Dots. | Podcast of Paul Syng
Episodes
#32 Mike Grinberg — From Audience Engagement to Clients: Unpacking the Trust Gap for Consultants
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Grinberg is passionate about meaningful engagement and the power of a clear narrative. Rather than just posting for the sake of attention, Mike b...
#31 Tim Shore — Inside Tim Shore’s blogTO Origin and Exit
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Shore is the visionary founder of blogTO, Toronto's premier digital media platform for local news, culture, and events, which he launched in 2...
#30 Victoria Rudi — Digital Nomads, Multilingualism, and the Magic of Clear Messaging
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Rudd is a multilingual adventurer guided by perseverance and curiosity. Though English is not her native tongue, she uses it with ease and hu...
#29 Sara Loretta — The Secret Sauce for Business Ops
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Loretta is an entrepreneur, digital strategist, and operations consultant based in Austin, Texas. She is the founder and Chief Digital Architect ...
#28 Steve Patti — From clicks to financial outcomes
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Patti is a seasoned marketing strategist with over 35 years of extensive experience. He has navigated a successful career marked by three signif...
#27 Cecilia Ambros — Design Leadership, Innovation and Creativity at Amazon and Nike
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cecilia Ambros is a trained fine artist who has seamlessly transitioned from painting with colours and digital designs to "painting with data." Levera...
#26 Josh Lowman — From copywriter to category design studio
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Lowman founded Gold Front, an agency that’s helped major players like Stripe, Uber, and Clari carve out new market categories. Josh and his tea...
#25 Alex Smith — The No Bullshit Strategy Guy
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Smith is a strategist, writer, and advisor to CEOs and founders. He is the founder of Basic Arts, and he helps create brands that stand alone in ...
#24 Steve Patti — 4Ps and what tech CMOs miss about brand
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Patti is a seasoned marketing strategist specializing in helping B2B companies align their marketing efforts with how their Ideal Customer Profi...
#23 Paul Hicks — Aligning KPIs, Sales Coaching, and leveraging AI in Business
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul helps Sales and Service leaders implement SwitchGear Operating Systems. These systems have had a significant impact. - Sales Acceleration Syst...
#22 Andrea Guertin — Design leadership, consulting and being a mom
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Guertin is a seasoned design strategist and innovation leader currently heading Design & Co-creation at Kyndryl Vital Canada. With a Master...
#21 Tom Henheffer — From journalism to saving the planet
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom's work focuses on long-term strategic visioning and implementation, executive management, board management, team building, stakeholder relatio...
#20 Bill Harper — Deep dive into everything "BRAND"
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout his career, Bill has been obsessed with helping businesses discover their true purpose – and turning that insight into exceptional experi...
#19 Coach Sheeba — Talking thyroid health
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sheeba has become a voice of insight and encouragement within the health community, especially on platforms like TikTok and YouTube, where she openly ...
#18 John LePore — From Marvel movies to the insane F1 + Apple Vision Pro concept
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John LePore is a highly skilled professional known for blending creative innovation with pragmatic thinking. His career is marked by his ability to in...
#17 Jen Allen-Knuth — Lead generation 101 for service based businesses
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jen was a full-cycle Enterprise Sales rep for 18 years. As a seller who made every mistake in the book, she believes sellers don’t need to be motiva...
#16 Andrew Hegarty — From skating to product design
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Hegarty has ten years of experience working in and advising startups in Toronto. He’s an active mentor to designers and product managers, sha...
#15 Dann Petty — The unexpected famous shy designer
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dann Petty is a renowned freelance designer and entrepreneur, widely recognized in the design and tech industries for his expertise in UI/UX design. H...
#14 Yousuf Afridi — From visual design to leading business transformation
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paul: Introduce yourself. Yousuf: My professional journey has been both fun and rewarding, encompassing diverse roles such as a brand designer at a b...
#13 Talica Davies (Sales Consulting) — How to start and sell your coaching services
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talica's sales career has spanned over two decades. She has expertise in selling products and services ranging from high-end apparel, investment m...
#12 Anchal Kaushal (Somatic Sexologist) — The birds and the bees
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anchal is a Certified Somatic Sexologist from the Institute of Somatic Sexology, Australia. In addition to this, she is also a certified counsellor an...
#11 Eric Almquist (Advisory Partner, Bain & Company) — The Elements of Value
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Almquist has 44 years of experience in management consulting, focusing on customer strategy and marketing to help companies with their toughest m...
#10 — Jessica Guzik (Sr. Brand Lead, Shopify): Oberlo Youtube success and leadership advice
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Guzik is a Senior Brand Lead at Shopify in Berlin, Germany. She has over 5 years of experience in digital and brand marketing. She is also a l...
#9 — Erik Host-Steen (Sales Enablement, Elastic) Fix culture without fixing people
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Host-Steen is an expert in sales, marketing, and product development who helps business leaders improve their revenue trajectory and satisfaction...
#8 — Daniel Stillman (Author, Good Talk) How to communicate like a pro with the Conversation OS
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Stillman designs conversations for a living and insists that you do, too. As an executive coach and facilitator, he works with clients of all s...
#7 — Stephen G Pope (CEO, SGP Labs) How to create content at scale without fancy gear or software
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen helps people generate revenue with persuasive videos and automated systems to distribute content at scale. After Stephen sold the tech company...
#6 — Shwetank Dixit (Ex-VP at eyeo | Ex-Opera): Zero to One, Browsers & Leading Teams
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shwetank Dixit has broad experience in product management, technology strategy (including AI strategy), corporate innovation, engineering management, ...
#5 — Isha Singh (Transformation Coach & Change Management Leader) From art to advisory
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Isha is a Transformation and Change Management Coach with extensive experience in introducing change and driving adoption with people. She is skilled ...
#4 — Gayle Charach (Global Head of Sales Enablement): From Camp Counsellor to Sales Leader
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gayle is a Sales Enablement leader with a demonstrated record of success and extensive experience driving cross-functional collaboration, customer and...
#3 — Nicole Murphy (Growth Consultant, Ex-Marketing Exec): From a small town to Tall Size, role of coaching & finding your voice
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole is a former Marketing Executive turned Founder, Marketing Consultant & Business Coach. Nicole rapidly grew her corporate career in just eig...
#2 Karan Puri (Sr. Product Manager at TD) — From selling media to Product Management & Innovation
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karan is a Sr. Product Manager (External Ecosystem group) at TD Bank with a focus on Digital Identity. He is an Ex Management Consultant who has spent...
#1 Shwetank Dixit (Ex-VP at eyeo | Ex-Opera) — Startups, Communication & Product-Led Growth
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shwetank Dixit has broad experience in product management, technology strategy (including AI strategy), corporate innovation, engineering management, ...
How to lead client conversations and make million dollar proposals
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OELmw4QSRfY
Do you sell the drill or the hole? Putting the urban legend to rest #sales
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEe31Q0VoBk
CEO Mindset — Strategy Masterclass with Steve Jobs (Apple) & Sandeep Goyal (Rediffusion)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Watch the episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TXn-LfUJKGU
Why successful people don't care about failure (Internal vs external validation)
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/IhrE3HZp-W0 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsyng
How I went from 'FAILURE' to Creative Director
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsyng Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/XEUCP_BuJp8
Naval Ravikant's: "How to get rich (without getting lucky)" tweet storm
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsyng How to lead with curiosity: https://youtu.be/9Ptc4TzP1cY "How to get rich" on Twitter h...
Clubhouse, WFH and being yourself
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Follow me on Twitter: @paulsyng Also, follow Chris Do and David C Baker Watch this episode on YouTube
Candour and getting surgical with consumption
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Watch this episode on Youtube. Follow me on Twitter: @paulsyng