Lifetime at Work: Finding the Meaning in Our Careers

By Greg Martin

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Episodes: 97

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Your career is more than just a job—it’s a chance to create an impact and find personal fulfillment. This podcast explores the journeys of business leaders, uncovering how work shapes our lives, the world, and what makes a career truly meaningful. Hosted by Greg Martin, a Toronto-based investment banker and M&A advisor, the show dives into the deeper questions behind our careers—why we work, what drives success, and how our professional lives shape the world around us. In an era of AI, career freedom, and globalization, the meaning of work is evolving, leaving many to question its true purpose.Through conversations with founders, business leaders, and investors across private equity, public markets, and venture capital, the podcast uncovers insights from those who have built, grown, and influenced some of North America's most successful companies. It also features advisors, consultants, and investment bankers who help shape the future of business, sharing lessons from their wins, losses, and defining career moments.

Episode Date
Lessons on People from Working with the CEO of Mexico Walmart with Carlos E. Marin
Jul 14, 2025
Understanding Why Housing Prices and Cost of Living in Canada Feels so High with Paul Musson
Jul 07, 2025
Beating Up Hockey Players and the Beat-Up of Entrepreneurship with Dave Burnett
Jun 23, 2025
Leaving a Career at Google to Find the Missing Dimension of Life with Carolina Lasso
Jun 09, 2025
Building a 100-Person Agency, Selling It and the Future with John Ghiorso
Jun 02, 2025
Working with Icons and the Power of a Coffee Meeting with Marc Reede
May 26, 2025
From Big Tech to AI Company Founder with Brooke Hartley Moy
May 12, 2025
Think Big: From Rockets, to Social Media, to VR, to the Movie Business with Mary Spio
May 05, 2025
How to Become Really Good from the Founder of San Francisco’s Leading Restaurant Group with David Steele
Apr 28, 2025
A Journey in Finance, to at Mission Fixing Homeownership with Frank Rhode
Apr 21, 2025
Building and Buying E-Commerce Businesses with Neil Twa
Apr 14, 2025
Don’t Waste Time, Work That’s Worth It with Georgina Enthoven
Apr 07, 2025
Going to Work at a “Rocket Ship” Startup to Make it Rich with Nahed Khairallah
Mar 31, 2025
Mastering the Future of M&A and Deals with DealRoom Founder Kison Patel
Mar 24, 2025
The Myth and Reality of Passion at Work with Drew Ingle
Mar 17, 2025
Relationships as the Most Important Part of the Job with Casey Jacox
Mar 10, 2025
What We’re All Missing to Be Successful at Sales and Like It with Gui Costin
Mar 03, 2025
Comparing Life as an Operator vs. Investor vs. Advisor with Robert Levin
Feb 24, 2025
Embracing or Fighting the Big Changes from AI with Matt Leta
Feb 17, 2025
How to Win When AI is Coming for Your Job with Greg Shove
Feb 10, 2025
A Career Investing and Making an Impact with Mike Winterfield of Active Impact Investments
Feb 03, 2025
Starting a Venture Capital Career with a Founder and CTO Mindset with Mistral’s Raif Barbaros
Jan 20, 2025
The Farmers and Brands Behind Your Cup of Coffee with Martin Mayorga
Jan 13, 2025
Where to Start in Building a Billion Dollar Real Estate Portfolio with Ivan Barratt
Jan 06, 2025
A Comedian, A Salon Business and A Software Geek with Erika Wasser
Dec 30, 2024
Move Over Startups, Working in Government is Even Cooler with Molly Magarik
Dec 16, 2024
A Wild Ride on Venture Capital and Mushrooms with Adam DeMartino
Dec 09, 2024
From Toronto Private Equity to Launching His Own Fund with Eugene Polevoy
Dec 02, 2024
Competing with Beverage Goliaths Through Family Power with Matt McLean
Nov 25, 2024
Mastering Startup Fundraising with Annie Bergevin
Nov 18, 2024
Why Our Kids Struggle with Mental Health, It Might Be Getting Worse with Pat Broe
Nov 11, 2024
Riding a Career of Uncomfortable Emotions with Jenny Woo
Nov 04, 2024
Selling Well and an 80 Location Cookie Franchise with Bennett Maxwell
Oct 21, 2024
Making Public Relations Work with Zachary Bernard
Oct 07, 2024
Inside Elections and Political Campaigns with Matthew Krayton
Sep 23, 2024
Building a Soccer Club and Legacy in Your Career with Brenda Ha
Aug 12, 2024
How She Built a Food Business to Do Good with Richa Gupta
Jul 15, 2024
Reverse Episode on the Own Your Role Podcast with Dino Watt and Greg Martin
Jun 24, 2024
Careers in Canadian Capital Markets with Bill Vlaad
Jun 10, 2024
How to Help Everyone Enjoy Their Job More with Chris Dyer
May 21, 2024
Applying Lessons to Careers and Business from a Fighter Pilot with Jim Murphy
May 06, 2024
The Future of Work Can Be Better for All with Lawyer Niki Avraam
Apr 22, 2024
Thursday is the New Friday with Joe Sanok
Apr 08, 2024
Tips on Building Your Resume and Story to Get the Job with Matt Warzel
Mar 25, 2024
Abandoning Your Family's Dreams to Find Your Own Career with Frank Hanna
Mar 11, 2024
The HR Ladder and When You Know You Need a Completely Different Career with Nick Goblirsch
Feb 26, 2024
Finding Passion and Enjoying What You Do by Going All In with Rick Jordan
Feb 12, 2024
Lessons & My Career in Investment Banking with Greg Martin
Jan 29, 2024
Marketing Career Paths and Options with Amy Anderson
Jan 15, 2024
You Need the Right Attitude or You Won’t Enjoy Work with Nicole Greer
Jan 02, 2024
A New Take on How to Grow Faster at Work and Your Life with Accenture Canada’s Innovation Lead Iliana Oris Valiente
Dec 11, 2023
Beware and Avoid Getting “Trapped” in a Career with Karthik Suresh
Nov 27, 2023
The World of Technology Leadership with Benjamin Johnson
Nov 13, 2023
How Work Has Changed Over the Decades with Jose Palomino
Oct 30, 2023
Workplace Experience of Minority Employees with Brenda Harrington
Oct 16, 2023
The Engineering Career You Always Wanted with Zach White
Oct 02, 2023
Investment Banking, to Tech, to Community with Zachary Novak
Sep 18, 2023
Traveling in the Land of Startups with Sharekh Shaikh
Sep 05, 2023
Fear and Putting Yourself Out There with Ryan Hanley
Jun 12, 2023
Life Lessons from the TV Show Succession with Dan Scott
May 29, 2023
Franchising, Between Corporate Employee and Business Owner with Anna Brambilla
May 11, 2023
We All Risk Becoming Obsolete with Julie Noonan
May 01, 2023
Taking the Leap to Start Your Own Business with William Buist
Apr 17, 2023
The Insurance Business as a Gateway to Earning and Learning Fast with Stanislav Kojokin
Apr 03, 2023
We Overachieve and We Burnout to Make Our Parents Proud with Hamza Khan
Mar 21, 2023
The End of Work from Home with Adam Pekarsky
Mar 06, 2023
Strategies to Find Your Happiness with Katie Jefcoat
Feb 22, 2023
Feeling Like You Don't Belong in Your Workplace with Tricia Montalvo Timm
Jan 23, 2023
What We Want Out of Workplace Culture with Steven L. Blue
Dec 12, 2022
The 100 Hour Work Week to Start an Investment Banking Career with Linda Wan
Nov 28, 2022
How 80s Movies Can Make You Better at Work with Chris Clews
Nov 14, 2022
Building the Best Legal Career with M&A Lawyer Bill Ainley
Oct 31, 2022
Don't Dream About Retirement with David Rosell
Oct 17, 2022
The Modern Engineering Career Strategy with Adrien Beyk
May 31, 2021
When You Can’t Be in the Corporate World Any More with Sandra Francisco
May 17, 2021
The Rock Star Singing Mortgage Agent with Tyler Schwende
Mar 30, 2021
The Best Learning is on the Job and Starting a Business with Brianna Coon
Mar 15, 2021
How to Become the One Guy People Trust with Their Waste with Shane Harker
Mar 09, 2021
The Careers We Love and the Careers We Give Up with EB Sanders
Mar 01, 2021
Giving Back Through a New Charity Career with Joan Fisk
Feb 23, 2021
The Challenge of Changing the World Through Beer with Phil Winters
Feb 15, 2021
How Career Choices Change When Kids are Involved with Jason Kleyn
Feb 08, 2021
The Reasons to Start Your Own Business with Jordan & Chelsea
Jan 25, 2021
The Years It Took to Be a Doctor During the Pandemic with Khalid Pasha
Jan 11, 2021
Happy New Year and My Restaurant Post Covid with Host Greg Martin
Jan 04, 2021
One Lawyer’s Path Beyond the Big Firms with Adam Armeland
Dec 21, 2020
How an Athlete Can Build a Second Career with Olympian Andrew Poje
Dec 14, 2020
Caring About Workplace Mental Health with Michael Stroh
Dec 07, 2020
Losing Your Job and Designing a New One with Dyonne Fashina
Nov 30, 2020
Social Media, a Lifestyle and a Business with Ariel Niu
Nov 23, 2020
Finding the Accounting Job for You with Shalini Dharna
Nov 16, 2020
Juggling Kids and an Intense Career During Covid with Anna Stevens
Nov 09, 2020
Laid Off to Finding His Purpose with Life Coach Luis Serrano
Nov 02, 2020
Loving a Non-Stop Work Ethic with Lawyer & Broker Ricky Rathore
Oct 26, 2020
Concert Guy Paul Maxwell on Music Passion to a Music Business
Oct 19, 2020
Harvard Grad Nilesh Gonsalves on MBAs, Overworking and the Silicon Valley Life
Oct 12, 2020
Ep 1: Chef Kyle Webster on Covid, Closing His Business and the Restaurant Dream
Oct 05, 2020