red deer

We go back in time with Marcelo Sodiro, an international hunter and a big game outfitter from Argentina. This was recorded in 2023. After two years without hunters, there were some big red stags walking around. And it’s a great opportunity in 2024. We’re talking about hunting one of my favorite animals, the free-range red stag in one of the most interesting wild habitats for hunting big game.

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As a RCMP dispatcher with the Southern Alberta Operational Communications Centre, Sinead Holstein was told that since she wasn't a police officer, she could never get PTSD.  It didn't take long before she learned otherwise.

Medically retired as a Civilian Member, Sinead talks about her 16 years of service in emergency dispatch, which included a plethora of calls for help and being the last to speak with a Mountie before his on-duty death, all while feeling undermined and unentitled to experiencing trauma.


***WARNING: this podcast contains graphic content that may be disturbing or triggering to some listeners. Discretion is advised.***

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Featuring the song "Don't Go Away" by Streets of Hastings.

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When Olivia was 15, she was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called PANS, a condition that occurs suddenly after a virus gets into the brain and causes the immune system to attack the brain.

Couch-bound for years, Olivia had a painful sensitivity to common sounds, lights, and touch, and she would have episodes where she would shake involuntarily, not being able to speak or think coherently until she ran out of stamina.

Despite this crippling and terrifying condition, Olivia did not give up hope, and thanks to a very new, cutting edge therapy, she has been able to not only get her life back, but is now helping others to do the same!
 

Olivia's business, Brainwaves EEG: Brain Waves is a locally owned Albertan business specializing in neurofeedback. It strives to help those with chronic or hard-hitting conditions that impair their quality of life. Using a combination of comprehensive, non-strenuous testing and individual-based care, Brain Waves’ mission is to try to return hope to as many people as possible.

Finding help can be scary, and the list of side-effects on a pill bottle can be even scarier. Neurofeedback is a gentle, effective means of treatment, all the while being scientifically backed and treating more than just symptoms.

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Coming to Canada and the winter after growing up on a Pacific Island was quite the shock.

But Adi faced this with an indomitable spirit, and she's now a thriving healthcare professional, passionate about changing the lives of Pacific Islanders!

This is Adi's Story.
 

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Inventures 2022 took place June 1 through 3 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, Alberta. Attended by over 3000 people, the event brought together investors, innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs for three days of deal making and demonstrating. Over seven thematic tracks and over 200 programs fleshing out everything from doing business with artificial intelligence to pitch competitions.

The following was Shift on the floor at Inventures talking to only a handful of the businesses and initiatives on site discussing their offering.

Enjoy!

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Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and organizations that are contributing to Alberta's strong tech ecosystem.

To say Sheena is a remarkable woman feels like an understatement!

After a tragic loss as a teenager and 10 years of struggling through depression and anxiety, she and her sister took a leap of faith and started their business with very few resources.

As they now celebrate 15 years in business, she's here to share what went into the start of the business, how they grew it through starting their own families, and what the outlook for them looks like today.

For Sheena, her business isn't just a business. It's a family, a community and a beacon of light bringing hope and compassion to many.

This is Sheena's story.

15 years ago my sister Cortney and I embarked on an incredible journey together with the opening of our fine lingerie boutique, The Bra Lounge, in downtown Red Deer. We were inspired by the life, and death, of our Mom when we were young teens. We realized in the blink of an eye how important she had been to our family and to our community. We always wanted to own a retail business together, and when the opportunity came to get into the lingerie industry we knew that was where we needed to be - serving women just like our Mom who were the backbone to so many in their lives. 

Helping women be their best everyday by supporting them with proper fitting, high quality undergarments, while providing an empowering, beautiful place to shop and exceptional customer service has been a truly rewarding. Shopping for intimates can be an intimidating and daunting task, but the result of finding a great fit can be life changing for women. We're proud to be an established, highly sought after boutique in Central Alberta.

We have won numerous awards in quality and customer service, including being named Red Deer's Small Business of the Year in 2017. Both Cortney and I have also received leadership and entrepreneurship awards over the years. We are very proud of our little shop and team!


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We are talking today with Marcelo Sodiro, an international hunter and a big game outfitter from Argentina. After two years without hunters, there are some big red stags walking around. We’re talking about hunting one of my favorite animals, the free-range red stag in one of the most interesting wild habitats for hunting big game.
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We recommend our latest book Bob Nosler Born Ballistic. You can find it on our web site and on Nosler.com and Amazon too. 

We have a limited supply of our new Ballistic Chronicles hip flask. Package it with one of our classic Deer Hunting or John Nosler Going Ballistic books for only $15 extra. If you want the Ballistic Chronicles hip flask, send me a note at garylewisoutdoors@gmail.com. 

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The fellas sit down for an interesting chat with race car engineer and genius boy Mike Kellough. We discuss all sorts of racing adventures he's been on, along with further plans and goals. Of course we jump into some Super Bowl talk as well some other sports topics to get you through your week!


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Jason and Buddy catch up with fellow houndsman Bear Siragusa of Norway.  Being raised by anti-hunters could have sent Bear a different direction in life, but it seems to have drawn him closer to the life of a sportsman.Bear sheds light on predator vs. Ungulate hunting in Norway as well as some of the specialty breeds that allow them to hunt in rough country and still abide by some "different" size/breed restrictions.   But what episode would be complete without a train wreck? Buddy asks for the type of story that will make you hurt just thinking about it.... and Bear rises to the occasion. 

On the final stop of our road trip through central Alberta we drop in to Red Deer institution Bo’s Bar and Stage to talk with owner Brennen Wowk about changing Red Deer from a city bands drive through between Edmonton and Calgary to a tour stop they can’t miss.

“If you went to RDC, you know Bo’s”

Bo’s first opened in 1996 and has long been a staple in Red Deer, especially for the local college kids. When Brennen took over in 2010 he had big ambitions for the venue ranging from supporting the local community, being an early adopter of Alberta craft beer, and of course putting Red Deer on the map as a place for live music.

Brennen has been a part of the liquor industry for two decades, before Bo’s operating a number of liquor stores. One day in 2010 he got a hot tip from a beer rep that the iconic bar would be going up for sale. He originally didn’t think he’d want to take on another business, but popped by a for a Wednesday night wing night (one of the few around at the time), and 4 days later he owned a bar.

Bo’s in 2010 vs Bo’s in 2020 are very different places, and Brennen is massively proud of what he’s been able to accomplish.

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For this and the next few episodes Troubled Monk’s Bud Kelly joins the podcast as an (un?)official co-host during a Central Alberta road trip, and our first stop was to see Jarod Griesbach of Red Hart Brewing for a chat about brewing craft beer that isn’t just for “big city types."

The inspiration for Red Hart brewing started on a canoeing trip with a group of friends. He and his future business partners were having a discussion about creating a business you could be proud of, and with the help of at least a few beers they had a fantastic idea to start a brewery. When it still seemed like a pretty good idea the next morning they knew they were onto something.

While living in Edinburgh for a year Jarod fell in love with their pub culture. He discovered that folks there weren’t hanging out in their houses, they were hanging out in the community living room — the local pub. Jarod has been thrilled to see the same “community living room” culture happen in the taproom at Red Hart, but is quick to point out that this culture isn’t something you can create, it just happens organically.

We also discuss Central Alberta’s unique beer culture which Jarod mostly jokingly says is way better than the beer culture in Calgary or Edmonton, which he at least partially attributes to the closer connection that they have to their farms. This connection to their farms plays a big part in how supportive the community is of their brewery, and Jarod is thrilled about how excited people get when they find out that all the ingredients in their beer are local, the hops, the malt, everything. When they brewed their 2019 Wet Hop Pale Ale every single ingredient was sourced within 7km of the brewery, and they were lined up for 3 straight days with folks wanting a pint of their own.

“I did not expect people to be that passionate about supporting local"
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This week we’re joined by [Prairie Dog Brewing] co-founder Laura Coles. We talk about their gigantic BBQ and smoker at the taproom (the largest in Canada!) and how she and her four co-founders have created a business that they’d want to work in as employees, not just owners.

Being community-focused and taking care of each other is a staple of the Calgary craft brewing industry, but Prairie Dog Brewing has taken the unique step of building this right into their business plan with what Laura calls the “triple bottom line” approach: People, Planet, and Profit.

On the People side, Prairie Dog Brewing proudly pays all their staff a living wage and offers benefits for every single full-time employee. However unlike many businesses where “full-time” means spending 40 hours of your week at work, Prairie Dog considers every employee who works more than 20 hours each work to be a full-time member of their team. They’ve worked hard to provide a space that is highly inclusive not just to their staff but also their patrons, creating an environment where everyone can feel welcome.

Looking at Planet, Laura and the team have taken a hyper local approach to their brewery. They’ve taken strong measures to ensure the sustainability of their brewery & taproom, with considerations throughout their supply chain all the way down to the water they use to brew. The hyper local approach means that you’ll basically only find their beer at the taproom as they believe in serving great beer and BBQ to their immediate community rather than competing with other craft brewers for shelf space at retail.

Of course all businesses have to focus on Profit, and this brewery’s roadmap to profitability is inspired by the types of craft breweries Laura and her husband and co-founder Jared witnessed while living in California, where they met two of their other co-founders, Tyler and Sarah. What they saw in this market was a clear trend - the most successful breweries were the ones that offered great beer and great food. When they started building Prairie Dog they knew they wanted to have great food, but surprisingly BBQ wasn’t originally part of the plan. Originally they had intended to offer pizza and bar snacks but ran into a mix-up with the design of their kitchen, so Tyler’s brother Jay stepped in and said he had just the thing: the massive BBQ and smoke they affectionally call Clifford.

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“How bad do you guys want to get out of your day job?” Derek Bostock joins us this week to share the story of how asking this question led to he and his business partners opening Red Deer’s newest craft brewery, Sawback Brewing.

When Derek asked his now business partners to quit their day jobs he had already long since established himself as a successful entrepreneur and risk taker with his other business, the Red Deer Shooting Centre. The entrepreneurial spirit runs in Derek’s blood, and he recalls the story of how his family first came to Red Deer when he was only a year old. His father and grandfather ran a frame shop for heavy trucks and trailers, a super specialized business that like many in Saskatchewan at the time was being ravaged by the recession at the time, and so they packed up the entire family and hit the road heading to Red Deer to start fresh.

This penchant for risk taking hit Derek early too, moving to Calgary at just 18 when he was still a self-described “typical Red Deer shit head” and new he needed to get out of Red Deer to get some clarity and reinvent himself. With only 20 bucks in his pocket he arrived in the city and took a job at a car dealership on commission, a huge risk that paid off. 8 years later after working his way up the ladder he was asked to come back to Red Deer to help his family open a parts division in the business.

Shortly after coming back to Red Deer Derek started getting into shooting and realized there was nowhere to shoot indoors in town, so he opened the Red Deer Shooting Centre. Having not yet had his fill of challenges in running businesses in highly regulated industries he decided to expand into brewing next. He started home brewing roughly 5 years ago when only Drummond and Troubled Monk were on the scene, and while at the time they thought they’d be able to take their time but once they saw the craft beer industry in Alberta start to ramp up they knew they had to do it now, and Sawback brewing was born.

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Sawback Brewing: website | twitter | instagram

Red Deer Shooting Centre: website | twitter | instagram

Monks have a tradition of brewing beer, and Red Deer’s Troubled Monk wanted to bring that tradition into the present. Troubled by the perfection of the beer they produce, our guests this week are Troubled Monk co-founder Charlie Bredo and head of sales Bud Kelly.

Just a year after pouring their first pint in 2015 Troubled Monk won the silver medal at the 2016 Wold Beer Cup in Philadelphia for their Open Road Brown Ale, a huge achievement for any brewery, and especially for one as new as theirs. Since then Troubled Monk has expanding out into spirits, sodas, and other ready to drink beverages, pursuing whatever excites them, and whatever inspires other people and attracts them to their craft.

As the co-founder, Charlie has been with Troubled Monk since the very beginning, and like many successful business owners on the podcast he recognizes the importance of having a strong team and playing to his team’s strengths. This plays a big part in Bud’s role as head of sales, who in many ways has become the face of the business for their customers.

Charlie has a unique look on failure: “One of the worst things is early success, because you don't learn how to adapt to failure, and don’t know how to react when you first fail.” He also shares an early failure at Troubled Monk: having to dump over $200,000 worth of beer because of a quality issue and having no product in the market for a month. But they knew that it would be better to have no beer than to sell bad beer and leave a bad taste in the mouths of their early customers. This led to them adding an in-house lab for more extensive testing, and better beer every day.

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Today we sit down with Kevin Wood, the Owner and Brewer at Red Deer’s Something Brewing and Drummond Brewing. Kevin is an Alberta craft beer original having incorporated in April of 2004, and being situated right in the rivalry neutral zone between Edmonton and Calgary allows him to focus strictly on more beer and better beer.

Kevin’s presence in Alberta’s liquor industry was cemented long before reviving the Drummond Brewing name and participating in Mark’s first ever Alberta Beer Festival. He was voted “most likely to be a beer rep” in high school, and after moving to Calgary he quickly found himself working at The Drink, later meeting his longtime business partner Cody while working for the same chain of nightclubs. Together he and Cody founded their own successful nightclub, Desperados, and we learn how their club’s eventual closing down would lead to them acquiring the Drummond name and trying their hand at brewing.

After 15 years of Drummond and the years before with Desperados, Kevin and his business partner Cody (who are not brothers, despite the rumours!) have been a successful team, and Kevin explains how important it is to know each other’s strengths and weaknesses in order to achieve this. Another important practice in their success is always learning, and Kevin has traveled to more than 700 breweries to learn from them. “There’s a reason something’s being done that way. Can you learn from it?"

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