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Coming On August 14th Meranda Squires is the daughter of renowned Newfoundland artist Gerald Squires she is an entrepreneur, a yogi and a cornerstone of the spiritual community here in Newfoundland. If you are a yoga or meditation instructor or yogi enthusiast you may know Meranda as the official, unofficial yogi trainer. Meranda also focuses on helping individuals, entrepreneurs and anyone looking for a pick me up to inspire their everyday lives through Yoga, Meditation and living a yogi lifestyle. Meranda has travelled from St. John's to India where she trained and lived the way of the Yogi for 17 years. Upon returning to Newfoundland filled with stories and a balanced perspective from the east on how to inspire people in the west she started something called The Lotus Centre. Listen to Meranda's unique stories of mystical India and how she's inspiring people in Newfoundland to live happier and fuller lives with her Yogi business. Further Information Meranda's Business: thelotuscentre.ca Reach The YesConnect Business Podcast by contacting Shaun Hibbs @ shaun@yeswebandmarketing.ca or on Twitter @shaunhibbs1 You can contact Meranda @ m_squires@nf.sympatico.ca

Find out More about Jeremy at: http://www.jeremybennett.ca/ Jeremy Bennett has become one of Canada’s most prolific experts and speakers on stress and anxiety. Having been diagnosed at a young age with a severe form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety and clinical depression, he knows first hand the effects of mental illness. In 2006 Jeremy graduated from St. Francis Xavier University with a degree in Psychology and Philosophy. In 2010, he published his first book, The Power of the Mind: How I Beat OCD. In this book he exposed his life living with a severe form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and what he did to overcome what his own doctor told him he could not. This book was published by Flanker Press and was released worldwide. He has been speaking on the topic of stress and anxiety for the past ten years and has produced three national and international television documentaries on the power of the mind. He has traveled throughout Canada, the U.S.A., and the UK presenting for tens of thousands of people with his presentation, The Secrets to Beating Anxiety. Jeremy has been featured on many national and international television networks such as CTV, Global TV, Vision TV, CBC, TSN, and TSN2. In 2011 he was selected to represent Canada during Mental Illness Awareness Week and because of his worldwide impact in the field of anxiety he was appointed, World Youth Ambassador by The World Organization of Natural Medicine in 2012. Because of his contribution in the field of mental health he was awarded, Personality of the Year by The World Organization of Natural Medicine in 2013. In 2014 he released his second book, The Solution: Learn How to Truly Beat Stress & Anxiety. This book was published by Motivational Press in Los Angeles and released worldwide. His work and presentations have been endorsed by some of the most respected doctors in the world, experts in the field and some of the cast of the hit book and movie, The Secret. He is currently filming his forth television documentary in Los Angeles and is also involved in a local project called Awaken NL. Show Notes As an entrepreneur Jeremy was able to harness the skills that he used to overcome OCD to in-turn become successful Harnessing the power of the brain can enable us to overcome psychological and physiological boundaries to our success Nobody knew what OCD was when Jeremy started exhibiting symptoms of OCD where he was performing 4-6 hours of rituals when he was 12 year

The Mindful Entrepreneur - Jesse Stirling Jesse is the host/producer of "Meetings with Remarkable People" on NTV ( Newfoundland Television ), he's interviewed Dr. Wayne Dwyer, Deepak Chopra just to name a few people. Jesse is also a documentary filmmaker as he just recently premiered his new film "In Search Of A New Age" you can view that film here. This film documents Jesse's travels to document his grandfather the Canadian broadcast legend Geoff Stirling's search for timeless spiritual wisdom in India. Alongside all of these accolades, Jesse's a nice guy, thoughtful and the Epitomy of a mindful leader. Show Notes The key to developing content that everyone can enjoy is through developing positive, peaceful content that isn't too edgy that kids, adults and families can enjoy Jesse's show Meetings With Remarkable People is focused around a positive/spiritual ( remarkable ) approach to everyday life. However the people on the show aren't neccesarily the spiritual/positive celebrities we always see, it could be the entrepreneurs and the average people in society who get through the obstacles of everyday life with a smile on their faces. Having uplifting conversations around mindfulness in business and everyday life i.e; meditation, having an attitude of giving and loving and living a life based around delivering value are the key fundamentals to inspiring a positive community. This is the shift that is currently happening all over the world. Arriana Huffington describes the world as a place that is imbalanced more focused around a "man's world" where compassion and forgiveness is not relevant where "might is right," The shift that's happening is geared around a more compassionate approach to business and life in general. We need to redefine out metrics to success to live a life more focused around, wisdom, wellness and wonder. Enjoy life and do what you are passionate about and success will come. Rumi a third century poet quoted, "trade in your cleverness for bewilderment" life is so much more fun when you realize that you don't know it all. Plato quoted "I know nothing." We will work ourselves to the brink of death, diabetes, heart attacks, etc. and we will spend everything we have to become healthy again. The key is to focusing on health, the true metric to success. Jesse practices yoga and meditation to stay healthy and focused, however you can stay grounded simply by spending ten minutes a day to breath deeply. Breathing shallow leads to

The Interview The business startup culture is alive and well in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Take a glimpse at my next guest on The YesConnect Business Podcast​, Sarah Murphy​. Sarah alongside her partner Jason Janes​ is the founder of a local start-up company called Sentinel Alert a company focused around redefining safety monitoring solutions for field workers in the oil & gas industry. Did you get a chance to check out the latest TED X St. John's in Newfoundland? If you did you've probably heard of Sarah already as she is also the Director of Marketing & PR for TED X St. John's. Sarah shares her story about keeping motivated in the local start-up space here in St. John's and how her inspiration to start Sentinel Alert was around helping oil & gas workers remain safe on the job place. Maybe you are involved in a start-up or have your own business or always wanted to start a business, either way listen to Sarah's story of the inspiration behind her start-up company and maybe it will help you to keep moving forward. Takeaways from the interview Sentinel Alert is a start-up company focused around using wearable technology to track workers safety in the oil & gas industry The key to staying motivated in a business startup is to follow a passion that you are interested in, Sarah's passion is helping people Startup St. John's is a great way to generate interest for your start-up idea here in Newfoundland, Sarah is a member of Startup St. John's. Sentinel Alert originated from a Startup St. John's weekend event entitled "Startup Weekend" http://www.up.co/communities/canada/nl/ Startup Weekend is a new event that is hosted all over the world and for the first time in Newfoundland in the last couple years Sarah utilizes mindful practices to stay motivated in her day-to-day practice in running and building a startup company, she meditates daily and follows a weekly yoga routine You can get overwhelmed in starting a business but it's important to slow down and be present with what you are doing and to make sure that you have genuine and authentic interactions with people. A start-up business can succeed or fail but daily positive interactions with people you work with is the most important factor to continued success as an entrepreneur To keep your motivation up in a business startup culture stay focused on the daily things that you love about your business and keep a gratitude list to make sure you keep into perspective your passion for lif

Bonnie talking about "letting go" in her business Bonnie Edgecombe owner of AbbyShot Clothier in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland was a business owner and manager who needed to make a transformation in her business. Bonnie realized she needed to change herself to change the corporate culture of her company and so she decided to take things into her own hands by making a mindset change and adapting a corporate culture built around empowerment. Bonnie alongside developing a positive corporate culture also adapted a focused approach toward business inspired from the practices of Cameron Herold from his book “Double, double” which became the unofficial manifesto for AbbyShot’s success. Watch and listen to Bonnie's story about how she came from her humble beginnings as an inexperienced manager to developing into a dream manager. What makes a dream manager? According to Bonnie it’s all about empowering and bringing her employees dreams to life through adapting a mindful mindset in the workplace. Further Notes my email: shaun@yebwebandmarketing.ca twitter handle: shaunhibbs1 Bonnie's Company Abbyshot Clothier: http://www.abbyshot.com/ Bonnie's Email Bonnie@abbyshot.com Podcast Audio Only

Darcy Ward - Your True Self - Living a Life Of Value To Others Who are you? That was the question that my current guest Darcy Ward was asked when attending a Tony Robbins Business Mastery Course. It wasn’t that Darcy was unhappy he was just looking for a way to improve his business but he realized that it went deeper than just his bottom line. Darcy’s struggle to improve his business wasn’t about making more money it was about his happiness and connecting with who he truly was so he could realize his purpose. Are you living the life, running the business or working the job of your dreams? Maybe it’s time to connect to your true purpose, listen to Darcy as he shares his story on how has done just that. Darcy on The Price Is Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-T5nQ3kY7s The takeaways from this episode are the following: Psychology is 80% of what we do and to make drastic transformational changes in our businesses we have to embrace a mindset change in our lives If you don't have a strong enough "why" for your business or anything that you do in your life than it's extremely challenging to be successful Leading your business and more importantly without purpose is the clutter that weighs us down and doesn't allow us to reach our potential. Only when we make a mindset change to understand who we truly are can we de-clutter, follow our passions to reach our true potential There are three personality types that you need to build a successful business. Entrepreneurs, Artists and Leader Managers. Artists will innovate the business, Entrepreneurs will bring in the money and Leader/Managers will run the business, what personality type are you? When you discover who you truly are who you can expand on your business by defining the "why Show Notes The Tony Robbins Business Mastery Course that Darcy attended: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/business-mastery/ Tony Robbins 7 Forces Of Business Success: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230502 Darcy's Business Vault Property Management: http://www.vaultpropertymanagement.com/about-us/ Darcy's Personal Email - Darcy_ward@hotmail.com If you have any questions you can email me us at shaun@yeswebandmarketing.ca or on twitter @shaunhibbs1