Are you a busy mom or entrepreneur? Take a deep breath and create a better life for you and your family! Elaine Tan Comeau, founder of Easy Daysies (www.easydaysies.com a favorite winning pitch on Dragons' Den, Canada's Shark Tank), mom of 3, wife, foodie, stroke survivor, former school teacher, author & speaker, and Mompreneur of the Year in Canada, talks to you about Creating Better family, health, mental health, business and self, all straight from the kitchen table - where it started for her and where it can start for you! This season’s guests include Greg McKeown (author of runaway bestseller Essentialism), Erica Ehm (pioneering MuchMusic VJ), Tonia Jahshan (W100 #1 Canadian female entrepreneur), Ann Douglas (CBC Radio parenting expert/columnist), Dr Vanessa Lapointe (registered psychologist and parenting expert), Tara Teng (Miss World 2012), Brian Dixon (author of Start With Your People) and more! I am so happy to have you join me!
Episodes
Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020
16 min
This episode was originally published as Episode 046, Season 3.
I've heard a lot of interviews with Kevin O’Leary, but none like this! We talk about family, his personal life, and what he does when he wakes up in the morning. It’s maybe the most personal Kevin O’Leary interview yet!
Because he is maybe the world’s most productive person, this episode is 17 minutes, and we get 17 gold information nuggets – 1 per minute! Learn:
- What every parent needs to teach their kids about money (the family “MBA”)
- At what age we should start teaching our kids about money
- What a “Secret 10” is
- The 2 relationships you can have with money
- Kevin’s views on allowance
- Kevin’s advice to his 18-year old self
- Why he puts so much effort into having a weekly family meal
- How many guitars he owns, plus his favorite thing to play on guitar and his “bucket list” song to learn
- Kevin’s favorite vacation spots
- Whether he is a morning or night person
- Kevin’s favorite meals and wine
- Who would he like to take a portrait of?
- Who would play Kevin in the movie of his life?
- Kevin’s (world’s-most-productive-person’s) morning routine
- What he likes to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Who is his mentor
- One thing more important than dollars!
Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020
10 min
Did you know the average student loses up to 2.6 months in math skills and up to 2 months in grade level reading skills during summer holidays?
Elaine gives you 5 fun, quick and free ways to bridge that summer learning gap!
Originally published as episode 054, Season 3.
Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020
5 min
A quick preview of what is to come in Season 6 of Elaine's Kitchen Table, our most exciting season yet!
Aug 14, 2019
Aug 14, 2019
2 min
A special message from Elaine, who we have not heard from in a while - for good reason!
Mar 28, 2018
Mar 28, 2018
28 min
Yvonne Yua is a wife and mother of a 9-year-old girl. She is a proud Canadian immigrant from Malaysia. Being a triple minority, Yvonne worked hard to climb the corporate ladder. She is now a senior director of a financial literacy firm specializing in using words people don’t need to Wikipedia afterwards.
Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018
28 min
"Plan, do, and measure." Learn four strategic questions you need to ask when planning the most successful marketing for your business.
Shannon is both entrepreneur and educator (Professor, actually) in the marketing and management field. She works with business leaders to help them zero in on their customers and to increase sales by developing marketing communication strategies that work.
She has a wide range of experience having worked with law firms and cement plants to nonprofits and even federal government managers. Like many of us, Shannon has juggled a career around raising kids - and though her career path emulates a moth in a porch light rather than ascending corporate rungs, she brings a lot of curiosity and competence to her consulting work at Incisive Marketing and post-secondary teaching.
Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018
32 min
Hear Joel's entrepreneurial story as he built Naked Underwear from an idea to a public company, with all the highs and lows that came along the way!
Jan 19, 2018
Jan 19, 2018
28 min
How to not become a slave to your own business, is just one of the key tips shared in this podcast!
Monique Blokzyl is the founder of the Business Launch Portal which supports startup entrepreneurs worldwide to rocket their ideas into enterprise. Monique is also an international speaker, trainer, coach and published author. She won the Public Speaking Toastmasters competition twice at the European level, and has shared the stage with motivational speakers like Sheryl Roush and leaders like the US foreign minister John Kerry and the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Her weekly Business Launch Radio show regularly attracts thousands of listeners in more than 60 countries. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Monique worked for almost 15 years in different international leadership positions in Marketing and Change Management. She is just a wealth of knowledge from real first hand experience!
A few of the things you will learn in this interview:
- what are the first steps to take to start a new business
- what should you consider as an entrepreneur to not become a slave in your own business
- how do you convince people fast and easy, to win them as clients, partners, or any other way
Jan 11, 2018
Jan 11, 2018
19 min
Imagine being the last passenger off the Miracle On The Hudson airplane that landed on the Hudson River in New York City on Jan 15, 2009. Would that change your life? It did for my guest today, Dave Sanderson! He went on to become a motivational speaker, and ultimately wrote a book called Moments Matter. Listen to his incredible story and get his nuggets of wisdom for a life lived with purpose, knowing that every moment matters!
Jan 2, 2018
Jan 2, 2018
33 min
I wanted to kick off Season 5 of the Elaine's Kitchen Table Podcast with a bang - so I interviewed one of my Mompreneur heroes and mentors - Ruthie Burd, founder of The Lunch Lady!
This interview is chock full of amazing advice and wisdom from Ruthie, who has "been there and done that", as she is coming up on the 25th anniversary of her business!
In this episode, learn:
- How Ruthie's family situation prompted her to start her own business
- Why it is better to be respected and fair than liked, if you want to make a difference
- Why successful fast growth can be as big a challenge as stagnant non-growth
- How we are all "pebbles in other people's ponds"
- When is (and is not) the time to franchise your business (I always say, listen to people who have done something successfully!)
- Why you need a "Why" to sustain you in the marathon of business success!
Ruthie's go-to resource: Ask questions of others! There is no hyper-link for this resource, she simply recommends talking to others to find out how they do things.