A 30-year niche business story built around art, ritual, and staying power.
Phil Bliss's Toronto conversation with Michael Shapiro follows a business rooted in art and Jewish tradition, while making clear how much persistence the niche required.
Canadian founders, told through the work.
Canada’s Entrepreneur follows founders through the practical shape of building something: the first idea, the customer problem, the team, and the hard stretch. Its conversations stay grounded in Canadian markets, local communities, and the operational details behind growth.
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Canada’s Entrepreneur is a broad, interview-driven record of people building businesses in and around Canada. The show favors the path over the pitch. A typical episode starts with the guest’s company, then works backward into the idea, the market, the first hard decisions, and the moment when a side project or niche insight became a real operation. The pace is measured. Guests are allowed to stay with the details, which gives the series a practical texture that shorter business interviews often lose. Recent conversations move from Michael Shapiro’s long-running art ketubah business to Chuck Lacue’s modular AI data center work, and from Dylan Munro’s e-commerce food company to Chanel Chalazan’s jewelry boutique started in high school. The range is wide, but the questions stay familiar. How did it begin? What problem was being solved? What made the model work? Where did growth get hard? The answers often land in concrete business mechanics: suppliers, licensing, manufacturing, online channels, ticketing platforms, community networks, revenue growth, and hiring the right team. There is a strong Canadian frame without making the show feel narrow. Toronto, Calgary, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and national expansion all appear as real business settings rather than generic backdrops. The series also pays attention to confidence and visibility. Guests talk about mentors, family help, networking, cultural roots, leadership methods, and the emotional work of continuing through downturns or rapid scale. Some episodes lean into mature companies with decades of history. Others capture early ambition, including founders still close to the first spark of the idea. That mix keeps the archive from feeling like one kind of success story repeated. The show’s editorial value is in its patience. It does not need every guest to sound like a polished keynote speaker. It lets entrepreneurs explain the messy middle: what they tried, what they changed, who helped, and why they kept going. The result is useful, grounded listening for people who care about how businesses are actually made.
Made for: Built for founders, operators, small business owners, and business-curious listeners who prefer practical stories over startup theater. It especially suits people interested in Canadian markets, community networks, and the mechanics of growth.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the local, interview-first patience: guests are not rushed past the operational details that shaped their companies. The show gives a national platform to both high-growth ventures and smaller founder-led businesses with specific community roots.
Finally, a national podcast company that creates an active online community for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs so they can stay connected locally and to let the world know how Entrepreneurs in Canada make things happen.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A 30-year niche business story built around art, ritual, and staying power.
Phil Bliss's Toronto conversation with Michael Shapiro follows a business rooted in art and Jewish tradition, while making clear how much persistence the niche required.
A DTC pet-food founder explains growth, manufacturing, and the move into Canada.
Canada's Entrepreneur tracks Dylan Munro's Spot & Tango story as it moves from fresh, frozen meals to UnKibble and then into the Canadian market.
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This conversation presents a founder who has turned fandom into a licensing play and carried it into unusual territory, from branded food to IP themed real estate.
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Isaac Langblen and Jacqueline Prehogan bring values-led pet food into a concrete business frame: how to keep demanding standards intact while a company grows.
A practical Calgary real estate discussion connecting operations, private capital and downtown office conversions.
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Joe Blanchard connects military service, startup experience, and mentorship for veterans building businesses.
Joe Blanchard's route from a long military career into technology, startups, and veteran business mentorship gives this conversation a clear practical spine.

Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.

Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.

Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.

Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.

Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.

Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Mario Toneguzzi interviews David Wallach, President and CEO of Barclay Street Real Estate and founder of Triumph Real Estate Investment Fund.
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Phil Bliss interviews 23-year-old Zachariah Thomas, founder of Swift Hockey, about turning $100,000 of personal savings into a seven-figure sports-equipment company.
Michael Shapiro made personal difference feel useful, not abstract.
This episode features an interview with Chuck Lacue, a third-generation electrician turned entrepreneur who founded Intelliflex to create modular AI data center solutions.
Dylan Munro starts with the basics: Spot & Tango is an online subscription dog food company built around fresh, human-grade ingredients.
A 16-year-old entrepreneur discusses starting and growing her jewelry boutique at age 13, with insights into product sourcing, family mentorship, and business expansion across Canada.
Carla May Sharamata explains her CALM leadership method, emphasizing connection, awareness, language, and measurable response for leaders at all levels.
Lucas McCarthy, CEO of ShowPass, discusses how his company is transforming live events through smarter event technology, including ticketing solutions that handle over 20 million tickets annually.
Phil Bliss reconnects with Nathan Masry after four years.
Phil Bliss sits down with Isaac Langblen and Jacqueline Prehogan, a husband-and-wife leadership team recently named EY Entrepreneur of the Year Canada winners.
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