Search Results for: mental health

  • Mental Health & Entrepreneurship: How four Canadian entrepreneurs stay grounded

    The day before entrepreneur Devon Fiddler went into labour with her first child, she had stayed up until midnight setting up a pop-up shop for her business. “That goes to show you the type of stress I had put on my body,” says the Saskatchewan-based entrepreneur. Fiddler, the founder of SheNative Goods, had spent years […]

  • Creating Conversations around Mental Health through Stylish Clothing

    Being socially conscious but also creative is a philosophy that Kyle MacNevin and Kayley Reed of Wear Your Label hold firmly. This was something that was always top of mind while developing Wear Your Label, a clothing line that was developed with the goal to create conversations around mental health and ultimately end the stigma […]

  • Janelle Hinds: Entrepreneur, mentor and champion of diversity in STEM

    This year, in honour of Black History Month, Futurpreneur is profiling a series of exceptional Black entrepreneurship leaders in our network—entrepreneurs and mentors who are making a difference in their communities. Janelle Hinds wears many hats – and the collection is only growing. Toronto-based Hinds is the founder and executive director of Helping Hands, an […]

  • COVID-19 Resources for Small Businesses

    #cta-side{display:none;} Last updated: February 26, 2020 With constant updates related to the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping on top of all the information available can be overwhelming, especially when you’re also trying to run a small business. Our team has collected some details on the benefits and supports available to small business owners, as well as a […]

  • Practicing Self-Care as an Entrepreneur

    This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and Futurpreneur Canada understands how important it is for entrepreneurs (and everyone) to take care of themselves. As an entrepreneur it can be easy to drown yourself in work when your to-do list is never ending. Often times we get so lost in our work that we forget […]

  • National Volunteer Week Spotlight: Patrick Martin & Tarek Jaml

    This week Futurpreneur Canada is celebrating National Volunteer Week with the rest of Canada by showing our appreciation for our almost 3,000 volunteer business mentors who work with our young entrepreneurs to help them succeed. To celebrate, we’re sharing some of the stories of our mentor and mentee matches to showcase just how valuable mentors […]

  • Spotlight on Bowen Island Pizza Co: Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

    After being inspired by many of the women in her life that worked for themselves, Melanie McCready decided to follow in their footsteps by starting her own business, Bowen Island Pizza Co. “I liked the idea of setting my own schedule, working for myself meant I could work as hard as I wanted and then […]

  • Talking Self-Care with TranQool

    After graduating from mechanical engineering, Chakameh Shafii found herself working for a fortune 500 company in a leadership program, but with her personal experience living with anxiety, she wanted to start something that would make access to therapy easier. This is where the idea for TranQool started to blossom with the other two co-founders, Babak […]

  • Entrepreneurship and Mental Health: Tackling Your Anxiety

    Written By: Sarah Landrum, Founder, Punched Clocks Although many don’t realize it, Canada is home to many prolific entrepreneurs, long-running enterprises and even new start-ups. With names like John Molson of Molson Brewery fame and a shortlist of new business launches that includes the likes of Shopify, the country has provided the world with some […]

  • Turn Your Idea Into a Successful Online Business

    Written By: Kayley Reed, Co-Founder, Wear Your Label Two years ago, I met Kyle MacNevin (co-founder of Wear Your Label) while volunteering at a local mental health organization in Fredericton. We quickly found common ground opening up about our mental health struggles: I was battling an eating disorder and Kyle living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and […]

  • When less is more in technology

    Ellis Orlan, BA, CPA (IL), CGMA, SF Partnership LLP, Toronto, ON, CYBF Mentor, eorlan@sfgroup.ca Information overload is a concept that has been plaguing the technologically advanced business community since the proliferation of the internet.  In 1996, a Reuters study first presented the details of a rising medical phenomenon known as ‘Information Fatigue Syndrome,’ in a ground […]