In the spirit of Mental Health Awareness Month, Empowered Startups hosted a powerful workshop in collaboration with MindFrame Connect called “Skills to Build Entrepreneurial Resilience”, specifically designed to support entrepreneurs.

Today we dive into the murky waters of one of the most common phrases in the wellness vernacular: Resiliency. We often talk about being resilient, but what do we really mean? Is resiliency to be unfeeling? Does it mean never giving up? Are resiliency and anti-fragility the same thing? What does it look like in the context of teams and organizations?

Welcome to Season 2, episode 4 of Backstage Pass, the podcast by Front Row Ventures taking you behind the scenes into Canada’s tech ecosystem and its success stories. We’ll be hosting Canada’s top investors, founders, and tech minds and asking them the questions that matter to you.

This episode features Anthony’s long-time business partner, Brice Scheschuk. Beginning with Brice’s early career — from joining a Naval Reserve and working in accounting and consulting, to eventually coming on-board with Globalive after meeting Anthony at a web industry event in 2003 — they discuss the highs and lows of building Globalive and bringing WIND Mobile to market. This discussion covers the characteristics of successful founders, and the importance of both having a mentor and eventually becoming one. Founders listening should look into MindFrame Connect, where they’re focused on creating more resilient entrepreneurs and improving the craft of mentorship.

In this Community of Innovation podcast episode, Drs. Allison Sekuler and Rosanne Aleong welcome Brice Scheschuk, Managing Partner of Globalive Capital and co-founder of MindFrame Connect, and Dr. Ray Muzyka, founder of ThresholdImpact. Our guests will dive deep into the craft and discipline of mentorship as they talk about what it takes to become a great mentor. Tune in to hear the key principles of mentorship and ways to improve your mentoring skills.

In 2018, Brice Scheschuk began searching for the secret to successful mentoring relationships. This month, the initiative MindFrame Connect partnered with Dal Innovates to present its latest findings to Halifax.

Hear from Brice Scheschuk as he shares his journey breaking into the Canadian telecom space, the evolution of entrepreneurship through different eras, and impactful skills necessary for anyone looking to achieve success. He also explains the importance of mentorship and how he’s helping the next generation through MindFrame Connect.

MindFrame Connect (a non-profit that teaches resiliency and mentorship to entrepreneurs), and Invest Nova Scotia (formerly InnovaCorp, Atlantic Canada’s government-backed venture capitalist).

Brice serves on numerous boards and advisory committees (public, private, and not-for-profit) and is a mentor at CDL-Atlantic and CDL-Toronto. He is a co-founder of MindFrame Connect, a not-for-profit focused on elevating the craft of mentorship and improving entrepreneurial resiliency.

With an objective to develop more and better science and tech ventures, Dal Innovates programs are a launchpad for start-ups that go on to the Emera ideaHUB, CDL-Atlantic and the larger ecosystem of incubators and accelerators in Atlantic Canada. It also leads MindFrame Connect, which helps entrepreneurs elevate their resilience to overcome the stress and pressure of venture creation, enhances the craft of mentoring entrepreneurs, and develops more equity, diversity and inclusion in the innovation ecosystem.

Identifying some of the key challenges currently facing the technology sector can serve as a road map for those exploring a new venture, in addition to helping weigh the pros and cons of entering the market and determining how to design a strategy that works best to support the success of a new venture in high-growth technology.

Brice Scheschuk (BComm’94) is managing partner with Globalive Capital, an investment platform focused on venture, technology and innovation. He’s also a speaker associate of the Creative Destruction Lab in Atlantic Canada.

Brice is an incredibly accomplished entrepreneur well known for founding Wind Mobile(now Freedom Mobile). Brice took on many different roles during his time with Wind Mobile, where he developed an interesting perspective and process of solving the issues that came before him. He shares his experiences in his career and his philosophy of success.

On this episode, Brice recounts a CDL mentoring experience that had him shook, questioning everything about the systems we build to support entrepreneurs, and the amount of effort and thought that goes into building those systems.

@TheStoa, we aren't afraid to share new perspectives, ideas or walks of life. We see contrast, controversy, and discussion as a pillar of who we are, so that we can share the narratives that you may have never been able to see. This week, we chatted with Brice Scheschuk on his experiences with entrepreneurship and building resiliency in his journey.

While in the final year of her PhD, Mahesha Asiriwardhana had a bold new idea to optimize the nutritional content of poultry feed with essential amino acids. These amino acids would not only contribute to the health of the chickens, but to the health of consumers and the environment as well. To expand her idea beyond the lab, Asiriwardhana turned to Dal Innovates’ Lab2Market accelerator program. At the core of this 16-week program, students complete an in-depth customer discovery process to determine if there is a viable market for their product with the support of mentors.

The Schulich Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship added a new program to its portfolio of accelerator/incubator services this past month. The newly announced Schulich Startups Mentorship Program invited six Schulich Founders to receive four months of curated mentorship from veteran Founders and Investors, who are Schulich Alumni themselves.

There are ever greater numbers of faculty and students participating in Dalhousie’s robust slate of entrepreneurship and innovation programs via Dal Innovates, Emera ideaHUB, MindFrame Connect and the Sandboxes. Aimed at turning research-based ideas into ventures, these programs are empowering our community to grow their impact on the regional and national economies.

Mindframe Connect presents workshops, literature, podcasts, and more, and has a Halifax connection, as well; Dalhousie University is one of Mindframe’s co-creators.

If you’re not familiar with that name, you are likely new to Canadian tech. I can’t list all of Brice’s resume but here are some of the highlights: co-founder and CFO of Wind Mobile, managing partner of Globalive Capital, mentor at Creative Destruction Lab Toronto and Atlantic.

MindFrame Connect will teach mentors to more effectively help up-and-coming founders.

New initiative launched today has bold vision to upskill Canadian mentors and entrepreneurs – providing access to expert training, resources, and tools designed to improve performance.