Square Peg Entrepreneur

Nikki Stasiuk

A podcast of stories, strategies, and inspiration from personal brand entrepreneurs who are disrupting their industries and doing business their own way. If your branding feels blah and you’re sick of blending in, Square Peg Entrepreneur may be just what you need to finally celebrate your one-of-a-kind style and attitude. Nikki Stasiuk is a brand designer and strategist who has helped over 300 entrepreneurs embrace and amplify what makes them unique. Since 2009, her agency Fetching Finn Inc. has been getting clients noticed in person, online, and in print by highlighting their magnetic and unforgettable qualities. With a gentle nudge of permission from Nikki and her guests, you’ll be eager to put your unexpressed self aside and finally show the world what makes you - and doing business with you - completely different. Hit subscribe and get ready to feel incredibly confident and excited about “brand you”.

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Focus is overrated with Caroline Ceniza-Levine
Aug 19 2022
Focus is overrated with Caroline Ceniza-Levine
Caroline Ceniza-Levine is a career expert, founder of the Dream Career Club, and a media personality sharing career advice and hiring trends for the US job market.Caroline is a Senior Contributor to Forbes Leadership, author of Jump Ship: 10 Steps To Starting A New Career and executive coach for Columbia Business School’s Executive Program in Management. She has been a repeat guest on CBS, CNN, CNBC, and Fox Business and is regularly quoted in major media outlets. Caroline speaks on all aspects of landing your dream career, including how to change careers into something new, how to build a strong personal brand, how to cultivate a supportive network and how to negotiate what you’re worth.A longtime recruiter, Caroline shares the inside knowledge of how companies decide who to hire, promote or let go. She has coached executives from Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey, Tesla, and other leading firms on how to make a great living doing work they love. Clients work with Caroline to advance their careers from middle management to the executive level, to make more money (including landing significant raises) or to make a big career pivot and do something new.A classically trained pianist at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, Caroline stays active in the arts, writing and producing with FBC Films. Caroline divides her time among Florida, New York, and Costa Rica.Highlights:‌01:06 Meet Caroline01:37 Fear03:42 Career Transition05:22 What Brings you Joy?07:54  An Inkling12:15 The Stand-up Comedy17:41 Unique Things in Us24:01 Bucket List25:33 The Dream Career Club29:17 What’s My Next Thing?31:03 Connect with Caroline
How to tell a compelling story with Denise Summers
Aug 4 2022
How to tell a compelling story with Denise Summers
Denise Summers helps business owners to solve the mystery of how to tell a compelling story that captures the hearts and minds of their audience. She's like a story detective; she keeps digging to uncover the clues of why your customers should hire you and not your competition.Denise brings an innate and tenacious curiosity along with her gift for writing to help others to uncover and articulate their true stories and to share them with the world. Her background includes working with a range of clients from start-ups to multi-national companies and her focus today is on working with small to medium sized businesses to help them get better results through better stories.Previously, she held a number of communications advisory positions in the energy, financial and nonprofit fields. Since 2007, Denise has consulted, helping to tell the stories of and create meaningful change for many organizations in a range of sectors. She is able to adapt her storytelling and writing skills to projects as diverse as a multi-national oil company needing help during a takeover to bring new employees into the future, to ghostwriting the first business book for a successful local HR consultancy (which created significant awareness and attention for the company and resulted in new clients), to media pitching for a First Nations colouring book and journal (several years later, this once bootstrap start-up produces several other products and has expanded into a nonprofit).World Report for her expertise.Highlights:‌00:52 Business and Storytelling01:58 The Story to Tell03:50 Painting the Picture08:08 Career in Communications12:12 The Value of Stories15:00 Being A Ghost Writer20:33 Leveraging your Book24:04 Where to Find Denise
Breaking barriers in the travel industry with Sahara Rose De Vore
Jul 9 2022
Breaking barriers in the travel industry with Sahara Rose De Vore
Sahara Rose De Vore is a Wellness Travel Coach and the founder of The Travel Coach Network. She spent a decade traveling the globe to over 84 countries by the age of 31. After believing that there was more to a travel career than blogging and bookings, Sahara became a pioneer in the travel coaching industry. She educates and empowers ambitious travel professionals to think outside of the industry's box and build a travel business that aligns with their passion and expertise in travel.Sahara is the creator and owner of the world’s first and only ICF accredited certification program for travel coaches. Realizing the scaling burnout epidemic in business travel and the workplace, she now empowers and educates companies on the wellness and work performance benefits of travel. Her mission is to reshape the wellness tourism industry and incorporate travel into every company’s wellness initiative.She is a member of the Global Business Travel Association's Risk Committee, a published author, and a global speaker. Sahara Rose has been seen in various media outlets including Thrive Global, Forbes, Skift, Yahoo! Finance, USA Today, Corporate Wellness Magazine, Business Insider, Ticker News, and U.S News & World Report for her expertise.Highlights:‌00:44 Here’s Sahara01:15 What is Travel Coaching03:21 Travel Career06:54 The Creative Way of Travel Coaching11:44 The Travel Coach Network19:48 What to Expect in Joining the Travel Network22:41 Exchange of Ideas and Experiences28:00 Applications of Travel Coaching29:24 Start your Idea34:14 Get more of Sahara Rose
Pioneering bone health and saving lives with Jonathan Hafichuk
Jun 9 2022
Pioneering bone health and saving lives with Jonathan Hafichuk
Jonathan Hafichuk’s first introduction to video was when a family friend gave him a camcorder. He started making videos with LEGO people while John Williams played in the background (anything is cinematic with John Williams).Later, Jon dove into parkour and began making videos to get the notice of sponsors, which lead to traveling around North America for competitions. After graduating from post-secondary school in Lethbridge, he started online marketing for his parents’ store, where he realized the power of video production in the digital marketing space. When other local businesses saw Jon’s work, they hired him to do the same for them. This was the birth of Symbol Syndication.In 2017, Jon expanded Symbol Syndication from Lethbridge to Calgary, serving some of the top companies in Canada and even several Global 500 companies.In 2019, Jonathan was able to take a step back from Symbol Syndication and started running Flagship Business Brokers. With the guidance of a senior corporate lawyer, he helped entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. In 2020, Jonathan partnered with two others to launch BioStrong, a unique solution to naturally improve bone density and reverse the effects of osteoporosis.Highlights:‌01:11 Meet Jon02:45 Family Business05:07 Symbol Syndication07:53 Parkour and Video Making11:18 Getting a Degree and Entrepreneurship16:03 Flagship Business Brokers20:09 BioStrong28.44 Business Expansion30:35 Patience32:00 Buy and Sell Business36:25 Sign Up for a  Free Session
Know your numbers and plan for profit with Melissa Houston
Feb 14 2022
Know your numbers and plan for profit with Melissa Houston
Melissa Houston is a Financial Strategist for CEOs, a columnist at Forbes.com, and the host of The Business Society podcast. A licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), she helps successful business owners increase their profit margins without having to increase revenue so that they keep more money in their pocket while increasing their personal wealth. Melissa's seen the bottom and climbed her way back up, she personally and financially bounced back from concealing $100k in personal debt from her husband. She shares her story to remind people that your mistakes don't define you, and as humans, we all make mistakes and can recover from them. Now she uses that to teach entrepreneurs to become financially literate in order to create profit in their businesses. She has over 20 years of business experience with large and small corporations, government, and not-for-profit industries while specializing in Internal Controls, corporate accounting, budgets, financial reporting, corporate & personal tax, audit, and SR&ED. Melissa enjoys helping business owners build their businesses by increasing their financial management skills. Your numbers are telling you a story – make sure you are listening to it.Melissa’s passion is helping business owners go from 6-figure to 7-figure businesses and achieving their personal financial dreams.When Melissa isn’t helping entrepreneurs become better CEO’s of their business, she can be found at the cottage with her husband Jamie, two teen children, and three dogs.Highlights:‌01:11 Meet Melissa: Loving and Understanding Numbers04:22 Sales and Profits06:45 DIY Accounting11:23 Finding the Right Person in Accounting14:24 Accounting and Strategy16:54 How to Recover your Business19:04 Parallels between Personal and Business Finances21:50 Informed Decisions25:45 Ready to Make a Change26:13 Fractional CFO  30:41 Business  Society Podcast34:12 Five Steps Road Map
Paint your next-level success with Haley Hoover
Nov 14 2021
Paint your next-level success with Haley Hoover
As an international Success Coach + Intuitive Artist, Haley Hoover helps coaches and entrepreneurs break through their next level of success with ease. Through her Intuitive Business™ framework, she has helped dozens of women grow their online businesses and self-publish their first books with fun and flow.An Amazon #1 New Release Author, Haley is the go-to expert for business owners who wish to deepen their innovation and expression. Haley’s expertise has been featured in PositivelyPositive, Thrive Global, Thought Catalogue, and Hypnozine among others. She has also spoken alongside Deepak Chopra and is the host of the Top 5% Globally ranked podcast, The Sparkling Hippie Podcast.When she’s not sitting behind her psychedelic-colored laptop, she can be found watching 60’s hippie documentaries in Sonora, California, where she resides with her partner.Highlights:‌01:22 Meet Haley03:34 60’s Influence04:44 Business and Intuition09:07 How to Follow your Intuition12:41  How to Keep Creativity Alive15:44 Trusting your Ideas21:42 Tips for Aspiring Authors27:50 Following your Creative Cycle31:59 Intuitive Painting35:35 What can you Expect?37:24 Artworks by Haley39:13 Haley’s Books40:24 Sparkling Hippie Podcast41:33 Free Gift from HaleyAfter the show...Head over to https://fetchingfinn.com/paint-your-next-level-success-with-haley-hoover to see the painting Haley created in our Intuitive Art Experience and learn about the mind-blowing results!