Lifetime at Work: Career Advice Podcast

Episode 19. What happens when you have to give up a career you always wanted? How do you find a new career and the fulfillment you need when it’s time to start something new?

EB Sanders always wanted to be a college professor, and she became a college professor. Though she loved what she was doing, it eventually became clear to her she needed a new career to pay her bills. It was hard to “divorce” her old career and find a new one, but now she works as a career coach to bring her people confidence and direction towards the things they want in life.

In this episode, host Greg Martin discusses everything careers with EB Sanders. They discuss the experience of finding a job, leaving a job and trying to find your way in life. Part of it is confidence, part of it is understanding where you want to go. In the end we learn sometimes the dream of your career don’t match up with the reality of life.

Episode 18. Joan Fisk is learning a whole lot as a non-profit CEO of the United Way in the Waterloo region. It has given her a unique perspective around the “underbelly” of the community and a chance to see all the people who fall through the cracks differently.

Joan’s career is full of great stories. In the 1970s and 1980s, she battled stereotypes and sexism in her position, while the fashion industry was being transformed as China built up its industry to eventually take-over. Still, as President of Tiger Brand Knitting she ran a successful company for many years until eventually when the company had to be sold.

In this interview with host Greg Martin, she describes the state of the charity sector in Canada along with the thirst for talent, money and all the people in need. Joan calls the current job at the United Way as a “giving back” role. What’s best and rewarding - it allows her to have an impact on the community in a completely new way.

Episode 18. Joan Fisk is learning a whole lot as a non-profit CEO of the United Way in the Waterloo region. It has given her a unique perspective around the “underbelly” of the community and a chance to see all the people who fall through the cracks differently.

Joan’s career is full of great stories. In the 1970s and 1980s, she battled stereotypes and sexism in her position, while the fashion industry was being transformed as China built up its industry to eventually take-over. Still, as President of Tiger Brand Knitting she ran a successful company for many years until eventually when the company had to be sold.

In this interview with host Greg Martin, she describes the state of the charity sector in Canada along with the thirst for talent, money and all the people in need. Joan calls the current job at the United Way as a “giving back” role. What’s best and rewarding - it allows her to have an impact on the community in a completely new way.

Episode 17. Phil Winters began his career trying to change the world. After leaving his work with community and political campaigns and a career in the solar industry he bought a farm with his wife and began to grow hops. Now he brews some of the best beer in Ontario at the family farm in Caledon through a brewery called Goodlot. Their tagline is farm-raised beer.

In this episode, host Greg Martin discusses how Phil moved from job to job through his career trying to make an impact on the environment and climate change. It eventually brought him to the decision to settle down outside of the city and a new career in the beer world.  The two discuss the beer industry, local food movement and some of Phil’s favourite Ontario beer styles.

As Phil and his family try to make a positive dent in the beer world, they’re also promoting organic and local agriculture. On top of this, they’re doing it while challenging the big beer companies and carving a niche and home for themselves in the community. It’s a fun story.

Episode 17. Phil Winters began his career trying to change the world. After leaving his work with community and political campaigns and a career in the solar industry he bought a farm with his wife and began to grow hops. Now he brews some of the best beer in Ontario at the family farm in Caledon through a brewery called Goodlot. Their tagline is farm-raised beer.

In this episode, host Greg Martin discusses how Phil moved from job to job through his career trying to make an impact on the environment and climate change. It eventually brought him to the decision to settle down outside of the city and a new career in the beer world.  The two discuss the beer industry, local food movement and some of Phil’s favourite Ontario beer styles.

As Phil and his family try to make a positive dent in the beer world, they’re also promoting organic and local agriculture. On top of this, they’re doing it while challenging the big beer companies and carving a niche and home for themselves in the community. It’s a fun story.

Episode 16. One of the big tradeoffs we make as parents is how much time to spend with kids and how much to focus on work. In many cases that means a career taking a back seat to the new family, but not always. 

In this episode, host Greg Martin discusses how Jason switched careers upon the birth of his first daughter in hopes that his new line of work would give more time and flexibility for his kids. The tradeoff never ends. As a salesperson and someone growing a brand, he has the constant tradeoff between kids and work.

Throughout the episode the two discuss the things we want for our children and how they see us as parents and people that “work”. Lots of our world changes when we have kids. When you focus on work and you focus on kids there are always dilemmas and it doesn’t leave much else.

Episode 16. One of the big tradeoffs we make as parents is how much time to spend with kids and how much to focus on work. In many cases that means a career taking a back seat to the new family, but not always. 

In this episode, host Greg Martin discusses how Jason switched careers upon the birth of his first daughter in hopes that his new line of work would give more time and flexibility for his kids. The tradeoff never ends. As a salesperson and someone growing a brand, he has the constant tradeoff between kids and work.

Throughout the episode the two discuss the things we want for our children and how they see us as parents and people that “work”. Lots of our world changes when we have kids. When you focus on work and you focus on kids there are always dilemmas and it doesn’t leave much else.

Episode 15. Jordan and Chelsea run an outerwear fashion brand called CAALO. The two are life partners who also run a business together. 

Starting and running your own business is never easy and brings lots of challenges, but the couple is driven trying to build a brand they can be proud of that looks great is made sustainably. In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with the couple about the ins and outs of the fashion industry and how they were able to create their brand to be carried in stores around the world. 

The three get into the pros and cons of starting your own business versus the stability and predictability of the corporate world. In the end, starting a business is a passion and there’s never the perfect time.

Episode 15. Jordan and Chelsea run an outerwear fashion brand called CAALO. The two are life partners who also run a business together. 

Starting and running your own business is never easy and brings lots of challenges, but the couple is driven trying to build a brand they can be proud of that looks great is made sustainably. In this episode, host Greg Martin talks with the couple about the ins and outs of the fashion industry and how they were able to create their brand to be carried in stores around the world. 

The three get into the pros and cons of starting your own business versus the stability and predictability of the corporate world. In the end, starting a business is a passion and there’s never the perfect time.

Episode 14. Khalid Pasha is a cardiologist who found himself working at a hospital in New York City in early 2020 when Covid-19 hit. He could never have predicted what would then happen, but the journey to get there and to have the opportunity to save people was grueling.

Doctors go through lots of school, lots of test, lots of practice, lots of good and lots of bad to get where they are. Over the course of the interview Khalid talks about how naive he was entering the medical field in the first place, and how much he’s learned along the way. As tough as it is to be a doctor, there are few things as hands on and gratifying as saving people.

Together with host Greg Martin, the two discuss why Khalid chose his path, the ins and outs of medical school, choosing his specialty and what it was like to transform a hospital in New York in the early days of the pandemic.