Ingredients’ success: Capturing people’s attention

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Success tips shared after their first great year of running an organic, bulk food store.

Location.. starts with a belief

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One of the owners of Victoria’s Ingredients on how they overcame traditional mores about traditional views of what makes a great location for an organic food store.

Mike Colwill ( 2009) at Stelly’s

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a businessman and entrepreneu,r life has been totally spontaneous. Things just worked out positive in his life. He credits this to his parents’ positive approach to life:.. “Bad news/good news”.–. be able to spin something good .. out of any

Questions support creativity

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The role that questions can have to support creativity in business.

The story of Pender Botanicals

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Zoe Landale, a writer, poet, professor talks about a culminating enterprise, the creating and marketing of Pender Botanicals. In 2021 it was closed. Here is a link to her playlist.

Revolutionary changes in food and agriculture

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An engineer shares how food production and distribution is moving towards radical change.

Finding interesting companies

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A process to finding interesting companies, that goes beyond ‘net searches.

Building happiness into work teams

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Experiences at Google which touch the hearts and aspirations of staff, which motivate far more than bonuses.

TEDx Victoria: Making the Shift to Authentic Conversation

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What does it take to make the most out of any conversation, to move past the superficial to the extraordinary. Click Here to view this 10 minute TEDx talk from November 2012

Traveling and working ‘light’

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How to find opportunities in life. In the spirit of Richard Bransons’ ‘Opportunities are like buses, they just keep coming.’