MEET YOUR HOSTS
Sean Cochrane is the President of TCC Canada- The Corporate Centre https://tcccanada.com/ with long term experience working in the corporate business industry. His exposure to a wide variety of businesses within the TCC Canada office spaces has given him great insight into where the business world has evolved and where it is heading.
Jarrod Goldsmith https://jarrodgoldsmith.ca/ is a Canadian small business community builder and is the embodiment of the small business spirit. He is the founder of eSAX Virtual Events https://esax.ca/, eXclusive eXperience, Ask The Fedora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxtsbF_pfs&list=PLkvzOB_dwOVNXTe9aI9h6YT2IzXtN_CKg&index , and Sax Appeal Ottawa https://saxappeal.ca/ . Jarrod hosts the eSAX Podcast series https://esax.ca/podcast and has over 700 videos on the eSAX YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/eSAXnetworking?sub_confirmation=1 on entrepreneurship, small business and networking knowledge. Jarrod is one of the region's best known entrepreneurial networkers.
GUEST: Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson
Jim Watson (born July 30, 1961) is the current mayor of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was a former Ottawa city councillor (1991–1997) and mayor (1997–2000), and subsequently represented the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2010. He served in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty in the portfolios of Consumer and Business Services (2003 - 2005), Health Promotion (2005 - 2007), and Municipal Affairs and Housing (2007 - 2010). He resigned in January 2010 to successfully run for mayor in the 2010 Ottawa municipal election. He was subsequently re-elected mayor on October 27, 2014 and on October 22, 2018.
On August 17, 2019, in an op-ed to the Ottawa Citizen, Watson announced that he was coming out of the closet, becoming Ottawa's first openly gay mayor. On March 20, 2021, Watson became the longest serving mayor in the city's history, surpassing Stanley Lewis who held office from 1936-1948.