Helpful Podcast

Helpful Podcast

Accomplished folks sharing stories of who helped them

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March 15, 2024 37 mins

Isaac Souweine is a product manager tuned VC. his departure form his last product role wasn’t great. his move to investment was unplanned, and a result of a person believing in him. he’s loving his new path and been on it for the past decade.

Isaac is a dear friend, and this is his tale of human helpfulness.


SPEAKER LINKS:


Website

Pender Ventures

Linkedin

Twitter


MENTIONS:


John Stokes, partner at Real Ventures

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Brice Scheschuk sold a telecom company for over a billion. he didn’t have any mentors, wasn’t even coachable. he was lucky though to find the right comrades. they went all in, fought and won. you’ll hear the details. he doesn’t hold back. later, he did a 180 and started an organization to elevate the art of mentorship.

Brice is a role model to many, and this is his tale of human helpfulness.


SPEAKER LINKS:


Linkedin

Twitte...

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Kat Khosrowyar is the soccer player who beat the Taliban. she’s a founder, but of Iran’s U-19 national women’s soccer team. She had no shortage of tough times.

she moved from Texas to Iran as a teenager, a place not known for empowering women. she barely knowing the language. she joined the national women’s team, later coached it. She also helped a the Afghan national women soccer team flee the Taliban insurgency. And, none of that...

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How does a grade-8 boy obsessed with basketball become a successful founder with multiple exits and an active angel investor?

Daniel will tell you. He is an accomplished founder with multiple exits, co founder of Key and an active angel investor.

His story is fascinating. He takes us through being coached by a Harlem Globetrotter, a traumatic motorcycle accident, and the support he received throughout his startup career. Through ma...

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Aydin Mirzaee, an exited founder and co-founder/CEO of Fellow.app, shares how he faced several existential threats. Coincidently helping hands showed up, and got him out of it.


SPEAKER LINKS:

Fellow.app Twitter Linkedin


MENTIONS:

J. Mark A. Hoddenbagh

John Omura 

Scott C. Ensign

Martin Taller 


ABOUT THE HOST:

I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe most great things happen by random...

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Fred Bastien, an exited-founder turned investor, shares how was contemplating closing down his company, if it weren't for the help on someone with nothing to gain.


SPEAKER LINKS:


Amiral.vc Twitter Linkedin


MENTIONS:


Jean-Sebastien Cournoyer


ABOUT THE HOST:


I'm Vahid Jozi, a founder, product manager, and podcaster. I believe most great things happen by randomness, serendipity and helpfu...

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October 27, 2023 18 mins

Rob Kenedi understands the power of being genuinely helpful. He knows when you go out of your way to assist others, it comes back to you in unexpected ways. He was responsible for setting up Canada's 911 infrastructure. He didn't leave their implementation partner to fend for themselves. He took it upon himself to assist, working late, often into the morning. He didn't know this act of kindness would build a lasting co...

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September 20, 2023 48 secs

This podcast is Vahid Jozi's labour of love. He's in love with unearthing heartwarming stories of vulnerability and helpfulness. His goal is to encourage this net positive behaviour.


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