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The StartWell Podcast — 92 episodes

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1

Connor Renton Thinks Your Rec League Should Feel Like the NBA

2

His Ghost Army Posts for You, at Scale — Legally (Matt Espinoza)

3

$600M Earned, Zero Commission: Why Stan Gives Away the Money

4

How Shopify's Head of Engineering Thinks About His Job And AI - Farhan Thawer

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Som Seif on Why Canadians Are Afraid of the Wrong Thing

9

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

10

Teaching Students to Embrace Failure | AJ Tibando

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

How Founders Should Think About Partnerships - Chris Lavoie

15

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

16

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

17

How Sherpa Built the Infrastructure Behind Global Travel - Max Tremaine

18

Public Policy for Founders - A Conversation with Morva Rohani

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

Understanding Burnout: A Deep Dive with Duncan So

25

Building Float: Ruslan Nikolaev on Disrupting Canadian Fintech

26

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

27

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

28

Scott Knox From The ICA On Why Brands Need More Canada

29

Perspective on Toronto's Fintech Ecosystem with Nik Milanović

30

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

31

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

32

James McKay on Why RevOps is ESSENTIAL for Growing Businesses

33

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

34

Farah Mohamed Exposes the Unemployment Crisis Costing Us Billions

35

The Fearless Approach to Scaling Revenue Operations | Kyle Norton

36

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

37

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

38

On Challenger Brands – with Rahul Raj

39

Is Posting On LinkedIn Worth It? With Mark Evans

40

Advertising means aligning creativity with business goals – Jean George

41

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

42

Dan Park – CEO of Clutch

43

Roy Pereira – Technologist, Startup Founder & Investor

44

Roundtable on Cannabis in Ontario

45

Cato Pastoll – Canadian fintech bank founder

46

Andrew Ingham – Beer/wine buyer turned entrepreneur

47

Jasmine Daya – Personal injury lawyer and entrepreneur

48

Nick DenBoer aka Smearballs on his creative journey

49

Alan Smithson – Co-Founder, MetaVRse

50

Lisa Mattam – Founder, Sahajan

51

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

52

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

53

Food Philanthropist Chef Jagger Gordon [ep.48]

54

Elizabeth Taylor aka Pureness [ep.47]

55

Simon Davis – Purposeful Intent [ep.46]

56

Robert Domagala – ReturnBear [ep.45]

57

Camille Moore – Third Eye Insights [Ep.44]

58

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