Boiling Point Podcast

Most of the time, math teaches us that there are right and wrong answers. It’s positive to succeed, and it’s negative to fail. But is this attitude leading us to limit what kids feel they can learn? Are we causing anxiety and not adequately preparing our kids to find the positive angles of how you can learn from failure? Vanessa Vakharia uses her strong, Lady Gaga-esque attitude to highlight how we need to move away from “math person” stereotypes. She emphasises how important it is to experience failure on the road to success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Maritimes, there is this idea that certain careers or industries won’t be possible here. Pamela Mullinger is proof this thinking is wrong. Pamela shares her journey from growing up in Saint John to gathering global experience in the publishing industry and coming full circle back to build her family’s future with an emphasis on the quality of life New Brunswick offers. We get some first-hand insights into The Edit’s (recently re-branded from The Maritime Edit) creation, goal and future including hearing about how these local stories are resonating on a national stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been an incredible 4 years with 250+ guests that have brought Greg and Dave to this point. In this episode, they take some time to recap the December 2018 The Boiling Point Process event, a live all-day training session that was the first delivery of their new 4 step process of how to be heard in a noisy marketplace. Greg and Dave both discuss the journey that they took to reach this point and the goal they set for themselves of offering these live and online courses to share the knowledge they've gained over the years.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have the best intentions when we set out to build strategies for our business, but how often do we execute on those strategies? Sean Ryan has over 30 years of experience working with businesses to help them understand how to execute their strategies to achieve their goals properly. His new book, Strategy-Execution-Results: The 7 Gears that Transform Strategy to Results takes readers through simple to understand explanations of the steps needed to be more successful with their strategic execution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you are working with a customer, do you focus on making the sale to benefit your needs or are you focusing on how you can best serve the customer’s needs? Troy Wallace talks to us today about how he’s learned from his 23 years in advertising that making that paradigm shift to putting the customer’s needs first changes the entire sales relationship. This episode helps Greg and Dave build their relationship with Troy that started when he attended the Boiling Point Process Live Event in December.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are the cultural agreements we are all making daily? Do we even realize we are making those agreements? And is that unconscious acceptance of what our culture is impacting our ability to innovate with new technology or ideas from other cultures? Matt George reveals the passion behind work that he does in his 9 - 5 and his 5 - 9 careers to create a challenging discussion with Greg and Dave about the intersection of technology, culture and business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As entrepreneurs, we seem to have a built-in fear of the big, scary, complex government procurement process. Carroll Bernard is using his knowledge gained while being a purchaser and his background as an entrepreneur to help small businesses learn how to not only build a relationship with government procurement but to do it in a way that ensures growth and opportunity. He introduces us to his training based service company, Govology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you need to have a “difficult” conversation that you’ve been avoiding? Changing your mindset about the conversation should be the first step. Executive coach Bruce McLeod talks to us about how these conversations we avoid can be positive situations that give people the opportunity to make choices from the feedback they receive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How our world works and the expectations of our contributions have shifted greatly over the past few years. We need more problem solvers and people who are ready to adapt to the changing situations we face in business and our personal lives. Dr. Ed Brenegar shares his approach with us in how any can use leadership skills to make valuable impact, a fact he highlights in his book Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Giving someone an opportunity to have a job and a career doesn’t have to depend on what they do or don’t have listed on their resume. Karen Tumelty joins us to talk about the open hiring practices at Greyston and how they are working to remove barriers to employment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our lives are often times built around the work that we do with recent society trends pushing us to be “busy” every hour of the day and creating a stigma of failure or poor leadership when we aren’t. Our guest today Dan Pontefract is calling out this behaviour using his decades of experience in the corporate world to highlight the hypocritical and unhealthy behaviours being found in leadership roles. Dan leads Greg and Dave on a laughter-filled, but thought-provoking discovery where he explains what the work he is doing and the goal of the books he has written is. Dan wants to help people understand that slowing down, taking time to think and being driven by a purpose will lead not only to a productive life, but to overall happiness we should all be striving for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change is an issue that is and will continue to affect us. One New Brunswick based company is looking at this challenge head on to find solutions that protect the environment but maintain our ability to access resources. Zach Melanson of Community Forests International joins us in the booth to tell us about their company’s journey from re-foresting an island to giving businesses the ability to offset their carbon footprint by protecting land here in New Brunswick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unconscious Bias can affect how we interact with everyone around us and judge others based on our own lived experiences or perceptions of who they are. Brian Duggan leads us in a conversation to challenge us to accept our own unconscious biases to be more open and create stronger connections and understanding while working in the global world. Brian said we need to “be open to the fact that my experience is my experience, and to wonder about other’s experiences.” as a way of improving our cultural intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go undercover with Dorothea Bozicolona-Volpe to learn about her approach called Social Espionage, a way to listen and learn from your audience and then properly plan your strategy and personal branding. With her use of relevant case studies examples from the world’s biggest brands and her openness to share her own life lessons and personal anecdotes gleaned from her grandfather, this episode made Greg and Dave reflect themselves on what they could be improving in their own personal branding efforts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In This Episode: Greg talks about the Boiling Point Process, a new project they’ve been working on (0:31) Alice explains the creative economy (2:14) She talks about her mission to solve poverty in New Mexico (4:35) Greg and Alice talk about the strengths the creative industry has over other industries and why it is growing so rapidly (9:52) Alice explains what the challenges are in creating a creative economy in a particular area (18:07) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In This Episode: Dave talks about having his son be a contestant on Canada's Smartest Person Junior (1:39) Greg and Lisa talk about the new project they have been working on called The Mars Collective, a project based around the necessary shift of our education system to better ready children for the future (3:35) Lisa explains how she and Greg ended up in Dubai together with some of the smartest people in the world (5:12) Greg and Lisa discuss the role they think New Brunswick could have in the future of education (9:45) The gang talk about getting over barriers of access and problems within the education system (11:45) Greg explains the current state of The Mars Collective (17:30) Greg and Lisa talk about how the two of them learned to work together and shared stories from their trip to Dubai (20:27) Lisa and Greg talk about what they gained from their trip (28:23) Dave and Greg talk about a new project they are working on (36:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  (5:43) They tell of their “leap” into entrepreneurship when developing into an already established business and how they honored it and strive to grow the business for the better. (9:55) The Hyslop’s explain why the two are so aligned in their business desires and in their personal and company values, especially in their case of being a married couple, or “Couplepreneurs”. (14:28) Our two guests explain their definition of their style of social entrepreneurship, why they see themselves as such, and how they set out to make the kind of company that they themselves would want to work for. (26:01) The Two explain how many social entrepreneurs will allow the amazing things they’re doing fly under the radar because of their humble nature. They believe talking about what they do is their obligation as social entrepreneurs because not talking would be discouraging young people to strive for social impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(2:58) Curtis explains his product and his motivations for starting his company, Vertiball. (8:11) We hear how Curtis’ experience with cancer along with his grandfather's influence helped change his career aspirations from wanting to be an astronaut to wanting to be an entrepreneur. (14:46) Curtis explains how he’s made his way through the day to day challenges of starting up his company by seeing his growth as a step by step process to get to his end-goal. (20:20) Finally, Curtis describes the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone to succeed in your business.   Curtis Kennedy is a mechanical engineering student at the University of New Brunswick and is the CEO of his own company, Vertiball, where he has been revolutionizing muscle care since 2017 with his suction cup based product. His goal is to eventually get into the field of clean energy with a future business venture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In This Episode: Dave talks about the story behind the "United Breaks Guitars" videos from 2009. The three discuss the deeper meanings behind the videos' popularity and how it affected United Airlines as a company. He also talks about how he got started on writing his book, "United Breaks Guitars: The Power of One Voice in the Age of Social Media" The three talk about the way social media let's people amplify their voices, and how that can be good or bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In This Episode: Greg and Dave sit down with Nelson Terroba to talk about his career as a basketball coach and how he approaches team building and teamwork. They cover how we got started, how he ended up in New Brunswick, Canada, and his relationship with The G League. Nelson goes over his early loud and continuous model for working as a team. He also goes over his favourtie John Wooden quotes that he uses with his team. Dave and Nelson talk about the take off of Canadian Basketball in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices