Genuine Curiosity
Ever wonder what happens offstage in life or profession? Come hangout and see where curiosity leads.
Episodes
Talking with Conor Phillips, founder of fuel2go and pathfinder365 about building a team, embracing rest, and challenges along the way.
- Features of a quality vending machine.
- Understanding the responsibilities of business ownership.
- Handling uncertainty, and ways to recharge.
- How technology is changing customer interaction...
Talking with Bahir Sokmenoglu Saskatoon Liquor Store manager and Level 3 Sommelier, about alcohol trends, innovations, and collaborations.
- Ways alcohol preferences vary depending on area of the city.
- How current drink trends effect local brewers.
- Resilient grapes for wine.
- Stresses of forecasting and ordering products.
Talking to Don Leslie, Chief Animal Protection Officer, about common calls, moving on from the armed forces, and effective communication.
- Distinction between conservation, animal protection, and animal control.
- Changes in animals able to be owned after 2020.
- Transitioning to a more trauma informed enforcement model.
- Understanding hoarding behaviour.
- How animal calls can uncover more criminal...
Talking to Adam Read, Safety Officer, about workplace safety, animal encounters, and deciding to leave the rigs to be with family.
- Consequences of neglecting paperwork on the job.
- Common hazards on site.
- Accidents witnessed.
- Keeping a level head.
- Ways to reset after a hard day.
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Talking to Brett Cowden, Critical Care Paramedic, about managing stress, favourite piece of gear, and lessons learned throughout his career.
- Responsbilities as you age.
- Practicing HALO events.
- How stress is applied during simulations.
- Main stressors of the job.
- Ways to process all the trauma you encounter.
- Reason to be EMS.
- Frequency of triage situations.
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Talking to Mike Zimmer, Owner of Uncle Mike's All Natural Products, about his recent house move, favourite products he makes, and balancing it all.
- Extra costs that can incur when moving a house.
- Properties of soap.
- The benefits of shifting the business from home based to offsite.
- Developing the scent of a product.
- Mistakes made along the way.
- Learning to not sweat the small stuff.
- Steps taken to mitigate ...
Talking with Jason Holowach Owner of Grip It Climbing, about indoor climbing, gym design, and ways to challenge your athletes.
- Efficiency when climbing.
- Balancing climbing, coaching, business, and family.
- Intricacies of competition.
- Ways to apply competition pressure in the training room.
- Difference between real rock and indoor...
Talking with Will Rodriguez, Owner Operator at Old Dutch, about work ethic, father figures, and different times of loss.
- Pandemic projects.
- Claiming store display space for your product.
- Growing up with immigrant parents.
- Realizing how tastes change.
- Love of cooking.
- Grandparents and importance of t...
Talking to Aaron Miles, a 20 year fixed wing pilot, about the most critical time of a flight, and choosing lifestyle over pay.
- How visibility affects the approach to landing an airplane.
- Safety protocols.
- Different technologies for an approach.
- The need to re-certify twice a year.
- How your expectations of th...
Talking to Arvy Abarquez, advanced care paramedic, about levels of paramedic services, mindset, and what constitutes an emergency.
- Physical requirements to be a paramedic.
- Most difficult hurdle to cross when on a call.
- Reason he got into healthcare, and the shock of what the schooling and job entailed.
- Main tools he used ...
Talking with Jeremy Lamontagne, Financial Planner, about respecting animals you hunt, computer networks, and keys to retirement planning.
- Understanding the patterns of animal movement and bedding.
- When revenue earned isn't worth the time lost.
- Setting up networks and training staff.
- The amount of time needed for testing computer systems for unforeseen errors.
- Preventing losses from not cla...
Discussing challenges of nursing school, reasons seniors transfer to long term care, and dementia patients.
- Considerations needed when caring for pediatric patients.
- How the perspective changes when doing palliative care.
- Patient bed ridden for 3 months able to walk in 2 days.
- Best parts of being on the medical surgical floor.
- Difficult aspects of caring for dementia patients.
- Online class s...
Discussing how past mistakes in product design engineering can help the next project, overcoming imposter syndrome, and competing in the Baja SAE.
- What is involved when designing products for a client.
- Trying to design systems that account for the human element.
- Providing safer and more efficient solutions.
- The variety of problems you have to solve.
- Considering past mistakes in your...
Singing Lessons
Talking with Aliah Elliot (@musicmindfully) of musicmindfully.com about the two things needed to hit a high note in singing lessons, techniques to be consistent in any space, and how proper singing feels.
- Learning the science of teaching.
- How universal singing is.
- The muscle co-ordination required to sing.
- Significance of visualization.
- First steps to underst...
Talking with Majid Hassas PhD about issues when using natural ingredients, common goals clients have, and the challenges of agricultural consulting.
- Top agriculture school in Canada.
- Graduating into a recession.
- Cannabis licensing wait times.
- The drawbacks of working for government.
- Showing future clients your experience when most clients want your involvement to be confidential.
- Ch...
Discussing the underground mining process, machines used, and unique safety protocols in noisy environments.
- Moving from installing glass to working in the mines.
- Amount of physical labor involved in mining.
- Underground mining process.
- Running a continuous miner, and the extreme temperatures the operator can face.
- When wearing extra hearing protection can enhance your awareness.
- The mach...
Discussing traits that resilient people have, understanding what drives your behavior, and the unexpected isolation of counselling.
- Transition from healthcare to counseling.
- Realizing your role is to offer and explain tools to the client not to shoulder the burden of action.
- Understanding our inner narrative.
- Deciding and believing you are capable of change is a crucial step.
- Varying processes bas...
Talking to Will Millar, owner of Will's Lock and Key, about the difficulties you encounter as a locksmith, the realities of the job, and concentrating under pressure.
- Skill involved to gain entry.
- The checklist you go through before taking a job.
- Common reasons people are calling you.
- Low hiring rate of the profession.
- How difficult it is to transfer the knowledge into skill.
- Fun of aspects of th...
Talking with Tom Wolf Phd (@nozzle_guy) about the latest technology for an agricultural sprayer, proper timing of application, and the value of weather data.
Tom is the owner of Agrimetrix Research & Training, a company focused on improved delivery of crop protection products.
Episode Notes
- A crop in the presence of competition will limit its own growth. ...
Discussing dangers of detonating dynamite in dense ground, the set up process for seismic exploration, and best roles on the team.
- Extreme environments you work in and the long hours.
- Most grueling job on the team.
- How every member of an efficient team can do all roles needed.
- Importance of finding your own pace while setting up in cold conditions.
- How technology has reduced the amount of ...
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