46. The Art of Productive Screen Time with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay

The Art of Productive Screen Time with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay

46 The Art of Productive Screen Time, host William Glass sits down with Laura Page-Hamelin & Graeme McKay, co-founders of Artebula. Together they discuss the power of creativity and how promoting creative children lead to future innovators. From there we explore the challenges facing parents and children with the current content platforms and how Artebula is focused on promoting productive screen time by combining technology, art, and science.

You’ll also learn the challenges and benefits of going from solopreneur to teampreneur and how to effectively work as a team across multiple continents.

About Laura Page-Hamelin

Laura Page-Hamelin is a passionate businesswoman and entrepreneur. Laura worked in the corporate world as a marketer but felt most comfortable being an entrepreneur. When her fourth child was born with a rare auto-immune disorder she decided to stay home permanently and to fund this choice she used her digital marketing talents to found a successful, boutique digital marketing agency, Social Jibber Jabber. In 2018, Laura identified a pain point in the children’s art and education market and with a five thousand dollar government grant began the foundations for what would later become Artebula Inc.

About Graeme McKay

Graeme McKay is the technology lead at Artebula and brings significant experience in both healthcare informatics and finance product design and development. Additionally, Graeme has worked with innovative start-up companies including eFilm and Radimetrics, as well as industry leaders Bayer Healthcare and JP Morgan Chase. Graeme holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computing from the University of Strathclyde and is a certified Scrum Product Owner.

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#38 Don’t Just Focus on the Money with Karen Swyszcz

Don’t Just Focus on the Money

#38 Don’t Just Focus on the Money, host William Glass sits down with Karen Swysczc, a best selling author, entrepreneur, and teacher. In today’s episode, Karen opens up about not growing up with the entrepreneurial bug. As well as she discusses how her career has been more of a rock-climbing wall than a clear path. 

Karen Swyszcz’s Bio

Karen Swyszcz graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. She started Makinthebacon as a hobby blog back in 2012, as a way to escape her monotonous day job. Over the years, it has evolved into a platform, initially providing content on personal finance, to now providing inspiration for entrepreneurs/aspiring entrepreneurs through blog posts and interviews. She has partnered with brands such as Camp Tech, Minted.co, Meridian Credit Union, and Supperworks on digital campaigns. She has also interviewed CEOs in the areas of fintech and travel.  The advice she gives other digital entrepreneurs is “don’t just focus on the money.”

From 2017- 2020, Karen provided 1:1 consulting services and workshops for small business owners in blogging, social media, and the basics of WordPress. She is a part-time continuing and professional studies instructor with Sheridan College. There she teaches their blogging and social media strategy courses.  

In 2019 she co-authored the Best-Selling Book in Women’s Health on Amazon – Fitness To Freedom. And launched a business and technology podcast – The Bacon Bits ‘n’ Bytes Podcast.  Karen has co-authored another book called Lighting The North, which will be launching this Fall 2020. 

Karen is the co-founder of Kaibigan Connection – an organization that is dedicated to connecting Filipinx entrepreneurs and professionals. When she is not working on her many endeavors, she can be found at the gym teaching group fitness classes.

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