SBCN Small Biz Podcast

Joining Linda Ockwell-Jenner is Stephen Currado from TELUS Business Solutions to talk about some of the ways in which TELUS gives back to the community. TELUS Days of Giving, now in it’s 12th year, are a series of events taking place from coast-to-coast in Canada. To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday this year, TELUS are aiming to do 1,000,000 hours of giving—a phenomenal goal! 

Celebrating our 100th episode, Linda Ockwell-Jenner chats with Kerstin Kramer, owner of Premier Focus Translations, a company focused on helping companies do business in other languages. In this episode, we focus on doing business in Québec, and dealing with Québeçois buyers and the market in Canada’s unique province—a topic which Kerstin has written about previously.

Linda Ockwell-Jenner returns with guest Holly Parsons of Beauticontrol discussing her recently launched beauty care and spa business and the unique approach she takes to marketing. Holly regularly posts tips and tricks as well as a great series of videos. 

Linda Ockwell-Jenner chats with Detective Shawn Marshall from the Computer Cyber Crime (C3) section of Intelligence Services of the Toronto Police Service. In the discussion, Detective Marshall shares some important lessons for small business owners to protect their business from cyber attack.

Northern River Financial’s Steve Bentley returns to chat with SBCN Co-Founder Linda Ockwell-Jenner about RSP season. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the RSP program by the Canadian government. Find out some tips on how to maximize for your retirement and integrate saving as part of your regular financial planning.

Linda Ockwell-Jenner, Co-Founder of the Small Business Community Network (SBCN) returns with another episode of the SBCN Small Biz Podcast. In this episode, Linda discusses the importance of asking questions of potential vendors. Do you need their services? Are they delivered in a way that supports your business?

Linda Ockwell-Jenner, and regular SBCN Small Biz Podcast guest Steve Bentley, discuss the topic of how an entrepreneur can benefit from ‘giving back’ to charity and the community. Have you heard of Giving Tuesday — perhaps the lesser known day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Beyond that, what are the benefits of giving back?

Steve Bentley returns to chat with Linda Ockwell-Jenner about Entrepreneurs who make mistakes, and share their experiences. We all make mistakes, but what can we recognize as positive outcomes from that? What did we learn? Failure may be an "opportunity to progress".

Nathan Parsons joins Linda Ockwell-Jenner to discuss holiday light safety! It’s the time of year when many of us will decorate our homes and gardens with Christmas lights, so what do we need to consider when brightening the winter months?

Steve Bentley and Linda Ockwell-Jenner chat on the latest episode of the SBCN Small Biz Podcast. In this episode, the pair discuss a video and article from Ottawa Public Health. It highlights that the psychological demands in the jobs that we do today that could be a hazard to our health and wellbeing if our jobs aren’t matched properly to our skills, knowledge, and emotional intelligence. Did you know that Canada has a National Standard for Psychological health and safety in the workplace?