Alain Guillot Show

http://www.alainguillot.com/chris-mamula/ Chris Mamula achieved Financial Independence at age 41. Now he's helping others achieve the same goal with the publication of his book "Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence." He's also the author of the blog Can I Retire Yet.

http://www.alainguillot.com/cameron-huddleston/ In the interview Schools don't teach personal finance to young students. People have to figure it out as they go along. There is a taboo around the topic of money. Friends don't like to talk about money and many many parents don't like to talk about money with their children. People buy status symbols to give the impression that they have lots of money. Wealthy people, au contraire, don't like to display that they have lots of money.

http://www.alainguillot.com/karim-aktouf/ Karim Aktouf is the founder if Puncteo, a creativity consulting firm. He was trained as a software engineer, he spent 20 years in the corporate world, but at a given moment he felt he was suffocating. After he was laid off from his job, he saw that as an opportunity to embark on a totally different career. He decided to enroll in Fine Arts classes. Karim has the courage to pivot because his kids became an adult, so he felt he could take more risks.

Today we have a conversation with Brian J. Dixon, author, speaker, coach, father, and husband. And we speak about his recently released book called "Start With Your People" about how, by taking care of your people first, you can achieve practically any goal you set your mind to, whether that goal is personal or professional. Brian believes that you were made for a purpose. By clarifying your calling, discovering your audience, and creating your products, you can navigate a clear path to impact and income

http://www.alainguillot.com/nikolaj-van-omme/ Nikolaj is the CEO of a Montreal based startup company based in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The name of the company is Funartech which stands for Fun, Art, and Technology. We spoke about how businesses and governments can use Artificial Intelligence to increase operational efficiencies. We also spoke about how AI can be used to save the planet.

Henry Mah is a retired 77-year-old man. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta considers myself an average investor. He has made a lot of novice mistakes over the years and learned from them as well. But eventually, he achieved financial freedom in his own terms. Henry doesn't have a company pension so he lives off his CPP/OAS and his dividend income. His dividends exceed his annual expenses so he reinvests about 60% of the dividends received, which continues to grow his retirement income.

http://www.alainguillot.com/robert-wise/ Robert Wise is a Certified Personal and Professional Coach with a proven track record in Human Systems Intervention, Sales and Marketing. His mission is to inspire individuals, teams and organizations to follow & attain their visions of who & where they want to be. In this interview, we go deep into insecurities and anxieties

http://www.alainguillot.com/robert-brown/ Robert R. Brown is a personal finance writer and speaker. He's the author of the Canadian bestselling personal finance book "Wealthing Like Rabbits - An Original Introduction to Personal Finance." Wealthing Like Rabbits and Robert have been featured in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Reader's Digest as well as being a guest on NewsTalk 1010 and MoneyTalks, a BNN personal finance production.

http://www.alainguillot.com/terrie-schauer/ Terrie is a real estate investor and property manager which has a passion for residential rental properties. She's been working to make small- and medium-sized investment properties profitable for twenty years, in Canada's major markets (Toronto, Vancouver and now Montreal) as well as in Marseille, France. For Terrie, investing in real estate is not just about the money, it's about financial freedom as a way of life. This is what inspires Terrie

http://www.alainguillot.com/rob-walch/ Rob Walch is the VP of Podcaster Relations of Libsyn, the podcasting host for my podcast, the Alain Guillot Podcast. Rob got into podcasting because he was looking for a hobby. The hobby became a passion, the passion overwhelmed him and then it became the career. Rob started podcasting on late 2004, he was doing his podcast out of his own computer server, but he had a high profile guest at his podcast show podCast411 and he was afraid his computer server

Mehran came to Canada from Bangladesh when he was 6 years old. His mother came with no money to a country where she didn't speak the language. From the beginning, Mehran's mother was incapable of taking care of him, so Mehran was placed in foster care. Unfortunately, he had a hard time adapting and he was constantly transferred from one foster care family to another one and from one group home to the other. Mahran stopped going to school at age 14. He started using drugs and he also joined a gang.

http://www.alainguillot.com/daniel-hamermesh/ ‎ We heard it all the time: Time is money, but is it? Professor Hamermesh, argues that as we become wealthier, we have more money, but we don't have more time, so money plentiful while time is not, which means that time is a lot more valuable than money. If we compare our income with the income of our grandparents, we are earning about 3 times as much, but don't have 3 times as many hours. Connect with me via LinkedIn

http://www.alainguillot.com/dora-gamaoun/ Dora is a young immigrant from Tunisia. She used to spend her summer days on the beach, working on her suntan. However, she felt that she needed a bigger challenge. She wanted to study, work, and travel. In a way, she was influenced by movies and TV shows that portrayed a busy lifestyle. She got a scholarship at HEC (Haut Studes Commerciales) in Montreal and got a master degree in Financial Engineering, and in addition, she is a Certified Financial

http://www.alainguillot.com/richard-tardif/ Richard Tardif is a certified personal trainer, an investigative health journalist, an author, and a speaker on health, fitness, and diet issues. We met at a networking event here in Montreal, and I bought his book "Still in Denial, Five Reasons for Embracing the Truth About Fitness" and I asked him to share his views with us.

http://www.alainguillot.com/todd-henry/ Todd Henry is an author, a speaker, a blogger, a podcaster and an inspiration in the creative community. His topic of expertise is creativity, productivity, and leadership. Highlights from the interview Creativity is problem-solving, which is not the same as creating art. Don't wait for inspiration to come to start doing creative work. Start doing the work, and let creativity come when it comes. Be conscious of the inputs in your life,