Happy To Be Here

That’s a wrap! Welcome to Episode 10, our final show for this season. We’re chatting about the three big lessons we learned on our journey to map out a purpose-led path, the specific things we learned from each of our guests and what’s next for us as we continue to explore deep change. Hope you’ll join us for what comes next.We want to hear your voice! If you want to be featured in our Q&A segment, send a text or audio question to our social or matt@unsettledmedia.com- we'll shout you out by name.  Subscribe to the Unsettled Newsletter.  You'll get multiple posts per week breaking down timeless principles from the world's best minds.  Every post includes tools, product recommendations, strategy lessons, must-watch videos, must-read articles and the best stories from the worlds of culture, business & tech.This podcast is produced by me, Matt George.  Is engineered by the great Zachary Pelletier, and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

Its Episode 9 and we’re going back to school to look at how to design effective public policy to address complex issues. We sat down with University of Guelph assistant professor Leah Levac to talk about her work with historically marginalized citizens to help them be heard in conversations around economic restructuring and how citizens can influence government decision-making and policy development. It’s all about being anchored to place, with purpose.We want to hear your voice! If you want to be featured in our Q&A segment, send a text or audio question to our social or matt@unsettledmedia.com- we'll shout you out by name.  Subscribe to the Unsettled Newsletter.  You'll get multiple posts per week breaking down timeless principles from the world's best minds.  Every post includes tools, product recommendations, strategy lessons, must-watch videos, must-read articles and the best stories from the worlds of culture, business & tech.We're launching the Unsettled Community on Telegram! The 21st-century is unsettling.  Don't do it alone.This podcast is produced by me, Matt George.  Is engineered by the great Zachary Pelletier, and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

It’s time to get some perspective. In Chapter 8 Mikmaw Hilding Nielsen, a University of Toronto researcher working at the intersection of astronomy, science and Indigenous knowledge, introduces us to Indigenous sky stories, and former New Brunswick NDP leader Elizabeth Weir opens up about what she’s learned working to support civil society and legislative democracies in over 25 countries including, Tunisia, Myanmar and Fiji.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Subscribe to the Unsettled Newsletter.  You'll get multiple posts per week breaking down timeless principles from the world's best minds.  Every post includes tools, product recommendations, strategy lessons, must-watch videos, must-read articles and the best stories from the worlds of culture, business & tech.We're launching the Unsettled Community on Telegram! The 21st-century is unsettling.  Don't do it alone. This podcast is produced by me, Matt George.  Is engineered by the great Zachary Pelletier, and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

We’re on Chapter 7 - the influence episode. This is the place we all get to eventually. After working to do good within ourselves and our organizations, we realize we want to do more. We want to influence deep systemic change. Just like our two guests, Alison Loat, managing director of sustainable investing and innovation at OPTrust and Keith McIntosh, founder of PQA Testing and Plato Testing.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

We joined David Campbell and Matt George in the virtual studio for a new episode of Growing Pains, the only podcast dedicated exclusively to economic development in Atlantic Canada.Here about deep change, the upcoming election and why we're excited to be here, now."We recently added two fantastic podcast hosts to the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.  Alaina Lockhart & Lisa Hrabluk are the hosts of 'Happy to be Here,' a deep-change podcast about moving home.  They decided to crash our Growing Pains party at the end of the episode. New episodes from the ladies drop every Thursday! Subscribe, download, listen, rate and share!What's on the Unsettled Newsletter this week?  Subscribe and learn!What's on the It's the Economy, Stupid blog this week? Subscribe and learn!We want to hear your voice! If you want to be featured in our Q&A segment, send a text or audio question to our social or matt@unsettledmedia.com- we'll shout you out by name.  Our show is produced by me, Matt George, is engineered by the great & powerful Zachary Pelletier and is a part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network."

Welcome to the show your work episode. We’re on chapter six and today we’re talking with two business leaders who epitomize purpose-led, community-focused work. Hari Balasubramanian is the co-founder and managing partner of Halifax-based EcoAdvisors, which works with the private, public and philanthropic sectors to develop robust sustainability programs, and EcoInvestors Capital, which invests in growth stage businesses that are environmentally net positive. Allison Gibson is part owner of Paintbox a hospitality hub and social enterprise located in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood that made a COVID-19 business-saving pivot to create and support Nibbly, an online grocery store, located in what was once the Paintbox Bistro. Both EcoAdvisors and Paintbox are Best for the World BCorps, which means they are in the top 10 per cent of all BCorps. They put in the work and in this episode they tell us how it’s done.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

We’re at the half-way point of our story and today we’re diving into a conversation about pride, trust and belief in ourselves and in the communities we call home. Our two guests are former CBC journalist Hance Colburne and Cheryl Whiskeyjack, the executive director of the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society in Edmonton. Together we explore the integral role pride and trust play in the world of deep change, why it’s essential if we are to build back better, how it gets lost and what we have to do to get it back.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

Welcome to the ‘show me the evidence’ episode. Deep change is a long game and evidence is the currency that helps attract people and investment. Today we’re joined by two practitioners who understand the importance of choosing the right metrics to track and accelerate change. Jenelle Sobey is the co-founder of Riddl, a Halifax-based fin-tech start-up that helps companies and non-profits track, analyze and share social and environmental impact data. John Norman is  a social innovator, developer and mayor of Bonavista, NL, who has helped spearhead an economic renewal in this historic fishing out-port.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

In Chapter 1 we explored why we and others are setting off down a purpose-led path, in Chapter 2 we asked how to encourage others to step into leadership and now in Chapter 3 we’re asking how you maintain momentum and scale up after the initial euphoria of starting something new.  We sit down with Melissa O’Rourke, the Innovation Ecosystem Program Manager for Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and Mary Doyle, co-founder of Rural on Purpose to ask how can purpose-led entrepreneurs and innovators make it safely across the ‘valley of death’?Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

Chapter 2: How to Nurture Talent with Curiosity and Hope. When you work in the community change space you’re playing a long game. This week we’re talking to two people who nurtured our early work in this space to find out how to support and encourage others to take up the mantle of deep change and community building. Roly MacIntyre served as a cabinet minister under four New Brunswick premiers, beginning with Frank McKenna and is a lifelong community builder; Dr. John McLaughlin is president emeritus of the University of New Brunswick and a global expert in the intersection of institutional economics, geospatial technology and culture change.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

Okay, here we go! For our first episode we dive in with a conversation about how we and others got started down a purpose-led path and where its led us. We’re joined by two guests and friends of Lisa: Bojan Furst, photographer and knowledge mobilization manager with the Harris Centre at Memorial University, and Sarah White, co-founder of Vancouver-based Fairware Promotional Products, which creates sustainable, custom branded products.Our website is live! Click the link for more on Deep Change.Our podcast is produced by Matt George, engineered by Zachary Pelletier and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.

A Deep Change podcast about moving home.  Listen as Lisa Hrabluk and Alaina Lockhart explore how to fix some of the world’s biggest problems by starting small with the people in our communities. They’re two entrepreneurs trying to figure out how to chart a kinder, purpose-led path to wealth, health and happiness and to answer the question: who wants to build back better and where do we start?Happy To Be Here is engineered by the great Zachary Pelletier, Produced by Matt George and is part of the Unsettled Media Podcast Network.