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Accounted For
by Daniel Lee
Everyone walks a unique career journey. No matter how "linear" it may look in their LinkedIn profile, it is never that simple. Most people that have careers you aspire to have had to struggle. They had their own obstacles and made their own luck. Some careers you dream about may not even be what you assumed it would be. All assumptions should be tested and that is what I seek to do in this podcast. Follow along as I interview people on what they actually do in their careers and why they made the jumps in their careers, some quite unorthodox.
Episodes
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#83 - Justin Jackson, Co-Founder of Transistor.fm. From Not-for-Profits to Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable SaaS Company Helping Podcasters.
Join in for a conversation with Justin Jackson, Co-Founder of Transistor.fm. It’s a podcast hosting service and full disclosure, Accounted For is hosted on Transistor. I learned about the company and Justin because Basecamp’s podcast is hosted on Transistor and I further learned how Justin...
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#82 - Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Equity Trading on Wall Street to Tech Operator turned Venture Investor.
Join in for a conversation with Matt Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner of Ripple Ventures. Ripple Ventures is a Toronto-based early-stage venture fund that works alongside startups through the good and the bad every day. Fitting with their motto of “Operators First” per Matt’s background as an...
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#81 - Terrance Kwok, Product Manager at HyperComply. From Audit to Startup Sales Rep to Product Manager and Digital Nomad.
Join in for a conversation with Terrance Kwok, Product Manager at HyperComply. Terrance was one of the pivotal folks who recruited me to KPMG to start my accounting career. It’s been a while since then and today we go through Terrance’s journey from leaving accounting just before getting the...
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#80 - [Anonymous-Moatsixcap] Investing During the COVID-19 Bear Market & Finding Resistant Businesses.
Join in for a conversation is another anonymous podcast with a return guest from episode 29 where we turnover the rock of working in a hedge fund in Canada. This was a top 10 downloaded episode in 2019 so what better way then to bring on my guest back during a time of market turmoil to see how…
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#79 - Josh Broun, Co-Owner of Impact Kitchen. Baseball, Teaching and Personal Training to Entrepreneurship in Wellness.
Join in for a conversation with Josh Broun, Co-owner of Impact Kitchen. Impact Kitchen is a wellness company with 4 restaurants in Toronto. I’ve been a fan of Impact Kitchen since it’s first location at King East and I’ve been a patron here at least once a week for the last few years. It’s one of...
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#78 - Elvis Wong, Founder & Managing Director of Innovate Financial Health. Consulting to Accelerators and Tackling Financial Health.
Join in for a conversation with Elvis Wong, Founder and Managing Director of Innovate Financial Health (IFH). IFH is a not for profit accelerator based in Toronto that works with start-ups addressing the problem of financial health for financially vulnerable Canadians. Having developed a passion...
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#77 - Miguel Fernando, Founder of Moment Financial. International Finance to FinTech Product Management and Entrepreneurship
Join in for a conversation with Miguel Fernando, the Founder of Moment Financial. Miguel navigated a career starting in international finance to building products in FinTech companies to becoming a full-time bootstrapped entrepreneur. Miguel started his career in finance as an economic researcher...
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#76 - Marc Champagne, Host of Behind The Human Podcast, Returns. Economics of Building an App, Shutting down Kyo, Writing a Book and The Journey.
Join in for a conversation with a return guest, Marc Champagne. Marc is the Co-Founder of Kyo and Host of Behind The Human Podcast. In episode 46 we talked about Marc’s journey of building Kyo after a career in pharmaceuticals. In today’s episode, we talk through the developments since the year....
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#75 - Alex Norman, Co-Founder of TechToronto, Head of Canada for AngelList and Partner of N49P Ventures. Investment banking to entrepreneurship and building the tech ecosystem in Canada.
Join in for a conversation with Alex Norman, Co-Founder of TechToronto, Head of Canada for AngelList and Partner of N49P Ventures. Through his various ventures and roles, Alex is an investor and tech entrepreneur who is building the Canadian tech ecosystem. TechToronto is on a mission to develop...
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#74 - Ben Yoskovitz, CPO and Founding Partner of Highline Beta. From Psychology to 20 years as an entrepreneur, investor, startup executive, author and redesigning the ventu
Join in for a conversation with Ben Yoskovitz, CPO and Founding Partner of Highline Beta. Highline Beta is a venture capital and startup co-creation company based in Toronto. In our interview, we pan through Ben’s 20 year career as an entrepreneur, angel investor and startup executive. After...
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#73 - Daniel Francavilla, Founder & Creative Director of Now Creative Group. Freelancing to Building a Creative Agency to Create Social Change.
Join in for a conversation with Daniel Francavilla, Founder and Creative Director of Now Creative Group. Now Creative Group is a creative agency based in Toronto the builds brands and tells stories through impactful design, digital, marketing and media. In our chat, we go through Daniel’s journey...
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#72 - Jaxson Khan, CEO of Khan & Associates. Building Start-ups to Consulting for AI & FinTech Companies Globally.
Join in for a conversation with Jaxson Khan. Jaxson is the CEO of Khan & Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on AI and FinTech. As a result, he also is a co-host of an AI podcast called Ask-AI. I reached out to Jaxson after learning he had left his role as the Head of Marketing at…
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#71 - Karm Sumal, CEO and Co-Founder of Daily Hive. Accountant to National Digital Media Entrepreneur.
Join in for a conversation with Karm Sumal, CEO and Co-Founder of Daily Hive. Daily Hive is a national news media company that started out in Vancouver as Vancity Buzz and now has offices in Calgary, Montreal and Toronto. As a site that started in 2008 amid a competitive industry with many…
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#70 - Jim Elli, Powerlifting Coach and Marketing Manager of Reactive Training Systems (RTS). Business Grad turned Remote Powerlifting Coach.
Join in for a conversation with Jim Elli. Jim is a powerlifting coach and marketing manager of Reactive Training Systems (RTS). RTS is an online coaching company that leverages its founder, Mike Tucherer’s method of auto-regulated strength training and they’ve trained multiple world champion...
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[Replay] #43 - Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Brand Experience and Igniter at Simon Sinek. Finding your calling, building your own MBA, reaching out to your hero and helping others find fulfillment at work.
A blast from the past to start the new year. Join in for a conversation with Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Brand Experience and Igniter at Simon Sinek. If that name is familiar with you it may be because you may have watched Simon Sinek's famous TedTalk or read his first book "Start with Why"....
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[Replay] #55 - Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founder and Executive Director at TKS. Building a Social Enterprise, Exploring Exponential Technology and Mining Untapped Human Potential.
A blast from the past with a replay of the most popular episode of the quarter. Join in for a conversation with Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founder and Executive Director at TKS (The Knowledge Society). The Knowledge Society is an education company that works with 13-17 year-olds to mine human potential to...
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#69 - Alex Castellani, Co-owner of Boxcar Social. Philosophy to Coffee and Entrepreneurship.
Join in for a conversation with Alex Castellani, Co-owner of Boxcar Social and veteran coffee professional. Boxcar Social is a cafe and bar with 4 locations in Toronto and 1 in Halifax and one of my go to places for some light acidic coffee. Alex got degrees in business and philosophy but instead...
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#68 - Anonymous UX Designer Part 2: Q&A
Join in for my second anonymous conversation with the accountant turned UX designer from episode 60. Thanks to you my listeners writing in: we answer questions on whether having a bootcamp credential adds any value if your portfolio is already good, difference between college programs vs.…
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#67 - Hans Arijanto, Product Engineer at Angelist. Running a Board Game Cafe, Tech in Toronto/SF/Jakarta and Culture at Toronto vs. Jakarta
Join in for a conversation with Hans Arijanto, Product Engineer at Angelist. We have a dual segment episode today. The first half talks about Hans’ career from working in startups in Toronto to Silicon Valley to Jakarta and back to Toronto. We dive into the various transition points in his…
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#66 - AMA on My Podcasting Experience
Join in for an AMA episode on Podcasting. From the numerous chats I’ve had related to my podcasting experience, I decided to answer the most commonly asked questions in a full episode. Here are the questions I cover: How much does the equipment cost? How did I find the equipment and what to use?...
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#65 - Shawn Huang, Founder and CEO of 36paths. Finance to Building a Career Accelerator and Darkside of Solopreneurship.
Join in for a conversation with Shawn Huang, Founder and CEO of 36paths, a career accelerator based in Toronto. Shawn immigrated to Canada as an international student from a city 2 hours outside of Shanghai China. Despite having a family tree filled with academics in all subjects of science…
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#64 - Carolyn Plater, Co-Founder of Hoame & Ease. Psychotherapist and Mental Health Clinicians Entrepreneurial Journey to Building North America's Largest Meditation Studio.
Join in for a conversation with Carolyn Plater, a psychotherapist and mental health clinician who is the Co-founder of Hoame (North America's largest meditation studio) and Ease (Corporate Wellness Consulting Company). Before starting Hoame and East 2 years ago, Carolyn spent 10+ years in the...
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#63 - [Semi-Anonymous] Accountant turned Software Developer w/ Bootcamps.
Today is a little different. A semi-anonymous podcast. I say semi because the guest wanted to keep his identity open in case people had follow-up questions for him. My guest today is Vince and we explore his journey from the world of Big 4 audit to transitioning to be a software developer by…
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#62 - [Anonymous] Back-End Software Engineer & Remote 4-Hour Work Weeks
Today is another anonymous podcast. We go deep into the life of an experienced back-end software engineer. The interview gets quite technical as I have my guest go deep into explaining what software engineers do so that a non-engineer like me can understand. We also talk about how the guest hires...
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#61 - George Khalife, Head of Marketing & Business Development at owl.co. A Background in Finance, DNA of an Entrepreneur and an Unconventional Path.
Join in for a conversation with George Khalife, Head of Marketing & Business Development at owl.co, Host of Let's Grab a Coffee podcast and Co-founder of BookBack app. Having grown up in the middle east from Lebanon to Bahrain, the merchant blood and a passion for building relationships was…
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#60 - [Anonymous] UX/UI Design Bootcamp & Transition From Accounting & Tax
Today is another anonymous podcast. In this episode, I dig into my guest's journey of leaving the world of accounting and tax to Product UX/UI Design at a Startup. For those unfamiliar with product design, I would recommend listening to episode 20 with Jason Li who now runs a product design…
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[Replay] #25 - Tom Lowden, Labs Manager of WeWork Toronto. Operating Coffee Shops, Startup Incubators and Co-working spaces.
Another blast from the past. Join in for a conversation with Tom Lowden, the Labs Manager of WeWork Toronto. Prior to WeWork, Tom build out a skill set in fundraising for the public sector after having explored a number of different opportunities. After that experience he was the inaugural, I...
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[Replay] - #1 - Ian Weng. Big 4 Audit, Entrepreneurship to Operations and Marketplace at UberEats
Join in for a conversation with Ian Weng, an operations and logistics manager and Vancouver market lead for UberEats. Ian and I met at the University of Waterloo and we both started our career in Audit at KPMG. Since then Ian has taken a unique journey through infrastructure investing, a food...
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#59 - Shubha Dasgupta, President and CEO of Capital Lending Centre. Trucking to Mortgages, Tackling and Changing Old Industries.
Join in for a conversation with Shubha Dasgupta, President, and CEO at Capital Lending Centre (CLC). CLC is a brokerage house for mortgage brokers in Canada that grew from just 6 in 2017 to 160+ in 2019 and is one of the fastest-growing mortgage brokers in the country. Shubha and his partner,...
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#58 - Graeme Moffat, Chief Scientist and VP of Regulatory Affairs at Interaxon. PhD's Global Journey in NeuroTech Startups.
Join in for a conversation with Graeme Moffat, Chief Scientist and VP of Regulatory Affairs at Interaxon. Interaxon is a neurotech company based out of Toronto. They are the creators of the Muse headband where it uses technology and neuroscience to help you meditate effectively, one of the...
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#57 - Henry Shi, Co-Founder and CTO of SnapTravel. Leaping From The Google Sabbatical To Build A Global Travel Company.
Join in for a conversation with Henry Shi, Co-Founder and CTO of SnapTravel. As the name implies, SnapTravel is a travel company headquartered in Toronto that creates a seamless experience for you to book your hotel accommodating through easy instant messaging apps. Henry and SnapTravel made the...
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#56 - Eric Arnold, Co-Founder and CEO of Planswell. A $100K dream, 10 startups, and building a transparent fintech company.
Join in for a conversation with Eric Arnold, Co-Founder and CEO of Planswell. Planswell is a fintech company based in Toronto that is a one-stop shop for financial information and advice to Canadians. On his journey of starting Planswell Eric had nine other businesses. His entrepreneurial push...
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#55 - Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founder and Executive Director at TKS. Building a Social Enterprise, Exploring Exponential Technology and Mining Untapped Human Potential.
Join in for a conversation with Nadeem Nathoo, Co-Founder and Executive Director at TKS (The Knowledge Society). The Knowledge Society is an education company that works with 13-17 year-olds to mine human potential to make unicorn people. From cold-emailing his way into an internship with, Nobel...
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#54 - Rob Catalano, Co-Founder and Chief Engagement Officer at WorkTango. Passion-Driven Journey to Bootstrap and Improve Work Lives.
Join in for a conversation with Rob Catalano, Co-Founder and CEO (Chief Engagement Officer) at WorkTango. WorkTango is an HR software company based out of Toronto with a passion to improve work lives. Rob started out his career in the world of traditional marketing for consumer goods and quickly...
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#53 - The 52 Episode Journey. Reflections on Learnings and Experiences in 1st Year of Accounted For
It's been 52 episodes. That's 52 new conversations with 51 different guests (one of the 52 was my first solo episode on my journey). This is another solo episode where I talk about what I've learned in the year of building Accounted For. I cover the challenges in the early days, philosophy on...
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#52 - Ben Tam, Founder and CEO of Rizound. Journey to Make Affordable Housing and PhD Education for Children a Reality.
Join in for a conversation with Ben Tam, Founder and CEO of Rizound. Ben has been on his entrepreneurial journey for the last 7 years and he's on a mission to help each child get a PhD level education. Ben's passion for human development and education started from his childhood in Singapore. His...
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#51 - Cyrus Moradian, CEO and Co-Founder of Wize. Bootstrapping vs. Fundraising, 7 Years in EdTech, and Building Teams.
Join in for a conversation with Cyrus Moradian, CEO and Co-Founder of Wize. Wize is an exam test prep platform based out of Vancouver that services universities throughout Canada and the US. He bootstrapped his first company, Beat Your Course and the precursor to Wize, to help university students...
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#50 - Drew Green, CEO of Indochino. From Sports, Technology, Entrepreneurship to Building a Bespoke Suit Empire.
Join in for a conversation with Drew Green, CEO of Indochino. Indochino is a Vancouver based bespoke suit company and it's actually where yours truly got his first bespoke suit as well! But enough about me. So how does one become the CEO of a fast-growing suit company? Well, Drew started his...
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#49 - AnonymousCast, Infrastructure Investing in Canada
Join in for another anonymous episode. I experimented with a number of anonymous episodes in the past where I get someone in various professions like hedge funds, management consulting and we sit down to have candid conversations with what these people actually do. Today is about infrastructure...
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[Replay] #12 - Sam Restagno, Managing Director of Golden Spruce Capital. Perseverance to I-Banking, Starting a Fund and Investing in Small Businesses
Join in for a conversation with Sam Restagno, Managing Director at Golden Spruce Capital, a private investment company that focuses on buying small businesses with an EBITDA of 1-5MM. In our chat Sam takes me through how he persevered through to get into investment banking, and the process of...
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[Replay] #8 - Armin Yassaie, Co-Owner of Mos Mos Coffee. From Public Accounting to Building a Coffee Franchise
Join in for a conversation with Armin Yassaie, co-owner of Mos Mos Coffee. Armin takes us into the competitive world of "third wave" coffee shops and we dive into the depths of what it takes to operate and grow a coffee franchise. We also explore the mental model for starting your own coffee shop...
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#48 - Marie Chevrier, Founder and CEO of Sampler. Leading with Honesty, Leaping into the Unknown, and Recruiting Cheerleaders
Join in for a conversation with Marie Chevrier, Founder and CEO of Sampler. Sampler is a Toronto-based startup on a mission to transform the way consumer packaged goods companies distribute product samples. Starting from creating her own idol competition in school to an OG hustler grandmother,...
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#47 - David Cairns, VP of Office Leasing at CBRE Canada and Co-Founder of CBRE Forward. Professional Poker Player Turned Real Estate Intrapreneur
Join in for a conversation with David Cairns, VP of Office Leasing at CBRE Canada and Co-Founder of CBRE Forward. CBRE is a commercial real estate service company and with my own limited experience of commercial real estate, David thankfully creates a picture of the real estate value chain for me...
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#46 - Marc Champagne, Co-Founder of Kyo
Join in for a conversation with Marc Champagne, Co-Founder of Kyo. Kyo is a wellness company based in Toronto. It's currently an app that provides prompts to help you with your mental fitness, a simple way I think about it is as a live, digital journal. Marc also has a podcast called Kyo...
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#45 - Norm Cappell, Co-Founder of Savvyy
Join in for a conversation with Norm Cappell, Co-Founder of Savvyy. Savvyy is a fintech company based in Toronto that is building a digital lending platform. So how does one go from studying English literature to Harvard Law School, capital markets law, investment banking and to building a…
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#44 - Marcus Rader, Co-Founder and CEO of Hostaway
Join in for a conversation with Marcus Rader, Co-Founder and CEO of Hostaway. Hostaway is a global property management software company and it's no surprise that this podcast focuses on Marcus' global career and Finnish background. In our conversation we start with epilepsy killing a dream to be…
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#43 - Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Brand Experience and Igniter at Simon Sinek
Join in for a conversation with Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Brand Experience and Igniter at Simon Sinek. If that name is familiar with you it may be because you may have watched Simon Sinek's famous TedTalk or read his first book "Start with Why". Stephen joined Simon Sinek's company, called…
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#42 - Sagar Malhi, Co-founder of Switchboard
Join in for a conversation with Sagar Malhi, Co-Founder of Switchboard. Talk about a flashback to the past! Sagar and I went to high school together and re-connected for the first time in nine years last Christmas. Sagar and the Switchboard team had just been admitted to the esteem start-up...
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#41 - Marlon Rodrigues, Head of Product at Flexday
Join in for a conversation with Marlon Rodrigues, Head of Product at Flexday. If you heard Justin Raymond, Founder of Flexday on episode 19 then you'll be very familiar with the company. If you haven't, then fret not as this is about Marlon's unique journey and we give an overview of the company...
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#40 - Megan Tong, the Co-founder of Kanga Aussie Meat Pies
Join in for a conversation with Megan Tong, the Co-founder of Kanga Aussie Meat Pies. If you don't know what a Australian meat pie is I suggest you Google it and immediately eat one. If you're a Toronto listener you're in luck because Kanga's Aussie Meat Pies is based out of Toronto and they are...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everyone walks a unique career journey. No matter how "linear" it may look in their LinkedIn profile, it is never that simple. Most people that have careers you aspire to have had to struggle. They had their own obstacles and made their own luck. Some careers you dream about may not even be what you assumed it would be. All assumptions should be tested and that is what I seek to do in this podcast. Follow along as I interview people on what they actually do in their careers and why they made the jumps in their careers, some quite unorthodox.
HOSTED BY
Daniel Lee
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