The World Or Nothing made its World Premiere on Saturday April 27th at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival.
Produced and directed by my next guest, The World Or Nothing follows two Cuban brothers in Barcelona looking to make it big. What does it mean to make it big in today’s online and always on world?
My next guest explores this question through the eyes of 29 year old Cuban twin brothers trying to gain international recognition as a singing, dancing duo.
Jaime Stein – formerly from Toronto – is now a Vancouver resident and Chief Client Officer for Winnipeg-based, ICUC.
Stein joined me inside the Girth Radio studio for an in-depth chat about his travels, his passions, work and why Canada has the best sunsets in the world!
This is episode #133 of the Welcome! podcast.
Here are some of the things we talked about:
The SportsConnectTO panel that started the friendship between Jaime Stein and Karim Kanji.
Jaime’s experience in preparing for and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
His work with the National Public Cord Blood Bank.
Doing varsity football play-by-play for Queen’s University in Kingston while going to school at Toronto’s Ryerson University.
Meeting Keith Pelley while at TSN helped Jaime Stein kickstart his professional sports broadcasting career.
Calling the play-by-play for the Toronto Argonauts.
His role at ING Bank in Canada.
Working the social media war room as ING changed their name and branding to Tangerine.
Why Jaime Stein had enough of Toronto and moved to Vancouver.
His role at Vancouver’s Hootsuite.
Leaving Hootsuite to join another company helping brands navigate the social media space, ICUC.
Jaime Stein finally ends the debate on which city province has the better sunsets: Ontario or British Columbia.
Georgia Sapounas is the Digital Team Lead for Team Canada. Georgia joined me in studio before she left for PyeongChang, South Korea to give me the scoop on this year’s Winter Olympic digital program.
Georgia Sapounas is a former Canadian and World Champion figure skater and current Senior Manager of Digital Marketing for Team Canada (Canadian Olympic Committee).
In this episode we talk about her journey from a child wanting to be in the Olympics to being on the women’s team figure skating team at the Canadian and World Championships. We also chatted about her retiring from elite athletics and getting into digital and social media.
Today, Georgia heads up strategy and planning for Team Canada’s digital and social team.
This podcast was originally published on: May 10 2016 on Girth Radio.
Sonya Gill is a serial entrepreneur, former ad agency owner and executive, author, social media and Pr professional, fitness model and Tim Hortons employee. Wait! What?! Yes!
Sonya and I discuss dropping out of university, lying to her parents about grad school, moving to Toronto as a single South Asian woman with no job, her life in broadcast media, how women should deal with trolls (online and off), her agency Youzus, buyer’s remorse, her new app, what she’s doing with Tim Hortons, and SO MUCH MORE!
Watch the Internet as it grows in real time and monitor social media usage: Internet users, websites, blog posts, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Pinterest users. Visualize the total number of emails, Google searches, YouTube videos, Tumblr posts, Instagram photos, in 1 second. Historical trends, statistics, infographics and live data visualization
This podcast was originally recorded in May 2011 as part of the XConnect series.
Ryan Holmes is the CEO and founder of Vancouver-based HootSuite. What started as a simple social media dashboard has now grown into a billion dollar company. Take a listen to one of the early interviews with this Canadian startup success story.
This past week I sat down again with Mark Farmer. For the second time. He was on the show back in Episode #2. In this episode we chat about all things social media. I hope you enjoy this episode.
Just before he finished working with Flight Centre as it’s global head of social media, Gregg Tilston and I sat down to chat about music, touring, Toronto, travel, social media and lots of other things.
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Music by Afraaz Mulji.
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