This Commerce Life

Former broadcaster Patrice Mousseau started making eczema lotion, and now she's moving into helping other businesses.  Find Patrice here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrice-mousseau-1109791a/ Shop Satya here: https://satya.ca/  

Tamara Wensley sent us the best pork rinds we'd ever had. The founder of Primal Sisters talks about how a vegetarian nutritionist got into pork rinds.  Find Tamara here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-wensley-96a445209/?originalSubdomain=ca You can shop for her amazing pork rinds here: https://www.primalsisters.com/  

They got voted off the island...literally. Salt Spring Island Founder Mickey McLeod comes on to talk about their origin story, regenerative farming, organic, fair trade standards.  check out Salt Spring Island coffee here: https://www.saltspringcoffee.com/you can find Mickey on linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickey-mcleod-8829598/ Mickey talks about Regenerative Organic Alliance https://regenorganic.org/Will Harris' book that Mickey refers to, is called 'A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food'  https://www.amazon.ca/Bold-Return-Giving-Damn-Generations-ebook/dp/B0BS2TYFTW

He likes to break down silos and move between things.  Michael Mikulak, Executive Director of Food and Beverage Manitoba comes on to talk about his winding path to helping food processors and brands today in Manitoba.  Find Michael here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mikulak-5057b531/Check out Manitoba Food and Beverage here: https://foodbeveragemb.ca/ find out more about Cultivate here: https://members.foodbeveragemb.ca/eventscalendar/Details/cultivate-sustainability-conference-and-trade-show-945577?sourceTypeId=Website

She's done a fast thought with us, but we finally got a chance to hang out for real with her.  This started with a journey to switch the family to vegan, and she realized how hard it was to get healthy, tasty and relatively to make. check out Yumasoy here: https://yumasoy.com/ Find Gina here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-arsens-cpa-ca-cbv-05533312/

Cedar Valley founder Ameen Fadel talks about how he got started at 16 and how he and his family have built a national business Find Ameen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameen-fadel-48175514b/Shop Cedar Valley here: 

A colouring cookie kit. Who knew? Chris Goodrow and his wife, Kristy, that's who.  They began baking out of a licensed kitchen in their basement part-time and frantically juggling 3 small children, a travel work schedule and growing demand. Today, they're pioneering a whole new category, and pushing the borders on decorating kits. check out https://bysweetness.com/Find Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisgoodrow/

They bought their uncle's business, got orders by fax machine, and didnt' know who their end customers were. It took a pandemic, and a timely instagram post by Ryan Reynolds, and a lot of sweat and selling to get this business into what it is today.  shop Grandpa J's here: https://www.grandpajs.com/ Find Jenny here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennygrandpajs/ 

A father/daughter podcast on families in business together.We spent some time with Randy Sihota at Nationwide, and this time, his daughter Kamryn joins us and talks about working with her dad.  She talks about reconsidering working with her dad and Nationwide. The two of them talk about family dynamics and what it takes to try and continue to build a family business together.  You can find Kamryn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamryn-sihota-4865b826b/Randy is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randy-sihota-04593444/check out Nationwide here: https://nnfd.ca/check out Wescana foods here: https://wescanafoods.com/Randy's original episode is here: https://www.thiscommercelife.com/tclpodcast/episode/231333c0/they-could-have-bought-a-mcdonalds-in-1976-but-his-dad-and-his-brother-chose-to-get-into-granola-instead-fast-forward-randy-sihota-is-still-in-the-family-businessOld Growth beverages tea will make a great Christmas gift! www.oldgrowthbeverages.com

This episode finally happened. We get a chance to talk to Aaron Chin about 30+ years in the Organika business. He always knew that he wanted to be in the business of helping others. Watching his dad do it served as role model for what he's trying to do with the business today. You can find Aaron here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-chin-b1336336/check out Organika here: https://organika.com/ check out our microground teas here: https://oldgrowthbeverages.com/