Lean InWith Casey Grey
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Matthew Britt is an experienced entrepreneur. Matthew’s goal was always to be job free before his 30th birthday and that was successfully achieved at 29 years old when he resigned from being a personal trainer with GoodLife Fitness. After bringing a solar referral company called Powur to Canada in early 2017, Matt found that there was a need for home and business owners to take control of their energy from how it’s made to where it comes from. Matt oversees all company operations alongside COO Forrest Vetter-Wilson and utilizes his connections to continually establish partnerships.
In this conversation with Casey, Matt talks about his dad and his first taste of entrepreneurial life entering the network marketing world. He talks about a conversation with his chiropractor that inspired the "Let's hug it out" brand and his daring jump into the solar industry at at time when many in the industry were leaving and lots more great information in this podcast including Matt's audacious billion dollar plans. "Everytime a family in Ontario installs a 10kw solar array we can help roughly 25-30 families in a developing nation get power for the first time” "Nothing feels like work anymore it’s fantastic”
Jeffrey Leiper is the current Ottawa city councillor for Kitchissippi Ward. He was first elected in the Ottawa municipal election, 2014.
Leiper was born and raised in Ottawa. He studied History and English at the University of Ottawa, and Print Journalism at Algonquin College. As a youth, Leiper was a member of the youth wing of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, though he is now a committed progressive. He has lived in Kitchissippi Ward since 1995 when he and his spouse Natalie moved into the Julian Apartments in the Wellington West area. Today, he lives in Hintonburg with Natalie and their son. In this podcast Jeff talks shares his motivations for getting into politics, what are his principles are and what it means to be courageous. He touches on how quality of life should influence policy and planning and some of the Climate initiatives including the recently declared Climate Emergency and the ongoing energy evolution and on the personal side adapting to work and life after his recent heart attack. "At the end of the day you just try to be true to a certain set of principles, and when the trolls comes out, if you’ve done your work and stayed true to your principles and been courageous in your pursuit, a lot of the negative comments will roll off. Some of it stings, everyday someone will be hypercritical of something that you are pursuing or a decision you’ve made, or a process that hasn’t turned out the way they want. But if you can go to bed, staying true to your principles, being open minded, did I do the right thing, than ultimately it will roll off, it’s a huge rollercoaster"
"We know building our little Eco-friendly home won't have a huge impact on the environment, but we still want to do it."
In this Podcast, Casey interviews his wife and life partner, Natasha Grey.
A former Psychotherapist and the author of the acclaimed children’s book, Everyday Superheroes. She is also the host of iTunes New and Noteworthy podcast, The Conscious Living Podcast where she spent two years interviewing and learning from the best in the industry, everyone from NY Times bestselling authors to CEO's of large organizations who incorporate meditation into their business’ as well as powerful women raising a family at home. Natasha's experience as a psychotherapist combined with her immersive work in meditation practices’ gives her an incredible advantage of cultivating a unique, transformative environment and experience for all human beings from all walks of life. After years of exploring different meditation practices, Natasha concluded that it's not one type of meditation practice that fits all. Younion doesn’t hold a specific belief structure around one type of meditation, but rather encompasses a variety of modalities, practices and philosophies. Younion has a variety of offerings to choose from that accommodates everyone's needs on any given day without having to ascribe to a particular belief or religion to guide their practice or experience. People feel like they're missing out on all the good stuff which was the crap that was making them sick to begin with as opposed to: You get to put this beautiful source of energy into your body and this is what you're going to get because of it.
In this episode, Casey Interviews his gymnastic’s coach Alex MacInnes.
Alex was born and raised in Prince Edward Island where he competed in gymnastics and represented PEI in 7 Canadian National Championships. He moved to Ottawa to pursue his studies and work with at-risk youth before deciding to take the big risk and open up his own gymnastics training centre. Now, with a growing team of gymnasts, he continues to grow as a coach and help youth and adults pursue improvements in strength, flexibility and cardio all while having a good time! Alex talks about growing up in gymnastics and the transition from athlete to business owner and much more! Check out the podcast links below for more information. It's so important to find balance in your training that's going to allow you to move better, feel better and live longer. That's what I'm really after. Helping people achieve that with the end goal of happiness.
I do not expect perfection but I do expect mastery. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
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Meet Chris Castillo, serial entrepreneur, part owner of Ottawa’s Koichi Ramen and Mechanic to You. He’s been a business mentor of Casey’s for over 6 years as part of his Master Entrepreneur consulting group and recently launched a second coaching company called Fire Within.
In this episode we learn how Chris developed his entrepreneurial skills as a kid living with a single mom growing up in the desert of Chile to how he made his first $500 in consulting services at the age of 18. Chris has a ton to offer in this podcast. Everything from goal setting to good business principles to how to be innovative and creative and how to use other people’s money. As usual, he over delivers! A lot of new businesses get into the practice of getting the wrong stuff. A new desk, new phone, website, business cards, logo... Get the customer first and THEN grow it! “
You wouldn’t guess that Chad has 10 years on Casey, his half brother, they were even wrestling partners growing up, so it comes with much excitement that Casey finally sits down for a conversation with his brother, Chad St-Louis.
Chad shares stories beginning with his early childhood. Born with hearing loss and a heart arrhythmia and living with a single mom, Chad’s situations were influential in developing that sense of empathy for others. This has been a key factor to his success and life’s work. From being a mechanical engineer to starting and running his own engineering consulting firm, to joining Casey at The Conscious Builder and now partnering on their newest company, Gingko, Chad is a force for good. Chad shares his life changing experience and Christmas miracle that occurred on December 21st, 2018. He talks about the factors that led up to this event, what happened and how it has changed his work and family life for the better. He shares some of these changes and ideas that we can take advantage of and start implementing in our own daily practices. Understanding that we have different strengths and respecting those strengths of the other person, so we’re not competing and there is no ego involved, we’re not about being right, it’s about doing what’s best for everybody, whether that’s the team, the homeowners, youtube viewers or the listeners of this podcast, its how do we make it better for the people that we’re doing this for.
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