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The Finance Cafe — 152 episodes

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Building Consistent Financial Habits As a Busy Entrepreneur

2

How Our Personal Finances Intersect With Our Business Finances

3

Why Money Stress Is Often a Visibility Problem, Not a Discipline Problem

4

How Money Thoughts Become Patterns

5

Building Economies: The Influence of Women Entrepreneurs

6

Financial Management That Supports Your Life

7

Investing in Skills to Improve Profitability and Sustainability

8

Financial Goals Every Women Entrepreneur Should Focus on in 2026

9

The Finance Cafe: Year-End Wrap-Up 2025

10

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: 5 Years of TD Women in Enterprise

11

Incorporating a Business and the Financial Implications for Founders

12

Talking Money - Beyond Financial Literacy

13

What the Youngest Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Business and Money

14

How the M51 Founder Lab Supports Early-Stage Women Founders to Become Venture Ready

15

5 Questions to Reconnect With Your Business Financial Goals Before Year-End

16

From DIY to CFO: Growing Your Finance Team

17

Actionable Ways to Streamline Operations, Reclaim Time & Boost Profitability

18

How Women Founders Turn Marketing into Measurable ROI

19

Beyond the Hustle: Turning Sweat Equity into Business Value

20

5 Financial Shifts That Feel Like a Superpower

21

Behind the Vault: Business Advice from a Business Banker

22

Payment Peace of Mind

23

Decolonizing Business: Rethinking Profit, Culture, And Leadership

24

You Don't Have to Burn Out to Succeed: Aligning Financial Wellness & Mental Health

25

Financial Abuse in Entrepreneurship

26

Strategies That Create Inclusive Environments Where People and Performance Thrive

27

Growth and Diversification

28

Navigating Through Financial Uncertainty

29

Breaking Barriers: Brewing Success as a Queer Immigrant Entrepreneur

30

Profit Meets Innovation: How AI Tranforms Small Businesses

31

3 Steps to Financial Wellness for Women Entrepreneurs

32

Unwritten Rules: Breaking Free to Define Success on Your Own Terms

33

The Courage to Break Cycles

34

2025- A Year of Financial Wellness

35

How Canada's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy is Breaking Barriers

36

Navigating the Sale: Financial Wellness and Choosing the Right Buyer

37

Women's Entrepreneurship Day

38

Systematize for Financial Wellness: 5 Essential Tools for Financial Empowerment Month

39

Pricing for Profit: Aligning Your Business and Personal Goals for Sustainable Growth

40

What You Should Be Looking For In Your Banker

41

Beyond the Tallest Poppy Syndrome

42

How Systems Can Help You Step Away From the Business

43

Metrics That Matter: Leveraging KPIs for Financial Success

44

Understanding a Growth Mindset

45

Rebuilding After Bankruptcy

46

Business Insurance 101: Essentials for Every Entrepreneur

47

Thrive Lab - How BDC is Accelerating Social Impact Investment for women-led Businesses

48

Indigenous Women in Tech for a Cause: with Tracy Persson

49

A New Narrative: Indigenous Women’s Entrepreneurship


50

EmpowerHER Finance: Unlocking Financial Success for Women Entrepreneurs

51

How You Find MORE CHILL in Your Bookkeeping

52

Streamlining Financial Decision-Making: The Power of Click-of-a-Button Bookkeeping

53

Payroll Power: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs with Payworks Insights

54

Women's Entrepreneurship 2024 Report with Dr. Wendy Cukier

55

Stories from our Co-Founders: Going deep in celebration of International Women's Day

56

Creating Opportunities for Black Women Entrepreneurs

57

Women Driving Growth Supporting women leaders in driving Canada's economy

58

Creating Space to Learn about Money and Finance

59

The Cost of Burnout

60

2023 Wrap Up!

61

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Have Life Insurance

62

Money talk: getting comfortable with the uncomfortable

63

Winning the Pitch: An Entrepreneur’s Winning Journey

64

Women Entrepreneurs National Loan Program

65

Key Findings from the AFIA Index with the Forum

66

Lessons Learned About Having a Banker Advocate For You

67

Tax Planning Tips

68

5 Tips on Paying Yourself as an Entrepreneur

69

Tips on Incorporating Your Business

70

The Trauma of Money

71

5 Tips: Preparing Your Budget

72

Unpacking Perceptions of Debt

73

Top 5 Indicators Your Startup is Ready To Go Global

74

Three Ingredients to Finding Your Voice in Finance

75

Women's Entrepreneurship in the North

76

Vulnerability: A Powerful Asset To Our Bottom Line

77

Building a National Ecosystem of Indigenous Womxn Impact Investors

78

Overcoming 170 No's

79

Preparing Your Retail Business For The Holiday Season

80

5 Tips on the Importance of Accounting Software

81

5 Tips on Managing Your Cash Flow

82

Leveling the Playing Field in Venture Investing

83

The Must-Knows of Entering Into Successful Business Collaborations

84

A Startups Journey to Bringing a Better Product to Market

85

5 Tips: Preparing for the Year End Meeting With Your Accountant

86

State of Women's Entrepreneurship in Canada Report 2023

87

Purpose, Defining Our Own Success

88

Closing the Gender Wealth Gap

89

Estate Planning - It’s Never Too Early To Start

90

Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs Beyond IWD

91

5 Tips to Overcome Financial Self-Sabotage

92

Economic Empowerment and The Power of Black Women Entrepreneurs

93

5 Tips to Grow Your Bottom Line in Your Business

94

Celebrating the Rise of Black Women Entrepreneurs

95

5 Strategies to Find New Revenue Streams for Your Business

96

Crowdfunding: What it is and How it Works

97

5 Tips For Improving Your Financial Resilience

98

How Our Business Can be a Mechanism to Drive Our Calling Forward

99

5 Tips to Help You Set Your Financial Goals in 2023

100

2022 Year in Review: Highlights From The Finance Cafe Co-Founders

101

Tips to Developing & Maintaining Good Financial Habits in Your Business for 2023

102

Protecting your Intellectual Property

103

Choosing the Right Business Partner: The Important Conversations When Going Into Business with a Partner

104

Celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

105

Fundraising 101

106

Accessing Grants 101

107

Exactly What is Financial Capital? A Look at Financing Your Business - Alternative and Traditional Sources of Capital

108

Building a Relationship with a Bank as an Entrepreneur and What You Should Know

109

Entrepreneurship: An Economic Pathway to a Woman's 100-Year Life

110

Happy Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Wealth in Entrepreneurship. Can Gratitude Help You Make More Money?

111

The Connection Between Financial Health and Mental Health

112

Increasing Procurement Opportunities: Certification as a Way to Grow Your Business

113

Interest, Inflation, and Recessions – What This Means to Your Small Business

114

Diving Into a September Reset for Your Business, with Alicia Fowler

115

From Humble Beginnings to Entrepreneurial Success with Danièle Henkel

116

Disrupting The Shipping Industry.

117

Embracing an evolving business plan.

118

Landlords, leasing and lessons learned.

119

Buying a Business with Elizabeth MacRae, Co-Founder of Village Wellth.

120

What to look for in a bookkeeper or accountant with Cloud Accounting Specialist, Sal Razai.

121

Coffee with a conscience, Entrepreneurship as a pathway to making an impact with Road Coffee Co. founder, Alisha Esmail.

122

The benefits of merchant services for your business with Moneris Solutions CFO, Winnie Leung.

123

Crowdfunding, cupcakes and ice cream with entrepreneur and founder of Betterwith, Lori Joyce.

124

The state of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada, 2020 with Dr. Wendy Cukier.

125

Creating a women's entrepreneurship strategy for Canada with Honourable Mary Ng.

126

Pitching your business with CEO of The Forum, Paulina Cameron.

127

Entrepreneurship as a pathway to financial independence with Owner and Entrepreneur, Ashani Missier.

128

Building a sustainable non-profit with Chic Geek Founder and Executive Director, Kylie Woods.

129

The importance of financial literacy as a social entrepreneur with Alice Lam, Social Entrepreneur.

130

Understanding how to value your company with Laura Churchill, Senior Manager at Grant Thornton.

131

Your personal credit and its impact on your business with Stacy Yanchuk Oleksy.

132

The importance of paying yourself as an entrepreneur with Kerri Riddle, Business Advisor.

133

Exporting as a path to grow your business with Jenn Cooke, Director of Inclusive Trade, EDC.

134

Leveraging the women's entrepreneurship ecosystem with guest Marcela Mandeville, CEO of Alberta Women Entrepreneurs.

135

Expanding a business in the consumer packaged goods industry with Felicia Lekan-Salami, CEO & Founder at Milton Food Group.

136

Women’s entrepreneurship - the rise of the feminist economy with pk mutch.

137

5 Steps to Avoiding a CRA Audit with Amanda Doucette, The Tax Chick.

138

Welcome Back!

139

The Finance Cafe Founders, Shannon Pestun and Shauna Frederick, share their reflections on 2021.

140

Dream big: the path to creating $1MM with guest Vivian Kaye.

141

Reframing the money blocks that hold us back with Kristina Sammut, Executive Coach and Founder of Frontier Leadership.

142

Understanding where money blocks come from and what they look like with Kristina Sammut, Executive Coach and Founder of Frontier Leadership.

143

Creating a safe place for taking risks with Geeta Tucker, President & CEO of CPA Manitoba.

144

How to make money in a service business with Evelyn Ackah, Founder of Ackah Business Immigration Law.

145

From the kitchen to the global stage with Patrice Mousseau, Founder of Satya Organics.

146

Using differentiation to increase market share with Michéle Soregaroli, CEO at Transformation Catalyst Corp.

147

How the fear of failure can ruin your business, with Shahr Savizi, co-founder of Fuckup Nights YYC.

148

Where people, planet and profit meet with guest Jenn Harper, Founder of Cheekbone Beauty

149

Top money mistakes women entrepreneurs make, with Founder, Alicia Fowler of MOD Accounting.

150

Creating financial goals that build the business (and the life) you really want with CFO, Mona Minhas.

151

Your money mindset as a tool to build a strong, healthy, and profitable business, with Taunya Woods Richardson, Financial Strategist.

152

The story and the why behind the Finance Cafe with Co-Founders Shannon Pestun & Shauna Frederick.