Samurai 50 - Mel Star
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin, presents Mel Star- The Foreclosurer King! In this episode, Mel Star talks about the changing real estate market during COVID-19.
In this interview, Mel talks about goal setting, learning, having people you can trust, and acquiring hard skills such as :
- Leveraging your money
- Get the right advice
- Build your digital presence
He talks about the importance of digital marketing and the challenge to find the right fit until he found Stylelabs. As a real estate business, digital marketing helped him rank higher for SEO, increase in growth and sales, and build impressive website design among other benefits.
Samurai 50 - Dr. Alisha Adatia
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin, presents Dr. Alisha Adatia, Owner and Optometrist at Blink Eyewear. Dr. Adatia talks to us about building a successful business before COVID and throughout the pandemic.
She talks to us about the keys to her success including risk-taking, making a statement, and anticipating growth and markets for your business.
Samurai 50 - Lisa Wolny
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin, presents Lisa Wolny, The Director of Sales and Recruitment here at Stylelabs.
This week's Interview with Lisa Wolny is centered around resilience and perseverance for Business Owners as well as her new published book! Lisa is a global expert on how to earn money from home, a leader, mother of four and married for 26 years, author, transformational speaker, and a relentless go-getter!
Samurai 50 - Paul Anthony
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin, presents World Champion Paul Anthony.
Paul shares with us 5 easy things entrepreneurs can do today to improve their health.
In this episode, Paul also delves into the importance of digital marketing for every entrepreneurial business and how it helped his business take off. He explains, "if you want to make more dollars vs. sets, then to me it makes sense to choose Stylelabs."
Samurai 50 - Dr. Saira Sabzaali
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin presents Dr. Saira Sabzaali,
Calgary business owner of Dragonfly Wellness Center! Dr. Sabzaali provides mental health support through counseling, workshops/course, and free educational content. In this episode, Dr. Sabzaali shares how she restrategized her business and found new ways to support patients when the pandemic hit by:
- Moving her sessions to an online platform.
- Offering clients check-in calls.
- Creating community through content on Youtube.
In this episode, Dr. Sabzalli also shares advice on overcoming burnout while accepting adversity and imperfections.
Samurai 50 - Dr. Zaidi
This week on Samurai 5-0, StyleLabs Director of Marketing Leanne Kezin presents Dr. Mukarram Ali Zaidi, owner of Signature Medical Centre! Dr. Zaidi shares how his clinic has adapted to the pandemic by:
- Using their online platform to quickly pivot to offer telemedicine.
- Splitting 50/50 between in-clinic care vs. telemedicine.
- Finding innovative ways to maintain care for patients
Dr. Zaidi also shares how, in two years of using digital marketing strategies, he has grown his clinic from 15-20 patients to over 100 patients!
In this episode, you can also find out Dr. Zaidi's insights and thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine and Canada's FDA standards. He talks about how once most people are vaccinated we will be able to start socializing again safely.
Samurai 50 - Isaac Medina
Samurai 5-0 By StyleLabs presents Isaac Medina, owner of Body Engineer Consulting! Isaac found himself at a crossroads in life after personal hardship and getting laid off from the oil field as an engineer. He shared this advice on how he persevered:
- Take time off to meditate.
- Have a support team.
- Figure out what is truly important to you in life.
- Do the best with what you already have or know.
- Follow what makes you passionate.
Isaac believes you can turn anything into a business if you have passion, knowledge, structure and you consistently work at it!
Samurai 50 - Anshu Narayan
Samurai 5-0 By StyleLabs presents Anshu Narayan, owner of The Expert Connect! Anshu has found her passion and switched careers from working in banks and finance to starting a wellness community filled with experts! She shared this advice:
- Do what you a passionate about.
- There is no right time to start a business.
- If you see a problem you can solve in the market just do it.
The Expert Connect hosted 21 Days of Wellness Chats in December to help support and relieve the community during the lockdown and the holiday season.
Samurai 50 - Kareem Elkassem
“In today’s age, nobody waltzes into a random business - You want to get a taste of what you’re getting yourself into before you get there”
- Kareem Elkassem
Samurai 5-0 By StyleLabs presents Kareem Elkassen, Director Stylist and Co-owner of Dolce Salon! Kareem shared with us how standing behind the chair is his meditating time which shows how much passion he feels towards his career!
He shared this advice for start-up entrepreneurs:
- If you have an idea, believe in it, go for it, try it.
- Don’t seek the approval of others who have not done what you want to do.
- Stay focused.
- Get an actual expert and ask for advice for what you don’t know.
Samurai 50 - Stephanie Gagné & Kelsi McGraw
Samurai 5-0 By StyleLabs presents Kelsi McCraw and Stephanie Gagne co-authors of their new fiction novel, The Omne!
In this interview, Kelsi and Stephanie spilled the tea on
- Self-publishing and retaining creative independence
- Collaboration and co-authoring a novel - Soon to be a trilogy
- Establishing boundaries and creating accountability
- Staying motivated and dedicated for nearly 4 years
Collaborating online from Texas to Alberta, Kelsi and Stephanie's relationship has been founded incorporating digital tools such as an online networking platform where their partnership began, daily video chats, spreadsheets, and check-ins, and navigating the process of self-publishing and obtaining copyrights.
As the saying goes, when you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life however, Stephanie advises, "You can't rely on motivation, and it can be tough to stay positive or do any project every day." She suggests blocking out at least 30 minutes a day and doing something project-related to keep momentum up.
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