Business Dharma Kimberly Schmitke

It is with mixed feelings we say good-bye to the Business Dharma podcast. It has been an awesome ride and we are very grateful to all our guests that have shared their wisdom, insights, and precious time. We also want to thank our network for their continued support. Now we invite you to buckle up for the final ride where we share our reflections, learnings, and plans for the future. Please stayed tuned as we refresh our storytelling methods for 2023.

JeLisa and Ny are fashion industry veterans focused on sustainability, conscious living, and change. As curators and hosts of The Conscious Cut podcast, they elevate the voices of BIPOC creatives, fashion industry disruptors and change makers to help us all think consciously about where our clothing comes from and what our personal responsibilities are in facilitating change.

Through many conversations and lived experiences, they have discovered how challenging it is for women of color to build fulfilling careers within the industry and to stay healthy in the process. After a period of traveling, then resting, they decided to document this process while continuing to forage their own sustainable paths within the industry.

In this episode, JeLisa and Ny take us into the fashion industry showing us the underbelly and the true cost of fashion as a system. As thought leaders, they skillfully hold the tension between industrial responsibility and consumer responsibility, calling for change on both ends while providing a glimpse at the sustainable future that lies ahead.

Adrienne is a business lawyer who believes in the power of combining logic with intuition in the application of law! She started The Gentle Lawyer in 2022, with a focus on maximizing both healthy feminine and masculine qualities to guide, teach and empower entrepreneurs and business owners. After years of noticing so many talented humans feeling unsure of how or when to engage a lawyer when launch or growing their businesses, Adrienne began a mission to show others how law – both common and natural – can work in their favour, in a way that is accessible, relatable, and entirely affordable.

Adrienne grew up on a grain farm in St. Brieux, Saskatchewan and achieved degrees in business and law before taking a very winding career path through private practice, in-house counsel, entrepreneurship, and government in the areas of law, professional photography, and healing arts.

Lindsay Austin is an entrepreneur, certified executive coach, podcast host, mother, and wife. As the owner of LA strategy consulting LTD. she brings passion, positivity and enthusiasm to organizations and clients, co-creating unique solutions to empower change. In addition to being a super talented coach she was recently ranked as one of Calgary's top 16 coaches of 2022.

She's also a fierce business mind with 15 years of experience in Human Resources and leadership with Crescent Point Energy and currently the VP of Ripa industries LTD, an industrial fabrication business founded with her husband and his family. Talk about a busy lady. In this episode, we discussed the journey of entrepreneurship, exploring how it differs from traditional employment and the self care tools required to not only survive, but also thrive on the rollercoaster of self-employment.

How do you work in a modern world that gives meaning and purpose? What makes work meaningful?

Kim and Tanner sit down for a special live edition of the podcast, celebrating the 25th Business Dharma podcast episode. They discuss all things related to the concept of work, including the great resignation, unfulfilling jobs, employee retention and their personal experiences regarding good and bad work.

In June 0f 2022, Business Dharma host, Kimberly Schmitke was featured on the Every Little Model Podcast to discuss her favourite model, the Change Equation by David Gleicher and how this helps us to navigate change in our teams, organizations, communities and lives.

Thanks to John and Tricia for so generously sharing your content.