097 - Brad Pedersen - Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

Brad Pedersen is an award-winning entrepreneur, angel investor, thought leader, and sought-after business coach. In 2008, he founded and scaled Canada’s top toy company, Tech 4 Kids, and subsequently co-founded Pela, the $100m sustainable phone case startup that created an entirely new category.  In 2021, Brad and the team at Pela successfully launched a record-breaking $9.8M crowd-sourced campaign for the Lomi, the world’s first smart waste kitchen composter.   Brad has a passion for faith, fitness, adventure, and outdoor pursuits and lives in the mountains of British Columbia with his amazing wife, where they are building a beautiful life! Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Peter Platzer stands at the forefront of space technology as the founder and CEO of Spire Global, Inc. and its subsidiary. With a foundation in finance, having held pivotal roles at Deutsche Bank AG and TRG Management LP, Peter transitioned to space innovation with academic credentials from the International Space University and an MBA summa cum laude from Harvard Business School. His contributions earned him the esteemed White House Champion of Change award in 2013.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Dr. Pedram Shojai, an ex-Taoist monk and Kung Fu student, is a renowned doctor of Oriental Medicine and a pioneer in integrative health. Disillusioned by the limitations of traditional healthcare focused solely on acute care, he redirected his efforts towards promoting overall wellness and vitality. Shojai has authored 8 books, become a New York Times Bestselling Author, and produced numerous health-related films and series, emphasizing lifestyle changes for better health.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Roy Krebs is a passionate supplement manufacturing expert who strives to promote the need to have an optimally functioning brain. He does this by creating supplements that can help you boost your productivity. Brain health supplement holds tremendous potential in boosting our mood and overall cognitive function and with a balanced approach, we can unlock our full potential and lead lives brimming with vitality, and productivity.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Jon Nastor is a digital entrepreneur, podcaster, and bestselling author. Being a content-obsessed marketer, Jon loves driving organic traffic for outstanding companies. Not only is he the creator of “Hack the Entrepreneur”, he also owns several digital commerce sites. We’ll discuss his ADHD diagnosis when he was 39 years old, how it impacted his business career, what he’d advice to other digital entrepreneurs, and his own podcast.  

Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, WSJ Bestselling Author, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. Having spent 8 years working as a high-frequency trader on Wall Street, Nick developed a passion for efficiency before he founded his company Leverage. He has created the CPR® Business Efficiency Framework, which is the result of working nearly a decade with many teams across all industries. His framework helps teams to get better results, less stress, happier employees, and productivity - just by the use of the right tools in the right way. His latest book features Nick’s story as well as the CPR® Framework: Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

As a highly sought-after transformation and performance coach she takes leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities and ambitious individuals like you to the next level. Her work is more than just coaching, it’s a highly transformative experience, enabling you to shift the way you view yourself, others and the way you interact with the world and one another. It’s powerful work, support, expert strategy and accountability that change the trajectory of your life forever. She is here to elevate you, and help you create lasting success, in all areas of your life, from the inside out. She is a regularly featured mindset & transformation expert in media. You can see her places such as FOX, CBS & NBC. Samm’s prior history as a successful entrepreneur, who has scaled multiple businesses, has taken these years of personal experience, insight and the pain along the journey and combined it with her obsession to optimize human potential and the human experience. She learned through her personal journey what was effective and what wasn’t for providing lasting change. As a result, she utilizes the most powerful combination of the tools available to help you achieve your goals.   Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Dr. Adam Dorsay, licensed psychologist and certified executive coach, specializes in assisting high-achievers deal with issues in their relationships, stress, anxiety, and becoming more happy and fulfilled.  Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.

Angelo Keely is Co-founder and CEO of Kion, a company that offers premium, clean, research-backed supplements and foods that support a long and active life. He was born in Austin, Texas and was raised on a foundation of organic, mostly vegetarian, whole foods plus an array of supplements. After a series of traumatic events during his adolescence, Angelo dove headfirst into nutrition research, meditation, yoga, breathwork, cold/heat therapy, acupuncture, psychotherapy, and religious studies. With the dream of building the healthiest and most inspiring work culture at the heart of a fast-growth, consumer products company, Angelo co-founded Kion in 2017 in Boulder, Colorado.  

This week’s guest is Dan Martell, serial entrepreneur, investor, husband and athlete from Canada. He has coached over 600+ SaaS founders, founded 5 companies and successfully exited 3 of them. Knowing how rocky his journey was, he wanted to pass on his experiences by helping others to get there in half the time, which is why he created SaaS Academy. You’ll learn how Dan mastered his life after having had a rough upbringing which resulted in a high-speed chase with the police and what advice he gives to people who are in similar situations. He also talks about his newest book “Buy Back Your Time” where he teaches ho to build a business that you don’t grow to hate. Click here to get the full show notes and resources from this week’s episode.