

This Commerce Life
Phil Chang / Kenny Vannucci
A Canadian Podcast, focused on Canadian brands, determined to talk about Canadian success stories.
We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.
We are retail educators and experts, teaching Canadian businesses how to build, grow, and scale in retail. As industry connectors, Kenny & Phil bring decades of experience as buyers, sales strategists, and marketers into delivering practical, actionable education grounded in real-world application.
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Oct 5, 2021 • 1h 3min
Owner and Artist of Ave Mariabell Designs comes on to talk inspiration building from scratch
To find Ave Maria here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avemariabell/Check out Ave's store here: https://avemariabell.com/

Sep 28, 2021 • 1h
Jeff B Smith retires from running a Fortune 100 company, starts 8 brands and an incubator
you can find Jeff here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-b-smith/ shop Rise Market : https://risemarket.ca/check out Honed: https://livehoned.com

Sep 21, 2021 • 55min
COO at Ethical Bean Coffee on going from independent brand to being part of a big company
You can find Viren here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/virenmalik/If you've never had Ethical Bean Coffee, you can find them here: https://www.ethicalbean.com/

Sep 14, 2021 • 1h 2min
Patrick Higgins President of Propel Natural Brands talks growing brands and healthy growth
To find Patrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-higgins-4424761/Propel Natural Brands: http://www.propelbrands.ca/

Sep 7, 2021 • 57min
Nick Saltarelli, Co-Founder of Midday Squares talks about funding, building a Quebec based mega company
If you fit what Nick is looking for from an experience level and mentality for growth, you can find him here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-saltarelli-063a5965/ Check out Midday Squares here:https://www.middaysquares.com/

Aug 31, 2021 • 1h 3min
Liza Amlani talks about Retail X, the first in person retail conference of the year in Chicago
To reach Liza: https://www.themerchantlife.com/The article we were talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/style/cotton-totes-climate-crisis.html Some of Liza's tweets from Retail X: https://twitter.com/i/status/1430273345690419206https://twitter.com/i/status/1430166923355074566

Aug 24, 2021 • 1h 9min
Will and Shoshauna Routley, Founders of The Functional Beverage Group come to talk dreams
To find out more about Will and Shoshauna and the Functional Beverage Group: https://funbevgroup.com/

Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 10min
Kerrie Hansler, co-Founder of Sweet Reads Box talks about building an experience around novels
check out Sweet Reads here: https://sweetreadsbox.com/To find Kerrie: https://sweetreadsbox.com/pages/contact

Aug 10, 2021 • 55min
Two and a half knuckleheads tonight. Kenny and Phil talk about the podcast, where they'd like to see it go
We'd love to hear from you. You can reach us at thiscommercelife@gmail.com - we'd love to know what you think of our plans, if you'd support us.

Aug 3, 2021 • 1h 15min
Neha Charnalia, co-Founder of SwitchGrocery talks about finding great products and building an online grocery store
To find SwitchGrocery: https://www.switchgrocery.comTo find Neha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-charnalia-a1193612/


