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The Finance Cafe — 152 episodes
Building Consistent Financial Habits As a Busy Entrepreneur
How Our Personal Finances Intersect With Our Business Finances
Why Money Stress Is Often a Visibility Problem, Not a Discipline Problem
How Money Thoughts Become Patterns
Building Economies: The Influence of Women Entrepreneurs
Financial Management That Supports Your Life
Investing in Skills to Improve Profitability and Sustainability
Financial Goals Every Women Entrepreneur Should Focus on in 2026
The Finance Cafe: Year-End Wrap-Up 2025
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: 5 Years of TD Women in Enterprise
Incorporating a Business and the Financial Implications for Founders
Talking Money - Beyond Financial Literacy
What the Youngest Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Business and Money
How the M51 Founder Lab Supports Early-Stage Women Founders to Become Venture Ready
5 Questions to Reconnect With Your Business Financial Goals Before Year-End
From DIY to CFO: Growing Your Finance Team
Actionable Ways to Streamline Operations, Reclaim Time & Boost Profitability
How Women Founders Turn Marketing into Measurable ROI
Beyond the Hustle: Turning Sweat Equity into Business Value
5 Financial Shifts That Feel Like a Superpower
Behind the Vault: Business Advice from a Business Banker
Payment Peace of Mind
Decolonizing Business: Rethinking Profit, Culture, And Leadership
You Don't Have to Burn Out to Succeed: Aligning Financial Wellness & Mental Health
Financial Abuse in Entrepreneurship
Strategies That Create Inclusive Environments Where People and Performance Thrive
Growth and Diversification
Navigating Through Financial Uncertainty
Breaking Barriers: Brewing Success as a Queer Immigrant Entrepreneur
Profit Meets Innovation: How AI Tranforms Small Businesses
3 Steps to Financial Wellness for Women Entrepreneurs
Unwritten Rules: Breaking Free to Define Success on Your Own Terms
The Courage to Break Cycles
2025- A Year of Financial Wellness
How Canada's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy is Breaking Barriers
Navigating the Sale: Financial Wellness and Choosing the Right Buyer
Women's Entrepreneurship Day
Systematize for Financial Wellness: 5 Essential Tools for Financial Empowerment Month
Pricing for Profit: Aligning Your Business and Personal Goals for Sustainable Growth
What You Should Be Looking For In Your Banker
Beyond the Tallest Poppy Syndrome
How Systems Can Help You Step Away From the Business
Metrics That Matter: Leveraging KPIs for Financial Success
Understanding a Growth Mindset
Rebuilding After Bankruptcy
Business Insurance 101: Essentials for Every Entrepreneur
Thrive Lab - How BDC is Accelerating Social Impact Investment for women-led Businesses
Indigenous Women in Tech for a Cause: with Tracy Persson
A New Narrative: Indigenous Women’s Entrepreneurship
EmpowerHER Finance: Unlocking Financial Success for Women Entrepreneurs
How You Find MORE CHILL in Your Bookkeeping
Streamlining Financial Decision-Making: The Power of Click-of-a-Button Bookkeeping
Payroll Power: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs with Payworks Insights
Women's Entrepreneurship 2024 Report with Dr. Wendy Cukier
Stories from our Co-Founders: Going deep in celebration of International Women's Day
Creating Opportunities for Black Women Entrepreneurs
Women Driving Growth Supporting women leaders in driving Canada's economy
Creating Space to Learn about Money and Finance
The Cost of Burnout
2023 Wrap Up!
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Have Life Insurance
Money talk: getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
Winning the Pitch: An Entrepreneur’s Winning Journey
Women Entrepreneurs National Loan Program
Key Findings from the AFIA Index with the Forum
Lessons Learned About Having a Banker Advocate For You
Tax Planning Tips
5 Tips on Paying Yourself as an Entrepreneur
Tips on Incorporating Your Business
The Trauma of Money
5 Tips: Preparing Your Budget
Unpacking Perceptions of Debt
Top 5 Indicators Your Startup is Ready To Go Global
Three Ingredients to Finding Your Voice in Finance
Women's Entrepreneurship in the North
Vulnerability: A Powerful Asset To Our Bottom Line
Building a National Ecosystem of Indigenous Womxn Impact Investors
Overcoming 170 No's
Preparing Your Retail Business For The Holiday Season
5 Tips on the Importance of Accounting Software
5 Tips on Managing Your Cash Flow
Leveling the Playing Field in Venture Investing
The Must-Knows of Entering Into Successful Business Collaborations
A Startups Journey to Bringing a Better Product to Market
5 Tips: Preparing for the Year End Meeting With Your Accountant
State of Women's Entrepreneurship in Canada Report 2023
Purpose, Defining Our Own Success
Closing the Gender Wealth Gap
Estate Planning - It’s Never Too Early To Start
Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs Beyond IWD
5 Tips to Overcome Financial Self-Sabotage
Economic Empowerment and The Power of Black Women Entrepreneurs
5 Tips to Grow Your Bottom Line in Your Business
Celebrating the Rise of Black Women Entrepreneurs
5 Strategies to Find New Revenue Streams for Your Business
Crowdfunding: What it is and How it Works
5 Tips For Improving Your Financial Resilience
How Our Business Can be a Mechanism to Drive Our Calling Forward
5 Tips to Help You Set Your Financial Goals in 2023
2022 Year in Review: Highlights From The Finance Cafe Co-Founders
Tips to Developing & Maintaining Good Financial Habits in Your Business for 2023
Protecting your Intellectual Property
Choosing the Right Business Partner: The Important Conversations When Going Into Business with a Partner
Celebrating Women’s Entrepreneurship Day
Fundraising 101
Accessing Grants 101
Exactly What is Financial Capital? A Look at Financing Your Business - Alternative and Traditional Sources of Capital
Building a Relationship with a Bank as an Entrepreneur and What You Should Know
Entrepreneurship: An Economic Pathway to a Woman's 100-Year Life
Happy Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Wealth in Entrepreneurship. Can Gratitude Help You Make More Money?
The Connection Between Financial Health and Mental Health
Increasing Procurement Opportunities: Certification as a Way to Grow Your Business
Interest, Inflation, and Recessions – What This Means to Your Small Business
Diving Into a September Reset for Your Business, with Alicia Fowler
From Humble Beginnings to Entrepreneurial Success with Danièle Henkel
Disrupting The Shipping Industry.
Embracing an evolving business plan.
Landlords, leasing and lessons learned.
Buying a Business with Elizabeth MacRae, Co-Founder of Village Wellth.
What to look for in a bookkeeper or accountant with Cloud Accounting Specialist, Sal Razai.
Coffee with a conscience, Entrepreneurship as a pathway to making an impact with Road Coffee Co. founder, Alisha Esmail.
The benefits of merchant services for your business with Moneris Solutions CFO, Winnie Leung.
Crowdfunding, cupcakes and ice cream with entrepreneur and founder of Betterwith, Lori Joyce.
The state of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada, 2020 with Dr. Wendy Cukier.
Creating a women's entrepreneurship strategy for Canada with Honourable Mary Ng.
Pitching your business with CEO of The Forum, Paulina Cameron.
Entrepreneurship as a pathway to financial independence with Owner and Entrepreneur, Ashani Missier.
Building a sustainable non-profit with Chic Geek Founder and Executive Director, Kylie Woods.
The importance of financial literacy as a social entrepreneur with Alice Lam, Social Entrepreneur.
Understanding how to value your company with Laura Churchill, Senior Manager at Grant Thornton.
Your personal credit and its impact on your business with Stacy Yanchuk Oleksy.
The importance of paying yourself as an entrepreneur with Kerri Riddle, Business Advisor.
Exporting as a path to grow your business with Jenn Cooke, Director of Inclusive Trade, EDC.
Leveraging the women's entrepreneurship ecosystem with guest Marcela Mandeville, CEO of Alberta Women Entrepreneurs.
Expanding a business in the consumer packaged goods industry with Felicia Lekan-Salami, CEO & Founder at Milton Food Group.
Women’s entrepreneurship - the rise of the feminist economy with pk mutch.
5 Steps to Avoiding a CRA Audit with Amanda Doucette, The Tax Chick.
Welcome Back!
The Finance Cafe Founders, Shannon Pestun and Shauna Frederick, share their reflections on 2021.
Dream big: the path to creating $1MM with guest Vivian Kaye.
Reframing the money blocks that hold us back with Kristina Sammut, Executive Coach and Founder of Frontier Leadership.
Understanding where money blocks come from and what they look like with Kristina Sammut, Executive Coach and Founder of Frontier Leadership.
Creating a safe place for taking risks with Geeta Tucker, President & CEO of CPA Manitoba.
How to make money in a service business with Evelyn Ackah, Founder of Ackah Business Immigration Law.
From the kitchen to the global stage with Patrice Mousseau, Founder of Satya Organics.
Using differentiation to increase market share with Michéle Soregaroli, CEO at Transformation Catalyst Corp.
How the fear of failure can ruin your business, with Shahr Savizi, co-founder of Fuckup Nights YYC.
Where people, planet and profit meet with guest Jenn Harper, Founder of Cheekbone Beauty
Top money mistakes women entrepreneurs make, with Founder, Alicia Fowler of MOD Accounting.
Creating financial goals that build the business (and the life) you really want with CFO, Mona Minhas.
Your money mindset as a tool to build a strong, healthy, and profitable business, with Taunya Woods Richardson, Financial Strategist.
The story and the why behind the Finance Cafe with Co-Founders Shannon Pestun & Shauna Frederick.