat) Questions:
- Where did I thrive?
- Where did I struggle?
- Who was important in my life + why?
- What lesson am I grateful for learning this year?
- Where and how was I courageous?
- What brought me joy?
- How did I treat my body? my spirit? my heart? my mind?
- How did I show up for the people I care about?
- Which situations triggered fear + discomfort? Was I able to move through them? How or why not?
- What habits served me well? Which didn't?
"I believe if you pressure people to do what they don't want to do, if you make them feel guilty and tell them that they should do things, then they don't do them, and they actually do the opposite. If you respect their decisions and give them time to settle with what you have requested, or asked, or what you have put on the table, they often become more open and can make the choice for themselves"
For Cynthia Vuchev, it took one yoga class, one early morning run, and one documentary to change her life. On the mic with Steph today, she shares the biggest transformation she’s experienced, how she wants to make a difference, and how giving people (like her husband) choice, gives them the space to do things they never thought possible.
"If you fail at a goal, and you are still passionate about it, that means the goal hasn't changed, you just have to reset your priorities and figure out how you can get there at a different speed"
He’d set a 10-year goal to own a company focused on workplace attire. Now, 17 years later, George Tsogas is the CEO of Kit and Ace. It may have taken a little longer than expected, but when priorities shift and timing changes, that doesn’t mean that working towards your vision stops. Tune in to hear George share about his leadership journey from lululemon to Kit and Ace and how having fun is at the core of it all.
It may be dark and stormy with the seasonal changes, but that doesn’t mean your mood needs to be darker! In this episode of Uncorked, Matt and Steph are sharing their top tips for how they deal with the weather affecting their moods. Here’s a snippet: distinguish what your body needs vs what it’s craving, manage your energy vs your time, and discover how to do your regular day-to-day activities differently. Tune in to hear more!
"If you aren't nervous, it's not worth doing." - Jayme Smithers
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves! On the mic today with Steph, we have Jayme Smithers – The VP of Revenue at Thoughtexchange, a previous competitive skier, and a proud dad and husband. He lives his life by constantly taking on new exciting challenges, one of the most recent ones being moving to Fernie, BC, a small town with a population of 5,000. Tune in to hear about the career leaps he’s taken, the type of father he’s becoming, and his life mantra.
Resources: Find Jayme on linkedin → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayme-smithers/
Learn more about Thoughtexchange → https://www.thoughtexchange.com/
What makes Fernie, BC awesome → https://www.bcliving.ca/6-Reasons-to-Visit-Fernie
On today’s episode of #Uncorked, Matt + Steph are riffing about our favourite ‘F’ word - feedback. Tune in to hear Matt share a story about owning your feedback to avoid generalizing and, instead, being committed to leaving someone inspired to put feedback into action. Whether you’re giving it, receiving it, or afraid of both, this episode’s for you to get over the fears you have associated with feedback.
Resources: Check out the Sacred Fig yoga teacher training → https://www.thesacredfig.com/
Read How Not to Die → https://www.amazon.ca/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115
To learn how to give + receive better feedback, sign up for our Manager Start Line Training Program → https://thecorkercompany.com/manager-start-line/
That's My Jam Volume 4 → Details to come!
Contact Matt directly at matt@thecorkercompany.com to jam more about feedback.
On today’s episode of Uncorked, we have Dr Carla Cupido on the mic with Steph! Tune in to hear about her work with One Girl Can, her work with the Gutsy Girls Adventure Film Tour that celebrates the power of the female mind and body, how it feels to be a woman in the world raising two vibrant daughters in 2018, and how being selfish can lead to selfless contributions to our community.
Resource: Learn about Gutsy Girl Adventure Film Tour here (and get your tickets!) → https://www.nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre/whats-on/gutsy-girls-adventure-film-tour
Here’s where you can learn more about One Girl Can → https://onegirlcan.com/
Here are some awesome women who will be the panelists during the film tour: Darcy → http://darcyturenne.com Jen → https://www.jensegger.com Laura → https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauraappleton/?originalSubdomain=ca
To learn more about Carla, check out her site! → https://www.carlacupido.com/about
From the 604 to the 416, we have the powerhouse that is Emily Key on the mic with Steph today! After 10 years in Vancouver, she’s packed her bags with her kids and husband to move to Toronto to start her new gig as a Strategy & Operations Lead at Shopify. Tune in to listen to her views and experiences on being a woman leader in tech (PS. did you know that VCs are investing $1.5 billion into female-founded startups and $60 billion into male-led startups?!), her two most important nuggets on being unapologetically yourself when having a seat at the table, and the tricks that work for her when balancing work and family.
It’s easy to show gratitude for the good things in life, and things aren’t always good!
What about the times we’re challenged, struggling, and failing?
On this episode of #Uncorked, tune in to hear Matt and Steph dive into finding gratitude when Ironmans don’t go the way we planned, when you can’t change what happens yet can change your attitude, and how we find the joy in the tough times life throws at us.
Resources: Sign up for the Kickstarter for Bryan Pudney’s new book, Avocado Toast and Friends → https://avocadotoastandfriends.com/
Thanksgiving food suggestions from Erin Ireland → http://itstodiefor.ca/search/thanksgiving
Getting Uncorked today is Jessie Nelson, Founder of KITH+Common, providing inclusion consulting to businesses to bring inclusive practices to life. Steph has dubbed them the Vancouver Mayor of Connection and they’re on the mic sharing their experiences of a misaligned ad campaign with the real life experience at Equinox, working at lululemon and starting a conversation about the difference between gender identity and gender expression, and their work impacting businesses in the world of diversity and inclusion.
PS. They’re heading to the 6 to hold a diversity and inclusion workshop on Oct 3! Drake, if you’re listening, you’re invited.
Resources: Check out Jessie’s business and work being an Inclusion Consultant through KITH+Common: https://www.kithandcommon.ca/
Here’s their workshop in Toronto, Diversity + Inclusion: Tools for a More Inclusive Workplace: http://bit.ly/tools-for-a-more-inclusive-workplace
Follow KITH+Common on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kithandcommon/
Here are 3 things we love about Chip: 1. He always ends a conversation with the words, “love and kisses”. 2. He competed in Ironman Hawaii in 1981! 3. He views goals as not being a prison, but something that gives us fun and freedom in our lives. Tune in to hear Chip on the mic with Steph to share his views on how an exponentially changing world may cause goals to change while keeping his values and vision constant. Chip tip: Instead of setting goals from an experience in the past or from mediocrity, set goals from a place of amnesia where you’re making goals from a fresh start.
Just like a great race review, here’s Sim’s work review with #TeamCorker! She’s leaving us at the end of the month and we got her on the mic with Steph to share her highlights, lowlights, and everything she’s learned during her year with us. And now...we’re hiring a full-time Content and Community Manager! Tune in to hear Sim share about what it takes to thrive at #TeamCorker.
Resources: Sim speaking at Disrupt - http://bit.ly/disrupt-talk-sim TeamCorker’s looking for a Content + Community Manager! - http://bit.ly/team-corker-content-community-manager
Here are 3 things you need to know about Fab Dolan: 1. He has a goal to understand goals. It’s not about goal setting, it’s about goal process and how habits fit into it all. 2. He fasts every Friday. 3. In his words, he wants to, “die young at a very old age”. This is an extra long episode for an extra special guest - tune in to hear about Fab’s life inside and outside the walls of Google, what’s kept him around for 6 years, and what’s making his heart beat faster these days.
Resources:
Learn more about Fab - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fab-dolan-391b5328/ Dive into OKRs - http://bit.ly/google-crash-course-okrs RBC study on jobs that will be created - http://bit.ly/rbc-humans-wanted-study
Rachel’s life mission is to heal the collective divide by addressing and eradicating racist patriarchy. Through her work, Rachel creates space for people to voice their pain so they feel seen, heard, and supported. She’s on the mic with Matt today to share how losing her mother was a driving factor in her becoming a grief coach and how her work is helping women of colour through the grief of navigating racist patriarchy.
Learn more about... 1. Rachel → https://www.rachelricketts.com/ 2. Layla Saad → http://laylafsaad.com/ 3. Catrice Jackson → http://www.shetalkswetalk.com/ 4. Spiritual Activism 101 Webinar (next session in Sept!) → https://www.rachelricketts.com/online-courses 5. Rachel's Anti-Racism Resources → https://www.rachelricketts.com/online-courses
We want to tell you about tentree - they’re a socially conscious organization with a mission to be the world’s most environmentally progressive brand. With having planted over 21 million plants to date, they’re well on their way to making their mission a big reality! The brain behind the business is Derrick Emsley and he’s on the mic with Steph today to share how it all started, where the business is growing, the pledges they encourage, and how they’re making a massive environmental impact to our world.
Resources: + Take a tentree pledge: https://www.tentree.ca/pages/pledge-and-plant + tentree on forest fires: https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/why-forest-firefighters-are-our-heroes + Follow tentree on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tentree/ + Listen to Derrick’s DisruptHR talk! https://vimeo.com/226519571
Tune in to this week's episode to hear the story of Dr. Jeremy Goldberg. From doing marine conservation around the world to studying human behaviour for his PhD to founding Long Distance Love Bombs, his mission is to make kindness cool. Hear what he's learned about the state of the world and how he's turning his mission into a reality.
Links: + Ted Talk: What if kindness was cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mklMPHGLjo + IG: @longdistancelovebombs + Jocko says "Good" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8 + Michael Franti Concert https://www.michaelfranti.com/stay-human-tour-new-album-news/
Oh summer holidaze! Out-of-office emails are more frequent than not, but what about the people still in the office? Work still exists yet the shining sun is calling out for that patio life. In this episode of Uncorked, Matt and Steph are diving into working while teammates are out for the summer, how to manage work and vacay, and what it all means for Team Corker.
Resources: Vancouver Queer Film Festival - https://queerfilmfestival.ca/ Susanne Conrad - https://www.lightyearleadership.com/susanne-conrad/ Mel Brittner - https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniebrittner/ Ironman Canada- https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl4E89OFCqj/?taken-by=steph_corker
Some say you can’t make friends over salad, and that couldn’t be more wrong for Caitlin Wharton and Aislinn Grant, the two female founders of Trout + Taylor. Design is the name of their game and they’re getting Uncorked with Matt today to share how they started their business talks over some salad, the growth of Trout + Taylor over the past three years, the power of a remote team, and what it means to be a women-led business in the design world.
Resources: Trout + Taylor - https://www.troutandtaylor.com/meet/
Meet Mandy Farmer. She’s the CEO and President of Accents Inn and Hotel Zed in Victoria and Kelowna. She’s also an athlete with the sweatiest of pursuits while running multiple businesses like a hero. She’s getting Uncorked today to share how she manages being a competitive cyclist, CEO, and mother, how she’s developed a connected culture with her teams, how she hires, where she gets her inspo, her top 3 daily habits, and her story of being a powerful woman leader.
Resources:
BC Bike Race - https://www.bcbikerace.com/ B78 Coaching - https://www.b78.is/ Accent Inn - https://www.accentinns.com/ Hotel Zed - https://www.hotelzed.com/ Cold Water Plunge - http://bit.ly/tony-robbins-cold-water-plunge
Uber rides. Entrepreneur stories. Women leaders. Donuts. Dogs. Whether they’re travelling together, learning together, or both, Matt and Steph learn something new about each other every time. After jet-setting off to a quick trip to San Francisco for the Hustle Con conference, they’ve come back with their highlights and lowlights of all the great talks and their experiences travelling together.
Resources: The Hustle Daily - https://thehustle.co/daily Ellevest - https://www.ellevest.com/ MVMT - https://www.mvmtwatches.com/ Bark Box - https://barkbox.com/ Impossible Foods - https://www.impossiblefoods.com/ Brian Scudamore - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scudamore/ Jake Stika - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakestika/ Steph and Matt on the go! http://bit.ly/matt-and-steph-hustle-con
We often get asked about ‘The Corker Way’ of building a great team. How do we hire the unicorn? How do we know who the unicorn is? What conversations do we have to let go of what’s not working? What approaches do we take when we recruit for our own team? Matt and Steph are sharing their tips and not-so-secret secrets on how Team Corker has become, well, Team Corker!
PS. Check out all of our Disrupt speakers' talks! -> http://bit.ly/disrupthryvr-speaker-videos
What does an 11-year-old have to say about failing at goals? Well, we have young swimmer, Logan Roberts, on the mic with Steph and she’s sharing about her most recent swimming endeavour, where she missed her provincial standard by 0.41 seconds! She’s resilient, driven, motivated by goals and has a thing or two to teach us about how to just keep swimming.
Resources:
Logan’s parents are also remarkable human beings + athletes! http://bit.ly/allan-mcgavin-physio http://bit.ly/record-setting-day-for-whistler-half
From starting med school to co-founding a business with her brother, we have Vitruvi’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sara Panton on the mic with Steph today! She shares her experience of starting a company, working with her brother, and learning about different cultures to build the first digitally-oriented consumer brand for essential oils. She’s taking this billion dollar industry by storm and we’re excited to share her story.
Resources:
Find Sara here: https://www.instagram.com/saralpanton/ Find Vitruvi here: https://www.instagram.com/vitruvi/ What + who inspires Sara: Jenna Lyons, Diane von Furstenberg, and Sephora. The three pillars that matter to her most: Utility, functionality, and beauty.
What does it mean to be a man when you’re not defined by genitalia and sexual organs? What’s the difference between gender identity and gender expression? What common conversation comes up with school-aged boys when it comes to what it means to be a man?
Jake is the Co-Founder of Next Gen Men, a nonprofit organization focused on building better men through youth and peer engagement, education, and empowerment. Tune in to hear about his story starting Next Gen Men and his perspectives on the role of being a man in today’s society.
Resources: - https://nextgenmen.ca/ - Boys: What It Means to Become a Man by Rachel Giese, https://www.amazon.ca/Boys-What-Means-Become-Man/dp/1443442909
Over 400 attendees from remarkable organizations across Vancouver. 9 speakers who took the stage and sparked disruptive conversations. A team of volunteers who helped run a smooth and energized event. The venue of our dreams with the most helpful team support. And an unforgettable night of bringing a community together.
Last week’s #disrupthryvr was one for the books. It wouldn’t have been possible without all of the hearts that took part in creating a great show.
If you missed out or just want to relive the experience, here’s our recap of the night’s highlights, lowlights, and the speakers who took the stage!
Resources:
You can receive a 50% discount on your Mobi enrolment by entering promo code "DisruptHR" when signing up! Any questions, contact Brad Dodimead (brad@mobibikes.ca)
Here's a full recap with more info on our speakers, sponsors, and partners: https://thecorkercompany.com/portfolio_page/disrupthr-yvr-a-recap/
Team Corker has predictions for the future of HR in 2018. Here they are: + Diversity and inclusion will be evaluated on non-visible diversity. + Your gender-neutral office - including language, bathrooms, and email signatures - will be an access point to more talent pools. + Process transparency will be key to the online and offline employee and candidate experience. In the same way I know where my Foodora order is at, I will know where my resume is at in the hiring process. + People will want a human experience but don’t actually want to interact with humans to get things done. And relationships will always matter.
How do you know if you're ready to kiss your corporate job goodbye and set out for a small, mission-driven organization or start your own bizz? Tune in to hear Matt's 3 litmus tests to know when you're ready for a change (including a memorable chat with a now Riverdale star...) and Steph's advice on knowing if being an entrepreneur or working for one is really for you.
Resources: DisruptHR YVR is happening this week! It's sold out, but there's a waitlist...http://bit.ly/disrupthryvr2018
Steph's favourite pool is no other than Kits pool! Here's the summer schedule - http://bit.ly/kits-pool-schedule
The three litmus tests: 1) Am I complaining more than I'm creating? 2) Have I become resentful for the contribution I am making because I can't stand behind my leader anymore? 3) Is this job holding me back from living into my vision?
PS. where else do these show up in your life?
You may know him as the name behind the brick-and-mortar, Litchfield, in Gastown. We know him as a dear friend and rad Vancouverite. He’s Jonathon Litchfield and we’re learning all about the newest trends he’s excited about, his recent trip to Paris and where else he goes to find life inspiration, and what he’s most looking forward to.
Steph's Favorite (Litchfield) Things 1. My fave body cream (a small dab will do you just fine!) - http://bit.ly/fave-body-cream
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I bought my man this dop kit (he approves;)) - http://bit.ly/litchfield-dopp-kit
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A toss up between a candle or incense sticks, but the token Litchfield candle is really hard to pass up - http://bit.ly/litchfield-scented-candle
Steph's Favorite Whitney Song: because I SO wanna dance with somebody! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA
Jonathon's Favorite Things: 1. Case Study Ceramics Planters - plants give us clean air, the least I can do is give them a nice home, right?! https://www.litchfieldtheshop.com/products/case-study-small-cylinder-black-w-wood-stand
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Aarke Water Carbonator - I live for this thing - it's increased my water intake and cut my recycling WAY down. Win-win. https://www.litchfieldtheshop.com/products/aarke-stainless-steel-carbonator
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Carlen Metals Parfum - a complex personal scent is luxury - and invisible beauty - hard not to love that! https://www.litchfieldtheshop.com/products/carlen-parfums-metals-50ml
IG: https://www.instagram.com/litchfieldtheshop/ https://www.instagram.com/litchfieldgray/
Our friends Adam and Alyson asked us, “When I have no budget and no authority, how do I create change and manage up?” Tune in to hear about how Matt’s 4 pillars of culture and Steph’s tips on being a culture contributor vs. a culture consumer are all tied to making an organizational change for the better.
Resources: Learn more about Mealshare - http://mealshare.ca/en/ Read The Hustle’s article, The 30-year-old retirees - http://bit.ly/how-to-retire-in-your-30s
“Putting Salt in Blood Alley was creating something somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be.” And pushing past fear to create and bring something new to the world is exactly what today’s guest on Uncorked is all about – Scott Hawthorn! He’s one of the minds behind Native Shoes and Salt Tasting Room and is a Board Member of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He’s on the mic with Steph sharing his daily practice, inspiring the naysayers, and what the future has in store.
Learn more about Scott: An oldie but a goodie – https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2011/01/11/building-blocks-scott-hawthorn/ His favourite poetry, The Invitation by Oriah (his favourite line: “I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself?”) – http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/ His favourite coffee shop, The Birds and the Beets – http://www.birdsandbeets.ca/ He’s on LinkedIn! – https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hawthorn-984580a/
One of our favourite mom’s out there, Kasia Finkelstein asked us: what are the biggest lessons you learned from your Mamma? In celebration of all the mother figures out there (because they come in many different forms and relationships), Matt and Steph are sharing the lessons they learned growing up and how they’ve showed up in their lives.
Links: + Learn more about Kasia Finkelstein - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kfinkelstein + Mealshare: Tonight for Tomorrow on May 9 - http://mealshare.ca/en/tonight-for-tomorrow/ + Sign up for AWOL (A Weekend of Leisure) - http://bit.ly/AWOLreg + Check out our friends at the CHFA (Canadian Health Food Association) - https://chfa.ca/en/index.html + The BMO results! - http://bmovanmarathon.ca/results-bmo-vancouver-marathon/results-2018-marathon
We’re huge fans of working wherever, whenever and getting things done without being location-limited. We get that some jobs aren’t the remote-kind (retail managers, we’re looking at you!) but for the ones that are, this episode of #Uncorked is for you. Matt + Steph are sharing their tips, tricks, and tools for managing remote teams and being the remote worker. A huge thank you to Jasper Blake for inspiring this week’s episode!
Resources for remote teams: Slack for team communication - https://slack.com/ Dropbox for file sharing all the things - https://www.dropbox.com/ Zoom for recording podcasts and leading online training / coaching calls - https://www.zoom.us Asana for collaborative project work - https://app.asana.com/
Links: Steph’s coach, Tracy Hutton - http://bit.ly/tracy-hutton
Your mattress matters. And so do your bed sheets! She’s one of the three women Co-Founders of Flax Sleep where you can get linen bed sheets that will change your life. Being a lawyer, helping entrepreneurs, and becoming one herself – it’s been quite the journey and she’s sharing it all with Steph on this week’s episode of #Uncorked.
Links: https://flaxsleep.com/ https://www.instagram.com/flaxsleep/?hl=en
“If you don’t know how to say no, your yes is meaningless.” In this week’s episode of #Uncorked, we’re talking all about our favourite word - no. What events do you say no to? What meetings do you say no to? If you’re saying no, what’s your yes instead? Tune in to hear Matt and Steph share where they find power in saying no and yes.
PS. Thanks to Urszula Lipsztajn and Trout + Taylor for inspiring the topic of this episode!
Links: A Weekend of Leisure Registration #goAWOL: http://bit.ly/AWOLreg
A new papa. Advocate for a plant-based lifestyle. An aspiring cyclist(!). And Co-Founder of one of our favourites, The Juice Truck. Zach Berman’s in the Corker house and is sharing how his life has completely transformed over the past decade.
Links: https://www.thejuicetruck.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/juicetruck/ https://bit.ly/2qdPrfM
Not that. Maybe that. When was the last time you did something for the first time? When you experienced beginner’s joy, knew that failure was a possibility, and went for something anyways? Podcasts, poeming, triathlons – we’re going over all the recent firsts with Matt + Steph on this episode of Uncorked.
cw: sexual and physical assault
She Co-Founded her first business at 20 that became the largest franchise chain of its kind. (Blo Blow Dry Bar sound familiar?) She’s a survivor of rape and assault and uses her experiences to empower women to lead bold lives. She’s started her second business, Sphere, to easily pair people with guidance coaches that make a difference in their lives. She’s Devon Brooks and she’s getting Uncorked today to share her advice for all Momma-preneurs out there and her experiences of starting businesses, communicating to save her life, and sharing what gets her heartbeat beating these day.
She’s out to break the stereotypes surrounding the female body and is reinventing the women’s intimate apparel industry. Joanna Griffiths is getting uncorked today to share her story about building a brand and product that truly allows women to be who they are, feel confident in their bodies, and find the beauty in the female form, in all its complexities.
Nancy Perry’s a name we can’t get enough of. She does a lot of things. Like running four different businesses, teaching yoga classes, leading workshops, being newly pregnant, and helping others find and go after what they love. Matt asks Nancy about the fears that’ve held her back, how she’s gotten over them with the lessons she’s learned (and is still learning!), the power of community in growing her businesses, and who’s on her personal board of directors when it comes to making big life decisions.
Check out more of her work at: www.bigpoweryoga.com www.thenewspaceleadership.com www.livealiveadventures.com www.outhereyoga.com
It’s the week, month, and, how we like to see it, lifetime, of International Women’s Day and we’re dedicating this episode to all women around the world. Tune in to hear Steph ask Matt questions about what feminism means to him, how society has placed social constructs around masculinity and femininity, and who’s a women in his life that’s fully self expressed as a female leader. #thefutureisfemale
She spends her days helping people overcome their roadblocks and obstacles to discover their purpose and mastery in life. In this episode of Uncorked, we have Tracy Hutton on the mic sharing what the life of a coach entails, how it’s her duty to always get to the heart of the matter, and why our quirks and little moments of uniqueness is where we really discover who we are.
Speaking on stages around the world, consulting about organizational cultures, half ironman-ing during his downtime – we’d like you to meet Eric Termuende. He’s a bestselling author, co-founder of NoW Innovations, and passionate about changing the way we talk about work. Tune in to hear more about Eric’s mission to remove the negative connotation of ‘working’ and help businesses build connectivity and belonging within their cultures.
Dating is a muscle that constantly needs flexing. If we’re not working it out, how can we create remarkable results and find that unicorn love? Practice makes perfect and if you’re in search for that special someone, go back to the dating basics or what we call, ‘The 5 Date Rule’. Tune in to hear why you should leave your list of requirements at home and remember what it really means to date.
What do you do in the first 60 minutes of rolling out of bed? What about the first 60 minutes of getting into the office? We hear all about how high-performers spend their mornings: the habits they’ve made over the years and the rituals they stick to. In today’s episode, we’re talking all about our sacred morning time – what gets us out of bed, how our routines change (or don’t!) while we’re travelling, and why love + sweat will be a forever part of our morning rituals.
Sali Christeson is in the house and we’re talking all about obsessions, inspirations, AI, and the power of women. She’s the Co-Founder of Argent, a clothing company creating stylish and functional workwear for women who are shattering the glass ceiling. She’s building a game-changing business for women and we’re picking her brain all about it.
With the third Monday of every January comes Blue Monday. It’s supposed to be the saddest day of the year, but instead we want to spend this Blue Monday checking in on our goals, reflecting on what’s going great and what isn’t, and knowing how and when to quit the goals we keep neglecting. So, sit back during your commute to work or put in your headphones for your morning workout and tune in to episode five of Uncorked.
We don’t give enough credit to Tuesdays. Mondays are the start of the week, Wednesdays are hump days, Thursdays are normally filled with a social engagement, and Fridays are...well, TGIF. But what about Tuesdays? They are underrated but are a huge part of what make our week our week. Tune in to this episode to hear why Tuesdays are our blank slate and why they’re one of our favourite days.
In Team Corker’s experience working with managers, there are three different types of difficult people to manage: The Diva, The Delinquent, and The Dumper. In this episode of Uncorked, with his work in creating The Manager Start Line training program for new managers, Matt gives his suggestions on how to manage these three people successfully. Spoiler alert: nobody needs to get fired because telling the truth always wins.
She recently self-published a book, works a full-time job, is in a loving marriage...oh, and she has a two-year-old at home. Can you say #girlpower? She is the powerful, creative, and resilient feminist + author, Paulina Cameron. We couldn’t be more excited to have her as our first Uncorked guest. We’re talking all about her book, Canada 150 Women: Conversations with Leaders, Champions, and Luminaries, busy life, goals, and how gratitude shows up in the face of it all.
Meet the fierce duo, proud siblings, and first two heartbeats behind the human capital consulting business known as The Corker Co: Matt + Steph Corker. They’re known to be positive goal chasers and energetic generators who are normally found sweating it out with their favourite workouts. When they’re not teaching on the yoga mat or living life as a professional triathlete, they’re running a business together and spending time with their awesome husbands #peoplemattermost. And now, they’re adding a podcast to the list! Welcome to Uncorked Episode 1—a day in the life of The Corkers.