Work-in-Progress: A Podcast about Business, Mindset, and Personal Growth

In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Jeffrey Jiang, the co-founder and co-owner of Tochi, a thriving specialty desserts business, and delve into his entrepreneurial journey that started with a student painting business. Jeffrey shares valuable insights into the mindset shifts, personal growth, and lessons learned from both ventures that have shaped his approach to life and business. Jeffrey Jiang is a graduate from BCIT's Business Administration program where he specialized in Marketing. His largest passion however, revolves around entrepreneurship - Jeffrey's first venture was a student painting business faciliated through Student Works Painting where he did over six figures of revenue in his first year. He then went on to found and develop Tochi, a specialty desserts business that creates novel Hong Kong Style French Toast with Japanese Mochi inside. This business was a hit, and Tochi's first year of business went extremely well. He has also worked for Ebury, a foreign exchange and trading institution, where he specialized in sales.

An exciting dialogue, discussion, and in-depth look into marketing, digital media, and videography, as well as a discussion on chasing your passions, whether Bachelor degrees are still useful, and how Terry made an Arcteryx ad. Terry discusses his journey in marketing and shares with us key learnings and lessons from his time freelancing on the side, while progressing his career, working for large companies like Telus in the realm of marketing. Terry Lam is in his final year at UBC Sauder's Bachelor of Commerce program, specializing in marketing. He has done marketing for a whole host of companies, ranging from mid-enterprise level to full scale companies like Telus. Terry is also a highly skilled videographer and content creator in which he's created many exciting videos and projects for friends, family, and clients. His freelance work has earned him a significant reputation amongst his faculty and friends. He will be returning to Telus in the fall season for marketing. Terry also wishes that more people would walk on the right side of the hallways.

A very insightful conversation talking about the Luxury and Designer Retail industry as a whole, shining a light on some of the inner workings of the industry, as well as some powerful insights and perspectives from Jesse Hoogendoorn, who currently works in Operations at Louis Vuitton. We discuss a variety of topics, secrets, and lesser-known facts about the designer/luxury industry, as well as his insights in working on the retail level and having transitioned through various companies.  Jesse Hoogendoorn is a currently an Operations Associate at Louis Vuitton. He's also worked at various high-end companies like Canada Goose, Burberry, and Equinox. He holds a diploma in Kinesiology and seeks to one day work at the VPD.

A discussion on the accounting discipline, as well as some exciting and insightful discussions on topics like transitioning from being a full-time student to a full-time wage earner, remote work + work-life balance, as well as some discussion on EY and the other Big 4 firms. Prabhbir shares with us key insights and experience garnered from his time progressing through his undergraduate program, as well as the transition to and current state of work in the field of accounting. Prabhbir is a recent graduate from UBC Sauder's Bachelor of Commerce program, where he specialized in accounting. He currently works at EY in their audit department, after executing on a successful summer position there the year prior. Prabhbir has helped manage and run various student clubs, and was very involved in the community. He is a die-hard Canucks fan.

Today's special episode discusses the inner workings, experience, and special insights regarding the tech industry, featuring Achinth Bharadwaj! Achinth is a highly successful computer science and statistics major student, currently working at Tesla, and transitioning into Meta Products Ltd (formerly known as Facebook) next year. He shares with us his insights and special knowledge about what his experience is like working in the tech industry, and makes the case why tech is the most exciting and overall greatest industry that one can work in. He drops a lot of wisdom in this episode, be sure to tune in!

An enlightened overview of important personal finance topics like savings, investments, credit cards, and more. Afkar and Picard goes over the importance of managing personal finance and its ramifications on all aspects of your life. Super important Episode to listen to!

Afkar and Picard have been absent for a while, so we discuss life updates and catch up on the things going on in each other's lives. We discuss the progress and challenges of Afkar's card game, F@#K2020 and also talk about some key business lessons and insights from Picard's painting business and some of his challenges, triumphs, and key takeaways.

In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of the painting industry and provide insight into Andrew and Picard's painting businesses. We talk about how Andrew and Picard got into painting specifically and the nature of their work, as well as some of the financials, operations, and management of their respective businesses. Great discussions about mindset and different perspectives took place! Andrew Yong is currently a Kinesiology student running his painting business for the 3rd consecutive year. He has sold and produced over $400,000 in revenue and is looking to continue this business into the next year (and beyond).

An episode discussing the ideas of humility and open-mindedness in relation to friendships, family, and business. Afkar and Kevin also discuss a juicy, but heated, conflict they had recently.  A longtime friend of Picard and Afkar, Kevin Vu is an aspiring nurse with a strong background in physical fitness, personal training, and rehabilitation.

The second part of the Relationships topic - where we discuss romantic relationships!

A lengthy episode about relationships - with part one being about friendships, business relationships and general relationships.

An episode discussing career ambitions, as well as introducing a bit about ourselves and our personal experiences regarding life/career goals, what drives us, and personal ambitions.