Past Events
Stories that have been shared
A look back at the brave souls who've taken the stage and the communities that formed around their stories.
Season 3, Episode 1
CompletedThree speakers brought raw stories of starting over, due diligence gone wrong, and the cost of trusting the wrong people.
Speakers
Tiffany Connauton
Story to be added soon
Jesse Schewchuk
How being fired by her ex-husband and former boss after building her life around him forced her to start over, and what it took to pull herself out and rebuild on her own.
Rudy A. Zacharias
Failing to do proper due diligence, especially around paperwork, and trusting the wrong people while purchasing a business led to major consequences and hard lessons.
Season 2, Episode 3
CompletedStories of the emotional weight of running a business, walking away, and the support that carries you through your first big event.
Speakers
Vienna Corbett
The emotional weight of trying to keep a business alive, the mental health struggles that came with ultimately shutting it down, and what rebuilding looked like afterward.
Patrick Callaghan
Story to be added soon
Kat Halushka
The story behind pulling off her first-ever event, the challenges of bringing it together, and how the support of her community helped carry it through.
Season 2, Episode 2
CompletedThree speakers shared the human cost behind running a restaurant, leading through COVID, and running a mental-health non-profit while struggling with your own.
Speakers
Ally Stone
How her husband's illness changed everything, forcing her to navigate the challenges of running their restaurant business and rebuild herself through one of the hardest periods of her life.
Trevor Muir
Leading through COVID. He and his board took pay cuts so they could keep paying their staff during one of the hardest periods their business had faced.
Kris Marks
How his own mental health was suffering while he was running a non-profit called VIV Mental Health.
Season 2, Episode 1
CompletedThe first episode of Season 2 brought together two speakers and a refreshed format.
Speakers
Vanessa Marshall
Story to be added soon
Michael Oleskiw
Story to be added soon
Season 1, Episode 3
CompletedTwo storytellers closed out our first season at Homestead Never.
Speakers
Shane Turgeon
Story to be added soon
Kari Steinhouse
Story to be added soon
Season 1, Episode 2
CompletedTwo stories: one from the IT trenches and one from running a Canada-wide photography event with a formal judging panel.
Speakers
Daniel Mitchell
Story to be added soon
Billie Lang + Hope Wells
Challenges of building and running a Canada-wide photography event that brought together photographers from across the country and featured a formal judging panel.
Season 1, Episode 1
CompletedThe inaugural Fuckup Nights YEG event. Edmonton's first taste of radical honesty about business failure.
Speakers
Jackson Fisk
Story to be added soon
Mitch Cammidge
Story to be added soon
Kevin Wong
Story to be added soon
More events and speaker details will be added as they become available.
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