Jumping The Gap

Kari is the founder and president of Leoganda Financial & Insurance Services Inc., a full-service financial planning company that specializes in Estate and Retirement Planning for over 25 years.
Join Felicia and Kari as they journey through Kari's unique method of addressing her clients' needs in order to provide realistic financial strategies to manage their resources.

I've always said that you spend more time with the people you work with, than the people you love. So it's wonderful, if you can love working with the people that you do. So that's why I try to make it a place that people want to work at. - Laura Hansen
Join Felicia and Laura for this Vision Casting Best Episodes replay as they talk about the kind of heart it takes to build, sustain and scale as an entrepreneur.
Laura shares her bread for the entrepreneurship journey:
 
Communication is key.Celebrate the small things.Love the people you work with.Ask help in your discomfort zone.

Felicia welcomes Laura Hansen, president of Image Group Inc., a promotional products company that has won numerous awards under her leadership. Among the most notable of these is the Promotional Products Distributor of the Year, Western Region 1999- 2007, 2009-2014.
Join Laura as she shares her remarkable journey in achieving success for the company by internal and external foundational building: “instilling a dynamic culture of partnership and mutual support internally and by maintaining strong relations with a network of suppliers spread across the continent.”

Begin with the end in mind. What do you see yourself becoming? - Lisa Will
In this 2015 Vision Casting episode, join Lisa Will as she fashions Stonz Wear into reality. With her unwavering resolve to smart design to meet the niche of kids' wear, she has created a brand that has stood out in quality and authenticity - and continues to do so.
 How did Lisa realize her vision for Stonz Wear? 
Solid Purpose: begin with the end in mind.Solid Financials: know your numbers.Solid A Team: build a like-minded tribe.
Lisa founded her million-dollar company from the need to find her young son a suitable footwear that stayed on. 10 years after the company's initial conception in 2004, Stonz Wear has grown into a thriving business in worldwide wholesale and retail markets. The company has been awarded the Canadian Pediatric Seal of Approval in 2012 and honored by organizations such as Mom's Best, National Parenting Center, iParenting, and Creative Child Magazine Awards. Lisa earned the RBC Women Entrepreneur of the Year Western finalist in the year 2010. And most recently, she was nominated for the Ersnt & Young 2014 North American EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. 
Today, Stonz Wear has extended its reach from Canada, to the US, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Scandinavia, UK, and Europe, from the miraculous beginning of one stall at a Vancouver gift show in 2004.

Lisa Will, founder of Stonz Wear Inc., shares in this episode how her million-dollar company grew from her need to find her young son a suitable footwear that stayed on. 10 years after the company's initial conception in 2004, Stonz has grown into a thriving business in worldwide wholesale and retail markets. The company has been awarded the Canadian Pediatric Seal of Approval in 2012 and honored by organizations such as Mom's Best, National Parenting Center, iParenting, and Creative Child Magazine Awards. Lisa earned the RBC Women Entrepreneur of the Year Western finalist in the year 2010. And most recently, she was nominated for the Ersnt & Young 2014 North American EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. 
 
Walk with Lisa in her journey to build an authentic, excellent and wonderfully thriving company through:
Purposeful Vision: begin with the end in mind.Solid Financials: know your numbers.Committed A Team: build a like-minded tribe.
 
Persistence is key in the entrepreneurial path that Lisa took to create Stonz Wear. Today, her business has extended its reach from Canada, to the US, Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Scandinavia, UK, and Europe, from the miraculous beginning of one stall at a Vancouver gift show in 2004.