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The StartWell Podcast — 88 episodes

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Saud Aziz wants to fix how Canadian businesses manage money — and he's not waiting for the banks to do it.

2

The Business Model Behind Affirm - An Honest Credit Card Alternative (Wayne Pommen, Affirm CRO)

3

This Founder Left Washington To Defend Canada's Arctic - Eliot Pence

4

Som Seif on Why Canadians Are Afraid of the Wrong Thing

5

Buy a Business, Don't Start One? Steven Wang on Canada's Entrepreneurship Revolution

6

Teaching Students to Embrace Failure | AJ Tibando

7

How AI is Rewriting Venture Capital - Karim Gillani (Luge Capital)

8

Stuck at $200M Revenue? This Might Be Your Best Move (Naseem Saloojee on SPACs)

9

The Truth About E-Commerce Rollups - Ghassan Halazon of EMERGE

10

How Founders Should Think About Partnerships - Chris Lavoie

11

How to Make Any Offsite More Persuasive - Behavioral Science with Ben Wise & Darren Chiu

12

The Founder OS - Talent, Culture, and Why Startups Plateau - Joseph Fung

13

How Sherpa Built the Infrastructure Behind Global Travel - Max Tremaine

14

Public Policy for Founders - A Conversation with Morva Rohani

15

Why Big Law Is Broken - And How Goodlawyer Is Fixing It

16

Why Founders Hate Sales (and Why It’s Usually Not a Sales Problem) - Collin Stewart

17

Why Leaders Need a “Third Space” - Christine Song on Building 5 to 9 Society

18

Smart Girl, Dumb Questions: Why Curiosity is Important for Podcasters - with Nayeema Raza

19

PR vs Marketing: How Founders Really Build Trust in 2026 – with Katie Zeppieri

20

Understanding Burnout: A Deep Dive with Duncan So

21

Building Float: Ruslan Nikolaev on Disrupting Canadian Fintech

22

Peter Hwang's Entrepreneurial Journey: From College Football to Business

23

Joshua Zerkel On Why 'Community' Is Essential For GTM Success

24

Scott Knox From The ICA On Why Brands Need More Canada

25

Perspective on Toronto's Fintech Ecosystem with Nik Milanović

26

Subversive Marketing's New Handbook, "Just Evil Enough" - Alistair Croll

27

Carbon6: How This Amazon Seller Software Company Achieved 7x Growth | Success Story

28

James McKay on Why RevOps is ESSENTIAL for Growing Businesses

29

Lessons from the Co-founder of A $1 Billion Canadian Adtech Company

30

Farah Mohamed Exposes the Unemployment Crisis Costing Us Billions

31

The Fearless Approach to Scaling Revenue Operations | Kyle Norton

32

Defeat Self-Doubt: The Power of Mentorship in Leadership Development | Mac Gebara

33

The future of coding jobs and tech education | Jeremy Shaki from Lighthouse Labs

34

On Challenger Brands – with Rahul Raj

35

Is Posting On LinkedIn Worth It? With Mark Evans

36

Advertising means aligning creativity with business goals – Jean George

37

Why the brands who stand out win – a conversation with Saul Colt

38

Dan Park – CEO of Clutch

39

Roy Pereira – Technologist, Startup Founder & Investor

40

Roundtable on Cannabis in Ontario

41

Cato Pastoll – Canadian fintech bank founder

42

Andrew Ingham – Beer/wine buyer turned entrepreneur

43

Jasmine Daya – Personal injury lawyer and entrepreneur

44

Nick DenBoer aka Smearballs on his creative journey

45

Alan Smithson – Co-Founder, MetaVRse

46

Lisa Mattam – Founder, Sahajan

47

Stefany Nieto – COO & Co-founder, Gwella/MOJO

48

Samir Mourani & Matthew Chapman from Gent’s Talk [Ep.49]

49

Food Philanthropist Chef Jagger Gordon [ep.48]

50

Elizabeth Taylor aka Pureness [ep.47]

51

Simon Davis – Purposeful Intent [ep.46]

52

Robert Domagala – ReturnBear [ep.45]

53

Camille Moore – Third Eye Insights [Ep.44]

54

Syzl co-founders Azrah Manji and Adrian Savin (Ep. 43)

55

Eric Bizzarri from the Future of Film Showcase

56

Carbon6 Introduce Their Solutions for Amazon Sellers [Ep.41]

57

TechTO Introduces Their Insiders Subscription (Ep.40)

58

Michaelangelo Masangkay – Founder, Top Drone (Ep.39)

59

Ryan Bolton – Photographer (Ep.38)

60

Amin Jadavji – CEO/Founder, Elevate Farms

61

Ran Goel – Founder, Fresh City Farms (Ep.36)

62

Jacqueline Vong – CoFounder of Playology Intl (Ep.35)

63

Jay Rosenthal – CoFounder at Business of Cannabis (Ep.34)

64

Adam Weitner – Founder of Astrolab Studios (Ep33)

65

Len Senater from the Depanneur (Ep32)

66

Eric Joyal & John Sinopoli (Ep31)

67

Episode 30 – Aaron Wayne (First Aid Canada Inc.)

68

Episode 29 – Nikola Danaylov (Dark Futures 5/5)

69

Episode 28 – Melissa Eshaghbeigi (Dark Futures 4/5)

70

Episode 27 – Calla Lee (Dark Futures 3/5)

71

Episode 26 – Oksana Andreiuk (Dark Futures 2/5)

72

Episode 25 – Geoff Snack (Dark Futures, 1/5)

73

Episode 24 – Matt Cohen (Ripple Ventures)

74

Episode 23 – Retailing Cannabis in Ontario (Superette & BoC)

75

Episode 22 – David Adler (CEO & Founder, BizBash)

76

Episode 21 – The Media Landscape & Cannabis

77

Episode 20 – AppLabb

78

Episode 19 – Emergence Labs

79

Episode 18 – MotivBase

80

Episode 17 – Yenza3

81

Episode 16 – Panel on Augmented Reality in Retail

82

Episode 15 – Scott Nihill (Embreate)

83

Episode 14 – teaBot

84

Episode 13 – Addo (Source)

85

Episode 12: Marianne Bulger (Golden Ventures)

86

Episode 11: Karim Harji (Oxford University + Evalysis + Possibilian Ventures)

87

Episode 10: Corey Caplan (Gusto Worldwide Media)

88

Episode 9: Yuriy Blokhin (Bitfury – Lightning Network)