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Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 50:37 Shane Parrish In Canada, she turned consignment into conquest.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 1:32:14 Shane Parrish You could argue that that didn't just benefit the United States, it benefited Canada, Europe, it benefited a lot of- Mexico, our allies, for sure.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:45 Shane Parrish We're starting our new series, Lessons from Outliers, with Timothy Eaton, a Canadian name that might not be familiar to many listeners today, but his innovations fundamentally changed retail around the world and how we shop.
- ▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Shane Parrish Ireland's poverty story creating waves of ambitious emigrants, Canadian railways connecting previously isolated markets, and an outdated credit-based trading system ready to be disrupted.
- ▶ 19:00 Shane Parrish Timothy had built a portal to the modern world for millions of isolated rural Canadians. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:19 Shane Parrish When a town founded by Canadian Northern Railway in 1917 named itself Eaton, later changed to Etonia, it wasn't just flattery, it was recognition that Eaton's had become woven into the very fabric of Canadian life. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:59 Shane Parrish How Canadian? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:22 Shane Parrish The giant that once owned 60% of Canadian retail had shriveled to less than 10%. 2 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:48:42 Shane Parrish I want you to imagine for, you're in charge of, let's say Canada, the US, and maybe the UK, and I tell you that we are optimizing to be the best in the world at AI.
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
- ▶ 1:25:41 Shane Parrish Like I live in Canada.
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 1:11:45 Dr. Rhonda Patrick And I'm sure, you know, in North America and Canada are very similar.
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 13:20 Shane Parrish And I was like, no, all Canadians sound like this.
- ▶ 1:21:35 Ryan Holiday And you're in Canada, so you have some social safety net, but like, how could you expect your average American parent to drop their kid off at school sometime between nine or seven and nine, and then pick them up between two and four and
Rob Fraser: The Power of Focus
- ▶ 1:23:56 Rob Fraser We're here in Canada.
- ▶ 1:28:44 Rob Fraser Um, one year I was number one in Canada, but like, I didn't, I don't feel like I kind of had unfinished business there before.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 0:15 John Bragg We're the largest carrot processor in Canada, so we learn how to do it, and do it well, and then just run it as much as we can.
- ▶ 17:56 John Bragg Every blossom has to be visited by a bee to get a blueberry, so we require a lot of hives, and I was reading an article this morning on, on the Canadian economy, and where Scotiabank had put out a report that said if we would eliminate the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:20 John Bragg We're the largest carrot, certainly carrot processor in Canada, maybe in North America.
- ▶ 29:14 John Bragg So, needing, needing something to do in the wintertime and off-season, uh, we took the file, and, and we had a one-page agreement, which I still have, which gave us the exclusive right to make onion rings under the McCain label in Canada,…
- ▶ 49:59 John Bragg You know, I've been a director of a, one of the major banks in Canada, and I've been a director of many other companies that were public, but it seems to me that, you know, living in Oxford and running a private company, you're under the…
- ▶ 1:24:12 John Bragg If they make ten million, they spend like they have a hundred, and Canadians make 10, they hide it.
- ▶ 1:25:12 Shane Parrish Are there any policy changes you would make to encourage more entrepreneurship and business in Canada? 2 times in the scene
Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert
- ▶ 46:42 Matthew Dicks Even when I saw the red X, I'm, I'm in Canada. 3 times in the scene
April Dunford: The Marketing Expert
- ▶ 4:08 April Dunford So I was trying to come up with an example, and I was on my way to work, and I went to Tim Horton's coffee shop in Canada.
- ▶ 9:25 April Dunford In Shark Tank, or I forget what we call it here in Canada, what's it called?
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 11:22 Shane Parrish I mean, for all of the knocks on Canada's healthcare system, uh, there's certain things in triage that they 2 times in the scene
Maya Shankar: The Toolkit to Accomplish Your Hardest Goals
- ▶ 11:28 Shane Parrish We can do it with something still larger like American or Canadian or European.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 30:53 Michaeleen Doucleff You know, America, I don't know about Canada, but I bet it's the same as the safest it's ever been, like, than when we were kids.
- ▶ 39:35 Michaeleen Doucleff In the Maya community, in the Inuit community, which is, you know, just north of us right now in Canada, there was lots of technology.
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 5:03 Morgan Housel I don't know if it's the same in Canada, but in America, we spend something like a hundred billion dollars a year on lottery tickets.
- ▶ 22:20 Shane Parrish Maybe the last 3040 years where that's become the vast majority of wealth for Americans and Canadians.
- ▶ 23:06 Morgan Housel And real home prices in the U.S., I'm sure it's the same in Canada.
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 29:27 Shane Parrish Is this mostly like a Canada-US problem, or is this like a worldwide Western... 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:43 Shane Parrish And when they get tested, they come back with like, I think in Canada, we call them IEPs, individual education plans.
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 24:15 David Segal For years, he basically brought the Carnaby Street look to Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 David Segal I think we often don't think of that as failure, but like mad radish, which is a healthy fast food concept I have in Canada, you know, we were, we had figured it out for, for the lunch market and we were accelerating in five day a week… 2 times in the scene
Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Diet Essentials For Healthy Living
- ▶ 52:32 Dr. Rhonda Patrick In regions where you're more northern, so for example in Canada, you're not making vitamin D a good, you know, four or five months out of the year, it's very, it's very challenging to make a lot of vitamin D from being out in the sun. 2 times in the scene
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:17:10 Shane Parrish Uh, from somebody who, me, violated the law on a regular basis during this in Canada, because I, uh, had a bubble of people that was more than two households, and, you know, we had a teacher involved, and we had all these other things…
- ▶ 1:46:07 Shane Parrish I, I know people even now in Canada with mortgages, and they're just like, oh, the government's gonna step in and intervene because nobody can afford their houses, and I, I feel like that's a very dangerous path to sort of think and walk,…
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 23:22 Todd Herman So in Canada, hockey, quarter of a million person city, you're going to get good coaching. 3 times in the scene
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 1:51 Shane Parrish This interview took place at our studio in Ottawa, Canada.
- ▶ 5:31 George Stalk Jr. Now, there are people in Washington and in Canada that are paid to stop that kind of stuff from happening.
- ▶ 14:00 George Stalk Jr. A company was on the edge of going out of business with a Canadian company, by the way.
- ▶ 15:39 George Stalk Jr. So like in Canada, Rogers, uh, communications is, you know, the owners own that one share that owns a hundred percent of the company, but there's a second, second, or there's a class C stock, uh, that's owned by the public, but no voting… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:08 George Stalk Jr. But the Irvings in Canada are in the petroleum business.
- ▶ 52:40 George Stalk Jr. I think Target has found a way to move itself to the side, but I think very much if there's an analogy in Canada, it would be Loblaws versus Sobeys.
- ▶ 1:13:57 George Stalk Jr. When I, when I did the algorithmic work, there was a couple interesting examples in Canada.
Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity
- ▶ 56:40 Shane Parrish Cause I was stating my, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I guess, stereotypically Canadian, right? 2 times in the scene
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 8:21 Shane Parrish Not only freight trains, but like, why in Canada and the US don't we have high-speed rail, and why aren't the freight trains moving faster? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 Keith Creel Uh, but some things like grain, and that's a great example, and especially relevant in Canada, uh, there are ebbs and flows. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:26 Keith Creel Uh, and that's, that involves, uh, Mexico, and it involves the U.S., and it involves Canada. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:53 Keith Creel Well, I got to Canadian Pacific, and in Canada, the potash mines are dual served.
- ▶ 1:03:22 Keith Creel I was disadvantaged in Canada because I didn't reach as far east as my competitor did. 2 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
- ▶ 44:05 Tobi Lütke Like, in, in, in, in, you know, Canada has a different tax system.
Alan Mulally: The Power Of Working Together
- ▶ 26:52 Alan Mulally So, finally, um, the leader of North America, uh, they have an issue, uh, with the launch of the, uh, the Ford Edge in Oakville, Canada, with the actuator on Liftgate, and so he's having his meeting, his BPR before ours, the night before,… 2 times in the scene
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:20:10 Neil Pasricha And you give that number, when you pay your 120 dollar bill per month, or two 40 if you live in Canada, you say, I'm paying for the privilege of not living a life where I'm jostle senseless by my phone before I go to bed on my phone when I…
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 2:28 Andrew Wilkinson So we had kind of quietly been building a company up here in Victoria, Canada for 15 plus years and been very quiet.
- ▶ 15:20 Shane Parrish Talk to me about some of the advantages to being in Victoria, Canada.
- ▶ 57:36 Andrew Wilkinson And then we took it public via a reverse merger, which is kind of like the baby version of a SPAC up here in Canada.
TKP Insights: Sex and Relationships
- ▶ 40:22 Dr. Suzanne Iacenza Um, um, Rosemary Basson, the Canadian woman whose work is so, uh, really paradigm shifting.
- ▶ 52:12 Dr. Sue Johnson Thank you for traveling right across Canada to sit and talk with me.
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 1:11:01 Dr. David Sinclair In Canada, we have a non-human primate study for safety to see how that goes, and within the next 18 months, if all goes well, we will be reversing aging in a human, if all goes well.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 7:45 Balaji Srinivasan You know, the, the big thing is, so I think your, your reference might be to Canada, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:49 Balaji Srinivasan So that brings it back to your kind of original point, which is, you know, we're talking about the Canada thing.
- ▶ 1:12:54 Balaji Srinivasan So what I think happens with Canada is a Peric victory for the state. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46:21 Balaji Srinivasan You know, Canada can go and freeze all these accounts, but it's a democracy, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:17:06 Balaji Srinivasan I think actually that's a true borders of the internet, by the way, it's not the U S and Canada.
#124 Douglas Rushkoff: The Perils of Modern Media
- ▶ 53:21 Douglas Rushkoff Uh, it's about the Canadian island where a lot of the planes had to land for nine 11. 2 times in the scene
#120 Chris Bosh: Hunger and Greatness
- ▶ 25:38 Shane Parrish I have to ask as a Canadian. 4 times in the scene
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 29:51 Jeff Immelt I went chain to a factory in Peterborough in Canada one time where we made large motors, traction motors, and they were doing terribly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:33 Jeff Immelt My hunch is you could go through product after product and making it in Canada or the U S is probably just about the same as making it in Mexico or China today.
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 23:56 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen So, for example, if you wanted to launch, uh, and, you know, you're in Canada, you would work with your, uh, you know, your country, uh, on how, in fact, uh, you know, the access, uh, to space, uh, are you, for example, compliant with the…
- ▶ 30:57 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen We have a sample fetch row where that actually is done by Canada and it may actually turn out to be the most important, uh, part of that entire piece kind of to go pick up kind of deposits of these sample kind of flasks that we have.
- ▶ 58:48 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen Canada built an instrument on it.
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 5:28 Matt Mullenweg Like in the United States, I know you're Canadian, so I apologize, but you know, the bill of rights essentially ensures certain freedoms, uh, most famously like freedom of speech being the first amendment.
- ▶ 14:53 Matt Mullenweg I think four of the provinces in Canada.
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 1:59 Shane Parrish He's the former dean and institute director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada.
- ▶ 18:36 Roger Martin I mean, I'm feeling all cheery these days about Tennis Canada, uh, because, uh, this Monday in the rankings, the, the men's rankings in this case, in this case, we're doing well on the women's side too, but in the men's ranking, Canada had… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:06 Roger Martin My career in Canada would have been over. 3 times in the scene
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 4:09 Code Cubitt So on the heels of that, I moved from Toronto, Canada to Baltimore, Maryland. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:00 Code Cubitt Ours is, you know, especially in, in a, a tier two market like Canada, if you will, as opposed to Silicon Valley, you know, there's less unicorns born here. 3 times in the scene
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 1:10:11 Matthew Holland I mean, there's, there's still allowed to, uh, sell into Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:21 Matthew Holland In Canada, people typically join, join the company with, you know, one year leave of absence or a five year sabbatical component.
#91 Russ Hudson: The Pursuit of Presence
- ▶ 53:05 Russ Hudson Uh, I don't often use examples, but I just, uh, was posting the other day about, uh, your fellow Canadian, uh, Joni Mitchell as a great example of an Enneagram four, uh, who has done exactly what I was talking about as that was her…
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
- ▶ 7:23 Shane Parrish Or Canada. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:12 Apolo Ohno And I learned by just watching and competing against the Canadians.
- ▶ 22:46 Shane Parrish Is that what was happening with the other teams like the Canadians and the Koreans and the, was it just a better strategy?
#75 Suzanne Iasenza: Rewriting Relationship Narratives
- ▶ 26:36 Suzanne Iasenza One was by Joanne Loulin, ah, in the later eighties, and then the other is Rosemary Besson's work, who, by the way, comes from Canada, and, um. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:24 Suzanne Iasenza Um, um, Rosemary Basson, the Canadian woman, whose work is so, uh, really paradigm shifting, her end, uh, her, one of her end goals, she would say, is more like satisfaction, but it's not just physical or sexual satisfaction, it could be…
#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities
- ▶ 43:07 Steven Strogatz Um, so take your mind back to, I'd say, you know, like the mid-nineteen-eighties, where in the West, here in the U.S. or Canada, the, the HIV epidemic was really starting to hit.
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 2:18 Neil Pasricha From a very poor family, scrapped and saved, got his master's in nuclear physics, and came to Canada as one of the first high school physics teachers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:23 Neil Pasricha But because she was the youngest of eight, fleeing East Africa, and the family had lost their resources, now she's married to this poor dude who takes her to a suburb in Canada in a continent where she has no family, no friends, at all.
- ▶ 26:49 Shane Parrish This is Canada, and we had like American media trucks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:43 Neil Pasricha He was a Canadian, so he set up a scholarship for future Canadians to go down there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:11 Neil Pasricha But then at age 65 in Ontario, in Canada, we had mandatory retirement. 2 times in the scene
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:24:14 Jim Collins So, so there's a, absolutely, uh, you're Canadian, is that right? 2 times in the scene
#65 Shep Gordon: Trust, Compassion, and Shooting Friends from Cannons
- ▶ 15:53 Shane Parrish Right, so there's a Canadian connection here, which is also, you got him played on the Canadian station. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Shane Parrish One of the ways that you've helped people become famous, you're not a one-trick pony by any stretch of the imagination, because one of your other early clients was Anne Murray, the Canadian folk singer, who didn't, you know, throw chickens…
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 2:13 Shane Parrish Isn't this a remarkable world we live in where, you know, I can be in Ottawa, Canada in the middle of a snowstorm right now, and you're halfway across the world, literally, and on a boat, and we, we have this connection.