

Shaun Newman Podcast
Shaun Newman
Western Canada.
No topic is off limits.
Endlessly Curious.
No topic is off limits.
Endlessly Curious.
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Apr 21, 2021 • 1h 22min
Ep. #167 - Kim McConnell
Kim is a wealth a knowledge. Just to give some frame of reference he has been named entrepreneur of the year, mentor of the year, inducted into the agriculture hall of fame & received the order of Canada (highest civilian award). He has some absolute great advice for entrepreneurs & just people in general when it comes to living life & pursuing what is meaningful.
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Apr 19, 2021 • 1h 10min
Ep. #166 - Bob Strumm
Originally from Saskatoon Bob has 40+ years in the hockey industry from his early days as the GM of WHL teams Billings Bighorns, Regina Pats or Spokane Chiefs. We discuss his year as assistant GM of the Detroit Redwings & some of his crazy stories from having another manager come out of the crowd to fight him or finding a young Barry Trotz.
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Apr 14, 2021 • 1h 57min
SNP Archives #18 - Fred Murray
He was born in 1943, originally from Capetown South Africa. Initially he became an electrician working for the Ford Motor Company, but one day he went to a chiropractor and fell in love with the profession. Still to this day at 77 he is still actively working. We discuss immigrating to Canada in 1971, what living with apartheid was like, rolling blackouts & the search for his biological father.
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Apr 12, 2021 • 1h 32min
Ep. #165 - Brent Saik & Sam Sayeed
2 part episode - In part one I sit down with Brent Saik who has help facilitate in 9 different events raising money for cancer research. He has put together 2 worlds longest baseball games & now 7 worlds longest hockey games.
Part two which starts at the 32:00 min mark is Sam Sayeed a local from Lloydminster who was played in his first worlds longest hockey game. Both share some stories from the game which lasted over 10 days and saw some of the coldest temperatures on the planet.
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Apr 7, 2021 • 1h 4min
Ep. #164 - Tim Tamashiro
Jazz musician, radio host & amazon best selling author Tim has quite the background. We discuss in depth his journey to finding his Ikigai (life's purpose) which ultimately led to his book How to Ikagai - Lessons for finding Happiness & Living your Life's Purpose.
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Apr 5, 2021 • 2h 1min
Ep. #163 - Stephen Barbour
Owner of Upstream Data, he builds units that converts waste gas from Oil wells into energy to mine Bitcoin. We discuss Bitcoin, fiat currency, the term "Green" (why Steve will not use it) & some of the challenges he faces because his business associates with crypto currency.
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Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 52min
SNP Archives #17 - Michael Stonhouse
Born in 1948 he is originally from a farm outside of Red Deer. He is a self proclaimed red neck from central Alberta who talks bootlegging, suicide, communism & Jesus... Did I mention he's a pastor - essentially he leaves it all on the table.
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Mar 29, 2021 • 1h 57min
Ep. #162 - Roundtable: King, Soups & Tomayer
Chris King (Hoop Factory, Golden Ticket Sports) Tyler Campbell (Soups on Sports) & Shane Tomayer (Bobcats Play by Play) hopped on to discuss ... well a bunch of different topics. Brady, LeBron (who King has a hate on for), Oilers, Yellowstone, how much COVID weight we've gained (I lose), best wedding gift and a whole bunch more.
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Mar 24, 2021 • 1h 7min
Episode #161 - Rob Long
Rob is a data engineer lead at Bayer Crop Science and we dive into genomes, bitcoin, NFT's, offense vs defense & what is the real world?
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Mar 22, 2021 • 1h 51min
Ep. #160 - Curtis Clark
Curt & I go waaaaaay back - both grads of the 2004 class and this has been a long time coming (been trying to convince him do this for forever) Curtis graduated with a degree in Environmental Management & now with his wife Morgan they have started a company Green Island Farming Co. which aims to give you natural products for your garden. We also discuss the way he approaches life & business through Ikigai.
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Check them out: instagram.com/greenislandfarmingco